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  2. Savage (pejorative term) - Wikipedia

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    Savage is a derogatory term to describe a person or people the speaker regards as primitive and uncivilized. It has predominantly been used to refer to indigenous, tribal, and nomadic peoples. Sometimes a legal, military, and ethnic term, it has shifted in meaning since its first usages in the 16th century. [by whom?]

  3. Savage - Wikipedia

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    Alan Savage, a pen name of Christopher Nicole (1930–2017), British fiction and non-fiction writer; OMFG (musician) or Alex Savage, British-Canadian music producer Loell Bergen (born 1992) Savage family (or families) of the English and Irish gentry; Viscount Savage, an extinct title in the Peerage of England

  4. Barbarian - Wikipedia

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    The Greek term barbaros was the etymological source for many words meaning "barbarian", including English barbarian, which was first recorded in 16th century Middle English. A word barbara- (बर्बर) is also found in the Sanskrit of ancient India, with the primary meaning of "cruel" and also "stammering" (बड़बड़), implying ...

  5. Noble savage - Wikipedia

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    To the English intellectual Pope, the American Indian was an abstract being unlike his insular European self; thus, from the Western perspective of "An Essay on Man", Pope's metaphoric usage of poor means "uneducated and a heathen", but also denotes a savage who is happy with his rustic life in harmony with Nature, and who believes in deism, a ...

  6. Squaw - Wikipedia

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    It used the word squa in Mark 10:6 as a translation for "female". It used the plural form squaog in 1 Timothy 5:2 and 5:14 for "younger women". [19] A will written in the Massachusett language by a native preacher from Martha's Vineyard uses the word squa to refer to his unmarried daughters.

  7. Coat of arms of Nova Scotia - Wikipedia

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    The arms were originally granted in 1625 by King Charles I [2] as part of a Scottish settlement attempt in Nova Scotia led by Sir William Alexander. [3] These remained in use until the mid 19th century, appearing on the great seal of the province used prior to Confederation in 1867, after which all the provincial great seals were replaced with new ones delivered in 1868.

  8. Does Lionel Messi speak English? He’s learning, but at ...

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    Under British head coach Phil Neville, English was the dominant language. Spanish helped some non-Hispanic players connect with Latino teammates, but it never felt necessary . Then, on June 1 ...

  9. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night - Wikipedia

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    The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by ...