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The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. The belief in the evil eye among humans...

1990 January February March April May June July August September October November December 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian...

1939 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1939. 1939 (MCMXXXIX)...

Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity) is an interpretation of Christianity which advocates the belief that only Celtic and Germanic...

A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their...

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, or simply UNPO is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented...

Headhunting is the practice of hunting a human and collecting the severed head after killing the victim, although sometimes more portable body parts (such...

Cultural memory is a concept that draws heavily on European social anthropology, especially German and French. It is not well established in the English-speaking...

The Taxil hoax was an 1890s hoax of exposure by Léo Taxil, intended to mock not only Freemasonry but also the Catholic Church's opposition to it. Taxil...

Janina is a Polish nobility clan coat-of-arms. Borne by several noble families descended in the-male line from the medieval lords of Janina (the eponyms...

The name Demetrius occurs in two places in the New Testament: a Diana-worshipping silversmith who incited a riot against the Apostle Paul in the city of...

The triquetra (/traɪˈkwɛtrə/ treye-KWEH-truh; from the Latin adjective triquetrus "three-cornered") is a triangular figure composed of three interlaced...

Lidia Zamenhof (Esperanto: Lidja Zamenhofo; 29 January 1904–1942) was a Jewish Polish writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of Klara...

Axel de Vries (4 June 1892 Preedi Manor (now Järva Parish), Kreis Jerwen – 24 January 1963 Bonn, West Germany) was a Baltic-German and German politician...

The Persian Gulf Command was a United States Army service command established in December 1943 to facilitate the supply of US lend-lease war material to...

Chambri (previously spelled Tchambuli) are an ethnic group in the Chambri Lakes region in the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. The social structures...

Tao (Georgian: ტაო) is a historical Georgian district and part of historic Tao-Klarjeti region, today part of the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. Its...

Virginia Dodd Smith (June 30, 1911 – January 23, 2006) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1991 from the...

Kanva or Kanwa (Sanskrit: कण्व káṇva), also called Karnesh, was an ancient Hindu rishi of the Treta Yuga, to whom some of the hymns of the Rig Veda are...

A bonfire of the vanities (Italian: falò delle vanità) is a burning of objects condemned by religious authorities as occasions of sin. The phrase itself...