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:For the later Greek writer see Xenophon of Ephesus. [[Image:Xenophon ... a Greek mercenary, historian and follower of Socrates. In 401 B.C.E. he ...

The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes ( 莫高窟|p=mò gāo kū ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves ...

was a Welsh privateer, who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of buccaneers ... Henry Morgan was the eldest son of Robert Morgan, a squire of Llanrhymny ...

The Battle of the Pyramids was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between ... treasure to Europe. Ancient Egypt captured the European imagination. Egypt ...

a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...

The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ ... Ligong (Chinese: 离宫; pinyin: Lígōng, the Qing Dynasty's summer ...

(1159 – June 15, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan ... The exploits of Yoshitsune and his faithful follower, the monk Benkei ...

The Libyan Desert, also known as Great Sand Sea or Western Desert ... This desert is primarily sand and boulder plain and is inhabited by ...

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a U.S. National Park ... Sheer black walls of schist and gneiss plummet as much as 2,700 feet ...

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... The victory would ultimately prove to be a Pyrrhic one for the British ...

The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian ... The Sea provides an important link between the neighboring areas of ...

1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...

The Congo River is the largest river in western Central Africa and ... The river and its tributaries flow through the second-largest rainforest ...

He is known principally for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific ... Balboa traveled to the New World in 1500 and after some early explorations ...

November 19, 1798), was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence ... Tone was born in Dublin, the son of a Church of Ireland, Protestant ...

The Cayuga were members of a powerful confederacy of tribes of the ... The Cayuga sided with the British during the American Revolution and ...

The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...

was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, at the service of Spain, led the ... Magellan was the first to reach Asia by sailing westward from Europe ...

Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig. The ... writing concertos for unusual combinations of instruments, such as multiple ...

The Strait of Magellan (often referred to as the Straits of Magellan ... The first European to navigate the strait was Ferdinand Magellan, ...

Yellowstone National Park is a U.S. National Park located in the western ... volcanic eruption spewed an immense volume of ash that covered all of what ...

The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре; English ... miles (1,583,000 sq km)—is considered one of the richest north temperate ...

), considered as the greatest king of the Chola Empire by many, ruled ... He streamlined the administrative system with the division of the ...

The Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.E.) was an Ancient Greek military ... The Peloponnesian War reshaped the Ancient Greek world. On the level ...

Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate ... An image of the west front of Monticello was featured on the reverse ...

The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... With Asian countries on the western Pacific rim projected to continue ...

monumental granite sculpture that represents the first 150 years of the history ... Known earlier to the Lakota Sioux, on whose land the monument was ...

2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...

The Shoshone (also spelled Shoshoni) are a Native American tribe with ... Possibly the most famous member of the Shoshone tribe was Sacagawea ...

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington ... Geographic Magazine has, through its use of photojournalism and quality ...

The Field Museum of Natural History (commonly abbreviated to FMNH ... The Field Museum has contributed to the advancement of museums in ...

[[Image:Temple of Zeus.JPG|right|350px|thumb|Ruins of the Temple of ... Olimpia, Olimbia), a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is ...

American traitor, having been a general in the Continental Army during the ... Arnold earlier distinguished himself as a hero through acts of cunning ...

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic ... The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending ...

Zion National Park is a United States national park located in the ... A prominent feature in the 229-square-mile (593 square kilometer) ...

Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand ... Sima Qian’s style of writing was easy to read, full of humor and ...

, Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and ... The world ocean, an integral part of global climate, is constantly ...

was a German architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation ... While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer ...

) and born as Ahmad Khān Abdālī, was the founder of the Durrani ... The Pashtuns of Afghanistan often call him Bābā ("father" ...

Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot (4,322-meter) stratovolcano, is the second ... mountain and rising abruptly from miles of level ground which encircle ...

The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain ... The Rocky Mountains are commonly defined to stretch from the Liard ...

and political leader often referred to as the "father of modern China ... Although Sun Yat-sen is considered one of the greatest leaders of ...

