my mind begins to hum...

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The major event of this festival is a ritual bath

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Other activities include religious discussions,
devotional singing,
mass feeding of holy men and women and the poor,
and religious assemblies
where doctrines are debated and standardized.
Kumbh Mela
(especially the Maha Kumbh Mela)
is the most sacred of all the Hindu pilgrimages.
Thousands of holy men and women
(monks, saints and sadhus)
attend,
and the auspiciousness of the festival is in part attributable to this.

They form interest groups,
that obtain mutual gains in a coordinated action
if they ensure a "group-wide" uniformity in a measure
(for comparative evaluations),
or in a technical reference level of quality or attainment.

____________________________________________black thing's a scale
(if i recall)

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In astronomy,
the true anomaly
is the angle between the direction z-s of periapsis
and the current position p of an object on its orbit,
measured at the focus s of the ellipse
(the point around which the object orbits).

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[the fire elf]

perhaps i'm placing the camera
perpendicular
in an energy eddie

[the fire elf]

maybe i'm edvertising myself;
or merely catching images to color reverse
and see the spectrum i absorb

[the fire elf]

A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict
who is not a national of a Party to the conflict
and "is motivated to take part in the hostilities
essentially by the desire for private gain and,
in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict,
material compensation substantially in excess
of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions
in the armed forces of that Party".

TAKING PUBLIC OFFERS HERE:

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[the fire elf]

These guys run loose in this country and do stupid stuff. There's no authority over them, so you can't come down on them hard when they escalate force... They shoot people, and someone else has to deal with the aftermath. It happens all over the place.

[the fire elf]

Mercenaries in medieval warfare

Byzantine Emperors followed the Roman practice
and contracted foreigners especially for their personal corps guard
called the Varangian Guard.
They were chosen among war-prone peoples,
of whom the Varangians (Vikings) were preferred.

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During the later Middle Ages, Free Companies (or Free Lances) were formed,
consisting of companies of mercenary troops.

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