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  2. Minangkabau clans - Wikipedia

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    The Koto-Piliang System and the Bodi-Caniago System developed differently. These systems formed their own governing system based on their ideologies. The Koto-Piliang are based on aristocracy while Bodi-Caniago are based on confederation. These clans' name are believed to have originated from Sanskrit.

  3. Rumah Gadang - Wikipedia

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    The rumah gadang is built in one of two basic designs: koto piliang and bodi caniago. These forms reflect different two variations of Minangkabau social structure . The koto piliang design reflects an aristocratic and hierarchical social structure, with the house containing anjuang (raised floors) at each end to permit elevated seating of clan ...

  4. Adat perpatih - Wikipedia

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    Adat Perpatih (also known as Lareh Bodi Caniago in Indonesia) are customary laws which originated in the Minangkabau Highlands in Sumatra, Indonesia. It was founded by a Minangkabau leader named Sutan Balun, more famously known as Dato Perpatih Nan Sebatang.

  5. Songkok - Wikipedia

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    The songkok (Jawi: سوڠكوق‎‎ ‎) or peci or kopiah is a cap widely worn in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines, and southern Thailand, most commonly among Muslim males.

  6. Body politic - Wikipedia

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    The body politic is a polity—such as a city, realm, or state—considered metaphorically as a physical body. Historically, the sovereign is typically portrayed as the body's head, and the analogy may also be extended to other anatomical parts, as in political readings of Aesop's fable of "The Belly and the Members".

  7. Indonesian names - Wikipedia

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    In the U.S., there are at least four ways to record people with a single-word name. One way is to use the existing single word name as the surname. Then, an official body will add "FNU" (first name unknown) as the first or given name. This can lead to a false belief that "Fnu" is a common Indonesian first name.

  8. Bodi Alagh Khan - Wikipedia

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    Alagh Khan (Mongolian: Алаг хаан; Chinese: 阿剌克汗), born Bodi (Mongolian: Боди; Chinese: 博迪), (1504–1547) was a khagan of the Northern Yuan dynasty, reigning from 1519 to 1547. Some sources indicate that Bodi Alagh Khan was Turbolad's eldest children, but others record him as Ulusbold's son. [1]

  9. Bog body - Wikipedia

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    Tollund Man, Denmark, 4th century BC Gallagh Man, Ireland, c. 470–120 BC. A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog.Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BC and the Second World War. [1]