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The branch of knowledge dealing with past events.

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The Thirty-eighth Parallel

History; World history

The Thirty-eighth Parallel is latitude that separates South and North Korea. It was created after the Second World War when the soviet government led by Stalin greatly influenced ...

witch-hunt

History; World history

Is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft (magic or sorcery, normally associated with the devil). The classical period of witch-hunts in Europe and North America falls ...

historical criticism

History; World history

Historical criticism is the art of distinguishing the true from the false concerning facts of the past. It has for its object both the documents which have been handed down to us ...

cabriolet

History; World history

A light 2-wheeled one-horse carriage with a folding leather hood, a large apron, and upward-curving shafts.

Silk Road

History; World history

A mythical name for the Mediterranean - China trade routes.

minority

History; World history

A small group of people from a larger group with both groups forming a whole.

torri

History; World history

The red traditional Japanese gate entrance to a Shinto shrine which symbolically marks the transition from the profane to the sacred