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The House of Glymes was an old Belgian noble family, an illegitimate branch of the House of Reginarid, which ruled the Duchy of Brabant. Glymes or Glimes...

Faldstool (from the O.H. Ger. falden or falten, "to fold," and stuol, Mod. Ger. Stuhl, "stool"; from the medieval Latin faldistolium derived, through the...

Golde Flami (10 February 1918 – 20 July 2007) was an Argentine actress of film, television and stage. Flami was born as Golda Flon in 1918 to a Jewish...

Muriel Salina Costa-Greenspon (née Greenspon; December 1, 1937 – December 26, 2005) was an American mezzo-soprano who had a lengthy career at the New York...

Birgit Skiöld (18 March 1923 – 18 May 1982) was a Swedish master printmaker and modernist artist who ran the highly successful Print Workshop in the basement...

Anna Sujatha Mathai (1933/1934 – 16 March 2023) was an Indian poet. Anna Sujatha Mathai was born to Syrian Christian parents. She completed her B.A. (Honours)...

Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin CBE (30 January 1913 – 16 January 1988) was a British essayist, known mostly for many books and articles on philosophical...

Jacques Baudin (14 August 1939 – 25 November 2018) was a Senegalese politician from Diourbel. He served as Foreign Minister of Senegal from 1998 to 2000...

The Marshal of Brabant (erfmaarschalk van Brabant/ maréchal-héreditaire de Brabant) is a hereditary royal officeholder and chivalric title at the Court...

Miroslav Juhn (July 15, 1897 – 1941) was a Croatian Jewish publicist and politician, and a leading figure of the Praxis School. Miroslav Juhn was born...

The Kannur Kotta rape case refers to the gang rape of a married Muslim woman by her husband along with his friends at the Kannur Fort in the year 1993...

The Breviary of San Michele della Chiusa is a manuscript liturgical book of 1315 in two volumes: the "Santorale" and the "Temporale" for a total of 1390...

The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States by Charles Colcock Jones Sr. was published in 1843. The book includes four parts, the first...