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- Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It lies ... As a part of the once powerful British Empire, Great Britain played ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- The Triple Entente ("entente"—French for "agreement ... Fear and suspicion drove the three nations to seek a viable partnership ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period of English history from the ... When the Anglo-Saxon period ended and the Norman period began, this ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- The Battle of Flodden or Flodden Field was fought in the county of ... This conflict began when King James declared war on England, to honor ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 17:39, 28 March 2024
- 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
- The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political ... Women's suffrage is the most widely applicable aspect of the ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- The Battle of Talikota (or Tellikota) (January 26, 1565) constituted ... Throughout the onslaught of invading armies of Muslims, Mughals, and ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately ... Beginning as simply the city of Oyo, it rose to prominence through ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- a human to enter. Some have suggested that the term 'cave' should ... unusual species that inhabit caves, some of which are not found outside ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- Gaya refers to a confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley ... The Gaya confederacy became a key component of the Silla dynasty. ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- 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 Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- The Three Gojoseon kingdoms first appear in Joseon Sangosa and has ... Some leading Korea scholars omit mention of the Three Gojoseon kingdoms ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- The Aro Confederacy was a large slave trading network and league of ... This Confederacy owed its origin to the rise of the slave trade in ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- a British economist, famous for his Essay on the Nature and Significance of ... 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
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- religion established by Felix Adler in 1876. The Ethical Culture Movement is ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, part ... As a body of qualified individuals who hear complaints of an offense ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 12:16, 24 January 2023
- Stegosaur is the common name for any of the various extinct, plated ... in 1877. These dinosaurs also reflect upon the changing history of life, ...16 KB (2,303 words) - 17:18, 21 October 2022
- present-day Iraq). His work resulted in some of dramatic discoveries, including ... Woolley's work also included findings of sediment that he believed ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally ... Marching bands are generally categorized by function and by the style ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 03:09, 6 November 2022
- Sphagnum is the common name and genus name for a group of mosses ... enhancer or conditioner, or used in potting of plants. Sphagnum moss has also ...14 KB (2,165 words) - 15:20, 27 April 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
- Skydiving is a type of parachuting done for recreational purposes ... jumps from a hot-air balloon in 1797. The military developed parachuting ...19 KB (3,068 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- Bowling has been popular for hundreds of years, with different variations ... There are many different forms of the game in various parts of the ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
- The World Factbook (ISSN 1553-8133 ; also known as the CIA World Factbook)Central Intelligence Agency ...33 KB (4,760 words) - 17:51, 30 April 2023
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the ... The original native people of Aruba and surrounding islands were the ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- The May Fourth Movement (五四運動, 五四运动, wǔ sì yùn ... The May Fourth Movement led to the New Cultural Movement and a drastic ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- The American Colonization Society was founded in Liberia 1816 by Robert ... The society held close control over the development of Liberia until ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 03:32, 24 July 2023
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- 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
- Boxing Day is a secular holiday celebrated the day after Christmas ... and friends, for sports, and for eating the left over food from the Christmas ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- [[Image:Eisenhower in the Oval Office.jpg|thumb|300px|President Dwight ... The term military-industrial complex (MIC) refers to the combination ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- The Eagles are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles ... At the end of the twentieth century, two of their albums, Eagles: ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:32, 12 February 2024
- The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron ... As white dwarfs are composed of electron-degenerate matter, no nonrotating ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- The Spanish Armada or Great Armada was the Spanish fleet that sailed ... The Armada was sent by King Philip II of Spain, who had been king ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- Labour politician. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid ... represented by his writing and speeches. On the one hand, he was a class warrior ...28 KB (4,168 words) - 18:03, 27 July 2023
- Pterosaurs (from the Greek "πτερόσαυρος," meaning ... Pterosaurs were the earliest vertebrates known to be capable of flight ...17 KB (2,484 words) - 23:32, 2 December 2022
- Blackberry is the common name for any of the various perennial plants ... The genus Rubus also includes raspberries, although in raspberries ...19 KB (2,739 words) - 18:11, 31 October 2023