17, 1850), was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern ... Corrientes, he left his mother country at the early age of seven and studied ...

041-058.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Location of the valley in the Theban Hills ... The Valley of the Kings (Arabic: وادي الملوك Wadi Biban ...

The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...

Recreation Area are adjacent to it on the southwest and south, respectively ... The park, which lies along the northwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau ...

The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by ... Geologists estimate that formation of the canyon required at least ...

|name =University of Rome "La Sapienza" |native_name ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di ...

France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...

Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ... and was Assyria's capital city from the ninth through the seventh ...

210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from ... his prime minister Lǐ Sī passed a series of major reforms aimed at cementing ...

The Cairo geniza was a storeroom in a synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, in ... Although the existence of the geniza (a Hebrew word meaning a "hiding ...

off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British ... At 32,134 square kilometers (12,407 square miles), it is the largest ...

The Yongle Emperor or “Yung-lo Emperor” (永楽帝 ) May 2, 1360 ... Though he was despotic and ruthless, Yongle is considered one of the ...

who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and ... As Mathew Brady's leading photographer during the early days ...

The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately ... Beginning as simply the city of Oyo, it rose to prominence through ...

was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military adviser ... A defining characteristic of Standish's military leadership was ...

:This article is about the French mathematician and physicist. For ... and government administrator during the reign of Napoleon who is best ...

Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Mitzada, from מצודה ... for Jews. Its story has helped to counter the sentiment that Jews were always ...

French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the ... Its population of 202,000, most of whom live along the coast, is very ...

The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng ... ) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built ...

The Battle of Badr ( غزوة بدر ), fought March 17, 624 C.E. (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar ...

novelist and spy, who is considered one of the earliest practitioners ... Famous for his wicked sense of irony (Defoe's penchant for satire ...

The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman ... Although today part of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct ...

The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere would come under the domination ...

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region ... The taming of the river for human use, and the industrial waste that ...

The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy mountain range") is ... The Sierra Nevada, home to the largest trees in the world--the Giant ...

New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... The highest peak between the Andes and the Himalayas, at 4,884 metres ...

The Siege of Malta (also known as the Great Siege of Malta) took place ... Nevertheless, the siege should not be viewed in isolation. Rather ...

The War of the Triple Alliance, also known as the Paraguayan War ... The cause of the war has been widely attributed to causes as varied ...

Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence ... Expedition of the Thousand [[Image:Lmille.jpg|thumb|280px|left|Carte ...

Emperor Wu of Han ( s=汉武帝|t=漢武帝|p=hànwǔdì ... –March 29, 87 B.C.E.), personal name Liu Che (劉徹), was the seventh ...

German protectorate from 1884 to 1914 within the German colonial empire, consisting ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...

) (ca. 418 B.C.E.–362 B.C.E.) was a Theban general and statesman ... The Roman orator Cicero called him "the first man of Greece, ...

The Chinese Civil War ( t=國共內戰|s=国共内战|p=Guógòng Neìzhàn ... 1927 to May 1950, was a war in China between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese ...

Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ... Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France ...

was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ... with strong convictions, but was tolerant of those with other views. His ...

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... The area's fertile soil and warm climate gave rise to the early ...

The Temple of Artemis was a magnificent place of worship in the city ... The temple was described by Philo of Byzantium: I have seen the walls ...

Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...

Raffles (July 6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore ... Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Jamaica. Little ...

The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against ... In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by ...

Onion is the common name for the herbaceous, cold season plant Allium ... Closely related plants of the same genus include chives (Allium schoenoprasum ...

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the ... Washington first gained prominence leading Virginia troops in support ...

1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent B.F. Manz ... (tăm'urlān), (c.1336–1405), the Mongol conqueror, was born ...

British Army officer and creator of special military units in World ... Perhaps the most important aspect of Wingate's legacy is that ...

park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within ... elevation than nearby Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon. The rim at Bryce ...

Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... When Britain acquired an Empire of its own, reference to His or Her ...

in central Kentucky. It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the world’s ... The official name of the system is the Mammoth Cave System, though ...

