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- The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was ... The term Prague Spring was coined by Western media after the event ...17 KB (2,531 words) - 22:12, 30 November 2022
- Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... From the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries the Kalmyk-Oirats numbered ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- Limpet is the common name for any of the marine gastropod mollusks ... While patellogastropods are the true limpets, as the term limpet also ...20 KB (2,800 words) - 08:45, 8 March 2023
- The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- center of mass. For each member of a pair, the other is called its companion ... eclipsing binaries. Binary stars are not the same as optical double stars ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- :For the Three Kingdoms general, see Zhang He. [[Image:ZhengHeShips ... diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively referred ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- ) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) was one of the major Chinese ... Lu Xun was born into a scholar family during the Qing dynasty, but ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- whose inventions and discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism ... Joseph Henry was born on December 17, 1799, in Albany, New York, the ...17 KB (2,654 words) - 04:14, 7 May 2024
- of meaningful arrangements of sounds with a relation to pitch, rhythm ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- Skunk is the common name for any of the largely omnivorous mammals ... civets, and pumas (Wund 2005). For humans, the consumption of pests such ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 22:59, 23 April 2023
- elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont ... Born on the same day in Bulgaria and Morocco, respectively, the pair ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
- The Drakensberg (Afrikaans: "Dragon's Mountain") mountains ... The mountains contain a diversity of habitats which protect a large ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- Tongariro National Park, established in 1887, was the first national ... In 1993 Tongariro became the first property to be inscribed on the ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 03:58, 1 May 2023
- that seeks to portray common values of the ordinary individual, as opposed ... In theater, the naturalism movement developed in the late nineteenth ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese ... and later superseding that of Knossos, the center of Minoan culture on ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- The Banc d'Arguin National Park lies on the west coast of Mauritania ... billed sandpipers, pelicans, and terns. The park's vast expanses ...16 KB (2,318 words) - 17:29, 10 February 2023
- flows in response to gravity. Glacier ice is the largest reservoir of fresh ... valleys and cirques at their heads; and the glacier fringe, which is the ...37 KB (5,884 words) - 20:25, 29 December 2023
- an English soldier and seaman, and one of the most colorful and important ... Unlike the founding of the Plymouth colony by religious dissenters ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 04:04, 3 May 2024
- A propeller is a device used for the propulsion of a vehicle such ... The principle employed in using a screw propeller is used in single ...19 KB (3,022 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... square miles), and is primarily low-lying, with some higher regions in the ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά ... The author is characteristically concerned with social ethics, the ...37 KB (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 2023
- Lake Burley Griffin is the centerpiece of Canberra, an entirely purpose ... The Griffins incorporated town planning and urban design with landscape ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 23:15, 21 October 2022
- In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles ... In the cosmogonic myth outlined in the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- Lac Léman, le Léman, or Lac de Genève) is the second largest freshwater ... numerous resorts and villas are built along the lake shore. The northern ...16 KB (2,589 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (June 19, 1917 – July 1, 1999) was ... In 1980, both Nkomo and Mugabe took part in the Lancaster House talks ...18 KB (2,723 words) - 05:07, 7 May 2024
- According to the Christian Gospels, Joseph of Arimathea is the person ... waited (or 'was searching') for the Kingdom of God" (Mark ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 05:03, 7 May 2024
- Music Association's performer of the year in 1971| ... | Alias = The Hag | | Born = mf=yes|1937 ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- singer, and actor who was discovered at the age of 11 and debuted in the ... His fame peaked in the 1950s in a series of movies in which he co ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 17:21, 30 January 2024
- The term Pāramitā or Pāramī (Sanskrit and Pāli respectively) ... The six perfections (paramita) are also an important part of the bodhisattva ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- Kansas is a Midwestern state located in the geographic center of the ... it was first settled by white Americans in the 1850s, in the midst of political ...47 KB (6,939 words) - 17:34, 14 May 2024
- traditionally performed in Hindu temples in the state of Kerala, India. Performed ... Until the 1950s, Koodiyattam was performed only by men of the Chakyar ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police ... Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 17:56, 25 October 2022
- The golden calf (עגל הזהב), in Jewish tradition, was an idol ... In Hebrew, the incident at Sinai is known as "Chet ha'Egel ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2022
- horticulturist, botanist, and co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural ... Bailey is credited with being instrumental in starting agricultural ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 22:29, 25 October 2022
- Lake Superior, bounded by Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of Minnesota ... With an average depth approaching 500 feet, it is also is the coldest ...18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (1540-1542). She is sometimes ... after less than two years of marriage on the grounds of treason. ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
