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- |image_name = Portrait of Milton Friedman.jpg ... Hayek, H. Jones, H.C. Simons, Stigler, Schultz, George ...27 KB (3,928 words) - 20:26, 6 February 2024
- 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- and suffragette. During the Easter Rising of 1917, she was an officer in ... earned her a reputation as the friend of the workers, of the poor, and ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 17:49, 16 May 2020
- The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church ... Eight American Presidents (George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Franklin ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- States (Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana) of the Muskogean linguistic group ... Choctaw also participated in World War I and World War II as code talkers ...38 KB (5,802 words) - 17:09, 10 December 2023
- principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding ... as a reaction against the rationalization of nature during the Enlightenment ...19 KB (2,987 words) - 04:48, 3 August 2022
- January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defense Forces ... Mannerheim is given much of the credit for successfully steering the ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- movement and is regarded as the father of Irish Republicans. Tone himself ... Tone was born in Dublin, the son of a Church of Ireland, Protestant ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- the rule, and the period, from 1858 to 1947, of the British Empire on the Indian ... by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown. Prior to ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- [[File:Drawing of William de Marisco.jpg|right|thumb|300px|As illustrated ... penalty ordained in England for the crime of treason. It is considered by ...18 KB (2,928 words) - 19:19, 14 August 2020
- Charles I (November 19, 1600 – January 30, 1649) was King of England ... Henrietta Maria, over the objections of Parliament and public opinion ...42 KB (6,645 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines, officially ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- including it, also to a former province of British India called Ajmer-Merwara. the late seventh century C.E. as the capital of the Chauhan dynasty. The city ...14 KB (1,997 words) - 07:13, 16 June 2023
- and political figure, and the father of President John F. Kennedy and ... to the United Kingdom at the start of World War II. His term as Ambassador ...31 KB (4,694 words) - 04:52, 7 May 2024
- journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen ... It is for his series of articles published in June 1931 covering Stalin ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- is an annual custom on April 1, consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes ... for the individual, and the coming together of the community in laughter also ...22 KB (3,192 words) - 15:56, 11 August 2023
- Anthony Trollope ( April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882 ) became one ... Baretshire is focused on the inner workings of an imaginary cathedral ...17 KB (2,461 words) - 05:26, 31 July 2023
- journalist. He led France during World War I and was one of the major voices ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- exposure for adultery in Japan from Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs ... Punishment is the practice of imposing something unpleasant on a person ...23 KB (3,563 words) - 18:12, 14 April 2023
- a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company ... Carnegie's writings provide insight into his philosophy of successful ...35 KB (5,539 words) - 20:11, 26 July 2023
- who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. He was ... Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- January 17, 395 C.E.), also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was ... He is also known for making Christianity the official state religion ...21 KB (3,189 words) - 18:01, 30 April 2023
- Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it has ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... #039;. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered sailing ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed ... These wars were between supporters of the king's right to absolute ...48 KB (7,492 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- align:center;" | [[Image:Elizabeth I of England - coronation portrait ... | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Mary I ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly ... campaign than in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Spanish-American War ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and ... being educated in France, Germany, and Great Britain, he joined the Royal ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- from the United Kingdom by force of arms. It was the most significant ... stepping-stone in the eventual creation of the Irish Republic. The Irish ...29 KB (4,554 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2020
- Category:Biographies of Scientists and Mathematicians [[Image:Thomas_Young_ ... scientist who conclusively demonstrated many of the wave properties of light ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... Broadcasting forms a very large segment of the mass media. Television ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- 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
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... as the Sandwich Islands, form an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, born in ... him exceptionally wealthy towards the end of his life. However, he lived ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 07:50, 22 January 2024
- by her father, she is considered one of tennis' first true stars. both her tennis and her sportswear. The aura of her celebrity led to her being ...24 KB (3,518 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- an effective and relatively safe means of vaccination against smallpox ... safer, more effective, and without the risk of smallpox transmission. Vaccination ...25 KB (3,573 words) - 19:51, 17 November 2021
- – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 ... lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- observations in Africa challenged attitudes of racial superiority and provoked ... at a time when women were thought incapable of doing what men did. Her achievements ...29 KB (4,571 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- whose works, such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The ... to express the complexities and calamities of the modern era. Perhaps more ...25 KB (3,801 words) - 02:02, 27 February 2023
- The Battle of Gallipoli took place at Gallipoli from April 1915 to ... Çanakkale Savaşları, after the province of Çanakkale. In the United Kingdom ...37 KB (5,841 words) - 21:41, 25 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
- history who served as the Prime Minister of IranMike Thomson, [http://www ... t/041600iran-cia-index.html Secrets of History: The C.I.A. in Iran ...33 KB (4,921 words) - 19:30, 9 November 2022
- He is viewed by some art historians as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism ... He was a painter of heroic, literary, and surreal themes that often ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- | order=28th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1913 ... | date of birth=December 28, 1856 | place of birth=Staunton, Virginia ...37 KB (5,512 words) - 23:30, 17 May 2023
- the Second World War for her portrayal of strong women on the homefront ... for her performance in the title role of the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver ...27 KB (3,873 words) - 22:37, 26 July 2022
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess ... Her contemporaries included Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, (Peter Abelard ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (February ... Contrary to the popular conception of an either-or dichotomy between ...23 KB (3,500 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2022
- and television. Although based for much of her life in the United States ... , National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). She appeared ...63 KB (9,615 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in ... sensible contents derived from the object of cognition and the a priori ...23 KB (3,260 words) - 07:38, 24 January 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
- /kɛlt/ now refers primarily to a member of any of a number of peoples ... Although today restricted to the Atlantic coast of Western Europe ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- Charles II (May 29, 1630 – February 6, 1685) was the King of England ... due to the uncertain political situation of the time. His father was executed ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... 1500), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice. Inspired by the new ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial ... sea and land routes to India with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, discovered ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her novels ... Chelsea, which was then on the outskirts of London. Gaskell was the eighth ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 16:19, 13 February 2024
- 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other ... In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- Zinov'ev according to the Library of Congress system. (born Hirsch ... was an Old Bolshevik and a close associate of Vladimir Lenin. During the ...36 KB (4,951 words) - 20:53, 31 January 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
- Cream was a 1960s British rock band consisting of bassist/vocalist ... "Strange Brew" and "Tales of Brave Ulysses." Cream ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 06:17, 11 January 2024
- 15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature ... intent on promoting the Established Church of Britain and on teaching young ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- and one or two tails. The main body of the comet, called its nucleus ... opportunity to study the early history of the solar system. In addition ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- Winston): "You've made me love you; I didn't want to do it."]] ... |+Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |Periods in Office: ...65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
- membership, known as Salvationists, of over 1 million consisting of ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...30 KB (4,473 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- As a philosopher, he was an early proponent of Empiricism. Locke also made ... him, John Locke is considered the first of the three major British Empiricists ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of ... ==Frontiers of Hungary== The Hungarian government terminated the personal ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 14:59, 2 May 2023
- was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. He was among the first young ... ideas back to Russia. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg as his ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 20:28, 23 June 2020
- capital, Halifax, is a major economic center of the region. It is the fourth ... The province includes several regions of the Mi'kmaq nation of ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- public figure. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ... While widely recognized as a leading representative of Judaism in ...46 KB (6,319 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
- leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic ... Pavel was born in Moscow in the upper-class family of Nikolai Pavlovich ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 ... opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 00:24, 18 November 2022
- – February 7, 1799) was the fifth emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and ... During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, China attained its maximum ...28 KB (4,243 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2023
- enormous popular success during a career of more than 70 years and continues ... and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British ... in that region, contained only with the fall of Gwalior on June 20, 1858. The ...41 KB (6,196 words) - 18:35, 4 March 2024