[[Image:Pygmy.png|thumb|right|200px|Comparative height of a Pygmy ... In anthropology, a Pygmy is a member of a hunter-gatherer people characterized ...

Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...

The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the ... Countries bordering the Black Sea are Turkey to the south, Bulgaria ...

from 98, until his death in 117. He was the second of the Five Good Emperors ... As a civilian administrator, Trajan maintained good relations with ...

Building or "Castle" on the National Mall serves as the ... The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest educational ...

The Rus' Khaganate (sometimes called Volkhov Rus, Ilmen Rus, ... According to contemporaneous sources, the population centers of the ...

USA. For more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) the Rio Grande / Río Bravo forms ... Big Bend National Park has national significance as the largest protected ...

The term Carthage refers both to an ancient city in North Africa—located ... Originally a settlement of Phoenician colonists, Carthage grew into ...

and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. A Presidential proclamation ...

Skambōnidēs) meaning Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, from the deme of ... During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his ...

The Konbaung Dynasty, 1752-1885, also known as Third Burmese Empire ... An expansionist dynasty, the Konbaung kings waged campaigns against ...

The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ... A typical mutiny in the Royal Navy during the eighteenth century involved ...

like marine crustaceans that belong to the order (or suborder) Euphausiacea ... As this taxonomic group advances in its individual need of growth ...

Richard II (January 6, 1367 – February 14, 1400) was King of England ... Richard was born in Bordeaux at the feast of Epiphany, with three ...

for his actions while stationed in the Canadian colonies. His efforts ... Assigned to Canada in 1802, Brock was responsible for defending the ...

The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt, waged from 1851 until ... Most accurate sources put the total deaths during the fifteen years ...

The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers ... The Court of Martyrs Henry Coppée writes, "The same name (see ...

Sviatoslav I of Kiev (East Slavic: Святослав, ca. 942 – ... Sviatoslav was the first ruler of Kievan Rus' whose name is indisputably ...

the people indigenous to the United States|broader uses of "Native ... Native'One race: 2.5 million Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics ...

The Fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, came about ... In April 1519, Hernán Cortés, previously the Chief Magistrate of ...

The Boshin War|{{linktext|戊|辰|戦|争|Boshin Sensō|extra="War ... was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces ...

South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United ... Located in the north-central United States, South Dakota is bisected ...

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September ... After achieving a truce a truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he began ...

:For the Three Kingdoms general, see Zhang He. [[Image:ZhengHeShips ... diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively referred ...

According to the Abrahamic religions, Noah's Ark was a large ... take on board his family and representatives of all the animals and birds. ...

St. Louis is an independent city, separate from St. Louis County ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...

The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...

The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 ... Ming rule saw the construction of a vast navy, including four-masted ...

) (1666-1708) was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna ... He is fondly remembered by Sikhs as a defender of the faith and a ...

Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη) was the capital ... The city has had many names throughout history. Depending on the background ...

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (March 9, 1749 - April ... A successful orator, he was the leader of the moderate position among ...

The Crimean War lasted from March 28, 1853 until April 1, 1856 and ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...

The Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller ... At times it competed in popularity with the Knights Templar, a more ...

The Cathari (also known as Cathars, Albigensians, or Catharism) were ... in their theology, espousing a stark distinction between the physical ...

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...

a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the River Eurotas in the southern ... Laconophilia is the admiration of Sparta, which continues to fascinate ...

Big Sur is a 100-mile stretch of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along ... Big Sur's boundaries are loosely defined; many definitions of ...

Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon ... west from the capital Ulaanbaatar. The Orkhon Valley was the site ...

1742 – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the ... ==Before the war== The son of a Quaker farmer and smith, he was born ...

786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh Abbasid caliph who ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...

The Battle of Bassorah, Battle of the Camel, or Battle of Jamal was ... Some Muslim feminists laud this event as an example of political intervention ...

Salmon is the common name for several species of large food and game ... smaller fish. Wild salmon are found in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ...

The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe that ... The region covers almost 500|mi|km east to west and 3000|mi|km ...

