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  • Thumbnail for Page (servant)
    A page or page boy is traditionally a young male attendant or servant, but may also have been a messenger in the service of a nobleman. During wedding...
    8 KB (921 words) - 20:00, 5 April 2024
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    An engagement ring, also known as a betrothal ring, is a ring indicating that the person wearing it is engaged to be married, especially in Western cultures...
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    Moina Belle Michael (August 15, 1869 – May 10, 1944) was an American professor and humanitarian who conceived the idea of using poppies as a symbol of...
    6 KB (766 words) - 00:45, 18 April 2023
  • Megorashim (Hebrew: מגורשים "expelled") is a term used to refer to Jews from the Iberian Peninsula who arrived in North Africa as a result of the anti-Jewish...
    8 KB (869 words) - 14:45, 7 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Laleham Burway
    Laleham Burway is a 1.6-square-kilometre (0.62 sq mi) tract of water-meadow and former water-meadow between the River Thames and Abbey River in the far...
    8 KB (1,082 words) - 19:54, 5 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Michael, Prince of Montenegro
    Prince Michael Petrović-Njegoš of Montenegro (Serbian Cyrillic: Принц Михаило Петровић Његош; 14 September 1908 – 24 March 1986) was the third (but eldest...
    13 KB (1,130 words) - 01:06, 18 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sant Aniol d'Agulla
    Sant Aniol d'Agulla is a Benedictine monastery in Montagut i Oix, Province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It was declared a Bé Cultural d'Interès Nacional...
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  • Thumbnail for George Ghica
    George Ghica (Albanian: Gjergj Gjika, Romanian: Gheorghe Ghica) (3 March[citation needed] 1600 – 2 November[citation needed] 1664) founder of the Ghica...
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  • Thumbnail for Brotherhood of Saint Mark
    The Brotherhood of Saint Mark (German: Marxbrüder, Marx brothers) was the name of the most important organization of German swordsmen in the 16th century...
    4 KB (472 words) - 06:53, 25 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Alfred George Gardiner
    Alfred George Gardiner (2 June 1865 – 3 March 1946) was an English journalist, editor and author. His essays, written under the alias "Alpha of the Plough"...
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  • Thumbnail for Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
    The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (AIES) is an academic studies and research institute located at Kibbutz Ketura on the Israeli side of the...
    13 KB (1,327 words) - 01:58, 24 November 2023
  • Colonel Zackquill Morgan was the son of Welsh-born Colonel Morgan Morgan and Catherine Garretson, the first known white settlers in what would become the...
    11 KB (1,771 words) - 02:42, 19 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Enclave: The Ottawa Women's Monument
    Enclave: The Ottawa Women's Monument is a public monument that honours the lives of local women and girls murdered by men between 1990 and 2000. It is...
    11 KB (1,490 words) - 09:44, 15 January 2024
  • Rachel Sherman (born June 7, 1970) is an associate professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. Her first book, Class Acts: Service and...
    13 KB (1,143 words) - 09:34, 11 April 2023
  • In Greek mythology, Pylus (Ancient Greek: Πύλος means "in the gateway") was a member of the Aetolian royal family. Pylus was a son of Ares and princess...
    1 KB (122 words) - 07:06, 27 May 2023
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    Joan Hinde (21 October 1933 – 22 January 2015) was a British trumpeter and entertainer. Joan Hinde was born in Eckington, Derbyshire. At the age of six...
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  • The wokala (singular: wakil; Arabic: وكلاء, romanized: wokala, lit. 'agents') were a networks of agents who were active from Ja'far al-Sadiq's time until...
    6 KB (654 words) - 08:46, 28 January 2023
  • Chitrita Banerji is a historian of Indian cuisine. She specialises in Bengali cuisine, and is also an author, novelist and translator. Her work explores...
    3 KB (297 words) - 03:36, 8 January 2022
  • Amelia Juico Gordon (née Amelia Nepomuceno Juico; September 4, 1919 – November 19, 2009) was a mayor of Olongapo City and mother of Senator and Red Cross...
    7 KB (669 words) - 17:10, 26 May 2023
  • Guerau de Espés del Valle (1524 in Lleida – 1572) was a Spanish nobleman and diplomat. He served as Philip II of Spain's ambassador to Elizabeth I of England...
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