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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- Mexico, which is shared with a smaller city-state called Tlatelolco. ... that time, the city had again become a city-state, having power that extended ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
- Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- Quebec City or Québec (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and one of the oldest cities in North America ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- 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
- New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated major city ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses 318 square miles (824 sq km) in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte ...47 KB (6,950 words) - 08:27, 28 February 2023
- 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
- 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
- The Ancient City of Vijayanagara refers to the urban core of the imperial city and the surrounding principalities of the capital of the Vijayanagar ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023
- 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
- New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- 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
- The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the "Old City," or "Anderoon Shehr (اندرون شهر)," constitutes the section ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:07, 3 May 2023
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- New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- the Mexica were tributaries of the Tepanec city-state of Azcapotzalco. ==Achievements== Huitzilíhuitl, a skilled politician, continued the policies ...6 KB (967 words) - 16:11, 9 February 2024
- Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế province, Vietnam, had been the imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty between ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
- Gandhinagar (Gujarati: ગાંધીનગર, Hindi: गाँधीनगर) - the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India. One ...12 KB (1,834 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5-mile long tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and the borough of Manhattan at West Thirty ...7 KB (1,127 words) - 04:15, 29 October 2022
- Thomas Joseph Pendergast (July 22, 1873 – January 26, 1945) was an American politician who controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 22:46, 30 April 2023
- The city of Thiruvananthapuram has been the center of cultural activities of Kerala (India) from the time it served as capital of Travancore ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- William M. "Boss" Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April12, 1878) was an American politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the ...9 KB (1,503 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- Shinshi, a semi-legendary ancient city that, according to the history books such as Samguk Yusa, Gyuwon Sahwa, Shindan Minsa, and Hwandan-gogi ...10 KB (1,470 words) - 22:56, 23 April 2023
- Tammany Hall was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics from the 1790s to the ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 03:59, 27 February 2023
- The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city's Town ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- Jodhpur (जोधपुर), is the second largest city in the state of Rajasthan in north India. It was formerly the seat of a princely state ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 06:32, 5 April 2024
- The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- (Ewuare the Great) came to power and turned the city-state into an empire. Around 1470, he named the new state Edo. ==Golden Age== ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
- Ashgabat (Aşgabat) is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, and is situated between the Kara Kum desert and ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Category:Biography Lowell, Josephine Shaw Josephine Shaw Lowell (December 16, 1843 ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
- Acamapichtli (which means "Handful of Arrows" or "Handful of Reeds") was tlatoani (king, or Great Speaker) of the Aztecs ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- Allahabad (Hindi: इलाहाबाद; Urdu: الہ آباد Ilāhābād) is the English name of a city in the north Indian state of Uttar ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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: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
- 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
- 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: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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- |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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- "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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately 1300 C.E. The largest West African empire to exist in present day Yorubaland ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- Montevideo is the largest city, capital, and chief port of Uruguay. It is the only city in the country with a population over 1 million. It has ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- Independence Hall is a United States national landmark located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The building was completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- The Battle of Talikota (or Tellikota) (January 26, 1565) constituted a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
- Sucre, which is located in the south-central part of Bolivia, is the constitutional capital and seat of the Supreme Court (Corte Suprema de Justicia ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- was well developed, achieving the status of "city-state" or polis. The city's military as well as logistical significance lasted well into ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- Simon bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בר כוכבא, also transliterated as Bar Kokhva or Bar Kochba) was a messianic Jewish leader who led ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 07:58, 20 September 2023
- Washington's Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of George Washington, the first ...19 KB (2,531 words) - 23:00, 3 May 2023
