Paiyatuma and the Maidens of the Corn is a legend of the Zuni nation of the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest of the modern-day USA. Paiyatuma (also given as Paiyatamu...

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20.02.2025

Why Did Hitler Hate Jewish People? - World History Encyclopedia

The leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) identified Jewish people as enemies of the state, presenting them through relentless propaganda as responsible...

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20.02.2025

Why Kokopelli is Not Kokopelli: Paiyatamu & The Four Flutes - World History Encyclopedia

The iconic image of Kokopelli, the flute-playing kachina spirit of the Pueblo peoples, specifically the Hopi, is easily the most recognizable figure from Native...

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19.02.2025

First Agricultural Revolution - World History Encyclopedia

The First Agricultural Revolution, beginning c. 12-20,000 years ago, was characterized by the emergence of different agricultural systems in different parts of...

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19.02.2025

James Monroe - World History Encyclopedia

James Monroe (1758-1831) was an American statesman who served as the fifth president of the United States (1817-1825). The fourth president to belong to the so-called...

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17.02.2025

Manabozho Tales - World History Encyclopedia

Manabozho tales are the stories of the trickster figure and culture hero of the Ojibwe (Ojibway/Chippewa) and other Algonquin Native American nations of present-day...

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17.02.2025

The River of Separation, a Navajo Creation Story - World History Encyclopedia

The River of Separation is one of the many versions of the Navajo creation story detailing how the people first came up from below the earth, learned to live...

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17.02.2025

Burning of Washington - World History Encyclopedia

The burning of Washington (24 August 1814) by a British force was a pivotal moment in the War of 1812 and in US history. Hoping to pull US military resources...

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17.02.2025

Alfred Rosenberg - World History Encyclopedia

Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946) was an Estonian-born Nazi who propounded anti-Semitic racial theory and anti-Christian values. Rosenberg's theories matched those...

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17.02.2025

Josef Mengele - World History Encyclopedia

Josef Mengele (1911-1979) was a Nazi doctor who performed horrific pseudo-scientific experiments on detainees in the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was...

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17.02.2025

Kappa - World History Encyclopedia

A kappa is a Japanese mythological water sprite or, literally, "river child" (河童). One of the more popularly known yōkai (Japanese mythological creature) in Japan...

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17.02.2025

Auschwitz - World History Encyclopedia

Auschwitz was a concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland operated by the Nazi SS from 1940 to 1945. Around 1.1 million people died at the...

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17.02.2025

Commission for Relief in Belgium - World History Encyclopedia

The Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) was an independent, international organization, sponsored by neutral governments and with the guarantees and assurances...

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17.02.2025

Coyote Tales of the Apache - World History Encyclopedia

Coyote is easily the most famous trickster figure in the lore of the Native peoples of North America, and the Coyote tales of the Apache are among the best-known...

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17.02.2025

Glooscap Tales - World History Encyclopedia

The Glooscap tales are legends of the Eastern Algonquin nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy – the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Wolastoqiyik...

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17.02.2025

A Seminole Creation Story & Other Tales - World History Encyclopedia

The Seminole are a Native American nation of people descended from the Muscogee Creek nation, and others, who migrated to the modern-day State of Florida in the...

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17.02.2025

Education for Girls in Ancient Rome - World History Encyclopedia

The upbringing and education of girls in ancient Rome are rarely addressed in ancient sources. A young Roman girl from an affluent family married very young...

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17.02.2025

The Sky Beings: Thunder and His Helpers - World History Encyclopedia

The Sky Beings: Thunder and His Helpers is a legend of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy of the Six Nations of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca...

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17.02.2025

De-Ka-Nah-Wi-Da and Hiawatha - World History Encyclopedia

De-Ka-Nah-Wi-Da and Hiawatha is the written account of the oral history of the origins of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, detailing how the great peacemaker...

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17.02.2025

Ptolemaic Police - World History Encyclopedia

Ptolemaic police, or phylakitai, were responsible for law enforcement throughout Ptolemaic Egypt. The existence of a professional police force made Egypt different...

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17.02.2025

Origin Tales of the Penobscot Nation - World History Encyclopedia

The Penobscot are a Native American nation of the modern-day State of Maine, also recognized as a First Nation of Canada. Along with the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy...

