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10 hours ago · A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture. [1] The national poet as culture hero is a long-standing symbol, to be distinguished from successive holders of a bureaucratically-appointed poet-laureate office.
10 hours ago · A white knot. The white knot is a symbol of support for same-sex marriage in the United States. The white knot combines two symbols of marriage, the color white and " tying the knot ," to represent support for same-sex marriage. [81] The White Knot has been worn publicly by many celebrities as a means of demonstrating solidarity with that cause.
1 day ago · Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2024, [update] marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 36 countries, [1] [2] [3] with a total population of 1.3 billion people (17% of the world's population).
10 hours ago · A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus (/ ˈ p aɪ n uː s /) of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.. World Flora Online, created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Missouri Botanical Garden, accepts 187 species names of pines as current, together with more synonyms, making it the largest family among the conifers.
1 day ago · The djong, jong, or jung is a type of sailing ship originating from Peninsula, Malaysia, Sumatera & Java, Indonesia that was widely used by Javanese, Sundanese, and later, also by Peguan ( Mon people ), Malay, and East Asian sailors. The word was and is spelled jong in its languages of origin, [1] [2] the "djong" spelling being the colonial ...
1 day ago · The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic , FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and 2021 , with a rapid time control that affected players' online ratings.
