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- :This article is about the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas ... right|An independent origin and development of writing is counted among the ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
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- Wampum is a string of shell beads often woven into belts and formerly ... Wampum belts were exchanged as a form of treaty between tribes. Wampum ...7 KB (1,160 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary ... In the latter part of the twentieth century opposition to Columbus ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, most commonly white sage ... and it has been practiced all over the world, its modern incarnation ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- Acorn is the fruit (a nut) of the oak tree (the flowering plant genus ... The acorn provides an important food resource for many animals, including ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 17:31, 16 February 2023
- The term pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the Americas ... The term "pre-Columbian" is used especially often in discussions ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 22:17, 30 November 2022
- Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site ... Cannons were first mounted on Brimstone Hill in 1690, when the British ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 23:08, 20 November 2023
- (6435260555).jpg|250px|A Nenets family in the Brekhovskie Islands, 1913]] ... The Nenets people (ненец ‘nenets’, ненцы ‘nentsy’ ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- missionary in South America, belonging to of the Order of Friars Minor ... Born near Cordoba, Spain, he joined the Franciscans at the age of ...8 KB (1,278 words) - 13:07, 5 September 2022
- Potosí is a city in southern Bolivia, 56 miles (90 km) southwest ... Potosí is a city deeply reflective of the pain of colonialism. From ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- An inuksuk, plural inuksuit, (from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ ... When Nunavut became a separate Canadian territory in 1999, the people ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 11:05, 6 March 2024
- The Baja California peninsula, (also Lower California peninsula) is ... beaches and rugged mountains and deserts, the peninsula is also home to ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- Carib, Island Carib, or Kalinago people, after whom the Caribbean ... Like most of the indigenous peoples of the New World, the Carib suffered ...16 KB (2,321 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- The Historic Centre of Lima is the portion of the city of Lima, Peru ... Lima was designated the administrative capital and most important ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 21:54, 31 January 2024
- Sucre, which is located in the south-central part of Bolivia, is the ... Sucre is also called “The City of Four Names.” Charcas was the ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- The sweat lodge (also called purification ceremony, sweat house, medicine ... There are risks involved in the use of sweat lodges, especially when ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, "People" + Mapu, "of the ... They are the only undefeated indigenous people in South America, having ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- Squash (plural squash or squashes) is the common name used for four ... squash or winter squash). Gourds are from the same family as squash. Well ...13 KB (1,929 words) - 18:11, 14 October 2022
- was a Spanish conquistador and Governor of New Galicia, Mexico who between ... Galicia, he was tried for and found guilty of cruelty towards his Amer-Indian ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- :This article is about the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas ... right|An independent origin and development of writing is counted among the ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire"), is an archipelago ... The total area is 73746|km2|sqmi|0|lk=on|abbr=on about two-thirds of ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- Typha is a genus of perennial herbaceous plants in the Typhaceae family ... provide important ecological values. The plants are often home to many ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 15:57, 11 November 2022
- :This article is about the wooden implement. [[Image:Boomerang.jpg ... or tribal origin and intended function. The most recognizable type is ...18 KB (2,904 words) - 19:33, 20 November 2023
- The Miskitos are indigenous people in Central America. Their territory ... but he did not have total power. Instead, the power was split between him ...25 KB (3,718 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- John Rolfe (c. 1585 – 1622) was one of the early English settlers ... Rolfe's marriage to Pocahontas was also significant. The union ...13 KB (1,946 words) - 03:55, 3 May 2024
- Umam) (c. 1500 - December 20, 1524) was the last ruler and king of the ... 1960, and is commemorated on February 20, on the anniversary of his death. ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- 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
- is a national park in Bolivia located in the northeastern portion of the ... The general objective behind the park's formation is to protect ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- , and (1871–1872), as President of Mexico.For resisting the French ... and adoption of a federalist constitution. ==Early life== ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 09:15, 27 September 2023
- French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the ... Its population of 202,000, most of whom live along the coast, is very ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 10:54, 11 April 2024
- are stone structures built by certain Indigenous peoples of the Americas ... Medicine wheels are found in the prairie regions of Canada and the ...19 KB (2,854 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of ... In 1994 UNESCO designated these fourteen monasteries, part of a much ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- La Paz, also known by the full name Nuestra Señora de La Paz (“Our ... southeast of Lake Titicaca, the city lies in a deep, broad canyon ...25 KB (3,650 words) - 05:31, 4 March 2023
- Great Slave Lake (French: Grand lac des Esclaves) is the second-largest ... The lake was named for the Slavey North American Indians. Originally ...11 KB (1,706 words) - 13:20, 22 January 2023
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward ... The islands' proximity to South America has influenced its culture ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- [[Image:Reconstruction of Taino village, Cuba.JPG|thumb|right|400px ... The Taíno are pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- : /ʔáınu/) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaidō, northern ... Traditional Ainu dress was a robe spun from the bark of the elm tree ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 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
