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- :For the later Greek writer see Xenophon of Ephesus. [[Image:Xenophon ... a Greek mercenary, historian and follower of Socrates. In 401 B.C.E. he ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes ( 莫高窟|p=mò gāo kū ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- was a Welsh privateer, who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of buccaneers ... Henry Morgan was the eldest son of Robert Morgan, a squire of Llanrhymny ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- The Battle of the Pyramids was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between ... treasure to Europe. Ancient Egypt captured the European imagination. Egypt ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ ... Ligong (Chinese: 离宫; pinyin: Lígōng, the Qing Dynasty's summer ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 14:51, 5 December 2023
- (1159 – June 15, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan ... The exploits of Yoshitsune and his faithful follower, the monk Benkei ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- The Libyan Desert, also known as Great Sand Sea or Western Desert ... This desert is primarily sand and boulder plain and is inhabited by ...13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a U.S. National Park ... Sheer black walls of schist and gneiss plummet as much as 2,700 feet ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:04, 31 October 2023
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... The victory would ultimately prove to be a Pyrrhic one for the British ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian ... The Sea provides an important link between the neighboring areas of ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- The Congo River is the largest river in western Central Africa and ... The river and its tributaries flow through the second-largest rainforest ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 19:05, 15 May 2020
- He is known principally for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific ... Balboa traveled to the New World in 1500 and after some early explorations ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- November 19, 1798), was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence ... Tone was born in Dublin, the son of a Church of Ireland, Protestant ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- The Cayuga were members of a powerful confederacy of tribes of the ... The Cayuga sided with the British during the American Revolution and ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:34, 3 December 2023
- The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, at the service of Spain, led the ... Magellan was the first to reach Asia by sailing westward from Europe ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig. The ... writing concertos for unusual combinations of instruments, such as multiple ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- The Strait of Magellan (often referred to as the Straits of Magellan ... The first European to navigate the strait was Ferdinand Magellan, ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- Yellowstone National Park is a U.S. National Park located in the western ... volcanic eruption spewed an immense volume of ash that covered all of what ...33 KB (5,106 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре; English ... miles (1,583,000 sq km)—is considered one of the richest north temperate ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- ), considered as the greatest king of the Chola Empire by many, ruled ... He streamlined the administrative system with the division of the ...31 KB (4,346 words) - 00:09, 8 December 2022
- The Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.E.) was an Ancient Greek military ... The Peloponnesian War reshaped the Ancient Greek world. On the level ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate ... An image of the west front of Monticello was featured on the reverse ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... With Asian countries on the western Pacific rim projected to continue ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- monumental granite sculpture that represents the first 150 years of the history ... Known earlier to the Lakota Sioux, on whose land the monument was ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 18:42, 13 July 2023
- 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- The Shoshone (also spelled Shoshoni) are a Native American tribe with ... Possibly the most famous member of the Shoshone tribe was Sacagawea ...26 KB (4,027 words) - 20:03, 21 April 2023
- The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington ... Geographic Magazine has, through its use of photojournalism and quality ...17 KB (2,345 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- The Field Museum of Natural History (commonly abbreviated to FMNH ... The Field Museum has contributed to the advancement of museums in ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 19:38, 26 March 2024
- [[Image:Temple of Zeus.JPG|right|350px|thumb|Ruins of the Temple of ... Olimpia, Olimbia), a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- American traitor, having been a general in the Continental Army during the ... Arnold earlier distinguished himself as a hero through acts of cunning ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic ... The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- Zion National Park is a United States national park located in the ... A prominent feature in the 229-square-mile (593 square kilometer) ...32 KB (4,872 words) - 06:07, 13 June 2023
- Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand ... Sima Qian’s style of writing was easy to read, full of humor and ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- , Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and ... The world ocean, an integral part of global climate, is constantly ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- was a German architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation ... While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- ) and born as Ahmad Khān Abdālī, was the founder of the Durrani ... The Pashtuns of Afghanistan often call him Bābā ("father" ...21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot (4,322-meter) stratovolcano, is the second ... mountain and rising abruptly from miles of level ground which encircle ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 17:45, 10 November 2022
- The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain ... The Rocky Mountains are commonly defined to stretch from the Liard ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- and political leader often referred to as the "father of modern China ... Although Sun Yat-sen is considered one of the greatest leaders of ...36 KB (5,408 words) - 22:52, 26 February 2023
- 17, 1850), was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern ... Corrientes, he left his mother country at the early age of seven and studied ...40 KB (6,459 words) - 01:55, 8 September 2022
- 041-058.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Location of the valley in the Theban Hills ... The Valley of the Kings (Arabic: وادي الملوك Wadi Biban ...45 KB (7,190 words) - 20:00, 27 April 2020
- The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- Recreation Area are adjacent to it on the southwest and south, respectively ... The park, which lies along the northwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 22:09, 25 November 2023
- The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by ... Geologists estimate that formation of the canyon required at least ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- |name =University of Rome "La Sapienza" |native_name ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ... and was Assyria's capital city from the ninth through the seventh ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- 210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from ... his prime minister Lǐ Sī passed a series of major reforms aimed at cementing ...27 KB (4,481 words) - 23:18, 3 November 2023
