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The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when referring to others...

Korean philosophy focuses on a totality of world view. Some aspects of Shamanism, Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism were integrated into Korean philosophy...

Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta (Spanish: [ˈxwan ˈluna], Tagalog: [hwɐn ˈluna]; October 25, 1857 – December 7, 1899) was a Filipino painter, sculptor...

Manjapara Devesa Bhagavathar Ramanathan (20 May 1923 – 27 April 1984) was a Carnatic music composer and vocalist who created a distinctive style of singing...

The campaign at the China–Burma border (simplified Chinese: 中缅边境作战; traditional Chinese: 中緬邊境作戰) was a series of battles fought along the China–Burma border...

Parassala is a small town located near the border of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.It comes under Thiruvananthapuram district at southern tip of Kerala. It is...

The Nian Rebellion (Chinese: 捻亂; pinyin: Niǎn Luàn) was an armed uprising that took place in northern China from 1851 to 1868, contemporaneously with the...

The Ashura massacre of March 2, 2004 in Iraq was a series of planned terrorist explosions that killed at least 80–100 and injured at least 200 Iraqi Shi'a...

The Buratha mosque bombing was a triple suicide bombing that occurred on April 7, 2006, in Baghdad. The attack killed 85 people and wounded 160 others...

The 14 September 2005 Baghdad bombings were a series of more than a dozen terrorist attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The most deadly bombing occurred...

On 18 February 2007, three car bombs exploded in predominantly Shia areas of Baghdad, killing at least 63 people and injuring more than 120. The bombings...

On 5 January 2006, a series of suicide attacks were launched in the Shia holy city of Karbala and in Ramadi city centre, each killing about 60 or more...

The Raduga Kh-20 (NATO reporting name: AS-3 Kangaroo) was an air launched cruise missile armed with a thermonuclear warhead which was developed by the...

The Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria lasted from 1223 to 1236. The Bulgar state, centered in lower Volga and Kama, was the center of the fur trade in...

Rui'an is city situated in China. It has a population of 200,000 people and covers a land area of 1,271 km2 (491 sq mi), 3,037 km2 (1,173 sq mi) when including...

Government Higher Secondary School Rajakkad, Kerala, India, was started in 1955. The school is situated in rajakkad about 20 kilometer away from Adimali...

The R-13 (Russian: ракета-13) was a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) developed by the Soviet Union starting around 1955. It was assigned the...

Aletheia University (after Greek ἀλήθεια, 'truth') (Chinese: 真理大學; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chin-lí Tāi-ha̍k) is a private university in Tamsui, New Taipei City and...

The RT-15 was a mobile theatre ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-14 Scamp...

Greater Finland (Finnish: Suur-Suomi; Estonian: Suur-Soome; Swedish: Storfinland), was an irredentist and nationalist idea that was a subset of Pan-Finnicism...