Bura, Tana River District, Kenya; People and civilizations. Bura people or Kilba, an ethnic group in Nigeria; Bura language (also Bura-Pabir), a Chadic language spoken in Nigeria; Bura archaeological site, an ancient and medieval civilization in southwest Niger Bura culture, known for ceramics and metallurgy; Olha Bura (1986–2014), Ukrainian ...

Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ (as in 'ship'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth and represented the phoneme /ʃ/ via the acrophonic principle.. Ancient Greek did not have a /ʃ/ phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma (Σ) came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant /s/.While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician šîn ...

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The Jat people are a community native to India and Pakistan. The following is a list of notable Jats. Religion. Bhai Bala, follower and companion of Guru Nanak (first Guru of Sikhism) and one of the most revered in Sikhism; Baba Buddha, companion of the guru Nanak and ...

Bitcoin (₿) is a decentralized digital currency that can be transferred on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network. Bitcoin transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain.The cryptocurrency was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto.

The Boxer Protocol was signed on September 7, 1901, between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance that had provided military forces (including Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States as well as Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands), after China's defeat in the intervention to put down the Boxer Rebellion.

Tigrinya (ትግርኛ; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethiopian Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region. It is also spoken by the global diaspora of these regions. Indigenous people in the Eritrean highlands and in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia speak it as their first language

Dina Pathak (née Gandhi; 4 March 1922 – 11 October 2002) was an Indian actress and director of Gujarati theatre and also a film actor. She was an activist and President of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW).. A doyenne of Hindi and Gujarati films as well as theatre, Dina Pathak acted in over 120 films in a career spanning over six decades. . Her production Mena Gurjari in …

New Zealand: Language codes; ISO 639-3: nzs: Glottolog: newz1236: New Zealand Sign Language or NZSL (Māori: te reo Turi) is the main language of the deaf community in New Zealand.It became an official language of New Zealand in April 2006 under the New Zealand Sign Language Act 2006. The purpose of the act was to create rights and obligations in the use of NZSL …

Prehistory. Archaeological evidence dates the earliest habitation of Native Americans in Utah to about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Paleolithic people lived near the Great Basin's swamps and marshes, which had an abundance of fish, birds, and small game animals. Big game, including bison, mammoths and ground sloths, also were attracted to these water sources.