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- 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
- Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced...75 KB (8,259 words) - 23:50, 26 July 2024
- Currency A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and...82 KB (9,024 words) - 21:54, 19 July 2024
- The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style...63 KB (5,627 words) - 07:41, 21 July 2024
- A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise...73 KB (8,579 words) - 19:48, 15 July 2024
- The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British...27 KB (2,991 words) - 08:40, 12 July 2024
- Sectarianism is a debated concept. Some scholars and journalists define it as pre-existing fixed communal categories in society, and use it to explain...92 KB (10,868 words) - 08:48, 12 July 2024
- The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved...79 KB (8,920 words) - 21:36, 24 July 2024
- A beard is the hair that grows on the jaw, chin, upper lip, lower lip, cheeks, and neck of humans and some non-human animals. In humans, usually pubescent...87 KB (9,999 words) - 14:24, 17 July 2024
- Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey. Small animals are hunted; squirrels and...84 KB (9,962 words) - 01:00, 1 June 2024
- The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon...45 KB (5,381 words) - 19:21, 21 July 2024
- An orator, or oratist, is a public speaker, especially one who is eloquent or skilled. Recorded in English c. 1374, with a meaning of "one who pleads or...9 KB (719 words) - 03:00, 5 July 2024
- Historical reenactments (or re-enactment) is an educational or entertainment activity in which mainly amateur hobbyists and history enthusiasts dress in...43 KB (5,122 words) - 18:07, 10 June 2024
- A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks to or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular...6 KB (651 words) - 14:16, 6 January 2024
- With the rediscovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance, the poetry of Ovid became a major influence on the imagination of poets and artists, and...6 KB (623 words) - 10:30, 23 January 2023
- The following is a list of national founders of sovereign states who were credited with establishing a state. National founders are typically those who...156 KB (17,813 words) - 16:37, 26 July 2024
- The King's Christmas message (or The Queen's Christmas message in a queen's reign, formally as His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, and informally as the...126 KB (5,086 words) - 06:06, 10 July 2024
- Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness is the only complete...37 KB (4,808 words) - 15:34, 28 March 2023
- Racism has a long history in the United Kingdom and includes structural discrimination and hostile attitudes against various ethnic minorities. The extent...82 KB (8,587 words) - 20:24, 17 July 2024
- Who Dares Wins (Latin: Qui audet adipiscitur; Greek: Ο Τολμών Νικά, O tolmón niká; French: Qui ose gagne; Italian: Chi osa vince; Portuguese: Quem ousa...6 KB (344 words) - 05:19, 26 July 2024