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They date back to at least ancient Roman times, but Friday the 13th superstitions won't be getting much of a workout this year. Luckily for triskaidekaphobia sufferers, today is 2010's only Friday the 13th. That must come as a relief, after 2009's nine Friday the 13ths—the maximum possible in a year, at least as long as we continue to mark time with the Gregorian calendar, which Pope Gregory XIII ordered the Catholic Church to adopt in 1582. "You can't have any [years] with none, and you can't have any with four, because of our funny calendar," said Underwood Dudley, a professor emeritus of mathematics at DePauw University in Indiana, and author of Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought. The calendar works just as its predecessor, the Julian calendar, did, with a leap year every four years. But the Gregorian calendar skips leap year on century years except those divisible by 400. For example, there was no leap year in 1900, but there was one in 2000. This trick keeps the calendar in tune with the seasons. The result is an ordering of days and dates that repeats itself every 400 years, Dudley noted. As time marches through the order, some years appear with three Friday the 13ths. Other years have two or, like 2010, one...
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A boy has become a walking monument to Muslim faith after passages from the Koran started appearing on his skin. Text in Arabic from the religious book started showing on the boy’s back, arms, legs and stomach, leaving doctors baffled. They first started appearing shortly the baby was born, with “Allah” appearing on his chin, The Sun reports. Doctors say the markings are a medical mystery, but deny the condition is a result of someone writing on the child’s skin. The parents of the child initially hid the mysterious writings, but eventually took the boy to the doctor. They say the old passages fade before new words appear roughly twice a week. "Normally those signs appear twice a week - on Mondays and on the nights between Thursdays and Fridays," the mother said. "Ali always feels bad when it is happening. He cries and his temperature goes up. "It's impossible to hold him when it's happening, his body is actively moving, so we put him into his cradle. It's so hard to watch him suffering." Since the holy markings were revealed, the boy became the focus of Muslim homage in his hometown province of Dagestan, in the south of Russia...
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People in eastern India are flocking to a temple to worship a turtle with natural markings on its shell resembling the eyes of a Hindu deity, the Press Trust of India said Friday. The news agency described the reptile as a soft shell Gangetic Turtle, which is on an official list of endangered species in India, and said worshippers chased away forestry officials when they tried to rescue the creature. Prasanna Kumar Behera, who is in charge of Orissa state's Rajnagar district, said the captive turtle was in "distress." "We tried our best to convince the priests and local people to hand it over to the forest department but the villagers are unrelenting," Behera said. The unusual markings on the turtle's carapace apparently resemble the large, prominent eyes of Lord Jagannath, Orissa's most popular Hindu deity, who is believed to bring fortune and good luck. "The turtle is in a state of distress," Behara added. "It is a case of mistaken identity as juvenile soft-shell turtles have markings on the carapace that resemble Lord Jagannath's eyes. As these species grow, the shell markings vanish." India's strict wildlife laws prohibit capturing creatures named on the endangered list of species and violators can be imprisoned for up to two years...
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Some 7,500 South Korean and overseas couples exchanged or reaffirmed marriage vows on Wednesday in a ceremony organised by the Unification Church -- its biggest mass wedding for many years. Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the 89-year-old founder of the controversial church, officiated at the "True Parents' Cosmic Blessing Ceremony" at the church's Sun Moon University in Asan south of Seoul. The church describes Moon and his wife as "True Parents of Mankind" and Moon as "the King of all Kings." "True Parents are the Messiah Eternal," Moon's son and successor as church leader Reverend Hyung Jin Moon, said at the ceremony broadcast live on the Internet. Sun Myung Moon, sporting a bow tie, and his wife Han Hak-Ja sprinkled "holy water" and prayed over a dozen couples called onto the stage, joining their hands. "I declare these couples tied in wedlock," he announced as other couples in the audience followed suit. Many brides wore white wedding dresses and bridegrooms were clad in tuxedos at the outdoor event. Other brides sported colourful traditional national costumes, including Korea's hanbok gown...
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Newly-wed Roman Catholic couples are being encouraged to say a special prayer together before having sex. The specially-composed Prayer Before Making Love is aimed at 'purifying their intentions' so the act is not about selfishness or hedonism. It appears in the 64-page Prayer Book for Spouses which has been published by the London-based Catholic Truth Society, reports the Daily Mail. The prayer implores God 'to place within us love that truly gives, tenderness that truly unites, self-offering that tells the truth and does not deceive, forgiveness that truly receives, loving physical union that welcomes'. It adds: "Open our hearts to you, to each other and to the goodness of your will." The group has close links to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales...
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