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Currency A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and...

The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement...

Farwana (Arabic: فرونه), was a Palestinian village, located 4.5 kilometers (2.8 mi) south of Bisan, depopulated in 1948. The tell, or archaeological mound...

A privy chamber was the private apartment of a royal residence in England. The Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber were noble-born servants to the Crown who...

Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (Russian: Андре́й Вита́льевич Корота́ев; born 17 February 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative...

Liang, known in historiography as the Western Liang (Chinese: 西梁) or the Later Liang (Chinese: 後梁), was an imperial dynasty of China during the Northern...

During the 1980s and 1990s a moral panic about alleged satanic ritual abuse occurred, mainly in parts of the English-speaking world. This was propagated...

The couter (also spelled "cowter") is the defense for the elbow in a piece of plate armour. Initially just a curved piece of metal, as plate armor progressed...

The Hollies Convent FCJ School was a girls' direct-grant Roman Catholic grammar school in south Manchester, England. In 1820, Marie-Madeleine d'Houët,...

The United Kingdom was the first country in the world to issue postal orders on 1 January 1881. They were the brainchild of the president of the Birmingham...

Sarah Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton (née Spencer; 29 July 1787 – 13 April 1870) was a British courtier, governess to Edward VII of the United Kingdom,...

Mounira Maya Charrad (born 1942) is a Franco-Tunisian sociologist who serves as associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin....

Shirl Conway (born Shirley Elizabeth Crosman, June 13, 1916 – May 7, 2007) was an American television and Broadway actress. A great-niece of actress Henrietta...

Tilty Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Tilty, Essex, England. It was dissolved 3 March 1536.[citation needed] The chapel, with a nave built circa 1220,...

Hercinia is a legendary bird with glowing feathers that inhabited the Hercynian Forest of ancient Germany. The hercinia is depicted in Medieval bestiaries...

Anna Zamora Puigceros (born 9 October 1957[citation needed]) is an Andorran politician. From 2005 to 2009 she was Chief of the Cabinet of the Chief of...

Lois Jean Wille (/wɪliː/; née Kroeber; September 19, 1931 – July 23, 2019) was a Chicago-based journalist, editor, and author. She won her first of two...

A mandilion or mandelion is a loose men's hip-length pullover coat or jacket, open down the sides, worn in England in late sixteenth century. It was fashionable...

Reinhild Solf (14 April 1940 – May/June 2022) was a German born stage and television actress and author. Reinhild Solf was born in Haldensleben, a small...

Léon Bollack (1859 – 1925) was a French trader who invented Bolak, a constructed language that also went by the name "the Blue Language", in 1899. His...