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    Welcome to Wikipedia,

    the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.


    6,751,784 articles in English

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    Abishabis (died 1843) was a Cree religious leader


    and prophet of a movement that spread during the
    1840s among the Cree communities in what is
    now northern Manitoba and Ontario. His
    preaching, an admixture of Christianity and Cree
    beliefs, caused some Cree people to stop hunting
    furs, angering the Hudson's Bay Company and
    reducing its profits. In 1843, Abishabis was
    arrested on suspicion of murdering a First Nations
    family. While he was imprisoned at Fort Severn, a
    group of people broke in, took him from his cell,
    murdered him, and burned his body. His followers
    either slowly disavowed his teachings and
    destroyed their relics from the movement, or
    practiced the religion in secret. Abishabis had
    preached that he visited heaven and that
    followers could use a Cree writing system to
    create religious relics. His followers did not deify
    him but believed his teachings were a divine
    revelation. In 1930, it was reported that stories
    about him were passed down by the Cree people,
    who stated that he had brought them Christianity.
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    The World Video Game Hall of Fame is
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    Center for the History of Electronic


    Games, and is located at The Strong National
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    nominations of seven games. Atari has had three
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    games, and Blizzard Entertainment has had two
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    Eight other developers have had more than one
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    river Lycus. It was located in the
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    which later became the Roman Province
    of Phrygia Pacatiana. It is now situated
    near the modern city of Denizli in Turkey.
    Laodicea was built on the site of an
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    in honour of his wife Laodice, together
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    name. Laodicea became a wealthy city,
    and was later controlled by the Roman
    and Byzantine empires. The city had a
    large Jewish population, dating from the
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    seat of Christianity with a bishopric. The
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    eventually destroyed during the invasions
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    second millennium, and is now a ruin.
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    Photograph credit: Alexander Savin

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