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101Olmec religion — Monument 19, from La Venta, the earliest known representation of a feathered serpent in Mesoamerica. Courtesy George Audrey DeLange, used with permission. The religion of the Olmec people significantly influenced the social development and… …
102Babylonian law — Archaeological material for the study of Babylonian law is singularly extensive. So called contracts exist in the thousands, including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts, and most important of all, actual legal… …
103Go (game) — This article is about Go, the board game. For other uses, see Go (disambiguation). Goe redirects here. For other uses, see GOE (disambiguation). Go Go is played on a grid of black lines (usually 19×19). The playing pieces, called stones, are… …
104Napoleon (coin) — The Napoleon is the colloquial term for a former French gold coin. The coins were minted (at various times) in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 40, 50 and 100francs. This …
105Red hair — This article is about people with red hair, who are sometimes called redheads . For the film, see Red Hair (film). For other uses, see Redhead (disambiguation) …
106Ashdod — Infobox Israel municipality name=Ashdod imgsize=70 caption= imgsize3=240 caption3=Ashdod MonArt Arts Centre. hebname=Hebrew|אַשְׁדּוֹד arname= meaning= founded=1956 type=city typefrom=1968 stdHeb= altOffSp= altUnoSp= district=south population=207 …
107Pu-erh tea — Pu erh, Pu er tea, Puer tea or Bolay tea is a type of tea made from a large leaf variety of the tea plant Camellia sinensis and named after Pu er county near Simao, Yunnan, China. Pu erh tea can be purchased as either raw/green (sheng) or… …
108Zhang Zhung — was an ancient culture of western and northwestern Tibet, which pre dates the culture of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet. Zhang Zhung culture is associated with the Bön religion, which in turn, has influenced the philosophies and practices of Tibetan… …
109Transit of Venus — A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the Sun s disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the… …
110Jack Lindsay — Robert Leeson Jack Lindsay (October 20 1900 1990) was an Australian born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex. He was born in Melbourne, but spent his formative years in Brisbane. He was the eldest son of Norman… …
