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misadventure. People who may or may not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is disputed, but who are widely believed to have deliberately...

A polymath (Greek: πολυμαθής, romanized: polymathēs, lit. 'having learned much'; Latin: homo universalis, lit. 'universal human') or polyhistor (Greek:...

This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow,...

traditions about long-lived people (generally supercentenarians), either as individuals or groups of people, and practices that have been believed to confer longevity...

This is a list of notable people who belong to the Hindu Brahmin caste. Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar, artist M. V. Dhurandhar, Indian artist known for his...

a list of mothers said to have given birth to 20 or more children and men said to have fathered more than 25 children. This section lists mothers who...

This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as Deists, the belief in a deity based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths...

said to have died of suffocation from laughing too much". In 1660, Thomas Urquhart, the Scottish aristocrat, polymath, and first translator of François...

The list of Harvard University alumni includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. For a list of notable...

This is a list of notable autodidacts. The list includes people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. Some notables listed did receive formal...

This is a list of people who have permanently adopted a vegetarian diet at some point during their life. Former vegetarians and those whose status is...

List of notable people from Kolkata. Kolkata has been regarded as the cultural capital of India. Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Suchitra Bhattacharya Sukanta...

Marathi people have a household shrine called a devaghar with idols, symbols, and pictures of various deities for daily worship. Ritual reading of religious...

Macau have been culturally, economically and politically dominant majority vis-à-vis the non-Han minorities. Nearly 30 to 40 million people of Han Chinese...

without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves, or as enslaved people. The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved at some...

of each country's population having red hair, red is the rarest natural hair-coloration. The list includes people who have dyed their red hair into another...

List of British Jews is a list of prominent Jews from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. Although the first Jews may have arrived on the island...

— Boris Vian, French polymath (23 June 1959), while watching film adaptation of his novel I Spit on Your Graves "I should have had the pickle." — Preston...

settlements of Slavs (the so-called Schiavoni) and Arbereshe in Italy have been recorded, while Scottish soldiers - the Garde Ecossaise - who served the...

Bukhara (/bʊˈxɑːrə/ buu-KHAR-ə; Uzbek and Tajik: Бухоро, romanized: Buxoro, pronounced [buχɒrɒ]; Persian: بخارا) is the seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan...