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Look up squire  or squireen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In the Middle Ages, a squire was the shield- or armour-bearer of a knight. Use of the term...

The following is a list of incidents characterized as inspired by Islamophobia by commentators. Islamophobia became a popular term in ideological debate...

The Constitution of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: قانون أساسي, romanized: Kānûn-ı Esâsî, lit. 'Basic law'; French: Constitution ottomane) was the...

Bird stones are prehistoric, abstract stone carvings made by Native Americans. The artifacts were a common inclusion in graves and thought to have ceremonial...

Pork is a food taboo among Jews, Muslims, and some Christian denominations. Swine were prohibited in ancient Syria and Phoenicia, and the pig and its flesh...

Geminus of Rhodes (Greek: Γεμῖνος ὁ Ῥόδιος), was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, who flourished in the 1st century BC. An astronomy work of his,...

Liber AL vel Legis (Classical Latin: [ˈlɪbɛr aː.ɛɫ wɛl‿ˈleːgɪs]), commonly known as The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema. Aleister...

Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (died between 1283 and 1286) was a medieval noblewoman of Ravenna, who was murdered by her husband, Giovanni...

Starčevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Старчево), also known as Grad (Град) is the eponymous archaeological site of the Starčevo culture that has been dated to the...

The sovereign of the United Kingdom may award a royal family order to female members of the British royal family, as they typically do not wear the commemorative...

The Chronicle of the Tocco (Greek: Χρονικό των Τόκκων) is a chronicle in fifteen-syllable blank verse written in medieval Greek. It covers the period of...

The Dura-Europos church (or Dura-Europos house church) is the earliest identified Christian house church. It was located in Dura-Europos, Syria, and one...

Romana Acosta Bañuelos (March 20, 1925 – January 15, 2018) was the thirty-fourth Treasurer of the United States. Appointed by President Richard Nixon on...

Rapido was an auxiliary cruiser that served in the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War in 1898. Before her Spanish Navy service, she served as...

Robin Weisman is a former American child actress. She is well known as the "little lady" Mary Bennington in the 1990 film Three Men and a Little Lady co-starring...

Tala Birell (born Natalie Bierle; 10 September 1907 – 17 February 1958) was a Romanian-born stage and film actress. Birell was born Natalie Bierle on 10...

Marie Fel (24 October 1713 – 2 February 1794) was a French opera singer and a daughter of the organist Henri Fel. Marie Fel was born at Bordeaux. She made...

The Enterprise was a United States merchant vessel active in the coastwise slave trade in the early 19th century along the Atlantic Coast. Bad weather...

Beatrice Eleanor Beeby (née Newnham; 1903 – 20 December 1991) was a New Zealand educator. She was key figure in the establishment of the nursery playcentre...

Farida Jafar gizi Mammadova (Azerbaijani: Fəridə Cəfər qızı Məmmədova; 8 August 1936 – 8 December 2021) was an Azerbaijani historian who specialized in...