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Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded ... Archduchess Isabella, daughter of Philip II of Spain wrote about the ...

revolutionary, infamous as the founder of the Bolshevik secret police ... Dzerzhinsky's statue, which towered over Lubyanka Square in Moscow ...

. This uprising took place in the Senate Square in St. Petersburg. In 1925 ... The Decembrists represented the elite of the military officers whose ...

Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...

6, 1973)—was the de facto military ruler of Cuba from 1933 to 1940, and ... His authoritarian government during this period generated opposition ...

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to Sōdai (早大, Sōdai), is one of the top universities in Japan ... Korea, and other Asian countries, many of whom became influential political ...

His unorthodox ideas on the birth and death of ethnoses (ethnic groups) have ... Neo-Eurasianism is a Russian school of thought, popularized in Russia ...

correctly categorical syllogism, is a kind of logical argument in which one ... A syllogism consists of three parts—a major premise, a minor premise ...

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in ... Togo was once part of the area known as the "Slave Coast" ...

has often achieved the highest circulation of daily papers in Britain. It ... women journalists. With its innovative use of photography and populist right ...

, is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...

to magnify the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum experiments to the ... and Georgine Emilia Brenda (daughter of Alexander Bauer, Professor ...

The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though ... thousand refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan along its eastern border ...

three different but related meanings, all of them derived from the word ... theology and mysticism recognizes the limits of conceptual understanding or ...

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is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and occupies ... Libya into northwestern Sudan. A group of oases enables the cultivation ...

during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi Der Stürmer newspaper ... and for their impact on the treatment of Jews in "places where ...

The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... destruction wrought by nearly two decades of civil war during the Cold War ...

In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of ... lift, a push, or a pull. A familiar example of force is the weight of an object ...

birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control ... children were initially met with fierce opposition, she gradually won support ...

) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...

is an island nation in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island ... Similar to other Caribbean islands, it has a history of being ravaged ...

covers 1.9 million acres (2,968.75 square miles) of land in the U.S ... It is a high, rugged, and remote area which consists of three main ...

His work in systematizing the languages of Southeast Asia revealed connections ... and dedicated his life to service of others. In 1890, he joined ...

main guard for reinforcements. The officer of the day was Captain Thomas ... In the midst of the commotion, Private Hugh Montgomery was struck ...

in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami ... East Pakistani politics and within the ranks of the Awami League as a charismatic ...

) was a series of protests and political events that took place in ... public perception that the results of the run-off vote of November ...

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Marxism." Later, he was a founder of the Constitutional Democratic ... Peter Struve is probably the best known member of the Russian branch ...

and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival ... The child of a wealthy and patriotic family, Rakovski attended monastery ...

United States. The park occupies 81.4 square miles (211 square kilometers ... Little is known of the people who constructed these dwellings, and ...

lofty, elevated, exalted), is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude ... The first study of the value of the sublime is the treatise ascribed ...

during which he made a then-division record of 14 title defenses. championship run, despite being accused of domestic violence and beating ...

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, the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located in the ... in the tenth to twelfth centuries a capital of Kievan Rus', a medieval ...

Coast (in English, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire), is a ... Once one of the most prosperous of the tropical West African states ...

park with the exception that the President of the United States can quickly ... monument and national park is the amount of diversity in what is being ...

in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... borders on the north stretch into the center of the Sahara Desert, while the ...

the South Pacific Ocean. Known as "Rock of Polynesia," it is one ... Niue is located about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) northeast of New Zealand ...

best known for having predicted the return of the comet that bears his name ... Halley was born at Haggerston, London, the son of Edmond Halley, a ...

in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being. recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There ...

also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...

boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The area of Antigua and Barbuda is 171 ... to have been due to the combined effects of disease, malnutrition, and ...

Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...

Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a noose ... considered a rather inhumane method of execution it was the method ...

as either the "hidden imam" of Islam or the "Gateway ... The son of a merchant from Shiraz, Iran, the Báb announced himself ...

Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier." He ... approach and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...

the southwest and the People's Republic of China to the southeast. girls," a reference to the Manas of folklore unifying 40 tribes ...

