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This list covers English-language country names with their etymologies. Some of these include notes on indigenous names and their etymologies. Countries...

Repatriation is the return of the cultural property, often referring to ancient or looted art, to their country of origin or former owners (or their heirs)...

Icelandic magical staves (Icelandic: galdrastafir) are sigils that were credited with supposed magical effect preserved in various Icelandic grimoires...

Shanghailanders were foreign – principally European and American – settlers in the extraterritorial areas of Shanghai, China, between the 1842 Treaty of...

Franc Frakelj (a.k.a. Peter Skalar) (19 January 1917–?): 427  was a member of the collaborationist Slovene Home Guard[citation needed] (after the Italian...

Thicket Priory is a religious house in the civil parish of Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, located about 7 miles (11.3 km) south-east of York. It...

Minton Warren (29 January 1850 – 26 November 1907), American classical scholar, was born at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on 29 January 1850, a descendant of...

Carol Anne Gotbaum was a South African-born air traveler who died, at age 45, on September 28, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona in Sky Harbor International Airport...