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- and political theory. He is also seen as a founder of modern biblical ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born May 6, 1953) is ... have resigned had there been any truth to a BBC report that his government ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- beauty, which attracts up to 150,000 tourists a year. Tourism accounts for ... A socialist government seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977 and ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- and newly urbanized masses uprooted from their traditional village ... eras of Christianity. His near death as a child in a parish fire, leadership ...47 KB (7,298 words) - 14:06, 7 May 2024
- Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810 ... and political status quo in her works. As a high church Anglican, she was ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, and leader of ... President Ronald Reagan, with whom she shared a similar domestic policy philosophy ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- of the border. If the world is to become a place of peace and plenty for ... restoration of English power over Ireland, a process of settling Protestants ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- Eskimos or Esquimaux is a term referring to aboriginal people who ... Although spread over a vast geographical area, there are many commonalities ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- – March 9, 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat ... against Lenin's Bolsheviks. Exiled from Russia in 1908, Kollontai ...55 KB (7,707 words) - 20:09, 30 July 2023
- of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of roughly 5.6 million ... Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the ... Reed was not only a witness to the revolution, but an enthusiastic ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- Howe attempted to interdict the passage of a vitally important French grain ... admirals, faced with disobedience from their captains and ill-discipline ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- widespread and she was later celebrated as a martyr in English Protestant ... Due to a lack of parish records from the period, historians do not ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- October 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the ... which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed ...96 KB (14,156 words) - 07:08, 15 April 2024
- Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was a British ... the Enderby quartet of comic novels about a reclusive poet and his muse; ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist ... novellas Musk-Ox (May 1863) and The Life of a Peasant Woman (September, 1863 ...52 KB (7,872 words) - 04:11, 15 November 2022
- President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination ... in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- of what is now the state of Kentucky, a territory west of the Appalachian ... Boone was a militia officer during the American Revolutionary War ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016 ... which he traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group with his ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- The Cherokee (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, a-ni-yv-wi-ya, in the Cherokee language ... "ja-la-gee" in western dialect) or A-ni-yv-wi-ya (pronounced "ah ...50 KB (7,562 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
