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ruler or
other influential figure: One of the
first recorded cases of
eponymy occurred in the
second millennium BC, when the ****yrians
named each year...
- Stigler's law of
eponymy,
proposed by
University of
Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980
publication "Stigler's law of
eponymy",
states that...
-
Barack Hussein Obama II (born
August 4, 1961) is an
American politician who was the 44th
president of the
United States from 2009 to 2017. A
member of...
- "Three
Billy Goats Gruff" (Norwegian: De tre
bukkene Bruse) is a
Norwegian fairy tale
collected by
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in
their Norske...
- The
salamander is an
amphibian of the
order Urodela which once, like many real creatures,
often was
suppositiously ascribed fantastic and
sometimes occult...
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Weihai (Chinese: 威海; pinyin: Wēihǎi),
formerly Weihaiwei (Chinese: 威海卫; pinyin: Wēihǎiwèi; lit. 'Mighty Sea Fort'), is a prefecture-level city and major...
-
Amalasuintha (495 – 30
April 535) was a
ruler of the
Ostrogothic Kingdom from 526 to 535.
Initially serving as
regent for her son Athalaric, she became...
- Thor (from Old Norse: Þórr) is a
prominent god in
Germanic paganism. In
Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god ****ociated with lightning, thunder...
- The Nez
Perce (/ˌnɛz ˈpɜːrs, ˌnɛs -/ ;
autonym in Nez
Perce language: nimíipuu,
meaning "we, the people") are an
Indigenous people of the
Plateau who still...
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Sukunabikona or
Sukuna bikona (少彦名神, also
known as Sukuna-biko, Sukuna-biko-na,
Sukuna hikona) is the
Shinto kami of the
onsen (hot springs), agriculture...
