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- The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571 when a galley ... fought solely between rowing vessels was one of history's most decisive ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...33 KB (4,943 words) - 18:26, 26 February 2024
- off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British ... it is the largest island on the western side of the Americas and is Canada ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- Bootlegging is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport ... unauthorized audio or video recording, often of a concert, distributed without ...25 KB (3,823 words) - 17:51, 27 April 2020
- Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... northern Ecuador to central Chile. In search of Inca wealth, the Spanish explorer ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies ... Mitsubishi was the second largest of the family-owned industrial-financial ...21 KB (2,798 words) - 19:21, 9 November 2022
- Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, ... is 1,500 miles (2414 km) southeast of Tokyo and 6,000 miles (9656 ...22 KB (3,229 words) - 03:09, 26 February 2023
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- ) is a major ship canal that traverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central ... and the canal opened in 1914. The building of the 48-mile canal was plagued ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected military ... or La Era de Trujillo), was one of the longest for a non-royal leader ...66 KB (9,421 words) - 19:56, 29 April 2024
- country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ... the Dominican Republic has a long history of violence and tyranny, including; ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- painter who is often said to be the greatest of the Northern Baroque artists ... heritage. Rubens expressed the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, which ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. German Nazism ... Fascism led to Italy's support of Hitler's Germany during ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- Ohio is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Part of ... Prior to 1984, the United States Census Bureau considered Ohio part ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar ... a calendar based on the true motions of both the sun and moon, calculated ...53 KB (8,207 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- military conflict between the United States of America and the nascent First ... ISBN 9718958002). This date marked the end of the war as far as the United ...65 KB (9,572 words) - 20:45, 23 September 2023
- the people indigenous to the United States|broader uses of "Native ... Native'One race: 2.5 million Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics ...60 KB (8,901 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions ... British annexation in 1664. About one third of all of the battles of the Revolutionary ...44 KB (6,512 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan's Imperial Japanese ... The attack was one of the most important engagements of World War ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... in the Korean War. During a Soviet boycott of the meetings over the inclusion ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
- The Navajo (also Navaho) people of the southwestern United States ... influenced their lifestyle both in terms of agriculture and art. The famous ...48 KB (7,395 words) - 15:33, 11 November 2022
- Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public ... interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified ...28 KB (4,023 words) - 23:51, 10 August 2023
- Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions ... The earliest well-documented influence of Buddhism in Tibet dates ...27 KB (3,993 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- (population: 371,767 in 2007; population of urban area is some 1,007,972 ... , named Zurich the city with the best quality of life in the world. ...53 KB (7,882 words) - 06:16, 13 June 2023
- is on the Pacific Ocean, while the east side of the country is on the Caribbean Sea. The country's name is derived from "Nicarao," the name ...59 KB (8,536 words) - 09:43, 11 March 2023
- – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933 ... successful engineer, and a dynamic Secretary of Commerce. He was highly regarded ...41 KB (6,027 words) - 14:27, 9 February 2022
- established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, the country's second ... area extends well beyond the boundaries of a single local authority. Greater ...30 KB (4,384 words) - 20:30, 18 January 2024
- Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It ... and France. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- The Canary Islands, though politically a part of Spain, are only 67 ... The autonomous community of the Canary Islands was established by ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations ... Finally, after massive swings in favor of both the North and the South ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- one" or "March 1") was one of the earliest manifestations ... demonstrations failed to accomplish the goal of effecting independence, they ...28 KB (4,439 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian ... lacked the military and political power of the former USSR. Russia managed ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- sovereignty until 1952, when the Treaty of San Francisco, also called the ... Taiwan and mainland China. In the Treaty of San Francisco and the Treaty of ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency, located ... The head of state is King Charles III, who holds the title of Lord ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- the aircraft carrier as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously ... 000 tonnes or more, has been the pinnacle of carrier development since their ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- |established_event4 = Treaty of San Francisco |established_date4 = ... island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan comprises over ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ... The policies pursued by Nazi Germany, based on the concept of Lebensraum ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ... During World War I, a force of Japanese destroyers supported the Allies ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
- denotes Russians citizens and/or residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin ... The Sakhalin Koreans experienced slaughter at the hands of the Russians ...39 KB (5,508 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
