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- formed in 1907 among the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ... With the onset of World War I, the world would see the two alliances ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- newspaper and magazine publishing in Britain. He was famous for buying ... England. He left school at the age of 16 to become a free-lance journalist ...9 KB (1,294 words) - 07:18, 20 July 2023
- George Cadbury (September 19, 1839 – October 24, 1922), the third ... program for their benefit. Through ownership of several newspapers, he promoted ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 08:39, 6 November 2022
- British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers and the ... Harold Sidney Harmsworth, the son of an indigent English barrister ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- George II (George Augustus; 10, November 1683 – October 25, 1760 ... |2= 2. George I of Great Britain |3= 3. Sophia Dorothea of Celle ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- George, Henry [[Image:Henry George c1885 retouched.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Henry George]] ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 07:25, 22 January 2024
- speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States to a Joint ... the Armistice with Germany ended World War I, but the Fourteen Points became ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (August 26, 1676 – March 18 ... held the de facto office due to the extent of his influence in the Cabinet ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 00:47, 29 November 2022
- 1980) was a popular wildlife conservationist of the 1960s and an author, best ... then a British Colony. In 1944 she married George Adamson, a British game warden ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:00, 8 September 2022
- The Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, normally called Westminster ... Since the Christmas Day coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066 ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- George Frideric Handel (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was ... of Hanover, who would soon be George I of Great Britain. He visited London ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
- Emmeline Pankhurst (July 14, 1858 – June 14, 1928) was one of the ... attended school in Manchester, at the age of fifteen her parents sent her ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- Robin George Collingwood (February 22, 1889 – January 9, 1943) was ... archaeologist and an authority on Roman Britain. Throughout the 1920s and ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- George Kennedy Allen Bell (February 4, 1883 – October 3, 1958) was ... Hampshire, where his father was a Church of England clergyman. Bell attended ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England ... both personally and relating to succession of the Crown and religious polarization ...29 KB (4,444 words) - 15:41, 7 December 2022
- American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America ... in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born to butcher ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- sometimes referred to as the "Father of Assyriology." Rawlinson ... 11, 1810 in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, in Great Britain. He was the second ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early ... tenure, which came during the reign of George III, was dominated by ...28 KB (4,338 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2023
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... to be very adept at the family business of iron manufacturing, and acquired ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- 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
- reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... India, on March 5, 1879, the eldest son of a judge in the Indian Civil ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- The Delaware Crossing was declared to be the moment of George Washington’s ... military odds and the certain destruction of the American colonies' ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 23:10, 3 May 2023
- newspaper, first published in 1896. It is Britain's most popular daily ... "Daily Mail reader" has become something of a phrase in ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 07:46, 12 January 2024
- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... the war would lead directly to a series of taxation fights with the colonists ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- George III (George William Frederick; June 4, 1738 – January 29 ... quot;| Paternal great-grandfather:George I of Great Britain ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with ... times as the Hellespont, have always been of great strategic and economic ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization ... #039;s dream was realized for this champion of his people's right to ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 16:52, 21 January 2024
- to support domestic British corn (in Britain, the term "corn" ... These laws are often viewed as examples of British mercantilism and ...16 KB (2,539 words) - 03:04, 8 January 2024
- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... In contrast to George I, who ruled as a constitutional monarch, the ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- executive. As the general manager of the BBC, he established the ... Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Reverend ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- 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
- George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) (December 14, 1895 - February ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration ... The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (June 3, 1865 – January ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- explorer, naval officer, and surveyor of Australia in the early period ... Australia. The first was with explorer George Evans, and lead an expedition ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:02, 3 August 2022
- The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great ... large following." Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," is his ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- by faith in the doctrines and sacraments of the Christian religion. a major force in the mainline churches of Great Britain and the United ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 21:44, 30 January 2023
