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Handshake

A handshake is a globally widespread, brief greeting or parting tradition in which two people grasp one of each other's hands, and in most cases, it is accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of the grasped hands. Customs surrounding handshakes are specific to cultures. Different cultures may be more or less likely to shake hands, or there may be…

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History

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Germ spreading

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Handshake

Nodes115
Edges114
Triples181
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017391
Components1

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Handshake

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related to By geographic location · 51
Handshake → Africa, An, Arabic-speaking Middle East, Austrians, Belgium, Bowing, Canada, Consequently, Danish, Handshakes, Hello, If, In, In Anglophone, In Armenia, In China, In Denmark, In Ethiopia, In India, In Indonesia
related to World records · 40
Handshake → Aiea, Aloha Stadium, Atlantic City, August, California, Claremont, Cory Jens, George Posner, Guinness Book, Guinness World Record, Guinness World Records, Hawaii, In, Jack Tsonis, January, Joe Ackerman, John-Clark Levin, July, Kevin Whittaker, Kirk Williamson
related to history · 37
Handshake → Acropolis Museum, AD, Another, Antikensammlung Berlin, Antiochus, Archaeological, Archaic Greek, Arsameia, Assyrian, Athena, AthensHandshake, Babylonian, BC, BCEHera, Berlin's Pergamon Museum, Commagene, Concordia, Depictions, Etruscan, Euandria
related to Germ spreading · 12
Handshake → Calgary, Certain, During, Following, H1N1, Handshakes, Mark Sklansky, Namaste, Other, Tom Feasby, UCLA, University
related to Other · 12
Handshake → Brazilian, In, International Fencing Federation, It, Olga Kharlan, Only, Related, The, This, Typically, Unlike, Whilst
related to Chemosignaling · 6
Handshake → Greenland, Israel's Weizmann Institute, It, Mongolia, They, Tuvalu
related to External links · 6
Handshake → Media, Videacesky, Wikimedia Commons The, WikiquoteGesta, Wiktionary Quotations, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Modern customs · 5
Handshake → If, In, Its, The, There
is a · 2
Handshake → ancient Assyrian relief of the 9th century BC depicting the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III clasping the hand of the Babylonian king Marduk-zakir-shumi I to seal an alliance, globally widespread
see also · 2
Handshake → Dap, ManHolding

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hands hand handshakes greeting shaking people may two customs world handshaking record preferred considered fist shake also bc right left

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Handshakeis aglobally widespread0.90text
Handshakeis aancient Assyrian relief of the 9th century BC depicting the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III clasping the hand of the Babylonian king Marduk-zakir-shumi I to seal an alliance0.90text
Turkey or the Arabic-speaking Middle Eastinstance ofbut not among Palestinians or Israeli Arabs.In some countries0.80text
handshakes are not as firm as in the Westinstance ofbut not among Palestinians or Israeli Arabs.In some countries0.80text
scabies are known to spread most frequently through direct skin-to-skin contactinstance ofCertain diseases0.80text
fist bumpinginstance ofbut rather suggested other options0.80text
smilinginstance ofbut rather suggested other options0.80text
bowinginstance ofbut rather suggested other options0.80text
wavinginstance ofbut rather suggested other options0.80text
and non-contact Namaste gesturesinstance ofbut rather suggested other options0.80text
Handshakerelated to By geographic locationIn Anglophone0.60section
Handshakerelated to By geographic locationIn0.60section

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