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  2. Sámi people - Wikipedia

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    As of around 2014, the current consensus among specialists was that the word Sámi was borrowed from the Proto-Baltic word *žēmē, meaning 'land' (cognate with Slavic zemlja (земля), of the same meaning). [12] [13] [14] The word Sámi has at least one cognate word in Finnish: Proto-Baltic *žēmē was also borrowed into Proto-Finnic, as ...

  3. Youn Yuh-jung - Wikipedia

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    Youn Yuh-jung was born on June 19, 1947, in Kaesong, southern Korea.She is the eldest daughter of a family with three daughters. Her father died when she was young. The family fled the city during the first and fourth retreat of the Korean War.

  4. Women artists - Wikipedia

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    The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...

  5. When a Woman Breaks Her Jewel Box - Wikipedia

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    Hong Se-mi – Younghee the secretary at the orphanage [5] Nam Kung Won – Hyong-sik, the father of Bo-yeong; Sa Mi-ja – Ye-seon, Bo-yeong's aunt; Yoon Yang-ha – Hyosup, the fiancee of Bo-yeong; Chai Jung-hoon – Kyong-il, detective who is formerly an orphan; Lee Hoon - Kwak Chang su, formerly an orphan; Park Am - Doctor, who is a friend ...

  6. Filipino shamans - Wikipedia

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    Itneg potters, the person on the right is a bayok in female attire (c. 1922) [1] In most Philippine ethnic groups, shamans were predominantly female due to the role of the shaman (especially the medium) being an intrinsically feminine one. [45]

  7. Kunoichi - Wikipedia

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    "一" is a kanji character pronounced "ichi" (and meaning "one"). The word "kunoichi" was not used frequently in the Edo period . This is probably because in this era, the kanji letter "女" was not written in regular script but usually in cursive script , and the cursive script of "女" cannot be decomposed into "く", "ノ", and "一".

  8. Four occupations - Wikipedia

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    A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...

  9. Mi-ja - Wikipedia

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    Mi-ja is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 33 hanja with the reading "mi" and 28 hanja with the reading "ja" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. [1] Typically, "ja" is written with the hanja meaning "child" .