- The Battle of the Somme, fought in the summer and autumn of 1916, ... United Kingdom was exposed to the horrors of modern war with the release ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) ... was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown, outside of the United ... Tamla Records, Motown has, over the course of its history, owned or distributed ...27 KB (4,046 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- |flag = [[Image:Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg|center|135px]] ... was a powerful and unique gathering of Native American tribes that ...41 KB (6,201 words) - 23:24, 9 December 2021
- on this show led to half a century of success on television. Frost was one of the "Famous Five" who were behind the launch ...34 KB (4,795 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set on ... The title refers to several verses of the Qur'an that were later ...35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
- align:center;" | [[Image:Portrait of Edward VI of England.jpg|200px]] ... text-align: left;" | Lady Jane Grey Mary I |- | style="vertical ...24 KB (3,796 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak ... Fourteen British and eleven German ships were sunk with great loss ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... in American history. He served as Speaker of the House longer than any man ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...63 KB (9,535 words) - 21:17, 6 May 2024
- William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington ... Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English ...49 KB (7,679 words) - 11:02, 9 May 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
- Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (March 11 ... Wilson is generally recognized as a man of profound intellect but ...47 KB (7,170 words) - 20:22, 29 January 2022
- North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- for his barbed and clever wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights ... As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ...42 KB (6,087 words) - 00:57, 30 December 2022
- Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during ... The chronological anchors of the era are generally vague, largely ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | date of birth=September 15, 1857 | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- meaning speech or argument) refers to a body of stories that attempt to explain ... Nevertheless, myths may tap into dimensions of human experience, often religious ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music inspired by or attempting ... In the history of rock music, psychedelic rock is a bridge from early ...40 KB (6,210 words) - 08:25, 2 December 2022
- The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... (Saint James). However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- (or The Little Princess) is the story of a little girl living in an ... The rags-to-riches themes of her stories echo her own rise from impoverished ...16 KB (2,561 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- several decades, played leading lady in some of the most notable productions ... distinctive husky voiced resonance. (Some of her quotes and quips, like ...25 KB (3,800 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace. He wrote two ... young man and a committed Whig, he was part of the scheme to overthrow James ...51 KB (7,876 words) - 04:26, 3 May 2024
- | Image = [[Image:Pyramids of Egypt1.jpg|250px|The Giza Pyramids ... | Criteria = i, iii, vi | ID = 86 | Region = Arab States ...33 KB (5,140 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- the Butler Act, which forbade the teaching of any theory of evolution in ... ... that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque ... In the strict sense satire is a literary genre, but the larger notion ...31 KB (4,584 words) - 15:56, 18 December 2022
- "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... and other militarist regimes at war with Britain have been the cause of arguments ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- during World War II and the 34th President of the United States. During the ... with the communist Soviet Union. During the height of the ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- pamphleteer, and, most enduringly, author of what is widely considered the ... blind, Paradise Lost relates the story of the biblical Fall of Man: It ...27 KB (4,256 words) - 03:00, 2 May 2024
- who recast the the laws governing the motion of bodies in a simplified and ... Hamilton was the fourth of nine children of Archibald Hamilton, a ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- , or 12 players (women's field), each of whom uses a netted stick (the ... In its current form, men's lacrosse is played on a field of grass ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 22:41, 30 April 2023
- She was involved in two of the most famous and well-received radio ... Gregory's acclaimed stage production of Shaw's Don Juan In Hell ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
- actor, director, and producer. He is one of the most famous and revered ... than six decades and included a wide variety of roles, from Shakespeare's ...43 KB (6,624 words) - 17:52, 25 October 2022
- an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- 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
- energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... majority share in the company, and World War I soon established the importance ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...31 KB (4,680 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- New Jersey is one of the Mid-Atlantic states located in the Northeastern ... seeking to control the two important cities of New York and Philadelphia crossed ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central ... The gorge is the greatest concentration of arches east of the Rocky Mountains ...39 KB (5,531 words) - 22:12, 3 March 2023
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- specific purposes. Early balloons were made of dried animal bladders. Modern ... Party balloons are mostly made of natural latex tapped from rubber ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- 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
