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Setsuwa (Japanese: 説話, romanized: setsu wa) is a Japanese literary genre. It consists of myths, legends, folktales, and anecdotes. Among the setsuwa, those...

USS Genesee was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy...

Yekusiel Yehuda (Zalmen Leib) Teitelbaum (1911 – 18 May 1944) was Chief Rabbi of Sighet/Máramarossziget from 1936–1940 (Romania), 1940–1944 (Hungary)....

Ellen P. Reese (August 30, 1926 – April 2, 1997) was the Norma Cutts Dafoe professor of psychology at Mount Holyoke College until 1994. She received her...

Dean Lester Schwarz (born 1938) is an American ceramic artist, painter, historian, writer, publisher, and teacher. He was also the co-founder of the South...

The Giluts'aaẅ (properly spelled with an umlaut over the w) are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian nation in British Columbia, Canada, and one of the...

Carrie L. Hoyt (1866–1950) was the mayor of Berkeley, California, from January 20 to circa May 1947. She is notable for having been Berkeley's first female...

The Battle of Fuzhou was a major military engagement during the Southern Tang conquest of Min. The Southern Tang took advantage of instability in the Min...

Breton News was a magazine set up by Alan Heusaff amongst Breton émigrés in Ireland in the 1950s. It was published in English, French and Breton, and aimed...