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A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have...

The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million (calculated to present-day value of £69 million - or $73,547,750), from a Royal Mail train heading...

A chaperone (also spelled chaperon) in its original social usage was a person who for propriety's sake accompanied an unmarried girl in public; usually...

Aryanism is an ideology of racial supremacy which views the supposed Aryan race as a distinct and superior racial group which is entitled to rule the rest...

José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube (6 March 1904 – 22 March 1960) was a Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president...

Road space rationing, also known as alternate-day travel, driving restriction and no-drive days (Spanish: restricción vehicular; Portuguese: rodízio veicular;...

In medicine, the adjective spastic refers to an alteration in muscle tone affected by the medical condition spasticity, which is a well-known symptomatic...

The Taim Ecological Station (Portuguese: Estação Ecológica do Taim) is a federally-administered ecological station in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil...

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a non-profit strategy and action center based in Oakland, California. The stated aim of the center is to work...

Norman Birnbaum (July 21, 1926 – January 4, 2019) was an American sociologist. He was an emeritus professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and...