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What religion does the upside down hand represent?
Many; it is now mostly a Muslim and Jewish symbol although its use predates both religions; there is evidence it also was used by pagan religions in North Africa.
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What does Beat it hands down mean?
It is an expression that came from horse racing. When a jockey was far enough ahead of the rest just before crossing the finish line, you might see him release his grip from t…he reins and drop his hands down in a gesture to all that says it was an easy win. So, I to beat it hands down would mean to win effortlessly. (MORE)
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In Sports
What does hand down man down mean in basketball?
It has nothing to do with dunking, mad hard or otherwise. The phrase comes from boxing, in which if you drop your defense (hands), you're going to be knocked out. In basketba…ll, it translates as "if your hands are down while defending a shooter, he'll be able to shoot over you, and then you are the man down." (MORE)
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Why did Thoreau say that Americans sit down with their hands in their pockets?
He meant that Americans are too afraid to speak out about the things they truly believe.
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In Firearms
How can you get a handed down firearm registered in your name?
A good first step will be to check with a gun dealer in the area where YOU live (we don't know that, since you did not specify). MOST states in the US do not have "registratio…n" of firearms, other than machine guns. SOME do, and the process varies from state to state. We also have questions here from around the world- and the process is different for England and Alabama. (MORE)
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What is handing down judgment?
It is a figure-of-speech that describes a judge delivering his ruling in a case. He is said to "handing down" his opinion from the bench (which is usually situated on a higher… level than the floor of the courtroom). (MORE)
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How were William Shakespeare's plays handed down?
All 38 plays which we recognize as Shakespeare's were published before 1634 in some form. We are very fortunate in that two friends of Shakespeare's, Heminges and Condell, de…cided after his death to publish a compendium of his plays. William Shakespeare's plays were published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death, in a volume entitled "Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies," known as "The First Folio," containing the text of 36 plays. These were produced by his colleagues in the acting company known as "The King's Men" and are considered to be authentic. Had it not been published, we would never have heard of about half of the plays we know to be Shakespeare's, including such famous ones as Macbeth and Julius Caesar. The Collection of Shakespeare's plays has been re-edited and reprinted constantly since 1623. Sometimes new plays were added to the original 36 in the First Folio, and sometimes these were afterwards removed. In addition to the First Folio, some plays were published seperately in what are called Quarto size (half as big as the Folio) in which the text differed from the First Folio versions. The words "folio" and "quarto" describe the sizes of paper on which they were printed. If they hadn't been, we would have had no source for the two plays now agreed to be by Shakespeare which were not in the First Folio, Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Also, the Folio and Quarto versions of Hamlet and King Lear particularly are very different from each other. Without the Quarto versions, a lot of very familiar lines would have been lost. Thankfully, people kept these old books and didn't throw them out because they were old. Once published, the plays have been continuously republished since, and there is an unbroken chain of productions since 1660. The truth is that some of Shakespeare's plays may have never even been written down, and some that were written down may have been destroyed by the passage of time and the elements. At least two plays whose titles we know have disappeared completely. There may be others of which we do not even know the title. (MORE)
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Where were the ten commandments handed down to the Hebrews?