- Bonduca) (d. 60 - 61 C.E.) is a heroine of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni ... Suetonius Paulinus was leading a campaign on the island of Anglesey in north ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 19:55, 20 November 2023
- The Mesozoic (from the Greek prefix meso meaning “between” and ... After the great extinction event at the end of the Paleozoic era, ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- ) (known as ING Group) is a financial institution of Dutch origin ... clients in 50 countries with a workforce of over 130,000 people. It has ...15 KB (2,077 words) - 16:53, 10 February 2024
- A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... Militias, being composed of civilians rather than professional soldiers ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... The modern state is relatively new to human history, emerging after ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... The Industrial Revolution led to major changes in the job market, ...23 KB (3,363 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- Loon is the common name for fish-eating, aquatic birds comprising ... While advancing an individual function of survival, reproduction, ...16 KB (2,427 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... its possessions and the debt being taken over by the government of ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- using electronic devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical ... == History == ===Late nineteenth to early twentieth century=== ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- 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
- remains are buried, usually with some form of marker to establish their identity ... A cemetery is generally a place of respect for the dead where the ...16 KB (2,305 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- campaigner for disarmament who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959 ... manufacturing business and himself served on the London County Council and ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel ... The Kinneret is fed by underground springs, but its main source is ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- 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
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... that a woman was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- William Pitt the Younger (May 28, 1759 – January 23, 1806) was a ... The younger Pitt's prime ministerial tenure, which came during ...28 KB (4,338 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2023
- The Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)Benjamin. A. Valentino, Final Solutions: ... In this ancient land, with a proud history, the real challenge now ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- contact, outdoor sport played by two teams of 13 players each, with an oval ... from what was initially a breakaway faction of England's Rugby Football ...29 KB (4,628 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- The European Community (EC) was originally founded on March 25, 1957 ... While the founders' hopes for supranational identity and for ...13 KB (1,869 words) - 04:30, 23 March 2024
- Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs ... The English term public opinion dates from the eighteenth century ...30 KB (4,541 words) - 18:05, 14 April 2023
- The Commonwealth of Dominica, commonly known as Dominica, is an island ... "Tall is her body." Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 17:13, 30 January 2024
- The geological history of Earth began 4.567 billion years ago, when ... known as Theia, impacting the Earth in a glancing blow. ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by ... Geologists estimate that formation of the canyon required at least ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt ... Sinai is a land of contrasts. The desert interior comes to an abrupt ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- Majulah Singapura ("Onward Singapore") is the national anthem ... Originally composed in the key of G major, in 2001, the national anthem ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 00:16, 22 October 2023
- The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling ... The geographical location and history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- Antigua and Barbuda is a three-island nation located in the eastern ... The islands' indigenous people became virtually extinct not long ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- The Devonian period is an interval of about 57 million years defined ... The full range of life on Earth included arthropods, like insects ...10 KB (1,511 words) - 05:54, 25 August 2020
- independence activist. In 1909, during the period following the signing ... An Jung-Geun was born in 1879 as the eldest child among three sons ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- The small island nation of Saint Lucia (pronounced "saint LOO ... The volcanic nature of Saint Lucia accounts for its being more mountainous ...18 KB (2,530 words) - 23:24, 1 August 2023
- | deathplace = Los Angeles, California, United States | occupation ... 8, 1995) was a Chinese writer. She also used the pseudonym Liang Jing (梁京 ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- Oceania is a geographical (and geopolitical) region consisting of ... Oceania is the smallest continental grouping in land area and the ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- The Almoravids, was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over ... The exact meaning of "Murabit" (from which Almoravid is ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- Trilobites are hard-shelled, segmented members of the phylum Arthropoda ... The most common trilobites were about 2-7 cm (1-3.5 in) in length ...16 KB (2,412 words) - 17:20, 2 May 2023
- 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
- The Ilkhanate (also spelled Il-khanate or Il Khanate in ... ), was one of the four khanates within the Mongol Empire. It was centered ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 16:11, 12 February 2024
- 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
- 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
