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- 14, 1917 – October 26, 1979) stands as the dominant figure in the Republic ... Asian nation builder, rapidly modernizing the South through export-led growth ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- fish, shellfish, or other aquatic organisms. The activity of catching the aquatic ... The focus of a fishery may be fish, but the definition is expanded ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- to a census town in North Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. Goa had ... have been in India almost for as long as the religion has existed, founded ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:24, 31 December 2023
- known as a tank tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored ... 1958, he inspired a new constitution and was the Fifth Republic's first ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in ... Seoul, one of the world's most densely populated major cities ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- The Red Terror in Soviet Russia was the campaign of mass arrests and ... According to the Bolsheviks, the Red Terror was introduced in reply ...22 KB (3,197 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
- The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations ... Each side wanted to unite the Korean peninsula under its own political ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty ... Only two ABM systems have previously been operational against ICBMs: ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
- A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the body ... Bottles have been developed and used over millennia of human history ...10 KB (1,456 words) - 14:41, 28 April 2020
- The Comintern (Communist International, also known as the Third International ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... non-verbal doctrine communicated directly by the Buddha to his followers. It ...37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [http://www.aseansec.org/64 ... AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc) ...43 KB (5,937 words) - 05:04, 18 August 2023
- ) is the largest city, and the administrative, communications, and ... textiles and soap. Bujumbura, situated on the northeastern shore of Lake ...18 KB (2,590 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Child welfare is a term used to describe a set of government services ... The idea behind child welfare programs is that, in certain circumstances ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- ) is a region in west-central Italy on the shores of the Ligurian ... and a population of about 3.6 million inhabitants. The regional capital ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- Buddhism has been a major force in the creation of Korean culture ... One of the foremost Buddhist temples in South Korea, Haeinsa has housed ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... Despite its natural resources, East Timor has the lowest per capita ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- Stalinism is the name given to the political and economic system which ... The term "Stalinism" was coined by Lazar Kaganovich. Although ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- politician, and stateswoman. She was the first woman in Canadian history ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It also ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 ... Ming rule saw the construction of a vast navy, including four-masted ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... Socialism developed as a political ideology in the nineteenth century ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- official and military commander during the early Goryeo Dynasty (918 ... Gang was born in 948 into a prominent aristocratic family in the hyeon ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 07:45, 23 January 2023
- 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
- 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
- non-governmental organization (NGO) with the stated purpose of campaigning ... and was shocked and angered to come across the story of two Portuguese students ...30 KB (4,487 words) - 00:59, 9 January 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
- ; Tamil: கொழும்பு) is the largest city and commercial ... than 2,000 years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... Pakistan's partition from India in 1947 had arisen from the ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- goff), was an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister ... However, despite the brevity of his premiership, his government left ...39 KB (5,698 words) - 00:11, 3 January 2024
- The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae ... with black rosettes or with black fur. The melanistic leopards, which ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- ” or “Kirghizia”), officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked ... The name "Kyrgyz," both for the people and for the nation ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation ... did not cease until he threw his crown into the water. He sailed to the closest ...31 KB (4,281 words) - 22:29, 15 May 2024
- Grammar is the set of rules that allow a speaker to form an intelligible ... The word grammar is derived from Greek grc|γραμματικὴ τέχνη ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- The Tibetan people are indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- The March First Movement, or the Samil Movement (in Korean, samil ... The March First demonstrations established the high-water mark in ...28 KB (4,439 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... and which are protected from disclosure to the public based on classification ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- whose films are widely considered as some of the most influential in film ... Antonioni's films reflected the intellectual milieu of his day ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 17:12, 9 November 2022
- infectious disease, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis ... The epidemiological use of the term "plague" is currently ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the most populous ... On October 1, 1960, Nigeria declared its independence from the United ...37 KB (5,342 words) - 16:58, 5 June 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
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- The Three Gorges Dam ( s=三峡大坝|t=三峽大壩|p=Sānxiá Dàbà ) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near ...109 KB (14,087 words) - 23:55, 3 February 2024
- politician and scientist who served as the chancellor of Germany from ... Merkel was considered by Forbes Magazine to be the "most powerful ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- [[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...31 KB (4,884 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- Brainwashing refers to the systematic application of coercive techniques ... Whether any techniques exist that change thought and behavior to the ...29 KB (4,296 words) - 22:37, 20 November 2023
- has led to violent attacks against the clergy, vandalism against ... Often directed against the Catholic Church and clergy, anti-clericalism ...18 KB (2,564 words) - 23:52, 27 April 2022
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... attract upscale tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the ... French Union forces included colonial troops from the whole former ...58 KB (9,174 words) - 19:56, 4 March 2024
- Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the ... Nixon is noted for his diplomatic foreign policy, especially with ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- Luanda (formerly spelled Loanda) is the capital and largest city of ... came under Portuguese rule in 1575, and was the Atlantic slave trade center ...24 KB (3,367 words) - 10:35, 9 March 2023
- phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky ... A rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colors. Traditionally, however ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:20, 16 April 2023
- (January 1, 1907 – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet ... However, the USSR may have over-reached itself during his watch. While ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- Détente is a French term, meaning a relaxing or easing; the term ... The two sides in the Cold War, the NATO powers and the Warsaw Pact ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and native of Ikenne in the Ogun State of ... Awolowo was well aware that the challenge of holding Nigeria's ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... Samarkand revolted against its Mongol rulers in 1365, and became the ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress ... As the son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French ... been solely due to his own moral failings. The leaders and the people of ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, that ... The history of the flag dates back to at least Roman times. The study ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Magnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation ... The first commercial Maglev was opened in 1984 in Birmingham, England ...31 KB (4,504 words) - 05:00, 5 November 2022
- Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... Senegal, though poor, has a tradition of political stability and peaceful ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan ... Niger was an important economic crossroad, and the empires of Songhai ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... Many Tatars inter-married with Russian families, including the nobility ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- with pipes, riot in a clash with police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike ... Riots occur when crowds or even small groups of people gather to commit ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ... commonly involuntarily with varying degrees of enforcement by the dominant ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... | order =Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | term_start = | term_end = ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- [[Image:Harrods at night.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The exterior of Harrods ... which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a predominant ...29 KB (4,395 words) - 09:47, 29 January 2024
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... The Libray has been guided by the "belief that universal access ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- The Communist Party USA, formally known as the Communist Party United ... In the late 1920s, the party was shaken by internal factionalism when ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- ) is a Japanese trading company and one of the largest sogo shosha ... Marubeni's name combines the Japanese words for "circle ...25 KB (3,645 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the veneration ... A cult of personality is similar to apotheosis, except that it is ...57 KB (8,108 words) - 06:45, 11 January 2024
- ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ... Ever since the Nazi concentration camps were discovered, the term ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... Djibouti's main advantage is its strategic location near the ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- editor, and critic, who has been called the master of Vernacular Chinese ... Jin asserted that the writer's intention is less important than ...23 KB (3,604 words) - 02:01, 9 February 2023
- East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning ... Korean history has long included elements of Shamanism, Confucianism ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 21:10, 10 December 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
- The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking ... During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous ...36 KB (5,482 words) - 01:19, 11 November 2022
- Irrigation is an artificial application of water to the soil, usually ... Irrigation is also a term used in the medical/dental fields and refers ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 13:24, 6 March 2024
- Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... economic activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- , also Sikhim) - a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas ... ranking as the second-smallest in area after Goa. The thumb-shaped ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- Tibet, called “Bod” by Tibetans, or 西藏 (Xīzàng) by the Chinese ... The Tibetan Empire came into existence in the seventh century when ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- 023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...41 KB (6,212 words) - 21:02, 25 November 2023
- Censorship is the editing, removing, or otherwise changing speech ... While humankind remains self-centered and unable to develop a world ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- was a North Korean politician who served as the second Supreme Leader of North ... In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership ...64 KB (9,034 words) - 23:07, 3 March 2023
- Kenneth David Kaunda, (April 28, 1924 - June 17, 2021) served as the ... From the time he became President until his fall from power in 1991 ...24 KB (3,642 words) - 16:28, 24 August 2023
- Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, the country's second ... Like many cities, Wellington's urban area extends well beyond ...30 KB (4,384 words) - 20:30, 18 January 2024
- The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer), an iconic symbol of the ... Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- Helen Elizabeth Clark (born February 26, 1950) was the 37th Prime ... Loosing the 2008 election, she was appointed foreign affairs spokeswoman. ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
- , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- 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
- An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... as well as having significant impact on the territory and its people being ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population ... Many areas that suffered famines in the past have protected themselves ...36 KB (5,441 words) - 00:40, 25 March 2024
- , earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... After joining the Communist movement while a student in France and ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- Gaborone is the capital and largest city of the landlocked nation ... Gaborone lies in a flat valley between Kgale and Oodi Hills, on the ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 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
- Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar ... It is part of the Mascarene Islands, which are volcanic in origin; ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published ... are explained to a wider audience. In the past, scientists interested ...13 KB (1,844 words) - 17:24, 25 January 2023
- An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga or the ... policy that has rewarded veterans of the Bush War with farms previously ...37 KB (5,599 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of ... , Pyatiletniye plany razvitiya narodnogo khozyaystva SSSR) consisted ...52 KB (7,308 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United ... The term neoconservative was originally used as a criticism against ...51 KB (7,336 words) - 04:32, 11 March 2023
- Kanji (漢字) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern ... Kanji includes new characters created in Japan, and modifications ...32 KB (4,676 words) - 02:41, 5 October 2022
- , (pronounced Tsoo Shee) popularly known in China as the West Dowager Empress ... During the last decades of the Qing Dynasty, the government was split ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- which refers in its descriptive sense to the economic effects of nations ... There has developed a diverse array of ideas that have been referred ...42 KB (6,187 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked ... Located in the heart of Central Asia between the Amu Darya (Oxus) ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland ... Long the seat of culture within Ireland, it has been at the center ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- The Banaue Rice Terraces (Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banaue), 2000 ... The rice culture of the Ifugao people requires tremendous skill and ...12 KB (1,820 words) - 03:26, 17 September 2023
- (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 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
- Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- [[Image:Pyramid of Capitalist System.png|thumb|right|250px|An Industrial ... Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions between individuals ...31 KB (4,685 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (February 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007) was ... Yeltsin was blamed for many of the problems of this period. By the ...42 KB (6,205 words) - 19:43, 20 November 2023
- The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor ... extraction begins in 2009 or early 2010, the oil revenues could have a ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- " or "Kalmyki") is the name given to western Mongolian ... The Kalmyks are the only inhabitants of Europe whose national religion ...59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
- South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- Koryo-saram (Russian: Корё сарам; Koryo-mar: 고려사람 ... A separate ethnic Korean community lives on the island of Sakhalin ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is one of ... After a protracted war for independence, then decades of socialist ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 03:07, 12 July 2023
- Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago ... to rule, dominating politics by its control of every aspect of the society ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- 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
- Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...95 KB (14,231 words) - 15:44, 12 June 2023
- (also Chosun, Choson, Chosŏn) in 1392. The dynasty continued until 1910 ... Shortly following the declaration of the Korean Empire in 1897, the ...39 KB (5,700 words) - 15:30, 6 May 2024
- ), also spelled as Bukhoro and Bokhara, from the Soghdian βuxārak ... The region around Bukhara has been inhabited for at least five millennia ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- 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
- [[Image:Pygmy.png|thumb|right|200px|Comparative height of a Pygmy ... In anthropology, a Pygmy is a member of a hunter-gatherer people characterized ...27 KB (4,197 words) - 20:58, 14 April 2023
- Latvia (historically Lattonia, Lettonia, or Lettland), officially ... Latvia shares land borders with Estonia to the north and Lithuania ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- - ) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United ... With her election as Speaker, Pelosi became the first female Speaker ...46 KB (6,718 words) - 20:14, 3 January 2023
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- 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
- New Year's, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the ... Celebrations often include large displays of fireworks at midnight ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... Through such international bodies as the Inter Action Council, Schmidt ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 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
- 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
- Major general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces ... Although convinced that the airborne attack he led against Japan in ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... Partly, decolonization was overseen by the United Nations, with UN ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- The Laotian Civil War (1962-1975) was an internal fight between the ... The fighting in Laos included significant participation by North Vietnamese ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... Pol Pot died April 15, 1998, having never been put on trial. The atrocities ...47 KB (7,141 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... An Islamic nation, it is home mainly to the Tajiks, who share culture ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- Daoism (Wade-Giles: "Taoism") is the English name for a ... # a philosophical school based on the Dao De Jing, the Zhuangzi, and ...58 KB (8,657 words) - 22:14, 25 January 2024
- ) (June 28, 1921 – December 23, 2004) presided as the twelfth Prime ... He led one of the most important administrations in India's modern ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... The modern state is relatively new to human history, emerging after ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- The Vietnam War was a military conflict in which communist forces ... The chief cause of the war cause was Ho Chi Minh’s desire to establish ...70 KB (11,017 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- , a hill station (a hill town) nestled in the Shiwalik Hills (or Lower Himalaya ... at an average elevation of 1,247 m (4,100 feet). The town serves as ...23 KB (3,374 words) - 17:14, 14 May 2024
- The political integration of India established a united nation for ... When the Indian independence movement succeeded in ending the British ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal ... Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701 ...35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- The United Nations (or simply UN) is an international organization ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- Jeep is an automobile marque (and registered trademark) of Chrysler ... It was use by the United States military during World War I that brought ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 04:31, 31 July 2022
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- The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... experienced famine and economic collapse. The demoralized Russian Army suffered ...24 KB (3,571 words) - 22:55, 5 April 2021
- [[Image:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg|thumb|250px|right|The flag ... Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or outside the normal jurisdiction ...24 KB (3,715 words) - 06:18, 24 November 2022
- Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan ... Although the country is the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... Arab geographers, for over a thousand years the island was ruled by independent ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Kobe(Kōbe-shi) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent ... It was one of the first cities to open for trade with the Western ...32 KB (4,446 words) - 03:58, 4 March 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
- Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country ... In 1895 the name "Rhodesia" was applied to the Ndebele territory ...31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
- A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a ... The term dictatorship originates from its use in the Roman Republic ...76 KB (10,337 words) - 22:00, 28 January 2023
- Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose ... The purpose of Jikji was to assist Buddhist monks in teaching Zen ...14 KB (2,230 words) - 01:10, 9 February 2023
- crime and its penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting ... Mayotte is located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- ]] (help), transliteration: ru|ALA|russkiy yazyk) is the most geographically ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- right|The Clock Tower, completed in 1925, is the most recognizable structure ... research university in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest university and ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- ranging from yellow to blue. It belongs to the same family of chemical elements ... This element expands on freezing and was long an important component ...14 KB (1,891 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...86 KB (12,847 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- [[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
- Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic ... Proponents of academic freedom believe that the freedom of inquiry ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- Hermitage") is considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures ... about one hour's hike above Bulguksa, the grotto overlooks the Sea of ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
- The Himalayas (also Himalaya, IPA: [hɪ'mɑlijə], [ˌhɪmə& ... ) are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- is Japan's second largest island and the largest, northernmost, and ... Hokkaidō did not officially become part of Japan until 1868, and ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- A poll tax, or head tax, is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per ... There are several famous cases of poll taxes in history, notably a ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... policy in a vastly improved climate from the authoritarian South Korean ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- The Willis Tower, built and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower ... Designed as a headquarters for the Sears company with substantial ...13 KB (2,043 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore ... habitable but to serve other functions using the height of the tower. For example ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 16:19, 29 April 2024
- Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country ... From 1991 to 2002, the country suffered greatly under the devastating ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political ... Women's suffrage is the most widely applicable aspect of the ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- total warfare was first demonstrated in the nineteenth century and flourished ... The threat of total devastation to the earth and humankind through ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), constitute an elite group ... program with a successful implimentation of that plan to create one of ...40 KB (5,809 words) - 14:53, 16 October 2021
- ) is a range of traditional medical practices originating in China ... TCM theory asserts that processes of the human body are interrelated ...53 KB (7,935 words) - 04:54, 1 May 2023
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- Village]] known as Ternera a la Llanera from the Colombian flatlands]] used chiefly in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and called ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- 29, 1932 - September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May ... His internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- is the fourth largest city in Japan and one of the country's ... The city of Nagoya was established in 1610 when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved ...21 KB (2,938 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
- by Vietnamese artists, from ancient times to the present. Vietnamese art has ... The golden age of Vietnamese art occurred during the Ly dynasty (1010 ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 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
- George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018) was ... During the final days of the Cold War, he was responsible for managing ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- ) is the capital and the largest city of Nepal, and is situated in ... Founded in 723, Kathmandu was ruled by the Malla Dynasty from the ...24 KB (3,331 words) - 17:13, 5 October 2022
- in Eastern Europe that borders Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ... ==Origin of the term== The word boycott entered the English language ...24 KB (3,816 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- 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
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... society, in which people live in groups of settled dwellings comprising ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- The Mongol invasion of Rus' was heralded by the Battle of the ... The rise of Moscow as the successor state to the one centered in Kiev ...16 KB (2,408 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le ... The statue depicts a woman, standing upright, dressed in a flowing ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- physician, Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist ... Some time later, Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 2024
- 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
- , the common English name for the Tokyo Metropolis|東京都|Tōkyō-to , is the most populous prefecture and city in Japan, and the center ...39 KB (5,420 words) - 03:54, 1 May 2023
- The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... From its headquarters in Independence, Missouri, the church places ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- Education City, Qatar. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League, and prides ... Established in 1865, Cornell was non-sectarian from the beginning ...42 KB (5,828 words) - 03:33, 8 January 2024
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- [[Image:Fountain of Wealth.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A fountain of wealth]] Wealth refers to some accumulation of resources, whether abundant ...21 KB (3,362 words) - 23:23, 3 May 2023
- was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier ... During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Kosygin was a member ...60 KB (8,496 words) - 22:35, 29 April 2023
- – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... Khrushchev is remembered for his rejection of the “personality cult” ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- Sunda Kelapa, Jayakarta and Batavia is the capital and largest city of ... Jakarta faces many of the challenges of large cities in developing ...29 KB (4,012 words) - 08:43, 18 March 2024
- The Boshin War|{{linktext|戊|辰|戦|争|Boshin Sensō|extra="War ... was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces ...49 KB (7,292 words) - 13:40, 28 April 2020
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... Initially a site for English penal colonies in the eighteenth and ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- compact automobiles, a full range of motorcycles, All-Terrain Vehicles ... Suzuki, begun in 1909 as a manufacturer of wooden looms, has been ...32 KB (4,585 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of ... As secretary-general, Hammarskjöld took the stance that he was not ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European ... The Italian Republic shares its northern alpine boundary with France ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... The name Manila comes from may nilad, Tagalog for "there is nilad ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. It has been found in ... In everyday usage the term pottery encompasses a wide range of ceramics ...28 KB (4,471 words) - 22:01, 30 November 2022
- powered vehicle with two wheels, one behind the other, attached to a frame ... have since been made, especially since the advent of modern materials ...29 KB (4,462 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- located in Houston, Texas. It is the fifth largest private sector ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- Tuvalu (pronounced too-VAH-loo) is an island nation located in the ... Tuvalu consists of four reef islands and five true atolls. Its small ...20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
- 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
- musician and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... in style and technique, Pound rejected much of the modern world, especially ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ... To defend themselves against sieges, even the earliest cities were ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- The Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccan Islands) are an archipelago ... The Maluku Islands are located on the Australian Plate, lying east ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine ... Slovenia has been part of the Roman Empire, the Duchy of Karantania ...45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe ... The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( December 1, 1918,–April 17, 1941), also ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- The Keoladeo National Park, or Keoladeo Ghana National Park, formerly ... The crisis facing the Keoladeo National Park has been endemic to wildlife ...24 KB (3,401 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- The War of the Pacific, also called the Saltpeter War in reference ... The War of the Pacific grew out of a dispute between Chile and Bolivia ...34 KB (5,333 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste.]] Feudalism is a political system of power dispersed and balanced between ...38 KB (6,097 words) - 01:33, 21 July 2022
- An abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from ... Abortions have been induced throughout history, using methods that ...56 KB (8,002 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- Boxing Day is a secular holiday celebrated the day after Christmas ... and friends, for sports, and for eating the left over food from the Christmas ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- कॅशीर; Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the ... (comprising Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh), the Pakistani administered regions ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... Strikes are suspensions of work against an employer, factory, industry ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 20:58, 26 February 2023
- April 28, 1889 – July 27, 1970), served as the Prime Minister and de facto ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- Modern navies that operate such ships treat the aircraft carrier as the capital ... The supercarrier, typically displacing 75,000 tonnes or more, has ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- thumb|250px|Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...40 KB (5,976 words) - 22:28, 13 November 2022
- lit. “capital capital,” or “capital of capitals") was the Imperial ... Kyoto is known as one of the academic centers of Japan, and is home ...36 KB (5,281 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- Sales tax is a consumption tax charged at the point of purchase for ... tax attempts to achieve this by charging the tax only on the final end ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- The term polygamy (literally many marriages in late Greek) is used ... and families based on true love. The solution to happiness and ...37 KB (5,815 words) - 17:42, 30 November 2023
- ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. It has an estimated ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- Athens (ancient Greek: αἱ Ἀθῆναι (plural), evolving into ... : singular see below: Origin of the name ) is both the largest and ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... There are many differences in the way political parties operate. The ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
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