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Black Axe. The Black Axe, also known as the Neo Black Movement of Africa or the NBM of Africa, is an international confraternity founded at the University of Benin in Nigeria as part of the Pan African movement. Its aims include the promotion and advancement of African culture and arts globally by striving to revive, retain, and modify where ...
The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of August 2024, it has 1,008,980 articles, 1,329,125 registered users, and 91,496 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on 16 December 2004, and 200,000 on 10 July 2012.
List of online encyclopedias. This is a list of well-known online encyclopedias that are accessible or formerly accessible on the Internet . The largest online encyclopedias are general reference works, though there are also many specialized ones. Some online encyclopedias are editions of a print encyclopedia, such as Encyclopædia Britannica ...
Confraternities in Nigeria. Confraternities in Nigeria are secretive student groups within Nigerian higher education that have been involved in violence and organized crime since the 1980s. The exact death toll of confraternity activities is unclear. One estimate in 2002 was that 250 people had been killed in campus cult-related murders in the ...
Various collaborative online encyclopedias were attempted before the start of Wikipedia, but with limited success. [19] Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [20]
Zayd Manāt b. Tamīm, excluding his sons Kaʿb and ʿAmr. This tribe lived in the al-Dahnāʾ desert. And The descendants of Persian soldiers and military officials in Yemen and Arab mothers. This group was also known during the lifetime of the Prophet (580-632 A.D.) and remained a distinct ethnic and social group for about the first century ...
Aswaran. Sasanian silverware, showing a combat between two noble horsemen wearing scale armor, cuirass, chaps, and equipped with kontos, swords, quivers and arrows. The Aswārān (singular aswār ), also spelled Asbārān and Savaran, was a cavalry force that formed the backbone of the army of the Sasanian Empire. [ 1]
Zulfikar, a Mughal sword. Most cavalrymen mainly depended upon the short arms (kotah-yaraq) for close quarter combat. They are classified into five categories: swords and shields, maces, battle-axes, spears and daggers. Weapons used for long range attacks were the bow and arrow (Kaman & Tir), the matchlock (Banduq or Tufanq) and the pistols.