- James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... but instead narrowly defined the powers of the government. Opponents of ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- Francis George Steiner [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD ... contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth234 George Steiner] Contemporary Writers ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- He was the preeminent figure at the center of the Third Great Awakening. ... Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great ... policies, and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- 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
- Revolutionary War began, and is seen as one of the first examples of African ... colonies' struggle for freedom from Great Britain echoes her own thoughts ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United Kingdom of Great ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- Iona is a small island located in the north-west region of Scotland ... The island of Iona lies approximately one mile (1.6 km) from the ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 11:11, 6 March 2024
- Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is ... and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, it is one of the principal official residences ...30 KB (4,758 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- chemical compositions which differ from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter ... (astronomical). The first symbol derives from the name of its discoverer ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
- William IV (William Henry; August 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) was ... |16= 16. George I of Great Britain |17= 17. Sophia Dorothea of Celle ...36 KB (5,444 words) - 21:27, 8 February 2024
- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- British statesman, politician, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1925 ... Elected to Parliament in 1882, by 1902, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 00:00, 3 December 2021
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during ... Unlike many of the poets who had memorialized the great achievements ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 14:37, 27 January 2023
- |Alias = Tammy Wynette, "The First Lady of Country ... |Associated_acts = George Jones |URL = [http://www.tammywynette ...18 KB (2,712 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was ... in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, at the time of Landon's birth. Later ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (February 10 ... an increase in unemployment and his policy of wage rise restraints led to ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 09:22, 19 January 2024
- 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849), was the wife of President James Madison, who ... North Carolina, on May 20, 1768, a daughter of John Payne, farmer and starch ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the ... If I must be enslaved let it be by a King at least, and not by a parcel ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- 21, 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author ... India, during the period when India was part of the British Empire under the ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 10:53, 13 December 2023
- He is famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial ... From about 1760 until 1774, Copley painted the finest portraits of ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 07:49, 3 August 2022
- The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major ... Great Britain had become a dominant colonial power during the eighteenth ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ... from 1754 to 1763. Prussia, Hanover, and Great Britain (including British ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- problems in governing the the United States of America, which had been operating ... The convention failed to resolve successfully the question of slavery ...26 KB (3,802 words) - 03:12, 24 November 2022
- District, West Bengal, India, consists of a theological college and a ... unable to retrieve. --> The Latin name of the college motto, Gloriam ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between July 2-6, 1777 ... The uncontested surrender of Ticonderoga caused an uproar in the American ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 21:10, 28 March 2024
- "the Alligator" by fans, because of his pugnacity on the court ... Lacoste was one of The Four Musketeers, France's tennis stars ...8 KB (1,243 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward VIII held the titles of ...39 KB (6,106 words) - 02:44, 17 January 2023
- politician. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid-twentieth ... to cite Karl Marx and supported recognition of China under Mao Zedong. On ...28 KB (4,168 words) - 18:03, 27 July 2023
- and technology that led to the development of radio. Besides his work in ... Born in Penkull, Staffordshire, Lodge was the eldest of eight children ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- May 14, 1727 – August 2, 1788) was one of the foremost portrait and landscape ... He is recognized among the most innovative and enigmatic artists of ...17 KB (2,489 words) - 21:10, 30 April 2023
- Cline, Ricky Nelson, Lesley Gore, Red Foley, George Jones ... The Beatles) outpaced her. She was also one of the earliest pop stars to have ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- when he vindicated the defeat and murder of Charles George Gordon in the ... Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in Ireland, son ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July or July 4th) is ... the history, government, and traditions of the United States. As an official ...20 KB (2,843 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... a precedent and my God will Make it the Seed of a Nation. That an example may ...16 KB (2,612 words) - 10:39, 11 May 2023
- into those which are analytic (true a priori, i.e. true before empirical experience ... Logical positivism held that philosophy should aspire to the same ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ... The development of the office of Prime Minister coincides with the ...42 KB (6,582 words) - 21:49, 26 April 2023
- ), also called "Sher-e-Punjab" ("The Lion of the Punjab ... Sansi-Sandhawalia family. At the time much of Punjab was ruled by the Sikhs ...14 KB (2,163 words) - 05:26, 5 November 2022
- Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Established ... The economy of Barbados is susceptible to various issues, such as ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- Up, about Peter, Wendy and the Lost Boys of Never Never Land. Barrie was ... Critics have speculated that Peter Pan was a reflection of Barrie ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 08:18, 13 March 2024
- The Cape of Good Hope ( Kaap die Goeie Hoop , Kaap de Goede Hoop ... ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa. It is ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- parties in relation to the devolution of power to Northern Ireland. ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- The Tower of London (known historically simply as The Tower), is an ... The Tower of London is sometimes identified with the White Tower, ...20 KB (3,219 words) - 04:47, 1 May 2023
- nineteenth century and then up to World War I. The society laid many of the ... The Fabian Society represented the more evolutionist element of socialism ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- contribution to peace was his analysis of the issues surrounding disarmament ... the London County Council and in the House of Commons. Initially educated ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great ... his faith and attacked his reforms, instead of condemning them, he won them ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... and was marked by the military leadership of notable generals such as the ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn, fought ... aftermath were marked by the British capture of New York City (which it held ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- The Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598, by King Henry IV ... end the long-running, disruptive French Wars of Religion. ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
- Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (September 7, 1709After Britain's change ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- has often achieved the highest circulation of daily papers in Britain. It ... women journalists. With its innovative use of photography and populist right ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2020
- and characters are rivaled only by those of Johnson in their depth, insight ... Hazlitt came from a branch of Irish Protestant stock that moved in ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- George IV (George Augustus Frederick; August 12, 1762 – June 26 ... |16= 16. George I of Great Britain |17= 17. Sophia Dorothea of Celle ...44 KB (6,632 words) - 10:49, 13 December 2023
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... tenth child. President John Adams was one of his cousins. Adams was a baptized ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... in the eighteenth century, among a group of men including John Wesley and ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October ... He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
- 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
- Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- advocating independence from the kingdom of Great Britain which influenced ... and the French Revolution. In Rights of Man, written in reply to Edmund ...26 KB (4,114 words) - 22:45, 30 April 2023
- philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college (Dictionary ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a ... He was known as one of Britain's kindest politicians, owing much ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2022
- born Australian Catholic priest, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years, and ... In 1895 he was appointed to the chair of Moral theology, and in 1903 ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- #039;s deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, ... Hitler but that his desire for peace with Britain was genuine. Hess blamed ...23 KB (3,538 words) - 17:39, 22 December 2022
- The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in ... The Glorious Revolution also saw a partnership of husband and wife ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 18:55, 31 December 2023
- accolades, and the moniker "The Hero of Upper Canada." Known as ... from the United States during the War of 1812. While many in Canada ...28 KB (4,513 words) - 18:55, 7 March 2024
- guitar" style. He produced a streak of hit singles in the late 1950s ... including his 1986 collaboration with Art of Noise that featured a reworking ...12 KB (1,822 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2024
- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...46 KB (7,168 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- right|thumb|Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.]] in large cities due to the rapid influx of large numbers of people, Howard ...10 KB (1,579 words) - 17:59, 12 February 2024
- Scottish historian, a co-founder and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ... as well as Farsi, drew on a wide range of Indian sources. Aspects of ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- The Treaty of Georgievsk ( Георгиевский трактат ... Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti on July 24, ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her nation through ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- The Royal Ballet is Great Britain's most prestigious ballet company ... Opera House as the permanent ballet company of the newly-founded opera and ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 20:54, 21 December 2022
- The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- in England. He is most famous as a student of Peter Paul Rubens and for his ... By the age of 15 he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he served on ... American War, he served as military governor of Mexico City. Such was his stature ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature ... passions that would become a commonplace of Romanticism: "One inhabits ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- The Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746) was the last military clash ... as cultural vandalism, with the destruction of a way of life that many had ...24 KB (3,671 words) - 11:38, 20 September 2023
- modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... and towards communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话 ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- | State Party = [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] United ... | Criteria = i, ii, iii | ID = 373 | Region = Europe ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:14, 23 August 2023
