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- 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
- John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) became the first American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America, from ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The New York Daily News is the sixth largest daily newspaper in the United ...9 KB (1,384 words) - 21:48, 14 November 2022
- Honolulu is the capital and most populous city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeastern ...22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
- The Allegheny River is located in the Northeastern United States and is a principal tributary of the Ohio River. The river rises in Pennsylvania ...19 KB (2,637 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- |Singapore||SingaporeThis country is a city-state. |Sri Lanka||Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte |- |Syria||Damascus |Tajikistan||Dushanbe ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- Carrie Amelia Nation, later Carry A. Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ...12 KB (1,895 words) - 14:52, 27 April 2023
- Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks ...19 KB (2,631 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen |name = M.V. Lomonosov ...19 KB (2,791 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- Ajmer Ajmer.ogg|pronunciation ( अजमेर /ədʒmeːr/ ) is a city in Ajmer District in India's Rajasthan state. The city gave its ...14 KB (1,997 words) - 07:13, 16 June 2023
- Thomas Heyward, Jr. (July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, a Revolutionary War officer ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was born out of a union of four villages during the twelfth century. During the Scramble for Africa in the late ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
- The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province, in western Afghanistan, by the Hari River. The 65|m|ft high minaret, surrounded ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
- The Historic Centre of Lima is the portion of the city of Lima, Peru, founded in 1535 by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro as La Ciudad ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 21:54, 31 January 2024
- 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
- Ragusa, it was the only eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported ... The city-state's wealth was partly the result of the land it ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, was one of the most important cities of medieval Europe. Situated at ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- Arnold of Brescia (c. 1090 – c.1155), also known as Arnaldus (Italian: Arnaldo da Brescia), was a monk from Italy who called on the Catholic ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 03:56, 15 August 2023
- Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was known as the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., and sometimes referred to as MLK Day) is an American federal holiday ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the city where it was signed on August 27, 1928, was an international treaty ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- In ancient times Megiddo was an important city-state of ancient Canaan and an important town in the later Kingdom of Israel. It was strategically ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Mohenjo-daro ( موئن جودڑو , موئن جو دڙو , Mound of the dead )—a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 B ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Bates, Daisy Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – ...13 KB (1,959 words) - 07:47, 12 January 2024
- Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934) was an American bank robber and alleged killer, romanticized ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
- Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, has earned fame for its well-preserved ruins of ancient Lankan civilization. The city ...16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Assisi is a small city in the Perugia province of the Umbria region of Italy. It is situated on the western flank of Monte Subasio at an elevation ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2023
- Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single global community. The word derives from Greek cosmos ("Κόσμος ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- Founded perhaps as early as the tenth century, Timbuktu is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic location in ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- Cuauhtémoc (also known as Cuauhtemotzin or Guatimozin; c. 1502 – February 28, 1525) was the last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and ...8 KB (1,234 words) - 19:34, 8 July 2016
