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- in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- Sub-Roman Britain is a term derived from an archaeologists' label ... passed on to future generations. During a later age, the Roman legacy ...51 KB (7,614 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- psychologist, and musicologist, he was also a passionate theologian and Bishop ... Oresme evolved a geometrical method of plotting speed or intensity ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- two other Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations in ... Tiananmen Square. While the protests lacked a unified cause or leadership ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- of Cambridge. His scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in the ... Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth. ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (1742 – November 24, 1807) was a Mohawk ... help the Indian to survive the transition from one culture to another, transcending ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from November 17, 1558, until her ... Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. This was a period of English disengagement ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial in Washington ... The memorial consists of two low, black granite walls that meet to ...24 KB (3,601 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- #039;s contributions to them—remain today a standard source on the original ... Hamilton put the new United States of America onto a sound economic ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- and political theory. He is also seen as a founder of modern biblical ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born May 6, 1953) is ... have resigned had there been any truth to a BBC report that his government ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- beauty, which attracts up to 150,000 tourists a year. Tourism accounts for ... A socialist government seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977 and ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- and newly urbanized masses uprooted from their traditional village ... eras of Christianity. His near death as a child in a parish fire, leadership ...47 KB (7,298 words) - 14:06, 7 May 2024
- Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810 ... and political status quo in her works. As a high church Anglican, she was ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, and leader of ... President Ronald Reagan, with whom she shared a similar domestic policy philosophy ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- of the border. If the world is to become a place of peace and plenty for ... restoration of English power over Ireland, a process of settling Protestants ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- Eskimos or Esquimaux is a term referring to aboriginal people who ... Although spread over a vast geographical area, there are many commonalities ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- – March 9, 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat ... against Lenin's Bolsheviks. Exiled from Russia in 1908, Kollontai ...55 KB (7,707 words) - 20:09, 30 July 2023
- of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of roughly 5.6 million ... Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the ... Reed was not only a witness to the revolution, but an enthusiastic ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- Howe attempted to interdict the passage of a vitally important French grain ... admirals, faced with disobedience from their captains and ill-discipline ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- widespread and she was later celebrated as a martyr in English Protestant ... Due to a lack of parish records from the period, historians do not ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- October 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the ... which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed ...96 KB (14,156 words) - 07:08, 15 April 2024
- Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was a British ... the Enderby quartet of comic novels about a reclusive poet and his muse; ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist ... novellas Musk-Ox (May 1863) and The Life of a Peasant Woman (September, 1863 ...52 KB (7,872 words) - 04:11, 15 November 2022
- President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination ... in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- of what is now the state of Kentucky, a territory west of the Appalachian ... Boone was a militia officer during the American Revolutionary War ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016 ... which he traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group with his ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- The Cherokee (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, a-ni-yv-wi-ya, in the Cherokee language ... "ja-la-gee" in western dialect) or A-ni-yv-wi-ya (pronounced "ah ...50 KB (7,562 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
- The Beatles were a highly influential English rock 'n' roll ... in their music. In large measure, as a group, they influenced the ...38 KB (5,974 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 ... Delegates from a majority of states agreed to this mode of election. ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... Finland consistently ranks high on a number of international analysis ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- The Flavian dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the ... One year later, Rome was struck by fire and a plague. On the military front ...53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
- 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
- Poetry (from the Greek " ποίησις ," poiesis, a "making" or "creating") is ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- (November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet and ... Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate ...79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- work on quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- Church, and sovereign of Vatican City State from March 2, 1939 until his death ... On March 2, 1876, Eugenio Pacelli was born in Rome into a wealthy ...51 KB (7,678 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- (November 30, 1874 –January 24, 1965) was a British statesman, best known ... Churchill saw himself as a champion of democracy against tyranny, ...65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
- A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of – ... not have as its aim to defend or even explain a particular set of beliefs. ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first ... Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party) was a ... set out on foot to obtain help. Rescuers from California attempted to reach ...73 KB (11,798 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- is a mosque, a former church, and a major cultural and historical ... of Constantinople in 1453. It served as a mosque until 1935, when it ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
- The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively ... parties hampered the process over nearly a century of autocratic experimentation ...102 KB (14,729 words) - 11:39, 3 May 2023
