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Artist's interpretation of Siti Wan Kembang. Che Siti Wan Kembang (Jawi: چئ سيتي وان كمبڠ ) was a legendary queen who reigned over a region on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, now located within the Malaysian state of Kelantan.
A flip book, flipbook, [1] flicker book, or kineograph is a booklet with a series of images that very gradually change from one page to the next, so that when the pages are viewed in quick succession, the images appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Often, flip books are illustrated books for children, but may also be ...
A 1942 copy of La Ventana, the yearbook of Texas Technological College, later renamed Texas Tech University. A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a type of a book published annually.
The Jakarta History Museum (Indonesian: Museum Sejarah Jakarta), also known as Fatahillah Museum or Batavia Museum, is located in the Old Town (known as Kota Tua) of Jakarta, Indonesia. The building was built in 1710 as the Stadhuis ( city hall ) of Batavia .
W. G. Shellabear, as he was generally known, was born at Holkham Hall on 7 August 1862 in Norfolk, England, where his father was estate manager. [4] He first went to Malaya as a British soldier, then returned as a Methodist missionary, where he worked from 1891 to 1948. "He introduced and guided changes in attitudes towards Malays and Islam ...
As an academic discipline, history is the study of the past. [1] It conceptualizes and describes what happened by collecting and analysing evidence to construct narratives . These narratives cover not only how events unfolded but also why they happened and in which contexts, providing an explanation of relevant background conditions and causal ...
Bunyip (1935), by Gerald Markham Lewis, from the National Library of Australia digital collections, demonstrates the variety in descriptions of the legendary creature.. The bunyip has been described as amphibious, almost entirely aquatic (there are no reports of the creature being sighted on land), [11] [a] inhabiting lakes, rivers, [12] swamps, lagoons, billabongs, [6] creeks, waterholes, [13 ...
The Kitábu'l-Asmáʼ [1] (Arabic: کتاب الأسماء; Book of Divine Names), also known as the Chahár Shaʻn (Persian: چهار شأن; The [Book of the] Four Grades) [2] is a book written by the Báb, the founder of Bábi religion, in Arabic [3] during his imprisonment in Máh-Kú and Chihriq in Iran (1847-1850).