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Continue reading (Română) Sfinții Ioachim și Ana, părinții Fecioarei Maria
Troparion Commemoration of the righteousness with praise and you enough is thy Lord’s testimony, Forerunner. You showed that you really prophets and more honest than that and baptized in the one preached waters you worthy. Therefore, when you really need to, enjoying good and those in hell have promised him that God was manifest in …
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Plagiarism is the primary fear of academics, politicians with doctorates, authors of all kinds, and students (doctoral dissertations, master’s theses, bachelor’s theses). In addition to the specter of plagiarism accusations, a new fear has emerged—based on an indisputable reality—the use of generative AI—that is, a generator of clean, beautiful text, ready for publication. No grammatical …
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You’re in Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul. You came here to see the Blue Mosque, the remains of the Hippodrome with the more than 3,000-year-old obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose, and that magnificent palimpsest church, Hagia Sophia. As if all this intertwining of centuries and civilizations—Christianity and Islam, the ancient and the medieval, exotic and familiar—were not …
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Constantin Brâncoveanu ascended to the throne of Wallachia following the sudden death of Șerban Cantacuzino (1678–1688), following a free election by the boyars and church leaders, because, as one of the chronicles of the time attests, everyone “knew that he was wise and descended from royal stock.” Prudent and content with what God had given …
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Noble branch Martyr Constantine was born in 1654 in the old manorial nation of Brâncoveni of Oltenia. His grandfather, great magistrate Preda Brancoveanu, he built the famous monasteries as One Wood Monastery, built in 1634-1635 by him to the ground, Brancoveanu Monastery, settlement of the sixteenth century, painted and endowed in 1633 teach with his …
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