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  • Taxila is an important archaeological site in Pakistan containing the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila (also Takkasila or Taxila) ...
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  • The Golden Mountains of Altai is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Siberia, in the Russian territory of the Altai Republic. Established ...
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  • Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on the Zealand and Amager Islands, and is separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
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  • Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 - November 29, 2023) was a German-born U.S. diplomat, Nobel laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of ...
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  • Utah, a state located in the western United States, was the 45th state admitted to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population ...
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  • The Greek conquests of India took place in the years before the Common Era, and a rich trade flourished between India and Greece, especially ...
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  • Jiangxi ( c=江西 |p=Jiāngxī |w=Chiang-hsi ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People's Republic of China, spanning ...
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  • |footnote1 = Monaco is a city-state. |footnote2 = GDP per capita calculations include non-resident workers from France and Italy. }} ...
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  • Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near the center of the North American continent and touches two of the five Great ...
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  • St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...
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  • Nevada is a state located in the western region of the United States of America. The state's nickname is "The Silver State" due ...
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  • Gabriele d'Annunzio (March 12, 1863, Pescara – March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist ...
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  • Alcaeus (Alkaios) of Mitylene (ca. 620 B.C.E. - ? B.C.E. ), was an ancient Greek poet who was considered one of the greatest lyric poets of ...
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  • Krishna (meaning "dark" or dark-blue"), also known as Govinda ("cow-protector") among many other names, is one of the ...
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  • Fulani, lived in Gobir, a leading city-state. He was a teacher in the Maliki legal tradition and a member of the Qadiriyyah Sufi order, or tariqah ...
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  • The Ohio River is the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles (1,579 km) long and is located in the ...
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  • Anne Sullivan, Annie Sullivan, or Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy (April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was a trailblazer in the field of education ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Morgan, Lewis H. [[Image:Morgan.jpg|thumb|140px|Lewis H. Morgan]] Lewis Henry Morgan ...
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  • Lima is the capital and largest city, as well as the commercial and industrial center, of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón ...
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  • Shanxi ( c=山西 |p=Shānxī |w=Shan-hsi ; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northern ...
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  • Socialism in one country links=no|социализм в отдельно взятой стране|r=sotsializm v otdelno vzyatoy strane|t=socialism ...
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  • Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (February 21, 1794 – June 21, 1876), also known simply as Santa Anna ...
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  • Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet who is notable for his mastery of English prosody and his deeply ...
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  • Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city in the state of Texas. U.S. Census Bureau tabulations ...
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  • In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of books known as the Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Unlike other prophetic ...
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  • Greeks to describe citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, such as those who colonized ...
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  • The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States of America. One of Pennsylvania's ...
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  • Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 – August 5, 1895), a nineteenth century German political philosopher, collaborated closely with Karl Marx ...
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  • Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 - November 20, 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Manasseh ben Israel (also spelled "Menasseh"), was a ...
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  • Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies at the confluence of the Sava and Danube Rivers in north central Serbia, where ...
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  • Daniel Patrick Mannix (March 4, 1864 – November 2, 1963) was an Irish-born Australian Catholic priest, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years ...
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  • Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest in the Midwest. With a population of nearly 3 million people, the city is ...
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  • The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality in post-Kievan Rus' in the late twelfth century and existed until ...
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  • John William Heisman (October 23, 1869 – October 3, 1936) was a prominent American football player and college football coach in the early ...
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  • The Donatist movement was a branch of Christianity in north Africa, eventually deemed heretical, which began in the early fourth century C.E ...
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  • 000 men. After capturing Bornu, he established a city-state based at Dikwa, to the south of Lake Chad from where he engaged with the army of the Fulani ...
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  • The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris. It is the tallest structure in Paris and among ...
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  • Nanna, also called Sîn (or Suen) was a Sumerian god who played a longstanding role in Mesopotamian religion and mythology. He was the god of ...
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  • The Boston Public Library is the largest municipal public library in the United States. All adult residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ...
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  • Gajah Mada (died c. 1364) was, according to Javanese old manuscripts, poems and mythology, a famous military leader and prime minister (mahapatih ...
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  • Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and ...
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  • that the city be constituted as an autonomous city-state. However, the Samyukta Maharashtra movement opposed this, and insisted that Mumbai be declared ...
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  • John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, and jurist, best known as the ...
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  • Lidice is a small village that lies in the rolling hills of Bohemia, less than a half-hour by car west of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic ...
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  • Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city, as well as the economic, administrative, and cultural center of Romania. It is located ...
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  • Hóng Xiùquán (洪秀全, Hóng Xiùquán, Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, January 1, 1814 – June 1, 1864) was a Chinese religious prophet and leader ...
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  • John Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized ...
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  • Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the capital and largest city in the state of Massachusetts and the largest city ...
