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- on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... movement, Zarqawi opposed the presence of United States and Western military ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 16,000 feet, (4,900 meters ... Songtsän Gampo united numerous tribes of the region. From 1578, leadership ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict ... Church and the largest organized body of any world religion. ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second ... A combination of deception and brilliant administration—designed ...50 KB (7,770 words) - 11:32, 20 September 2023
- Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern ... Remains of one of the oldest known hominids, dated to over one million ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France ... as a preliminary step to the conquest of territory in the East, thus ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces ... Defeat at the Battle of Hakodate broke this last holdout and left ...49 KB (7,292 words) - 13:40, 28 April 2020
- there has come about, in Parade, a kind of super-realism ('sur-réalisme ... The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...46 KB (6,796 words) - 23:55, 26 February 2023
- Romanum) is used to denote that part of the world under Roman rule ... the Roman Empire is disputed, with the dates of Julius Caesar's appointment ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... territory in 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- Kansas is a Midwestern state located in the geographic center of the ... Originally, home to large numbers of nomadic Native Americans that ...47 KB (6,939 words) - 17:34, 14 May 2024
- The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of ... From the beginning of their aeronautical work, the Wright brothers ...67 KB (10,436 words) - 14:04, 20 May 2023
- revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...95 KB (14,231 words) - 15:44, 12 June 2023
- (The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... He wrote critical studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. In some sources ... *The Survey of Western Palestine, Jerusalem, 1884, p.119: "The ...111 KB (16,461 words) - 18:39, 8 June 2024
- This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history ... and nation in East Asia. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... infantry advances. However, a combination of entrenchments, machine gun ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
