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The three largest communities above the Arctic Circle are situated in Russia: Murmansk ( population 325, 100 ), Norilsk ( 135, 000 ), and Vorkuta ( 85, 000 ).
If placing a tile causes three or four chains to merge, then the merger steps are handled between the largest and second-largest chain, then with the third-largest chain, and finally with the smallest chain.
Today, the three largest US American Ásatrú organizations have specifically denounced any association with racist groups.
Uintatheres were huge creatures with long narrow skulls, of which the elongated facial portion carried three pairs of bony horn-cores, probably covered with short horns in life, the hind-pair having been much the largest.
The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.
Brazil's three largest arms firms were established in the 1960s.
The banking sector is highly concentrated, with the three largest banks holding nearly 60 % of total financial sector assets.
It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.
This is a crude caricature of a highly competent general who authored Army Regulation 300 ( Troop Leadership ) in 1933, the primary tactical manual of the German Army in World War II, and under whose direction the first three panzer divisions were created in 1935, the largest such force in the world of the time.
Worldwide the three largest groups of Christianity are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the various denominations of Protestantism.
Each string is a one-dimensional object, and the largest number of dimensions in which two strings will generically intersect ( and, presumably, annihilate ) is three.
The Combo law was supported by both major parties at the time ( PLN and PUSC ) as well as by President Rodriguez, but the first of three required legislative votes to approve it provoked the largest protest demonstrations the country had seen since 1970.
CND's demonstration on the eve of Cruise missile deployment in October 1983 was one of the largest in British history, with 300, 000 taking part in London as three million protested across Europe.
The railroad fostered the growth of the community into one of the largest communities in Indiana, and three more railroads reached the city by 1850.
The largest of three is the north-east cairn, which was partially reconstructed in the 19th century and the central cairn may have been used as a funeral pyre.
Under Khrushchev the local party leadership in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) witnessed the largest turnover in provincial leaders since the Great Purge ; two out of three provincial leaders were replaced in 1953 alone.
Mars has the largest volcano in the Solar System called Olympus Mons, which is more than three times the height of Mount Everest, with a diameter of 520 km ( 323 miles ).
Other large producers are the privately owned Vicini, with three mills, and Central Romana Corporation, whose mill is the largest in the country.
In terms of length, drainage basin and discharge, the Khabur is the largest of these three.
* Four pillars policy, a legislative policy of the Government of Australia to maintain the separation of four of the largest banks in Australia by disallowing their merger or acquisition by any of the other three banks
Recently, Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers have started moving faster, satellite data show.
Sisimiut with approximately 5, 500 inhabitants is the second largest town, while Ilulissat is number three with ca.
The Great Pyramid of Giza ( also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops ) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.
In Roman times, the country was divided into Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, which comprised the whole northern section of the country, and was the largest of the three regions under the tetrarchy.

three and Jewish
The three volumes of this work are a study of classical rabbinic theology and aggadah, as opposed to halakha ( Jewish law.
The Egyptian identification card controversy began in the 1990s when the government modernized the electronic processing of identity documents, which introduced a de facto requirement that documents must list the person's religion as Muslim, Christian, or Jewish ( the only three religions officially recognized by the government ).
Following a protracted legal process culminating in a court ruling favorable to the Bahá ' ís, the interior minister of Egypt released a decree on April 14, 2009, amending the law to allow Egyptians who are not Muslim, Christian, or Jewish to obtain identification documents that list dash in place of one of the three recognized religions.
Ezra is written to fit a schematic pattern in which the God of Israel inspires a king of Persia to commission a leader from the Jewish community to carry out a mission ; three successive leaders carry out three such missions, the first rebuilding the Temple, the second purifying the Jewish community, and the third sealing of the holy city itself behind a wall.
The book of Esther falls under the category of Writings, one of three parts of the Jewish canon.
Criticism of Christianity continues to date, e. g. Jewish and Muslim theologians criticize the doctrine of the Trinity held by most Christians, stating that this doctrine in effect assumes that there are three Gods, running against the basic tenet of monotheism.
For instance, if two men and a woman were to eat a meal together, a Conservative Jew would believe that the presence of three adult Jews would obligate the group to say a communal form of the Grace After Meals, while an Orthodox Jew would believe that, lacking three adult Jewish males, the group would not be able to do such.
During World War II, a dog tag could indicate only one of three religions through the inclusion of one letter: " P " for Protestant, " C " for Catholic, or " H " for Jewish ( from the word, " Hebrew "), or ( according to at least one source ) " NO " to indicate no religious preference.
The gentiles retained control of the city in the three centuries since that date, despite Jewish petitions for joint governorship.
* Chapter 91 records three contending Jewish armies 200, 000 strong at Mizpeh, totaling 600, 000 men, at a time when the Roman army across the entire Empire had a total strength estimated as 300, 000.
The content of " M " suggests that this community was stricter than the others in its attitude to keeping the Jewish law, holding that they must exceed the scribes and the Pharisees in " righteousness " ( adherence to Jewish law ); and of the three only " M " refers to a " church " ( ecclesia ), an organised group with rules for keeping order.
The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar, or fixed lunar year, based on twelve lunar months of twenty-nine or thirty days, with an intercalary lunar month added seven times every nineteen years ( once every two to three years ) to synchronize the twelve lunar cycles with the slightly longer solar year.
In Poland, where the bulk of Yiddish-speaking Jewry had established itself by the 18th century, three branches of Yiddishkheit emerged: those who opposed the predominant study of Kabbalah ( Jewish mysticism ) and those who supported it ; and the Yiddish theater culture of secularism also in Lithuania originally but getting to the whole Yiddish speaking society.
Louis Feldman states that it is significant that the passages on James, John and the Testimonium are found in the Antiquities and not in the Jewish Wars, but provides three explanations for their absence from the Jewish Wars.
Jewish holidays, observed by Jews throughout the year, have three principal sources: Biblical mitzvot ( commandments ), rabbinical mandate, and modern Israeli history.
Orthodox Judaism regards halakha ( Jewish law ) as requiring Jewish men to pray three times daily and four times daily on the Sabbath and most Jewish holidays, and five times on Yom Kippur.

