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This list covers English-language country names with their etymologies. Some of these include notes on indigenous names and their etymologies. Countries...

Ethnocinema, from Jean Rouch’s cine-ethnography and ethno-fictions, is an emerging practice of intercultural filmmaking being defined and extended by Melbourne...

The so-called Free Dacians (Romanian: Dacii liberi) is the name given by some modern historians to those Dacians who putatively remained outside, or emigrated...

The James Ossuary is a 1st-century limestone box that was used for containing the bones of the dead. An Aramaic inscription meaning "Jacob (James), son...

Dame Margaret van Praagh DBE (1 September 1910 – 15 January 1990) was a British ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, repetiteur, producer, advocate and...

Rafael Medoff (born c. 1959) is an American professor of Jewish history and the founding director of The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which...

Illegal stamps are postage stamp–like labels issued in the names of existing independent countries or territories used to defraud postal administrations...

Hagarenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαρηνοί Agarenoi, Classical Syriac: ܗܓܪܝܐ Hagráyé or ܡܗܓܪܝܐ Mhaggráyé, Armenian: Հագարացի) is a term widely used by early Syriac...

Lady Lucy Neville, Baroness Latimer (c. 1524 – 23 February 1583) was an English noblewoman and the daughter of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester and...

Nydia Rojas (born 1980) is an American singer who performs in a wide range of musical styles such as jazz, soul, and R&B, but makes a particular specialty...

Ecdicius Avitus (c. 420 – after 475) was an Arverni aristocrat, senator, and magister militum praesentalis from 474 until 475. As a son of the Emperor...

See Book of prophecies for the literary genre. The Book of Prophecies (in Spanish, El Libro de las Profecías) is a compilation of apocalyptical religious...

Elizabeth Denby (1894 – 3 November 1965) was an English social housing expert and consultant. Denby was from Bradford, Yorkshire, the daughter of a doctor...

Jean Emile Humbert (23 July 1771 in The Hague – 20 February 1839 in Livorno) was a Dutch lieutenant-colonel who can be credited with rediscovering ancient...

Yattendon Castle was a fortified manor house located in the civil parish of Yattendon, in the hundred of Faircross, in the English county of Berkshire...

Boško Palkovljević Pinki (Serbian Cyrillic: Бошко Палковљевић „Пинки"; 1920–1942) was a prominent Partisan fighter during World War II in Yugoslavia and...

The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (1974) is a scholarly work by Erich S. Gruen on the end of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. The central...

Ibn Khalaf al-Murādī, (أبو جعفر علي ابن خلف المرادي; 11th century) was an Andalusian engineer. Al-Murādī was the author of the technological manuscript...

Glenlochar (Gd: Gleann Lochair) is a hamlet on the western bank of the River Dee in the parish of Balmaghie in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire...

Maria Wallis QPM (born 13 August 1955) was the Chief Constable of the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary in the United Kingdom from 2002 until 26 July 2006...