1, 1755, at 9:40 in the morning. It was one of the most destructive and deadly ... in theodicy and in the philosophy of the sublime. As the first earthquake ...

; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... individual piety and submission to the will of "heaven," or "Shang ...

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...

The Warsaw Insurrection (otherwise the Warsaw Uprising of 1794; ... Army, it aimed to throw off Russian control of the Polish capital. It began ...

jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in ... itself. It made reference to the Springtime of Peoples, a lyrical title given ...

Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... all African nations and very high incidences of HIV/AIDS infection. Zimbabwe ...

November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, ... He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ...

rule. It started on August 1, 1944, as part of a nationwide uprising, Operation ... failed to make further headway in the course of the Uprising, leading to accusations ...

1977 motion picture, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The Antiquities Act, granting the President authority to restrict ...

British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period. applying its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; ...

Canadian Rockies, the park is 80 miles west of Calgary in the province of ... As Banff is one of the world's most visited national parks, the ...

June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... for the largest expansion in total land area of the nation's boundaries ...

1530 – March 18, 1584) was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 C.E. to 1547 ... in Church Slavonic) was a long-awaited son of Vasili III. Upon his father ...

politician. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid-twentieth ... to cite Karl Marx and supported recognition of China under Mao Zedong. On ...

Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving ... In the mid-twentieth century racial segregation in the form of apartheid ...

for power within the Communist Party of China, in which at least half ... reassert his leadership after the disasters of the Great Leap Forward which ...

located in the Caribbean to the east of Central America. The 36 islands ... The islands extend east-west for 60 miles and are located just west ...

| order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... | date of birth= March 15, 1767 | place of birth= Waxhaw, South Carolina ...

|order=5th Prime Minister of Israel |term_start =July 13, 1992 ... |birth_place =Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) ...

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...

take relationship with God in every moment of human life. Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...

He was one of the first to expose the use of psychiatric imprisonment ... Vladimir Bukovsky was born in the town of Belebey, Bashkirian ASSR ...

politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 Housing Act ...

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... and 660,000 displaced, and all but 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic ...

heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature ... Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate ...

The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...

as the two-hundred-and-sixty-fourth Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from ... His early reign was marked by his opposition to Communism, and he ...

and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of ... with popular belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States ultimately ...

[http://www.olympic.org/ Official website of the Olympic movement]. Retrieved ... ==History of the Sport== Field hockey history The sport of field hockey ...

the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931, founded ... De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch ...

protection and to promote awareness of environmental issues such as ... Earth Day grew out of the recognition by young people that the earth ...

New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... the strongest candidate for highest point of the Australia/Oceania continent. ...

, Syriac: ܒܝܪܘܬ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. ... Prior to 1975, the country was considered the banking capital of the ...

politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core ...

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...

an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was ... wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on large corporations ...

Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation ... the Maldivian ethnic identity is a blend of people of South Indian, Sinhalese ...

leader who served as the key architect of the October Revolution, and ... Communism's expansion into the rest of the world would be achieved ...

Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. ... The origin of the name is controversial. The most common explanation ...

whose assassination led to the first of the Great Purges. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member ...

politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 ... Bhutto was executed in 1979 for allegedly authorizing the murder of ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...

Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... Barbados' total land area is about 430 square kilometers, (166 ...

in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...

name Nuestra Señora de La Paz (“Our Lady of Peace”), is the administrative ... southeast of Lake Titicaca, the city lies in a deep, broad canyon ...

) is the capital of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent Province. The city ... past remain, most destroyed as a result of the late nineteenth century ...

Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...

– September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...

spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...

(Narkompros) responsible for the Ministry of Education. In addition to his ... His brother-in-law was Alexander Bogdanov, a close associate of Vladimir ...

It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...

work and released after serving five months of his sentence.]] service, or they may refuse to be a part of any combatant organization ...

(Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...

The Battle of Agincourt (IPA pronunciation: [/ɑːʒɪn'kuːʁ/] #039;s Day), in northern France as part of the Hundred Years' War ...