- The Haida are an indigenous people of the west coast of North America ... The Haida in Canada created the Council of the Haida nation gaining ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance ... More broadly, the term entheogen is used to refer to such substances ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes ... ). Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- [[Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-18.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kazakh nomads in ... Nomadic people, also known as nomads, are communities of people that ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- Animism (from the Latin: animus or anima, meaning mind or soul) refers ... While the term "animism" refers to a broad range of spiritual ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- Arborvitae is the common name for any of the coniferous evergreen ... Two species in other genera, Platycladus and Thujopsis, also have ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- used by certain Native American tribes. The term wickiup is generally ... The use of these terms by non-Native Americans has been somewhat arbitrary ...11 KB (1,808 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- :This article is about the Algonquin of Quebec and the Ottawa Valley ... The Algonquins (or Algonkins) are an aboriginal North American people ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 18:12, 21 July 2023
- 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
- Bannock is a form of flat bread, the same thickness as a scone cooked ... Adopted into Native American culture, the bannock has become popular ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 07:26, 20 September 2023
- typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Indigenous cultures along the ... After the movement of European settlers to the region, cultural and ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- |related=other Algonquian peoples }} The Blackfoot confederacy of Alberta in Canada and Montana in the ...26 KB (3,951 words) - 18:11, 31 October 2023
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... The word culture, from the Latin root colere (to inhabit, to cultivate ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated ... The holiday has its highest prominence in Mexico, where the celebration ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- A longhouse or long house is a type of long, narrow, single-room building ... Longhouses are large structures, built with the materials available ...35 KB (5,411 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... When Yucatán became a state in 1824 it occupied the entire peninsula ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...28 KB (3,852 words) - 03:30, 23 December 2022
- Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... The victory would ultimately prove to be a Pyrrhic one for the British ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... The first Europeans to arrive on the islands were the Spanish under ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- ) is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and one of the principal ... Caracas is located in the north of the country, contained within and ...33 KB (4,619 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- |related=other Algonquian peoples }} The Maliseet (or Malecite, also known as Wəlastəkwiyik and formerly ...16 KB (2,389 words) - 06:38, 5 November 2022
- [[Image:Gamla uppsala.jpg|350px|thumb|The Royal mounds of Gamla Uppsala ... A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... Some classical examples of Tricksters in various mythologies are Mercurius ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... throughout prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- Precognition (from the Latin praecognitio, or "to know beforehand ... Precognition is the most frequently reported type of ESP, occurring ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- The Aleutian Islands (possibly from the Chukchi language aliat, meaning ... The islands, including their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- Panama, officially the Republic of Panama ( República de Panamá ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on an ...42 KB (6,441 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- |related = other Iroquoian peoples }} The Mohawk were one of the five core tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- colonizer whose epochal voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- Isabella of Castile (April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504) was queen ... A pious Catholic, Isabella focused on converting the citizens of her ...18 KB (2,888 words) - 19:02, 7 March 2024
- The Yupik or, in the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yup'ik ... The traditional way of life of the Yup'ik was semi-nomadic, following ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located ... Colombia is the 26th largest nation in the world and the fourth-largest ...40 KB (5,666 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- In its human-powered form, the canoe is propelled by the use of paddles ... Sailing canoes are propelled by any of a variety of sailing rigs. ...28 KB (4,725 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- He is known principally for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific ... Balboa traveled to the New World in 1500 and after some early explorations ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- Lima is the capital and largest city, as well as the commercial and ... Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535, as ...28 KB (4,030 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe ... They flourished from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
- known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and ... The area of Guatemala City was the location of Kaminaljuyu, a Mayan ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- historian, and political activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South ... During the time when predominantly black-white civil rights issues ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- Inuit (plural: the singular, Inuk, means "man" or "person ... Prior to the arrival of Europeans, and even after their arrival since ...53 KB (8,160 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... Genocide has been deemed criminal by the United Nations, as well as ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surfaces ... theories hold that they may have been a way of transmitting information, while ...25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- navigator who first explored and described the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the ... At the time of his death, no permanent French settlements had yet ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 12:31, 6 November 2021
