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    Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow...
    115 KB (13,133 words) - 19:13, 12 June 2024
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    An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot...
    98 KB (9,700 words) - 00:46, 16 June 2024
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    A quasi-state (some times referred to as state-like entity or formatively a proto-state) is a political entity that does not represent a fully autonomous...
    68 KB (3,706 words) - 17:54, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marriage law
    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
  • The Avarpi or Auarpoi or Avarni were Germanic tribe attested in Ptolemy's Geography. The attested Greek is Auarpoi. Avarpi is a scholarly transliteration...
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    The Russian geoglyph refers to a geoglyph on slopes of the Zyuratkul Mountains in the Chelyabinsk region in Russia. The geoglyph depicts accurate contours...
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  • Thumbnail for Bantam (poultry)
    A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck. Most large chicken breeds and several breeds of duck have a bantam counterpart, which...
    2 KB (166 words) - 17:01, 22 June 2022
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    Physical restraint refers to means of purposely limiting or obstructing the freedom of a person's or an animal´s bodily movement. Usually, binding objects...
    17 KB (2,067 words) - 13:57, 11 June 2024
  • In social work, a caseworker is not a social worker but is employed by a government agency, nonprofit organization, or another group to take on the cases...
    20 KB (2,466 words) - 13:56, 26 December 2023
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    The Maragoli, or Logoli (Ava-Logooli), are now the second-largest ethnic group of the 6 million-strong Luhya nation in Kenya, numbering around 2.1 million...
    15 KB (2,271 words) - 07:22, 17 June 2023
  • The 19th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Jameson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine Empire, honored the best films...
    24 KB (1,124 words) - 15:55, 5 January 2023
  • FK Kubanochka Krasnodar was a Russian women's football team, competed in the Russian Women's Football Championship. Founded in 1988 as Zhemchuzhina Krasnodar...
    3 KB (217 words) - 00:57, 7 February 2023
  • The 6th Empire Awards ceremony, presented by the British film magazine Empire, honored the best films of 2000 and took place on 19 February 2001. During...
    13 KB (434 words) - 15:54, 5 January 2023
  • Joanna Harcourt-Smith (13 January 1946 – 11 October 2020) was an author, poet, psychedelic activist and the founder of Future Primitive Podcast. She was...
    9 KB (665 words) - 10:19, 29 May 2024
  • Roger Bastide (Nîmes, 1 April 1898 – Maisons-Laffitte, 10 April 1974) was a French sociologist and anthropologist, specialist in sociology and Brazilian...
    6 KB (720 words) - 13:18, 2 July 2023
  • John Uzo Ogbu (May 9, 1939 – August 20, 2003) was a Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor known for his theories on observed phenomena involving...
    15 KB (1,781 words) - 08:26, 28 May 2023
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    Narvskaya (Russian: На́рвская) is a subway station in Saint Petersburg, Russia on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line between the stations Baltiyskaya and Kirovsky...
    14 KB (1,293 words) - 13:15, 11 August 2022
  • Chris Morris (born 23 May 1979) is an activist who, with Euan Sutherland, successfully challenged the British Government in the European Court of Human...
    7 KB (817 words) - 21:31, 24 March 2023
  • Jim Chen is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law. He holds the Justin Smith Morrill Chair in Law at Michigan State University...
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    Harold Whitmore Williams (6 April 1876 – 18 November 1928) was a New Zealand journalist, foreign editor of The Times and polyglot who is considered to...
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