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17.02.2025

War of 1812 - World History Encyclopedia

The War of 1812 (1812-1815), referred to by some contemporaries as the Second American Revolution, was fought between the United States and the United Kingdom...

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17.02.2025

Iranian Revolution - World History Encyclopedia

The Iranian Revolution (1978-1979) was the social movement that arose from widespread and diverse discontent with the monarchic government of Iran. The revolution...

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17.02.2025

J. R. Giddings' Account of the Dade Massacre of the Second Seminole War - World History Encyclopedia

The Dade Massacre (also given as the Dade Battle, 28 December 1835) was the opening engagement of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) between Euro-American forces...

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17.02.2025

Mark Twain - World History Encyclopedia

Mark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), an American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist. He was the voice of his generation...

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17.02.2025

How the Hopi Indians Reached Their World - World History Encyclopedia

How the Hopi Indians Reached Their World is the creation story of the Native American Hopi nation (the Hopi tribe of Arizona) located today within the Navajo...

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17.02.2025

Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust - World History Encyclopedia

The Holocaust was the murder of 6 million Jewish people by the SS, Gestapo, and other organisations of Nazi Germany and its allies in the years prior to and through...

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01.02.2025

George W. Crooks' Account of the Dakota War of 1862 - World History Encyclopedia

George W. Crooks' Account of the Dakota War of 1862 is a narrative of the events leading up to the "Minnesota Massacre" known as the Dakota War of 1862, given...

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31.01.2025

Heinrich Himmler - World History Encyclopedia

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the head of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) organisation. One of the most powerful individuals in Nazi Germany, Himmler built up...

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30.01.2025

Tamahay (Eastman's Biography) - World History Encyclopedia

Tamahay (Tahama, Tamaha, "Pike", l. c. 1776-1864) was a Mdewakanton Dakota Sioux guide and scout who sided with the Americans against the British during the War...

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29.01.2025

Siege of Fort Erie - World History Encyclopedia

The Siege of Fort Erie (4 August to 21 September 1814) was one of the last major military operations of the War of 1812. Following the bloody Battle of Lundy's...

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29.01.2025

Chief Joseph (Eastman's Biography) - World History Encyclopedia

Chief Joseph (Heinmot Tooyalakekt, l. 1840-1904) was the leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Native American nation, who, in 1877, resisted forced relocation...

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28.01.2025

Gestapo - World History Encyclopedia

The Gestapo was the secret political police organisation of Nazi Germany. Created in 1933, the Gestapo became one of the most feared instruments of state terror...

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28.01.2025

Geronimo - World History Encyclopedia

Geronimo (Goyahkla, l. c. 1829-1909) was a medicine man and war chief of the Bedonkohe tribe of the Chiricahua Apache nation, best known for his resistance against...

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25.01.2025

Battle of Lundy's Lane - World History Encyclopedia

The Battle of Lundy's Lane (25 July 1814) was one of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812. Fought near the location of present-day Niagara Falls, it saw a...

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25.01.2025

Dreamtime - World History Encyclopedia

Dreamtime (The Dreaming) is the English term used to describe the mythology and spirituality of Indigenous Australians. It is a philosophy, worldview, cosmology...

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24.01.2025

Battle of Chippawa - World History Encyclopedia

The Battle of Chippawa (5 July 1814) was a major battle in the War of 1812, in which a US army proved its newfound discipline by defeating British regulars during...

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23.01.2025

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots by John Swanson Swanson Jacobs & Jonathan D. S. Schroeder (Book Review) - World History Encyclopedia

Discovering forgotten or overlooked sources is always exciting. Jonathan D. S. Schroeder recently rediscovered John Swanson Jacobs’s narrative The United States...

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23.01.2025

Einsatzgruppen - World History Encyclopedia

Einsatzgruppen ('deployment groups') were secret Nazi killing units, who systematically sought out and murdered civilians identified as enemies of the Third Reich...

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23.01.2025

Chinookan Peoples, Creation Story, & Blue Jay Tales - World History Encyclopedia

The Chinook people (Chinookan peoples) are a Native American nation of the US Pacific Northwest who inhabited the region of modern-day southwest Washington state...

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