- Mauritania is a land dominated by sand and barren soil, located on the western flank of the Sahara Desert. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries ...17 KB (2,566 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- Accra is the capital, the largest city, and the administrative, communications, and economic center of Ghana. Located on the Gulf of Guinea near ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- Chişinău ( ki.ʃi.'nəw ) (also known as Kishinev, Кишинёв , Kishinyov) is the capital city, the industrial and commercial center ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- Dresden, the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony, is located in the broad basin of the River Elbe, 19 miles (30 km) north ...25 KB (3,605 words) - 17:41, 30 January 2024
- The city-state expanded by incorporating other neighboring city-states by alliance or military conquest, forming a vast confederation of political ...18 KB (2,662 words) - 09:14, 19 December 2022
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- The Battle of Constantinople was fought in June 922 at the outskirts of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, between the forces ...15 KB (2,004 words) - 20:31, 28 March 2024
- Tashkent ( Toshkent, Тошкент ; Ташкент , Taşkent ) is the capital of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent Province. The city was an important ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven ( t=天壇|s=天坛|p=Tiāntán ; Manchu: Abkai mukdehun) is a complex of Taoist buildings ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. Considered the preeminent architect in ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- Częstochowa ( Tschenstochau , טשענסטעכאוו-Chenstekhov ) is a city in south-central Poland on the Warta River. It was formed from two ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- The Three Kingdoms Period of Korea (hangul: 삼국시대) featured the three rival kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, which dominated the ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- Doha ( الدوحة , Ad-Dawḥah or Ad-Dōḥah ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. Its metropolitan area is home ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American poet and newspaper editor who achieved literary fame at age 17, after ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ), also called "Sher-e-Punjab" ("The Lion of the Punjab ...14 KB (2,163 words) - 05:26, 5 November 2022
- Yehenara, Empress Xiao Ding Jing (1868 – 1913), is better known as the Empress Long Yu. Xiao Ding Jing was the Qing Dynasty Empress Consort ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 18:49, 31 January 2022
- Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is an extensive 16.3|acre|m2 arts complex in New York City which contains the city's finest performing ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
- Gangtok Gangtok-pronunciation.ogg|pronunciation (Nepali/Hindi: गंगटोक), the capital and largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 04:26, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Breckenridge, Madeline McDowell Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (May 20, 1872 – November ...7 KB (1,006 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (June 13, 1899 – August 2, 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, teacher, journalist, and the ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, as well as its chief administrative, financial, and commercial center. Located in the south ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- Yin Xu ( c=殷墟|p=Yīnxū|l=Ruins of Yin ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.E.-1046 B.C.E.), also known ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay off the Baltic Sea, and is the central city within the fourth-largest ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- Fatehpur Sikri ( फतेहपूर सिकरी , فتحپور سیکری ), a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 00:44, 25 March 2024
- The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the "Old City," or "Anderoon Shehr (اندرون شهر)," constitutes the section ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:07, 3 May 2023
- of Manco Capac, they formed the small city-state of Cuzco (Quechua Qosqo). Manco Capac ruled for about 40 years, establishing a code of laws ...22 KB (3,238 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- Johannes de Grocheio (Grocheo) (ca. 1255 – ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century. His French name was Jean ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 2022
- Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland of South America. The city is located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- Ujjain ( उज्जैन ) (also known as Ujain, Ujjayini, Avanti, Avantikapuri), an ancient city of Malwa in central India on the eastern ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- Munich ( München ˈmʏnçən Minga ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city in the country, with approximately 1.35 ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Botta, Paul-Émile Paul-Émile Botta (December 6, 1802 – March 29, 1870) was ...8 KB (1,273 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- Sāmarrā (Arabic,سامراء) is a town in Iraq that in ancient times may have been the world's largest city. With its majestic mosques ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- The Complex of Goguryeo Tombs lies in North Korea. In July 2004, UNESCO awarded the site World Heritage Site status, the first such award in ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Magna_Carta.jpg|thumb|Magna Carta or "Great Charter," an [[England|English ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
- Suzhou ( t=蘇州 |s=苏州 |p=Sūzhōu ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu ...24 KB (3,013 words) - 00:31, 27 February 2023
- The Northeastern United States, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, covers nine states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- Santa Fe ( Yootó ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- Old Havana ( La Habana Vieja ) describes the central area of the original city of Havana, Cuba. Havana is a city of great architectural character ...17 KB (2,656 words) - 00:04, 18 November 2022
- Tunis ( تونس, Tūnis ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is the center of Tunisian commerce, as well as focus of ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served as the twenty-first President. Arthur ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- The Place Stanislas, known colloquially as the place Stan', is a large pedestrian square in Nancy, Lorraine, France. Built between the Old ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- the Mali Empire. It existed as an independent city-state protected by walls and the geography of the inland delta. According to legend, the Mali Empire ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- Calvary (originally known as "Golgotha" meaning: "place of the skull") is the English-language name given to the hill on ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
