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  • Thumbnail for History of slavery
    The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many...
    278 KB (32,221 words) - 01:22, 21 May 2024
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    Hair removal, also known as epilation or depilation, is the deliberate removal of body hair or head hair. Hair typically grows all over the human body...
    50 KB (6,052 words) - 01:27, 17 May 2024
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    Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The event is held annually, encouraging the individuals, communities, and...
    65 KB (6,513 words) - 14:43, 17 May 2024
  • This is a list of words and phrases related to death in alphabetical order. While some of them are slang, others euphemize the unpleasantness of the subject...
    24 KB (366 words) - 22:18, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Day of Seven Billion
    The Day of Seven Billion, October 31, 2011, is the day that was officially designated by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as the approximate...
    10 KB (899 words) - 11:58, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Climate change in Alaska
    Climate change in Alaska encompasses the effects of climate change in the U.S. state of Alaska. With winter temperatures increasing, the type of precipitation...
    23 KB (2,900 words) - 17:39, 7 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for International Year of the Child
    UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child. The proclamation was signed on January 1, 1979, by United Nations Secretary General Kurt...
    3 KB (262 words) - 06:55, 17 June 2021
  • Thumbnail for Braunvieh
    The Braunvieh (German, "brown cattle") or Swiss Brown is a breed or group of breeds of domestic cattle originating in Switzerland and distributed throughout...
    11 KB (1,059 words) - 18:02, 16 January 2024
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    The 7th BRICS summit was the seventh annual diplomatic summit of the head of states or government of the BRICS member states. It was held in the Russian...
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  • Thematic interpretation is an approach to heritage interpretation originally advocated by Professor William J. Lewis (University of Vermont) and subsequently...
    6 KB (770 words) - 09:15, 14 February 2022
  • The status of permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) is a legal designation in the United States for free trade with a foreign nation. The designation...
    17 KB (2,181 words) - 03:35, 18 May 2023
  • Hildegard Goss-Mayr (born 22 January 1930, Vienna) is an Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian. Daughter of Kaspar Mayr, founder of the...
    4 KB (504 words) - 07:53, 23 May 2023
  • Qazyan (also, Kaz’yan and Kaziyan) is a village and municipality in the Ujar Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 6,018. National Hero of Azerbaijan...
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  • The origins of society — the evolutionary emergence of distinctively human social organization — is an important topic within evolutionary biology, anthropology...
    38 KB (5,534 words) - 16:38, 29 May 2023
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    The 2007 Arab League Summit, also called the 2007 Riyadh Summit, refers to a convention of leaders from 21 members of the Arab League who gathered in Riyadh...
    21 KB (2,878 words) - 20:27, 5 April 2023
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    Prehistoric demography, palaeodemography or archaeological demography is the study of human and hominid demography in prehistory. More specifically, palaeodemography...
    15 KB (1,819 words) - 05:14, 14 March 2023
  • Jade Starling is an American singer-songwriter, and the lead vocalist for 1980s band Pretty Poison. She lives in New Jersey. Starling is a gay-rights activist...
    4 KB (368 words) - 05:10, 17 April 2023
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    The One-Tonne Challenge was a challenge presented by the Government of Canada in March 2004 for Canadians to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by one...
    2 KB (232 words) - 07:27, 25 March 2023
  • Progress Jersey is a charity and pressure group in Jersey. It was formed in November 2005 by Darius J. Pearce, Daren O'Toole and Gino Risoli. The original...
    5 KB (638 words) - 20:25, 11 December 2020
  • Thumbnail for Yakov Modestovich Gakkel
    Yakov Modestovich Gakkel (Russian: Яков Модестович Гаккель; 30 April 1874 – 12 December 1945) was a Soviet and Russian scientist and engineer who made...
    6 KB (637 words) - 21:55, 28 February 2023
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