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  • Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (ca. 1510 – September 22, 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and Governor of New Galicia, Mexico who between 1540 ...
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  • Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and its largest city is New Orleans ...
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  • Vancouver Island is located off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is named in ...
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  • Yan Zhitui ( c=顏之推|p=Yán Zhītuī|w=Yen2 Chih1-T'ui1 , 531–591) was a Chinese scholar, calligrapher, painter, musician, and government ...
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  • Taejo of Joseon (1335-1408; r. 1392-1398), born Yi Seonggye, was the main figure in overthrowing the Goryeo Dynasty and the founder and the first ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Law [[Image:Antonio Villaraigosa.jpg|right|thumb|260px|Los Angeles Mayor Antonio ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Category:Biography Lynd, Robert and Helen Robert Staughton Lynd (September 26, 1892 – November 1, 1970) and Helen Merrell ...
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  • Ahmedabad ( અમદાવાદ Amdāvād , Hindi: अहमदाबाद Ahmadābād), the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh ...
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  • Zhejiang ( c=浙江|p=Zhèjiāng ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located along the country's southeastern coast. It ...
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  • Pǔyí (Traditional Chinese: 溥儀; Simplified Chinese: 溥仪) (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro Aisin-Gioro is ...
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  • Saint Alexander Nevsky (Алекса́ндр Яросла́вич Не́вский in Russian; transliteration: Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskij ...
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  • Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 14, 1936) better known as ...
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  • The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal which divided France during the 1890s and early 1900s. It involved the wrongful conviction of Jewish ...
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  • Alabama is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in ...
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  • Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's ...
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  • Machu Picchu (Quechua language: Old Mountain; sometimes called the "Lost City of the Incas") is one of the most well known sites of ...
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  • The Safavids (Persian: صفویان) were a native Iranian dynasty from Azarbaijan that ruled from 1501 to 1736, and which established Shi'a ...
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  • William Henry Seward, Sr. (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Organized crime or criminal organizations refer to centralized enterprises established in order ...
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  • Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and ranks sixth in population among cities in the United States. In 2007, the population of ...
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  • The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a pre-colonial West African trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger ...
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  • Brussels ( Bruxelles , bʁysɛl ; Brussel , ˈbrɵsəɫ ), the largest city in Belgium, is also that nation's capital city and its administrative ...
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  • Johannesburg is the largest and most populous city in South Africa, with nearly 3.9 million population in 2007. It is the provincial capital ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Los Angeles skyline.JPG|thumb|right|200 px|The city of Los Angeles, California ...
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  • Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. H. L. Mencken called ...
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  • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938) is a well-known American jurist and a justice on the United States Supreme Court. He ...
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  • The Baja California peninsula, (also Lower California peninsula) is a North American peninsula, politically a part of the nation of Mexico. Extending ...
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  • The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings, mostly ...
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  • Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish philosopher, educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents ...
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  • John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon ...
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  • The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. An ocean basin, it is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the ...
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  • Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 - January 4, 1877) was an American industrialist, born on Staten Island, New York. He entered the transportation ...
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  • Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, in New York City, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sakhr ibn Harb, (Arabic: صخر بن حرب ) more commonly known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca ...
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  • The chemical compound ammonium nitrate, the nitrate of ammonia with the chemical formula NH4NO3, is a white powder at room temperature and standard ...
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  • Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr., was an American poet whose works brought about the ...
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  • Milan ( Milano ; Milan ) is the capital city of the Province of Milano and of Lombardy region (Lombardia) in northern Italy. Milan was first settled ...
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  • Aachen Cathedral, frequently referred to as the "Imperial Cathedral" (in German: Kaiserdom) is a Roman Catholic church in Aachen, Germany ...
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  • The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is the shortest book of the Bible, ...
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  • Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital city when it gained independence from Britain in 1962. The city is coterminous ...
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  • Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood in 1959. It is the only island U.S. state, and sits in a strategic position ...
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  • Samuel Gompers (January 26, 1850 - December 13, 1924) was an American labor and political leader. He was born in England, to a Jewish family ...
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  • Saint Andrew (first century C.E.) (Greek: Ανδρέας, Andreas, "manly, brave"), called Protocletos, or the First-called in the ...
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  • John of Montecorvino, or Giovanni Da/di Montecorvino in Italian, also spelled Monte Corvino (1246, Montecorvino, Southern Italy - 1328, Peking ...
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  • Saladin, Salah ad-Din, or Salahuddin al Ayyubi (so-lah-hood-din al-aye-yu-be) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), was a twelfth century Kurdish Muslim ...
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  • Johann August Suter (February 28 1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known as a founder of California and for his association ...
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  • Bourges Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges) is a cathedral, dedicated to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the seat ...
