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Flagellation (Latin flagellum, 'whip'), flogging or whipping is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, rods, switches...

A style of office or form of address, also called manner of address, is an official or legally recognized form of address for a person or other entity...

James Jesse Strang (March 21, 1813 – July 9, 1856) was an American religious leader, politician and self-proclaimed monarch. He served as a member of the...

Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency...

The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books in its "vast and cavernous"  stacks, is the center­piece of the Harvard College...

A gingerbread house is a novelty confectionery shaped like a building that is made of cookie dough, cut and baked into appropriate components like walls...

Alvecote Priory is a ruined Benedictine Priory in Alvecote, Warwickshire, England. The site has been scheduled as an ancient monument. Now very little...

A'ali (Arabic: عالي) is a major town in northern Bahrain. It is a part of the Northern Governorate, although from 2001 to 2014 it lay within the Central...

Fermin (also Firmin, from Latin Firminus; Spanish Fermín) was a legendary holy man and martyr, traditionally venerated as the co-patron saint of Navarre...

Valerie Elizabeth Stacey, Lady Stacey is a Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts. She was the...

The Battle of Didao, also known as the Battle of Taoxi, was fought between the states of Shu Han and Cao Wei in 255 during the Three Kingdoms period in...

The epistemic theory of miracles is the name given by the philosopher William Vallicella to the theory of miraculous events given by Augustine of Hippo...

Michel Auguste Martin Agénor Azéma de Montgravier (28 October 1805, in Béziers – 14 September 1863, in Montpellier) was a French archaeologist and soldier...

Jean de Liège, (c.1330-1381) was a 14th-century sculptor of Flemish origin, mainly active in France,[citation needed] who specialized in funerary sculptures...

Harold Ellis Tomlinson PhD (1916–1997) was an English educationist and heraldist. He designed many civic and corporate coats of arms, served as heraldic...

The Fortress Church or the Big Church (in Hungarian Vártemplom) is the oldest surviving church in Târgu Mureș.[citation needed] After less than a century...

Aikaterine "Keti" Chomata (Greek: Αικατερίνη (Καίτη) Χωματά, pronounced [ekateˈrini ˈceti xomaˈta]; October 24, 1946 - October 24, 2010) was a Greek singer...

Roland de Mecquenem (20 August 1877 – 1957) was a French archaeologist who took part in the excavations of Susa in Iran. He was a graduate of the École...

Shri Durga Devi temple, Guhagar is an ancient temple located at Guhagar, a taluka place in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra state in India. It is considered...

François Bernardin Azaïs, known as Père Azaïs, (31 January 1870 – 6 April 1966) was a French missionary and archeologist. He has been called the "father...