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☆☆☆☆☆A farce is a joke. It could mean an actual joke (knock, knock) or something that was bad. (Their soccer team is a "farce") Hope this helps :)
original, indigenous
Nature
Mencius
China
~ Bar Mitzvah.
It's not actually the ceremony; nor does it indicate "full membership" in Judaism. As soon as a Jewish baby is born, it is a full-fledged Jew. When a boy turns 13 years old, he is called a "bar mitzvah" meaning "son of mitzvah". When a Jewish boy becomes a bar mitzvah, it means that he is old enough to be obligated with the religious responsibilities of an adult and this includes being called up to read from the Torah.
Zhu Xi
theocracy
1853
the military class
Shintoism is most concerned with the things that happen in this world.
The candelabra used during Hanukkah actually holds 9 candles and is called a Hannukiah (Hanukkah-menorah).
about 200 BC until the beginning of the twentieth century....
Han Fei Tzu
heredity
The focus of the yin and yang is to find a balance in nature.
Shavuot "sha-VOO-ote" in Hebrew. The word means "Weeks", probably because of
the holiday's timing: It's the only holiday in the Torah without a date of its own,
defined only as commencing seven weeks after the beginning of Passover.
In 2011, Shavuot begins at sunset on Tuesday, June 7.
Taoism focuses on a way of thinking and a religion that stresses simplicity, meditation, and closeness with nature.
