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Muhammad Yunus

Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the initiation of microcredit

Nigeria

Nigeria has experienced very high population growth and is now the most populous country in Africa

Battle of Britain

Churchill said "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" after victory in the Battle of Britain

Confidence game

The term "confidence man" was first used in 1849 about a thief who asked strangers if they had confidence to trust him with their watch

Abydos, Egypt

So rare is a full list of pharaoh names that the Table of Abydos has been called the "Rosetta Stone" of Egyptian archaeology

Stanford University

Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who created New York’s Central Park, designed the physical plan for Stanford University

Midden

The origin of the word "midden" is Scandinavian and means "manure pile"

John Cage

The twentieth century composer John Cage is best known for his composition 4'33", whose three movements are performed without a single note being played

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann was the first to bring the phrase "Cold War" to common currency in his 1947 book by the same name

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first prime minister of an independent Nigeria

Toraja

In Toraja society the funeral ritual is the most elaborate and expensive event.

Frederick II of Prussia

Frederick the Great was an eighteenth century king of Prussia also nicknamed "der alte Fritz" ("Old Fritz").

Aretha Franklin

By the end of the 1960s Aretha Franklin had come to be known as "The Queen of Soul"

Reserve Officers' Training Corps

ROTC in the United States began in 1916 with the passage of the National Defense Act that was intended to increase "preparedness" prior to the American entry into World War I.

Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey is the first known person to be voluntarily contacted by a mountain gorilla

Constantinople

In the Middle Ages, Constantinople was the richest European city and was known as the "Queen of Cities"

Gospel of Thomas

The Gospel of Thomas emphasizes salvation through understanding the words of Jesus

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016

Veil of Veronica

The Veil of Veronica is said to have an imprint of the face of Jesus, imprinted on the cloth when Saint Veronica wiped the sweat of his face on the way to Calvary

Kalash

The Kalash people of North-Western Pakistan are a small non-Muslim ethnic group with a very different culture from those surrounding them

Maasai

Traditionally the Maasai measured wealth in terms of cattle

Ethical Culture

The Ethical Culture movement is founded on the premise that moral tenets are not necessarily grounded in religious or philosophical dogma

Hernán Cortés

It has been said that when Hernan Cortes reached Mexico the Aztecs thought he was their god Quetzalcoatl

Max von Laue

Nobel Prize winning German physicist Max von Laue openly resisted the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish Deutsche Physik

Berber

The Berbers are the indigenous people of North Africa west of the Nile River

Graham Greene

Graham Greene's intense focus on moral issues, politics, and religion, mixed with suspense and adventure, became the trademark of his popular novels.

Netherlands

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

Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary

The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary in Belize was founded as the first wilderness sanctuary for the jaguar

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham, jurist, philosopher, legal and social reformer, and English gentleman, is regarded as the founder of modern Utilitarianism

Passamaquoddy

Passamaquoddy are known for their arts and crafts, such as jewelry, basketry, wood carving, and building birch bark canoes

Florida Keys

Key West, located in the Florida Keys, is the southernmost city of the continental United States and only 94 miles from Cuba

Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was an important center of art and culture in Southern India

Holocaust

The Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"

Judo

Despite the meaning of "judo" being "the gentle way," it is very demanding and injury can easily occur

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the UK traditionally resides at 10 Downing Street in London

Johnny Appleseed

The legendary Johnny Appleseed was actually John Chapman, an evangelist for a Swedenborgian sect, who planted apple orchards along America's frontier

Werewolf

The werewolf phenomenon can be traced all the way back to shape-shifting practices of shamans who transformed into animals including wolves

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize

Ivy League

The term "Ivy League" came from the ivy plants that cover many of these institutions' buildings

Community of Christ

The Community of Christ was formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Thesaurus

The word "thesaurus" comes from a Greek word meaning "treasury"

Donald O. Hebb

Donald O. Hebb's work laid the foundation for neuropsychology as he sought to understand how neurons in the brain contributed to [[psychology

Lincoln Tunnel

The first tube of the Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic in 1937

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was buried with full military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York