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- The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ... While Yoruba can be found throughout the entirety of West Africa, ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched of the brass instruments ... Among the instrumental groups of definite pitch in the modern symphony ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 2023
- The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. His ... Bruno Walter is ranked among the twentieth century's greatest ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- was a major Russian playwright and perhaps the foremost modern writer of ... for his several hundred short stories, many of which are considered masterpieces ...19 KB (2,819 words) - 06:50, 31 July 2023
- writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Amosis I and "Amenes" and meaning The Moon is Born) was a pharaoh ... During his reign he completed the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos ...39 KB (6,109 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- [[Image:Tea House.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Japanese style tea house at ... A tea house or tearoom is a venue designed for people to gather for ...29 KB (4,641 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
- , also known as brussels sprout (without the capital B) and brussel sprout ... in Europe, has resulted in diverse cultivars of Brussels sprouts, selected ...12 KB (1,657 words) - 16:48, 22 November 2023
- novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- Magadha (मगध) formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit ... The Śiśunāga dynasty ruled Magadha for more than two hundred years ...20 KB (3,019 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ... The organization has 192 Member States and 6 Associate Members. Based ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 01:23, 3 May 2023
- Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation ... The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Curry (from Tamil: கறி) is the English term for a general variety ... Curry originated on the Indian subcontinent, but was carried by emigrants ...30 KB (4,736 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- Khachaturian made a notable contribution to the world of music while preserving ... Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia (then a part ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... The organization faced controversy on several occasions over its discriminatory ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- Gyeongju is a city (see Subdivisions of South Korea) and prominent ... Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla, a fact to ...25 KB (3,647 words) - 14:22, 14 December 2021
- novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- was a renowned 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
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... Rome's history spans more than 2,500 years. It is renowned as ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Times, The (London) The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 17:36, 30 April 2023
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... Initially a site for English penal colonies in the eighteenth and ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- |name = The Open University |native_name = ... |country = United Kingdom |campus = Distance learning ...25 KB (3,516 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- a Russian historian. His unorthodox ideas on the birth and death of ethnoses ... Neo-Eurasianism is a Russian school of thought, popularized in Russia ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- The Goryeo Dynasty marks the last Buddhist-shaped dynasty in Korea ... Silla, which had united the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 668, weakened ...19 KB (2,644 words) - 18:12, 26 December 2022
- contact, outdoor sport played by two teams of 13 players each, with an oval ... from what was initially a breakaway faction of England's Rugby Football ...29 KB (4,628 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to any of several public holidays ... Today, May Day is celebrated in several European nations and the United ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... The word blasphemy is derived from the Middle English blasfemen, which ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- a professional who practices medicine with the purpose of promoting, maintaining ... Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself ...29 KB (3,911 words) - 19:59, 15 May 2020
- In common terminology, twilight is the time interval shortly before ... Recognizing the romantic quality of the ambient light at this time ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 20:41, 17 January 2024
- htm South Africa grows to 44.8 million], on the site [http://www.southafrica ... The Zulu are a South African ethnic group of an estimated 17-22 million ...23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the ... The original native people of Aruba and surrounding islands were the ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth ... faith" in Spanish) had a population of 62,203 according to the April ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- A graphic novel is a type of comic book. As the name suggests, it ... formats than familiar comic magazines, using the same materials and methods ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- A computer museum is a museum devoted to the preservation, education ... Some computer museums are part of science museums, while some are ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 02:34, 8 January 2024
- The Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA, French ... The need for a single body to oversee the worldwide game became apparent ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- object selected for special recognition as art. Every culture since the beginning ... As intelligence develops the human ability to use the materials of ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- Samoa, is part of an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean formerly ... Samoa is located east of the International Date Line and south of ...18 KB (2,581 words) - 11:51, 6 September 2022
- The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque ( bɛlepɔk|lang ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. As well as more ... During World War II he entertained the troops but also engaged in ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 02:34, 16 November 2022
- nationalist and suffragette. During the Easter Rising of 1917, she ... She was imprisoned by the British authorities in 1911, in 1916, in ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 17:49, 16 May 2020
- an American jazz musician and bandleader in the swing era. He became one of ... Miller's best-known recordings include "In the Mood," ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 17:09, 16 December 2022
- Aikido is a modern Japanese budo (martial art), developed by Morihei ... with or without weapons, in a variety of positions. Aikido training ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- Traditional Thai art was heavily influenced by Buddhist and Hindu ... In ancient Thailand, as in most parts of Southeast Asia, artists typically ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- a skyscraper if it clearly stands out above the surrounding built environment ... Skyscrapers are amazing feats of architecture and construction technology ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- emphasize activity as an important form of education, especially for children ... International professional organizations of children's museums ...29 KB (4,459 words) - 16:38, 10 December 2023
- The reed organ is a keyboard instrument that operates via bellows ... Most pressure wind type reed organs were built in Europe, although ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 03:00, 8 December 2022