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the ... Originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin at least ...

to as Middle Africa, defines a portion of the African continent south ... *Democratic Republic of the Congo *Republic of Congo *Equatorial Guinea ...

and 24th (1893–1897) president of the United States, and the ... As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes ...

administrative, and cultural center of Romania. It is located in the ... The people of Bucharest suffered under the leadership of Nicolae Ceaușescu ...

The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew מַלְכוּת יְהוּדָה, Standard ... it from the Northern Kingdom (the Kingdom of Israel) after the two entities ...

May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked ... Located in the heart of Central Asia between the Amu Darya (Oxus) ...

Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...

The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... (Saint James). However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish ...

an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...

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

other windings. Varying the relative number of turns between primary and secondary ... was instrumental during the "War of Currents" in seeing alternating ...

in 2007. It is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province ... In the mid-twentieth century racial segregation in the form of apartheid ...

located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...

revolutionary. She was the daughter of a Military officer. She married ... at a young age and met Lenin as a result of her revolutionary activity ...

June 10, 1940), West Indian spokesman of black nationalism and economic ... By enlarging upon the philosophy of Booker T. Washington, Garvey became ...

January 28, 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She ... roughly 167 million books worldwide. Her opposition to corporal punishment ...

Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia. It is located in the ... In November 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya ...

English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...

a British author who is considered to be one of the foremost figures of both ... Woolf is one of the most enduringly popular of all the Modernists ...

urban renewal project, a transformation of a large former disused docks ... Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.]] ...

Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and ... 5 storm that damaged or destroyed 90 percent of the buildings on the island. ...

and Burma during the war. Her popular songs of yearning and hope, which moved ... to have a top ten hit album. At the time of her death in 2020 she had been ...

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... to the early culture at Poverty Point, one of the largest and most important ...

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With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ... established in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany on October 7, 1949 ...

Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ... Because of its strategic geographic location, Syria has historically ...

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... area. The National Park Service portions of the expanded Monument were ...

On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces ... in the records given the confusion of the times, the many victims ...

to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying ... arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United ...

the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia in the east. It is ... (including the Swedish-controlled areas of what is today Finland), were ...

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December ... Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative ...

the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the twentieth century. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( December 1, 1918,–April 17, 1941), also ...

James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October ... He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of ...

Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn) is one of several names for ... Different geographic definitions of Palestine have been used over ...

and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. trees dense enough to feed a full group of koalas. Therefore, even controlled ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...

, was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary positions ... was born at his family's ancestral seat of Knutstorp Castle, Denmark to ...

Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...

Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...

Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...

The Yi Jing ("Book of Changes" or "Classic of Changes ... Though the Yi Jing is often cryptic to the point of obscurity (especially ...

country in Central Africa, roughly the size of France. It is bordered by Chad ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland ... Long the seat of culture within Ireland, it has been at the center ...

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of ... Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. ...

Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme ... In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of ...

The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... and barren soil located on the western flank of the Sahara Desert. Mauritania ...

also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that ... Important events in the history of the deconstructivist movement include ...

German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine studies ...

Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions ... positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge ...

– January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked ...

The Republic of Bolivia (or Bulibiya in the Quechua language; Wuliwya ... enough silver from Bolivia to build a bridge of silver from South America to ...

Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... in the north, and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast ...

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 ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية ... The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques ...

South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...

Michigan is a Midwestern state of the United States of America, located ... Bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair, Michigan ...

professional boxer. He is considered one of the world's greatest heavyweight ... he joined the black nationalist Nation of Islam, changed his name to ...

Nigeria, (some 70 million) led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’adu Abubakar III ... Founded by Usman dan Fodio in 1804, it was one of the most powerful ...

flowing east through the eponymous plains of northern India into Bangladesh ... In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says: "… The ...

He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy ... Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and ...

The Comoros (officially the Union of the Comoros) is an island nation ... as a nation formed at the crossroads of many civilizations. It has ...

the global Cold War superpowers. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater of ... victory in Indochina that year. One of the poorer countries in South ...

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...

earthquake or the Great Pakistan earthquake) of 2005, designates a major earthquake ... and cooperated in relief efforts. Instead of armies braving the harsh and ...

he was posthumously made an Honorary Citizen of the United States; there are ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...

