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Yu Luojin (born 1946 in Beijing) is a Chinese novelist. She graduated from Beijing Arts and Crafts School in 1966. She was a toy designer. During the Cultural...

Kestigia (also kestigie, kestighie or kestigade) is a verb, mentioned in medieval Frisian texts. It was a legal process in which a defendant had to prove...

Ivona Březinová (born 12 May 1964) is a Czech writer of fiction for children and adolescents. Březinová was born in Ústí nad Labem, North Bohemia, in 1964...

Androbulus was a sculptor in classical antiquity. He was mentioned by Pliny the Elder as having been celebrated as a maker of statues of philosophers....

Androbius was a painter of classical antiquity, whose time and country are unknown. He painted Scyllis, the diver, cutting away the anchors of the Persian...

Hope Booth (1878 − December 15, 1933) was a vaudeville, burlesque, and theatre actress. Booth was born in Toronto and was the daughter of William Beresford...

The Skirmish at Aenon Church was a battle that was fought between the Union Army and the Confederate Army in Hanover County, Virginia on May 29, 1864....

Rockin' In Time: A Social History of Rock-and-Roll is a rock history book written by David Szatmary. It was originally published in 1987 and is now in...

"Treasure of Logic on Valid Cognition" (Standard Tibetan: ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་བཞུགས་སོ།; sanskr. Subhashitaratnanidhi) is an aphoristic...

Elin Eugenia Pikkuniemi, (born 15 August 1895 Vojakkala, Sweden, died 7 May 1988 in Trönö, Sweden), was a Swedish cross-country skier and a primary-school...

Ekbalpore triple murder was the gruesome murder of a widow and her two teenage daughters which took place in Kolkata, India in March 2014. According to...