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People: Encyclopedia - People
People are humans and persons that interact as a society. They have thoughts and emotions. They work, play and originate from Earth, whil...
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Populist, Or Peoples Party:
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Definition and meaning of Populist:
Populist (or Peoples) Party Also known as the Peoples Party, the Populist Party held ...
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Populist, Or Peoples Party:
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Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - People
Estimates suggest that there are approximately 8 to 10 million Roma worldwide [2]. It's estimated that between 7 and 10 million Roma live...
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Roma People: Encyclopedia Ii - Roma People - People
Estimates suggest that there are approximately 8 to 10 million Roma worldwide [2], of whom between 7 and 10 million Roma live in Europe. ...
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Star People: Encyclopedia - Star People
Star People is a 1983 album recorded by Miles Davis.
Come Get It
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Star People
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Star On Cicely
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Chinese People: Encyclopedia - Chinese People
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:
Han Chinese, sometimes referred to as "ethnic Chinese"
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The People Of Monotheism: Encyclopedia - The People Of Monotheism
The People of Monotheism (Arabic: Ahl al-Tawhid) is one a name the Druze use for themselves. '
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Chukchi People: Encyclopedia - Chukchi People
Chukchi, or Chukchee (Russian: чукчи (plural), chukcha, чукча (singular)) are an indigenous people inhabiting the northeasternm...
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Udmurt People: Encyclopedia - Udmurt People
The Udmurts are a people who speak the Udmurt language. Through history they have been known in Russian as Chud Otyatskaya (чудь от...
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Lak People: Encyclopedia - Lak People
There are two different people known as the Laks:
The Laks living in Dagestan, a Republic of Russia.
The Laks living in Iran.
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Universe People: Encyclopedia - Universe People
Universe people or Cosmic people of light powers (Czech: Vesmírní lidé sil světla) is a Czech movement centered around Ivo A. Benda. ...
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Beja People: Encyclopedia - Beja People
The Beja people are an ethnic group in the Horn of Africa, found mostly in Sudan, but also in parts of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Egypt. They...
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Zaza People: Encyclopedia - Zaza People
Zaza people are an ethnic minority in eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. Zazas primarily live in Adiyaman, Bingol, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Er...
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Chechen People: Encyclopedia - Chechen People
This article covers the Chechen people as an ethnic group. For the region Chechnya, see the article Chechnya.
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Chillage People: Encyclopedia - Chillage People
Chillage People were one of the first live bands to work in the genre known as chill out (music). Formed in 1998, they were influenced by...
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Chuvash People: Encyclopedia - Chuvash People
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The Chuvash (Chuvashian: чӑвашсем,Russian: чуваши, Tatar: Çuaşlar\Чу...
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Aja People: Encyclopedia - Aja People
The Aja are a group of people living in Benin (former Dahomey).
According to tradition [1], the Aja migrated to southern Benin in the 12t...
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Cruithne People: Encyclopedia - Cruithne People
The Cruithne or Cruthin were a historical people known to have lived in Ireland, particularly in Ulster, in early medieval times.
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Va People: Encyclopedia - Va People
The Va nationality (also spelled Wa; Chinese: 佤族 Wǎzú; own names: Va, Ava, Parauk, i.e. Ba rāog in official orthography) lives mai...
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Ao People: Encyclopedia - Ao People
The Ao are a Naga people of Nagaland in northeast India.
Ao territory is between the Dikhu and the Disai rivers in primarily Mokokchung d...
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Bodo People: Encyclopedia - Bodo People
The Bodos, also called the Boros, are an ethnic community that is concentrated mostly in the north-western parts of Assam in India. They ...
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People Of The Book: Encyclopedia - People Of The Book
The People of the Book is a term in Islam for peoples who, according to the Qur'an, have received divine scriptures — generally interpr...
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Tibetan People: Encyclopedia - Tibetan People
The Tibetan people are a people living in Tibet and some surrounding areas. They are one of the largest among the fifty-six nationalities...
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Balinese People: Encyclopedia - Balinese People
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Toda People: Encyclopedia - Toda People
The Toda people are a small pastoral tribe of Southern India who live only on the Nilgiri hills. They can be distinguished by their tall ...
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!kung People: Encyclopedia - !kung People
The !Xũ, or !Kung as it is also spelled in English, are a people living in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia. They speak the !Kung language...
