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Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity) is an interpretation of Christianity which advocates the belief that only Celtic and Germanic...

Flaying is a method of slow and painful torture and/or execution in which skin is removed from the body. Generally, an attempt is made to keep the removed...

Vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. Prior to the 14th century, it did not have such narcissistic undertones...

Huápoca is an archaeological site located 36 kilometers west of Ciudad Madera, in the Huápoca Canyon region, northwest of the Mexican state of Chihuahua...

Lorraine Copeland (born Elizabeth Lorraine Adie, 1921–April 2013) was a British archaeologist specialising in the Palaeolithic period of the Near East...

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Benguela, Angola. 1617 - Forte de São Filipe de Benguela [pt] founded in Portuguese Angola, under...

The history of childhood has been a topic of interest in social history since the highly influential book Centuries of Childhood, published by French historian...

Heather Veitch (born on March 7, 1974) is an American Christian missionary who worked previously as a stripper but now seeks to help women working in strip...

Twenty Polish Christmas Carols (Polish: 20 polskich kolęd) is a collection of Polish carols arranged for soprano and piano in 1946 by Polish composer Witold...

Gonçalo (Gonçalves) Pereira (c.1280–1348) was a Portuguese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of Braga from 1326 until 1349. Pereira...

A votive ship, sometimes called a church ship, is a ship model displayed in a church. As a rule, votive ships are constructed and given as gifts to the...

Bridgid "Bree" O'Mara (4 July 1968 – 12 May 2010) was an Irish-South African novelist, ballet dancer, TV producer and air hostess who was killed in the...

Eva Fogelman is an American psychologist, writer, filmmaker and a pioneer in the treatment of psychological effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their...

Hanne Hiob (12 March 1923 – 23 June 2009) was a German actress. Hiob was born as Hanne Marianne Brecht in Munich, the daughter of the writer Bertolt Brecht...

The Cult of the Lord Holy Christ of the Miracles (Portuguese: Culto do Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres), popularly known as Senhor Santo Cristo or Santo...

Ferreolus, also called Ferreolus of Rodez (born c. 485) was a Gallo-Roman senator from Narbonne, then Narbo, who later lived in Rodez where his family...

46°48′23″N 8°2′44″E / 46.80639°N 8.04556°E / 46.80639; 8.04556 The Battle of Sörenberg was fought in 1380, between the Entlebuch (at the time subject...

The Lex Aurelia iudicaiaria was a Roman law, introduced by the praetor Lucius Aurelius Cotta in 70 BC. The law defined the composition of the jury of the...

Yvonne Kushner (née Levy; October 12, 1906 – February 8, 1990) was an American actress and socialite in New York and Washington, DC. She became a philanthropist...

The lex Aurelia de tribunicia potestate ("Aurelius's law on the power of tribunes") was a law introduced by the consul Gaius Aurelius Cotta in 75 BC. This...