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  2. Candomblé - Wikipedia

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    A statue depicting the orixá Xangô inside a Candomblé terreiro in São Paulo; he is distinguished by his double-headed axe, the oxê [45] Candomblé revolves around spirits termed orixás (orishas) [46] or santos ("saints"). [47] In the Angola tradition they are sometimes termed inkice, [48] and in the Jeje tradition vodun. [49]

  3. World's police in technological arms race with Nigerian mafia

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    Many Black Axe members are university educated and are recruited during their schooling. The organisation is a secretive criminal network with trafficking, prostitution and killing operations ...

  4. Hephaestus - Wikipedia

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    Hephaestus (UK: / h ɪ ˈ f iː s t ə s / hif-EE-stəs, US: / h ɪ ˈ f ɛ s t ə s / hif-EST-əs; eight spellings; Greek: Ἥφαιστος, translit. Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes. [1]

  5. African-American Vernacular English - Wikipedia

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    Origins. African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) may be considered a dialect, ethnolect or sociolect. [22] While it is clear that there is a strong historical relationship between AAVE and earlier Southern U.S. dialects, the origins of AAVE are still a matter of debate. The presiding theory among linguists is that AAVE has always been a ...

  6. Bell Beaker culture - Wikipedia

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    The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age, arising from around 2800 BC. Bell Beaker culture lasted in Britain from c. 2450 BC, with the appearance of single ...

  7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Wikipedia

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    Sir Gawain, The Green Knight/Bertilak de Hautdesert, Lady Bertilak, Morgan le Fay, King Arthur, Knights of the Round Table. Text. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at Wikisource. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later.

  8. African-American literature - Wikipedia

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    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.

  9. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, some all-black communities, such as Mound Bayou, Mississippi and Ruthville, Virginia served as sources of pride and inspiration for black society as a whole. Over time, pushback and open defiance of the oppressive existing laws grew, until it reached a boiling point in the aggressive, large-scale activism of the 1950s civil rights ...