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- The Wuyi Mountains ( c=武夷山|p=Wǔyí Shān ; POJ: Bu-i Soa) designates a mountain range located at the prefecture Nanping. It runs along ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- O ahu (usually Oahu outside Hawaiian and Hawaiian English) is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- An artificial island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed by natural processes. Such islands have been created ...9 KB (1,326 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2023
- 55 km southwest of Aleppo. It was an important city-state in two periods, first in the late third millennium B.C.E., then again between 1800 and 1650 ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- The Three Gojoseon kingdoms first appear in Joseon Sangosa and has been researched by South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese scholars. ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, located in and around Ji'an, Jilin in the People's Republic of China, received ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the southern end of Idaho's Albion Mountains. It is located in the south ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Image wanted Category:Social workers Kelley, Florence Florence Kelley (September 12, 1859 – February ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- thereby becoming the largest city-state north of the Alps. In 1528, Roman Catholics and Reformers clashed in Berne, resulting in the city becoming ...18 KB (2,738 words) - 17:14, 29 September 2023
- Oscar Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- The City of Vigan is the capital city of the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 47,246 ...13 KB (1,737 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
- Bishkek (Russian and Kyrgyz: Бишкек) is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Though the city is relatively young, the surrounding ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the Democratic candidate for the United States presidency in the disputed election ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 20:20, 1 December 2023
- and the veche can be drawn up, the city-state's exact political constitution remains uncertain. The boyars and the archbishop ruled the ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 14:59, 3 May 2023
- Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna or Lepcis Magna, (also Lpqy or Neapolis), located on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- The Manhattan Center building, built in 1906 and located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, houses Manhattan Center Studios (home to two recording ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 06:48, 5 November 2022
- The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the twentieth century and remains a leading ...8 KB (1,230 words) - 02:53, 24 July 2023
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its kind in the United States. It honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and ...19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- Aleppo (Arabic Halab) is a city in northern Syria, the second largest city in Syria after Damascus, and one of the oldest inhabited cities in history. ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- Kandy (maha nuvara, mahaˈnuərə , in Sinhala, கண்டி kaṇṭi, ˈkaɳɖi , in Tamil), constitutes the English rendering for Maha Nuvara ...14 KB (1,979 words) - 07:07, 28 February 2023
- category:image wanted [[Image:Mali historic places.PNG|thumb|250px|Some of the cities in [[Mali Empire|Mali]] which were under the control of ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- Teotihuacán was the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas in the first half of the first millennium C.E.. It was also one of the largest ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- The Warring States period covers the period from sometime in the fifth century B.C.E. to the unification of China by the Qin dynasty in 221 B ...14 KB (2,355 words) - 22:04, 18 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was most well known for his work and involvement in the American Civil Liberties Union ...9 KB (1,434 words) - 05:44, 9 January 2023
- Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States, 86 miles (138 km) west of the state capitol of Columbia. It has a population ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- Category:Sociologists Howard, Ebenezer [[Image:ハワード『明日の田園都市』3版-02.jpg|right|thumb|Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of ...10 KB (1,579 words) - 17:59, 12 February 2024
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Blow, Susan Susan Elizabeth Blow (June 7, 1843 - March 26, 1916) was an American educator, dedicated ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
- Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- Hampi (Kannada: ಹಂಪೆ, Hampe) refers to a village in northern Karnataka. The name "Hampi" comes from the anglicized version ...12 KB (1,695 words) - 17:01, 21 January 2024
- Assateague Island is a 37|mi|km|adj=on long barrier island located off the Atlantic coast of Maryland and Virginia, United States. Barrier islands ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 04:57, 18 August 2023
- Antananarivo is the capital, largest city and the economic center of Madagascar. It was known by its French name Tananarive or the colonial shorthand ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl consists of fourteen monasteries built on or near the Popocatépetl ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- Reinhard Keiser (January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739) was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas ...6 KB (870 words) - 03:05, 8 December 2022
- A skyscraper is a very tall, continuously habitable building. Usually, a building is called a skyscraper if it clearly stands out above the surrounding ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- Shechem, also called Sichem, (Hebrew: שְׁכֶם / שְׁכָם, Šəḵem ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- B.C.E., Athens was a sovereign city-state, ruled at first by kings (see Kings of Athens). The kings stood at the head of a land-owning aristocracy ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Biography Irwin, Elisabeth Antoinette Elisabeth Antoinette Irwin (August 29, 1880 – October ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- The Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982, provides an enlightening view of life in Sri Lanka's ...12 KB (1,690 words) - 08:40, 24 November 2022
- Derbent ( Дербе́нт ; Azeri: Dərbənd; Lezgian: Дербент; Avar: Дербенд; Persian: دربند, Darband) is a city in the Republic ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- Dushanbe ( Душанбе , Dushanbe; formerly Dyushambe or Stalinabad), population 661,100 people (2006 census), is the capital and largest city ...15 KB (2,132 words) - 05:29, 4 August 2023
- Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 - January 1, 1787) was one of the four signers of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina. ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- The village of Bodh Gaya is in the Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is situated west of the Phalgu River, a tributary of the Ganges ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Goldmark, Josephine Clara Josephine Clara Goldmark (October 13, 1877 – December 15 ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин яр, Babyn yar; Russian: Бабий яр, Babiy yar) is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, located between ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- The South Korean government awarded Namdaemun, officially called Sungnyemun (숭례문, "Gate of Exalted Ceremony"), the honor of ...7 KB (1,106 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- Astana (Kazakh: Астана; former names include Akmola, Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) became the first American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America, from ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The New York Daily News is the sixth largest daily newspaper in the United ...9 KB (1,384 words) - 21:48, 14 November 2022
- Honolulu is the capital and most populous city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeastern ...22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
