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Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...

1972 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1972. 1972 (MCMLXXII)...

Miss Grand International also known as Miss Grand is an international beauty pageant franchise that was based in Thailand. It consists of the annual national...

The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one or both ends. The...

The civilizing mission (Spanish: misión civilizadora; Portuguese: Missão civilizadora; French: Mission civilisatrice) is a political rationale for military...

Ingeborg Hermine "Inge" Morath (Austrian German: [ˈɪŋəbɔrɡ ˈmoːraːt] ; 27 May 1923 – 30 January 2002) was an Austrian photographer. In 1953, she joined...

The Racial Equality Proposal (Japanese: 人種的差別撤廃提案, lit. "Proposal to abolish racial discrimination") was an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles that...

Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 is a book by 20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley. It is widely considered to be his magnum opus.[citation needed] Magick...

Tattooed ladies were working class women who acquired tattoos and performed in circuses, sideshows, and dime show museums as means for earning a substantial...

Bald's Leechbook (also known as Medicinale Anglicum) is a medical text in Old English and Medieval Latin probably compiled in the mid-tenth century, possibly...

The following is a list of notable one-on-one duels or single combats in history and in legend or fiction. 7th century BC: The Horatii defeated the Curatii...

Centuriation (in Latin centuriatio or, more usually, limitatio), also known as Roman grid, was a method of land measurement used by the Romans. In many...

The Schirach family or Šěrach is a German noble family of Sorbian (i.e. West Slavic) origin. Many family members were noted as theologians, lawyers, historians...

This is a list of national days of mourning since 2020. It does not include annual remembrance events. National day of mourning International day of mourning...

This is a list of national days of mourning between 2000 and 2019. It does not include annual remembrance events. National day of mourning International...