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  • A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes ... balanced sculptures and elaborate feats of megalithic engineering and ...
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  • North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...
    72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
  • 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...
    28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
  • The List of Monarchs of Korea provides a insightful look at the development ... The following list of monarchs has been categorized by historical ...
    52 KB (6,080 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
  • Salmon is the common name for several species of large food and game ... in freshwater lakes—probably as a legacy of the last period of glaciation—salmon ...
    27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
  • by the men's national soccer teams of the member nations of Fédération ... the World Cup Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 national ...
    41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
  • known in English as Academies or Academies of Classical Learning, were private ... The bestowal of a calligraphic signboard by the Emperor was an extremely ...
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  • Srāvastī or Sāvatthī (Hindi: श्रावस्ती), one ... Jetavana is a historical park, with remains of many ancient buildings ...
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  • As such, he will be the spiritual successor of the historic Śākyamuni Buddha ... The prophecy of the arrival of Maitreya is found in the canonical ...
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  • A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, that ... The history of the flag dates back to at least Roman times. The study ...
    25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
  • is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United ... name from Dwight Eisenhower, in honor of his grandson, Dwight David ...
    11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
  • Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside ... Chinese dominate almost all the economies of Southeast Asia, and have sometimes ...
    45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
  • IAST Ayodhyā), an ancient city of India, holds a cherished place ... With the rise of the Gupta Empire (320 to 550 C.E.), Hinduism again ...
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  • and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...
    55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
  • A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ... In addition to completing this level of academic studies, high schools ...
    27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
  • ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... == History of Imperial Examinations == [[Image:Palastexamen-SongDynastie ...
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  • for people to gather for the purpose of drinking tea, often combined ... The form of a tea house or room varies considerably, just as the occasions ...
    29 KB (4,641 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
  • Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... was subsequently transmitted to other parts of Asia including Japan, China ...
    37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
  • The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...
    32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
  • Clupea harengusThe most abundant species of fish in the world. ... life, and limbs—if present—in the form of fins. Poikilothermic refers ...
    18 KB (2,549 words) - 06:51, 17 May 2021

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