- The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is a college-based ... In the United States, ROTC produces officers in all branches of the ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
- The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, who helped ... Later, with Ben E. King's yearning sound on lead tenor, the group ...11 KB (1,592 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
- Mitanni (also Mittani or Hanigalbat) was a Hurrian kingdom in northern ... The Mitanni may have originated from India. Certainly, they shared ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- Georgian Bay (French: baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron ... Georgian Bay was the first area of the Great Lakes to be visited by ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 20:21, 13 December 2023
- The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose ... The Fabian Society represented the more evolutionist element of socialism ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German ... Mikhail Gorbachev himself embarked on reforms that ended with the ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded ... Labour surpassed the Liberal Party as the main opposition to the Conservatives ...55 KB (7,952 words) - 19:37, 16 July 2023
- labor. There exists a fierce debate over the use of factories that have ... Whether sweatshops are ultimately considered a step on the way to ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... experienced famine and economic collapse. The demoralized Russian Army suffered ...24 KB (3,571 words) - 22:55, 5 April 2021
- Yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse grouping of single-celled fungi ... The term yeast is also used for commercial baking products that consist ...24 KB (3,421 words) - 09:54, 23 May 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
- The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das ... Located in the open ocean between the South American and African continents ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel ... Carnegie's writings provide insight into his philosophy of successful ...35 KB (5,539 words) - 20:11, 26 July 2023
- The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... The Caymans are one of the most popular tourist attractions in the ...26 KB (3,769 words) - 16:23, 3 December 2023
- Magnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation ... The first commercial Maglev was opened in 1984 in Birmingham, England ...31 KB (4,504 words) - 05:00, 5 November 2022
- The Crimean War lasted from March 28, 1853 until April 1, 1856 and ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- occurring liquid found in formations in the Earth consisting of a complex ... in semi-solid form mixed with sand, as in the Athabasca oil sands in Canada ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from ... The Korean War (1950-1953) and its Armistice Agreement left the two ...20 KB (2,911 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought ... The Napoleonic Wars brought great changes to Europe. Though Napoleon ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Ailred or Ælred or Ailred of Rievaulx, Abbot of Rievaulx (b. Hexham ... and then sent him to spend several years at the court of King David I of Scotland ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl ... A Royal Navy fleet of 27 ships of the line destroyed an allied French ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- This article is part of the branches of CAM series. CAM Classifications ... Naturopathic medicine (also known as naturopathy) is a school of medical ...20 KB (2,831 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- Franjo Tuđman (May 14, 1922 - December 10, 1999) was the first president ... For him, this made Croatia an ideal candidate for membership of the ...32 KB (4,830 words) - 06:17, 23 January 2023
- Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western ... Bohemia was unified under the Premyslid dynasty, under whose helm ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield PC (March 2, 1705 – March ... that slavery was immoral. This is an example of how a slavish adherence to ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 2022
- , or AP, the "Rice Bowl of India," refers to a state in ... Although Andhra Pradesh has a diverse religious scene, the state is ...30 KB (4,151 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though ... stemming mostly from tensions between the mainly Arab-Muslim north and ...18 KB (2,606 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious ... Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia ... The fact that Russia was aware that the terms of the Treaty would ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact ... Most tornadoes have wind speeds of 110 miles per hour (mph) (175 kilometers ...56 KB (8,507 words) - 00:50, 20 February 2024
- The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... Methodism originated in England in the eighteenth century, among a ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- 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
- 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
- Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the ... Nurses develop a plan of care, working collaboratively with physicians ...27 KB (3,663 words) - 10:11, 11 March 2023
- [[File:Durham 2534.jpg|thumb|325px|Men of the Shkreli tribe at the ... A tribe is a human social system existing before the emergence of ...37 KB (5,635 words) - 16:06, 27 July 2021
- Moss is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular ... or seeds, and their simple leaves cover the thin wiry stems. At certain ...21 KB (3,181 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- :This article is about the chemical element. number=16 | symbol=S ... stable compounds with all elements except the noble gases. Abundant in nature ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- a professional who practices medicine with the purpose of promoting, maintaining ... Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself ...29 KB (3,911 words) - 19:59, 15 May 2020
- [[Image:HiltonofCadboll01.JPG|thumb|A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll ... The Picts were a confederation of tribes who lived to the north of ...35 KB (5,272 words) - 05:13, 24 November 2022
