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The Shroud of Turin (Italian: Sindone di Torino), also known as the Holy Shroud (Italian: Sacra Sindone), is a length of linen cloth that bears a faint...93 KB (10,826 words) - 23:57, 25 April 2024
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; French: Comité International de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland...93 KB (11,713 words) - 16:19, 10 April 2024
The fez (Turkish: fes, Ottoman Turkish: فس, romanized: fes), also called tarboosh/tarboush (Arabic: طربوش, romanized: ṭarbūš), is a felt headdress in the...41 KB (4,684 words) - 05:48, 28 April 2024
A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle...59 KB (7,097 words) - 16:10, 10 April 2024
Human branding or stigmatizing is the process by which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with...29 KB (3,561 words) - 14:42, 15 April 2024- 1957 was the 58th season of County Championship cricket in England. Surrey's run of success continued with a sixth successive title and this was the most...3 KB (244 words) - 12:09, 27 January 2024
The sociology of jealousy deals with cultural and social factors that influence what causes jealousy, how jealousy is expressed, and how attitudes toward...5 KB (617 words) - 10:24, 15 January 2023- Theodosius V (Athanase Joasaph) Dahan (1698–1788) was Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1761 to 1788. Joasaph Dahan was born in Beirut...4 KB (408 words) - 05:47, 23 November 2022
- Events in the year 1794 in Spain. Monarch: Charles IV January 28 - Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794) April 29-May 1 - Second Battle of Boulou July 23-August...2 KB (143 words) - 22:52, 3 April 2022
- Ibn Bibi was a Persian historiographer and the author of the primary source for the history of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rum during the 13th century. He...3 KB (346 words) - 20:47, 19 June 2023
- Carolyn Elizabeth Robinson Cassady (April 28, 1923 – September 20, 2013) was an American writer and associated with the Beat Generation through her marriage...16 KB (1,953 words) - 03:04, 28 March 2024
Enon Chapel was a building on Clement's Lane (today St. Clement's Lane) off Aldwych near the Strand in London and it was built around 1823. The upper part...7 KB (981 words) - 20:32, 21 April 2022
Elsie Cotton (née Hodder, 8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962), known professionally as Lily Elsie, was an English actress and singer during the Edwardian...15 KB (1,959 words) - 03:11, 4 June 2023- Jamal Karimi-Rad (1956 – 28 December 2006) (Persian: جمال کریمی راد) was the Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Rad was born in 1956...2 KB (119 words) - 22:01, 24 May 2022
Johanna Wanka (née Müller; born 1 April 1951) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister for Education...12 KB (993 words) - 23:35, 19 June 2023- The Weorgoran (Old English: "people of the winding river") were a people of Saxon England, a precursor of the minor kingdom of Hwicce. The Weorgoran were...1 KB (92 words) - 09:26, 27 November 2022
- Hendiatris (/hɛnˈdaɪ.ətrɪs/ hen-DY-ət-riss; from Ancient Greek ἓν διὰ τρία (hèn dià tría) 'one through three') is a figure of speech used for emphasis...16 KB (1,754 words) - 11:07, 24 April 2024
Sharon Ryer Davis (born May 6, 1954) is an American author who served as first lady of California from 1999 to 2003. She is the wife of former California...4 KB (312 words) - 22:15, 5 April 2023- In Attic drama, the coryphaeus, corypheus, or koryphaios (Greek κορυφαῖος koryphaîos, from κορυφή koryphḗ́, the top of the head) was the leader of the...2 KB (297 words) - 14:20, 7 May 2023
- Ragnvald Heidumhære (or Rognvald) was a semi-historical petty king or chieftain of Vestfold in what is today Norway in the 9th century, according to Ynglingatal...2 KB (265 words) - 20:56, 17 January 2021
