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- The First Council of Nicaea was the earliest ecumenical council (meaning ... The council was called by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in order ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 17:21, 28 March 2024
- as a car mechanic and servind two years in the army, Wałęsa became an electrical ... 1981; The Financial Times 1980 and by The Observer, 1980. Honors include: ...29 KB (4,198 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that spanned the course of ... The figures seem to be moving toward the observer instead of being drawn ...29 KB (4,407 words) - 15:08, 30 December 2022
- His novels gained him a reputation as one of the most widely read writers of ... grahamgreene More Sherry trifles] The Observer, October 2, 2004. Retrieved ...28 KB (4,089 words) - 10:04, 31 December 2022
- racehorse considered by many to be the greatest racehorse of all ... Sired by Bold Ruler out of the dam Somethingroyal, Secretariat was ...29 KB (4,653 words) - 17:43, 25 January 2023
- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World ... The Security Council requires all five permanent members to agree ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- world, and not just something about the observer’s empirical experience ... theory laden and is something in which the observer is an active participant ...72 KB (11,042 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- The marathon is a long-distance running event of 42.195 km (26 miles ... York Marathon, he wrote an article for The Observer discussing the possibility ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- |caption =Keating Hall with Edwards Parade in the foreground ... Fordham University is a private university in the United States, with ...33 KB (4,668 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- ; born June 13, 1944) is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth ... On October 13, 2006, he was elected as the eighth Secretary-General ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.) was one of the twentieth century's leading ... an existence that is independent of the observer (Johnson 1908; Bailey 1896). ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- institutions that form part of the criminal justice system of ... to post bail. This may also occur where the court determines that the ...31 KB (4,789 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- and Mrs. Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-1762). The third of six children, she ... of journals and letters. In addition to the critical respect she receives ...31 KB (4,786 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a global membership organization ... The IMF has often been the subject of criticism from those nations ...32 KB (4,747 words) - 12:59, 7 February 2023
- was an Austrian composer considered to be the last master of the Viennese ... that could have provided insights into the motivations and inspirations ...30 KB (4,803 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- future|work=guardian.co.uk|publisher=The Observer, UK|date=March 8, 2009 ... ) is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, and the capital ...30 KB (4,227 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- ::Note: For the Roman god Jupiter please click here. : Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar ...33 KB (5,016 words) - 16:30, 14 May 2024
- [[Image:Blacktriangle.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artist's depiction of ... object which cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 01:37, 3 May 2023
- Ecotourism, or ecological tourism, is a type of tourism in which the ... flora, fauna, and cultural heritage are the primary attractions. This ...36 KB (5,227 words) - 15:44, 5 July 2023
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... things you must do before you die], The Observer, April 4, 2004. Retrieved ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- common characteristics for large segments of the population, describing people ... based on various approaches to the nature of personality. While ...32 KB (4,685 words) - 14:39, 29 September 2023
- October 29, 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. While ... E. Lee's smaller army, failing in the planned seizure of the Confederate ...67 KB (10,321 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal revealed in 1986 as ... htmlReturn of the Iran-Contra brigade]. The Observer accessdate 2006-10-12 ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- The Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller ... At times it competed in popularity with the Knights Templar, a more ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- |motto = Dominus Illuminatio Mea"The Lord is my Light" rd/history.shtml A Brief History of the University.] Retrieved June ...35 KB (5,122 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- international events, he became Director of the Swedish Boy Scouts (Sveriges ... After achieving a truce a truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he began ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... ) is an Eurasian island nation in the eastern part of the Mediterranean ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- center of mass. For each member of a pair, the other is called its companion ... lies so nearly in the line of sight of the observer that the components undergo ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- The cathode ray tube (CRT), invented by German physicist Karl Ferdinand ... a hood on the screen against which the observer presses his face, excluding ...37 KB (6,021 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- New Jersey is one of the Mid-Atlantic states located in the Northeastern ... During the American Revolutionary War, British and American armies ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 328 in the ... Wounded Knee Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the Pine Ridge ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- In common usage, the term light (or visible light) refers to electromagnetic ... that all speeds were relative to the speed of the observer. ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 22, 1942) was one of the pioneers ... From his early experience at the Froebel kindergarten in Minden, to ...37 KB (5,468 words) - 05:16, 9 April 2024
- Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime ... Goebbels earned a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, on the ...34 KB (5,445 words) - 21:47, 6 May 2024
- Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... His political views and the alliances he made with Nazi and other ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...37 KB (5,309 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Venetia) is a city in northern Italy, the capital of region Veneto. ... artistic and architectural treasure. Since the end of the eighteenth century ...34 KB (5,043 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
- 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
- BP p.l.c., previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest ... a cure for global warming crisis,] The Observer (April 24, 2005). Retrieved ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- megalithic monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire ... The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list ...37 KB (5,831 words) - 02:27, 26 February 2023
- The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...44 KB (6,570 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Indian cult kills children for goddess] The Observer India, March 4, 2006. ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- often described as a polymath and as 'The Last Universalist' in ... Poincaré was born on April 29, 1854, into an influential family in ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- The Orange Revolution ( Помаранчева революція|translit ... from late November 2004 to January 2005 in the immediate aftermath of the ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ... Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician ...45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- In cosmology, the cosmic microwave background radiation CMB (also ... between the last scattering surface and the observer. The structure ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- [[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
- print and broadcast) or online social media. The term Fake news is a neologism ... muffle Hong Kong protests: fake news] The Observer, August 11, 2019. Retrieved ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- communities. Wars are necessarily intentional. The actors are states ... are males between the ages of 16 and 30.The Observer, [http://observer.guardian ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- Colombia's peace talks with Farc] The Observer, October 13, 2012. Retrieved ... On Castro's death, The Observer stated that he proved to be ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely-read book in modern ... tribal life from the inside." The Observer called it "an excellent ...79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- colonial roots in his writing. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West ...47 KB (6,423 words) - 09:51, 29 January 2024
- and social class. Social psychology examines the effects of social contacts ... had a significant impact not only on the academic worlds of psychology ...46 KB (6,640 words) - 21:45, 30 January 2023
- The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ...42 KB (6,087 words) - 00:57, 30 December 2022
- company of Dutch and British origins. It is the second largest private sector ... Green Groups act to halt Shell Plans] The Observer, April 29, 2007. Retrieved ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase ... Initialism originally described abbreviations formed from the initial ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- August 16, 2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary ... spooks told Old Lady about BCCI"], The Observer, (January 18, 2004). Retrieved ...43 KB (6,718 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- great thinkers, Immanuel Kant is known for the historical synthesis of his ... cosmos lay in taking the position of the observer into account. This explained ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- religion, nature, science, math, and the ethnic origins of man. He ... not often associated with modern music of the early twentieth century. After ...42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
- Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to ... Why the Incas offered up child sacrifices] The Observer ...43 KB (6,539 words) - 15:29, 10 December 2023
- 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
- is best known for In Cold Blood (1965) and the novella, Breakfast at Tiffany ... Kenneth Tynan erupted in the pages of The Observer after Tynan's review ...40 KB (6,280 words) - 18:27, 2 May 2023
- ) refers to India's smallest state in terms of area and the fourth ... Panaji (Panjim) serves as the state's capital. Vasco da Gama ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224 ... planet” or “Earth’s twin,” as the two are similar in size and ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- 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
- and sometime film producer (producing the films of some other directors ... Luis Buñuel was born in Calanda, Teruel in the province of Aragón ...42 KB (7,001 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- and intuitive phenomenon operating in the spheres of time, pitch, and ... to a microscope) to focus inward. The observer of a telescope would view ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... * 2007: The Observer ranked the film's songs and music at the ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors of ... Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His ...51 KB (8,034 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- | order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... , often referred to as "LBJ," was the 36th President of the United ...44 KB (6,749 words) - 03:18, 5 November 2022
- Volleyball is a globally recognized sport that found its origins in ... The complete rules of volleyball are extensive, but in general, play ...62 KB (10,612 words) - 21:01, 3 May 2023