- Dorothea "Dolley" Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849), was the wife of President James Madison, who served from 1809 ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the islands of the Sulu Sea, in the southern Philippines. Though Muslim historians ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- Under the city-state ruler Pericles, a golden era in Athens began ... freedom inherent in the democratic city-state. ==Tourism, modern life== ...17 KB (2,700 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- Conakry, or Konakry (Malinké: Kɔnakiri ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but poorly developed nation in West Africa ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria and a city within that territory which serves as the nation's capital ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky ( Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский , Aleksandr Fjëdorovich Kerenskij) ( ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was a major U.S. political figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- Potosí is a city in southern Bolivia, 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Sucre, the national capital. It is one of the world's highest cities ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name =University of ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- still existed as no more than the strongest city-state in a loose federation through the third century. To the west, Baekje had centralized into ...16 KB (2,364 words) - 22:07, 29 January 2023
- Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 - February 11, 1848) was a nineteenth century American artist whose works initiated the first indigenous art movement ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 21:34, 7 September 2023
- The Indian city of Varanasi, (also known as Benares, Banarasm Benaras, Kashi, or Kasi), considered one of the seven sacred cities within Hindu ...18 KB (2,802 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. It is the most densely populated area in the United ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Hale is best remembered ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:31, 11 November 2022
- Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an African-American scholar and writer who is considered to be one of the most important ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland, of which it is the capital. It is situated on the Brisbane ...24 KB (3,443 words) - 02:23, 22 November 2023
- Jilin ( c=吉林 |p=Jílín |w=Chi-lin ; Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), is a province of the People's Republic of China ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- Bukhara ( Buxoro , Бухоро , بُخارا , Бухара ), also spelled as Bukhoro and Bokhara, from the Soghdian βuxārak ("lucky ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Pioneers traveled in wagons across the Oregon Trail, one of the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, in order to settle ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its southern ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- Roger Sherman (April 19 (O.S.), April 30 (N.S.), 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an early American lawyer and politician and a founding father of ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- The Battle of Granada was a siege of the city of Granada fought over a period of months leading up to its surrender on January 2, 1492. The city ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
- Luang Prabang, or Louangphrabang (Lao: ຫລວງພະບາງ, IPA: /luaŋ pʰabaːŋ/), a city located in north central Laos, is situated ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof (the most widely spoken language in the West African nation of Senegal), is the capital of Senegal ...21 KB (2,973 words) - 18:57, 22 December 2022
- The Burning of Washington is the name given to the burning of Washington, D.C., by British forces in 1814, during the War of 1812. Strict discipline ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- Mecca (Makkah al-Mukarramah, مكة المكرمة ) is a holy Islamic city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in the historic Hejaz region ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 03:48, 9 November 2022
- Category:Sociologists Wirth, Louis Louis Wirth (August 28, 1897 – May 3, 1952) was a German born, Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- Mycenae was a powerful city-state, rivaling and later superseding that of Knossos, the center of Minoan culture on Crete. It was finally destroyed ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo and is located on the Congo River, across from Kinshasa, the capital ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 22:54, 20 November 2023
- Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Riis, Jacob [[Image:Jacob Riis 2.jpg|right|thumb|185px|Jacob Riis in 1906]] Jacob August Riis ...11 KB (1,754 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Sac & Fox |image=[[Image:Bandera ...12 KB (1,846 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- Goa Velha ("Velha" means old in Portuguese), referring to a census town in North Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. Goa had been ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:24, 31 December 2023
- Srāvastī or Sāvatthī (Hindi: श्रावस्ती), one of the six largest cities in India during Gautama Buddha's lifetime, ...17 KB (2,630 words) - 16:17, 8 February 2023
- The Niagara Escarpment is a long, precipitous, cliff-like ridge of land or rock in the United States and Canada that runs westward from New York ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
- The Third Epistle of John (also referred to as 3 John) is a book of the New Testament. It is the sixty-fourth book of the Christian Bible—its ...7 KB (1,190 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- Adam Willis Wagnalls (September 24, 1843 – September 3, 1924) was an American publisher who was the co-founder of the Funk & Wagnalls Company ...7 KB (985 words) - 05:46, 15 June 2023
- Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of Israel. In the New Testament, it is described as the childhood home of Jesus ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- The Great Living Chola Temples were built during the Chola rule in the south of India. Those temples include the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur ...28 KB (4,178 words) - 16:37, 13 July 2017
- Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. A key inland port of Europe, it lies on the ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic that ravaged the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece in 430 B.C.E., during the second year ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 07:48, 24 November 2022
- Safed ( צְפַת , Tzfat; صفد , Safad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel. It is a center for Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, and ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 18:37, 22 December 2022
- Almaty ( Алматы ), Kazakhstan's former capital, is the scientific, cultural, historical, financial and industrial center of Central ...17 KB (2,420 words) - 08:16, 23 July 2023
- The Tung-lin Movement (Dong-lin Movement; 東林) (c.1530 – c. 1630) was a political reform movement organized among the bureaucratic elite ...12 KB (1,805 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Ratzel, Friedrich [[Image:Friedrich Ratzel.jpg|thumb|right]] Friedrich Ratzel ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 06:38, 15 April 2024
- San Diego is a large coastal California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. It is the second largest city ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- The Hudson River School was a mid-nineteenth century American art movement that was coined around a loosely connected group of landscape painters ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 23:21, 29 September 2021
- Pope Saint Innocent I was pope from 401 to March 12, 417. A capable and energetic leader, he effectively promoted the primacy of the Roman church ...15 KB (2,270 words) - 11:00, 13 February 2022
- International Women's Day (IWD), marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political, and social ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970), born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, was the ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, soon after shooting ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- Bujumbura ( ˌbuːdʒəmˈbuːrə ) is the largest city, and the administrative, communications, and economic center of Burundi. Bujumbura is ...18 KB (2,590 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated major city ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- The Mausoleum of Maussollos (or Mausoleum of Halicarnassus) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 B.C.E. at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 00:51, 9 November 2022
- Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the executive (administrative) and de facto national capital. A beautiful ...25 KB (3,503 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, refers to events of the Carnival celebration, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings ...24 KB (3,459 words) - 03:52, 6 November 2022
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was an outstanding Dutch physicist who was the first to obtain an equation ...10 KB (1,620 words) - 23:19, 22 June 2023
- Abidjan is the largest city, chief port, and de facto capital of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). (Yamoussoukro is the official capital.) It ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- Aquamarine (Lat. aqua marina, "water of the sea") is a gemstone-quality transparent variety of beryl, having a delicate blue or turquoise ...5 KB (716 words) - 15:58, 11 August 2023
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Wald, Lillian [[Image:Lillian Wald young in nurse uniform.jpg|thumb|Young Lillian Wald ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- Pope Adrian, or Hadrian I, (d. December 25, 795) was Pope from February 9, 772 to December 25, 795. He was the son of Theodore, a Roman nobleman ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 06:17, 15 June 2023
- Dambulla Cave Temple (also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla) is located in the central part of in Sri Lanka.Anuradha Seneviratna, Golden ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 18:09, 24 January 2024
- expanded his Empire so extensively that the city-state system itself was no longer viable. However, it would be Athenian culture, with its love of art ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- Amman, sometimes spelled Ammann (Arabic عمان ʿAmmān), is the capital, largest city, and economic center of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- Wat Phou (Vat Phu) is a Khmer ruined temple complex in southern Laos located at the base of Mount Phu Kao, 6|km from the Mekong river in Champassak ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Howard, John (prison reformer) John Howard (September 2, 1726 – January 20, 1790 ...10 KB (1,593 words) - 05:58, 3 August 2022
- Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union and is often called the "African Capital" due to its historical, ...20 KB (2,986 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- In the Roman Empire, the Vestal Virgins (sacerdos Vestalis), were holy female priests who honored Vesta, the goddess of the hearth. Their primary ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 18:03, 3 May 2023
- The Ghana Empire or Wagadou Empire (existed c. 750-1076) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 23:55, 6 December 2022
- The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ Shānzhuāng; literally: Mountain Resort for Avoiding the Heat; Manchu: ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 14:51, 5 December 2023
- Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of the city-state of Rome, founded in the Italian Peninsula circa the ninth century B.C.E.. During ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- The Delhi Fort, also known as Lal Qil'ah, or Lal Qila, meaning the Red Fort, located in Delhi, India, has been awarded the UNESCO World ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 02:24, 8 December 2022
- The Aro Confederacy was a large slave trading network and league of Igbo and Cross River allies led by the Aro people which flourished in the ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. It is located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit ...33 KB (4,747 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- Hammurabi was a First Dynasty king of the city-state of Babylon, and inherited the throne from his father, Sin-muballit, in c. 1792 B.C.E. ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
