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- Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated ... Although commonly referred to in the singular, the territory consists ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- and William Leonard Langer, The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval ... policy that has rewarded veterans of the Bush War with farms previously ...37 KB (5,599 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- America. Located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, Toronto is the ... Toronto is heralded as one of the most multicultural cities in the ...43 KB (6,252 words) - 23:37, 15 January 2024
- [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ... commonly involuntarily with varying degrees of enforcement by the dominant ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 18:52, 21 May 2024
- has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- – February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... the war would lead directly to a series of taxation fights with the colonists ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- islands are included, it covers six percent of Earth's total surface ... the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Civilization and founder ... Pizarro had been appointed governor of Peru before the country was ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country ... greatly under the devastating effects of rebel incursions. To end rebel ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- The Bailiwick of Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri) is a British Crown dependency ... The defense of all these islands is the responsibility of the United ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... into the Chola Empire. Colonized by Portugal and the Dutch, the British ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- centuries that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave ... are created equal, apparent to the framers of the U.S. Constitution, has ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
