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- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... may take precedence over the legibility of the letters. Well-crafted calligraphy ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... Different terms for karst topography exist in other languages—for ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh ( t=水滸傳|s=水浒传|p=Shuǐhǔ ... ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... at 50 percent in 2001. About 42 percent of the East Timorese live below ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Xīyóu-jì; Wade-Giles: Hsiyu-chi) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels ... The novel tells the entertaining story of the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- 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
- graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the ... both a science and an art. The aesthetics of any given map will always be ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, body of water, or other physical obstacle ... The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 20:15, 11 March 2024
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... to 1975 brought Vietnam to the attention of the world. That war has been ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the most populous ... from the United Kingdom after decades of colonial rule. Nigeria re-achieved ...37 KB (5,342 words) - 16:58, 5 June 2023
- usually using a printing press or other kind of printing apparatus. It is often ... In photography, the process of making a picture on photosensitive ...36 KB (5,772 words) - 18:43, 29 April 2023
- (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name ... mind, to produce a dream-like work of art that explored truth that ...16 KB (2,513 words) - 06:10, 18 November 2022
- tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing ... countries, the first mechanical means of pulling a plow used steam-power ...30 KB (5,003 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- , earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... 1970s, Pol Pot became the prime minister of "Democratic Kampuchea ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... The geological process and study of the movement, collision and division ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. The dynasty was founded ... civilization—equal to or surpassing that of the Han Dynasty—as well as ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China ... com/show_country.asp?name=CN Languages of China] Ethnologue: Languages ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- to Western intellectuals. His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also ... Ishikawa Prefecture, the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki (he ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- all are independent. Arabs form the majority of the populations of Algeria ... designation birthed during the days of the British Empire, and encompasses ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- — is the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná ... widest estuary in the world. It forms part of the border between Argentina ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos) was a tower built in the third ... Great, it was home to a significant number of Greeks and Jews. It was renowned ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive ... However, such societies generally occur in times of societal stress ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... North Korea and South Korea. The borders of Korea have fluctuated throughout ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵 ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma ... Kyō; Korean: Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong) is one of the most popular and influential ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- for his contribution to the phenomenology of religious consciousness and ... Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, Otto ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 17:41, 22 December 2022
- Slang is a set of highly informal words and expressions that are not ... The origins of slang are usually found in the desire of those members ...15 KB (2,298 words) - 22:49, 29 January 2023
- Dutch) chartered by the States-General of the Netherlands to expand trade ... its possessions and the debt being taken over by the government of ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae ... The leopard is the most widely distributed of the big cats, being ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- extant species within this group. It is one of the best known examples of ... long lived due to a beneficial combination of disease-resistant characteristics ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- 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 Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally ... Onjo of Baekje, the son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, founded ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- 2004) presided as the twelfth Prime Minister of the Republic of India. ... He led one of the most important administrations in India's modern ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:a cup of chai.JPG|thumbnail|190px|right|A cup of masala chai.]] is merely the generic word for tea in much of the world, but for many English ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- radio and the Internet. The mission of the BBC is to inform, educate ... Its first transmission was on November 14th of that year. ...29 KB (4,446 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle ... musical expression. In the ancient cultures of China, Africa, Greece, the ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors ... The allure of the Hwarang warrior derives from the sense of a righteous ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
- Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan ... Niger was an important economic crossroad, and the empires of Songhai ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
- ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- Aceh (pronounced AH-chay) is one of the provinces of Indonesia and ... the Acehnese practice Islam, while the rest of the archipelago tends to blend ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 07:32, 14 June 2023
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- quot;) are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ... The country consists of twenty-nine atolls and five isolated islands ...23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon ... west from the capital Ulaanbaatar. The Orkhon Valley was the site ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- Incense is a material composed of aromatic organic materials that ... Incense is available in various forms and degrees of processing. Depending ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- 580-643), courtesy name Xuancheng (玄成), formally Duke Wenzhen ... selflessness, courage, attitude, and life of attendance. Upon the death ...33 KB (5,278 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2023
- In Japan, manga are widely read by people of all ages, and include ... that license and reprint manga in other languages. The largest overseas markets ...39 KB (5,688 words) - 21:37, 11 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- antiquary, and a successful organizer of scientific inquiry. Peiresc’s ... Peiresc’s interests covered every aspect of scholarship and science ...16 KB (2,441 words) - 23:35, 14 November 2022
- Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation ... The site of ancient port cities and a possession of several empires ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- Nepal in the west, Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and east ... highest peak, sits in the northwestern part of the state on the boundary with ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... to his followers. It was later taken to China by the monk Bodhidharma, ...37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of ... Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a Web browser ...31 KB (4,531 words) - 13:58, 20 May 2023
- Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...33 KB (5,048 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- who, during the 1930s, led a campaign of agricultural science, now known ... Lysenko was the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, a peasant family ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 17:45, 2 May 2023
- or key) is most often said to be the study of criteria for the evaluation ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... and nineteenth centuries as well as a base of British economic exploitation ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and ... The central plot of the epic traces the journeys of the bardic hero ...26 KB (4,103 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- | language = English (includes content in other languages) ... in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 07:45, 27 February 2023
- or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate ... to all human activities. In the field of positive psychology, theorists ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital of numerous dynasties and governments ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- also is used to refer to the fruit of this tree, which is characterized ... The fruit, which advances the pomegranate's individual purpose ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... people. They have been at the forefront of the cultural clash that came ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- Sukarno (June 6, 1901 – June 21, 1970) was the first President of ... The son of a Javanese school teacher and his Balinese wife from Buleleng ...25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- language did not have a writing system of its own. Chinese characters ... Kanji includes new characters created in Japan, and modifications ...32 KB (4,676 words) - 02:41, 5 October 2022
- who contributed to the development of ethnography and anthropology ... Germany, into a prosperous bourgeois family of merchants. He studied at different ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- Luanda (formerly spelled Loanda) is the capital and largest city of ... in 1844, and by 1850, Luanda had become one of the most developed cities in ...24 KB (3,367 words) - 10:35, 9 March 2023
- The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... the "Black Pope" after the color of the Jesuit habit) has occasionally ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- Honshū (Japan), the Kuril Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost ... Traditional Ainu dress was a robe spun from the bark of the elm tree ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 2023
- Papyrus (The plural of papyrus is papyri) is an early form of thick ... The study of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, and ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 07:37, 18 November 2022
- The Kingdom of Swaziland (Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini), or the Kingdom ... Swaziland consists mostly of high plateaus and mountains with an array ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- are an archipelago in Indonesia, and part of the larger Malay Archipelago ... The Maluku Islands are located on the Australian Plate, lying east ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the ... Since the script was conceived and popularized by the followers of ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- The political integration of India established a united nation for ... India's leaders faced the prospect of inheriting a nation fragmented ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- sliding past one another. Varying the amount of alloying elements and their ... The maximum solubility of carbon in iron is 1.7 percent by weight ...29 KB (4,547 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- The Caribbean Sea is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part ... coastline has many gulfs and bays: the Gulf of Venezuela, Gulf of Darien, ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- ) is a form of Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century ... Beijing opera features four main types of performers; performing troupes ...41 KB (6,269 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- musician and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... in style and technique, Pound rejected much of the modern world, especially ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- The Territory of Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia ... It maintains about 1,500 residents who live in a number of "settlement ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
