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Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in...

In many[citation needed] periodizations of human history, the late modern period followed the early modern period. It began around 1800 and, depending...

Papermaking is the manufacture of paper and cardboard, which are used widely for printing, writing, and packaging, among many other purposes. Today almost...

Bahrain's record on human rights has been described by Human Rights Watch as "dismal", and having "deteriorated sharply in the latter half of 2010". Their...

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...

A spelling bee is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of words, usually with a varying degree of difficulty. To compete...

The social attitudes toward and legal status of breastfeeding in public vary widely in cultures around the world. In many countries, both in the Global...

The history of smallpox extends into pre-history. Genetic evidence suggests that the smallpox virus emerged 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Prior to that, similar...

The Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation or FSKN (in Russian: Федеральная служба Российской Федерации по контролю за оборотом наркотиков...

A blue bag is a blue coloured, sometimes semi-transparent bag for waste, mandated for use in some localities for refuse or for certain specific types of...

In folkloristics, morphology is the study of the structure of folklore and fairy tales. Some pioneering work in this field was begun in the nineteenth...

The Maeotian Swamp or Maeotian Marshes (Ancient Greek: ἡ Μαιῶτις λίμνη, hē Maiōtis límnē, literally Maeotian Lake; Latin: Palus Maeotis) was a name applied...

David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Emeritus at Oberlin College, and presently Professor of Practice...

Norman Banks "Ike" Livermore Jr. (March 27, 1911 – December 5, 2006) was an American environmentalist, lumber industry executive, and state official. He...

Mount Dabajian (Chinese: 大霸尖山; pinyin: Dàbàjiān Shān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tāi-pà-chiam san; lit. 'Greater Papak Peak', Atayal: Papak waqa, Saisiyat: Kapatalayan)...

Geli (Russian: Гели; Kumyk: Гелли, Gelli) is a rural locality (a selo) in Karabudakhkentsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was...

Thirty Years of Adonis (Chinese: 三十儿立), is a 2017 film by the Hong Kong film-maker Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It is...

The Center to Prevent Youth Violence (CPYV), originally known as PAX, was a non-profit organization co-founded in 1998 by Daniel Gross and Talmage Cooley...

Valentina Platonovna Polukhina (Russian: Валентина Платоновна Полухина; 18 June 1936 – 8 February 2022) was a British-Russian scholar, Emeritus Professor...

Norris McDonald is an American environmental activist. He is the founder and president of the African American Environmentalist Association and the Center...