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Jacobins
History; World history

The most violent and extreme political group of the French Revolution, formed in 1789 as the Society of Friends of the Constitution. Led by Maximilien de Robespierre, they ...

кamikaze
History; World history

Japanese for 'divine wind'. The term was first applied to the typhoons that scattered the Mongol invasion fleets at Hakataka Bay, Kyushu, in 1274 and 1281. The word was later (and ...

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty (KGB)
History; World history

Literally Committee for State Security. The name of the Soviet political police from 1954. The KGB was responsible for the harsh internal security system of the Soviet Union and ...

Lamaism
History; World history

Tibetan Buddhism, developed in the 7th to 9th centuries when the Tibetan shamanistic Bon religion was assimilated to Mahayana Buddhism from India. Lamaism was persecuted in the ...

boxwallah
History; World history

Boxwallahs were travelling peddlers in India common from the mid 19th century through to the mid 20th century; and their name came from the large boxes in which they carried their ...

picts
History; World history

Celtic peoples to the north of the Antonine Wall in Scotland. The name Pictae or 'painted people' was first used by the Romans in AD 297. The Picts lost their independence when ...

Polo, Marco
History; World history

(c.1254-1324) Venetian merchant and traveler. His account of his travels in China was the basis of European perceptions of the Far East until the 19th century. His father and ...

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