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John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes (1883 –1946) - A British economist, author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and...
Hồ Chí Minh
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Tiki
Tiki ou Ti'i (Tahitian) - Human representation carved in Oceania, taking the form of a statue or a...
Hạ Long Bay
Hạ Long Bay (Vietnamese: Vịnh Hạ Long) – A large and natural bay in Quảng Ninh Province -...
Shāh Abbās the Great
Shāh Abbās the Great or Shāh Abbās I of Persia (Persian: شاه عباس بزرگ) (1571 - 1629) -...
Alma Mahler
Alma Mahler or Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel born Schindler (1879 – 1964) - A composer and author...
Takkyubin
Takkyubin 宅急便 - A national delivery service company based in Japan, sending the parcel door to door usually...
Johnny Clegg
Jonathan Paul Clegg or Johnny Clegg (1953 –2019) - A South African musician and anthropologist. After the disbanding...
Hailibu the Hunter
Hailibu the Hunter – A legendary Mongolian hunter whose big heart allowed him to live beautiful and heroic...
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova Валентина Владимировна Терешкова (1937-) – The first woman to have flown in space on the...
Emmeline Pankhurst
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Lakes of Ounianga
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Marie Skłodowska Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867 – 1934) - A Polish naturalized-French physicist and chemist - Her research on radioactivity...
Dame Jane Morris Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall (1934 -) - An English primatologist and anthropologist, one of the best experts on...
Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (1901 –1992) - A German-American actress and singer, one of the world’s most glamorous...
Lalibela
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Seven Lucky Gods
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Ahmad Zahir
Ahmad Zahir احمد ظاهر (1946 -1979) - An Afghan singer and composer, an unmatched icon of Afghanistan known...
Sarla Thakral
Sarla Thakral सरला ठकराल (1914 –2008) also known as Mati - The first Indian woman to fly an...
Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro (Mount) – A mountain constituted of three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, in Tanzania - The...
Litema
Litema - A form of Sesotho mural art with geometric patterns, displayed on the outer walls as well...
Stonehenge
Stonehenge - A prehistoric monument among the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom consisting of a ring...
Sikmogil
Sikmogil 식목일 - A celebration in South Korea, April 5, when public take part in tree-planting activities following...
El Dorado
El Dorado (for "the golden one") or El Hombre (Rey) Dorado - "The Golden Man (King)") - A...
Stupa
Stupa स्तूप (Sanskrit: "heap") – A mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics or place of meditation, in different...
Drag queen
Drag queen - An artist (usually a man, often homosexual) who dresses as a woman and animates colourful...
Zolgolt
Zolgokh (Mongolian: Золгох) or Zolgolt – Traditional Mongolian greeting consisting of holding both their arms out, the younger...
Cochise
Cochise (Apache: Shi-ka-She or A-da-tli-chi: "having the quality or strength of an oak" (c. 1805 –1874) - Principal...
Scythians
The Scythians or Scyth, Saka (7th century BCE - 3rd century BCE) - A nomadic people in the...
Narcisse
Narcissus (Greek: Νάρκισσος Nárkissos) - In Greek mythology, a hunter from Thespiae known for his beauty and the...
Macchu Pichu
Machu Picchu - A15th-century Inca citadel, in Peru – Brought to international attention byHiram Bingham in 1911 -...
Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (1913 – 1980) - An American track and field (sprint and long jump) athlete....
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan - Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães (c. 1480 - 1521) - Portuguese navigator and explorer who made...
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265 – 1321) - an Italian poet – Author of the Divine Comedy (written from 1308...
Enkutatash
Enkutatash (Ge'ez: እንቁጣጣሽ) - The first day of the New Year in Ethiopia and Eritrea, more or less...
Martin Luther
Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) - A German professor of theology and priest at the origins of the...
Jeepneys
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Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf born Stephen (1882 – 1941) - An English writer, considered one of the most important...
Dolly
Dolly (1996 – 2003) – A female domestic sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell...
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (1912 –2006) - An American economist - Opposing Keynesian government policies, he promoted an alternative macroeconomic...
Durian
Durian – Sometimes named the "king of fruits", native to Borneo and Sumatra (with hundreds varieties in Indonesia),...
Angkor
Angkor អង្គរ - The capital city of the Khmer Empire, also named Yasodharapura, a brilliant place from the...
Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil – A cosmic mythical ash tree in Norse cosmology, connecting the Nine Worlds (with different possible classifications)...
Guru Nanak
Guru Nanak (1469 – 1539) / penjabi, ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਦੇਵ (Gurū Nānak Dev) - The founder of Sikhism...
Torajans
Torajans - An ethnic group of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Christian and Muslim, many practice a sort of animism...
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Ahmad Shah Massoud احمد شاه مسعود (1953 - 2001) - An Afghan politician and military commander, mujahideen during...
Xuanzang
Xuanzang 玄奘 (c. 602 – 664) - A Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar known for his decisive seventeen-year travel...
Kael
Ka'el - An annual contest in the Bodi tribe (Ethiopia), which takes place on the New Year, aims...
Maya calendars
Maya calendars - A system of calendars consisting of several cycles (counts) of different lengths with the Tzolkin,...
Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake - An annual and now international event held near Gloucester / England. It...
Gregory XIII
Gregory XIII (1502 –1585) - Pope of the Catholic Church (1572 – 1585) - Best known for the...
Aisha Musa Ahmad
Aisha Musa Ahmad عائشة موسى أحمد (1905 – 1974) or Aisha al-Falatiya - a Sudanese singer, the first...
Sámi people
Sámi people - a Finno-Ugric people present in northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Speaking the...
Amish
The Amish - Traditionalist Christian church mainly in North America which stems in 1693 from Jakob Ammann (1644-1730),...
Kingdom of Kush
Kingdom of Kush (c. 785BCE – c. 350CE) - An ancient kingdom in Nubia. Its capitals were successively Napata (pres....
Halloween
Halloween – A celebration held on 31 October, the eve of the Christian feast of All Hallows' Day...
Ivan IV Vasilyevich
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Ива́н Васи́льевич (1530 – 1584) or Ivan the Terrible - Grand Prince of Moscow (1533...
Amazon rainforest
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Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos né Jorgensen (1964-) - An American technology entrepreneur, founder, CEO, and president of Amazon.com, Inc....
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (1912 – 1954) - An English mathematician and computer scientist, who brought a major contribution...
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (1724 –1804) - A major German philosopher in the Age of Enlightenment – Author of the...
Saline Royale at Arc-et-Senans
The Saline Royale at Arc-et-Senans - A historical Royal Saltworks (located in the Doubs, France) built by Claude-Nicolas...
Abya Yala
Abya Yala - In the Guna language, a name meaning "land in its full maturity" used to refer...
Mindar
Mindar 「マインダー」 - The first android priest robot conceived in cooperation between the Koudaiji, a Buddhist temple in...
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Hanging Gardens of Babylon - One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World said to have been...
Domovoi
Domovoi or Domovoy Домово́й - The household god in the Slavic religious tradition. Small and hairy, he is...
Hozho
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Nikolaj Grundtvig
Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783 – 1872) - A Danish pastor and teacher – Very active in the...
Hyde Park
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Villa d’Este
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Montessori
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Postojna Cave
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Danaë
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Rose Valley of Kazanlak
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Persepolis
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Rakire
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Rodin Thinker
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Namaste
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sagu
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Wayang Kulit
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Vahagn
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Ramayana
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King Sejong
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Baldr
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Floriography
Floriography of the language of flowers – A sort of cryptological communication consisting of the use of flowers...
Confucius
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Sauna
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Morpheus
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Majlis
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Achuars
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Banya
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Aramazd
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Poporo
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Men crocodile
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Pied Piper of Hamelin
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Yennayer
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Jack Ma
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Ubuntu
Ubuntu – A Southern African concept (Nguni Bantu term) involving "humanity" and “fraternity” and often translated as "I...
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- A Cavalier & a Lady drinking chocolate
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- Domestication of dogs
- Domovoi
- Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
- Drag queen
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- Hachikô
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- Kabbadi
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- Macchu Pichu
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- Mashramani
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- Morpheus
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- Naadam
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- National Museum of Japanese History
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- Sacred Cow
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- Sámi people
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- Tahu’a
- Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- Taj Mahal
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- Tale of the Heike
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- Tengu
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- The Decameron
- The Louvre (Museum)
- The Thirteen Buddhas of Chichibu
- The three wise monkeys
- The Way follows its own ways
- Thinker of Hamangia
- Thonmi Sambhota
- Tiki
- Tim Berners-Lee and the web
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
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