Handshake facts for kids
A handshake is when two people hold hands for a few seconds and move them up and down before letting go. It is often used like a greeting (like saying "hello" or "goodbye" when people meet) or to say that two people have agreed on something.
Some secret societies have secret handshakes to show they are part of the group.
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Leaders welcome a boy into Scouting, March 2010, Mexico City, Mexico. Note the left-handed handshake.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. President Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on 13 September 1993
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Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, shaking hands with Heracles 70–38 BC, Arsameia.
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