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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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: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
- 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: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
- 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
- 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
- Hampi (Kannada: ಹಂಪೆ, Hampe) refers to a village in northern Karnataka. The name "Hampi" comes from the anglicized version ...12 KB (1,695 words) - 17:01, 21 January 2024
- Assateague Island is a 37|mi|km|adj=on long barrier island located off the Atlantic coast of Maryland and Virginia, United States. Barrier islands ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 04:57, 18 August 2023
- Antananarivo is the capital, largest city and the economic center of Madagascar. It was known by its French name Tananarive or the colonial shorthand ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl consists of fourteen monasteries built on or near the Popocatépetl ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- Reinhard Keiser (January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739) was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas ...6 KB (870 words) - 03:05, 8 December 2022
- A skyscraper is a very tall, continuously habitable building. Usually, a building is called a skyscraper if it clearly stands out above the surrounding ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- Shechem, also called Sichem, (Hebrew: שְׁכֶם / שְׁכָם, Šəḵem ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- B.C.E., Athens was a sovereign city-state, ruled at first by kings (see Kings of Athens). The kings stood at the head of a land-owning aristocracy ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Biography Irwin, Elisabeth Antoinette Elisabeth Antoinette Irwin (August 29, 1880 – October ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- 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 Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982, provides an enlightening view of life in Sri Lanka's ...12 KB (1,690 words) - 08:40, 24 November 2022
- Derbent ( Дербе́нт ; Azeri: Dərbənd; Lezgian: Дербент; Avar: Дербенд; Persian: دربند, Darband) is a city in the Republic ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- Dushanbe ( Душанбе , Dushanbe; formerly Dyushambe or Stalinabad), population 661,100 people (2006 census), is the capital and largest city ...15 KB (2,132 words) - 05:29, 4 August 2023
- Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 - January 1, 1787) was one of the four signers of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina. ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- The village of Bodh Gaya is in the Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is situated west of the Phalgu River, a tributary of the Ganges ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Goldmark, Josephine Clara Josephine Clara Goldmark (October 13, 1877 – December 15 ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин яр, Babyn yar; Russian: Бабий яр, Babiy yar) is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, located between ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- The South Korean government awarded Namdaemun, officially called Sungnyemun (숭례문, "Gate of Exalted Ceremony"), the honor of ...7 KB (1,106 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- Astana (Kazakh: Астана; former names include Akmola, Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
