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    Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society...
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    The fez (Turkish: fes, Ottoman Turkish: فس, romanized: fes), also called tarboosh/tarboush (Arabic: طربوش, romanized: ṭarbūš), is a felt headdress in the...
    41 KB (4,686 words) - 20:25, 23 May 2024
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    Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive...
    52 KB (5,797 words) - 01:16, 9 June 2024
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    Wreck diving is recreational diving where the wreckage of ships, aircraft and other artificial structures are explored. The term is used mainly by recreational...
    34 KB (4,288 words) - 19:27, 26 May 2024
  • Zar cave (Azerbaijani: Zar mağarası) is an archaeological site of prehistoric human habitation during the Upper Paleolithic. It is located in the southern...
    3 KB (157 words) - 11:17, 26 June 2022
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    Marriage law is the legal requirements, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries...
    62 KB (4,354 words) - 01:20, 9 June 2024
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    The Wulfings, Wylfings or Ylfings (the name means the "wolf clan") was a powerful clan in Beowulf, Widsith and in the Norse sagas. While the poet of Beowulf...
    6 KB (599 words) - 21:42, 7 December 2021
  • Lin Qiaozhi or Kha-Ti Lim (Chinese: 林巧稚; pinyin: Lín Qiǎozhì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Khá-tī; December 23, 1901 – April 22, 1983) was a Chinese obstetrician and...
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  • This article concerns the period 489 BC – 480 BC. After his great victory in the Battle of Marathon, Miltiades leads a naval expedition to Paros to pay...
    297 bytes (2,780 words) - 01:22, 5 August 2021
  • Avgust Černigoj, also known in Italian as Augusto Cernigoi (August 24, 1898 – November 17, 1985), was a Yugoslav-era Slovenian painter known for his avant-garde...
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  • Jenny (c. 1953 - September 4, 2008) was a western lowland gorilla who resided at the Dallas Zoo in Dallas, Texas. Jenny was the world's oldest gorilla...
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  • Year 483 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vibulanus and Potitus (or, less frequently...
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    Saint Apollonia is a painting attributed to the Italian baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi executed between 1642 and 1644. It is part of the collection...
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    Dally Castle is a ruined 13th-century stone motte-and-bailey fortress in Northumberland, and one of the first hall houses in Northumberland. It lies 5...
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  • David Mackenzie Donald Mills (born 31 May 1944) is a British corporate lawyer who specialises in international work for Italian companies. He was accused...
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    The Duchy of Saxe-Marksuhl was one of the Saxon Duchies held by the Ernestine line of the Wettin Dynasty. Established in 1662 for John George I, third...
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  • Christopher Plunket, 2nd Earl of Fingall and 11th Baron Killeen (died 1649) was an Irish politician and soldier. In 1641 he negotiated with the rebels...
    26 KB (2,130 words) - 09:52, 24 June 2023
  • This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1925. January 1 – Government of India takes over East Indian Railway Company. February...
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  • Samlah was a king of Edom mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in Genesis 36:31-43. He succeeded Hadad ben Bedad in the apparently elective kingship[citation...
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  • William FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Kildare (c. 1563 – March 1599) was an Irish nobleman. FitzGerald was the third son of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of...
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