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- An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic context. Historically, entheogens are derived ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Zoroastrianism (or Mazdaism) refers to the religion developed from the teachings of the Persian prophet Zarathushtra (c. tenth century B.C.E ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Sanskrit ( sa|संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk , for short sa|संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam ) is an ancient ...71 KB (10,080 words) - 03:16, 23 December 2022
- Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana (Bangla: অতীশ দীপঙ্কর শ্রীজ্ঞান) (982 - 1052 C.E.), a Buddhist teacher from ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- The Kathmandu Valley ( नेपाः स्वनिगः Nepāḥ Svānigaḥ ), located in Nepal, lies at the crossroads of ancient civilizations ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 20:17, 28 February 2023
- Druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in Britain until ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 09:43, 15 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Roma |image=[[Image:Spiezer Schilling ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny Микола Вікторович Підгорний, Mykola Viktorovych PidhornyyНикола́й Ви́кторович ...24 KB (3,354 words) - 16:40, 29 April 2023
- The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War refers to an armed conflict between West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and East ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- In Indian philosophy and religion, Samadhi (Sanskrit: समाधि, lit. "establish, make firm") is a term used in a variety of ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 02:04, 23 December 2022
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy, natural science ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common Era following the reign of Augustus and his conquest of Egypt. Ian Shaw. The ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian legends and religious beliefs of the Scandinavian people and Northern Germanic tribes ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera was the wife and older sister of Zeus. She was also called upon as the goddess of ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- Nathu La (Nepali: नाथू ला, IAST: Nāthū Lā) a mountain pass in the Himalayas located on the Indo–China border connecting the ...20 KB (2,900 words) - 23:53, 29 May 2023
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ايران, transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 13:06, 20 May 2024
- Mehrgarh (Urdu: مﮩرگڑھ , also spelled as Mehrgahr, Merhgarh, or Merhgahr) is one of the most important Neolithic (7000 B.C.E. to ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Physical sciences Category:Biographies of Scientists and Mathematicians ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- Bragi is the god of poetry in Norse mythology. Given the prominent role that poetry played in Nordic society (as it was the primary means of ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 14:56, 28 April 2020
- Christianity stands as India's third largest religion, following Hinduism and Islam. Abrahamic religions on the whole date back about 2500 ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that are unique among cnidarians in that they do not do not have a medusa ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 01:56, 9 January 2023
- The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb built the Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد), or the 'Emperor's Mosque', in 1673 in ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bengali language: শেখ মুজিবর রহমান Shekh Mujibur Rôhman) (March 17, 1920 – August 15, 1975 ...37 KB (5,519 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यना) in (Sanskrit) means "insight" and is often used to describe a type of ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 20:31, 3 May 2023
- The Trikaya doctrine (Sanskrit, meaning "Three Bodies" of the Buddha) refers to an important Mahayana Buddhist teaching about the nature ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- The Göktürkler(s) or Köktürkler(s) were a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia. Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 Tūjué ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- In Greek mythology, Demeter (Greek: "mother-earth" or possibly "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European mother ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae, and includes the four, well-known living species of the lion (Panthera ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas of patronage included crafts, poetry, medicine, and music. Like many of the ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- The Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccan Islands) are an archipelago in Indonesia, and part of the larger Malay Archipelago. The political ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- Earwig is the common name for any of the insects comprising the order Dermaptera, characterized by chewing mouthparts, incomplete metamorphosis ...11 KB (1,576 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Combotrans.svg|thumb|right|225px|The gender symbols used to denote a female ...24 KB (3,629 words) - 06:41, 18 April 2024
- Geckos are small to average sized lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae, which comprises dozens of genera and several hundred different ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 06:31, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[File:Durham 2534.jpg|thumb|325px|Men of the Shkreli tribe at the feast of Saint ...37 KB (5,635 words) - 16:06, 27 July 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Linguists and lexicographers Sapir, Edward Edward Sapir (January 26, 1884 ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 23:51, 12 February 2024
- A fetus (or foetus, fœtus) is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate, after the embryonic stage and before birth. In humans, the ...27 KB (3,955 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- Toothed whale is the general term for any of the various aquatic mammals comprising the suborder Odontoceti, characterized in extant species ...13 KB (1,677 words) - 05:01, 4 November 2022
- Ardhanarisvara (also known as Ardhanari and Mohiniraaj) is an androgynous Hindu deity consisting of Shiva and his consort, Parvati (viz. Shakti ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- Mudrās (Sanskrit, मुद्रा, literally "seal") are religious gestures, normally made with the hands or fingers, used in meditation ...13 KB (2,114 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- Beltane ( ˈbɛltən ) is the anglicized spelling of Bealtaine or Bealltainn, the Gaelic names for either the month of May or the festival that ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 08:55, 27 September 2023
- Stingray is the common name for any of the various cartilaginous fish comprising the family Dasyatidae, characterized by enlarged and flat pectoral ...25 KB (3,545 words) - 18:03, 21 October 2022
- Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic") is a term that has been used from antiquity to derogatorily denote ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- <!-- date=September 2007 --> [[Image:India-locator-map-blank.svg|thumb|right|Current political map of India showing [[States and territories ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious images, sculpture, dance, visual mythology, and symbols deriving from ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Ccross.svg|thumb|right|200px|A Celtic cross.]] ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- Duck is the common name for any member of a variety of species of relatively short-necked, large-billed waterfowl in the Anatidae family of birds ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 17:18, 12 February 2024
- Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area which takes up about one sixth ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- Karikala Chola (Tamil: கரிகால சோழன்), the greatest among the early Chola kings of the Sangam age in South India, was the ...14 KB (1,806 words) - 20:57, 26 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Thai Bride Price 2008.jpg|thumb|250 px|A traditional, formal presentation ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- Category:Public In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive evidence for the existence of true matriarchal societies ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- Shangdi (上帝, pinyin: Shàngdì, Wade-Giles Shang Ti), or simply Di (帝), is the High God (or Clan Ancestor) postulated in the earliest-known ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- An ocean (from Ωκεανός , Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- Yoga (from the Sanskrit root yuj ("to yoke")) refers to a series of interrelated ancient Hindu spiritual practices that originated ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), commonly known as India, is a country in South Asia. ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- Lisbon ( Lisboa , liʒˈboɐ ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost capital in mainland Europe. Over the course of ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 – March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy, freedom fighter ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- Rhododendron is the common and genus name for a large and diverse group of woody shrubs and small (rarely large) trees in the flowering plant ...16 KB (2,229 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American nation of Venezuela ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- Dolphins are largely marine cetaceans (order Cetacea) with many teeth that belong to the "toothed whales" suborder Odontoceti, along ...28 KB (4,061 words) - 16:40, 29 January 2024
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of the Roman Empire. It usually refers to ancient Greek philosophy. It can also ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign and independent state in Western Europe located along the French Riviera ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or practical meaning. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- A carpet is a heavy fabric usually used as a floor covering, although it may also be used for table and wall coverings. The hand-knotted pile ...28 KB (4,327 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, (I) signifies an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and ...53 KB (8,038 words) - 18:09, 14 May 2024
- Ravi Shankar, KBE ( রবি শংকর ), (April 7, 1920 - December 11, 2012), often referred to by the title Pandit (a scholar and a teacher ...35 KB (4,906 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" as a celestial body that, within the solar system,[http://www.iau.org/news/press ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- A fjord (or fiord) is a long, narrow deep inlet of the sea bordered by steep cliffs. Fjords commonly extend far inland and are extremely deep ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Jodhpur (जोधपुर), is the second largest city in the state of Rajasthan in north India. It was formerly the seat of a princely state ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 06:32, 5 April 2024
- The Long March ( t=長征|s=长征|p=Chángzhēng ) was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Armies of the Communist Party of China ...32 KB (4,903 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- The Atlantique Incident represented an event in which the Indian Air Force shot down a Pakistan Navy plane, Breguet Atlantique, carrying sixteen ...17 KB (2,490 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 16:19, 29 April 2024
- Ajmer Ajmer.ogg|pronunciation ( अजमेर /ədʒmeːr/ ) is a city in Ajmer District in India's Rajasthan state. The city gave its ...14 KB (1,997 words) - 07:13, 16 June 2023
- A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- Pan (Greek Πάν , genitive Πανός ) is the Greek god of nature who watches over shepherds and their flocks. He is most commonly depicted ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Hindi: LageRahoMunnaBhaiPronounciation.ogg|2={{lang|hi|लगे रहो मुन्नाभाई}} , ləgeː ɾəhoː ...43 KB (6,480 words) - 05:34, 4 March 2023
- Kashmir (Kashmiri: کٔشِیر, कॅशीर; Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Historically the term ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India. To its east and northeast, Kerala borders Tamil Nadu and Karnataka respectively; ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- Iðunn (romanized "Idun") is one of the goddesses of the Norse pantheon. She is best known in two unrelated roles: as the wife of Bragi ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- Loki (sometimes referred to by his full name, Loki Laufeyjarson) is the god of mischief, lies, and trickery in Norse mythology. He is the son ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name used for the third Iranian dynasty and the second Empire. The dynasty was founded by Ardashir ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:HiltonofCadboll01.JPG|thumb|A replica of the Hilton ...35 KB (5,272 words) - 05:13, 24 November 2022
- Jaisalmer Jaisalmer.ogg|pronunciation (Hindi: जैसालमेर), nicknamed "The Golden City," is a town in the state of Rajasthan ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 12:43, 6 November 2021
- For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) (October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980), styled ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- The Kingdom of Mysore (Kannada ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ) (1399–1947 C.E.) was a kingdom of southern India founded in ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- Tin (chemical symbol Sn, atomic number 50) is a silvery, malleable metal that is not easily oxidized in air and resists corrosion. It is obtained ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 23:38, 30 April 2023
- The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, T. Lay, H. Kanamori, et al., [https://websites ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless ...33 KB (4,676 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, comprises roughly three thousand individual reefs and nine hundred islands ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 01:04, 21 January 2023
- Völund is a mythical smith-god of the Nordic and Germanic peoples, whose shocking and brutal tale of revenge is relayed in the Völundarkviða ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- Horseshoe crab is the common name for various marine chelicerate arthropods of the family Limulidae, and in particular the extant species Limulus ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal [[Image:John William Waterhouse - Circe (The ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- The Seljuqs (also Seljuk or Seljuq Turks) were a Muslim dynasty of originally Oghuz Turkic descent that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Southeast Asia [[Image:Southeast asia.jpg|180px|center|Topography of Southeast Asia.]] {| style="background: transparent; text-align: left; ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Campbell, Joseph [[Image:Joseph Campbell (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Joseph ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 17:54, 6 May 2024
- Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan country in South Asia. It is a culturally rich kingdom with eight of ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- In Norse mythology, Frigg or Frigga was said to be "foremost among the goddesses," Sturluson, Prose Edda, Gylfaginning. wife of Odin ...17 KB (2,558 words) - 07:03, 15 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology [[File:Гумплович.jpg|thumb|225px|Polish sociologist Ludwig ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie Kt. (June 19, 1947 - ) is an Indian-born British-American novelist novelist and essayist. He first achieved wide recognition ...35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
- The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature ...38 KB (5,850 words) - 17:11, 10 February 2024