At Mount Sinai This was at Mt Sinai:- Exodus 31:18"And to Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, He gave two tables of testimony, t…ables of stone, written with the finger of God." However, the actual location of that Mt Sinai where the Commandments were handed down is in dispute. (i) The traditional location for Mt Sinai is Mt Sinai in the south-central Sinai Peninsula. At about 2,288 m (7,500 ft) high, this is thought to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments which were then presented to the Hebrews assembled at the foot of the mountain. The traditional location in the Sinai Peninsula didn't "come into being" until almost 2,000 years after the Exodus: "The origin of the present Monastery of Saint Catherine on the NW slope of Jebel Musa is traced back to A.D. 527, when Emperor Justinian established it on the site where Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, had erected a small church two centuries earlier." (The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, 1962, p. 376.) "There is no Jewish tradition of the geographical location of Mt. Sinai; it seems that its exact location was obscure already in the time of the monarchy....The Christian hermits and monks, mostly from Egypt, who settled in Southern Sinai from the second century C.E. on, made repeated efforts to identify the locality of the Exodus with actual places to which the believers could make their way as pilgrims. The identification of Mt. Sinai either with Jebel Sirbal near the oasis of Firan...,or with Jebel Musa, can be traced back as far as the fourth century C.E.". (The Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 14, p. 1599.) In 1761-1767, Von Haven, the member of a Danish expedition to the traditional site wrote, as reported in "Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1971-1767, by Thorkild Hansen: "I have observed earlier that we could not possibly be at Mount Sinai. The monastery [of St. Catherine] was situated in a narrow valley, which was not even large enough for a medium-sized army to be able to camp in, let alone the 600,000 men that Moses had with him, who, together with their wives and children, must have come to over 3,000,000." [From "The Traditional Mt Sinai ?" http://www.wyattmuseum.com/mount-sinai-07.htm] (ii) [a] The actual location of Mt Sinai would have to be in Midian. When Moses killed the Egyptian he fled to Midian:- Exo 2:15 KJV Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. [b] Moses' refuge of Midian is on the EAST coast of the Red Sea. In their Commentaries on this verse Exodus 2:15 , 'Adam Clarke' says that 'the land of Midian' means:- " A country generally supposed to have been in Arabia Petraea, on the eastern coast of the Red Sea, ... This place is still called by the Arabs the land of Midian or the land of Jethro. Abul Farajius calls it the land of the Arabs" and 'Jamieson, Faucett, and Brown' say it is:- "situated on the eastern shore of the gulf of the Red Sea and occupied by the posterity of Midian the son of Cush." The "Oxford Bible Atlas' [Oxford University Press, 1984 (ISBN 0191434515)] on "The Exodus' (p.59) places Midian on the eastern shore of that part of the Sea now known as the Gulf of Aquaba; Midian was a strip of land that extended from the bottom tip of the Gulf of Aquaba (ie the bottom of modern Yemen) to the very top of the Gulf of Aquaba at Ezion-Geber. [c] Horeb is in Midian:- Exo 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. (v.2) And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. (v.3) And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. [d] The Commandments were given at Horeb:- Deuteronomy 4:10 "Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children." 4:15 "Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:" 5:2 "The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb." [c] While some Bible scholars consider references to Sinai and Horeb to be different names for the exact same place, others such as "Nave's" say Horeb is the name of that range of mountains and Sinai is the name of the tallest peak:- "Horeb - A range of mountains of which Sinai is chief." [d] Paul said that 'Mt Sinai' was in Arabia:- Gal 4:25 MKJV For Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in slavery with her children. In his Commentary on this verse in 'Notes On The Bible' Albert Barnes says:- " In Arabia - Mount Sinai is situated in Arabia Petraea, or the Rocky." and the 'International Standard Bible Encylopedia' [ISBE] for the article 'Arabia' says:- "The peninsula of Arabia was divided by the ancient geographers into three parts: Arabia Petrea, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix. The first of these names, which is found in Ptolemy, means, not Arabia the Rocky, but that part of Arabia in which is situated the city of Petra" [e] As Petra is located in the country which is now known as Jordan, this means that Mt Sinai has to be on the Jordan-side of the Gulf of Aquaba. Tthere is no way the real Mt Sinai and Horeb can be in the Sinai Peninsula: it is the wrong side of the Gulf of Aquaba. Also the Sinai Peninsula was part of Egypt since in Mose's time and he wanted to flee away from the vengeful Pharoah, it only makes sense that he would not stay in the Sinai Peninsula, but would cross the Gulf of Aquaba as this would then be non-Egyptian territory. [f] This makes 'Jebel-el-Lawz' in modern Saudi Arabia the most likely location for the site of the real Mount Sinai. (MORE)
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What is the answer to 20c plus 5 equals 5c plus 65?
20c + 5 = 5c + 65 Divide through by 5: 4c + 1 = c + 13 Subtract c from both sides: 3c + 1 = 13 Subtract 1 from both sides: 3c = 12 Divide both sides by 3: c = 4 20c + 5 = 5c …+65 20c - 5c= 65 - 5.
15c = 60.
15c/15 = 60/15.
c = 4 (alternative method). (MORE)
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How can you do an aerial without putting your hands down?
start by doing a run with a cartwheels and waiting as long as you can to put your hands down. then as you go on you will find it a lot easier. lift you hips up and swing your …arms forward to lift you. use your back leg for power and push it up as much as you can . the most important thing to do is not to back out go for it the worst that will happen is you land on your knees x (MORE)