- The Allegheny River is located in the Northeastern United States and is a principal tributary of the Ohio River. The river rises in Pennsylvania ...19 KB (2,637 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- |Singapore||SingaporeThis country is a city-state. |Sri Lanka||Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte |- |Syria||Damascus |Tajikistan||Dushanbe ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- Carrie Amelia Nation, later Carry A. Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ...12 KB (1,895 words) - 14:52, 27 April 2023
- Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks ...19 KB (2,631 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen |name = M.V. Lomonosov ...19 KB (2,791 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- Ajmer Ajmer.ogg|pronunciation ( अजमेर /ədʒmeːr/ ) is a city in Ajmer District in India's Rajasthan state. The city gave its ...14 KB (1,997 words) - 07:13, 16 June 2023
- Thomas Heyward, Jr. (July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, a Revolutionary War officer ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was born out of a union of four villages during the twelfth century. During the Scramble for Africa in the late ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
- The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province, in western Afghanistan, by the Hari River. The 65|m|ft high minaret, surrounded ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
- The Historic Centre of Lima is the portion of the city of Lima, Peru, founded in 1535 by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro as La Ciudad ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 21:54, 31 January 2024
- Vaishali, or Vesali (Pali), had been the capital of the Licchavis and the Vajjian Confederacy. In Buddha's time, Vesali had been a heavily ...15 KB (2,417 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- Ragusa, it was the only eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported ... The city-state's wealth was partly the result of the land it ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, was one of the most important cities of medieval Europe. Situated at ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- Arnold of Brescia (c. 1090 – c.1155), also known as Arnaldus (Italian: Arnaldo da Brescia), was a monk from Italy who called on the Catholic ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 03:56, 15 August 2023
- Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was known as the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., and sometimes referred to as MLK Day) is an American federal holiday ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the city where it was signed on August 27, 1928, was an international treaty ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- In ancient times Megiddo was an important city-state of ancient Canaan and an important town in the later Kingdom of Israel. It was strategically ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Mohenjo-daro ( موئن جودڑو , موئن جو دڙو , Mound of the dead )—a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 B ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Bates, Daisy Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – ...13 KB (1,959 words) - 07:47, 12 January 2024
- Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934) was an American bank robber and alleged killer, romanticized ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
- Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, has earned fame for its well-preserved ruins of ancient Lankan civilization. The city ...16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Assisi is a small city in the Perugia province of the Umbria region of Italy. It is situated on the western flank of Monte Subasio at an elevation ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2023
- Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single global community. The word derives from Greek cosmos ("Κόσμος ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- Founded perhaps as early as the tenth century, Timbuktu is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic location in ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- Cuauhtémoc (also known as Cuauhtemotzin or Guatimozin; c. 1502 – February 28, 1525) was the last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and ...8 KB (1,234 words) - 19:34, 8 July 2016
- In philosophy the notion of categories derives from Aristotle’s (384-322 B.C.E.) logic and ontology. In logic the categories are understood ...7 KB (987 words) - 18:01, 30 November 2023
- Pope Saint Leo IV was pope from April 10, 847 to July 17, 855. A Roman by birth, Leo had been a Benedictine monk and served in the papal curia ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 09:41, 24 November 2022
- The Fall of Constantinople was the conquest of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Mehmed II, on Tuesday ...20 KB (3,140 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
- Vrindavan (alternate spellings Vrindaban or Brindavan or Brundavan), or Vraj in Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, India, is a town on the site ...13 KB (1,859 words) - 21:50, 3 May 2023
- "Garak State"), was the ruling city-state of the Gaya confederacy ... Daegaya, was a city-state in the Gaya confederacy during the Korean ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- The Kathmandu Valley ( नेपाः स्वनिगः Nepāḥ Svānigaḥ ), located in Nepal, lies at the crossroads of ancient civilizations ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 20:17, 28 February 2023
- Kairouan (Arabic القيروان) (also known as Kirwan, and Al Qayrawan) is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in the nation of Tunisia ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 06:50, 28 February 2023
- In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral virtue. In the history of philosophy, the concept of courage as a moral virtue ...6 KB (958 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox_Politician | name = Richard Joseph Daley | image = Daley_closeup.jpg | birth_date = 1902|5|15|mf=y ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- The Mahabodhi Temple (Literally: "Great Awakening Temple") refers to a Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, the location where Siddhartha ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 05:24, 5 November 2022
- Sennacherib (in Akkadian Śïn-ahhe-eriba "(The moon god) Śïn has Replaced (Lost) Brothers for Me") was the son of Sargon II, whom ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 2023
- Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population of 150,000 and is the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. The Baroque ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, southeastern New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk, casino gambling, sandy beaches ...28 KB (3,984 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
- Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 - July 29, 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-twentieth century New York City, Long Island, and ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- Samarkand ( Samarqand, Самарқанд ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand Province. One of the oldest ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- George Cadbury (September 19, 1839 – October 24, 1922), the third son of the Quaker tea and coffee dealer John Cadbury, was the co-founder ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 08:39, 6 November 2022
- Category:Sociologists Burgess, Ernest Ernest Watson Burgess (May 16, 1886 – December 27, 1966) was an American sociologist, famous for his work ...8 KB (1,123 words) - 12:16, 21 January 2023
- Jaisalmer Jaisalmer.ogg|pronunciation (Hindi: जैसालमेर), nicknamed "The Golden City," is a town in the state of Rajasthan ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 12:43, 6 November 2021
- category:image wanted Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or organization submit copies of their publications to a repository. ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:03, 25 October 2022
- Lagos, is the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. The city began on Lagos Island in the fifteenth century, but has spread onto the mainland ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2022