• Lauriston Sharp, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University, studied the indigenous culture of four continents?
• German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis?

Facts on topics related to Culture

Human rights

• 1,200 journalists, human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo's counter-insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya"?
• Filipino human rights activist Etta Rosales was instrumental in bargaining a compromise deal between the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and some of its victims?
• human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan?
• China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human rights violations?
• Uruguayan Senator Rafael Michelini, whose father Zelmar was assassinated, is a politician active in human rights issues?
• Ava Helen Pauling, an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom?
• leading Canadian human rights activist Kalmen Kaplansky died in 1997 on International Human Rights Day?
• the 1980 novel One Day of Life was banned in El Salvador for its portrayal of human rights violations by the government's paramilitary organization, Organización Democrática Nacionalista?
• the U.S. Senate rejected Ernest W. Lefever for a State Department human rights post, a nomination opposed by his two brothers who claimed he supported views that "blacks were genetically inferior"?
• the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?

Family

• former U.S. judge Samuel Zoll once ordered a family to eat dinners together for 30 days, sending a parole officer for verification?

Freedom of religion

• although the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 is recognized as an important milestone in the development of religious freedom, it still allowed the execution of non-Christians?

Property

• while serving as Governor of New Hampshire from 1842 to 1844, Henry Hubbard argued for reduced taxes for female property owners?

Liberty

• in 1725, Louis Congo received freedom from slavery in exchange for becoming the public executioner of Louisiana?

Popular culture

• Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen, founder of the company of the same name, also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?
• Stegosaurus, one of the most distinctive dinosaurs, has been widely depicted in popular culture?

Cultural studies

• The Nationwide Project was a media audience research project at the University of Birmingham that influenced media and cultural studies?