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In India, it is common to see the Namaste greeting (or "Sat Sri Akal" for Sikhs) where the palms of the hands are pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed. Among Christians in certain parts of the world such as Poland, the greeting phrase "Praise the Lord" has had common usage, especially in the pre-World War II era.
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history and psychological variation using approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology. In the book, Henrich explores how institutions and psychology ...
Craig Shergold (24 June 1979 – 21 April 2020) was a British cancer patient who received an estimated 350 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Variations of the plea for greeting cards on his behalf in 1989 are still being distributed through the Internet, making the plea one of the most persistent ...
The Bedouins have a saying, “I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world.” David Kaczynski, the brother of Ted Kaczynski ...
Jon Stewart on Monday said Donald Trump reminded people of his penchant for strange greetings during his weekend trip to Paris, France, for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Getty Images Next time you plan to go fishing, wear a dress, put on false facial hair or murder your husband's Hong Kong-based mistress with anything other than your bare hands, you had better ...
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone; Laughter is the best medicine; Late lunch makes day go faster; Learn a language, and you will avoid a war (Arab proverb) [5] Least said, soonest mended; Less is more; Let bygones be bygones; Let not the sun go down on your wrath; Let sleeping Aussies lie; Let sleeping dogs lie
The world's largest national park consists of over a quarter of Greenland's total land area, is larger than 166 sovereign states, and has no permanent human population. Northwest Angle This little spoke jutting out of northern Minnesota was created as the result of a surveying error, and its land is completely cut off from the rest of the U.S ...