- | Associated_acts = Derek and The Dominos, The Graham Bond Organisation ... Cream was a 1960s British rock band consisting of bassist/vocalist ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 06:17, 11 January 2024
- The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ... While Yoruba can be found throughout the entirety of West Africa, ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world ... This partially landlocked body of water, an indentation in the southeastern ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- The Russian Provisional Government ( Временное правительство ... ) was established immediately following the abdication of Nicholas ...44 KB (5,965 words) - 22:22, 29 May 2022
- (April 17, 1818 – March 13, 1881) was the tsar (emperor) of Russia from ... 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
- Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a nation ... The Tanzanian geography is one of the most varied and unique in the ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- 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
- The horn is a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into ... The horn, as a member of the brass instrumental family, is a powerful ...16 KB (2,716 words) - 14:17, 7 February 2024
- The Beatles were a highly influential English rock 'n' roll ... The Beatles popularity led the "British Invasion" of United ...38 KB (5,974 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- |region1 = United States (New York) |pop1 = |ref1 = ... The Onondaga (Onöñda'gega' or the People of the Hills ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... As a constitutional sultanate, Brunei was, in 2007, the only country ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... Although the three leaders arrived with differing objectives, the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... There are many differences in the way political parties operate. The ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
- 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
- Tuvalu (pronounced too-VAH-loo) is an island nation located in the ... Tuvalu consists of four reef islands and five true atolls. Its small ...20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
- Opus Dei (Latin for "Work of God"), formally known as The ... Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 by the Roman Catholic priest ...43 KB (6,418 words) - 15:47, 27 March 2024
- The Baltic Sea is a semi-enclosed inland sea located in Northern Europe ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ... ==Origin of the term== The word boycott entered the English language ...24 KB (3,816 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio ... From the organization of the first true radio networks in the late ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 00:51, 9 January 2023
- The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- as a fire engine or fire truck. Although the terms "fire truck" ... According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term "fire engine ...18 KB (2,795 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
- ; Tamil: கொழும்பு) is the largest city and commercial ... than 2,000 years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- The Progressive Movement in Korea began in 1873, just prior to the ... two whales, Japan and China representing the whales. Indeed, the history ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- - April 21, 2022) was a Kenyan politician, the third President of Kenya, ... 30, 2007, for his second term as president of the Republic of Kenya after ...24 KB (3,416 words) - 18:22, 8 December 2022
- The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor ... extraction begins in 2009 or early 2010, the oil revenues could have a ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern ... In one of the earliest English settlements in the New World, English ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... (baptízô), is a religious act of purification by water usually associated ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- logician, cryptographer and one of the originators of modern computer ... codebreaking center, and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible ...35 KB (5,278 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago ... to rule, dominating politics by its control of every aspect of the society ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is the third largest ... (astronomical). The first symbol derives from the name of its discoverer ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
- [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ... commonly involuntarily with varying degrees of enforcement by the dominant ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region including the ... The term has also been used to refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- field in science that is organized around the study of the nervous system ... There are many sub-disciplines within the field of neuroscience, including ...32 KB (4,338 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque ( bɛlepɔk|lang ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- known for having authored An Inquiry into the Cause of the Wealth of Nations ... however, his writings span a broad spectrum of topics ranging from astronomy ...16 KB (2,570 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... throughout prehistory and human history. The movement of populations ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- Helen Elizabeth Clark (born February 26, 1950) was the 37th Prime ... Loosing the 2008 election, she was appointed foreign affairs spokeswoman. ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
- Salt is a mineral, composed primarily of sodium chloride, which is ... Sodium and chlorine, the two components of salt, are necessary for ...36 KB (5,357 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... as well as having significant impact on the territory and its people being ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of ... Since environmental issues are considered as outcomes of modernity ...21 KB (2,883 words) - 19:02, 13 February 2024
