to make a low obeisance
31Bacchá — In the settled oasis region of Central Asia (Turkestan), entertainers known as bacchá (a Turkic term borrowed from Persian bacche بچه child, young man, calf ) were once common, and constituted the commercial and transgender side of the local… …
32Madra — or Madraka is the name of an ancient region and its inhabitants, located in the north west division of the ancient Indian sub continent. Uttaramadra divisionAitareya Brahmana makes first reference to the Madras as Uttaramadras i.e northern Madras …
33Eastern Orthodox worship — Part of a series on Eastern Christianity …
34Tetragrammaton — For other uses, see Tetragrammaton (disambiguation). YHWH redirects here. For discussion of the God of Israel as described in the Hebrew Bible, and the Yahweh of ancient Semitic religion, see Yahweh. The Mesha Stele bears the earliest known… …
35John Axuch — John Axoukh or Axoukhos, also transliterated as Axuch ( el. polytonic|Ἰωάννης Ἀξούχ [ος] , flourished circa 1087 circa 1150) was the commander in chief ( megas domestikos ) of the Byzantine Army during the reign of Emperor John II Komnenos, and… …
36Bacha bazi — Dance of a bacchá (dancing boy) Samarkand, (ca 1905 1915), photo S. M. Prokudin Gorskii. Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Bacha Bazi (Persian: بچه بازی, literally playing with children in Iranian dialect and playing with boys in Afghani… …
37Devotthan Ekadasi — Devotthan Ekadashi Vishnu sleeps on the Shesha Shaiya bed of Shesha Also called Prabodhini Ekadashi, Devutthana Ekadashi, Dev uthav ekadashi, Deothan, Kartik Shukla ekadashi Observed by …
38Royal Navy — The British navy, the Royal Navy, was the world’s dominant naval force throughout the nineteenth century. The Royal Navy emerged from the wars of the French Revolution and Empire with a reputation for invincibility established by its… …
39salaam — [sə läm′] n. [Ar salām, health, peace; akin to Heb shalom, peace] 1. a greeting (lit., “peace”) used among Muslims: in full salaam aleikum [ä lī′koom΄], “peace (be) to you” (Ar salām ʿ alaykum) 2. in the Near East, India, etc., a greeting or… …