- [[Image:Niger-Congo.png|right|300px|thumb|Map showing the approximate ... Africa, united by a common language family (the Bantu languages) and in many ...25 KB (3,899 words) - 07:30, 20 September 2023
- ordinary washing, hand washing, or washing of the body. By extension, ablutions ... Ablutions of one sort or another are practiced in nearly every religious ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 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
- , or 12 players (women's field), each of whom uses a netted stick (the ... summer sport. It has grown in popularity in the United States, becoming the ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 22:41, 30 April 2023
- Best known for his work in winning the Jews the right to live in ... Born to a family of Portuguese Marranos who settled in Amsterdam, ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- the people indigenous to the United States|broader uses of "Native ... Native'One race: 2.5 million Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics ...60 KB (8,901 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the nineteenth ... his diploma in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- The Republic of Costa Rica ("Rich Coast") is a country in ... Costa Rica is also at the forefront of conservation and environmental ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- Canada. Known as la belle province ("the beautiful province") ... second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger ...36 KB (5,238 words) - 15:40, 7 December 2022
- a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) ... produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, ...37 KB (5,471 words) - 15:52, 11 March 2024
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... power from September 1973 to March 1990, the country has been relatively ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- and diplomat who is best known for his study of ancient Mayan culture. In 1885 ... The colonization process in the Americas paid little attention to ...16 KB (2,447 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- :This article is about the Sioux chief also known as Spotted Elk. ... Big Foot (also known as Ste Si Tȟáŋka. The son of Lone Horn, he was cousin ...12 KB (1,889 words) - 16:24, 27 December 2023
- Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... features, including Angel Falls. Located in the Guayana highlands, it plunges ...35 KB (5,081 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
- Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... When the Spanish landed in 1531, the Inca empire extended over a vast ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 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 Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- Hickory is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising ... Reflecting the concept of bi-level functionality, members of this ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:46, 25 January 2023
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- Bell pepper is the common name for a cultivar group of the species ... With their beautifully shaped form and vividly colored exterior of ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 18:58, 11 January 2023
- The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting ... The primary natural resources are spiny lobster, conch, and other ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce ... a behemoth that it creates its own weather. The mountain and the surrounding ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- Canada. This relatively shallow body of water is bounded by Manitoba ... Hudson Bay's drainage basin includes parts of five Canadian provinces ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- The Bering Strait ( Берингов пролив Beringov proliv) is a formidable sea strait linking the icy Arctic ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- An epidemic (from the Greek epi- ("upon") and demos ("people ... A pandemic is simply an epidemic that affects a large proportion of ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa ... It was inhabited in pre-colonial times by a number of ancient kingdoms ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- The terms Hmong (IPA: [m̥ɔ̃ŋ] ) and Mong ( [mɔ̃ŋ] ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- Passenger pigeon is the common name for an extinct migratory bird ... However, during the nineteenth century, the species went from being ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous ... Juniper "berries," the fleshy female cones, which are commonly ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was ... She is remembered as a champion of women's rights, of Hindu-Muslim ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... Mauritania is a land dominated by sand and barren soil located on ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- a turbulent 40-year career. He was President of Mexico eleven non-consecutive ... replaced by rule by an wealthy elite while the majority of Mexicans, and ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 05:42, 11 August 2023
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 ... The Museum's collection ranges from ancient to contemporary with ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- to aboriginal people who, together with the related Aleuts, inhabit the ... area, there are many commonalities among the different Inuit and Yupik ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- was an English soldier and seaman, and one of the most colorful and important ... Unlike the founding of the Plymouth colony by religious dissenters ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 04:04, 3 May 2024
- The British Virgin Islands is a British overseas territory, located ... The islands extend east-west for 60 miles and are located just west ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who originally ... Throughout their history, the Yaqui remained separate from the Aztec ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- The United Mexican States, or simply Mexico, is a country located ... Covering almost two million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- The Norte Chico civilization (also Caral or Caral-Supe civilization ... The Norte Chico civilization, one of the oldest and most sophisticated ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 02:50, 16 November 2022
- |caption=Seal of the Penobscot Indian Nation of Maine |poptime=3-4,000 ... |related=other Algonquian peoples }} The Penobscot (Panawahpskek) are ...23 KB (3,545 words) - 07:18, 23 November 2022
- The Fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, came about ... In April 1519, Hernán Cortés, previously the Chief Magistrate of ...39 KB (6,310 words) - 01:38, 26 September 2023
- The Pueblo People are a diverse group of Native American inhabitants ... The Pueblo people have retained their pre-Spanish way of life to a ...29 KB (4,495 words) - 18:09, 14 April 2023
- The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a Latin ... Like many Latin American nations, the Dominican Republic has a long ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- jpg|250 px|Sketch by Samuel de Champlain of a Huron deer hunt using a large ... ***other Iroquoian peoples }} The Wyandot, or Wendat, also known as ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- [[Image:Aatsista-Mahkan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Chief of the Blackfoot]] The Plains Indians are the Indigenous peoples who lived on the plains ...34 KB (5,411 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Willow is the common name for any of the deciduous trees and shrubs ... There are about 400 species of willow. Willows are found primarily ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 21:53, 25 November 2022
- Manitoba is one of Canada's 10 provinces; it is the easternmost ... It is known that there are several possible sources for the name ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- , is a democratic republic in Central America. It is the largest nation ... The country's name is derived from "Nicarao," the name ...59 KB (8,536 words) - 09:43, 11 March 2023
- on region, this large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any wild ... An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in every major ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous ... eastern Africa, is widely regarded within the scientific community to be ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... by American presidents early in the nineteenth century, but more ...36 KB (5,257 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- Social Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the ... Many believe St. Lawrence Island is one of the last remaining non ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- 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
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Paralleling the various practices of animal sacrifice and of religious ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- sense," is defined in parapsychology as the ability to acquire information ... As with all paranormal or "psi" phenomena, the existence ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- A papal bull is a special kind of patent or charter issued by a pope ... Papal bulls were originally issued by popes for various reasons of ...15 KB (2,289 words) - 07:29, 18 November 2022
- :This article is about the weapon. [[Image:Two arrows.jpg|300px|thumb ... The history of use of bows and arrows can be traced as far back as ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 03:58, 15 August 2023
- The slave trade has been, and continues to be, an economic commodity ... Slavery has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group found in the Hindu Kush ... The culture of Kalash people is unique and differs drastically from ...33 KB (5,092 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- Cowell's willingness to be open to a multitude of musical influences ... Recognizing the importance of musical cultures outside his own he ...28 KB (4,110 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- The Ghost Dance was a religious movement that began in 1889 and was ... First performed in accordance with Wilson's teachings among the ...15 KB (2,439 words) - 18:46, 8 December 2022
- The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ... theatres from 1756 to 1763, incorporating the Pomeranian War and the French ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived ... wealth disparities are seen as an indicator of poverty and the condition of ...23 KB (3,286 words) - 22:07, 30 November 2022
- Kulintang is a modern term for an instrumental form of music composed ... The main role of kulintang music in the community is as nonprofessional ...41 KB (6,102 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- The Canary Islands, though politically a part of Spain, are only 67 ... The autonomous community of the Canary Islands was established by ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located in Manhattan ... The AMNH has a collection consisting of over 32 million specimens ...26 KB (3,976 words) - 06:38, 25 July 2023
- |related = other Polynesian peoples,Austronesian peoples ... The word Māori refers to the indigenous people of New Zealand and ...37 KB (5,756 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- Maple syrup is a sweet syrup (thick, sticky solution of sugar and ... Maple syrup is one of innumerable products that people obtain from ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 11:09, 9 March 2023
- Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...27 KB (3,892 words) - 11:24, 11 March 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 harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual ... The modern English word harp comes from the Old English hearpe; akin ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador ... Quito is considered to have one of the oldest and best preserved colonial ...31 KB (4,586 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2023
- park, established in 1885. Located in the Canadian Rockies, the park ... The Canadian Pacific Railway was instrumental in Banff's early ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest ... among different ethnic groups has been part of the country's history ...42 KB (5,904 words) - 22:53, 20 November 2023
- known as Ritchie Valens, was a pioneer of rock and roll and, as a Mexican ... The professional career of Ritchie Valens lasted a period of eight ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- Human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens; that is, the hereditary ... The Human Genome Project produced a reference sequence of the human ...21 KB (3,045 words) - 17:02, 18 September 2020
- ; named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands) is the southernmost ... Cape Horn is widely considered to be the most southerly point of South ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- A candle (from the Latin word candere, meaning "to shine" ... With the advent of kerosene lamps and electric lights, candles are ...26 KB (4,080 words) - 19:18, 25 November 2023
- Spain led European global exploration and colonial expansion in the ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern ... slaves and later contract laborers from the Dutch East Indies and India ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 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
- and protects an animal's body, such as the chitinous covering of a crab ... While the term exoskeleton most commonly is used for invertebrates ...22 KB (3,138 words) - 06:10, 13 September 2023
- The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely ... Although several species are often considered weeds, people around ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- The Northeastern United States, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- triangular and converge to a single step at the top, making the shape roughly ... Civilizations in many parts of the world have built pyramids, generally ...37 KB (5,368 words) - 21:28, 9 November 2023