- The Cairo geniza was a storeroom in a synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, in ... Although the existence of the geniza (a Hebrew word meaning a "hiding ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
- off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British ... At 32,134 square kilometers (12,407 square miles), it is the largest ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- The Yongle Emperor or “Yung-lo Emperor” (永楽帝 ) May 2, 1360 ... Though he was despotic and ruthless, Yongle is considered one of the ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and ... As Mathew Brady's leading photographer during the early days ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately ... Beginning as simply the city of Oyo, it rose to prominence through ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military adviser ... A defining characteristic of Standish's military leadership was ...41 KB (6,248 words) - 19:30, 26 October 2021
- :This article is about the French mathematician and physicist. For ... and government administrator during the reign of Napoleon who is best ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 00:38, 11 August 2022
- Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Mitzada, from מצודה ... for Jews. Its story has helped to counter the sentiment that Jews were always ...14 KB (2,172 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the ... Its population of 202,000, most of whom live along the coast, is very ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 10:54, 11 April 2024
- The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng ... ) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built ...14 KB (2,322 words) - 07:41, 4 January 2024
- The Battle of Badr ( غزوة بدر ), fought March 17, 624 C.E. (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- novelist and spy, who is considered one of the earliest practitioners ... Famous for his wicked sense of irony (Defoe's penchant for satire ...14 KB (2,237 words) - 14:40, 5 August 2013
- The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman ... Although today part of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere would come under the domination ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region ... The taming of the river for human use, and the industrial waste that ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy mountain range") is ... The Sierra Nevada, home to the largest trees in the world--the Giant ...23 KB (3,404 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... The highest peak between the Andes and the Himalayas, at 4,884 metres ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- The Siege of Malta (also known as the Great Siege of Malta) took place ... Nevertheless, the siege should not be viewed in isolation. Rather ...33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
- The War of the Triple Alliance, also known as the Paraguayan War ... The cause of the war has been widely attributed to causes as varied ...35 KB (5,486 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence ... Expedition of the Thousand [[Image:Lmille.jpg|thumb|280px|left|Carte ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- Emperor Wu of Han ( s=汉武帝|t=漢武帝|p=hànwǔdì ... –March 29, 87 B.C.E.), personal name Liu Che (劉徹), was the seventh ...44 KB (7,021 words) - 13:34, 31 January 2022
- German protectorate from 1884 to 1914 within the German colonial empire, consisting ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- ) (ca. 418 B.C.E.–362 B.C.E.) was a Theban general and statesman ... The Roman orator Cicero called him "the first man of Greece, ...33 KB (5,264 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
- The Chinese Civil War ( t=國共內戰|s=国共内战|p=Guógòng Neìzhàn ... 1927 to May 1950, was a war in China between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese ...40 KB (5,930 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ... Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ... with strong convictions, but was tolerant of those with other views. His ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... The area's fertile soil and warm climate gave rise to the early ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- The Temple of Artemis was a magnificent place of worship in the city ... The temple was described by Philo of Byzantium: I have seen the walls ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- Raffles (July 6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore ... Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Jamaica. Little ...33 KB (5,257 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against ... In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- Onion is the common name for the herbaceous, cold season plant Allium ... Closely related plants of the same genus include chives (Allium schoenoprasum ...16 KB (2,477 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the ... Washington first gained prominence leading Virginia troops in support ...58 KB (9,004 words) - 11:02, 13 December 2023
- 1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent B.F. Manz ... (tăm'urlān), (c.1336–1405), the Mongol conqueror, was born ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- British Army officer and creator of special military units in World ... Perhaps the most important aspect of Wingate's legacy is that ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within ... elevation than nearby Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon. The rim at Bryce ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... When Britain acquired an Empire of its own, reference to His or Her ...53 KB (8,072 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2022
- in central Kentucky. It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the world’s ... The official name of the system is the Mammoth Cave System, though ...40 KB (6,197 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- [[Image:Pygmy.png|thumb|right|200px|Comparative height of a Pygmy ... In anthropology, a Pygmy is a member of a hunter-gatherer people characterized ...27 KB (4,197 words) - 20:58, 14 April 2023
- Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the ... Countries bordering the Black Sea are Turkey to the south, Bulgaria ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- from 98, until his death in 117. He was the second of the Five Good Emperors ... As a civilian administrator, Trajan maintained good relations with ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- Building or "Castle" on the National Mall serves as the ... The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest educational ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- The Rus' Khaganate (sometimes called Volkhov Rus, Ilmen Rus, ... According to contemporaneous sources, the population centers of the ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- USA. For more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) the Rio Grande / Río Bravo forms ... Big Bend National Park has national significance as the largest protected ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 03:47, 1 October 2023
- The term Carthage refers both to an ancient city in North Africa—located ... Originally a settlement of Phoenician colonists, Carthage grew into ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. A Presidential proclamation ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- Skambōnidēs) meaning Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, from the deme of ... During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
