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The Rajput Regiment is one of the oldest infantry regiments of the Indian Army, originating in 1778 with the raising of the 24th Regiment of Bengal Native...

Abdul Wahid Hasyim (1 June 1914 – 19 April 1953) was the first Minister of Religious Affairs in the government of President Sukarno of Indonesia, a post...

The Lhasa riot of 1750 or Lhasa uprising of 1750 took place in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, and lasted several days during the period of the Qing dynasty's...

Army and warfare made their first appearance in Vietnamese history during the 3rd millennium BC. Throughout thousands of years, wars played a great role...

Jeish Muhammad (Arabic: جيش محمد الفاتح Jaish Muḥammad al-Fātiḥ, translation: Army of Muhammad the Conqueror; JM) is an Iraqi militant group that is both...

The al-Abud Network is a former insurgent group who was operating within Iraq during the Iraq War. First reported in the "Comprehensive Report of the Special...

In Hong Kong there are a few types of graffiti that are utilized for different reasons. The face of artist Ai Weiwei is one of the more well-known caricatures...

This is a list of Turkish writers who are Ottoman or Turkish nationals and who write in Turkish language. İhsan Oktay Anar, novelist, story writer (born...

Chalisgaon (चाळीसगाव) pronunciation is second largest city and municipal council in Jalgaon district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is located...

The Jementah Civil War broke out in 1879 in Jementah in northern Johor when Tengku Alam Shah, the heir of late Sultan Ali of the autonomous principality...

Lamphun railway station is a railway station in the Nai Mueang Subdistrict, Mueang Lamphun District, Lamphun Province, Thailand. It is the main railway...

The Chagatai Khans were the monarchs of the Chagatai Khanate from Chagatai Khan's inheritance of the state in 1227 to their removal from power by the Dzungars...

A. Mohammed John (1948/1949 – 23 March 2021) was an Indian industrialist and politician. He served as Member of Rajyasabha representing Tamil Nadu. He...

The Type 1 heavy machine gun (一式重機関銃, Ichi-shiki jū-kikanjū) was a heavy machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during the later stages of the...

Vasily Ilyich Safonov (Russian: Василий Ильич Сафонов; 25 January [O.S. 6 February] 1852 – 27 February 1918), also known as Wassily Safonoff, was a Russian...

Teacher-Student Centre of the University of Dhaka is a building on the Dhaka University campus in Shahbagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The centre was established...

Elie Kedourie CBE FBA (25 January 1926, Baghdad – 29 June 1992, Washington) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a perspective that...

Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (Russian: Юрий (Георгий) Александрович Шапорин) (8 November [O.S. 27 October] 1887 – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Soviet composer...

Anatoly Nikolayevich Pepelyayev (Russian: Анатолий Николаевич Пепеляев; 15 July [O.S. 3 July] 1891, in Tomsk – 14 January 1938) was a White Russian general...

Huang Yen-lin (28 February 1975 – 6 April 2009), better known by her stage name A-Sun (阿桑, a slang term for "old woman" in Taiwanese Hokkien), was a Taiwanese...