Search results for "List of countries" - New World Encyclopedia
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- A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a ... Vocabulary control includes policies, procedures, and methodologies ...17 KB (2,446 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- Union and the United States and a thawing of the Cold War that occurring ... in tensions. Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- ) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed ... Essentially, the samizdat copies of texts, such as Mikhail Bulgakov ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- as a Japanese hero and a founding father of the modern age. He was a visionary ... known as "Tosa," on the island of Shikoku, Japan. He was the ...18 KB (2,973 words) - 00:57, 23 December 2022
- term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- Central America is the region of North America located between the ... ==Countries of the region== The area considered Central America comprises ...32 KB (4,189 words) - 17:46, 11 May 2023
- by habit and repute is, historically, a form of interpersonal status in which ... However, common-law marriage is becoming a thing of the past. It is ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- a database that contains descriptive records of books, periodical articles ... researchers to find descriptive records of relevant information sources ...27 KB (3,849 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- Cataratas del Iguazú) is a majestic area of cataracts on the Iguazu River ... The area consists of a network of 275 waterfalls spanning an area ...10 KB (1,592 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- ) was a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern ... refers to the middle and lower levels of the bureaucracy. The nomenklatura ...21 KB (2,829 words) - 18:54, 31 May 2023
- artist. He is well known for a number of witty and amusing images. Surrealism ... Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium, in 1898, the eldest son of ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 04:07, 8 December 2022
- designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Nordic ... States following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...25 KB (3,639 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- [[image:Central Scientific Co catalog cover.png|thumb|200 px|Catalog ... The concept is several centuries old, but it became a staple of the ...17 KB (2,545 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
- to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. ... space agencies. However, with the launch of the privately funded SpaceShipOne ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- Colugo is the common name for any of the arboreal gliding mammals ... not true lemurs. They are the most capable of all gliding mammals, using ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