- on colonial attitudes, encouraging a sense of cultural superiority that had ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- leader in colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses, delegate to the ... " speech advocating independence from Great Britain. Along with Samuel ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2022
- English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. As well as more ... were in tune with the aspirations especially of the generation that lived through ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 02:34, 16 November 2022
- /ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full ...30 KB (4,264 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- Dixieland music is an early style of jazz which developed in New Orleans ... music incorporated the cultural aspects of New Orleans jazz music of the ...17 KB (2,609 words) - 16:20, 29 January 2024
- in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 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
- once called the Māori Wars, were a series of conflicts that took place in ... to settle on land did not always imply sale of that land. Under pressure from ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 09:40, 11 March 2023
- but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts ... in Boston, where he partnered with George Stillman Hillard. A visit ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- He has been called, “the conscience of his generation” ... for his satirical portrayals of American cultural manners and mores ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère ) (c. 1165 – December 23, 1230) was queen consort to King Richard ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px ... James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (Charles James ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British ... The State Rooms form the nucleus of the working Palace and are currently ...28 KB (4,475 words) - 16:52, 22 November 2023
- pop singer who, among the female artists of the British Invasion of the ... O'Brien, Springfield was a major fan of American soul music, and created ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...26 KB (3,787 words) - 03:37, 27 July 2023
- Federalist No. 68 is the 68th essay of The Federalist Papers, and ... Throughout its proceedings, the US Constitutional Convention of 1787 ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 17:11, 8 October 2023
- Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... a reed or a fipple. A woodwind may be made of any material, not just wood ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- Cultural Anthropology (known as Social Anthropology in Great Britain ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 ... many religious works, most notably the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the Kitáb-i-Íqán ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (March ... Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with ... A close study of the history of the company shows how the British ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- Ocean, located 300 miles from the coast of Argentina, 671 miles west ... are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- War. Hale is best remembered for his "I only regret that I have but ... Widely considered America's first spy, a copy of Frederick MacMonnies ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:31, 11 November 2022
- in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone, acquiring a considerable ... Wright is currently rated as one of the leading indigenous British ...28 KB (4,262 words) - 00:34, 10 February 2023
- in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo, "art for art ... now preserved as the Whistler House Museum of Art. His father, George Washington ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 08:36, 1 April 2024
- Protestant missionary in China. At the age of 16 he joined the Presbyterian ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- Review, were instrumental in the development of early twentieth century English ... Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- the most well-known North American Native of his generation, meeting and ... spent attempting to rectify the injustice of the Iroquois lands being handed ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- The Battle of Saratoga in September and October 1777, was a decisive ... The capture of an entire British army secured the northern American ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 10:21, 22 September 2023
- Arnold earlier distinguished himself as a hero through acts of cunning ... an alliance with France. Disaffected because of this and other grievances, ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- and Second Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence ... Adams was the author of the Massachusetts constitution, the new nation ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- Catholic) who want union with the Republic of Ireland to re-unite the whole ... Former British Prime Minister John Major had laid some of the groundwork ...31 KB (4,792 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... Gandhi but was unable to avoid the Partition of India, although he would have ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- as a representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives, U.S. Senator ... South Carolina. In 1824, his father was one of the founders of the first Reform ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America, as well as its ... In March, 2000, Audubon's complete, double-elephant folio copy ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- 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
- The Battle of the Boyne was a turning point in the Williamite war ... its symbolic importance has made it one of the most infamous battles in ...20 KB (3,207 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during World War ... Thomas' sensationalized reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI ... from the Indian but he also had a sense of obligation towards the people ...36 KB (5,555 words) - 08:08, 23 January 2023
