Humanities

Agriculture and horticulture

Horticulture is fruit trees, olive orchards and growing of grapes for production of wine. Difference [...]

Alphabet

The birth of the alphabet has two key players: Canaanites and Phoenicians. Canaan is a [...]

Artus Van Briggle

1869-03-21Born in Felicity, Ohio from Holland Dutch extraction. 1893His talents as a decorator at the [...]

Axis Mundi

Ancient cultures emphasize the contrast between the center and the periphery. The center is a [...]

Beaux Arts architecture

Beaux Arts was a grand and elaborate style of architecture taught at the Ecole de [...]

Clemente Ciuli

Bonbonnière with Micromosaic Depicting Bacchus (1804). Mosaic by Clemente Ciuli; Gold Box by Adrien-Jean-Maximilien Vachette. [...]

Ethnic Superiority Organizations

African Peoples Socialist Party (APSP, a.k.a. Uhurus) Official website of the APSP, a militant group [...]

Global history

Geologic Periods Archaean4,560-2,500 mya Proterozoic2,500-545 mya Cambrian545-495 mya Ordovician495-443 mya488.3-443.7 mya The Ordovician was named [...]

Grammar

Verb Past TenseOccured in the past and usually formed by adding -d or -ed to [...]

Green Insurgent Organizations

Animal Liberation Front Official website of the Animal Liberation Front, a radical animal rights group [...]

Hierophany

Mircea Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane defines a hierophany as an event in which [...]

Imago Mundi

The imago mundi is another central tendency that Mircea Eliade presents as fundamental to religious [...]

Kurdish language

The two most widely spoken dialects of Kurdish are Sorani and Kurmanji. Other dialects spoken [...]

Lambert Sustris

Lambert Sustris, ~1552/3. Landscape with antique ruins and bathing women. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Image by L [...]

Left-Wing and Ethnic Nationalist Insurgent Organizaitons

Arm the Spirit Archive of news and press releases from various left wing and ethnic [...]

Lithic tools

Muller Mullers (handstones, manos, riders) are used for grinding materials such as wheat; its is [...]

Mercantilism

The mercantile system put the nation at the economic center. This economic theory dominated the [...]

Petroglyph

A petroglyph (Greek petros, a stone, and glyphe, carving) is an image that has been [...]

Political complexity

Dr. Elman Service defined in 1962 the following levels of political complexity: Bandaka hunter-gatherers. TribeHypothetically, [...]

Sacred vs Non-sacred

In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade defines the sacred as that which is [...]

Secondary Products Revolution

Instead of just killing an animal you can harvest wool, harvest milk and more. Stage [...]

Semitic languages

Semitic languages are broken into: East Semitic (Akkadian, Eblaite); West Semitic (Amorite, Aramaic, Canaanite, Ugaritic); [...]

Sexism

Classical sexism states that women are either virginal or villainous. Benevolent Benevolent sexism has three [...]

Vargueño

The most significant piece of furniture to come from Spain is the vargueño (aka bargueño). [...]

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