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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- Mexico, which is shared with a smaller city-state called Tlatelolco. ... that time, the city had again become a city-state, having power that extended ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
- Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- Quebec City or Québec (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and one of the oldest cities in North America ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the southern end of Idaho's Albion Mountains. It is located in the south ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, and the most densely populated major city ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses 318 square miles (824 sq km) in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte ...47 KB (6,950 words) - 08:27, 28 February 2023
- Vaishali, or Vesali (Pali), had been the capital of the Licchavis and the Vajjian Confederacy. In Buddha's time, Vesali had been a heavily ...15 KB (2,417 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- The Ancient City of Vijayanagara refers to the urban core of the imperial city and the surrounding principalities of the capital of the Vijayanagar ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023
- Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, southeastern New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk, casino gambling, sandy beaches ...28 KB (3,984 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
- New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its kind in the United States. It honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and ...19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the "Old City," or "Anderoon Shehr (اندرون شهر)," constitutes the section ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:07, 3 May 2023
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- New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- the Mexica were tributaries of the Tepanec city-state of Azcapotzalco. ==Achievements== Huitzilíhuitl, a skilled politician, continued the policies ...6 KB (967 words) - 16:11, 9 February 2024
- Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế province, Vietnam, had been the imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty between ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
- Gandhinagar (Gujarati: ગાંધીનગર, Hindi: गाँधीनगर) - the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India. One ...12 KB (1,834 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5-mile long tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and the borough of Manhattan at West Thirty ...7 KB (1,127 words) - 04:15, 29 October 2022
- Thomas Joseph Pendergast (July 22, 1873 – January 26, 1945) was an American politician who controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 22:46, 30 April 2023
- The city of Thiruvananthapuram has been the center of cultural activities of Kerala (India) from the time it served as capital of Travancore ...11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
- William M. "Boss" Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April12, 1878) was an American politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the ...9 KB (1,503 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- Shinshi, a semi-legendary ancient city that, according to the history books such as Samguk Yusa, Gyuwon Sahwa, Shindan Minsa, and Hwandan-gogi ...10 KB (1,470 words) - 22:56, 23 April 2023
- Tammany Hall was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics from the 1790s to the ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 03:59, 27 February 2023
- The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city's Town ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- Jodhpur (जोधपुर), is the second largest city in the state of Rajasthan in north India. It was formerly the seat of a princely state ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 06:32, 5 April 2024
- The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- (Ewuare the Great) came to power and turned the city-state into an empire. Around 1470, he named the new state Edo. ==Golden Age== ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
- Ashgabat (Aşgabat) is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, and is situated between the Kara Kum desert and ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Category:Biography Lowell, Josephine Shaw Josephine Shaw Lowell (December 16, 1843 ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
- Acamapichtli (which means "Handful of Arrows" or "Handful of Reeds") was tlatoani (king, or Great Speaker) of the Aztecs ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- Allahabad (Hindi: इलाहाबाद; Urdu: الہ آباد Ilāhābād) is the English name of a city in the north Indian state of Uttar ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- The Wuyi Mountains ( c=武夷山|p=Wǔyí Shān ; POJ: Bu-i Soa) designates a mountain range located at the prefecture Nanping. It runs along ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- O ahu (usually Oahu outside Hawaiian and Hawaiian English) is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- An artificial island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed by natural processes. Such islands have been created ...9 KB (1,326 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2023
- 55 km southwest of Aleppo. It was an important city-state in two periods, first in the late third millennium B.C.E., then again between 1800 and 1650 ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- The Three Gojoseon kingdoms first appear in Joseon Sangosa and has been researched by South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese scholars. ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, located in and around Ji'an, Jilin in the People's Republic of China, received ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the southern end of Idaho's Albion Mountains. It is located in the south ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Image wanted Category:Social workers Kelley, Florence Florence Kelley (September 12, 1859 – February ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- thereby becoming the largest city-state north of the Alps. In 1528, Roman Catholics and Reformers clashed in Berne, resulting in the city becoming ...18 KB (2,738 words) - 17:14, 29 September 2023
- Oscar Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- The City of Vigan is the capital city of the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 47,246 ...13 KB (1,737 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
- Bishkek (Russian and Kyrgyz: Бишкек) is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Though the city is relatively young, the surrounding ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- and the veche can be drawn up, the city-state's exact political constitution remains uncertain. The boyars and the archbishop ruled the ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 14:59, 3 May 2023
- Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the Democratic candidate for the United States presidency in the disputed election ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 20:20, 1 December 2023
- Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna or Lepcis Magna, (also Lpqy or Neapolis), located on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- The Manhattan Center building, built in 1906 and located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, houses Manhattan Center Studios (home to two recording ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 06:48, 5 November 2022
- The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the twentieth century and remains a leading ...8 KB (1,230 words) - 02:53, 24 July 2023
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its kind in the United States. It honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and ...19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- Aleppo (Arabic Halab) is a city in northern Syria, the second largest city in Syria after Damascus, and one of the oldest inhabited cities in history. ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- Kandy (maha nuvara, mahaˈnuərə , in Sinhala, கண்டி kaṇṭi, ˈkaɳɖi , in Tamil), constitutes the English rendering for Maha Nuvara ...14 KB (1,979 words) - 07:07, 28 February 2023
- Teotihuacán was the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas in the first half of the first millennium C.E.. It was also one of the largest ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- category:image wanted [[Image:Mali historic places.PNG|thumb|250px|Some of the cities in [[Mali Empire|Mali]] which were under the control of ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- Category:Image wanted Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was most well known for his work and involvement in the American Civil Liberties Union ...9 KB (1,434 words) - 05:44, 9 January 2023
- The Warring States period covers the period from sometime in the fifth century B.C.E. to the unification of China by the Qin dynasty in 221 B ...14 KB (2,355 words) - 22:04, 18 November 2022
- Category:Sociologists Howard, Ebenezer [[Image:ハワード『明日の田園都市』3版-02.jpg|right|thumb|Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of ...10 KB (1,579 words) - 17:59, 12 February 2024
- Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States, 86 miles (138 km) west of the state capitol of Columbia. It has a population ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Blow, Susan Susan Elizabeth Blow (June 7, 1843 - March 26, 1916) was an American educator, dedicated ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
