For over two millennia, the Tuareg operated the trans-Saharan caravan trade connecting the great cities on the southern edge of the Sahara to the northern
Mediterranean coast of Africa.
The Kalash people of North-Western
Pakistan are a small non-
Muslim ethnic group with a very different culture from those surrounding them
The first British monarch to live in Buckingham Palace was
Queen Victoria
The real name of the popular author of children's books, Dr. Seuss, was Theodor Seuss Geisel
Positive psychology studies people's
happiness rather than diagnosing mental illness and treating what makes them miserable
Yahweh is the primary Hebrew name of
God in the Bible
Navajo code talkers played a significant role in the Pacific Theater of
World War II
Before the invention of the metronome, words were the only way to describe the tempo of a musical composition
The first tube of the Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic in 1937
True matriarchal societies were, and are, extremely rare
Albrecht Dürer was, in effect, the first non-Italian artist to associate the
humanistic disciplines with the
esthetic pursuits of art.
In his lifetime Norman Bethune was virtually unknown in his homeland of
Canada but received international recognition when Chairman
Mao Zedong wrote about his work in China
The term "Neolithic" was invented by
John Lubbock in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system of stone, bronze, and iron ages
The term "turbine" comes from the Latin "turbo" which means
vortex
"Kimono" in Japanese means "something worn" or "clothes"
Elisha ben Abuyah was known as "Acher" ("outcast") and condemned as a heretic by his fellow
Tannaim
Modern golf is considered to be a
Scottish invention
King Edward VII was known as the "uncle of Europe" as he was related to nearly every other European monarch
Walter Lippmann was the first to bring the phrase "Cold War" into common use with the publication of his 1947 book of the same name
The book of Leviticus contains two of the Bible's most famous sayings: "eye for eye, tooth for tooth" and "Love your neighbor as yourself"
Uhuru Kenyatta, son of the first president of
Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, was elected fourth president in 2013
In 1997 Janet Jagan became the first woman President of
Guyana
Polyandry, the form of
polygamy in which a woman is married to more than one husband, is the least frequent form of
marriage in human society
Elie Wiesel refused to write or talk about his experiences in the
Holocaust for 10 years after his liberation
Jane Goodall discovered that
chimpanzees use tools, an ability previously thought to be uniquely human.
Genghis Khan believed that Heaven had commissioned him to establish a world empire
Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of unified China, was buried with an army of thousands of life size
terracotta soldiers to guard him in the
afterlife
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended prior to passage to explicitly include women's rights
Some policies adopted as affirmative action, such as quotas for race or
gender in
college admissions, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination
Those previously referred to as "Eskimo" include both
Inuit and
Yupik cultures
Yuelu Academy (Shuyuan) was established in 976 C.E. and still exists today as Hunan University
In China, girls' feet were bound so the arch was forced upward, resulting in a "lotus foot"
The Netherlands is often called "Holland" although this is not accurate; North and South Holland in the western Netherlands are only two of the country's twelve provinces
Wellesley College was founded by Pauline and Henry Fowle Durant to give women an opportunity for higher education