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¡Qué Sorpresa!

Jack goes on to tell her that Avery's dream career as the Financial reporter for NBC Nightly News would not be possible if they find out about the pregnancy, especially Carmen Chao (Vanessa Minnillo), an MSNBC reporter with an unknown ethnic background who is relentlessly trying to reveal Avery's secret pregnancy.

Ariyanatha Mudaliar

Ariyanatha Mudaliar was the Vellala Delavoy (General) and the able Chief Minister of the greatest of the Nayaka domains established by the Vijayanagar viceroy and later ruler of Madurai, Viswanatha Nayak (1529–64).

Baptist General Conference

From its beginning among Scandinavian immigrants, the BGC has grown to a nationwide association of autonomous churches with at least 17 ethnic groups and missions in 19 nations.

Berovka

Berovka (Macedonian: Беровка; English: Dance from Berovo) is a traditional Macedonian Oro, folk dance, from the town of Berovo in the region of Maleševo.

Bhaniyana

Bhaniyana is a census village mostly of the ethnic group, Jat, in the Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan, India.

Black Jackets

Italians, Turks, Kurds, Albanians, Somalis, Serbs and Montenegrins, Mhalmites, Bosniaks, Russians (ethnic Russians as well as Chechens, Russian Jews and German Russians), Eritreans, Greeks, Afghans and Moroccans have all significantly contributed to the membership in Germany.

Bojana Atanasovska

She also had several duets, including collaborations with Gjoko Taneski and with the Montenegrian group No Name "Moja Mala".

Chitwan Valley

Subsequently, more than 60,000 people of Chepang, Gurung, Magar, Chetri and Bahun ethnic groups, formerly resident only in the mid-hills, have settled here.

Demographics of Austria

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Austria, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Early history of Thailand

Later, Malay, Mon, and Khmer civilizations flourished in the region prior to the domination of the Thais, most notably the kingdom of Srivijaya in the south, the Dvaravati kingdom in central Thailand and the Khmer Empire based at Angkor.

Ernest van den Haag

Ernest van den Haag (September 15, 1914, The Hague – March 21, 2002, Mendham, New Jersey) was a Dutch-American sociologist, social critic, and John M. Olin Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham University.

Gonja language

The Gonja language is a Kwa language spoken by an estimated 230,000 people, almost all of whom are of the Gonja ethnic group of northern Ghana.

Gorna Bela Crkva

Gorna Bela Crkva has a mixed population of Albanians and Turks, and is one of only two villages in Resen Municipality with no ethnic Macedonian residents (the other being Kozjak).

Gumuz people

Gumuz (also spelled Gumaz and Gumz) is an ethnic group living in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region and the Qwara woreda of Ethiopia, as well as the Fazogli region of Sudan; they number about 200,000.

Halang language

Halang or Salang may also serve as an ethnonym for members of the ethnic group that speak the language.

Han Zhao

In addition to the Southern Xiongnu nomads, the state numbered 1,000,000 of other nomadic tribes, mainly Jie, Xianbei, Di, and Qiang, for a total of approximately 1,400,000 nomadic population, or 200 thousand yurts.

His Han state attracted the support of some chieftains of other non-Chinese Xianbei and Di and certain bandit forces including those of an ex-slave Shi Le of the Jie ethnicity.

History of Indians in Singapore

One of the most extensive and enduring Indian influence in Malay culture is the vast number of Indian loan words in the Malay language.

Illanun people

The Iranun are a Moro ethnic group native to Mindanao, Philippines, and the west coast of Sabah, Malaysia (in which they are found in 25 villages around the Kota Belud and Lahad Datu districts; also in Kudat and Likas, Kota Kinabalu).

Jonker Afrikaner

Missionary Hugo Hahn estimated in 1852 that the formation Jonker Afrikaner ruled over consisted of 1500 ethnic Oorlams, 2000 Hereros, and 2000 Damaras.

Kailahun

Minority ethnic groups with significant population are the Kissi, Kono, Sherbro and Vai.

Maojia dialect

) is a mixed variety of Chinese language spoken by about 200,000 people of Au Ka (Aoka 奥卡) Miao ethnicity in Chengbu Miao Autonomous County in the southwest of Hunan, and in Ziyun, Longsheng County, Guangxi.

Masam

The inhabitants of Masam are almost entirely from the Mende ethnic group, and the Mende language is by far the most widely spoken language in the town.

Miljan Milošević

Miljan Milosevic (Montenegrin: Miljan Milošević/Миљан Милошевић) (born November 8, 1985 in Podgorica, Montenegro) is a Montenegrin actor.

Min Nan

The (sub)ethnic group for which Southern Min is considered a native language is known as the Holo (Hō-ló) or Hoklo, the main ethnicity of Taiwan.

Music of Montenegro

Due to the country's turbulent history, filled with defensive wars and constant fighting for freedom, the development of culture, especially music, was a secondary interest for Montenegrins.