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Algonquian Peoples: Encyclopedia - Algonquian Peoples
Algonquian Indians are one of the most populous and widespread North American Native groups, with tribes originally numbering in the hund...
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Automatic For The People: Encyclopedia - Automatic For The People
Automatic for the People is the critically-acclaimed album by R.E.M. released in 1992 by Warner Bros. Records. Mostly acoustic and typifi...
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Chosen People: Encyclopedia - Chosen People
Throughout history, various groups have considered themselves chosen by God for some purpose. This status may be viewed as a mark of supe...
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Ainu People: Encyclopedia - Ainu People
150,000 Japanese people with some Ainu ancestry
(some estimates on the number of Japanese with some Ainu blood range as high as 1,000,00...
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Balti People: Encyclopedia - Balti People
The Balti are the descendants of an amalagam of Tibetan and Indo-Aryan (Dardic) people whose population of 400,000 is found in the Pakist...
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Dravidian People: Encyclopedia - Dravidian People
The terms Dravidians and Dravidian Race are sometimes given to the peoples of southern and central India and northern Sri Lanka who speak...
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Sinhalese People: Encyclopedia - Sinhalese People
Thailand:
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Cham People: Encyclopedia - Cham People
The Cham people are descendants of the kingdom of Champa. Their population of approximately 100,000 is centered on the cities of Phan Ran...
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Bodo People: Encyclopedia Ii - Bodo People - The Bodo People
The Bodos are the largest tribe of the Bharmaputra valley. They divided into a number of clans such as the Basumatari, Sargwari, Musahari...
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Iranian Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Iranian Peoples - Iranian Peoples Defined
Iranian peoples are those who speak an Iranian language, in which case Iranian is an over-arching term for various peoples and their lang...
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Iranian Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Iranian Peoples - List Of Iranian Peoples
Iranian peoples - Past.
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Khanty People: Encyclopedia Ii - Khanty People - Religion
Khanty are today Orthodox Christians, mixed with traditional beliefs (shamans, reincarnation).
Their historical shaman wore no special cl...
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Little People: Encyclopedia Ii - Little People - History
Fisher-Price produced wooden toy dogs for four decades before deciding to try their new line of toys. The first Little People set include...
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Zaza People: Encyclopedia Ii - Zaza People - Language
According to Ethnologue, the Zaza language (Zazaki) is a part of the northwestern group of the Iranian section of the Indo-Iranian branch...
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Tu People: Encyclopedia Ii - Tu People - Language
The Tu language, which has been recently identified as two separate but related languages--Mongghul (once known as the Huzhu dialect of M...
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Chechen People: Encyclopedia Ii - Chechen People - Geography
The Chechen people are mainly inhabitants of Chechnya, which is internationally recognized as part of Russia. Two wars were fought betwee...
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Chechen People: Encyclopedia Ii - Chechen People - Culture
Prior to the adoption of Islam, the Chechens practiced a unique blend of religious traditions and beliefs. They partook in numerous rites...
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Toda People: Encyclopedia Ii - Toda People - History
The origin of the Todas is not very clear. They may be of Greek, Sumerian or Babylonian origin or possibly aboriginal. In any case, they ...
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Toda People: Encyclopedia Ii - Toda People - Mythology
According to the Todas, the goddess Teikirshy and her brother first created the sacred buffalo and then the first Toda man. The first Tod...
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Khanty People: Encyclopedia Ii - Khanty People - History
Khants appear most likely in Russian records under the name Yugra (ca. 11th century), when they had contact with Russian hunters and merc...
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Ingush People: Encyclopedia Ii - Ingush People - History
The history of the Ingush is closely related to that of the Chechens. The ancestors of both peoples were tribes known as the Nakhcho, fir...
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Balinese People: Encyclopedia Ii - Balinese People - Religion
The vast majority of the Balinese follow one religion - Hinduism that is mixed with pre-Hindu mythologies and Animism, and Buddhism. A mi...
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Tibetan People: Encyclopedia Ii - Tibetan People - Culture
Tibet boasts a rich culture. Tibetan festivals such as Losar, Shoton, Linka, and the Bathing Festival are deeply rooted in indigenous rel...
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Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - History
Germanic peoples - Origin.
Regarding the question of ethnic origins, evidence developed by both archaeologists and linguists suggests t...
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Spanish People: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish People - Other Related Peoples
The descendants of Spaniards can be found throughout the Hispanic nations of Latin America in the form of creoles, mestizos and mulattos....