- This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division ... The Korean peninsula has been inhabited since Lower Paleolithic times ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- Kenya (/ˈkɛnjə/; locally [ˈkɛɲa]), officially the Republic of ... Kenya's location on the eastern coast of Africa and central highlands ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- Minimum wage is the minimum amount of compensation an employee must ... The intent of minimum wage legislation is to to avoid exploitation ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- The St Andrews Agreement was an agreement between the British and ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- The Trinity in Christianity is a theological doctrine developed to ... After many debates amongst Christian leaders, the consubstantiality ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 17:40, 2 May 2023
- The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign ... Napoleon's invasion is better known in Russia as the Patriotic ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- :This article is about the aviation term. [[Image:FA-18 Hornet breaking ... In aerodynamics, the sound barrier usually refers to the point at ...16 KB (2,554 words) - 15:12, 27 April 2023
- Myanmar - swift and strong (from the native words, myan meaning swift ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... The word Thai (ไทย) means "freedom" in the Thai language ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- allegedly passing atomic weapons secrets to the Soviet Union, as they were ... In the 1990s, Soviet communications decrypted in the Venona project ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- |Image_Caption= A crop circle consisting of multiple circles ... |Origin= The term was invented by researcher Colin Andrews in the ...27 KB (4,030 words) - 06:27, 11 January 2024
- Sociological research ranges from the analysis of short contacts ... public policy with rationales for the actions that they take. Sociology ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- that found an all-inclusive unity in the Absolute Spirit (non-personal ... His philosophy can be best understood within the contexts of German ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ... The modern emirate of Dubai was created with the formation of the ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- emphasize activity as an important form of education, especially for children ... International professional organizations of children's museums ...29 KB (4,459 words) - 16:38, 10 December 2023
- ]] (help), transliteration: ru|ALA|russkiy yazyk) is the most geographically ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- [[Image:Harrods at night.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The exterior of Harrods ... which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a predominant ...29 KB (4,395 words) - 09:47, 29 January 2024
- The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, ... Liberia has recently been afflicted by two civil wars, the Liberian ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- এয়ারলাইনস) designates the National Flag Carrier of Bangladesh ... Biman Bangladesh Airlines has a history that mirrors the formation ...23 KB (3,204 words) - 17:42, 31 October 2023
- Jews) is a term which can have two meanings. The first describes the members ... Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... Military regimes have dominated Sudanese politics since the country ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. It has an estimated ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- in Persian and Urdu is regarded as among the greatest in modern times.Anil ... scholarly works on politics, economics, history, philosophy and religion ...34 KB (5,166 words) - 17:56, 10 November 2022
- Central America is the region of North America located between the ... The region has made several attempts at political unity since its ...32 KB (4,189 words) - 17:46, 11 May 2023
- The Himalayas (also Himalaya, IPA: [hɪ'mɑlijə], [ˌhɪmə& ... ) are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- :This page is about the World War II nuclear project. [[Image:Trinity ... The Manhattan Project was the project undertaken during World War ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- American exceptionalism has been historically referred to as the belief ... The difference is often expressed in American circles as some categorical ...29 KB (4,328 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2023
- located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... Denmark borders the Baltic Sea on the southeast and the North Sea ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- in central Kentucky. It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the world’s ... The official name of the system is the Mammoth Cave System, though ...40 KB (6,197 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- Coal is a black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed primarily ... In addition, mining methods can damage the land, and sulfur-rich coal ...32 KB (4,888 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- is a parasitic infection caused by the nematode (roundworm) Dracunculus ... The guinea worm is one of the best historically documented human parasites ...30 KB (4,300 words) - 12:39, 24 January 2023
- The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab to be over 300 million people living in the Arab world. There are 22 nations ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest ... In reality the situation was much more nuanced and complicated. Christian ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant ... was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- 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
- Transylvania is a Central European region located in the eastern half ... Dracula while within Romania and Hungary the region is known for the scenic ...47 KB (6,836 words) - 02:15, 2 May 2023
