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- Carnegie earned the nickname Patron Saint of Libraries. The first of Carnegie's public libraries opened in his hometown ...16 KB (2,208 words) - 00:36, 29 November 2023
- eruption that occurred on the Greek island of Thera (known today as Santorini ... in the Sea, the Santorini Volcano: Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis ...26 KB (3,980 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- Yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse grouping of single-celled fungi ... for commercial baking products that consist of yeast or dried yeast cells ...24 KB (3,421 words) - 09:54, 23 May 2023
- , or 12 players (women's field), each of whom uses a netted stick (the ... In its current form, men's lacrosse is played on a field of grass ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 22:41, 30 April 2023
- Oswald (ca. 604–August 5, 642 C.E.)While Bede gives the year of ... Oswald's assessment in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of ...27 KB (4,245 words) - 13:29, 5 September 2022
- Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; June 23, 1894 – ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward VIII held the titles of ...39 KB (6,106 words) - 02:44, 17 January 2023
- nothing could be colder. The unit increment of the Kelvin scale is the kelvin ... It can be shown from the laws of thermodynamics that absolute zero ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- world heavyweight champion and the last of the great bare-knuckle fighters ... match considered a turning point in boxing history. It was the final world ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 17:28, 1 May 2024
- a crime is still an act in violation of a public law for which a punishment ... maintain the distinction, notably those of the United States. Those jurisdictions ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 16:11, 5 April 2017
- the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... with Russia and Spain. By Article III of the Anglo-American Convention ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United Kingdom of Great ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (March 11 ... Wilson is generally recognized as a man of profound intellect but ...47 KB (7,170 words) - 20:22, 29 January 2022
- an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design of the Guillotine. This example ... is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- who was saddened by the oppressive state of the world in which he lived ... Beckett is a unique figure in the history of Western literature. Born ...30 KB (4,732 words) - 01:16, 21 April 2023
- [[Image:Licorne Edimbourg Scotland.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Arms of Scotland ... Examples of legendary creatures can be found in medieval bestiaries ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 ... resort and wishes to see the "scourge of war" banished for all ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
