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An automated program, generally in the context of the Internet. These programs either gather information or perform a task for you without your intervention. Services that check ...

Gauls

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland and Northern Italy, from the Iron Age through to the ...

Picts

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval Celtic people living in ancient eastern and northern Scotland. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest of ...

Celts

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Celts were an Indo-European and etho-linguistically diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages. By the first millennium AD ...

Cherokee

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, North and South Carolina and East Tennessee). Historians and ...

Iceni

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The Iceni (or Eceni) were a British tribe who inhabited an read of East Anglia corresponding roughly to present day Norfolk between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. The ...

pecking and grinding

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The process of manufacturing heavy-duty stone tools (bowls, mauls etc. ) From granular rocks by prolonged hammering with a hammerstone. Abrasive techniques might be used to finish ...

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Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut, Navy fighter pilot, NASA test pilot, aerospace engineer, and university ...