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Spanish People: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish People - Other Related Peoples
The descendants of Spaniards can be found throughout the Hispanic nations of Latin America in the form of creoles, mestizos and mulattos....
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Opium Of The People: Encyclopedia Ii - Opium Of The People - Explanation
This quote is very often taken out of context and misinterpreted. Marx is not saying that religion is a tool used by the bourgeoisie to k...
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Fula People: Encyclopedia Ii - Fula People - History
The Fulani were traditionally a nomadic, pastoral community, herding cattle, goats and sheep across the vast dry hinterlands of their dom...
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Fula People: Encyclopedia Ii - Fula People - History
The Fulani are traditionally a nomadic, pastoral community, herding cattle, goats and sheep across the vast dry hinterlands of their doma...
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Forever People: Encyclopedia Ii - Forever People - Members
Beautiful Dreamer has been married to Big Bear, and together they had a child, named Maya, after the spirit of their old Mother Box.
Sinc...
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Tibetan People: Encyclopedia Ii - Tibetan People - Divisions
The Tibetan people are divided into several groups. These include the Changri, Nachan, and Hor, who are further divided into fifty-one su...
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Tibetan People: Encyclopedia Ii - Tibetan People - Religion
Tibetans generally observe Tibetan Buddhism and a collection of native traditions known as Bön (also absorbed into mainstream Tibetan Bu...
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Bodo People: Encyclopedia Ii - Bodo People - Religion
The Bodos practice a number of religions, with Bathou being the primary faith, along with Hinduism and Christianity.
Bathouism is not str...
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Peoples Temple: Encyclopedia Ii - Peoples Temple - Controversy
Then disturbing accounts began to spring up, told by a few people who had succeeded in leaving the cult. Jones was stealing from his foll...
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Duala Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Duala Peoples - Classification
All of the Duala peoples are Bantu in language and origin. More narrowly, they fall into the Sawa, or the coastal peoples of Cameroon.
D...
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Tibetan People: Encyclopedia Ii - Tibetan People - Origins
It is generally agreed that Tibetans share a considerable genetic background with Mongols, although other main influences do exist. Some ...
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Tibetan People: Encyclopedia Ii - Tibetan People - Clothing
Most Tibetans wear their hair long, although in recent times some men do crop their hair short. The women plait their hair into two queue...
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Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Classification
The concept of "Germanic" as a distinct ethnic identity was hinted at by the early Greek geographer Strabo [1], who distinguished a barba...
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Maya Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Peoples - Chiapas
Chiapas was long part of Mexico least touched by the reforms of the Mexican Revolution. Many Maya there gave support to the Zapatista Arm...
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Adi People: Encyclopedia Ii - Adi People - Culture
Owing to cultural isolation and economic insignificance, the Adi culture only elaborated simple manifestions and was spared major disturb...
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Kalmyk People: Encyclopedia Ii - Kalmyk People - History
Kalmyk people - Early history.
Historically, the Oirats were known as Dörben Oirat ("The Allied Four"). The alliance was comprised of ...
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Dogon People: Encyclopedia Ii - Dogon People - Languages
Dogon has been frequently referred to as a single language. In reality, there are at least five distinct groups of dialects.[1] The Dogon...
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Dogon People: Encyclopedia Ii - Dogon People - Mythology
The central element of Dogon cosmogony and cosmology is the star Sirius, which they call Po Tolo. This star was the seed of the Milky Way...
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English People: Encyclopedia Ii - English People - Culture
English people - Contribution to humanity.
The English have played a significant role in the development of the arts and sciences. Prom...
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Germanic Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Peoples - Culture
See Germanic mythology, Germanic paganism, Migration Period art
The Germanic tribes were each politically independent, under a hereditary...
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Nu People: Encyclopedia Ii - Nu People - Lifestyle
The Nu built their houses near the mountains made out either of baboo-slips or wooden planks, though houses made out of the latter type i...
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Ogoni People: Encyclopedia Ii - Ogoni People - Geography
The territory is located in Rivers State on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, east of the city of Port Harcourt. It extends across the Loc...
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Ainu People: Encyclopedia Ii - Ainu People - Origins
The origins of the Ainu are uncertain. Some commentators believe that they derive from an ancient proto-Asian stock that may have occupie...
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Ainu People: Encyclopedia Ii - Ainu People - Origins
The origins of the Ainu are uncertain. Some commentators believe that they derive from an ancient proto-Asian stock that may have occupie...
