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The temple links to their Indiegogo fundraising campaign on their site.

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Read more about the program on the temple’s website, where you can contribute to the cause.

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Though still unfinished, the 7-foot sculpture was revealed on May 1, 2014.

The artist’s rendering shows how the eventual monument to the dark lord of the netherworld will look.

A Ten Commandments monument was approved and erected outside the Oklahoma statehouse in 2009, after constitutional church and state separation prohibitions were circumvented due to the monument’s private funding.

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Roger Waters and Nick Mason, the two surviving members of Pink Floyd, urge the Rolling Stones and other bands to boycott Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories by not playing concerts in that country.

The column originally appeared on Salon on May 1, 2014.

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US forces had been in Iraq since March 20, not even a month and a half. More than 4,000 Americans would die in the next seven years of conflict.

At this moment of “victory,” Saddam Hussein was still on the run, the Mahdi army had yet to begin confronting American forces, the Sunni ISIS too had yet to attack US personnel, and the intense battles in Falujah, Basra and Sadr City were still years away.

Casualties by month between the time of Bush’s speech (waaay over on the far left) and five years later

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The iconic toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square, to which Bush is referring, was totally staged by American forces, turns out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMgEc9Qds8M

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President George W. Bush delivered this speech on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003.

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Put very simply, the signifier is the word and the signified is the idea to which the word refers. Together, the word and its referent compose the sign.

After its advent, this means of interrogating the world of signs (known as semiotics) became critical mode in literary theory.

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Picasso paintings are fantastically expensive, too pricey even for Hov. In 2013, Picasso’s “Le Rêve” sold for a staggering $155 million, nearly half of Jay Z’s entire net worth.

See the Picasso penis-face painting below for free:

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Kurtis Blow, for instance, the first rapper signed to a major label. His attire on the cover for his 1982 Tough does not reflect the gritty urban decay of his surroundings.

It would not be until Run-DMC that rappers' personal fashion would veer away from disco glam and toward street wear.

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