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    social function. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BCE. Over...
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    The Ethiopian eunuch (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያዊው ጃንደረባ) is a figure in the New Testament of the Bible; the story of his conversion to Christianity is recounted in...
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    A eunuch (/ˈjuːnək/ YOO-nək) is a man who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. In China, castration...
    134 KB (15,582 words) - 05:11, 1 May 2024
  • Eunuch (Korean: Naeshi) is a 1986 South Korean drama film directed by Lee Doo-yong. The film was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign...
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  • A eunuch is a man who has been castrated. Eunuch or Eunuchs may also refer to: Eunuch (TV series), a 1980 Hong Kong TV series Eunuch (film), a 1986 South...
    566 bytes (97 words) - 00:12, 17 October 2022
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    The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis...
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    produces music akin to a comb and paper, and is still manufactured as a toy. The eunuch flute's sound resembles that of a kazoo. The eunuch flute, unlike a...
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  • Ganymedes (died early 47 BC) was a eunuch in the court of Cleopatra VII who proved an able adversary of Julius Caesar. Ganymedes was the tutor of Cleopatra's...
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  • The Eunuch (Chinese:鬼太監) is a 1971 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Teddy Yip, and starring Pai Ying and Lisa Chiao Chiao. Pai Ying as Lord Kuei Teh Hai...
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    Kiệt was a prominent eunuch general during the Lý dynasty (1009–1225). Self-castration was banned by Lý dynasty Vietnamese official Hiến Thành The left...
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    first Ming dynasty eunuch with power in the court. He served Zhu Qizhen who promoted him to become 'one of the most powerful eunuch "dictators" in Ming...
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  • Yaoting, the last imperial eunuch of China, from his entry into the imperial palace to his old age. As a person close to the emperor, the empress, and...
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    In the Indian subcontinent, hijra are transgender, intersex, or eunuch people who live in communities that follow a kinship system known as guru-chela...
    80 KB (8,964 words) - 08:06, 13 May 2024
  • interviewed and followed the lives of a number of men who chose voluntarily to become eunuchs. The film starts by interviewing the Sheriff of Haywood County, North...
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    Castration (redirect from Eunuch effect)
    and shipped to the Middle East. "The Caliphate in Baghdad at the beginning of the 10th Century had 7,000 black eunuchs and 4,000 white eunuchs in his palace...
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    also translated into English as The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean or The Journey of Sanbao the Eunuch to the Western Ocean, is a classic Chinese...
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  • Latinized Stauracius; died 3 June 800) was a Byzantine Greek eunuch official, who rose to be one of the most important and influential associates of Byzantine...
    14 KB (1,816 words) - 23:14, 29 February 2024
  • Eunuch of Stamboul is a 1935 spy thriller novel by the British writer Dennis Wheatley. A British army officer is forced to resign his commission to avoid...
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  • Björn the Eunuch is said to have been a ruler of the House of Munsö who reigned briefly before being emasculated by his enemies and exiled to the Duchy...
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  • Eunuch can refer to: John the Laz, 5th-centuryGeorgian monk and theologian John the Orphanotrophos, 11th-century Byzantine courtier John the Eunuch (Trebizond)...
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