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...ancient sect of dissenters from Hinduism made up largely of well-to-do Indians...
...Egyptian Ahmes, the Moonborn, described the almost exact formula for determining the area of a circle. By using tables of squared numbers,* the Mesopotamians learned to multiply without the use of an abacus. Pythagoras, who was the leader of a secret mathematical and religious sect, stated his famous theorem about right triangles (the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides). After him came even greater names: Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, who estimated the circumference of the earth (about 24,000 miles), and Hipparchus, who anticipated the modern tables of sines...
...Premier Diem. In April, when the Binh Xuyen bandit army tried to grab Saigon, Bao Dai tried to fire Diem. Instead, Diem fought the Binh Xuyen back to the marshes of the Mekong River. Last summer Bao Dai directed an anti-Diem offensive by troops of the Hoa Hao sect, but Diem's troops scattered them. Said Bao Dai a fortnight ago: "I've been accused of betraying my country. But it is not I who have betrayed my country . . . It is the big powers-the men who signed the Geneva pact...
This year Radio Evangelist Michaux. who calls his sect the "Gospel Spreading Association," produced five Spectaculars. At the first (Memories of the Cross), the devil was buried in a glass casket with full funeral rites. At the second (The Heart of My Lord Was Broken for Me), an electrical bleeding heart spilled crimson liquid on twelve female "penitent sinners" while the choir sang Fountain Filled with Blood. The third (Jesus...
...Discipline. The age of the scrolls fixed, the scholars turned to their origin. Archaeologists de Vaux and Harding had already searched the ruins from which Khirbet Qumrân took its name, concluded from the evidence they found that it had been the habitation of an ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, one of the three major religious bodies within ancient Judaism (the others: the Pharisees and Sadducees). Their conclusions: 1) the manuscripts found near Khirbet Qumrân were once part of an Essene library; 2) the sectarian documents, i.e., The War of the Children of Light...