The Grettis Saga is one of the finest Icelandic family sagas, which details the life of Grettis Asmundarson, a warrior who became an outlaw. It was written in the 13th and early 14th century. Well-born, brave but trouble-prone Grettis, at 14, kills a man in a quarrel and is outlawed. He spends these years in Norway performing many brave deeds. …

The Great Manmade River (better known as GMR) is a network of pipes that supplies water from the Sahara desert to Libya from a fossil aquifer. This aquifer is known as Nublon Sandstone Aquifer System. GMR is considered to be the largest underground network of pipes in the world. It has more than 1,300 wells supplying more than 7,100,000 cubic …

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The Governor’s Ball at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood is its concluding event, and a celebration for the around 1,500 invitees, winners, nominees and other guests. The 2009 Governor’s Ball for the Oscar ceremony was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center. The first Governor’s Ball was held in 1958 following the 30th Academy Awards. …

The golliwog act is a flexible contortion of the body in a dance form to create an impression that the contortionist is a doll. The name is taken from a literary character created by Florence Kate in her novel ‘The Adventures of two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwog’.

An almost universal principle of ethics, the Golden Rule, is summarised by the phrase ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. Variations in this theme recur across most religions and ethical philosophies. Deep Ecology also recognises the Golden Rule with relation to ecosystems on Earth.