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  • The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica in Portuguese) is a region of tropical and subtropical moist forest, tropical dry forest, tropical savannas ...
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  • The Actors Studio is a non-profit organization for professional actors, theater directors, and playwrights located in the Old Labor Stage at ...
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  • is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture and, with a population of 3.6 million, Japan's largest city after Tokyo, located in the Kantō region ...
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  • Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew: נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ...
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  • category:Image wanted {{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = Ford Foundation | founded_date = 1936 | founder = Henry & Edsel Ford ...
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  • In Burma, three large pagodas at Sri Ksetra, the earliest city-state of the Pyu people (seventh to eleventh centuries C.E.) , constructed using ...
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  • Angkor refers to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the Khmer empire that flourished from approximately the ninth century to the fifteenth ...
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  • Edward Herbert Thompson (September 28, 1857 - May 18, 1935) Different sources give various years for his birth: 1956, 1957, and 1960. ...
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  • Ashurbanipal (Akkadian: Aššur-bāni-apli; 685 B.C.E. – 627 B.C.E.), was the last great king of ancient Assyria. During his rule, Assyrian ...
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  • Lisbon ( Lisboa , liʒˈboɐ ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost capital in mainland Europe. Over the course of ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Slc mormon tempel.jpg|thumb|right|345px|The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the ...
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  • Sanchi refers to a small village in India located 46 km north-east of Bhopal, and ten km from Besnagar and Vidisha in the central part of the ...
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  • Tommaso Campanella (September 5, 1568 – May 21, 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, Counter-Reformation ...
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  • the history and civilization of an Italian city-state, 1297-1797. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801863120 ISBN 9780801863127 ...
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  • Chennai (Tamil: சென்னை), formerly known as Madras, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, sits on the Coromandel Coast of ...
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  • Ephrem the Syrian (306 – 373) was a deacon, prolific writer of hymns, and theologian of the fourth century. He is venerated by Christians throughout ...
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  • John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States. As the first vice president to succeed to the ...
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  • is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū. The city is the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Schilling abuse.jpg|thumb|200 px|Kidnapping (depicted in the background) in Luzerner ...
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  • Desalination (or desalinization or desalinisation) refers to any of several processes that remove excess salt and other minerals from water. ...
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  • Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 - January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer. He is best remembered ...
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  • Henry Hudson (September 12, 1570s – 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early seventeenth century. He was born in London ...
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  • Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, 360|km|mi west from the capital Ulaanbaatar ...
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  • Orthodox Judaism is the Jewish tradition that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics promulgated ...
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  • Category:Image wanted [[File:John Hume 2008.jpg|thumb|right|200px|John Hume]] John Hume (born January 18, 1937) is an Irish politician from Northern ...
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  • Francis Marion (February 26, 1732–February 27, 1795) was a military leader during the French and Indian War, who distinguished himself as a ...
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  • Guo Moruo ( c=郭沫若|p=Guō Mòruò|w=Kuo Mo-jo , courtesy name Dǐng Táng 鼎堂) (November 16, 1892 - June 12, 1978) was a Chinese author ...
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  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New ...
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  • The Great Basin is a huge heart-shaped area that covers parts of six western United States. Its boundaries depend on how it is defined. Its most ...
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  • Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of ...
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  • Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. Despite ...
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  • George Westinghouse, Jr. (October 6 1846 – March 12 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer now best known for the brand of electrical ...
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  • Petra (from πέτρα "petra-πέτρα," cleft in the rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Butrā) is an archaeological site ...
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  • Cartagena de Indias ( kaɾtaˈhena ) is a large seaport city on the northern coast of Colombia. Founded in 1533, by Spaniard Don Pedro de Heredia ...
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  • Charles "Charlie" Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer and, with Louis Armstrong ...
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  • Bogotá (officially Bogotá, D.C. for "Distrito Capital," meaning "Capital District"), formerly called Santa Fe de Bogotá ...
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  • The Battle of Bassorah, Battle of the Camel, or Battle of Jamal was a battle that took place at Basra, Iraq in 655 C.E. between forces allied ...
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  • Ohio is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads ...
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  • Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (March 22, 1869 – February 6, 1964) was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental ...
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  • Bangalore (Indian English: [ˈbæŋgəloːɾ]), officially Bengaluru ( ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು , ['beŋgəɭuːru]), serves as the capital ...
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  • Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was a nineteenth century American statesman, politician, and soldier. The Virginia-born Houston ...
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  • John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a self-taught American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted ...
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  • Jirisan (지리산, 智異山) is a mountain in the southern part of South Korea. It is often referred to as one of the three mountains of the ...
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  • Alfred Hermann Fried (November 11, 1864 - May 5, 1921), was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace ...
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  • In physics, the proton (Greek πρῶτον proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of one positive fundamental unit. ...
