Mecca

Credit: NOAA Photo Library/Animalia, CC BY The Great Southern Australian Coastal Upwelling System is an upward current of water over vast distances along Australia's southern coast. It brings nutrients from deeper waters to the surface. This nutrient-rich water supports a rich ecosystem that attracts iconic species like the southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) and blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda).…

The classic AOR/melodic rock band Mecca have announced that their brand new studio album, ‘Everlasting’, will be released on 21st April via Frontiers. The first new album by the band for seven years sees vocalist and founder member Joe Vana returning to the style he is known for, while it also sees his son Joey on co-lead vocals. A first single and video from the record entitled ‘The Mistakes We Make’ is available now.Pre-order the album hereJoe Vana met Jim Peterik of Survivor when in his early teens, with the iconic…

DJ Khaled breaks down in tears of joy at Mecca(Pic Credit: Instagram) Grammy Award-winner DJ Khaled visited Mecca for Umrah and said that the moment he walked into Mecca, his eyes welled up. Khaled, who is known for tracks such as ‘I’m the one’, ‘Wild thoughts’ and ‘Higher’, shared a string of pictures and videos from his visit of the Kaaba. DJ Khaled wrote: “The second I walked in Mecca, tears came down my eyes. Tears of joy. I wanted to go to Mecca to pray and to give gratitude to Allah my whole life. I prayed for…

Umrah is an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken at any time of the year Umrah is an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken at any time of the year FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not…

Preparing for a business trip to the Middle East? CNBC has made it easy to find the best hotel for the trip.CNBC Travel and the market data firm Statista today release a ranking of the "Best Hotels for Business Travelers" in the Middle East.This is the first ranking of its kind between CNBC and Statista, which also jointly released hotel rankings in Europe today. Asia-Pacific rankings were published in September.In total, we analyzed more than 10,000 four- and five-star hotels in 117 locations to produce lists corporate…

2K Games has announced that The City will be making a return in NBA 2K23, with the revamped area offering “an incredibly authentic way for players to experience basketball culture.” The City will be “closely tied” to NBA 2K23’s career mode and, according to VP of NBA development at 2K Erick Boenisch, “lets players truly live out their career in a unique way on their journey to legendary status on and off the court.” He goes on to add that “community feedback has been key in the new innovations we’ve added and we look…

Click and gape at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel ceiling up close. Click again and join thousands of pilgrims praying and circling around the cube-shaped Kaaba at Islam's most sacred site. Or stream a headset and enter the holy city of Jerusalem. There you'll hear the murmur of Jewish prayers at the Western Wall or thousands of worshippers saying amen in unison at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. You can even light a virtual candle at the site where Christians believe Jesus rose from the grave.All this without ever leaving home.…

There’s an extra edge to being in a crowd these days. Once we might have asked, will this crowd jostle or crush me? Now we ask, will this crowd make me sick? Will this crowd kill me? As new waves of Covid and new variants keep coming, we wonder: will we ever feel truly comfortable in crowds again?Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, has spent the last few years thinking about crowds. From his home in Sydney, the musician and composer has been working on a new production with director…