three and denominations
In Hinduism, Sacred Feminine or Shaktism is one of the three major Hindu denominations of worship along with Vishnu and Shiva.
Since 1985, the UMC has been exploring a possible merger with three historically African-American Methodist denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
The United Methodist Church has since 1985 been exploring a possible merger with three historically African-American Methodist denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
Some Protestant denominations require that candidates for ordination be " licensed " to the ministry for a period of time ( typically one to three years ) prior to being ordained.
Of the eight denominations of euro coins, the three lowest denominations are small, resemble copper in colour and are quite thin and light.
The next three denominations resemble gold in colour and are thicker as well as heavier.
Except for the three fen denominations and the 3 yuan, notes in these denominations continue to circulate, with 50 and 100 yuan notes added in 1980 and 20 yuan notes added in or after 1999.
Following the growth of Cursillo, similar retreats have become a part of other denominations, either using licensed Cursillo material or independent material loosely based on its concepts, leading to the development of the three day movement.
It would remain the standard translation in Protestant churches for more than three centuries and still is used in some sister churches of the Netherlands Reformed Congregations and similar, smaller denominations.
Swayzee is home to churches of three Christian denominations: United Methodist, Nazarene, and United Church of Christ.
It is home to churches of three different denominations of Christianity: United Methodist, Nazarene, and United Church of Christ.
It is home to three churches of different denominations of Christianity including Sweetser United Methodist Church, Sweetser Wesleyan Church, and Liberty Baptist.
The church was built in 1853 by a group of at least three different denominations, including Methodist Episcopal, Christian, and Unitarian.
In 1912, the question of election became a hurdle to uniting three American Lutheran denominations ; the Madison Settlement by which the union was effected declared the question of election to be a mystery that should not be resolved " either in a synergizing or a Calvinizing manner, in other words, reject every doctrine which either on the one hand would deprive God of His glory as only Savior or on the other hand would weaken man's sense of responsibility in relation to the acceptance or rejection of grace.
Benwood was once home to three churches of different religious denominations.
There is no official state church in Switzerland ; however, all the 26 cantons ( states ) financially support at least one of the three traditional denominations -- Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, or Protestant -- with funds collected through taxation.
In the USA there are three major organizations for professionally trained hazzanim, one from each of the major Jewish denominations.
The three large main branches are Conservative Laestadianism ( corresponds to the Laestadian Lutheran Church, in North America known to other Laestadians as the " Heidemans " after 20th Century leader Paul A. Heideman ); the Firstborn ( in North America, " Old Apostolic Lutheran Church " (" Esikoinens " to other Laestadian denominations ); and the Rauhan Sana (" the Word of Peace ") group, known in the USA and Canada as the Apostolic Lutheran Church of America ( to other Laestadians, the Michelsons after 20th Century leader Andrew Michelson ).
Moster is on the other hand more to the east with a high percentage of Christians devoted to three different christian denominations.
The college receives both financial support and students from these three denominations as well.
Maundy money is struck in denominations of one penny, two pence, three pence, and four pence.

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