What Was The Maastricht Treaty?
The treaty forming the European Union was signed on February 7th, 1992 in the Netherlands.
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What Is The Quran, And Who Wrote It?
The Qur'an, or Koran, is the premiere Islamic text based on angelic revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, and arguably the finest work ever written in Arabic.
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Who Are The Xhosa People, And Where Do They Live?
The Xhosa are a Bantu group in South Africa with a long, storied history. Most live in the Eastern Cape province, where modernization is threatening their culture.
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Who Are The Zulu People, and Where Do They Live?
The Zulus are an ethnic Bantu people that can be found living across much of southern Africa.
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What Is The Afrikaans Language?
Afrikaans developed among South Holland Dutch settlers in southern Africa between the 18th and 20th Centuries.
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The Aymara People
The Aymara people are an indigenous South American group native to the Altiplano Region and the Andes.
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What Is The Definition Of A Buffer State?
A buffer state is a country finding itself situated between two potentially combatant nations.
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What Is Religious Fundamentalism?
Almost every major belief system in the world has believers who use their faith to strictly guide their daily lives and views, at times resulting in violence.
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Who Are The Han Chinese People?
Around 20% of the people on our planet are ethnically Han Chinese, and the Han have made many important religious, philosophical, and scientific contributions.
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Who Are The Ibo (Igbo) People?
Most of the Ibo people of today are found living in the African nation of Nigeria, especially in the southern portions of the country.
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What is a Muezzin?
In Islamic communities, muezzins help others keep daily prayer schedules by regularly giving public calls to worship.
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Who Are The Yoruba People?
The Yoruba have for centuries lived in what is now Nigeria and Benin, where they have founded great African empires and forged a cultural legacy.
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When Did The Yuan Dynasty Rule?
Despite lasting more than 7 decades after his death, the Yuan's golden years in East Asia came under its founder, Mongol Khagan Kublai Khan.
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What Is The Zionist Movement?
Zionism is a controversial movement largely made up of secular Jews, fueled by a desire to achieve and maintain a Jewish state in the "Holy Land".
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A Brief History of Biological Warfare
Biological warfare has a long, complex, and generally disturbing timeline dating back to early times in civilization.
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Who Are The Swahili People?
The Swahili people speak a language of the same name and most practice Islam. The largest numbers live in Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros, and Mozambique.
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What Is Voodoo And Vodun?
West African beliefs, mingled with Christian ones among slaves in the New World, have yielded an interesting belief set that continues to fascinate people globally.
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Countries With No Military
Around the globe, there are many countries with essentially no defense system to their name, and thus are completely reliant upon alliances and foreign support.
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Where Are The Khajuraho Temples Of Love?
20 of these Jain and Hindu temples, famous for their erotic art, survive in India, and have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites.
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Is Bhangarh Fort Really Haunted?
Built in the 1600s, centuries-old legends and mysteries about the Indian fort still survive into the present day.
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