- of rock music's most successful acts, the group have sold over 200 million ... 804928,00.html You shone like the sun]. The Observer, 6 October 2002 ...51 KB (7,954 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded ... Labour surpassed the Liberal Party as the main opposition to the Conservatives ...55 KB (7,952 words) - 19:37, 16 July 2023
- Scottish philosopher and historian. Hume was the third, the most radical and ... claim (e.g., those yet future to the observer), which in Hume's ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916), was one of ... James' evolving literary style and artistic intentions mirrored ...48 KB (7,374 words) - 07:29, 22 January 2024
- 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
- The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary ... Theoretical support for the Big Bang comes from mathematical models ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- puzzling and controversial, being both the most familiar and the most ... Beyond the problem of how to define consciousness, there are also ...56 KB (7,936 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution ... During the mid-twentieth century, Borlaug led the introduction of ...46 KB (6,869 words) - 10:00, 11 March 2023
- 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
- Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore (November ... although his Hindu subjects (who were the majority) were staunchly loyal ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... Military regimes have dominated Sudanese politics since the country ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- by various empires and ethnic groups. By the mid-thirteenth century, a ... Southeast Asia, artists typically followed the styles and aesthetic conventions ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- topics. For nearly 60 years he traveled the world, pointing out to people ... *Volume 4 (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Observed. Dubuque, IA: ...52 KB (7,928 words) - 12:38, 1 August 2022
- ) sometimes referred to by the name Seyyed Ruhollah Mosavi Hendizadeh ... #039;s Grandson," August 10, 2003, The Observer(UK) ...50 KB (7,539 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, (I) that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir ...53 KB (8,038 words) - 18:09, 14 May 2024
- The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great ... #039;. To me it's genocide] The Observer, February 27, 2005. Retrieved ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s ... and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most ...65 KB (9,151 words) - 15:55, 15 May 2023
- 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
- Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917 ... Within the Bolshevik Party, Bukharin was initially considered a left ...53 KB (7,506 words) - 19:11, 19 January 2023
- The West Bank ( الضفة الغربية , הגדה המערבית and Samaria, is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the Jordan River ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a ... The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of ...49 KB (7,650 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- Restoration literature is the English literature written during the ... such as the original The Guardian, The Observer, The Freeholder, Mist ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- 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
- 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
- The Waco "cult" — more properly known as the Branch Davidians ... This tiny apocalyptic sect was thrust into the international spotlight ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום ... تشرين, ħarb Tishrin), also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public ... The goal of water fluoridation is to prevent tooth decay (dental caries ...64 KB (9,289 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attracted ... of a Star who Shines ever Brighter] The Observer, January 26, 2014. Retrieved ...63 KB (9,615 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ... Music critic Arther Strangeways of The Observer first introduced non-Bengalis ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... are now commonplace in popular culture. The sex discrimination that has ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... The Revolution was originally a popular uprising against the absolute ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania and the Adriatic Sea. Periodically independent since the late Middle Ages, and an internationally ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- 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
- :This article is about the astronomical object. [[Image:Pleiades large ... that is held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948 ... The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of ...67 KB (10,436 words) - 14:04, 20 May 2023
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... has a vote and is committed to respecting the decision that wins. This does ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
- |+ 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
- The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the ... algae, plants, fungi, and animals, lives in the sea, which offers a wide range ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth ... editor Donald Trelford wrote in The Observer of September 21, 1986: ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 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
- to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition ... By the early 1930s, the talkies were a global phenomenon. In the United ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
- Josef Stalin, consolidated power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet ... for East End's house of history] The Observer, October 24, 2004. Retrieved ...78 KB (11,852 words) - 06:34, 6 May 2024
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time ... football |date=20 February 2017 , The Observer, 25 November 2001. ...132 KB (18,506 words) - 20:27, 15 February 2024
- later Leningrad (1924–1991; see below), is the second-largest city in Russia ... manoeuvres (part one) |newspaper=The Observer |date=25 November 2001 ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
