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  • Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are primarily selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly...
    72 KB (9,433 words) - 03:20, 19 June 2024
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    The Asante Empire (Asante Twi: Asanteman), today commonly called the Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day...
    86 KB (9,972 words) - 13:12, 18 June 2024
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    In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially...
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    The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi-controlled territory that took place in 1938–1939...
    74 KB (8,691 words) - 06:57, 28 May 2024
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    Aat (“The Great One”) was a queen of the ancient Egyptian 12th Dynasty. Of all the wives of Amenemhat III, only her name is known to modern archaeology...
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  • Since the early 1930s, the history of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in English has been complicated and has been the occasion for controversy. Four full translations...
    41 KB (5,516 words) - 05:52, 29 May 2024
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    Jellejetta "Jetta" Klijnsma (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɛtaː ˈklɛinsmaː]; born 18 March 1957) is a Dutch politician serving as the King's Commissioner of...
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    USS General W. C. Langfitt (AP-151) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army...
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  • Manami Oku (奥 真奈美, Oku Manami, born November 22, 1995 in Tokyo) is a Japanese singer. She is a former member of the Japanese girl band AKB48. She debuted...
    4 KB (285 words) - 09:13, 9 July 2023
  • A prime suspect or key suspect is a person who is considered by the law enforcement agency investigating a crime to be the most likely suspect. The idiom...
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    The Museum of 4 July was a museum located in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It was established in 1950 in the house where members of the Central Committee...
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    The Qadan culture (13000-9000 BCE) was an ancient culture that, archaeological evidence suggests, originated in Nubia approximately 15,000 years ago. This...
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    The Postenpflicht (German: "Duty of guards") was a general order issued to SS-Totenkopfverbände guards in Nazi concentration camps to summarily execute...
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    Polish decrees, Polish directives or decrees on Poles (German: Polen-Erlasse, Polenerlasse) were the decrees of the Nazi Germany government announced on...
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  • Joan Humble (born Jovanka Piplica; 3 March 1951) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackpool North and Fleetwood...
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    George Hunt (February 14, 1854 – 1933) (Tlingit) was a Canadian and a consultant to the American anthropologist Franz Boas; through his contributions,...
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    Sophia Rosa Berghout (14 December 1909 - 22 March 1993) was a Dutch harpist. Her obituary in The Independent called her "arguably the most influential...
    3 KB (213 words) - 06:53, 23 January 2023
  • Milana Vlaović (née Bebić; born 1971 in Metković) is a Croatian journalist, composer, writer and columnist. She had finished her elementary school as well...
    4 KB (494 words) - 06:42, 2 June 2023
  • Victoria Marinova (Bulgarian: Виктория Маринова; 19 August 1988 – 6 October 2018) was a Bulgarian TV host and journalist. She was raped and murdered at...
    6 KB (508 words) - 10:25, 16 April 2023
  • Giulio Meotti is an Italian journalist who writes on Middle Eastern and Jewish issues. He is a strong advocate of Israel, and is critical of both the Catholic...
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