- The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United ... The House of Commons evolved at some point during the fourteenth century ...50 KB (8,030 words) - 02:42, 22 November 2023
- . Their language, Mvskoke, is a member of the Creek branch of the Muskogean ... to cooperate with settlers, and the efforts of those such as Benjamin Hawkins ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- valorem tax that an owner pays on the value of the property being taxed. There ... and assessment, with various methods of assessing property value in ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ... commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- his career as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University, after ... His writing on Islam pioneered, in the English-speaking world, use ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of ... not in his literary style, but in the themes of his stories, which demonstrated ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- The First War of Indian Independence was a period of rebellions in ... Mangal Pandey, a Sepoy in the colonial British army, was the spearhead ...43 KB (6,818 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- |motto = Vox clamantis in deserto(The voice of one crying ... |athletics =NCAA Division I-AA Ivy league34 varsity teams ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- – 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
- to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests ... precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government. As ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- Maryland is a state located on the East Coast of the United States ... the Civil War gives it characteristics of both the Northern and Southern ...45 KB (6,596 words) - 08:44, 10 March 2023
- The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, ... (1999-2003), that have displaced hundreds of thousands of its citizens and ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 ... One of the most significant British politicians in recent political ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes ... system which eventually made it the target of a zealous, impoverished French ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (À ... in Austria, and Italo Svevo in Italy is one of the seminal figures of Modernist ...21 KB (3,300 words) - 03:06, 6 November 2022
- against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following ... Meanwhile, messengers spread the word of Pontiac's actions, and ...62 KB (9,278 words) - 22:32, 13 January 2023
- World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United ... Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- The Bailiwick of Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri) is a British Crown dependency ... The defense of all these islands is the responsibility of the United ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- during World War II, beginning at the age of 15, and the loss of his parents ... Wiesel was a passionate and powerful writer and author of more than ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly ... Like all Modern art, a general term used for most of the artistic ...19 KB (2,696 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
- – June 9, 1870) was an English novelist of the Romantic and Victorian ... even political leaders have pointed out, one of the most politically revolutionary ...35 KB (5,506 words) - 01:58, 4 December 2023
- Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of ... It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." The name ...30 KB (4,439 words) - 14:09, 7 May 2024
- him the only Canadian recipient of the "Triple Crown of Acting ... von Trapp in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965) alongside Julie ...51 KB (7,432 words) - 21:43, 10 December 2023
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... Members of all branches of the U.S. military are eligible to receive ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- Carta, due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that ... proceedings, in order for judges instead of legislators to guarantee fundamental ...45 KB (7,039 words) - 01:13, 16 January 2023
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... His role in World War I is debated by scholars. On the one hand, he ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated ... Although commonly referred to in the singular, the territory consists ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel, serving from 2007 to ... and led Alignment and Labor. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he ...47 KB (6,756 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing. The Qing Dynasty ... with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height of Imperial Chinese influence ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- ) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement ... at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins. The Dominicans ...49 KB (6,809 words) - 17:38, 1 July 2022
- in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the most prominent of Founders ... He published the famous stories of Poor Richard's Almanack and ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 09:50, 28 September 2023
- east. Wrangle Island has the highest density of polar bear dens as well as ... Humans lived as early as 1700 B.C.E. in the region, at the end of ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 14:01, 20 May 2023
- Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery ... In the woods, is perpetual Youth. The currents of the Universal Being ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- education, is a broad term for the practice of teaching and educating adults ... and also due to the increasing consciousness of the rights of all people to ...24 KB (3,446 words) - 06:19, 15 June 2023
- he was posthumously made an Honorary Citizen of the United States; there are ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 06:57, 15 December 2022
- The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- Thomas Jefferson, believed to be the mother of several children belonging ... that the Hemings children were the offspring of a nephew of Jefferson. ...27 KB (3,996 words) - 01:50, 23 December 2022
