Louis XIV believed in the "divine right of kings," where he said that he had the right to rule because he was ordered by God. He uses this as basically an excuse to rule like a tyrant and have autocratic control over everything.
Arabic-speakers of all Abrahamic faiths, including Christians and Jews, use the word "Allah" to mean "God". The Christian Arabs of today have no other word for "God" than "Allah". Similarly, the Aramaic word for "God" in the language of Assyrian Christians is ʼĔlāhā, or Alaha.
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Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly. The earliest known direct democracy is said to be the Athenian democracy in the 5th century BC, although it was not an inclusive democracy: it excluded women, foreigners, and slaves.
No. It just means that there's stuff in the water that runs down them,
and the stuff builds up on the stalactite. It's a lot like the process that
makes icicles grow, even though icicles are not alive either.
