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The only non-controversial thing to say about the combination of science and religion is that it’s controversial. But if you look at Georges Lemaître, you can see that the two don’t have to be sworn enemies. Never heard of him? Many people haven’t, but a certain guy named Albert Einstein was a big fan. Georges Lemaître, born in Charleroi, Belgium in 1894, was a busy man in the early 20th century. After he was awarded a Belgian War Cross as an army officer in World War I, he earned degrees in math and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven. Soon after that, he was ordained as a priest. Ever the scientist, he was given permission to study at prestigious Harvard Observatory while, at the same time, earning his Ph.D in physics from MIT. How’s that for a résumé? In 1927, Lemaître cooked up the revolutionary theory that still impacts how we view our universe today. His article entitled “A Homogeneous Universe of Constant Mass and Increasing Radius accounting for the Radial Velocity...

Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov   ( Russian :   Даши-Доржо Итигэлов ;   Buryat : Этигэлэй Дашадоржо; 1852–1927) was a   Buryat Buddhist   lama   of the   Tibetan Buddhist tradition, best known for the lifelike state of his dead body, which is reported not to be subject to macroscopic   decay . Dashi Dorzho Itigilov Born May 13, 1852 Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai ,  Russian Empire Died June 15, 1927 (aged 75) Citizenship Russian Biography Edit Itigilov was born in 1852 and began his religious education at the age of sixteen years. He studied at the  Anninsky Datsan  (a Buddhist teaching monastery in  Buryatia , of which only ruins remain), earning diplomas in medicine and philosophy. At that time he wrote an encyclopedia of  pharmacology . In 1911, he was appointed the twelfth  Pandido Khambo Lama  (as the head of  Russian Buryat Buddhists  is styled), at which post he inaugurate...

Direct Action Day   (16 August 1946), also known as the   Great Calcutta Killings , was a day of widespread riot and manslaughter between Hindus and Muslims in the city of   Calcutta   (now known as Kolkata) in the   Bengal province of   British India . [1]   The day also marked the start of what is known as   The Week of the Long Knives . [3] [4] Direct Action Day Great Calcutta Killings Part of  Partition of Bengal (1947) Dead and wounded after the ‘Direct Action Day’ which developed into pitched battles as  Muslim  and  Hindu  mobs rioted across  Calcutta  in 1946, the year before independence Location Calcutta ,  Bengal , British India Date August 1946 Target Bengali Muslims Attack type Massacre ,  Forced conversion ,  Arson ,  Abduction  and  Rape Deaths 4,000 [1] [2] Perpetrators Council Muslim League Motive Ethnic Cleansing of Bengal...