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- ) (February 15, 1923 - June 18, 2011) was a human rights activist ... She has been credited as one of the main inspirations in encouraging ...13 KB (1,796 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme ... In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of ...24 KB (3,354 words) - 16:40, 29 April 2023
- for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... In reality the situation was much more nuanced and complicated. Christian ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte ... landmark Nelson's Column, which stands in Trafalgar Square. Nelson's ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- ) was the series of events on Sunday, 22 January|1905|9 January in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators, led by Father ...25 KB (3,757 words) - 18:34, 25 April 2022
- an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...26 KB (3,787 words) - 03:37, 27 July 2023
- Czech photographer, dubbed the "Poet of Prague." Born when Bohemia was a kingdom in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2022
- – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was ... At the close of his life, Stevenson was respected by people of all ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ... cities were fortified. Ancient cities in the Middle East show archaeological ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło He is known under a number ... (b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ...51 KB (7,629 words) - 23:06, 1 April 2023
- is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany ... more than 2000 years. Initially a small city of moneylenders and textile merchants ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:40, 28 March 2024
- 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
- Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast ... The islands were explored by Russians in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- prestigious Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in journalism. Along with William ... Pulitzer was born on April 18, 1847 in Makó, in present-day Hungary ...20 KB (2,932 words) - 04:55, 7 May 2024
- politician. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid-twentieth ... to cite Karl Marx and supported recognition of China under Mao Zedong. On ...28 KB (4,168 words) - 18:03, 27 July 2023
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... Located in the open ocean between the South American and African continents ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