Atroshan or Agiary, is the principle place of worship among Zoroastrians ... Fire and light are universal symbols of holiness and divinity. The ...

is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America, on the Caribbean ... nation in 1981. Belize is a member of Caribbean Community (CARICOM ...

| affiliations = Association of Jesuit Colleges | fightsong ... the U.S. Civil War under the leadership of university president Patrick ...

Ocean, located 300 miles from the coast of Argentina, 671 miles west ... are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have ...

often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ... ) was born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, as the second of ...

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 ...

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Taíno and Ciboney peoples, the period of Spanish colonialism, the introduction ...

the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... country was considered the banking capital of the Arab world and was widely ...

the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...

Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...

or space habitation) is the concept of permanent, autonomous (self ... Many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, but others ...

The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... The king is viewed as spiritual leader of the country and dominates ...

The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...

reputation in 1949, as a member of the U.S. team that won the ... The tempestuous Gonzales is still widely considered to be one of the ...

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...

"Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... at war with Britain have been the cause of arguments among historians ...

He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...

Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...

The First War of Indian Independence was a period of rebellions in ... Mangal Pandey, a Sepoy in the colonial British army, was the spearhead ...

The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the ... The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It ...

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...

Supporting Actress. She was the recipient of Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk ... Dee and her husband, Ossie Davis, stood in the forefront of changing ...

September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May 17, 1995 until ... His internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price ...

Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the ... in the United States. The citizens of Los Angeles speak more than ...

Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the ... Anarcho-syndicalism remains a popular and active school of Anarchism ...

, also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...

Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... rights laws are most often written. Examples of civil rights and liberties ...

The State of Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... and Clark Expedition in 1805. It was part of the disputed Oregon Country ...

The Insurrection of August 10, 1792 was a defining event of the French ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...

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

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

Alabama is a state located in the southern region of the United States ... Like other states in the South, Alabama is burdened by the legacy ...

Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... 1994 genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Since ...

This article is about the nation of Georgia. For the U.S. state, see ... officially from 1990 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia, is a country to the ...

abbreviated: CH), is a landlocked nation of 7.5 million people in Western ... ) translate as "Swiss Confederation," while the German name of ...

Mills during the early 1800s made it a place of pilgrimage for social reformers ... earliest years was the key to the formation of good character and to the amelioration ...

is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the Jordan River in the Middle East. The area is regarded by many Jews as the birthplace of the Jewish ...

or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...

Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... to establish colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; he founded ...

Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...

for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...

- December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United ... and Indian War. For many years, control of the area was disputed by the ...

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government ...

celebrity, due to the emerging role of mass media in the lives of ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...

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

The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...

Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ... Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers ...

[[Image:Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Portrait of Galileo ... whose career coincided with that of Johannes Kepler. His work constitutes ...

The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall ...

legein "to speak") is the study of message secrecy. One of cryptography ... in everyday life; examples include security of ATM cards, computer passwords ...

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island ... it became known as the "Birthplace of Confederation" for having ...

was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. Russia suffered from a number of chronic economic and social problems ...

largest by mass. It is 17 times the mass of Earth and slightly more massive ... ) is a stylized version of Poseidon's Trident. Neptune's ...

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...

) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island ... Northern Ireland has been for many years the site of a violent and ...

Bedřich Smetana (March 2, 1824 - 12 May 12, 1884) is considered one ... founded several music schools in promotion of Czech music and fostered a ...

The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country ... Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed ...

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Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...

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1878 until 1918, Montenegro was later a part of various incarnations of Yugoslavia ... Based on the results of a referendum, Montenegro declared independence ...

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The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ... to concentration camps and executions of between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews. ...

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Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...

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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... Germanic Europe, borrowing customs from each of the distinct traditions. Although ...

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The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...

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Panama, officially the Republic of Panama ( República de Panamá ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on an ...

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William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington ... Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English ...

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Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ... commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning ...

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Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 16,000 feet, (4,900 meters ... Songtsän Gampo united numerous tribes of the region. From 1578, leadership ...

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

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Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...

The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ... The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Outside of California ...

The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... enthusiastic: Some powers linked the demise of the Ottomans with the fate ...

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