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Blood brother can refer to two or more people not related by birth who have sworn loyalty to each other. This is in modern times usually done in a ceremony...

Ethnomuseology is the study of museums and museum curation in the context of the culture and cultural traditions of its collections. It is an interdisciplinary...

Kfar Tavor (Hebrew: כְּפַר תָּבוֹר, Arabic: كفر تافور) is a village in the Lower Galilee region of Northern Israel, at the foot of Mount Tabor. Founded...

The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first...

USS Lowry (DD-770), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Reigart Bolivar Lowry, who served in...

Vjekoslav Servatzy (23 March 1889 – 17 June 1945) was a Croatian Ustaše military officer and nationalist politician, executed for war crimes in 1945. Servatzy...

Vizcaya was an Infanta Maria Teresa-class armored cruiser of the Spanish Navy that fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American...

Kristen Johnson Gremillion (born November 17, 1958) is an American anthropologist whose areas of specialization include paleoethnobotany, origins of agriculture...

Valerie Louise Pearl (née Bence; 31 December 1926 – 29 January 2016) was a British historian who was noted for her work on the English Civil War. She was...

The Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala (Swedish: Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala) is a Swedish Royal academy for the study of...

The text of Domesday Book, the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086 executed for William I of England, was first edited by Abraham Farley...

Patricia Dorothy Nye, OBE (11 February 1908 – 11 April 1994) was an English actress-manager. She had a six-decade career, known in her later years for...

Homer Garner Barnett (1906 in Bisbee, Arizona – May 9, 1985) was an American anthropologist and teacher. He began his studies at Stanford in civil engineering...

The Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction, the educational arm of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), was an important part of the...

Pia Colombo (6 July 1934, in Homblières, Aisne, France – 16 April 1986) was a French singer of Franco-Italian origin, been born Eliane Marie Amélie Pia...

Patricia O'Rawe (died 12 December 2017) was an Irish republican who formerly served as a politician in Northern Ireland. O'Rawe was first elected to Armagh...

Elizabeth Letts is an American author. Elizabeth Letts was born on June 23, 1961, in Houston, Texas.[citation needed] She grew up in Southern California...

Willa Mae Sudduth (1925-2015) was one of the founders of the Coalition of Labor Union Women. She was involved in many social justice causes, issues, and...

Dr. Edgar Knobloch (11 November 1927 – 3 February 2013)[citation needed] was a Czech writer who specialised in the history of Central Asia and the Islamic...

Simone Orlando is a Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Orlando received her early dance training at the Carisbrooke...