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- governor best known for his administration of Germany immediately after World ... Clay supported and lobbied for this change of policy, fearing that an impoverished ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- quot;) was the alliance formed in 1907 among the United Kingdom ... the German navy and army continued to grow in size and power. ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... The results for Eastern Europe were disastrous as they were held hostage ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing. He won ... Fangio's racing career began in 1934, primarily in long-distance ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by President ... before the Armistice with Germany ended World War I, but the Fourteen Points ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- a relaxing or easing; the term has been used in international politics since ... The two sides in the Cold War, the NATO powers and the Warsaw Pact ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world ... and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... Mass killings of over one million Jews occurred before the plans of ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- The Battle of Mohács ( mohácsi csata or mohácsi vész/Bane of Mohács; Schlacht bei Mohács ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg was established ... The scope of the European Court of Human Rights and the legally binding ...17 KB (2,642 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... | Non-profit_slogan = Quaker values in action. | homepage = ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of ... Batu's Khan's role in the Russian and European campaigns ...14 KB (2,251 words) - 18:34, 14 February 2023
- after Italy joined other European powers in establishing colonies overseas ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- Lake Ladoga, located in the northwestern part of Russia, is the largest ... In total, Lake Ladoga covers an area of 6,700 fresh water square miles ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- Pope Urban II (1042 – July 29, 1099) born Otho of Lagery (alternatively: ... At the outset, he had to reckon with the presence of the powerful ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- Peking Man (sometimes called Beijing Man), is a prominent example ... Fossils of Homo erectus also have been found in Africa, Indonesia ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- and a famous Nazi collaborator as president of Slovakia during World War II ... Tiso's role in the treatment of Slovak Jews during the war has ...13 KB (1,972 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- Habsburg (in English-speaking countries sometimes spelled Hapsburg ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- 29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... She was the eldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI, who promulgated ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- and activist. After qualifying as a lawyer in 1912, he began his own legal ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- Joan of Burgundy (June 24, 1293 – September 12, 1348), also known ... Joan's significant patronage of learning sustained the tradition ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 05:59, 5 April 2024
- The Counts of Cilli The house should be referred to in English by the ... and ruling house with roots and territory in present-day Slovenia. When ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 08:36, 10 January 2024
- Cardinals are high ranking ecclesiastical officials in the Roman Catholic ... The word "cardinal" was first used in Rome at the beginning ...9 KB (1,483 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- Lidice is a small village that lies in the rolling hills of Bohemia ... During World War II, when Czechoslovakia was occupied by the forces ...12 KB (1,879 words) - 22:48, 25 October 2022
- The naval Battle of Aegospotami took place in 404 B.C.E. and was the ... In 405 B.C.E., following the severe Spartan defeat at the Battle of ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- ) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at ... Solidarity was the first non-communist trade union in a Communist ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the ... and one of the oldest art galleries and museums of human history and ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 14:53, 12 February 2022
- and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... He can be credited with helping to shape post-World War II Europe ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- languages: Československo) was a country in Central Europe that existed ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- – February 1, 1922) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army ... Sent to Europe in 1869 by the government to research European military ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ... Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- was forced to flee the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when communism gained ... especially the eggs representative of Easter, made of precious metals ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- 24, 1980) was a German naval leader, who was in command of the Kriegsmarine ... After the war, he was charged and convicted of "crimes against ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 07:15, 5 October 2022
- Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943 ... Boris died in 1943 during World War II and the Communists were able ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna is one of the most important cultural ... Schönbrunn was built to be on a par with the Palace of Versailles ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- 200px|thumb|Blegen Library at the University of Cincinnati.]] famous for his work on the site of Pylos in modern-day Greece ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- Stephen III of Moldavia, or Stephen III (c. 1433 - July 2, 1504), ... ; Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt, "Stephen the Great and Holy" ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- – July 2, 1963) was the founder and editor of Newsday, one of the most successful ... Alicia Patterson was a powerful force in her time. Her influential ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... ) in China, was signed at the Shunpanrō Hotel on April 17, 1895, ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- during the Third Reich. Following the post-World War II division of Germany ... treason and crimes committed during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that ... According to the ancient Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis, the ...11 KB (1,823 words) - 19:34, 3 August 2023
- journalist and publisher, the grandson of publisher Joseph Medill. He ... experience, and the ability to succeed in the business. However, he was ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 00:44, 11 August 2022
- The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... which had been suspended by the Sultan in 1878. However, the process ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- considered by many critics to be one of the finest representatives ... Friedrich was born in Greifswald in northeastern Germany. He studied ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- Farouk I of Egypt (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965), was the ... His son was king for less than a year; Egypt became a republic in ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 00:45, 14 July 2022
- The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of Prince ... Social unrest at the end of World War I led to the German Revolution ...30 KB (4,097 words) - 18:41, 7 February 2024
- He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Total war is a military conflict in which nations mobilize all available ... The threat of total devastation to the earth and humankind through ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle ... His pioneering efforts in the field of ethnomusicology with his colleague ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- Mehmed VI, original name in Turkish Latin alphabet Mehmed Vahdettin ... In the process, Mehmed suspended parliament and asserted personal ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- 18|1911|September 5) served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council ... After his assassination in 1911, the country muddled through the next ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 20:10, 16 January 2024
- New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer ... One of the foremost dance companies in the world, the New York City ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... The term "the Continent" (capitalized)—used predominantly ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United ... Progress Administration (WPA), starting in 1935, opening in 1938. In 1942 ...11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- One of the first American writers to use the stream of consciousness ... Dos Passos was born in Chicago, where his father was a wealthy lawyer ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
- The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- and politician. He was knighted for his work in 1920. Mackinder was instrumental ... Halford John Mackinder was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- Movement) was a civil disobedience movement in India launched in August 1942 ... Gandhi's speech, and the greater number of the Congress leaders spent ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- Marcus Antonius Gordianus (January 20 225 – February 11, 244), known ... Gordian III died before he could make much of a mark. For just over ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 02:07, 22 December 2022
- , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... In September, 1949, when the Communists founded the People’s Republic ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- Gustav II Adolf (December 9, 1594 – November 6, 1632) (Gustav II ... own time, widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- Court Jew is a term for Jewish leaders who rose to positions of influence ... Some court Jews were also prominent people in the local Jewish community ...12 KB (1,873 words) - 20:25, 28 May 2020
- widely used to describe the popular uprising of Palestinian refugees against ... made possible when Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian Liberation ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about ... extend for more than 373 miles, and lie in a northwest-southeast direction ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance ... There was another round of revival of humanism in the Age of Enlightenment ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the Truman Administration ... toward Asia before the National Press Club in January 1950, in which he excluded ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- The Volunteer Army (Добровольческая армия in Russian ... Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- poetry, and particularly her work written in close association with the ... her work from that period as a series of failed experiments. Although ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- Sudetenland Crisis among the major powers of Europe after a conference held ... The Sudetenland was an area of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- ) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic architecture ... Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches, being ...24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
- the White Knight, was a Voivode (Ruler) of Transylvania (from 1441), captain ... Facing what was at the time the only standing army in Europe, the ...19 KB (2,971 words) - 07:01, 8 April 2024
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy ... In the history of war (which covers basically all of human history ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional ... In 1937, Japan engaged in war with China for a second time, and in ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great ... The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- whose members helped shape American politics in the twentieth century. The ... Robert F. Kennedy were her sons. Both of these public servants were ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- , is a large, artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula ... The canal allows two-way water transportation between Europe and Asia ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- After being educated in both Europe and the United States, Brunner ... At first a close friend and ally of Karl Barth, Brunner split with ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic ... After the end of World War II in Europe, Germany had been divided ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy ... such as the statue and tower both located in Vilnius Lithuania and a reconstructed ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
- ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... Allianz was the largest insurer in Germany when the Nazi party came ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...27 KB (4,082 words) - 20:00, 8 December 2022
- Alexander (Aleksandr) II Nikolaevitch (Russian: Александр ... Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- Bertha von Suttner), born June 9, 1843 in Prague (now Czech Republic ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of the board (from 1976–1994 ... Morita was born in Nagoya, Japan, on January 26, 1921. His family ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... Wilhelmina won respect and admiration for her role during World War ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- Espionage is the practice of obtaining confidential information through ... ==Types of Espionage== ===Industrial Espionage=== Industrial espionage ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- Ferenc (Francis) II Rákóczi (March 27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was ... He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member ...24 KB (3,987 words) - 06:28, 24 May 2021
- Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after ... Cologne also became an important center of medieval pilgrimage. Three ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – May 8, 1943) was the commander of the ... In January 1943, the German troops tried to enter the ghetto to round ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
- Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement ... quot; was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert ...19 KB (2,696 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
- ђевић) (Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro, December 4/December ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2023
- The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... powers started on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran ... Reconstruction commenced in January 1993, under the direction of church ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 06:08, 3 August 2023
- The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was a decisive engagement between ... The Allied battle plan prior to the War had been based on France and ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- 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
- Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- Subaru (スバル) is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese ... the horizontally-opposed boxer engines used in most of their vehicles. In ...19 KB (2,695 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 – April ... Communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- dedicated to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the ... It is based on the Notre-Dame in Paris but with significant differences ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- Independence Hall is a United States national landmark located in ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... regarding them as their peers. The survival of the Persian empire against ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... empires, Korea's history has been one of constantly fluctuating borders ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- was the first important tenor saxophonist in jazz. Sometimes called the ... Joining Fletcher Henderson's orchestra in 1924, Hawkins matured ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies ... Mitsubishi was the second largest of the family-owned industrial-financial ...21 KB (2,798 words) - 19:21, 9 November 2022
- through the early church's development in the Roman Empire. Although ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidona in ... The Armada was sent by King Philip II of Spain, who had been king ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- the German colonial empire, consisting of the northeastern part of New ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... to ensure that the West would be an ally in the process of liberalization ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- Josephine Baker (or Joséphine Baker in francophone countries) (June ... was an American-born French entertainer, and international star of ...20 KB (3,016 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ... 1756 to 1763, incorporating the Pomeranian War and the French and Indian ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a world champion heavyweight fighter ... After rising to the top of the heavyweight ranks, Schmeling fought ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- The Children's Crusade was a movement in 1212, initiated separately ... sold into slavery or drowned at sea. Legends of both miracles and tragedies ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- Antwerp, a city and municipality in Belgium, lies on the River Scheldt ... Antwerp has long been an important city in the nations of the Benelux ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western ... whose helm it also became an autonomous part of the Holy Roman Empire after ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- ) was a Cossack state in the central and north-eastern regions of ... Independent from Poland in 1648, in 1654 the Hetmanate became a suzerainty ...25 KB (3,590 words) - 23:40, 6 April 2022
- Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- was a United States soldier, famous as a World War I hero. He was awarded ... York kept a diary of his years just before the war and all during ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- The United States expedition to Korea in 1871, which came to be known ... Korea had maintained a relationship of tribute with China. In exchange ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- The city of Berne, the capital of Switzerland, was founded in the ... functions. It is also headquarters of the international postal, telegraph ...18 KB (2,738 words) - 17:14, 29 September 2023
- from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland—"Ashkenaz ... Many Ashkenazim later migrated, largely eastward, forming communities ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda ... As long as war exists, we can expect new forms of psychological warfare ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... was especially important for its success in preventing the loss of western ...16 KB (2,454 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- and commercial center, and the largest city of Moldova. Inhabited for thousands ... Since the country gained its independence in 1991, Chişinău has ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- Fort Pasir Panjang, or Labrador Battery, located at the southern tip ... Great Britain, which had carved out colonies throughout the world ...15 KB (2,283 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- and journalist. As the socialite spouse of Henry R. Luce, the publishing ... from inauspicious beginnings to success in fields traditionally dominated ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- The Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665-1887), also known as the Lunda Empire ... The empire's participation in and profit from the immoral slave ...16 KB (2,448 words) - 03:03, 5 November 2022
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... Born in Minnesota to a leftist family, Hall joined the American Communist ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- It was initially created as the Badge of Military Merit by General George ... Designed by Washington in the form of a purple heart, it was intended ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ... 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia for more than 26 years ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk ... center. Historically it was a member of the Hanseatic League, and remains ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear chain reaction ... Szilárd was born in Budapest at the time of the Austro-Hungarian ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- The Suez Crisis (known as the Suez War or 1956 War, commonly known ... The Suez Canal had been important in Iran and the colonial penetration ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... |significance = Commemorates war dead Honors military veterans (U.S.) ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino Repubblica di San Marino , also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is a country ...26 KB (3,871 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and ... their Phoenician ancestry). The main cause of the Punic Wars was the clash ...26 KB (4,140 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- His peaceful reign continued the policies of his predecessors, including ... The cosmopolitan city of Baghdad, founded by his father, blossomed ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- the Noble or Él de las Navas, was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death ... the Christian tide against the Muslim emirs in Spain. On the other hand, relations ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 06:52, 20 July 2023
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- The Eighty Years' War, or Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the ... The Southern Netherlands, situated in modern-day Belgium, Luxembourg ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- [[Image:Lascaux 04.jpg|thumb|250px|Lascaux cave painting of aurochs]] Discovered in 1940, Lascaux is a series of caves in southwestern France ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf] ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled ...20 KB (3,088 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- Яросла́вич Не́вский in Russian; transliteration: Aleksandr ... St. Petersburg, is still considered one of the most heroic figures in ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 14:33, 18 July 2023
- on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- tone and expressive phrasing, he was one of the most famous violinists ... After winning first prize in the Paris Conservatory's violin ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- Silesia is a historical region in east–central Europe spanning the ... Slavs arrived in the area around the sixth century and founded Great ...32 KB (4,656 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912–1913 ... The anti-Ottoman struggle that led to Serbian independence in 1878 ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 22:49, 3 February 2022
- Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from ... influence upon subsequent developments in architecture and interior design ...21 KB (3,071 words) - 03:07, 26 September 2023
- as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- Suleiman I, in Turkish language Süleyman and in the Arabic alphabet ... power reached its zenith and became a world power under his rule. His ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society ... While the distinction between a "civil war" and a "revolution ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction ... To the Mongols, the European invasions were a third theater of operations ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Benjamin Max (d. 1958 ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination ... The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- jpg|thumb|right|400px|Refugees arrive in Travnik, central [[Bosnia and ... Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- – June 21, 2001) was an influential American post-war blues singer ... Hooker performed in a half-spoken style that, together with his deep ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 20:45, 1 May 2024
- that originally supported the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people ... Mount Zion, a small mountain near Jerusalem. In several biblical verses, the ...20 KB (2,796 words) - 18:55, 1 November 2023
- saved through his protection while working in his enamelware and munitions ... Today there are more than 7,000 descendants of the Schindler-Jews ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- The Dutch followed Portugal and Spain in establishing a colonial global ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- The Fall of Constantinople was the conquest of the Byzantine capital ... Although Western Europe was religiously divided from the Byzantine ...20 KB (3,140 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
- widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century. He is ... Eric Blair was born on June 25, 1903, to an Anglo-Indian family in ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 10:53, 13 December 2023
- and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of government involvement in solving ... State (1967). Galbraith was active in politics, serving in the administrations ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally ... During the war, Germany's population was reduced by 30 percent ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- 250px|right| Hershey, Pennsylvania, named in honor of Milton Hershey and ... Hershey Chocolate Company, which became one of the largest and most famous ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- Harold Harefoot (c. 1015–March 17, 1040) was King of England from ... He was the son of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, Norway ...17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
- The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian ... Four and a half centuries of Venetian rule in Crete thus came to an ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what is now Libya, was originally ... Evidence suggests that Leptis was an important center of agricultural ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927; an event that brought ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- The term Community College is used almost exclusively in the United ... four-year programs. However, the advent of community colleges undeniably ...21 KB (3,019 words) - 00:18, 8 January 2024
- The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman ... Although today part of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... on natural law, which equated the authority of the king over his subjects ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ... ethnic background, culture, or religion live in seclusion, voluntarily or more ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...42 KB (6,144 words) - 08:27, 10 January 2024
- ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... After World War I, Munich became a hotbed of right-wing politics, ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from ... The primary aspect of the art of conducting can be said to be bringing ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the twentieth century, founder ... was the first publisher to use photographs in testimonials, and he advertised ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- 23, 1443 – April 6, 1490) was king of Hungary and Croatia, ruling ... born at Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca) in the house currently known as ...23 KB (3,564 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- The Battle of Largs was an military engagement fought between the ... The type of iconic status that the Battle assumed in Scottish folk ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- – March 25, 1973) was an American pioneer in the history of photography ... He and photographer Alfred Stieglitz collaborated in creating galleries ...20 KB (3,055 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English Channel ... These islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Dukedom ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- from August 1, 527 until his death. One of the most important rulers of ... and was the emperor who reconquered the city of Rome from the Ostrogoths. He ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- Mary II (April 30, 1662 – December 28, 1694) reigned as Queen of ... William III, who became the sole ruler of both countries upon her death ...22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:05, 16 December 2022
- scientific, and governmental center of the Republic of Croatia. It ... Croatia first appeared as a duchy in the seventh century and then ...25 KB (3,575 words) - 05:19, 13 June 2023
- objector sentenced to 15 years hard labor in the [[United States Disciplinary ... beliefs incompatible with being a combatant in military service, or they may ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (February 10 ... His main focus as Prime Minister was on the economy, but in the end ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 09:22, 19 January 2024
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- The late nineteenth century settlement movement, which began in London ... The settlement movement began in 1884, with the founding of London’s ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
- ) is a city in south-central Poland on the Warta River. It was formed ... The town is known for the famous Paulist monastery of Jasna Góra ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Hindemith helped to create a new conception of tonality with the 12-tone scale ... Born in Hanau, Germany, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- auth234 George Steiner] Contemporary Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03 ... literature and society, and the impact of The Holocaust. ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) ... Brandt was forced to resign as chancellor in 1974 after it became ...21 KB (3,209 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on January 1 ... Where strife exists, rightly of wrongly, on ethnic lines and national ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 09:17, 15 January 2023
- Marxism." Later, he was a founder of the Constitutional Democratic ... Peter Struve is probably the best known member of the Russian branch ...14 KB (2,049 words) - 14:45, 28 March 2023
- An open air museum is a distinct type of museum that exhibits its ... American models focus on representations of daily life, which should properly ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Cyprus fell in 1571, and the Venetians retained Crete until 1670. ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- work on the British radical movements in the late eighteenth and early ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... approximately two million and were one of the most formidable tribes ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...33 KB (5,138 words) - 15:34, 30 April 2023
- ) is a Japanese multinational corporation that specializes in imaging ... devotes approximately 10 percent of its net sales to research and ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 13, 1981), better known ... In 2003, Ring Magazine rated Joe Louis No. 1 on the list of 100 greatest ...15 KB (2,326 words) - 06:38, 5 April 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
- – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...27 KB (4,017 words) - 07:41, 27 February 2023
- for his Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science. He was also ... as an economist but he was also a key figure in the advancement of the British ...12 KB (1,648 words) - 04:20, 29 October 2022
- divided into two very distinct stages, that of a lost and disillusioned youth ... Waugh "the greatest English novelist of the century." Time magazine ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- Major general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air ... Although convinced that the airborne attack he led against Japan in ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- ) was de facto regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and then the first ... Godunov's life was the subject of two of the great works of Russian ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- - December 10, 1999) was the first president of Croatia from 1990 until 1999 ... For him, this made Croatia an ideal candidate for membership of the ...32 KB (4,830 words) - 06:17, 23 January 2023
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- Philip II ( Felipe II de España ; Filipe I ) (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- In addition to extensive territory around and beyond the Baltic, Sweden ... As a modern day supporter of the peace keeping activities of the United ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock ... who led the opposition. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
- ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... The Belle Époque was so named in retrospect, when it began to be ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... to another, often over long distances or in large groups. Humans are known ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- who became known in his capacity as a Roman citizen as Flavius Josephus, ... who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. His works ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa. There are more than ... Roses are members of the family Rosaceae, which is one of the largest ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- among the original thirteen colonies settled in the seventeenth century (though ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... during her childhood so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
