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- Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
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- was still isolated from the rest of the world, Kato studied rangaku (Western ... was still isolated from the rest of the world, rangaku (Western studies ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- Xylophone can refer to western style concert xylophones or to one ... in in China. Models were also developed in western and eastern Africa. ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- scale tones.[http://www.uwgb.edu/ogradyt/world/japan.htm Cross-Cultural ... ==Influence on western music== Beginning in the twentieth century, ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- concept is usually contrasted with Western Christianity that developed ... East, with a growing presence in the western world. Eastern Orthodox Christians ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- The Kara-Khitan Khanate, or Western Liao (Mongolian Хар Хятад; ... generally refer to the empire as the Western Liao Dynasty, emphasizing ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- akin to that found in the writing of Western theologians, especially ... Today, however, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- helps capture their meals. The diet of the western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus ... in the Papua province of Indonesia, in the western part of the island (Western ...11 KB (1,540 words) - 02:46, 1 October 2020
- architecture, and language in the Western world, and its history continues ... extended to the entire civilized western world. However, Athenian democracy ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- The Western European Union (WEU) is a partially dormant European defense ... As a defense alliance, the Western Union rejects aggression as a way ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- which pre-dates Tibetan Buddhism in western Tibet, identifies Shambhala ... Tibetan Buddhism prophesizes that when the world declines into war and greed ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 09:52, 6 October 2022
- of venomous snakes, and include some of the world's most deadly snakes ... (black mamba), and Dendroaspis viridis (western green mamba). The black ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- Country/western dance or Country-western dance, also called Country ... Like America itself, country/western dancing is a melting pot of many ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- colloquially known as cedars, such as the Western redcedar, Thuja plicata ... Thuja plicata, the giant arborvitae or Western redcedar (or western ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- "true cedars" are any of the Old World evergreen trees comprising ... Thuja ("whitecedar," "western redcedar"), Cryptomeria ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- of the most popular American country and western singers of his era. His ... performer. Another important influence was western singer Gene Autry. ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- was designed by Josiah Conder, a prominent Western architect working in Japan. unequal treaties forced upon Japan by Western powers. Despite the Western ...14 KB (2,063 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- pioneers of the revival of learning in Western Europe. As a student he ... essentially reintroducing Plato to the Western world, and shaking the exclusive ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 06:39, 18 April 2024
- in Russia came in response to that of Western Europe and was led by those ... national Enlightenment differed from its Western European counterpart in ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- In the ancient Graeco-Roman world, "Mystery religions," ... The mystery religions are possibly one of the origins of Western mystery ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- record today. He starred in scores of western films, and also played the ... sing in each film. He had become the top Western star at the box-office by ...12 KB (1,776 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
