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- Hoysala architecture ( ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ ವಾಸ್ತುಶಿಲ್ಪ ) indicates the distinctive building style developed under the rule ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:15, 18 March 2023
- The cuisine of India is one of the world's most diverse cuisines, characterized by its sophisticated and subtle use of the many spices, ...28 KB (4,219 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- Alcyonaria Zoantharia See text for orders. Corals are those marine invertebrates of the phylum Cnidaria and the class Anthozoa that have external ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
- Odin (Old Norse: Óðinn) is the chief god in Norse mythology whose role in the Norse pantheon is complex and multivalent: he is known as the ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[File:Initiation ritual of boys in Malawi.jpg|right|330px|thumb|Initiation rite of ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- Freyr (sometimes anglicized Frey) The name Freyr is believed to be cognate to Gothic frauja and Old English frēa, meaning lord. It is sometimes ...27 KB (4,366 words) - 02:39, 1 December 2023
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans with strong cultural and political ties ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea," bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- The plow (British spelling plough) is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has ...30 KB (5,003 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Jakarta (also DKI Jakarta), formerly known as Djakarta, Sunda Kelapa, Jayakarta and Batavia is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Located ...29 KB (4,012 words) - 08:43, 18 March 2024
- Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder of the Arshakuni Dynasty which ruled until 428. The dates of his birth and ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- Greece ( Ελλάδα [eˈlaða] or Ελλάς [eˈlas] ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- The Volga ( Во́лга|a=Ru-Волга.ogg|p=ˈvoɫɡə ) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- Bamboo comprises more than 1200 species of usually woody, perennial plants in the true grass family Poaceae, occurring primarily in tropical ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- Mithraism, properly known as the Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of Mithras, was a mystery religion practiced in the Roman Empire, particularly ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- Lahore ( {{Nastaliq|لہور}} , {{Nastaliq|لاہور}} lahor ) is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, and the capital of Punjab ...30 KB (4,227 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, and, most recently, rock music. The origins of ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา ) was a Thai kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767. King Ramathibodi I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ancient human symbol that has become closely connected with the religion ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- History is a word of multiple meanings, all related to the past. When used as the name of a field of study, history traditionally refers to the ...33 KB (4,990 words) - 23:36, 20 April 2021
- The People's Republic of Bangladesh lies in a corner of South Asia and in the eastern part of the ancient region of Bengal. The nation& ...30 KB (4,435 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (November 19, 1917 – October 31, 1984) nee Nehru) was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966 to March 24 ...30 KB (4,508 words) - 00:36, 27 January 2021
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge with an emphasis on the conditions of its validity and finding answers ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- Indian inscriptions engraved into stone or other durable materials, or etched into metal, are an important historical source beginning from the ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- Myanmar - swift and strong (from the native words, myan meaning swift and ma meaning strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- The Mughal Empire, (Persian language: مغل بادشاۿ) was an empire that at its greatest territorial extent ruled parts of Afghanistan, ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:EducationCategory:Psychology [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- Delhi, sometimes referred to as Dilli or Dhilli, is the second largest metropolis in India after Mumbai. Located in northern India on the banks ...33 KB (4,788 words) - 09:20, 28 January 2024
- Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its capital city, Jakarta ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only English-speaking country in South America. It is also one of four non-Spanish ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah (December 25, 1876 – September 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League who founded Pakistan ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- Montenegro, meaning "black mountain" is a small, mountainous state in south-west Balkans, bordering Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- category:image wanted General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Urdu:محمد ضياء الحق) (August 12, 1924 – August 17, 1988) was the president and ...33 KB (4,947 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- Saint George (ca. 275/281 – April 23, 303 C.E.), also known as George of Lydda, is one of the most venerated saints in the Anglican Church ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- Annie Wood Besant (October 1, 1847 – September 20, 1933) was born in Clapham, London and died in Adyar, India where she was President of the ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- According to Genesis [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%2011;&version=31; Chapter 11] of the Bible, the Tower of Babel ( ...34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- The Norse pantheon consisted of numerous minor dieties that were often overshadowed by the more famous gods such as Odin, Thor, Loki, and Freyja ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Ashoka the Great (304 B.C.E. - 232 B.C.E.; also known as Asoka, Sanskrit: अशोक, Aśoka; pronounced Ashok, even though there is an 'a ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- Latvia (historically Lattonia, Lettonia, or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or Latvijas Republika), is a country ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- The Hoysala Empire (Kannada: ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ) (pronunciation: Hoysala_Empire.ogg|[hojsəɭə saːmraːdʒjə] ...35 KB (5,038 words) - 18:09, 15 March 2023
- Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south Eastern Europe, bordering five countries: Romania to the north (mostly along ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula of Southern Europe that is home to three ethnic constituent peoples: Bosniaks ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- Bluefin tuna is the common name for three of the eight species of tuna in the Thunnus genus (family Scombridae): the Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- In Hinduism, the Rāmāyaṇa is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- Alberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces, joining the confederation on September 1, 1905. It is located in western Canada, bounded by ...36 KB (5,234 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- Evil is a term used to describe something that brings about harmful, painful, and unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 - April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore is a way for a society to transmit history, literature, law and other knowledges across generations ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in Southeast Asia. It borders the People's Republic of China to the north ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-18.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kazakh nomads ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- Shaktism is a denomination of Hinduism that worships Shakti (or Devi)—the female principle of the divine—in her many forms as the absolute ...40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
- Atlanta is the capital and the largest city in the U.S. state of Georgia with a population of 420,003 as of 2010, and is the core city of the ...39 KB (5,622 words) - 06:05, 21 August 2023
- Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, known as Buddhists. Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a leader of the Indian independence ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- Mumbai (Marathi: मुंबई, IAST: Mumbaī , IPA: 'mumbəi), formerly known as Bombay, is the the most populous city in India and capital ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa with a population ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- Ahmedabad ( અમદાવાદ Amdāvād , Hindi: अहमदाबाद Ahmadābād), the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- Thutmose III (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis III and meaning Thoth is Born) was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient ...45 KB (7,145 words) - 14:03, 14 January 2024
- The guitar is a musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, as acoustic and electric models, in both classical and contemporary ...50 KB (8,328 words) - 03:18, 12 July 2023
- Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and the largest city in Pakistan. Located on the coast of the Arabian Sea, north ...41 KB (5,975 words) - 17:58, 14 May 2024
- The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ( Bataille de Diên Biên Phu ; Chiến dịch Điện Biên Phủ ) was the climactic battle of the First Indochina ...46 KB (7,166 words) - 11:39, 20 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:EN BESKYTTERINDE AF INDUSTRIEN ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe. It borders the Scandinavian Peninsula with Sweden to the west, Russia ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- <!-- 1955 Reclamation of Goa Video import glitch & Portuguese Empire template division symbols showing. --> {{Infobox Indian Jurisdiction| ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (December 25, 1924 - August 16, 2018) was the Prime Minister of India, briefly in 1996, and from March 19, 1998 until May ...47 KB (6,896 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated between India and China. A strategic location, it controls several key Himalayan ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
- Hypnosis is a natural psychological process in which critical thinking faculties of the human mind are bypassed and a type of selective thinking ...52 KB (7,367 words) - 16:49, 27 October 2022
- Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore (November 20, 1750, Devanahalli – May 4, 1799, Srirangapattana), was the first son ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- Few concepts in human history have generated as much fascination, intense longing, rapturous devotion, somber contemplation, and endless debate ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- Coral reef is the term for any fully marine, underwater ecosystem with a calcium carbonate foundation produced by the skeletons of living organisms ...54 KB (8,146 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
- An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it. An arch can either support the load above it or perform a purely ...55 KB (8,185 words) - 23:26, 18 March 2024
- The climate of India comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large geographic scale and varied topography, making generalizations ...54 KB (7,582 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
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- England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and is located to the ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the Franco-Vietnamese War, the Franco-Vietminh War, the Indochina War and the ...58 KB (9,174 words) - 19:56, 4 March 2024
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ...56 KB (8,938 words) - 15:04, 16 June 2023
- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was designed to address the failings ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that is bigger than Western Europe, and stretches over a vast expanse of northern ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- Category:Public Tagore, Rabindranath [[Image:Tagore3.jpg|thumb|200px|Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic is a Middle Eastern country bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon to the west, Israel to the ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- The Shahnameh or Shahnama ( شاهنامه|Šāhnāme| lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron ) (Also romanized as Šāhnāmeh, Shahnama ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- Vallabhbhai Patel (October 31, 1875 - December 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role in the country's struggle ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability. Submarines ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern country spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in Central Europe, is a modern great power, the world's third largest economy ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. It was the largest and ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- The Russian Federation (Росси́йская Федера́ция, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya), commonly known as Russia (Rossiya), is a transcontinental ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe on the boundary between Eastern and Western European continental masses ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet Union, bordering Russia, Romania and the Black Sea. From at least the ninth ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. {{Infobox country | conventional_long_name ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- Northern Ireland ( Tuaisceart Éireann ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, and consists of six ...84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
- The lion (Panthera leo) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of "big cats" (subfamily Pantherinae ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- Edson Arantes do Nascimento ( (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈɛtsõ aˈɾɐ̃tʃiz du nasiˈmẽtu]; October 23, 1940 – December 29, 2022), better ...132 KB (18,506 words) - 20:27, 15 February 2024
- In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the mammalian species Homo sapiens, a group of ground-dwelling, tailless primates ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a country in north-western Europe occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland ...93 KB (13,999 words) - 16:07, 16 May 2024
- Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. After a Celtic and ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
