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Baby Tower. Baby Tower, also known as abandoned infant tower or baby girl tower, is an architectural structure in Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places in ancient China."A 'Baby Tower', Ningbo". Usually it is a small tower-shaped building made of bricks and stones. There is a small hole on the top, which is used to ...
Baby Tower in Fujian Province. In 1878 French Jesuit missionary, Gabriel Palatre, collated documents from 13 provinces [14] and the Annales de la Sainte-Enfance (Annals of the Holy Childhood), also found evidence of infanticide in Shanxi and Sichuan. According to the information collected by Palatre the practice was more widespread in the ...
The Brothers Grimm's story was developed from the French literary fairy tale of Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1698), which itself is an alternative version of the Italian fairy tale Petrosinella by Giambattista Basile (1634). [2] [3] The tale is classified as Aarne–Thompson type 310 ("The Maiden in The Tower"). [4]
The Tower of Babel [a] is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis [1] meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. [2] [3] [4] [5]According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (Hebrew: שִׁנְעָר, romanized: Šinʿār; Ancient Greek: Σενναάρ, romanized: Sennaár).
Hanging Gardens of Babylon. This hand-coloured engraving, probably made in the 19th century after the first excavations in the Assyrian capitals, depicts the fabled Hanging Gardens, with the Tower of Babel in the background. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World listed by Hellenic culture.
University of Texas tower shooting. / 30.2862; -97.7394. The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder which occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public both within the Main Building tower and ...
Nimrod. Nimrod ( / ˈnɪmrɒd /; [1] Hebrew: נִמְרוֹד, Modern: Nimrod, Tiberian: Nīmrōḏ; Classical Syriac: ܢܡܪܘܕ; Arabic: نُمْرُود, romanized : Numrūd) is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles. The son of Cush and therefore a great-grandson of Noah, Nimrod was described as a king in ...
Quasimodo (from Quasimodo Sunday [1]) is a fictional character and the titular character of the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo.Quasimodo was born with a hunchback alongside several facial deformities and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster, but he finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death.