- The sousaphone is a brass instrument in the same family as the more ... Because of the ease of carrying and the direction of sound, it is ...19 KB (2,980 words) - 22:02, 24 February 2024
- film director. He is widely credited with being the first to realize ... Margaret Mitchell, who wrote Gone with the Wind, was also inspired ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- In his Dream Pool Essays of 1088 C.E., the Song Dynasty polymath Chinese ... Most people can only judge of things by the experiences of ordinary ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... Berber in cultural and racial terms, the society was organized around ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- Qinghai is a province of the People's Republic of China located ... Qinghai, a province remote to the centers of power in China and newly ...18 KB (2,519 words) - 04:02, 7 December 2022
- toward economic and political integration with western Europe. He was elected ... dominate Europe's future, and thought the best strategy to avoid this ...37 KB (5,492 words) - 09:38, 11 April 2024
- American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... American Samoa is a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, located ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
- BP p.l.c., previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest ... BP began as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd., registered in 1909 ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- optics, and mathematical physics. Together with James Clerk Maxwell and Lord ... and applying mathematics to any member of the university. He served in many ...20 KB (3,027 words) - 15:59, 20 May 2024
- Chief Dan George, (July 24, 1899–September 23, 1981) was a chief ... One of twelve children of the tribal chief, Dan George served as chief ...18 KB (2,892 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual ... The modern English word harp comes from the Old English hearpe; akin ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, which panicked ... Welles was born in 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the second son of ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- Modern navies that operate such ships treat the aircraft carrier as the capital ... The supercarrier, typically displacing 75,000 tonnes or more, has ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ... Pirandello was born into an upper-class family in a village with the ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 02:44, 5 November 2022
- #039;s first well-known naval hero in the American Revolutionary War ... John Paul started his maritime career at the age of 12, sailing out ...18 KB (2,783 words) - 03:55, 2 May 2024
- Mechanical Engineering is the engineering discipline that involves ... The beginnings of mechanical engineering go back to the craftsmen ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 03:49, 9 November 2022
- is most commonly made from wheat and when the word "flour" is ... Flour is the key ingredient of bread, which is the staple food in ...20 KB (3,186 words) - 08:08, 21 May 2021
- The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian ... thus came to an end. Crete remained part of the Ottoman Empire until 1912 ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- guitarist, and composer. He is one of the most famous violin virtuosi ... Paganini. Paganini first learned to play the mandolin from his father at ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 23:29, 14 November 2022
- suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture ... The main role of kulintang music in the community is as nonprofessional ...41 KB (6,102 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- Texas is a state located in the south-central United States. Austin ... and has a steadily growing population of 23.9 million. Houston is ...36 KB (5,158 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- 1999) is one of only five golfers (along with Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, ... Gene Sarazen was born on February 27, 1902 into a two-family house ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 21:10, 23 October 2022
- Buddhism has been a major force in the creation of Korean culture ... One of the foremost Buddhist temples in South Korea, Haeinsa has housed ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- |flag = [[Image:Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg|center|135px]] |population = approx. 125,000(30,000 to 80,000 in the U.S.45,000 in Canada) ...41 KB (6,201 words) - 23:24, 9 December 2021
- in Fujian Province, widely considered one of the best grades of white tea]] White Tea is the least processed form of tea, made only from buds ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:15, 4 May 2023
- A basilica, in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, is a church building ... The Latin word basilica was originally used to describe a public building ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 03:32, 1 January 2022
- September 5, 1877, was a major war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought ... A legendary warrior, Crazy Horse stole horses from the Crow Indians ...19 KB (3,137 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American ... novel of the twentieth century was Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- in Western European philosophy spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth ... The following article focuses on three central topics (skepticism ...25 KB (3,892 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- English composer. He was a student at the Royal College of Music and ... He was a musical patriot who believed strongly in the importance of ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
- The July Plot or July 20 Plot was an attempt to assassinate Adolf ... Conspiratorial groups planning a coup of some kind had existed in ...20 KB (3,280 words) - 10:00, 12 May 2024
- Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United ... Oklahoma was the destination of the Native American Cherokee tribes ...50 KB (7,185 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- ::See herbalism for the non-Chinese tradition of herbology. ... ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Established ... The economy of Barbados is susceptible to various issues, such as ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- Walnut is the common name for any of the large, deciduous trees comprising ... human beings, while also providing value for the ecosystem in terms of offering ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was one of the earliest ... of then President Theodore Roosevelt in the California backcountry, helped ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 03:01, 2 May 2024
