Yombe people | Yombe-sculpture, 19th century

Clockwise from upper left: a self-portrait from Vincent van Gogh, an African Chokwe people | Chokwe statue, detail from the The Birth of Venus ( Botticelli ) | Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli and a Japanese Shisa | Shisa lion

image: Goelbench06390140. JPG | The unique shape of the serpentine bench enables the people sitting on it to converse privately, although the square is large.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

Vietnamese people | Vietnamese babies, birth defect | deformed and stillbirth | stillborn after prenatal 2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin | dioxin exposure from Agent Orange

Assyrian people | Assyrian warriors armed with slings from the palace of Sennacherib, 7th century BCE

Dayak people | Dayaks, the natives of Borneo in their traditional war dress.

Xhosa people | Xhosa brickmaker at kiln near Ngcobo in the former Transkei in 2007.

File: Lovers 9000BC british museum. jpg | Room 2-Ain Sakhri lovers, from the cave of Ain Sakhri, near Bethlehem, 11, 000 years old ( oldest known representation of two people engaged in sexual intercourse )

Constructed under the direction of the Khmer people | Khmer king Suryavarman II, it was to serve as the monarch's personal mausoleum and as a temple to the Hindu god Vishnu.

Giovanni Battista Bugatti, executioner of the Papal States between 1796 and 1865, list of people executed by the Holy See | carried out 516 executions ( Bugatti pictured offering snuff to a condemned prisoner ).

Image: Warren Buffett KU Visit. jpg | Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the world's wealthiest people, Columbia Business School

Free people of color | Free woman of color with quadroon daughter ; late 18th century collage painting, New Orleans.

Romani people by country | Romani people have been variously described as the low-caste or untouchable people of Europe.

In the kiva of both Ancient Pueblo Peoples | ancient and present-day Pueblo people s, the sipapu is a small round hole in the floor that represents the portal through which the ancestors Hopi mythology # Four Worlds | first emerged ( the larger hole is a fire pit, here in a ruin from the Mesa Verde National Park )

Cruisers can see traditional life in remote areas of the world ; here, a Kuna ( people ) | Kuna paddles a dugout canoe in the San Blas Islands.

File: Dead Sea mud man by David Shankbone. jpg | Many people believe that the mud of the Dead Sea has special healing and cosmetic uses.

The colony attracted a large number of artists, anarchists and other famous people, including Hermann Hesse, Hans Habe, Carl Jung, Erich Maria Remarque, Hugo Ball, Else Lasker-Schüler, Stefan George, Isadora Duncan, Paul Klee, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Wigman, Gyula Háy, Max Picard, Ernst Toller, Henri van de Velde, Rudolf Laban, Frieda and Else von Richthofen, Otto Gross, Erich Mühsam, Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, and Gustav Stresemann.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it.

This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

on the fatal battlefield of Poltava, to quote from the novel, `` the wreath he twined for himself slipped down upon his people ''.

Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier.

We did our job, Mr. Stavropoulos and Mr. De Seynes and myself, taking evidence from a number of people ''.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

It ran north, away from the town and the people, through woods and past the nothingness of a graveyard.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

Whatever land you can see here, from the North tip end of Elliott Key looking southward, belongs to someone -- people who have title to the land.

But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.

Congressmen returning from recess say the people admire President Kennedy so much, they're even willing to heed his call to sacrifice -- and give up his program.

The people of Katanga had fought for, and obtained, their freedom from the Communist yoke of Antoine Gizenga, and his cohorts.

But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.

As far as the color problem is concerned, there is but one great difference between the Southern white and the Northerner: the Southerner remembers, historically and in his own psyche, a kind of Eden in which he loved black people and they loved him.

The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia.

* 2011 – At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.

These people may have assisted the Scythians when King Darius the Great led a Persian invasion into what is now Southern Russia to punish the Scythians for their raids into the Achaemenid Empire.

At a time when the Southern United States was segregated racially, Bill's grandparents sold goods on credit to people of all races.

For example, although the words wee and little are interchangeable in some contexts, wee ( as an adjective ) is almost exclusively written by some people from some parts of northern Britain ( and especially Scotland ) or from Northern Ireland, whereas in Southern England and Wales, little is used predominantly.

The only people who identify themselves as Norteños are Mexicans from Northern Mexico, compared to Sureño or Mexicans from Southern Mexico.

The two stars of Alpha and Beta Centauri are often referred to as the " Southern Pointers " or just " The Pointers ", allowing people to easily find the asterism of the Southern Cross or the constellation of Crux.

The belief that women are prohibited from playing is widespread among non-Aboriginal people and is also common among Aboriginal communities in Southern Australia ; some ethnomusicologists believe that the dissemination of the Taboo belief and other misconceptions is a result of commercial agendas and marketing.

* In some regions, such as the Southern United States, " Doctor " is traditionally added to the first name of people holding doctorates, where it is used in either direct or indirect familiar address.

The Normans, a Viking people who settled in Northern France and founded the Duchy of Normandy would have a significant impact on many parts of Europe, from the Norman conquest of England to Southern Italy and Sicily.

The history of the Mediterranean region is the history of the interaction of the cultures and people of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea — the central superhighway of transport, trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples — encompassing three continents: Western Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe.

Indeed " he people of Southern Europe, as well as South-East Asia, will be fighting their way into countries such as Canada, Australia and Britain ".

It is important to remember Southern Rhodesia was a self-governing Dominion and the government could effectively command that the people be removed, similar to " compulsory purchase " in Britain, whereas Northern Rhodesia was a colony, and governed by consent after consultation with the tribal chiefs.

Both the Southern Rhodesian and the Northern Rhodesian Governments provided aid to the displaced people, and built them new permanent villages.

With about 800 speakers in Tanzania, Hadza appears to be unrelated to any other language ; genetically, the Hadza people are unrelated to the Khoisan peoples of Southern Africa, and their closest relatives may be among the Pygmies of Central Africa.

The first recorded inhabitants of the area are some 50, 000 people seeking refuge in Macau from invading Mongols in 1277, during the Southern Song Dynasty.

* 1997 – A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao ' an International Airport, killing 35 people.

* 1992 – A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People's Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on board.

Proponents of the Sami interpretations of these finds assume a mixed population of Norse and Sami people in the mountainous areas of Southern Norway in the Middle Ages.

** Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, includes Seneca people in Southern Ontario

The people of Southern Cameroons ' claim to self-determination arises out of their allegations that the Republic of Cameroun forcefully annexed their territory by the 1961 take over of the territory and the 1972 dissolution of the federation in favor of a Unitary Republic of Cameroon.