Music of Tanzania

The multi-instrumentalist Hukwe Zawose, a member of the Gogo ethnic group, was the 20th century's most prominent exponent of Tanzanian traditional music.

Polekhs

Polekhs are a subethnic group of Russians settled along the Desna River and Seym River and mixed with local populations of Belarusians and Lithuanians.

Polewali-Mamasa

Polewali Mandar is mainly inhibited by the Mandar ethnic group, while Mamasa contains the Mamasan people, who are related to the ethnic group Toraja.

Punya Thitimajshima

Punya Thitimajshima (9 November 1955 - 9 May 2006), a Thai professor in the department of telecommunications engineering at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, is the co-inventor with Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.

Q'ero

Q'ero (spelled Q'iru in the official 3-vowel Quechua orthography) is a Quechua community or ethnic group in the province of Paucartambo, in the Cusco Region of Peru.

Radovan Krivokapić

Radovan Krivokapić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Кривокапић) (born August 14, 1978 in Bačka Topola, Serbia then part of Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin football player who currently plays for FK Radnički 1923 in Serbian SuperLiga.

Slavonic Josephus

Steven B. Bowman states that the consideration of the Slavonic Josephus should be removed from the scholarly discussions of the first century, for it only pertains to the Macedonian elements of the 10th and 11th centuries.

Solomon Khromchenko

Solomon Markovich Khromchenko (December 4, 1907, town of Zlatopol, Russian Empire, now Novomyrhorod, Kirovohrad district, Ukraine – January 20, 2002, Moscow, Russia) is a Russian and Jewish singer, tenor.

Swatantra Tripura Committee

The Swatantra Tripura Committee organized a conference in Agartala on November 6, 1955, in which representatives from Halam, Kuki, Tripuri, Bengali Hindu and Muslim communities took part.

The Death of Smail-aga Čengić

It is based on the real events of Smail-aga Čengić, an Ottoman army general (aga) who is famous for his bravery, but disparaged for his truculence; the main motif is his death, happening after he engages in a battle against the Herzegovinian Montenegrins.

Thổ people

The Thổ ethnic group (also Keo, Mon, Cuoi, Ho, Tay Poong) inhabits the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam, mainly Nghệ An province southwest of Hanoi.

Time for a Tiger

The action centres on the vicissitudes of Victor Crabbe, a history teacher at an elite school for all the peninsula's ethnic groups – Malay, Chinese and Indian the Mansor School, in Kuala Hantu (modelled on the Malay College at Kuala Kangsar, Perak and Raffles Institution, Singapore).

Veljko Milatović

Veljko Milatović (Serbo-Croat Cyrillic: Вељко Милатовић) (born 5 December 1921 in Nikšić, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes – died 19 October 2004 in Herceg Novi, Serbia and Montenegro) was a Montenegrin Communist partisan, politician, statesman serving once as the Speaker and the other time as President.

WCSB

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.

Wu Hu

They are mostly defined as: Xiongnu (匈奴), Xianbei (鮮卑), Di (氐), Qiang (羌), and Jie (羯); although different groups of historians and historiographers have their own definitions.

Xiongnu

In 2000, Alexander Vovin reanalyzed Pulleyblank's argument and found further support for it by utilizing the most recent reconstruction of Old Chinese phonology by Starostin and Baxter and a single Chinese transcription of a sentence in the language of the Jie (a member tribe of the Xiongnu confederacy).

Željko Petrović

Željko Petrović (Жељко Петровић) (born 13 November 1965 in Nikšić, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Montenegrin footballer who previously worked as an assistant manager with FC Anzhi Makhachkala.


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Amudat District

The main ethnic group in the district are the Pokot, a group that shares a common culture and customs with the Pokot and Kalenjin of Kenya.

Ange-Félix Patassé

Patassé's mother, Véronique Goumba, belonged to the Kare ethnic group of northwestern Ubangi-Shari.

Archi people

The Archi (аршишттиб in Archi, арчинцы in Russian) are an ethnic group who live in eight villages in Southern Dagestan, Russia.

Bakosi cattle

Bakosi Cattle, also known as Bakuri or Kosi, are a Savannah Shorthorn breed of cattle in Cameroon maintained by the ethnic group Bakossi.

Bedoin

Bedouin, a predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group

Belait people

The Belait People are an ethnic group which reside mainly in the Belait district of Brunei.

Berau

Berau Malays or Berau people, an ethnic group in East Kalimantan

Birth in Sri Lanka

The Sinhalese are the predominant ethnic group (74%), followed by Sri Lankan Tamils (13%), Indian Tamils (5%) and Moors (Muslim) (7%).

Budu

Budu people, an ethnic group of about 250,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Carolinian

Carolinian people, an Austronesian ethnic group which originates from the Caroline Islands

Chambri people

Chambri (previously spelled Tchambuli) are an ethnic group in the Chambri Lakes region in the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea.

Dagur

the Daur people, also known as Dagur, Daγur, or Daguur, an ethnic group mostly living in Inner Mongolia, China;

Dar Daju Daju people

The Dar Daju Daju are an ethnic group numbering 34,000 people in the Guéra Region of southwestern Chad.

Dayak

Dayak people, an ethnic group native to the interior of Borneo island in Indonesia

Donghu

Donghu people, historical name for the Mongolic nomadic ethnic group that included the Wuhuan and Xianbei peoples

Donghu people

This explains why hu appears often preceded by a qualifier that we may take for a specific ethnic group, as with the Lin Hu and the Tung Hu.

Gallas

The Oromo people, an ethnic group in Ethiopia also known as Gallas

Gangsa

The number of gangsa in a set varies with availability, and depends on the tradition of a particular ethnic group of the Luzon Cordillera: Kalinga, Ifugao, Bontoc, etc.

Han Fu

Hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han Chinese ethnic group

Ibore

Ibore is an ancient city located in northern part of Esan an ethnic group in Edo state, Nigeria.

Immigration to Colombia

Out of all Spanish nationalities, the Andalusians were the most represented, and one particular ethnic group, the Basques were present in main cities like Bogota, though Castilians are influential in the administration of the then Spanish colony of New Granada.

ISODE

isode or iso'de is the name of the communal dwellings of the Piaroa, an indigenous American ethnic group living along the banks of the Orinoco River in Venezuela.

Karaim

Crimean Karaites, also known as Karaim and Qarays, are ethnic group derived from Turkic-speaking adherents of Karaism in Eastern Europe (former Russian Empire).

Kazaks

Kazakhs (qazaq), an ethnic group of Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and Turkey

Lao Sung

The Lao Soung aren't actually one single ethnic group but are made up of (H)mong (the main group), Yao, Akha, Phu Noi and other people who live in the Laotian mountaintops.

Maphou

The villagers belong to the Milhiem (also known as Milhem and Miriem) group of the Kuki ethnic group.

Mbama people

The Obamba are an ethnic group located largely in Gabon's Haut-Ogooué Province.

Mbola

Mbole people, an ethnic group living in the Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Minni Minnawi

Minnawi belongs to the Zaghawa ethnic group, the Ila Digen (or Awlad Digayn) clan of the non-Arab, Saharan Zaghawa people.

Moldova–Romania relations

The Communist government (2001–2009), a vocal advocate of a distinct Moldovan ethnic group, deemed multiple citizenship a threat to Moldovan statehood.

Music of Sierra Leone

The largest ethnic group in Sierra Leone (2008) is that of the Mel-speaking Temne people, 35% of the population.

Mwinilunga

The Chilunda-speaking Kanongesha-Lunda people are the largest ethnic group, and are related to the Chibemba-speaking Kazembe-Lunda of Luapula Province.

Nyah Kur

Nyah Kur people, an indigenous ethnic group in Thailand related to the Mon

Philippine languages

Tabuy: an ethnic group living on Lapu-Lapu who reported Bikol Legaspi as their only native language (Lobel 2013:91)

Pur Chaman District

Pur Chaman was the center of operations for the Naqshbandi Sufi leader (pir) of the Aimaq ethnic group until the late 1970s, when the last pir, Baha'uddin Jan, was killed under the Taraki government.

Raute people

The closest well-documented language to Raute known at the present time is Chepang, spoken by an ethnic group of west-central Nepal who also have been hunter-gatherers until the current generation.

Sahr Randolf Fillie-Faboe

Fillie-Faboe is one of the most respected politician among the Kono people, the ethnic group he belongs to.

Scotch-Irish

The Ulster Scots people, an ethnic group in Ulster, Ireland who trace their roots to settlers from Scotland and northern England

Sebei people

Their territory borders the Republic of Kenya which is a home to more than five million Kalenjin, a large ethnic group to which the Sebei belongs.

Serbi

Serboi, an historical Sarmatian / Alanian ethnic group in the Caucasus.

Sudeten German Party

At a convention in Carlsbad on April 24, the majority of the party advocated the demand for the recognition of the Sudeten Germans as an autonomous ethnic group, the separation of a self-governing German settlement area, and the freedom to decide for an affiliation with the German nationhood, which implied the Anschluss to Nazi Germany.

Sunil Kumar Ahuja

His most recent work, first published in the 2005 issue of Science, involves the ethnic group-specific role of CCR5 haplotype and CCL3L1 gene copy number on the progression of HIV to AIDS.

Urapmin people

The Urapmin people are an ethnic group numbering about 375 people in the Telefomin District of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.

Velours du Kasaï

Traditionally, the weaving is done by men of the Shoowa from the Kuba ethnic group, while the embroidery is reserved to women.

Vidiri

Vidiri people, ethnic group in the Central African Republic and Sudan

Wolof

Wolof people, an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania

Wuji

Wuji (people) (勿吉人), pronounced in ancient times as "Moji or "Merjie", an ancient ethnic group in Manchuria

Yakoma

Yakoma people, an ethnic group mainly living in the Central African Republic