a zealot is a fanatic who strongly believes in something and is willing to fight for it. a martyr is someone who dies defending his country. a parable is any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious messages. for example the parble of the prodigal son, the good samaritan...
A parable isn't exclusive to stories in The Bible. A parable can be any short story with a moral principle or lesson behind it.
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Christopher is a legendary saint who may have never existed. Virtually nothing is known about him, including where he was born and lived. It is thought that he may have been a martyr in the middle of the 3rd century.
It was not an explorer that coined the term 'New World', it was actually the Spanish scholar Peter Martyr d'Anghiera who first coined the term 'New World' (novi orbis) in a letter dated November 1st, 1492 in which he referred to Columbus first voyage to America
Le Roi de Soleil (the Sun King)The Sun King It really wasn't a nickname as we think of them today; courtiers didn't walk up to him in the halls of Versailles and say "hey, SK. 'Sup?" It was more like an artificial title. He wanted to be associated with Apollo's power and beauty.Because that is a name that he chose for himself.
The execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family was a well planned, if not well carried out, demonstration of power by the Bolsheviks. Although the execution of the Royal Family might have given the counter-revolutionary cause a martyr, it also showed Russia and the world that there was no going back to the old ways and that the new Socialist worker's state was here to stay.