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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...347 KB (17,065 words) - 02:23, 8 June 2024
- Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual...95 KB (10,943 words) - 01:39, 2 June 2024
- This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources...340 KB (17,512 words) - 18:36, 7 June 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...87 KB (12,409 words) - 12:31, 8 June 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 (9,717 words) - 16:02, 4 June 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...61 KB (7,890 words) - 23:32, 6 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 (13,770 words) - 19:59, 3 June 2024
- The one-child policy (Simplified Chinese: 一孩政策) was a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population...184 KB (20,394 words) - 02:53, 24 May 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) - 06:14, 30 May 2024
- The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving / wage stealing machinery...37 KB (3,861 words) - 11:15, 7 June 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) - 04:34, 13 May 2024
- Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation and until the 11th century, when the Norman conquest of England resulted in the gradual merger of...76 KB (8,793 words) - 10:21, 28 April 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 (6,916 words) - 23:24, 28 April 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) - 15:14, 15 May 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 (6,076 words) - 14:06, 27 May 2024
- The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, or simply UNPO is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented...62 KB (3,193 words) - 22:16, 6 June 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) - 03:26, 6 June 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
- The Banu Taghlib (Arabic: بنو تغلب), also known as Taghlib ibn Wa'il, were an Arab tribe that originated in Jazira. Their parent tribe was the Rabi'a,...24 KB (3,249 words) - 20:42, 15 May 2023