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- missionary and Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions ... Among those who assisted in the task of Bible translation was Ram ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central ... The Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- art), developed by Morihei Ueshiba between the 1920s and the 1960s. Ueshiba ... with or without weapons, in a variety of positions. Aikido training ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 06:57, 16 June 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
- (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according ... for a second time, and in 1941, it entered the Second World War with the ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- known as a tank tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored ... 1958, he inspired a new constitution and was the Fifth Republic's first ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in ... France and Prussia, which was backed by the North German Confederation ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- ) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement ... The club got its name from their meeting place at the Dominican rue ...49 KB (6,809 words) - 17:38, 1 July 2022
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... pass social reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South ... On average, Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- smelling liquid. It is a natural constituent of crude oil but is usually synthesized ... Benzene has been the subject of studies by many famous scientists ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 10:44, 28 September 2023
- A propeller is a device used for the propulsion of a vehicle such ... The principle employed in using a screw propeller is used in single ...19 KB (3,022 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase ... Initialism originally described abbreviations formed from the initial ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements ... supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
- Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... low-lying, with some higher regions in the island's interior. The ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... Partly, decolonization was overseen by the United Nations, with UN ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- The State of Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... First occupied by American Indians, the region was explored by the ...41 KB (5,855 words) - 15:35, 12 February 2024
- The Boer Wars were fought between British and Dutch settlers of the ... But a new imperial policy arose in England. It aimed to bring the ...38 KB (5,998 words) - 05:19, 17 November 2023
- The trio of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash are a folk ... was an instant hit. When Neil Young joined the supergroup, their first album ...21 KB (3,245 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on ... from a hypothetical meteor burst colored the rains, but a study commissioned ...21 KB (3,061 words) - 19:10, 16 April 2023
- This article is about the Australian territory in the Indian Ocean ... The Territory of Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- Developmental psychology is the scientific study of progressive psychological ... This field examines change across a broad range of topics including: ...31 KB (4,396 words) - 05:46, 25 August 2020
- The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe that ... The region covers almost 500|mi|km east to west and 3000|mi|km ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- The Qing Dynasty; Manchu: daicing gurun), sometimes known as the Manchu ... During its reign, the Qing Dynasty consolidated its grip on China ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- The political integration of India established a united nation for ... When the Indian independence movement succeeded in ending the British ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish ... ) or as the "First Republic," was one of the largest and ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- in Eastern Europe that borders Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- ) is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. It is ... Bank One, First Chicago and National Bank of Detroit, have contributed significantly ...34 KB (4,890 words) - 08:31, 13 March 2024
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- :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
- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World ... The Security Council requires all five permanent members to agree ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- (May 21, 1944 - ) was the first female President of Ireland, serving ... political office. Robinson resigned the presidency four months ahead ...34 KB (5,329 words) - 08:42, 10 March 2023
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013) was the ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... The world's only sovereign Grand Duchy, Luxembourg is a parliamentary ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors ... Austerlitz effectively brought the Third Coalition to an end. On December ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- East Germany (in German Ostdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- The Cold War was the protracted ideological, geopolitical, and economic ... The global confrontation between the West and communism was popularly ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- Surgery (from Greek: cheirourgia, meaning "hand work") is ... A surgery can also refer to the place where surgery is performed, ...22 KB (3,284 words) - 23:38, 18 September 2021
- – June 10, 323 B.C.E.), commonly known in the West as Alexander the Great ... (Megas Alexandros), King of Macedon (336–323 B.C.E.), was the most ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- The hajj ( حج , transliterated Ḥaǧǧ; "greater pilgrimage") ... is the Islamic rite of pilgrimage in Mecca, the city in Saudi Arabia ...29 KB (4,558 words) - 16:54, 21 January 2024
- Norfolk Island (Norfuk: Norfuk Ailen) is a small inhabited island ... Norfolk Island is the main island of the island group the territory ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... some might say arbitrarily partitioned by the former colonial powers. Pan ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 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
