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- – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- (Narkompros) responsible for the Ministry of Education. In addition to his ... His brother-in-law was Alexander Bogdanov, a close associate of Vladimir ...35 KB (4,665 words) - 20:09, 31 August 2023
- It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- work and released after serving five months of his sentence.]] service, or they may refuse to be a part of any combatant organization ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- The Battle of Agincourt (IPA pronunciation: [/ɑːʒɪn'kuːʁ/] #039;s Day), in northern France as part of the Hundred Years' War ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the ... Originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin at least ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- to as Middle Africa, defines a portion of the African continent south ... *Democratic Republic of the Congo *Republic of Congo *Equatorial Guinea ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- administrative, and cultural center of Romania. It is located in the ... The people of Bucharest suffered under the leadership of Nicolae Ceaușescu ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- and 24th (1893–1897) president of the United States, and the ... As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew מַלְכוּת יְהוּדָה, Standard ... it from the Northern Kingdom (the Kingdom of Israel) after the two entities ...27 KB (4,065 words) - 16:48, 25 February 2024
- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked ... Located in the heart of Central Asia between the Amu Darya (Oxus) ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... (Saint James). However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...26 KB (3,787 words) - 03:37, 27 July 2023
- leader often referred to as the "father of modern China." He played ... Although Sun Yat-sen is considered one of the greatest leaders of ...36 KB (5,408 words) - 22:52, 26 February 2023
- other windings. Varying the relative number of turns between primary and secondary ... was instrumental during the "War of Currents" in seeing alternating ...40 KB (5,952 words) - 02:06, 2 May 2023
- in 2007. It is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province ... In the mid-twentieth century racial segregation in the form of apartheid ...34 KB (4,738 words) - 13:15, 6 May 2024
- 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
- revolutionary. She was the daughter of a Military officer. She married ... at a young age and met Lenin as a result of her revolutionary activity ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 23:02, 10 November 2022
- June 10, 1940), West Indian spokesman of black nationalism and economic ... By enlarging upon the philosophy of Booker T. Washington, Garvey became ...30 KB (4,654 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- January 28, 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She ... roughly 167 million books worldwide. Her opposition to corporal punishment ...33 KB (4,278 words) - 23:35, 30 October 2023
- Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia. It is located in the ... In November 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- a British author who is considered to be one of the foremost figures of both ... Woolf is one of the most enduringly popular of all the Modernists ...18 KB (2,827 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- urban renewal project, a transformation of a large former disused docks ... Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.]] ...41 KB (6,131 words) - 00:41, 13 January 2024
- Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and ... 5 storm that damaged or destroyed 90 percent of the buildings on the island. ...26 KB (3,667 words) - 18:33, 31 January 2023
- Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... to the early culture at Poverty Point, one of the largest and most important ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- and Burma during the war. Her popular songs of yearning and hope, which moved ... to have a top ten hit album. At the time of her death in 2020 she had been ...44 KB (6,146 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2023
- τινούπολη) was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and, following ... history. Depending on the background of people, and their language ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ... established in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany on October 7, 1949 ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ... Because of its strategic geographic location, Syria has historically ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... area. The National Park Service portions of the expanded Monument were ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces ... in the records given the confusion of the times, the many victims ...48 KB (7,479 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying ... arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia in the east. It is ... (including the Swedish-controlled areas of what is today Finland), were ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December ... Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the twentieth century. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( December 1, 1918,–April 17, 1941), also ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October ... He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
- Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn) is one of several names for ... Different geographic definitions of Palestine have been used over ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. trees dense enough to feed a full group of koalas. Therefore, even controlled ...19 KB (2,896 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- , was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary positions ... was born at his family's ancestral seat of Knutstorp Castle, Denmark to ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- 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
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- The Yi Jing ("Book of Changes" or "Classic of Changes ... Though the Yi Jing is often cryptic to the point of obscurity (especially ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- country in Central Africa, roughly the size of France. It is bordered by Chad ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
- Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland ... Long the seat of culture within Ireland, it has been at the center ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of ... Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. ...49 KB (7,998 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme ... In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of ...24 KB (3,354 words) - 16:40, 29 April 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... and barren soil located on the western flank of the Sahara Desert. Mauritania ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that ... Important events in the history of the deconstructivist movement include ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine studies ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions ... positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- The Republic of Bolivia (or Bulibiya in the Quechua language; Wuliwya ... enough silver from Bolivia to build a bridge of silver from South America to ...29 KB (4,244 words) - 23:38, 20 March 2024
- Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... in the north, and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية ... The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- 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
- Michigan is a Midwestern state of the United States of America, located ... Bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair, Michigan ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- professional boxer. He is considered one of the world's greatest heavyweight ... he joined the black nationalist Nation of Islam, changed his name to ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- Nigeria, (some 70 million) led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’adu Abubakar III ... Founded by Usman dan Fodio in 1804, it was one of the most powerful ...23 KB (3,525 words) - 07:17, 15 April 2024
- flowing east through the eponymous plains of northern India into Bangladesh ... In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says: "… The ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy ... Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and ...43 KB (6,140 words) - 05:41, 11 August 2023
- The Comoros (officially the Union of the Comoros) is an island nation ... as a nation formed at the crossroads of many civilizations. It has ...32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
- the global Cold War superpowers. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater of ... victory in Indochina that year. One of the poorer countries in South ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- earthquake or the Great Pakistan earthquake) of 2005, designates a major earthquake ... and cooperated in relief efforts. Instead of armies braving the harsh and ...24 KB (3,487 words) - 06:41, 13 June 2023
- he was posthumously made an Honorary Citizen of the United States; there are ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 06:57, 15 December 2022
- Atroshan or Agiary, is the principle place of worship among Zoroastrians ... Fire and light are universal symbols of holiness and divinity. The ...25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America, on the Caribbean ... nation in 1981. Belize is a member of Caribbean Community (CARICOM ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 11:57, 9 May 2024
- | affiliations = Association of Jesuit Colleges | fightsong ... the U.S. Civil War under the leadership of university president Patrick ...40 KB (5,605 words) - 08:22, 23 January 2023
- Ocean, located 300 miles from the coast of Argentina, 671 miles west ... are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ... ) was born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, as the second of ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 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
- Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Taíno and Ciboney peoples, the period of Spanish colonialism, the introduction ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... country was considered the banking capital of the Arab world and was widely ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- or space habitation) is the concept of permanent, autonomous (self ... Many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, but others ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... The king is viewed as spiritual leader of the country and dominates ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- reputation in 1949, as a member of the U.S. team that won the ... The tempestuous Gonzales is still widely considered to be one of the ...25 KB (3,993 words) - 06:34, 18 November 2022
- Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... at war with Britain have been the cause of arguments among historians ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 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 bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the ... The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It ...44 KB (6,668 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- The First War of Indian Independence was a period of rebellions in ... Mangal Pandey, a Sepoy in the colonial British army, was the spearhead ...43 KB (6,818 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- Supporting Actress. She was the recipient of Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk ... Dee and her husband, Ossie Davis, stood in the forefront of changing ...28 KB (3,881 words) - 21:03, 21 December 2022
- September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May 17, 1995 until ... His internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the ... in the United States. The citizens of Los Angeles speak more than ...40 KB (5,759 words) - 07:54, 9 March 2023
- Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the ... Anarcho-syndicalism remains a popular and active school of Anarchism ...27 KB (3,759 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... rights laws are most often written. Examples of civil rights and liberties ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
