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Featured article: October 7, 2006 Adi Shankara Adi Shankara was the first philosopher to consolidate the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, a sub-school of Vedanta. His teachings are based on the unity of the soul and God, in which God is viewed as simultaneously personal and attributeless. In the Smārta tradition, Adi Shankara is regarded as an incarnation of Shiva. Adi Shankara toured India with the purpose of propagating his teachings through discourses and debates with other philosophers. He founded four mathas which played a key role in the historical development and spread of Hinduism and Advaita Vedanta. Adi Shankara was the founder of the Dashanami monastic order and the Shanmata tradition of worship. His works in Sanskrit, all of which are extant today, concern themselves with establishing the doctrine of Advaita (Sanskrit, "Non-dualism"). Adi Shankara quotes extensively from the Upanishads and other Hindu scriptures in forming his teachings. He also includes polemics against opposing schools of thought like Samkhya and Buddhism in his works. (more...) Recently featured: Gas tungsten arc welding – The Lord of the Rings – Dürer's Rhinoceros

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Featured picture: March 21, 2007 This photo of an opened oviduct with an ectopic pregnancy features a spectacularly well preserved 10-millimeter five-week-old human embryo. It is uncommon to see any embryo at all in an ectopic, and for one to be this well preserved (and undisturbed by the prosector's knife) is quite unusual. Even an embryo this tiny shows very distinct anatomic features, including tail, limb buds, heart (which actually protrudes from the chest), eye cups, cornea/lens, brain, and prominent segmentation into somites. Photo credit: Ed Uthman, M.D. Archive - More featured pictures...

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This is a list of the one hundred and twenty counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, third in the U.S. behind Texas's 254 and Georgia's 159. Alphabetical list County FIPS code County seat Established Origin Etymolgy Population Area Map Adair County 001 Columbia 1802 Green County John Adair, Governor of Kentucky (1820–1824) &1000000000001724400000017,244 &10000000000000407000000407 sq mi (&100000000000010540000001,054 km2) Allen County 003 Scottsville 1815 Barren County and Warren County John Allen (1771–1813), soldier in the War of 1812 &1000000000001780000000017,800 &10000000000000346000000346 sq mi (&10000000000000896000000896 km2) Anderson County 005 Lawrenceburg 1827 Franklin County, Washington County and Mercer County Richard Clough Anderson, Jr., Kentucky and United States legislator (1817–1821) &1000000000001911100000019,111 &10000000000000203000000203 sq mi (&10000000000000526000000526 km2) Ballard County 007 Wickliffe 1842 Hickman County and McCracken County Bland Ballard (1761–1853), soldier in the Battle of Fallen Timbers and Battle of River Raisin &100000000000082860000008,286 &10000000000000251000000251 sq mi (&10000000000000650000000650 km2) See full list...

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