The Fore (/ˈfɔːreɪ/) people live in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. There are approximately 20,000 Fore who are...
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Look up fore in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fore may refer to: Fore people, a highland people of Papua New Guinea Fore (golf), a warning yelled by...
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Fore! is the fourth studio album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released on August 20, 1986. The album was a commercial success, peaking...
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fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is a form of prion disease which leads to tremors...
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South America Amahuaca people Mayoruna Wari' people Ya̧nomamö Asia Callatiae Aghori Africa Jukun people Oceania Fore people Boone Helm Cannibalism in...
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A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing vessel rig with sails set mainly along the line of the keel, rather than perpendicular to it as on a square rigged vessel...
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For example, the Lamari River in New Guinea separates the Angu and the Fore people in New Guinea. The two cultures speak different languages and rarely...
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Barnum effect (redirect from The Forer effect)
The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give...
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prion disease called kuru has been traced to a funerary ritual among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea in which those close to the dead would eat the brain...
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Donald John DeFore (August 25, 1913 – December 22, 1993) was an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and...
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7th-century Irish saint, chiefly remembered as the founder of the monastery at Fore (Fobar), County Westmeath. Sources for his life and legend include Irish...
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kuru, which reached epidemic proportions in the mid-20th century in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, who used to consume their dead as a funerary ritual...
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known as kuru, once found primarily among women and children of the Fore people in Papua New Guinea, who previously engaged in funerary cannibalism....
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Forer is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: Bertram Forer (1914–2000), American psychologist, father of the Forer effect Jane F. Gentleman...
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Fore River Shipyard was a shipyard owned by General Dynamics Corporation located on Weymouth Fore River in Braintree and Quincy, Massachusetts. It began...
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Margarita Araneta Forés is a Filipino chef, who runs a variety of restaurants which serve varieties of Italian cuisine. In 2016, she was named Asia's...
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Fore Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Fhobhair) is the ruins of a Benedictine and Early Gaelic 7th century Abbey with associated Mill, Anchorite's Cell, Holy Wells...
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than 20 years later. A tradition of ritualistic cannibalism among the Fore people caused a kuru epidemic, leading to approximately 1000 deaths between...
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A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of book pages. There are two basic forms, including paintings on fanned edges and closed edges. For...
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (category American people convicted of child sexual abuse)
best-known work focused on kuru. This disease was rampant among the South Fore people of New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s. Gajdusek connected the spread of...
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Bertram R. Forer (24 October 1914 – 6 April 2000) was an American psychologist best known for describing the Forer effect, sometimes referred to as subjective...
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realm – with a neurodegenerative disorder called kuru, once found in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Men would eat the muscles of the deceased, while...
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his universality hypothesis, Ekman ran a test on a group of the South Fore people of New Guinea, a pre-industrial culture that was isolated from the West...
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usually hang on the left shoulder and stretch from the hind of the body to the fore). At times, it is tied round their waists over the original one piece wrapper...
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Planning (redirect from Fore thought)
occupations, particularly in fields such as management and business. Once people have developed a plan, they can measure and assess progress, efficiency...
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incurable neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. While researching the Ancestral Puebloans for the...
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to be nearly eradicated. With the cessation of cannibalism among the Fore people, the last known victims of kuru died in 2005 or 2009, but the disease...
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army, having them adopt the Jurchen hairstyle of a long queue and a shaved fore=crown and wearing leather tunics. His armies had black, blue, red, white...
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Henrietta Holsman Fore (born December 9, 1948) is an American public health and international development executive who was the executive director of UNICEF...
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