- The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- Archives refer to a collection of records, and also refers to the ... Archives are made up of records which have been created during the ...30 KB (4,298 words) - 06:20, 12 August 2023
- The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the ... Originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin at least ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- colonial roots in his writing. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West ...47 KB (6,423 words) - 09:51, 29 January 2024
- The dictator novel ( novela del dictador ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 15:31, 5 July 2023
- – August 28, 1645) worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the ... Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside ... while assimilating to varying degrees with the local population. Overseas ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- 749.jpg|thumb|200px|left|First arrival of the Roma outside Berne in the ... |langs=Romani, languages of native region }} The Roma people (singular ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began ... The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- 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
- Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- Crow is the common name for various large passerine birds in the genus ... and mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian ... as a synonym for Christianity, despite the fact that it is composed of ...73 KB (10,603 words) - 12:23, 7 May 2024
- Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization ... Egyptian contributions to knowledge in the areas of mathematics, medicine ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- Ontario is a province located in the east-central part of Canada, ... The capital of Ontario is Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Ottawa ...35 KB (5,025 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, ... The species was on the brink of extirpation in the continental United ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... Jesuits are required to pledge allegiance to the Pope but their intellectual ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...28 KB (3,888 words) - 23:14, 3 March 2023
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... With Asian countries on the western Pacific rim projected to continue ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth ... The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the ...52 KB (8,358 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- |mascot = Marty the Martlet |website= [http://www.mcgill ... Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill is one of the oldest universities in ...36 KB (4,859 words) - 09:30, 10 March 2023
- Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands) is a British overseas territory ... Although commonly referred to in the singular, the territory consists ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- Fishing is the practice of catching wild fish for food, recreation ... activity that can enhance a personal sense of balance, strengthen intergenerational ...49 KB (7,746 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ... During the Roman Empire, the cross was an instrument of capital punishment ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect ... The social structure of the world's religious traditions can ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- ) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous ... Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centers ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
- Madeira is an archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean, and is one ... Madeira, known originally to the Romans as the Purple Islands, was ...32 KB (4,286 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- Mexican Revolutionary general. As commander of the División del Norte (Division ... He robbed and commandeered trains, and, like the other Revolutionary generals ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- Childhood (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the phase ... Physical development is relatively straightforward—if the child ...37 KB (5,556 words) - 01:00, 23 February 2021
- Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World ... The "common raccoon," P. lotor, also known simply as "the ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
- The Commonwealth of Virginia is a Southeastern state considered part ... The Virginia Colony was the first part of the Americas to be continuously ...41 KB (5,879 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- organization based on common control of the means of production as ... A major force in world politics since the early twentieth century ...45 KB (6,718 words) - 00:12, 8 January 2024
- Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Cuba is the most populous country in the Caribbean. Its people, culture ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- Neanderthal or Neandertal is a relatively recent extinct member of ... Sequencing of the Neanderthal genome has suggested that Neanderthals ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic ... was scant until after World War II. Much of his huge output is still unpublished ...60 KB (9,018 words) - 22:24, 4 December 2023
- noninfectious disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). MS causes gradual destruction of myelin (demyelination) and breakdown ...42 KB (6,258 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- , an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation ... The war began in May 1763 when Pontiac and 300 followers attempted ...62 KB (9,278 words) - 22:32, 13 January 2023
- Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to ... While the specific rationales and occasions for offering children ...43 KB (6,539 words) - 15:29, 10 December 2023
- American Empire is a term relating to the political, economic, military ... The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist ...48 KB (7,076 words) - 03:33, 24 July 2023
- The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental ... . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... The area that became Alaska was purchased from Russian interests on ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a devastating ... Notable later outbreaks include the Italian Plague of 1629–1631 ...48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
- Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... The first Polish state was baptized in 966, an event that coincided ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn) is one of several names for ... Different geographic definitions of Palestine have been used over ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