- George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was ... McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862 ended in failure, retreating ...67 KB (10,321 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, stands at an average ... UNESCO designated the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram in 1984 ...31 KB (4,590 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- The First World War, known as the Great War before 1939 and as World ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... United Kingdom, or the same as the island of Great Britain, which consists ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- ("lucky place"), is the capital of the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan ... Silk Road, the city has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). While differing ... Africa and India, but are now, because of migration, found also in Western ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... enthusiastic: Some powers linked the demise of the Ottomans with the fate ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- known for his pioneering work in the use of radio wave transmissions for ... Marconi's mastery of long-distance signal transmission by radio ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
- Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... engineer. Those licensed in specific areas of engineering may have formal ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative ... 1971 to 1992 he was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College ...58 KB (8,069 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- influences = John Locke, George Berkeley, Francis Hutcheson, Isaac Newton | ... notable_ideas = Problem of causation, Induction, Is-ought problem | ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 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
- A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
- screenplays for Hollywood, and in turn, many of his works, which are full of ... stories and experience the political world of various nations up close. Many ...28 KB (4,089 words) - 10:04, 31 December 2022
- combines grace and athleticism, requiring great discipline combined with ... Skating Championships, the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, the European ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... For thirty-three years one of the great mysteries of American politics ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- combine Christian lore with a Celtic myth of a cauldron endowed with special ... The quest for the Holy Grail makes up an important segment of the ...17 KB (2,819 words) - 16:11, 25 January 2023
- physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- Michigan is a Midwestern state of the United States of America, located ... Bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair, Michigan ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...51 KB (7,537 words) - 12:02, 1 February 2024
- Giant Peach, Matilda, and The Witches, all of which were adapted into successful ... a children's author, impressed millions of readers worldwide with his ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 03:07, 15 December 2022
- ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily ... The earliest use of the term "Uyghur" (Weihu), during the ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
- John Wesley (June 17, 1703-March 2, 1791) was the central figure of ... life bridged the Reformation and modern eras of Christianity. His near death ...47 KB (7,298 words) - 14:06, 7 May 2024
- was the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper ... as a British citizen by nativity. At the age of nine, he and his family traveled ...26 KB (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
- Manitoba is one of Canada's 10 provinces; it is the easternmost ... or Ojibwe languages and means "strait of the Manitou (spirit)." ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient ... Originally, it contained the whole of both Testaments. The Greek Old ...31 KB (4,479 words) - 22:23, 7 January 2024
- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... Turkey invoked its role as a guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during ... A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow's work continued ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson ... administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is the ...36 KB (5,238 words) - 15:40, 7 December 2022
- 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...35 KB (5,244 words) - 09:51, 12 May 2024
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... assuming the existence or non-existence of the supernatural. Materialists ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September ... East he was killed in Jerusalem by members of the underground Zionist group ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960. The core of ... the British always represented as a series of lawless acts by dangerous criminal ...44 KB (6,886 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- was the first woman appointed to the board of Edmonton Hospital. In 1916 ... #039;s role in winning legal recognition of the "person-hood" ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- The State of Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... and Clark Expedition in 1805. It was part of the disputed Oregon Country ...41 KB (5,855 words) - 15:35, 12 February 2024
- 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
- 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- whose wilderness exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the ... settlements. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 2023
- labor are collective terms for a variety of work relations in which people ... The institution of the corveé was and remains an accepted form of ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 06:20, 1 April 2024
- naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution through ... Considered the "father of evolutionary theory," Darwin made ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-1762). The third of six children, she was self ... eight plays, one biography, and 20 volumes of journals and letters. In addition ...31 KB (4,786 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Alabama is a state located in the southern region of the United States ... Like other states in the South, Alabama is burdened by the legacy ...36 KB (5,209 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The concept ... The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist ...48 KB (7,076 words) - 03:33, 24 July 2023
- died in Adyar, India where she was President of the Theosophical Society from ... "would have been more than satisfied if I could have touched the hem ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include ... Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light ...46 KB (7,062 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- or other substances. Jewelry is made out of almost every material known ... Whether used as currency, protection, or fashion, jewelry is one of ...33 KB (4,967 words) - 20:02, 13 September 2023
- Decades after her death, she remains one of the twentieth century's ... early life as a foster child and ward of the state provided little nurturing ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 15:56, 6 November 2022
- 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
- Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous ... A commercial, financial, and cultural center of the city, Manhattan ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- influence the weather or crops, and as part of religious practices like shamanism ... While some deny any form of magic as authentic, those that practice ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the nineteenth century widely ... father was Dr. James Thomson, a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- Hubert Walter (c. 1160-1205 C.E.) was the Archbishop of Canterbury ... a precursor for the modern "Justice of the Peace," based on selecting ...34 KB (5,307 words) - 23:24, 17 January 2024
- crisis, the "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line," ... Eagle Claw, which failed, causing the deaths of eight servicemen. Some historians ...27 KB (3,935 words) - 13:01, 6 March 2024
- The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery, music, medicine ... As one of the most popular of the Olympian deities and the patron ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honour) is a ... The royal orders of the Kings were all abolished after the French ...27 KB (4,236 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... long, and is slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut in the United States. ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- nearly a decade following his abrupt switch of allegiance from the Soviet ... peace between the competing factions. Loss of life led to a complete UN withdrawal ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 01:10, 4 February 2023
- 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953 ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
- The Siege of Malakand took place between July 26–August 2, 1897 ... The British faced a force of Pashtun tribesmen whose tribal lands ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 15:02, 7 October 2022
- ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island ... Northern Ireland has been for many years the site of a violent and ...84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
- reversals could be caricaturized, the idea of an aggressive woman who also ... Public relations (PR) is the art of managing communication between ...32 KB (4,723 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was ... Liszt studied and played at Vienna and Paris and for most of his early ...26 KB (3,891 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ... and Germany was forced to come to the aid of its ally. Operation Marita ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- started in 1991, following the overthrow of the dictator, Siad Barre. The ... The failure of the UN mission in Somalia, which withdrew having completed ...29 KB (4,403 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- eras. Ruskin is also known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism. ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 May 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
- for Special Effects. He was the director of a number of critically lauded ... interpretations in viewers and critics. Many of Kubrick's films just as ...59 KB (9,500 words) - 19:51, 9 February 2023
- (The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... He wrote critical studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- and later as Jackie Onassis, was the wife of President John F. Kennedy, ... #039;s gallant courage during the tragedy of her husband's assassination ...21 KB (3,354 words) - 08:15, 18 March 2024
- ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- on the article prepaid, often in the form of adhesive stamps. In general ... The evolution of the postal system to the collection of national organizations ...32 KB (4,926 words) - 05:47, 30 November 2022
- instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck ... Bells are usually cast from bell metal (a type of bronze) for its ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 2023
- some demand was met, such as the receipt of overdue pay, and they most ... The experiences of the mutineers on Pitcairn, too, became the stuff ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign ... ), not to be confused with the Great Patriotic War ( ru|Великая ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- important and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
- Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ... Because of its strategic geographic location, Syria has historically ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...93 KB (13,994 words) - 13:49, 15 April 2024
- - December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (March 9, 1749 - April ... A successful orator, he was the leader of the moderate position among ...44 KB (6,937 words) - 18:06, 5 December 2022
- 16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, ... executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent years some ...41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 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
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