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3 days ago · Prehistory. It is generally held that Australian Aboriginal peoples originally came from Asia via insular Southeast Asia (now Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, and the Philippines) and have been in Australia for at least 45,000–50,000 years. On the basis of research at the Nauwalabila I and Madjedbebe archaeological sites in ...
5 days ago · The term “Zionism” first came into use in the late 1800s. It built upon “Zion,” a biblical term for Israel and Jerusalem, and the name of a site in Jerusalem where the temple most ...
5 days ago · In Russia, the Nenets, Khanty, Evenk, and Chukchi are indigenous groups in the Arctic. In Alaska, the Aleut, Yupik, and Inuit (Iñupiat) are indigenous peoples.
5 days ago · According to their own legend, reported by the mid-6th-century Gothic historian Jordanes, the Goths originated in southern Scandinavia and crossed in three ships under their king Berig to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, where they settled after defeating the Vandals and other Germanic peoples in that area.
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2 days ago · The apostrophe ( ' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for three basic purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't".
5 days ago · The House Oversight Committee saw two U.S. Congresswomen duking it out and exchanging petty insults during a late-night hearing this past week. The catchphrase Bleach Blonde, Bad Built, Butch Body has come to be associated with controversial right-wing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, after she ...