- and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina following the ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- in the twentieth century. When one side of a conflict participates in ... The threat of total devastation to the earth and humankind through ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- and traditions, based on classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome, that ... Pope is considered by critics to be one of the greatest poets of the eighteenth ...16 KB (2,637 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- mile area located in the westernmost region of the African continent. It is ... Africa is generally defined as consisting of the following 16 countries ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December ... Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- The Mohawk were one of the five core tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy ... Brant moved to Canada following the victory of the Americans. Mohawk continue ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- most famous for his successful development of the gyrocompass. He also developed ... died in childbirth, and in the absence of his father, Sperry was raised ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- an American blues singer-songwriter, many of whose songs became classics ... " "Back Door Man," "I Just Want to Make Love to You ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- The City of Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and the ... On April 1, 1996, the government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the four ...34 KB (5,199 words) - 16:57, 21 January 2024
- He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better ... Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, producing ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 16:38, 29 July 2023
- eastern Europe in 1912–1913, in the course of which the Balkan League (Kingdom ... independence in 1878, and the re-emergence of a Croatian state in 1868 awoke ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein ... and Princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil, of the royal Hashemite family ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 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
- The Battle of Quebec, also known as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ... The culmination of a three-month siege by the British, the battle ...33 KB (5,197 words) - 10:21, 22 September 2023
- – March 26, 1959) was an American author of the so-called hardboiled detective ... Hammett's Sam Spade, the epitome of the hardboiled private detective ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 Housing Act ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- #039;s idealism is based upon the notion of Absolute Spirit, his idealism ... His philosophy can be best understood within the contexts of German ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- :This article covers the political aspects of the American Revolution ... The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half ...47 KB (6,905 words) - 06:45, 25 July 2023
- Musical theater is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken ... and other informal stages. In addition to Britain and the United States, there ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers ... with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- a British analytic philosopher. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she became ... read "Mods & Greats" (a course of study in classics, ancient ...23 KB (3,440 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- png|266px|thumb|right|Friedrich II. (the Great), King of Prussia, aged 68 ... Britain. George succeeded as King George I of Great Britain in 1714. ...32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- War. He did not rise above the rank of Captain in the Continental ... John Paul started his maritime career at the age of 12, sailing out ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 07:03, 3 August 2022
- a marked mathematician and a loyal statesman of his native France. As did Marquis ... Bougainville saw human rights as the property of all. All people ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... When Britain acquired an Empire of its own, reference to His or Her ...53 KB (8,072 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2022
- Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (July 9, 1916 – July 17 ... he did as Prime Minister. He was a member of the Brandt Commission on International ...28 KB (4,351 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman ... The battle took place on October 14, 1066, between the Norman army ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic ... It continues to be a region suffering one of the worst humanitarian disasters ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 22:17, 25 January 2024
- 27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against ... He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member ...24 KB (3,987 words) - 06:28, 24 May 2021
- clergyman generally regarded as the founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church ... Irving is sometimes referred to as a forerunner of the Charismatic ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- defeated the Republicans, or Loyalists, of the Second Spanish Republic ... and civilians, formally acting independently of the state, massacred Catholic ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... for the largest expansion in total land area of the nation's boundaries ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England ... Several significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... or "The Great Assassin" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- after 1780, was a Native American of the Seneca tribe's Wolf ... but finally accepted the majority decision of the Iroquois League, to which ...21 KB (3,357 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- [[Image:queenvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Queen Victoria at the ... May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ...55 KB (8,699 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period. applying its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 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
- Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874 ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred ... The Articles set the rules for operations of the "United States ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
- Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Order of the Garter (KG), Order of New ... major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier. He served in ...37 KB (5,516 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- Emperor Haile Selassie I (born Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge'ez, Amh ... within. To the outside world, he was heir of an ancient dynasty possibly ...31 KB (5,022 words) - 16:46, 21 January 2024
