Persecution of people with albinism may occur for different reasons. One is based on the belief that certain body parts of albinistic people can transmit magical powers. Such superstition is present in some parts of the African Great Lakes region, it has been promulgated and exploited by witch doctors and others who use such body parts as ingredients in rituals, concoctions and potions with the claim that their magic will bring prosperity to the user ("muti" or medicine murder). As a result, people with albinism have been persecuted, killed and dismembered, and graves of albinos dug...

| name = Abalone | image = LivingAbalone.JPG | image_caption = Living abalone in tank showing epipodium and tentacles, anterior end to the right. | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Mollusca | classis = Gastropoda | unranked_superfamilia = clade Vetigastropoda | superfamilia = Haliotoidea | familia = Haliotidae | familia_authority = Rafinesque, 1815 | genus = Haliotis | genus_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | type_species = Haliotis asinina | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivi...

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the greatest singers in popular music and a major artist in soul and rhythm and blues. His singing style was powerfully influential among soul artists of 1960s and helped exemplify the Stax Sound. Born and raised in Georgia, United States, Redding left school at 15 to support his family, working with Little Richard's backing band, the Upsetters, and performing at talent shows for prize money. In 1958, he joined Johnny Jenk...

Saint Patrick's Day or the Feast of Saint Patrick (, "the Day of the Festival of Patrick") is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated annually on 17 March, the death date of the most commonly-recognised patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick ( AD 385–461). Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early seventeenth century and is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion (especially the Church of Ireland), the Eastern Orthodox Church and Lutheran Church. The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, Celebration...