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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: JewishEncyclopedia.com - Ashura.	Grace Young	Aug 24, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Ashura: A new blood in the body of Islam.	Emily Rodriguez	Jan 12, 2023
	Removed media.	Adam Augustyn	Nov 01, 2021
	Add new Web site: Learn Religions - Ashura: A Day of Remembrance in the Islamic Calendar.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 31, 2021
	Media added.	Amy Tikkanen	Dec 16, 2019
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Zeidan	Sep 10, 2019
	Article thoroughly revised.	Brian Duignan Andrew J. Newman	Feb 14, 2019
	Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Āūrā.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Nov 13, 2017
	Media added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 25, 2017
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Oct 02, 2003
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998