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In modern usage, hijab (Arabic: حجاب, romanized: ḥijāb, pronounced [ħɪˈdʒaːb]) generally refers to various head coverings conventionally worn by many Muslim...

The 21st century is the current century in the Anno Domini or Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1, 2001 and will...

An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition...

An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, zone, entity, unit, region, subdivision, province, or territory) is a subnational...

1946 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1946. 1946 (MCMXLVI)...

A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees in which individuals are left to die along the way. It is distinguished...

Immurement (from the Latin im-, "in" and murus, "wall"; literally "walling in"), also called immuration or live entombment, is a form of imprisonment,...

Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America...

The Latter Day Saint movement has had varying and conflicting teachings on slavery. Early converts were initially from the Northern United States and opposed...

Look up tyrannicide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tyrannicide or tyrannomachia is the killing or assassination of a tyrant or unjust ruler, purportedly...

Root races are concepts in the esoteric cosmology of Theosophy. As described in Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's book The Secret Doctrine (1888), these races...

The Kievan Letter, or Kyivan letter is an early 10th-century (ca. 930) letter thought to be written by representatives of the Jewish community in Kiev...

While the term "political science" as a separate field is a rather late arrival in terms of social sciences, analyzing political power and the impact that...

The 380s decade ran from January 1, 380, to December 31, 389. February 27 – Edict of Thessalonica: Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian...

1962 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1962: An assassination...

This article concerns the period 159 BC – 150 BC. Attalus II Philadelphus succeeds his brother Eumenes II as king of Pergamon. With the Seleucid victory...

1942 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in October 1942: The Battle of...

1961 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in November 1961: Women Strike...

This article lists incidents that have been termed ethnic cleansing by some academic or legal experts. Not all experts agree on every case, particularly...

U.S. standard clothing sizes for women were originally developed from statistical data in the 1940s and 1950s. At that time, they were similar in concept...