Laura Strong's Mythic Arts offers this article on Buddhist views of an afterlife and death. Buddhism Today-Rebirth. Learn about the cycle of death and rebirth in Buddhist tradition in this article from Buddhism Today.Buddhism Today-Buddhist Afterlife. Another great article from Buddhism Today teaches about the afterlife in Buddhism.he Afterlife http://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm. Islam. According to the tenets of the Muslim faith, death is the complete end of physical life and the beginning of a period of rest until the day of resurrection when Allah judges the living and the dead.
Why does the Nile flow north from Lake Victoria into the Mediterranean? Michael L. Moravitz, Fairfax, Virginia. Rivers always flow downhill. Itâs a common misconception that something about the earth forces most rivers to flow south. Plenty of rivers flow north, including the Nile, which gathers from high-elevation lakes in the African Rift Valley.
The Amazon River Flows Backwards, And Now Scientists Have Figured Out Why. ESA. The shape of the Amazon Basinm mapped here using satellite altimeters is a relatively recent feature of the Earth. By Stephen Luntz. The Amazon once flowed in the opposite direction, from east to west. Reversing the direction of the Earth's largest river is no trivial thing, and geologists have pondered the cause for some time. In Earth and Planetary Science Letters The University of Sao Paulo's Dr Victor Sacek has demonstrated that nothing more than erosion is needed to explain this enormous shift.