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  • Kandy (maha nuvara, mahaˈnuərə , in Sinhala, கண்டி kaṇṭi, ˈkaɳɖi , in Tamil), constitutes the English rendering for Maha Nuvara ...
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  • category:image wanted [[Image:Mali historic places.PNG|thumb|250px|Some of the cities in [[Mali Empire|Mali]] which were under the control of ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was most well known for his work and involvement in the American Civil Liberties Union ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Blow, Susan Susan Elizabeth Blow (June 7, 1843 - March 26, 1916) was an American educator, dedicated ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Hampi (Kannada: ಹಂಪೆ, Hampe) refers to a village in northern Karnataka. The name "Hampi" comes from the anglicized version ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Antananarivo is the capital, largest city and the economic center of Madagascar. It was known by its French name Tananarive or the colonial shorthand ...
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  • The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl consists of fourteen monasteries built on or near the Popocatépetl ...
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  • Reinhard Keiser (January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739) was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas ...
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  • A skyscraper is a very tall, continuously habitable building. Usually, a building is called a skyscraper if it clearly stands out above the surrounding ...
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  • Shechem, also called Sichem, (Hebrew: שְׁכֶם‎ / שְׁכָם, Šəḵem ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Biography Irwin, Elisabeth Antoinette Elisabeth Antoinette Irwin (August 29, 1880 – October ...
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