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Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the space station Deep Space Nine near the planet Bajor, as the Bajorans recover from a decades-long occupation by the imperialistic Cardassians. The station is adjacent to a wormhole that is home to powerful alien beings worshiped by the Bajorans as the "Prophets", and ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Prison rape commonly refers to the rape of inmates in prison by other inmates or prison staff. In 2001, Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 4.3 million inmates had been raped while incarcerated in the United States. [1] A United States Department of Justice report, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, states ...
A website dubbed "The Rapture Index" that claims to monitor the "end of times" -- or the second coming of Jesus -- is warning the general public to "fasten your seat belts" in the era of the Trump ...
The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." [1]
Edgar C. Whisenant. Edgar C. Whisenant (September 25, 1932 – May 16, 2001) was a former NASA engineer and Bible student who predicted the rapture would occur in 1988, sometime between Sept. 11 and Sept. 13. [1] He published two books about this, 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988 and On Borrowed Time.
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Passed the House of Representatives on July 25, 2003 (without objection) Signed into law by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2003. Major amendments. Second Chance Act of 2007. The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 ( PREA) is the first United States federal law intended to deter the sexual assault of prisoners.