- A public library is a library that is open to the public and generally ... Public libraries exist in most nations of the world and are often ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- = before and ιστορία = history) is the period before written history ... Religious accounts of creation, such as the biblical account in Genesis ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... The era is often characterized as a long period of peace, known as ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- |birthplace=Chicago, Illinois, United States |deathdate =1959|3|26|1888|7|23 |deathplace=San Diego, California, United States |occupation =Novelist ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- is commonly associated with Neo-orthodoxy or the dialectical theology movement. After being educated in both Europe and the United States, Brunner ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- based comedy duo who became famous during the early half of the twentieth ... The two comedians worked together briefly in 1919, on The Lucky Dog ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... The Sogdians occupied a key position along the ancient Silk Road, ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- Photocopying is a process that makes paper copies of documents and ... Xerographic office photocopying was introduced by Xerox in the 1960s ...16 KB (2,312 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2023
- Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was the most widely ... Henson's success as an artist and entrepreneur was the consummation ...18 KB (2,873 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- The sport of Fencing is a sport of armed combat that is one of the ... The sport traces its origin to ancient times as fencing was an ancient ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, known in the 1960s as Jackie ... Mrs. Kennedy's gallant courage during the tragedy of her husband's ...21 KB (3,354 words) - 08:15, 18 March 2024
- Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western ... Bohemia was unified under the Premyslid dynasty, under whose helm ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Melanesian island ... Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands, two of which—Matthew and ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is ... and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, it is one of the principal official residences ...30 KB (4,758 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto ... Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (psychological ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New ... The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- Records and made a major contribution to the record industry. He also co ... The son of a distinguished Turkish diplomat, Ertegun co-founded Atlantic ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- won two Academy Awards for her portrayals of American "southern belles ... In her 30-year career she made only 20 films, most of them in the ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 17:29, 16 August 2023
- and ingenious. Her popular Woman in the Nineteenth Century, published ... She grew up in the Unitarian Church and became friends with Ralph ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- Old Italian: Fiorenza, Latin: Florentia) is the capital and most populous ... more than 2000 years. Initially a small city of moneylenders and textile merchants ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:40, 28 March 2024
- Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and ranks sixth in ... metropolitan area was the fifth-largest in the United States. A commercial ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... African American genres are the most important ethnic vernacular tradition ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the ... Because the border with the Saudi kingdom is simply a line on the ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 ... Founded by a Gallic tribe and later flourished under the Phoenicians ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique, numerical ... As of January 1, 2007, International Standard Book Numbers have been ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a nation ... The Tanzanian geography is one of the most varied and unique in the ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... Militias, being composed of civilians rather than professional soldiers ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- The Gothic Revival was an architectural movement that originated in ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
- Lake Burley Griffin is the centerpiece of Canberra, an entirely purpose ... The Griffins incorporated town planning and urban design with landscape ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 23:15, 21 October 2022
- a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle ... His pioneering efforts in the field of ethnomusicology with his colleague ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland ... Founded by the British in 1781 and named for King George III of the ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- Archives refer to a collection of records, and also refers to the ... Archives are made up of records which have been created during the ...30 KB (4,298 words) - 06:20, 12 August 2023
- The Three Gojoseon kingdoms first appear in Joseon Sangosa and has ... Some leading Korea scholars omit mention of the Three Gojoseon kingdoms ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- San Diego is a large coastal California city located in the southwestern ... It lies along the Pacific Ocean at San Diego Bay just north of the ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- The Ostrogoths ( Ostrogothi or Austrogothi ) were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a ...25 KB (3,947 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:HiltonofCadboll01.JPG|thumb|A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll ... The Picts were a confederation of tribes who lived to the north of ...35 KB (5,272 words) - 05:13, 24 November 2022
- Library science is an interdisciplinary science incorporating the ... terms, perhaps adopted to increase the "science" aspect ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate ... Successful edutainment is discernible by the fact that learning becomes ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations ... archaeology inevitably includes an element of imaginative reconstruction ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- in popular entertainment, who developed the modern American circus. In ... " and later his circus, dubbed "The Greatest Show on Earth," ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- |poptime=est. 18,600Seminole Nation of Oklahoma 15,572 enrolledSeminole ... The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, and ...17 KB (2,474 words) - 16:40, 24 November 2023
- which is now an acknowledged classic of English literature, and is ... Brontë possessed a powerful understanding of the society in which she lived ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- first modern world heavyweight champion and the last of the great bare-knuckle ... a turning point in boxing history. It was the final world-title bout fought ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 17:28, 1 May 2024
- Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (August 26, 1676 – March 18 ... is nevertheless acknowledged as having held the de facto office due to the ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 00:47, 29 November 2022
- The Munich Agreement ( Mnichovská dohoda ; Mníchovská dohoda ... ) was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland Crisis among the major ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- As the way in which war is prosecuted, and the nature of war itself ... and is thus most likely to be the correct version. [[File:Ostfriedhof ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and ... and practiced in many schools around the globe. Its popularity is not ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
