In the Genesis story Ham is not cursed directly but rather his youngest son, Canaan
Baekdu (Changbai) Mountain, a dormant
volcano between China and
North Korea, has one of the highest crater lakes in the world, called "Heaven Lake"
In 2001 the name of the
Indian city of Kolkata was officially changed from "Calcutta"
In the
Jewish law there was no provision for bankruptcy; instead, all unpaid debts were canceled every seven years
John Michael Wright was commissioned to paint several royal portraits and paintings of aristocracy, but did not receive the title "King's Painter" nor did he receive a knighthood
Bette Davis co-founded the "Hollywood Canteen," a club providing food, dancing, and entertainment by Hollywood stars for servicemen on their way to fight overseas in
World War II
Prior to
World War II Marlene Dietrich rejected an offer by representatives of the Nazi Party, asking her to return to
Germany to star in German films, and instead became an American citizen
The Book of Jeremiah is best known for its theme of the "New Covenant" that involves a personal relationship with
God
Traditionally, marriage has been a prerequisite for starting a
family, which then serves as the building block of a
community and
society
The name "Emma" was introduced to
England by Emma of Normandy, who was the wife of King Ethelred the Unready of England and then of King
Canute the Great of
Denmark
Ahilyabai Holkar was one of
India's great women rulers
The symbol of the city of Ljubljana is the
dragon, which is found in the coat of arms, on top of the tower of the Ljubljana Castle, and on the Dragon Bridge
The Ottoman Empire was the center of interactions between Asia and Europe for six centuries
Barbershop music is a four-part
a cappella style of singing famous for its "ringing"
chords in which an overtone is produced that sounds like a fifth note
About 80 percent of Greenland is covered by
ice, the world's second largest ice sheet
Vaishnavism differs from other traditions of
Hinduism by recognizing
Vishnu as the supreme deity
In
Greek mythology Hades has been used to refer both to the "underworld" or
Hell and the deity that rules the dead
The European Recovery Program was named the Marshall Plan for the U.S. Secretary of State
George C. Marshall
The Manhattan Center was originally built by Oscar Hammerstein I as an alternative venue to the Metropolitan Opera House
Paintings of Diego Velázquez, Spanish artist of the
Baroque period, were recreated by several twentieth century painters, including
Pablo Picasso and
Salvador Dali, in their own style
Pluto, considered the
solar system's ninth
planet since its discovery in 1930, was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006
The right to due process is enshrined in the
U.S. Constitution and [[U.S. Bill of Rights
The Blackfoot Confederacy consisted of three tribes, the Siksika (Blackfoot), Kainai (Blood), and the Piegan
Although Michael Faraday received little formal education he became one of the most influential scientists and one of the best experimentalists in the history of science
Wahhabism subscribes to the doctrine of oneness of God ("Tawhid"), rejecting aspects of contemporary
Islam as
polytheism
The earliest museums in
ancient Greece were
educational institutions where scholars gathered and the arts and learning were cultivated
Without "greenhouse gases" the
Earth would be so cold as to be uninhabitable
Hermann Rorschach, inventor of the Rorschach inkblot
personality test, was nicknamed "Klecks," meaning “inkblot,” because of his childhood interest in Klecksography, the making of fanciful inkblot pictures
The Bushmen have left over 20,000 individual rock paintings, all preserved in caves at more than 500 different sites.
Swedenborg was a successful scientist and inventor before his spiritual awakening
In the seventeenth century, Transylvania was an autonomous state and passed through a "Golden age" for
religions and
culture
Solomon Asch's experiments uncovered the tendency to conform among many people, but they also revealed the existence of independence in the face of erroneous group opinion.
In 1922 Grantland Rice became the first play-by-play announcer carried live on
radio for the World Series game.
At its height, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Songhai Empire was the largest empire in
West Africa
The Great Rift Valley is such a significant physical feature on the
earth that it is clearly visible from space
The Waseda University academic cap is square and was specially designed to be unique, immediately identifying its wearer as a Waseda student