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- Look up slur or epithet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have...350 KB (17,299 words) - 10:56, 5 August 2024
- This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources...457 KB (26,583 words) - 02:35, 11 August 2024
- Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called...89 KB (12,645 words) - 18:28, 6 August 2024
- 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...77 KB (9,828 words) - 02:49, 4 August 2024
- The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the...99 KB (9,721 words) - 22:09, 29 June 2024
- Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...124 KB (13,811 words) - 16:25, 20 July 2024
- Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are primarily selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly...69 KB (8,952 words) - 06:41, 3 August 2024
- John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the Progressive Movement...95 KB (11,517 words) - 09:47, 12 July 2024
- The one-child policy (Chinese: 一孩政策; pinyin: yī hái zhèngcè) was a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the...185 KB (20,519 words) - 08:47, 6 August 2024
- Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms...60 KB (7,037 words) - 05:50, 18 July 2024
- The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns...37 KB (3,846 words) - 13:33, 16 July 2024
- A quasi-state (some times referred to as state-like entity or formatively a proto-state) is a political entity that does not represent a fully autonomous...68 KB (3,706 words) - 13:25, 12 July 2024
- Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation (which occurred from approximately AD 43 to AD 410) and endured until the 11th century, when the...78 KB (9,109 words) - 18:55, 2 August 2024
- Odd Fellows (or Oddfellows; also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship) is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London...29 KB (3,071 words) - 03:44, 24 June 2024
- Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America...53 KB (6,082 words) - 01:08, 6 August 2024
- Death by sawing is the act of sawing or cutting a living person in half, either sagittally (usually midsagittally), or transversely. Different methods...56 KB (6,917 words) - 03:39, 1 August 2024
- The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, or simply UNPO is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented...63 KB (3,295 words) - 20:50, 2 August 2024
- Mormon feminism is a feminist religious social movement concerned with the role of women within Mormonism. Mormon feminists commonly advocate for a more...27 KB (2,822 words) - 19:24, 13 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) - 11:02, 15 July 2024
- Arsaces of Pontus (flourished 1st century BC) was a prince from the Kingdom of Pontus. He was a monarch of Iranian and Greek Macedonian ancestry. Arsaces...3 KB (283 words) - 02:22, 22 June 2023