Niagara Falls is a set of massive waterfalls located on the Niagara ... The falls formed after the receding of the glaciers of the most recent ...

Wuruk, whose reign from 1350 to 1389 marked the empire's peak, when it ... The Majapahit empire was the last of the major Hindu empires of the ...

The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought ... The Napoleonic Wars brought great changes to Europe. Though Napoleon ...

The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the ... There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period ...

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...

John (December 24, 1166 – October 18, 1216) reigned as King of England ... History has contrasted his unpopularity with the popularity of his brother ...

observations in Africa challenged attitudes of racial superiority and provoked ... Kingsley was courageous to challenge the imperial order and to cross ...

Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern ... Remains of one of the oldest known hominids, dated to over one million ...

The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast ... The islands were explored by Russians in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...

Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... In the main remembered for their ferocity and pillaging raids, the ...

is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting ... Saint Helena, named after Saint Helena of Constantinople since it ...

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... power from September 1973 to March 1990, the country has been relatively ...

Spain led European global exploration and colonial expansion in the ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...

1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who ... Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and ...

Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227), the founder of the largest contiguous ... While his image in much of the world is that of a ruthless, bloodthirsty ...

The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the ... A wide variety of organisms, including bacteria, protists, algae, ...

[[Image:ac-parthenon5.jpg|thumb|300px|The Parthenon seen from the ... The Parthenon (Παρθενώνας) is a temple of the Greek goddess ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) ([[Kyūjitai| Kyūjitai ... or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ...

The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... Finland consistently ranks high on a number of international analysis ...

:This article is intended as a generally accessible introduction to ... General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed ...

beloved Don Quixote, widely considered to be the first modern novel, the greatest ... which could readily be identified within the genre of the novel. Medieval ...

, Urdu: لدّاخ; "land of high passes") is a province ... Situated on a high altitude plain, Ladakh became the midway point ...

Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... Before the American Civil War, Mississippi was the fifth-wealthiest ...

|flag_caption = Oklahoma Choctaw Battalion Flag during the American ... The Choctaws, or Chahtas, are a Native American people originally ...

directors owing to his innovative use of montage. but his star has waxed and waned over the years, and the merit of his ...

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... When the Spanish landed in 1531, the Inca empire extended over a vast ...

The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... The name Manila comes from may nilad, Tagalog for "there is nilad ...

Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... A sparse population is confined to small settlements along the coast ...

The Gallic Wars The 58–50 B.C.E. conflict is also named the "Second ... were waged between 58 and 50 B.C.E. by the Roman general Julius Caesar ...

revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...

Kulintang is a modern term for an instrumental form of music composed ... The main role of kulintang music in the community is as nonprofessional ...

Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... features, including Angel Falls. Located in the Guayana highlands, it plunges ...

Бакунин, Michel Bakunin—on the grave in Bern), (May 18 (May ... he was sent as punishment for promoting the revolution against the Russian ...

) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...

)), was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the ... 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected ...

The Chola Dynasty ( சோழர் குலம் , 'ʧoːɻə ), a Tamil dynasty, ruled primarily in southern India until the thirteenth ...

Joan of Arc, also Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc's name was written ... – May 30, 1431), is a national heroine of France and a saint of ...

Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World ... The "common raccoon," P. lotor, also known simply as "the ...

Kansas is a Midwestern state located in the geographic center of the ... Originally, home to large numbers of nomadic Native Americans that ...

The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a ... The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of ...

A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Cuba is the most populous country in the Caribbean. Its people, culture ...

Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial ... The heinous acts of torture committed by Unit 731 mirrored the inhumane ...

The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Defeat in World War I and the February and October Revolutions in ...

The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... Later, however, when other Ottoman provinces in the Balkans began ...

; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... Since its establishment in 723 B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital ...

who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-nineteenth century. He ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...

The Philippine-American War was an armed military conflict between ... The conflict officially ended on July 4, 1902. Sharon Delmendo, The ...

politician and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years ... When the attempt to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista in ...

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España North Africa (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign ...