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- [[Image:queenvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Queen Victoria at the ... May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ...55 KB (8,686 words) - 14:59, 10 May 2024
- The Kingdom of Norway, commonly known as Norway, is a Nordic country ... Norway plays a significant role in the pursuit of stability and world ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Scuba diving is the act of swimming underwater while using a self ... Scuba diving emphasizes human interaction with the environment, in ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
- Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ... He successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Organisation du Traité ... ; (also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... and businesses, benefiting all parties in the process. Historically, cities ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- Softball is a sport that sprung from the mind of George Hancock. The ... The International Softball Federation (ISF) holds world championships ...50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... With Asian countries on the western Pacific rim projected to continue ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- 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
- 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 Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern ... Together with the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole the Creek ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland, is a country of northwestern ... Iceland has been inhabited since about the year 874 when, according ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international ... human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- Italian Fascism (in Italian, fascismo) was the authoritarian political ... Fascism led to Italy's support of Hitler's Germany during ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- for men and women in many countries around the world. Its official name and ... ==History of the Sport== Field hockey history The sport of field hockey ...33 KB (5,580 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated ... One of the most isolated nations in the world, Bhutan is often described ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 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
- Martin Luther and subsequent failure to stem the Protestant Reformation, which ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated ... The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the ...62 KB (8,764 words) - 22:12, 30 March 2023
- Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous ... eastern Africa, is widely regarded within the scientific community to be ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... Mozambique is still recovering from the destruction wrought by nearly ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the ... Originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin at least ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- The Tunisian Republic (الجمهرية التونسية), or Tunisia ... Forty per cent of the country is comprised of the Sahara Desert, with ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- an Irish mathematical physicist who recast the the laws governing the motion ... Hamilton was the fourth of nine children of Archibald Hamilton, a ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...46 KB (7,168 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- Armenia (Armenian language: "Hayastan"), officially the ... During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- refers to a specific liquid fuel obtained by the fractional distillation of ... == History == === Etymology === The word "diesel" is derived ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was an effective ... HMS Endurance was dispatched to remove the camp on March 25, but was ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- , is a democratic republic in Central America. It is the largest nation ... The country's name is derived from "Nicarao," the name ...59 KB (8,536 words) - 09:43, 11 March 2023
- New Zealand is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific ... New Zealand's total land area, nearly 270,000 km², is about ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 18:04, 25 July 2023
- The Rastafari movement (or "Rasta" for short) is a Jamaican ... The movement is called Rastafarianism by scholars, although some Rastafari ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich—officially called Deutsches Reich ... is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 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
- Sewage treatment, or domestic wastewater treatment, is the process ... , or collected and transported via a network of pipes and pump stations to ...40 KB (5,900 words) - 10:11, 26 January 2023
- Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the ... The decision to undertake a cross-channel invasion in 1944 was taken ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named ... There were about 1.5 million Mennonites worldwide as of 2006. Mennonite ...44 KB (6,423 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- The History of the formation of the United Kingdom is quite complicated ... The history of the formation of the United Kingdom is long and complex ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- |+ The Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill |align="center" colspan ... |+Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |Periods in Office: ...65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
- English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation ... several medieval theater traditions, such as the mystery plays that formed ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- The Battle of the Somme, fought in the summer and autumn of 1916, ... For the first time, the home front in the United Kingdom was exposed ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- The Marshall Plan (from its enactment, officially the European Recovery ... The reconstruction plan was developed at a meeting of participating ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
- 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
- Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ... situations, propaganda involves deception of the audience, for a purpose ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... The IWW contends that all workers should be united within a single ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- The Gulf War (August 28, 1990 – February 28, 1991) was a conflict ... led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations in order ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly ... More Americans were killed in this one-day campaign than in the Revolutionary ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere would come under the domination ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... American involvement in the war between the communist North Vietnamese ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- Baseball is a team sport popular in North America, Latin America, ... Baseball is a rare sport in which there is no time limit for play ...67 KB (11,273 words) - 11:05, 20 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
- water-soluble vitamin required for a number of metabolic processes in living ... Ascorbate, which is the ionized form of ascorbic acid, is a strong ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 20:15, 17 April 2023
- known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was the Dictator of Spain in parts ... power in order to preserve a traditional way of life that was threatened, in ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- 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
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... A former French colony, Haiti became the first independent black republic ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- urban renewal project, a transformation of a large former disused docks ... Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.]] ...41 KB (6,131 words) - 00:41, 13 January 2024
- [[Image:Emancipation of Slaves 1834 monument - Victoria Tower Gardens ... Slavery is the social and/or legal designation of specific persons ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- aircraft that obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- ISBN 978-0415200493). A modern Hindu sect, the Brahma Kumaris articulate ... Lawrence A. Babb, Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the ...28 KB (3,991 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic ... The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- , Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and ... The world ocean, an integral part of global climate, is constantly ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- naval leader noted for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Japanese ... Yi is also known for his innovation of the Turtle ships (거북선 ...34 KB (5,442 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- Bamako, a city of nearly 1.7 million people, is the capital and largest ... Inhabited for more than 150,000 years, the area that is now Bamako ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... The first Polish state was baptized in 966, an event that coincided ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- The slave trade has been, and continues to be, an economic commodity ... Slavery has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- British Army officer and creator of special military units in World ... Perhaps the most important aspect of Wingate's legacy is that ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- The Greco-Persian Wars or Persian Wars or Medic Wars were a series ... What is known today of this conflict is derived primarily from Greek ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 19:50, 24 May 2024
- Heavy metal is a sub-genre of rock music that emerged as a defined ... Nails, and others often dwell on imagery of violence, death, unrestrained ...41 KB (6,469 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2020
- The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British ... Quote: "The 1857 rebellion was by and large confined to northern ...41 KB (6,196 words) - 18:35, 4 March 2024
- 1903 – January 21, 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was ... family in Motihari, Bihar, in India, during the period when India was part ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 14:51, 21 May 2024
- is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time. Changes ... Similarly, the term may be presented in terms of allele frequency ...68 KB (10,248 words) - 19:33, 21 October 2021
- The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United ... The attack was one of the most important engagements of World War ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- inflates upon collision to protect the riders from serious injury. ... The gas-filled bag, classified as a passive restraint, acts as a cushion ...35 KB (5,475 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- Tasmania is an Australian island and a state of the same name. The ... long from the northernmost point to the southernmost point and ...42 KB (6,077 words) - 04:33, 27 February 2023
- , is an outdoor sport played by two teams of 15 players each with a oval ... An adult-level rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes, consisting ...32 KB (5,080 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye. Modern ... Contact lenses usually serve the same corrective purpose as conventional ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 02:44, 8 January 2024
- January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- |flag = [[Image:Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg|center|135px]] |population = approx. 125,000(30,000 to 80,000 in the U.S.45,000 in Canada) ...41 KB (6,201 words) - 23:24, 9 December 2021
- 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
- The Czech Republic also known by its short-form name, Czechia, is ... As Czechoslovakia, independence was gained after World War I, but ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- Parrot is the common name for any of the tropical and subtropical ... There are roughly 350 species in 85 genera making up the order. These ...49 KB (7,385 words) - 18:44, 23 March 2023
- 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
- Sweden is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern ... contributed to rapid industrialization; by the 1890s, the country had begun ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- |order=5th Prime Minister of Israel |term_start =July 13, 1992 ... |birth_place =Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) ...37 KB (5,856 words) - 11:15, 24 May 2023
- 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
- Tamil people, a Dravidian people from the Indian subcontinent, have ... Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ...73 KB (10,713 words) - 07:37, 25 May 2024
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...28 KB (4,636 words) - 15:53, 20 May 2024
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... Later, however, when other Ottoman provinces in the Balkans began ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 07:39, 25 May 2024
- The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (also referred to as: Bosnian Conflict ... Since the war in Bosnia is a consequence of events in the wider region ...36 KB (5,522 words) - 14:58, 9 February 2022
- political leader in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh ... rose in East Pakistani politics and within the ranks of the Awami League ...37 KB (5,519 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between Britain and the Zulus ... One of the puzzles of the Anglo-Zulu war is that although the British ...42 KB (6,753 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... The region was once inhabited by the ancient Thracians, and was later ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- ) is a form of Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century ... Beijing opera features four main types of performers; performing troupes ...41 KB (6,269 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements ... Historians of feminism have identified three “waves” of feminist ...71 KB (9,858 words) - 17:15, 26 March 2024
- hereditary disease that mainly affects the lungs and digestive system ... Median ages of survival for males is greater than 32 years and approximately ...56 KB (8,332 words) - 07:29, 12 January 2024
- Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island nation ... The adjective (language, ethnicity and citizenship) derived from Madagascar ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in southwestern ... The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...49 KB (7,258 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- :This article is about the mineral. {{Infobox mineral | name = Diamond ... Diamond is the hardest known natural material and the third-hardest ...81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
- The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937-September 9, 1945) was ... Although the two countries had fought intermittently since 1931, full ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- Médecins Sans Frontières was created in 1971 by a small group of ... The organization is known in most of the world by its French name ...42 KB (6,193 words) - 17:12, 25 February 2024
- #039;s political career took him throughout the Balkans and into France and ... A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist ...62 KB (8,909 words) - 22:59, 3 March 2023
- The French Revolutionary Wars ( Guerres de la Révolution française ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- ) (1666-1708) was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna ... He is fondly remembered by Sikhs as a defender of the faith and a ...43 KB (7,122 words) - 06:18, 10 January 2024
- The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ) was a World War II battle that occurred on the Greek mainland and ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- The Canary Islands, though politically a part of Spain, are only 67 ... The autonomous community of the Canary Islands was established by ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- The Galápagos Islands (Spanish names: Islas de Colónumio or Islas ... The Galápagos archipelago is part of Ecuador, a country in northwestern ...33 KB (5,083 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- The Decadent movement (Fr. décadence, “decay”) was a late-nineteenth ... The Decadent movement first flourished in France and then spread throughout ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- Alberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces, joining the confederation ... Alberta's development since the eighteenth century has been based ...36 KB (5,234 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- 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
- The Society of the Friends of the Constitution ( Société des amis ... ), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality ( ...43 KB (6,105 words) - 17:02, 30 September 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 First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- 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 ... England is often mistakenly considered the same as the United Kingdom ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- vehicle powered by an engine. It is among the least expensive and most widespread ... practical uses. They have been a source of unity in the formation of motorcycle ...41 KB (6,307 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental ... . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- The Asuka period (飛鳥時代, asuka jidai), lasting from 538 to ... The Yamato state evolved considerably during the Asuka period, borrowing ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 18:29, 19 August 2023
- The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227), the founder of the largest contiguous ... While his image in much of the world is that of a ruthless, bloodthirsty ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively ... The self-interests of the various parties hampered the process over ...102 KB (14,729 words) - 11:39, 3 May 2023
- physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied ... Normandy on D-Day itself came from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...74 KB (11,141 words) - 21:10, 25 May 2024
- 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who ... Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and ...100 KB (15,015 words) - 14:55, 21 May 2024
- derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced ... Except for Canada, most current or former Commonwealth countries use ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 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
- The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution ... Ecology may be more simply defined as the relationship between living ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 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) - 13:13, 20 May 2024
- The cathode ray tube (CRT), invented by German physicist Karl Ferdinand ... The electron beam is deflected and modulated in a way which causes ...37 KB (6,021 words) - 16:18, 3 December 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
- communicate, or detect other vessels. The term sonar is also used for ... There are two kinds of sonar — active and passive. The frequencies ...46 KB (7,281 words) - 01:12, 4 February 2023
