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Vietnamese students wearing Áo dài, 2013 A woman wearing white Áo dài, May 2021. Áo dài (English: / ˈ aʊ ˈ d aɪ, ˈ ɔː ˈ d aɪ, ˈ aʊ ˈ z aɪ /; Vietnamese: [ʔaːw˧˦ zaːj˨˩] (), [ʔaːw˦˥ jaːj˨˩] ()) [1] [2] is a modernized Vietnamese national garment consisting of a long split tunic worn over silk trousers.
In Navajo culture, a skin-walker ( Navajo: yee naaldlooshii) is a type of harmful witch who has the ability to turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal. The term is never used for healers. The yee naaldlooshii, translating to "by means of it, it goes on all fours," is one of several types of skin-walkers within Navajo beliefs.
Micrograph of the epidermis, with melanin labeled at left. Melanin ( / ˈmɛlənɪn / ⓘ; from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas) 'black, dark') is a family of biomolecules organized as oligomers or polymers, which among other functions provide the pigments of many organisms. [1] Melanin pigments are produced in a specialized group of cells ...
Asian. 6.0%. Native American or Alaska Native. 2.9%. Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. 0.2%. The first United States census in 1790 classed residents as free White people (divided by age and sex), all other free persons (reported by sex and color), and enslaved people.
Kowloon Walled City ( Chinese: 九龍寨城) was an extremely densely populated and largely ungoverned enclave of Hong Kong within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Built as an Imperial Chinese military fort, the walled city became a de jure enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom in 1898.
Magpie. Magpies are birds of various species of the family Corvidae. Like other members of their family, they are widely considered to be intelligent creatures. The Eurasian magpie, for instance, is thought to rank among the world's most intelligent creatures, [1] [2] and is one of the few nonmammalian species able to recognize itself in a ...
Scotland(Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a countrythat is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britainand more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebridesand the Northern Isles.
Tao Framework. For 3D computer graphics, the Tao Framework is a C# library giving .NET and Mono developers access to popular graphics and gaming libraries like OpenGL and SDL. It was originally developed by the C# OpenGL programmer Randy Ridge, and since its start many developers have contributed to the project.