| Andaman Islands Andaman Islands (Hindi:archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory. The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andaman district (the Nicobar district was separated and established as a new district in 1974). The population of the Andamans was 314,084 in 2001. Andaman_Islands
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| Black people The term black people usually refers to a racial group of humans with a dark brown skin color, but it has also been used to categorise a number of diverse populations into one common group. Some definitions of the term include only people of relatively recent Sub Saharan African descent (see African diaspora). Black_people
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| Lake Toba Lake_Toba
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| Urdu Urdu (, , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language Urdu
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| Kiss kiss is the touching of one person's lips to another place, which is used as an expression of affection, respect, greeting, farewell, good luck, romantic affection or sexual desire. The word comes from Old English cyssan "to kiss", in turn from coss "a kiss". Kiss
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| Toba catastrophe theory Toba catastrophe theory, 70,000 to 75,000 years ago a supervolcanic event at Lake Toba, on Sumatra, reduced the world's human population to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs, creating a bottleneck in human evolution. The theory was proposed in 1998 by Stanley H. Ambrose of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Toba_catastrophe_theory
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| Toba catastrophe theory Talk:Toba_catastrophe_theory
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| Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas_Chandra_Bose
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| Australoid race Australoid race is a broad racial classification. The concept originated with a typological method of racial classification. They were described as having dark skin with wavy hair, in the case of Aboriginal Australians, or hair ranging from straight to kinky in the case of Melanesian and Negrito groups. Australoid_race
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| Pre-Siberian American Aborigines The name American Aborigines has been proposed by some archaeologists and anthropologists for hypothetical peoples who lived in the Americas prior to the arrival of the ancestors of the Paleo-Indians.This theory is mainly supported by a number of archaeological finds, the dates and anatomical features of which do not fit into the more established Siberian migration or "Clovis First" theories. Pre-Siberian_American_Aborigines
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| Pygmies Pygmy is a term used for various ethnic groups worldwide whose average height is unusually low; anthropologists define as pygmy any group whose adult males grow to less than 150Aka, Efé and Mbuti of central Africa. There are also pygmies in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Brazil and Bolivia. Pygmies
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| Negrito The term Negrito refers to several ethnic groups in isolated parts of Southeast Asia. Their current populations include the Aeta, Agta, Ayta, Ati, Dumagat and at least 25 other tribes of the Philippines, the Semang of the Malay peninsula, the Mani of Thailand and 12 Andamanese tribes of the Andaman Islands of the Indian Ocean. Negrito
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| Vanara Vanara () popularly refers to the race of ape-like humanoids in the Hindu epic Ramayana who were brave and inquisitive by nature. The term Vanara can be described as forest-dweller(vane carati iti vanara). The epic Mahabharata describe them as a tribe dwelling in the midst of forest, and mentions them being encountered by Sahadeva, a Pandava general who led a military campaign to south India. They had some human speech ability but are believed now to be extinct. Vanara
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| Semang The Semang are a Negrito ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula. Lowland Semang tribes are also known as Sakai. They are probably the indigenous peoples of this area, and have been recorded to have lived here since before the 200s. They are ethnologically described as nomadic hunter-gatherers. Semang
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| Negrito Talk:Negrito
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| Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo Richard_Bourke,_6th_Earl_of_Mayo
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| I Ching (monk) I_Ching_(monk)
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| Andamanese languages The Andamanese languages form a proposed language family spoken by the Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands, a union territory of India. There are two clusters of Andamanese languages, Great Andamanese and Ongan, plus Sentinelese, which is unknown and therefore unclassifiable. Andamanese_languages
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| Deluge myth deluge myth or flood myth is a mythological story of a great flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution. It is a widespread theme among many cultures, though it is perhaps best known in modern times through the biblical story of Noah's Ark, the Hindu Puranic story of Manu, through Deucalion in Greek mythology or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Deluge_myth
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| Homo floresiensis Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man"; nicknamed Hobbit) is a possible species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body and brain and for its survival until relatively recent times. It was named after the Indonesian island of Flores on which the remains were found. Homo_floresiensis
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