- Europe bordering Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova ... Many Romanians take pride in being the most eastern Romance people ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- [[File:Battle of britain air observer.jpg|thumb|250px|Aircraft spotter ... A major campaign of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name ...41 KB (6,464 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... Croatia borders the country on the north, west, and south, Serbia ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- as "Kan-Yu" which means 'The Law of Heaven and Earth.’ ... Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France ... France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north and ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- coalescence. It is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler ... A variety of energy sources can be used for welding, including a gas ...41 KB (6,376 words) - 23:28, 3 May 2023
- | birth_place = Dobzau, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria ... | death_place = United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 20:11, 17 November 2023
- that arose from obscure origins in the late sixteenth to early seventeenth ... The fraternity is administratively organized into Grand Lodges (or ...59 KB (8,933 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces ... In estimating the death toll from the attacks, there are several factors ...48 KB (7,479 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the headquarters ... Darjeeling has become internationally famous for its tea industry ...33 KB (4,712 words) - 06:27, 15 January 2023
- 16, 1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and ... Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian government ...46 KB (7,007 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from ... in surgery. He became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...65 KB (10,156 words) - 11:55, 9 May 2024
- The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a devastating ... Notable later outbreaks include the Italian Plague of 1629–1631 ...48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
- ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... The operational goal of Barbarossa was the rapid conquest of the European ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ... Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- ), known previously as the Uddhav Sampraday, is a Hindu sect established ... Under the leadership of Swaminarayan, the movement gained strength ...48 KB (6,849 words) - 14:17, 28 April 2023
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 13:06, 20 May 2024
- 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 (13,999 words) - 16:07, 16 May 2024
- military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many ... Goering was one of the central figures in the Nazi regime that was ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- He was an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union ... Trotsky's ideas form the basis of the Communist theory of Trotskyism ...93 KB (14,349 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally ... During the war, Germany's population was reduced by 30 percent ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ... in accord with nature and natural law. On the other hand, many cultures ...91 KB (13,332 words) - 16:14, 25 January 2023
- The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes ... The Ardennes attack was planned in total secrecy in almost total radio ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential ... Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- koku) is an island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan ... Archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 18:20, 21 May 2024
- The diesel engine is an internal combustion engine that uses compression ... Diesel intended the engine to use a variety of fuels including coal ...60 KB (9,401 words) - 14:31, 29 January 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
- Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... creating a revolutionary synthesis between the absolute, but speculative ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- The Rigveda (Sanskrit: sa|ऋग्वेद , meaning "verses of wisdom") is the oldest translatable ...41 KB (6,083 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- The National Convention ( link=no|Convention nationale ) was a parliament of the French Revolution, following the two-year ...73 KB (10,932 words) - 21:23, 26 December 2022
- causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such ... Services are based in psychiatric hospitals or in the community, and ...72 KB (9,918 words) - 21:54, 14 November 2023
- Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España North Africa (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- form, source, or technology differing from the current popular forms, sources ... The term alternative energy also is used for energy derived from sources ...73 KB (10,796 words) - 08:37, 23 July 2023
- North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... religious teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle ...69 KB (10,533 words) - 13:50, 28 April 2023
- The Gallic Wars The 58–50 B.C.E. conflict is also named the "Second ... were waged between 58 and 50 B.C.E. by the Roman general Julius Caesar ...77 KB (12,113 words) - 23:58, 4 March 2024
- Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing ... generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism ...101 KB (14,057 words) - 17:18, 7 May 2024
- France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan ... The French Republic is a unitary semi-presidential republic with more ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name used for the third ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Defeat in World War I and the February and October Revolutions in ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
- The German Resistance refers to those individuals and groups in Nazi ... The term German Resistance should not be understood as meaning that ...78 KB (12,353 words) - 18:18, 21 May 2024
- The Russian Federation (Росси́йская Федера́ция ... The largest country in the world by land area, Russia has the world ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... Psychologically, humans have a highly developed brain capable of abstract ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- El Greco (probably a combination of the Castilian and the Venetian ... a prominent painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He ...77 KB (11,557 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