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Duala Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Duala Peoples - History
Duala peoples - Early population movements.
Early Duala history may only be conjectured from oral traditions. The Duala proper and most...
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Duala Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Duala Peoples - Geography
The Duala peoples are primarily concentrated in Cameroon's Littoral and Southwest Provinces. Their settlements lie largely along the coas...
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Kalmyk People: Encyclopedia Ii - Kalmyk People - Name
The name Kalmyk is a word of turkic origin meaning "remnant" or "to remain." The name was given to the Oirat migrants by their turkic-spe...
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Chosen People: Encyclopedia Ii - Chosen People - Superiority?
Views of being a chosen people are sometimes connected with ethnocentrism. The idea of a chosen people can be used to justify or create c...
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Chosen People: Encyclopedia Ii - Chosen People - Judaism
In Judaism, chosenness is the belief that the Jews are a people chosen to be in a covenant with God. The idea is not connected with triba...
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Duala Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Duala Peoples - Culture
The Duala today are divided into the urban and rural. Those who live in the cities, particularly Douala itself, earn a living at a number...
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Afghan People: Encyclopedia Ii - Afghan People - Culture
Afghan people - Contributions to Humanity.
The different ethnic groups that today make up Afghanistan made significant contributions in...
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Ainu People: Encyclopedia Ii - Ainu People - History
At first, contact with the Japanese people was friendly and both were equals in a trade relationship. However, eventually the Japanese st...
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French People: Encyclopedia Ii - French People - History
The French are a Western European people whose origins, for the most part, trace back to the mingling of pre-Celtic peoples, the Celts, t...
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Chosen People: Encyclopedia Ii - Chosen People - Christianity
Supersessionism is the belief of many Christians that Christians have replaced Israel as God's Chosen people. In this view, the Jews' cho...
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Chosen People: Encyclopedia Ii - Chosen People - Islam
Some Muslims believe Islam is Exclusive, and some do not.
Muslims who believe that Muslims, Christians and Jews all serve the same God ci...
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Chosen People: Encyclopedia Ii - Chosen People - Hinduism
Whilst the caste system of India confers a degree of birth-right to the " chosen " Brahmins, there exist a few cults or New Religious Mov...
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Basque People: Encyclopedia Ii - Basque People - History
Basque people - Origin of the Basques.
The key sources for the early history of the Basques are the classical writers, especially Strab...
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Basque People: Encyclopedia Ii - Basque People - Culture
There are interesting social differences between the Basques and their neighbours. The Basque people have an unusually close attachment w...
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English People: Encyclopedia Ii - English People - History
The English as an ethnic group can trace their heritage back to the Anglo-Saxons (or Old English), who between the 5th and 7th centuries,...
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Sinhalese People: Encyclopedia Ii - Sinhalese People - History
Legendary accounts relating to the Indian epic saga, the Sanskritic Ramayana discuss largely unverifiable events of deities battling over...
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Ainu People: Encyclopedia Ii - Ainu People - Geography
For historical reasons (primarily the Russo-Japanese War), nearly all Ainu live in Japan.
There is, however, a small number of Ainu livin...
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Japanese People: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese People - Origins
Archeological evidences show that Stone Age people lived in Japan between 33,000 and 21,000 years ago in the Paleolithic period. Japan wa...
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Dravidian People: Encyclopedia Ii - Dravidian People - Ethnology
The term arose from nineteenth century Western scholars assumptions that Dravidian speakers were a distinct group within India, separate ...
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Adi People: Encyclopedia Ii - Adi People - Culture
Owing to cultural isolation and economic insignificance, the Adi culture only elaborated simple manifestions and was spared major disturb...
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French People: Encyclopedia Ii - French People - Diaspora
There is a sizeable French diaspora in the Western Hemisphere. The Canadian province of Quebec is the center of French life on the Wester...
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Tagalog People: Encyclopedia Ii - Tagalog People - Culture
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The Tagalog culture of the Pre-Hispanic times was totally different from its forms today. From a forme...
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Indigenous Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Indigenous Peoples - Definitions
An indigene is literally someone or something that is native to or originating from a given place. Therefore, when indigenous is used pur...
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French People: Encyclopedia Ii - French People - Language
The French language, the mother tongue of the majority of the world's French, is a Romance language, one of the many derived from Latin. ...
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