Riddles have at times been an important literary or folk-literary form in South Asia. Indeed, it is thought that the world's earliest surviving poetic...
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countries, with Asian and African riddles being relatively neglected. Riddles have also attracted linguists, often studying riddles from the point of...
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many playful riddles, but songs and legends which have been a part of popular culture in South Asia ever since. Additionally, his riddles and songs and...
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Sphinx (redirect from Sphinx' riddle)
traditions related to the "Asian sphinxes" are very much alive today. The earliest artistic depictions of "sphinxes" from the South Asian subcontinent are to...
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Pacific Railroad line south of Roseburg had a station here called "Riddlesburg", which was changed to "Riddles" in 1882 and to "Riddle" in 1889. A post office...
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riddlers especially have produced long variations on the theme, often overlapping with riddles on pens and other writing equipment. Literary riddles have...
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is a private university focused on aviation and aerospace programs. Founded at Lunken Field in Cincinnati,...
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Riddles are historically a significant genre of Arabic literature. The Qur’an does not contain riddles as such, though it does contain conundra. But riddles...
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individuals (dated ~800 CE) had typical South Asian ancestry, one individual (dated ~1800 CE) had Southeast Asian ancestry, and 14 individuals (dated ~1800...
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South Africa competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's ninth consecutive appearance at the Games...
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numbers, and "arranging things into patterns" such as substitution cyphers, riddles, crosswords, Sudoku, word search, and mathematics; puzzles involving physical...
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investigations of these occurrences. Asian Americans, including those of East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian descent, have experienced racism since...
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South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the G20, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the Asian Infrastructure...
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rolling dice, and has a black-and-white motif and colour scheme. He sends riddles to Tokaku via her cellphone through the series. His teaching style is rude...
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Tak Bai incident (category South Thailand insurgency)
for Thaksin's policies in the south, and two days later the charges against the surviving protesters were dropped. The Asian Human Rights Commission called...
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Sheba. Most of these riddles are simply Bible questions, some not of a very edifying character. The two that are genuine riddles are: "Without movement...
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program was riddled with corruption and inefficiency. Many rural people believed that the United States army and the government of South Vietnam were...
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Jun Yong Park (category South Korean male mixed martial artists)
2013, Park compiled a 10–3 record, fighting mainly for a various regional Asian promotions, with his most memorable win being against future Professional...
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They became the first Southeast Asian act to be nominated on the Billboard Music Awards, and the first Southeast Asian act to make an appearance in the...
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Mid-Autumn Festival (section South Asia)
floating sky lanterns. Another tradition involving lanterns is to write riddles on them and have other people try to guess the answers (simplified Chinese:...
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mostly highly paid racial group is Asians who made 1.25 times what White workers made. The average median household in South Carolina in 2015 was $47,238....
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their way through the first checkpoints. People smuggling of illegal South Asian immigrants is much more lucrative however, as airport officials and ground...
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Diospyros kaki (redirect from Asian persimmon)
East Asia. Since the 19th century, kaki partially replaced date-plum (Diospyros lotus, also known as Caucasian persimmon) in some countries in South Europe...
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fatal shark attacks in the United States List of fatal shark attacks in South Africa List of fatal snake bites in the United States List of fatal snake...
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Kohl (cosmetics) (section South Asia)
report, 61 30, 574-6 . Bascom, W. R. (1949). Literary style in Yoruba riddles. The Journal of American Folklore, 62(243), 1-16. Alan Donovan, My journey...
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Spartanburg is a city in and the seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. The city had a population of 38,732 as of the 2020 census...
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Mango (category South Asian cuisine)
cultivated in South and Southeast Asia since ancient times resulting in two types of modern mango cultivars: the "Indian type" and the "Southeast Asian type"...
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Eureka effect (section Verbal riddles)
Niki. Participants in this study were presented with a series of Japanese riddles, and asked to rate their impressions toward each question using the following...
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1 August 2021. Stroud, Scott R. (1 June 2019). "Pragmatist riddles in Ambedkar's 'Riddles in Hinduism'". ForwardPress.in. Retrieved 1 August 2021. Vaidyanathan...
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Maguindanao people (section Riddles)
in the riddles (Notre Dame Journal 1980:17). Riddling involves a group of people, one of which is the riddler. If one volunteers to be a riddler, he/she...
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