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The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional...

Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the...

In team sports, a shutout (US) or clean sheet (UK) is a game in which the losing team fails to score. While possible in most major sports, they are highly...

The Seneca (/ˈsɛnɪkə/ SEN-ik-ə; Seneca: O-non-dowa-gah, lit. 'Great Hill People') are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically...

Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Ming (明太祖), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋; Chu...

Zacarias Moussaoui (Arabic: زكريا موسوي, Zakariyyā Mūsawī; born 30 May 1968) is a French member of al-Qaeda who pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court...

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby KG GCMG PC PC (Ire) (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869), known as Lord Stanley from 1834 to 1851...

Mushroomhead is an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in the Cleveland Warehouse District, the band is known for their avant-garde...

The Coast Salish are a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province...

Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won...

Manoj Das (27 February 1934 – 27 April 2021) was an Indian author who wrote in Odia and English. In 2000, Manoj Das was awarded the Saraswati Samman. He...

The term magnate, from the late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus, "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to...

The United States House of Representatives Page Program was a program run by the United States House of Representatives, under the office of the Clerk...

Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani (11 November 1888 – 19 March 1982), popularly known as Acharya Kripalani, was an Indian politician, noted particularly for...

Semmangudi Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer (25 July 1908 – 31 October 2003) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist. He was the youngest recipient of the Sangeetha...

The Nuwaubian Nation, Nuwaubian movement, or United Nuwaubian Nation (/nuːˈwɔːbiːən/) is an American new religious and black supremacist movement founded...

The Hired Truck Program was a scandal-plagued program in the city of Chicago that involved hiring private trucks to do city work. It was overhauled in...

Padmini Ramachandran (12 June 1932 – 24 September 2006) was an Indian actress and trained Bharatanatyam dancer, who acted in over 250 Indian films. She...

Drew Emeric Stanton (born May 7, 1984) is a former professional football player who was a quarterback for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL)...

Dennis Eugene Scott Jr. (born September 5, 1968) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) small forward from Georgia...