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- At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger overall concern over ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- The Progressive Movement in Korea began in 1873, just prior to the ... representing the whales. Indeed, the history of Korea is replete with invasions ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- The War of the Triple Alliance, also known as the Paraguayan War ... The cause of the war has been widely attributed to causes as varied ...35 KB (5,486 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice ... played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- public. Beyond recreation, other functions of zoos include research, education ... observing nature and have a role as stewards of creation, have, in the ideal ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ... The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Outside of California ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- John of Montecorvino, or Giovanni Da/di Montecorvino in Italian, also ... In 1294, he finally reached Khanbaliq (Beijing), just after the death ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- or public even if the consequences of that activity are not conclusively ... appropriate precautions even in the absence of scientific consensus that the ...46 KB (6,708 words) - 18:54, 17 February 2022
- 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
- protection and to promote awareness of environmental issues such as ... Earth Day grew out of the recognition by young people that the earth ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- The Wichita are Native Americans of the United States who speak Wichita ... The Wichita are of Caddoan stock, separating from the Arikara, Caddo ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- have had vested interest in the outcome of the civil war between North ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South Dakota. He became one ... scene, Deloria, Jr. made the case that treaty rights, not civil rights ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- maritime explorer who, at the service of Spain, led the first successful ... sailing westward from Europe, the objective of the voyage of Christopher Columbus ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- reflecting the contemporary pronunciation of Japanese) ... was a Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyo of ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 08:38, 20 January 2024
- who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January ... action at the global level. How many of Ban's strong declarations ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- Perle des Antilles" or "the Pearl of the Caribbean." The island is the second largest island of the West Indies, with an ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 21:45, 31 January 2024
- 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
- ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth ... faith" in Spanish) had a population of 62,203 according to the April ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered ... advocate for greatly increased consumption of vitamin C and other nutrients ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... United States and Japan signed the Treaty of San Francisco, which came into ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic ... From the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Velázquez's ...37 KB (5,925 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... plant that grew on the marshy shores of the bay. In the sixteenth century ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...17 KB (2,582 words) - 07:16, 15 April 2024
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- |image=[[Image:Group of Apaches.jpg|thumb|center|250px|Group of Apaches]] ... Apache is the collective name for several culturally related groups ...37 KB (5,440 words) - 05:56, 11 August 2023
- Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... rapid economic growth due to the discovery of large offshore petroleum reserves ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- or institution; sometimes used as a loan of money. The term derives from ... by an elected governing body. The principles of the charter's function ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
- El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... the government and leftist rebels signed a treaty that provided for military ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571 when a galley ... fought solely between rowing vessels was one of history's most decisive ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...33 KB (4,943 words) - 18:26, 26 February 2024
- off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British ... it is the largest island on the western side of the Americas and is Canada ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- Bootlegging is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport ... unauthorized audio or video recording, often of a concert, distributed without ...25 KB (3,823 words) - 17:51, 27 April 2020
- Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... northern Ecuador to central Chile. In search of Inca wealth, the Spanish explorer ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies ... Mitsubishi was the second largest of the family-owned industrial-financial ...21 KB (2,798 words) - 19:21, 9 November 2022
- Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, ... is 1,500 miles (2414 km) southeast of Tokyo and 6,000 miles (9656 ...22 KB (3,229 words) - 03:09, 26 February 2023
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- ) is a major ship canal that traverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central ... and the canal opened in 1914. The building of the 48-mile canal was plagued ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected military ... or La Era de Trujillo), was one of the longest for a non-royal leader ...66 KB (9,421 words) - 19:56, 29 April 2024
- country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ... the Dominican Republic has a long history of violence and tyranny, including; ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- painter who is often said to be the greatest of the Northern Baroque artists ... heritage. Rubens expressed the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, which ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. German Nazism ... Fascism led to Italy's support of Hitler's Germany during ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- Ohio is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Part of ... Prior to 1984, the United States Census Bureau considered Ohio part ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar ... a calendar based on the true motions of both the sun and moon, calculated ...53 KB (8,207 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- military conflict between the United States of America and the nascent First ... ISBN 9718958002). This date marked the end of the war as far as the United ...65 KB (9,572 words) - 20:45, 23 September 2023
- 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
- New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions ... British annexation in 1664. About one third of all of the battles of the Revolutionary ...44 KB (6,512 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan's Imperial Japanese ... The attack was one of the most important engagements of World War ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... in the Korean War. During a Soviet boycott of the meetings over the inclusion ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
- The Navajo (also Navaho) people of the southwestern United States ... influenced their lifestyle both in terms of agriculture and art. The famous ...48 KB (7,395 words) - 15:33, 11 November 2022
- Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public ... interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified ...28 KB (4,023 words) - 23:51, 10 August 2023
- Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions ... The earliest well-documented influence of Buddhism in Tibet dates ...27 KB (3,993 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- (population: 371,767 in 2007; population of urban area is some 1,007,972 ... , named Zurich the city with the best quality of life in the world. ...53 KB (7,882 words) - 06:16, 13 June 2023
- is on the Pacific Ocean, while the east side of the country is on the Caribbean Sea. The country's name is derived from "Nicarao," the name ...59 KB (8,536 words) - 09:43, 11 March 2023
- – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933 ... successful engineer, and a dynamic Secretary of Commerce. He was highly regarded ...41 KB (6,027 words) - 14:27, 9 February 2022
- established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, the country's second ... area extends well beyond the boundaries of a single local authority. Greater ...30 KB (4,384 words) - 20:30, 18 January 2024
- Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It ... and France. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- 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
- 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
- The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations ... Finally, after massive swings in favor of both the North and the South ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- one" or "March 1") was one of the earliest manifestations ... demonstrations failed to accomplish the goal of effecting independence, they ...28 KB (4,439 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian ... lacked the military and political power of the former USSR. Russia managed ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- sovereignty until 1952, when the Treaty of San Francisco, also called the ... Taiwan and mainland China. In the Treaty of San Francisco and the Treaty of ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency, located ... The head of state is King Charles III, who holds the title of Lord ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- the aircraft carrier as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously ... 000 tonnes or more, has been the pinnacle of carrier development since their ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- |established_event4 = Treaty of San Francisco |established_date4 = ... island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan comprises over ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ... The policies pursued by Nazi Germany, based on the concept of Lebensraum ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ... During World War I, a force of Japanese destroyers supported the Allies ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
- denotes Russians citizens and/or residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin ... The Sakhalin Koreans experienced slaughter at the hands of the Russians ...39 KB (5,508 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- 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
- The State of New Mexico is in the southwestern region of the United ... American populations and has been part of the Spanish viceroyalty of ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's ... deeply implicated in the worst atrocities of the Stalin years – the forced ...67 KB (9,419 words) - 21:52, 3 May 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 United States House of Representatives is the larger of the two ... The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol. The ...85 KB (12,273 words) - 00:47, 30 December 2023
- Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest ... Located at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi ...42 KB (6,247 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- ) 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
- the Latin or Turkish), is the founder of Islam—the world's second ... and Medina are cities in the Hejaz region of present day Saudi Arabia. He ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. The United Mexican ... 14th largest in the world. With a population of almost 109 million, it is the ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- fell ill and died in Russia during the fall of 1920. He was given a state ... in what is now the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. His grandmother ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- | image name=Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg | order=40th President of the United States | date1=January 20, 1981 ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- was a Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial ... in Washington D.C., had an understanding of American character and a profound ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- , was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. his own authority over the apparatus of government. As president and ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest ... A child of economic and social privilege, he overcame a crippling ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be ... Eastern Orthodox until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
