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Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620...

Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public...

Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. The concept...

1967 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1967. 1967 (MCMLXVII)...

A grotto is a natural or artificial cave used by humans in both modern times and antiquity, and historically or prehistorically. Naturally occurring grottoes...

Population transfer or resettlement is a type of mass migration that is often imposed by a state policy or international authority. Such mass migrations...

Bengal famine Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union Famine in India Famines in the Czech lands Famines in Ethiopia Great Bengal famine of...

Holy See–United Kingdom relations are foreign relations between the Holy See and the United Kingdom. The Holy See maintains an Apostolic nunciature in...

Solomon's knot (Latin: sigillum Salomonis, lit. 'Solomon's seal') is a traditional decorative motif used since ancient times, and found in many cultures...

In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט‎, Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) is the term used...

The Danish Order of Freemasons (Danish: Den Danske Frimurerorden, abbr.: DDFO), in English also known as the Grand Lodge of Denmark, is a governing body...

The Drukken, Drucken Steps or Drunken Steps were stepping stones across the Red Burn in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland and are associated with Scotland's...

The List of shipwrecks in the 1720s includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during the 1720s. In the British Empire, 1720 began on 25 March...

Futuwwa (Arabic: فتوة, "young-manliness") was a conception of adolescent moral behavior around which myriad institutions of Medieval confraternity developed...

Salomon Schweigger (also spelled Solomon Schweiger) (30 March 1551 – 21 June 1622) was a German Lutheran theologian, minister, anthropologist and orientalist...

Las (Ancient Greek: Λᾶς and ἡ Λᾶς), or Laas (Λάας), or La (Λᾶ), was one of the most ancient towns of Lakedaimonia (eventually called the Mani Peninsula)...

Bethulia (Greek: Βαιτυλούᾳ, Baituloua; Hebrew: בתוליה) is a biblical "city whose deliverance by Judith, when besieged by Holofernes, forms the subject...

Anne Frater (born 1967) is a Scottish poet. She was born in Stornoway (Steòrnabhagh), in Lewis on the Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar). She was brought...

Anna Katherine Diggs Taylor (née Johnston; December 9, 1932 – November 4, 2017) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court...

The South Carolina Gazette (1732–1775) was South Carolina's first successful newspaper. The paper began in 1732 under Thomas Whitmarsh in Charlestown (now...