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22 hours ago · The name "Sioux" was adopted in English by the 1760s from French. It is abbreviated from the French Nadouessioux , first attested by Jean Nicolet in 1640. [3] The name is sometimes said to be derived from "Nadowessi" (plural "Nadowessiwag"), [5] an Ojibwe exonym for the Sioux meaning "little snakes" [6] or enemy [7] [8] [9] (compare nadowe "big ...
22 hours ago · Early life Henry Clay was born on April 12, 1777, at the Clay homestead in Hanover County, Virginia. He was the seventh of nine children born to the Reverend John Clay and Elizabeth (née Hudson) Clay. Almost all of Henry's older siblings died before adulthood. His father, a Baptist minister nicknamed "Sir John", died in 1781, leaving Henry and his brothers two slaves each; he also left his ...
22 hours ago · Serbs in Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia also have recognized collective rights, and number some 186,000, 178,000 and 39,000 people, respectively, while another estimated 96,000 live in the disputed area of Kosovo. Smaller minorities exist in Slovenia, some 36,000 people, respectively.
22 hours ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
22 hours ago · Peter's last years were marked by further reform in Russia. On 2 November 1721 , soon after peace was made with Sweden, he was officially proclaimed Emperor of All Russia. The coronation of the Russian monarch took place in Uspensky Cathedral, Moscow. Some proposed that he take the title Emperor of the East, but he refused.
22 hours ago · 1. ( galley (kitchen)) The compartment of a ship where food is cooked or prepared; a ship's kitchen. 2. ( galley) A type of ship propelled by oars, used especially in the Mediterranean for warfare, piracy, and trade from the 8th century BC to the 16th century AD, with some in use until the early 19th century. 3.
22 hours ago · The history of communism encompasses a wide variety of ideologies and political movements sharing the core principles of common ownership of wealth, economic enterprise, and property. [1] Most modern forms of communism are grounded at least nominally in Marxism, a theory and method conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during the 19th ...