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  • Seoraksan (Mt. Seorak) is the third highest mountain in South Korea, after the Hallasan volcano on Jeju Island and Jirisan in Gyeongsang Province ...
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  • Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth ...
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  • Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker) (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), was ...
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  • Tianjin ( c=天津 |p=Tiānjīn ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of the People's Republic of China that are ...
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  • Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He was elected ...
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  • Lake Ontario is the smallest and most easterly of the Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario ...
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  • John Rutledge (September 17, 1739 – July 23, 1800) was an American statesman and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina following ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:William Carlos Williams passport photograph 1921 (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|William Carlos Williams]] Dr. William Carlos ...
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  • Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and is often referred to as the "father of modernism ...
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  • Dubai (in Arabic: دبيّ, Dubayy, /dʊ'baɪ/ in English) is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in ...
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  • Sabbatai Zevi, ( שַׁבְּתַי צְבִי|Shabbetay Ẓevi ) (other spellings include Shabbethai, Sabbetai, ; Zvi, Tzvi) (August 1, 1626 ...
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  • Louis Daniel Armstrong, affectionately known as "Satchmo," (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) was an American jazz musician and singer ...
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  • Hunan ( c=湖南 |p=Húnán ) is a province of China located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Its position south of Lake Dongting provides ...
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  • The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian War is better known, was a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her ...
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  • Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of life ...
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  • The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา ) was a Thai kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767. King Ramathibodi I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya ...
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  • Kyōto (京都市, Kyōto-shi, lit. “capital capital,” or “capital of capitals") was the Imperial capital of Japan from 794 until ...
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  • Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – May 8, 1943) was the commander of the ŻOB or the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (English: Jewish Fighting Organization ...
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  • Colin Luther Powell, KCB, MSC, (April 5, 1937 - October 18, 2021) was an American statesman and a former four-star general in the United States ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist who developed Rational Emotive Behavior ...
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  • The Blue Nile is a river originating in natural springs above Lake Tana in Ethiopia. The river has played a significant role in human history ...
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  • Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his ...
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  • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European ...
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  • Yaroslav I the Wise (c. 978 - February 20, 1054) (East Slavic: Ярослав Мудрый; Christian name: George; Old Norse: Jarizleifr) was ...
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  • London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River Thames estuary, is the largest urban area and capital of England and the United ...
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  • Sir John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr (September 23, 1880 – June 25, 1971) was a Scottish doctor, biologist and politician who received the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Preschool education is education that focuses on educating children from the ages of ...
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  • The Italian colonial empire was created after Italy joined other European powers in establishing colonies overseas during the "scramble ...
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  • Enrico Caruso (February 25 1873 – August 2 1921) was an Italian opera singer of the verissmo style, and one of the most famous tenors in history ...
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  • Lake Erie is the eleventh largest lake on Earth by surface area. Factmonster.com. [http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001777.html Large Lakes of ...
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  • Yochanan ben Zakai ( יוחנן בן זכאי , died 80-90 C.E.), also spelled Johanan b. Zakki, was an important rabbinical sage in the final ...
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  • Dzungar (also Jungar or Zungar; Зүүнгар Züüngar ) is the collective identity of several Oirat tribes that formed and maintained the last ...
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  • The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The battle in southern Afghanistan ...
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  • Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar also known as Bahadur Shah or Bahadur Shah II (October 24, 1775 – November 7, 1862) was the ...
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  • Yu Gwansun (December 16, 1902 – September 28, 1920) was a female Korean Christian patriot. Yu joined the March 1st Movement for Korea's ...
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  • Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823 - January 15, 1896), was a celebrated American photographer whose rise to prominence occurred largely in the years ...
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  • Flavius Theodosius (January 11, 347 – January 17, 395 C.E.), also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379 ...
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  • Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732 – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister of King Louis XVI. Jacques ...
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  • The Western United States—commonly referred to as the American West or simply The West—traditionally refers to the region comprising the ...
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  • Jehu (יְהוּא, Yehu—"The LORD is he") was king of Israel, 842–815 B.C.E. He assumed the throne after being anointed by a messenger ...
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  • Raphael or Raffaello (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance ...
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  • John LaFarge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was one of the most innovative and versatile American artists of the nineteenth century. ...
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  • Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 – July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known for his contributions to the ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Frank O’Connor (born Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan) (September 17, 1903 – March 10, 1966) was an Irish ...
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  • Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ...
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  • The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ethno-linguistic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. Yoruba constitute about 21 ...
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  • Alcide De Gasperi (April 3, 1881 – August 19, 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers ...
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  • Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January 26, 1983) was an American college football coach and owner of 323 victories ...
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  • The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a rebellion staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The rising was an attempt by militant ...
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  • Chaim Azriel Weizmanz (Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President ...
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