- The Battle of Plassey (Pâlāshīr Juddha) was a battle that took ... The battle was between Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... – is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... territory and its people being invaded. Some of these consequences can be beneficial ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (November 11, 1599 – March 28, 1655 ... him. Having a male heir was the main job of a Queen. There was, though ...22 KB (3,602 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America, on the Caribbean ... nation in 1981. Belize is a member of Caribbean Community (CARICOM ...24 KB (3,475 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- 1851) was a prolific and influential writer of children's literature ... she recalled it as the happiest part of her life. After she married ...47 KB (7,022 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 on Breed's ... The British were victorious but they suffered a devastating loss of ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, ... with Eastern mysticism. Like many composers of the early twentieth century ...22 KB (3,380 words) - 18:13, 24 July 2023
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential poets ... Auden was a poet of prodigious talent and output, living at a time ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith from ... structure. Before he assumed the leadership of the Faith, the Bahá'í ...19 KB (3,025 words) - 14:24, 27 January 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
- writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures ... in Gangwashi, Beijing in 1922. With the help of Reverend Robert Kenneth Evans ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
- George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the ... Washington first gained prominence leading Virginia troops in support ...58 KB (9,004 words) - 11:02, 13 December 2023
- such as Gulliver's Travels and The Tale of the Tub, were immensely popular ... himself in a bitter feud with the other great pamphleteer and essayist ...20 KB (3,106 words) - 00:23, 4 August 2022
- known to all who were close to her, is one of Canada's most beloved ... She lived a remarkably sincere, humble, and sacrificial life of Christian ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 02:29, 5 November 2022
- Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers ... the United States was restored at the end of the Civil War, not all Northerners ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. In some cases ... While humankind remains self-centered and unable to develop a world ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stele inscribed with the same passage ... ===Creation of the stone=== The stone is inscribed with a decree setting ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... century, eventually affecting most of the world. The impact of this ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth ... also had their heroes from the long history of Irish revolt against the British ...44 KB (6,781 words) - 18:16, 24 January 2024
- George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an ... Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- |name = Columbia University inthe City of New York light shall we see the light) (a paraphrase of Psalm 35:10) ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- The Boer Wars were fought between British and Dutch settlers of the ... in England. It aimed to bring the whole of Southern Africa under British ...38 KB (5,998 words) - 05:19, 17 November 2023
- who is best remembered for her portraits of Marie Antoinette, and for her ... Today she is generally regarded as the most famous woman painter of ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- Program (ERP)), was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding ... The reconstruction plan was developed at a meeting of participating ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
- in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the twentieth century, it has ... #039; rights. Labour is a full member of the Party of European Socialists ...55 KB (7,952 words) - 19:37, 16 July 2023
- The Reign of Terror (June 1793 – July 1794) was a period in the ... were largely atheists, products of the Enlightenment. One of the ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 09:38, 29 July 2022
- The word oratory refers to the art of eloquent speech. An orator is ... quot; also refers to a semi-public place of worship constructed for the ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- ) spans nearly a century of political tensions and open hostilities ... ==Scope of the Conflict== The conflict is sometimes referred to as ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- enabled him to compute the distribution of electrical charges on the surface ... Poisson was born in Pithiviers, a village just outside of Paris. His ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- It is also called Aotearoa or the "Land of the Long White Cloud" ... 270,000 km², is about the same as that of Colorado and somewhat smaller ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 18:04, 25 July 2023
- Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (ca. 1501/1507 – May 19, 1536) ... was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- identified as a secular holiday albeit of historical, legendary, and ... The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- during the American Civil War on the grounds of the antebellum plantation of ... . Veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- 23, 1800), South Carolina statesman, was one of four signers of the Declaration ... Rutledge, he was later appointed a member of the first Board of War in 1776 ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- was the sixty-fifth United States Secretary of State (2001-2005), serving ... in telling the world that the invasion of Iraq was justified and legal ...38 KB (5,777 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- statesman, dramatist, and writer of the Silver Age of Latin literature ... Born in Córdoba, Spain in 4 B.C.E., Seneca was the second of three ...18 KB (2,996 words) - 09:45, 26 January 2023
- major magazine, during the "Golden Age of Photojournalism," she ... whether that required sitting on top of a gargoyle on the Chrysler ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
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