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Crown jewels are the objects of metalwork and jewellery in the regalia of a current or former monarchy. They are often used for the coronation of a monarch...

A ḥāl (Arabic: حَال, meaning "state" or "condition", sometimes anglicized as haal; plural أَحْوَال aḥwāl, sometimes anglicized as ahwaal) is a special-purpose...

R.P. Resor was a tanker ship built in 1936 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, New Jersey for the Standard Oil Company. She was...

Print culture embodies all forms of printed text and other printed forms of visual communication. One prominent scholar of print culture in Europe is Elizabeth...

These lists of historical unrecognized or partially recognized states or governments give an overview of extinct geopolitical entities that wished to be...

The 1998 Hackney Council election took place on 7 May 1998 to elect members of Hackney London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was...

Paprzyca is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Herb Paprzyca (Bychawa...

Oman is an absolute monarchy in which all legislative, executive, and judiciary power ultimately rests in the hands of the hereditary sultan, and in which...

"Lady Isabel" is an English ballad known as Child Ballad 261 and Roud #3884. Her stepmother says that Lady Isabel is said to be her father's whore, and...

Fincke coat of arms (also Finckenstein coat of arms or Finke coat of arms) are a German coat of arms, also used in Poland. It is used by the German and...

Mandubracius or Mandubratius was a king of the Trinovantes of south-eastern Britain in the 1st century BC. Mandubracius was the son of a Trinovantian king...

Slovene literature is the literature written in Slovene. It spans across all literary genres with historically the Slovene historical fiction as the most...

The Dunciad /ˈdʌnsi.æd/ is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728...

The Battle of Mataquito was fought in the Arauco War on April 30, 1557, between the forces of the Spanish governor, Francisco de Villagra, and Mapuche...

Iwanowski is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by the Iwanowski szlachta family. Polish heraldry Heraldic family List of Polish nobility coats of arms...

Zawadzki is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Polish heraldry Heraldry...

Abortion in Argentina is legal as an elective medical procedure during the first 14 weeks from conception. The abortion law was liberalized when the Voluntary...

A racial hoax occurs when a person (usually the purported victim) falsely claims that a crime was committed by member of a specific race. The crime may...

In Greek mythology, Hippodamia (/,hɪpoʊdəˈmaɪə/; also Hippodamea and Hippodameia; Ancient Greek: Ἱπποδάμεια means 'she who masters horses' derived from...

In Irish mythology, Fódla or Fótla (modern spelling: Fódhla, Fodhla or Fóla), daughter of Delbáeth and Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was one of the tutelary...