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Toplessness refers to the state in which a woman's breasts, including her areolas and nipples, are exposed, especially in a public place or in a visual...

Italian ballet is the training methods[citation needed] and aesthetic qualities seen in classical ballet in Italy. Ballet has a long history in Italy,...

Boar hunting is the practice of hunting wild boar, feral pigs, warthogs, and peccaries. Boar hunting was historically a dangerous exercise due to the tusked...

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 Serdi were a Celtic tribe inhabiting Thrace. They were located around Serdica (Bulgarian: Сердика, romanized: Serdika; Latin: Ulpia Serdica; Greek:...

The word perfume is used today to describe scented mixtures and is derived from the Latin word per fumus (lit. 'through smoke'). The word perfumery refers...

Tattooing has been practiced across the globe since at least Neolithic times, as evidenced by mummified preserved skin, ancient art and the archaeological...

The original historic Knights Templar were a Christian military order, the Order of the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, that...

Thomas Merke (or Merks; died 1409) was an English priest and Bishop of Carlisle from 1397 to 1400. Educated at Oxford University, Merke became a Benedictine...

Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (1 April 1274 – 24 June 1314), of Appleby Castle, Westmorland, feudal baron of Appleby and feudal baron of Skipton...

Lilian Adelaide Neilson (3 March 1848 – 15 August 1880), born Elizabeth Ann Brown, was a British stage actress. Neilson was the daughter of a strolling...

Oprahization, sometimes spelled Oprah-ization or Oprahtization, is a neologism that refers to an increased sensitivity towards self-disclosure, particularly...

Jean Le Bel (c. 1290 – 15 February 1370) was a chronicler from Liège. Jean Le Bel's father, Gilles le Beal des Changes, was an alderman of Liège. Jean...

Porto Kagio or Porto Káyio (Πόρτο Κάγιο) is a seaside village in the East Mani municipality on the eastern side of the Mani Peninsula, Greece. It faces...

Heroes of the Resistance is a set of twenty-three stamps issued from 1957 to 1961 by La Poste, commemorating 27 members of the French Resistance who died...

Iconophobia (literally fear of icons) refers to an aversion to images, especially religious icons. Iconophobia is differentiated from iconoclasm in that...

Yirmiyahu Yovel (20 October 1935, Haifa – 10 June 2018) was an Israeli philosopher and public intellectual. He was Professor Emeritus of philosophy at...

Abdallah al-Asbah (Arabic: عبد الله الأصبح, also known as Abu al-Abed) (1910–March/April 1938) was a Palestinian rebel commander who participated in the...

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nagoya, Japan. 1612 – Nagoya Castle and its Honmaru Palace built. 1684 – Poet Bashō visits Nagoya...