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The article analyzes the contribution of Professor Leonid Ushkalov’s scientific works to intellectual matrix Kharkiv Philological School and Skovoroda studies. He outlined in his researches such complex problems literary philosophical reasonings by H. as source works; genre-artistic features poetry versification; a fable definition an independent genre style, parable model dialogue peculiar fus...

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From Biblical days, the occurrence of six toes instead of five, called polydactyly, has been known. Of late, there have been some individual case reports from USA and Italy. Moreover, a group formed from several countries has dealt competently with genetic studies of 19 preaxial polydactyly families. Therefore, we report a case from Nigeria.

Incredible as it may seem, we can no longer assume that people in our culture understand what the proper definition of “marriage” and “the family” is. Not only is this a sad commentary on the impact of same-sex marriage activists on our society, it also shows how the culture’s memory of the biblical tradition on which it is largely based is fading fast. What is marriage, biblically defined? And...