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  • The Territory of Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia ... It maintains about 1,500 residents who live in a number of "settlement ...
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  • 6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore (now ... Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Jamaica. Little ...
    33 KB (5,257 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
  • or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ... or The Fables of Bidpai/Pilpai (in various European languages) ...
    24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
  • or oscillate. The most common applications of fans are for creature comfort ... fan), winnowing (such as separating chaff of cereal grains), removing dust ...
    28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
  • The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...
    19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
  • (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal, located at ... at an average elevation of 1,247 m (4,100 feet). The town serves as ...
    23 KB (3,374 words) - 17:14, 14 May 2024
  • 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
  • Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...
    28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
  • Asia in the North and West to Myanmar and China Proper in the East. Recent ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...
    35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
  • communications, and economic center of Burundi. Bujumbura is the capital ... situated on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, is Burundi ...
    18 KB (2,590 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
  • country in Central Africa, roughly the size of France. It is bordered by Chad ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...
    29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
  • who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January ... action at the global level. How many of Ban's strong declarations ...
    31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
  • quot;The naughty children"; German Caricature of 1849.]] has been largely rejected in favor of other disciplinary methods ...
    28 KB (4,287 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
  • and is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story." ... established in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan in memory of Akutagawa, is Japan’s most ...
    12 KB (1,885 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
  • The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... and barren soil located on the western flank of the Sahara Desert. Mauritania ...
    28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
  • The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...
    44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
  • New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...
    22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
  • , (pronounced Tsoo Shee) popularly known in China as the West Dowager Empress ... During the last decades of the Qing Dynasty, the government was split ...
    56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
  • curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating ... Tofu originated in ancient China, but little else is known about the ...
    37 KB (5,817 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
  • Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is one of ... After a protracted war for independence, then decades of socialist ...
    25 KB (3,595 words) - 03:07, 12 July 2023

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