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Miloš Vučević
- ... that Miloš Vučević (pictured) only served in the National Assembly of Serbia for five days?
- ... that the United Arab Emirates has used monetary incentives to become a dominant background actor in the Horn of Africa conflict?
- ... that historian Robert N. Mullin, in addition to being an expert on outlaw Billy the Kid, was once a politician who was responsible for the building of El Paso Airport?
- ... that the guitarist who created the song "Miku" often felt like he was talking to the fictional Hatsune Miku?
- ... that Setkya Dewi, chief queen of Burma, studied Western astronomy and English and was once gifted a telescope by a British envoy because of her interest in science?
- ... that players can print out their photographs taken in the video game New Pokémon Snap?
- ... that Bambang Trisnohadi and Lucky Avianto were both nicknamed the "hat-trick general" for being the best graduate of three different military institutions?
- ... that the Wisconsin State Cartographer's Office has been inventorying unincorporated communities in Wisconsin to find "cartographic phantoms"?
- ... that the story of the philosopher Heraclitus dying while covered in dung may have been a parody of his beliefs?
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Shiva is one of the principal deities of Hinduism and the supreme god in the tradition of Shaivism. Worshipped throughout India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and parts of Southeast Asia, he is an amalgamation of various older deities into a single figure. Alongside Brahma and Vishnu, Shiva forms part of the Trimurti, in which he is known as the "destroyer", although in many traditions he also creates, preserves and transforms the universe. He is depicted as both an ascetic yogi and as a householder with his consort Parvati and his sons Ganesha and Kartikeya. Shiva's iconography includes the trishula (trident), the third eye, the damaru, the serpent king Vasuki, the crescent moon, and the river Ganga flowing from his hair. Usually worshipped in the form of the lingam, Shiva is regarded as the patron of meditation, yoga and the arts. This painting depicts Shiva and Parvati seated together on a terrace at night, with iconographic elements including skulls, snakes, and the Ganga flowing through his hair. The work was painted around 1800 on paper in bodycolour and gold, inlaid with pieces of iridescent beetle carapace, and is now in the collection of the British Museum in London.Painting credit: unknown
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