- Norfolk Island (Norfuk: Norfuk Ailen) is a small inhabited island ... Norfolk Island is the main island of the island group the territory ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- and singer considered a crucial figure in the history of music. His work ... Having taken over opera from the Florentine "camerata" and ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- colonial officials. His minute resulted in the policy of only funding education ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking educated ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- The Abenaki (or Abnaki) are a tribe of Native American and First Nations ... The Abenaki, like their fellow Wabanaki tribes, were peaceful, although ...20 KB (2,915 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg ... He began composing at the young age of ten, producing short pieces ...35 KB (5,095 words) - 03:55, 15 August 2023
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert ... properties are iron, some steels, and the mineral lodestone (an oxide ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- The Alps ( Alpen ; Alpes ; Alpi ; Alpe Croatia, Austria, and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 08:34, 23 July 2023
- a skyscraper if it clearly stands out above the surrounding built environment ... architecture and construction technology. On the one hand, they allow for the ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- The Pawnee (also Paneassa, Pari, Pariki) are a Native American tribe ... The Pawnee cooperated with the United States army, serving as scouts ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 01:45, 23 November 2022
- The Goryeo Dynasty marks the last Buddhist-shaped dynasty in Korea ... Silla, which had united the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 668, weakened ...19 KB (2,644 words) - 18:12, 26 December 2022
- |faculty = 285[http://www.smith.edu/about_justthefacts.php Just ... inspiration for the one in Tara in Gone with the Wind. (Margaret Mitchell ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- The Physiocrats were a group of economists who believed that the wealth ... The most significant contribution of the physiocrats was their emphasis ...22 KB (3,407 words) - 05:10, 24 November 2022
- attempting to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity and for publishing ... Like many intellectuals during the first half of the sixteenth century ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- The Aral Sea (Kazakh: Арал Теңізі, Aral Tengizi, ... endorheic sea in Central Asia, straddles the boundary between Uzbekistan ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- by China, prevailed in East Asia until the weakening of the Qing Dynasty ... The central position was not always held by the same ethnic group; ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- that has taken shape in Asia over the centuries. The structural ... Confucian preoccupation with hierarchy dictated the placement of rooms ...41 KB (6,198 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- The Book of Job (איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible ... The Book of Job has been called the most difficult book of the Bible ...21 KB (3,491 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- a Victorian era English poet. He was one of the founding members of the Pre ... he professed to be interested solely in the medieval and ancient classics ...19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
- anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s. A student ... The ANC was very hostile to Biko and to Black Consciousness through ...19 KB (2,967 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- March 26, 1959) was an American author of the so-called hardboiled detective ... His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, is together with Dashiell Hammett ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. Cooper was producer ... O. Selznick: The Creation of "Gone with the Wind" and Other Motion ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- Saint Thomas the Apostle (also known as Judas Thomas or Didymus, meaning ... to spread Jesus' teachings throughout the nations. While Saints Peter ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- a broad range of views concerned with the preservation, restoration ... which includes critical evaluations of the culture of mass-production ...21 KB (2,883 words) - 19:02, 13 February 2024
- 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer of the Romantic era who used his ... stated that Bruckner may have been "the only great composer of his ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 06:48, 31 July 2023
- for both her tennis and her sportswear. The aura of her celebrity led ... excellent play and introduction of glamor to the tennis court increased the ...24 KB (3,518 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- music. He is widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers ... Ives' upbringing was imbued with religious music and he would ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- Moses or Móshe (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה) was the Hebrew liberator, prophet ... The Bible portrays Moses as the first person to learn the true name ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... The use of monsoon winds, which enabled a voyage safer than a long ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union ... Darrow remains notable for his oratory utilizing the wit, compassion ...21 KB (3,485 words) - 22:33, 10 December 2023
- Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and ... The philosopher Johann Georg Hamann is considered to have provided ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- Utah, a state located in the western United States, was the 45th state ... Utah's pivotal central western location makes the state a natural ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- is a masterpiece of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese ... Genji, as the work is commonly called, was written for the women of ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine studies ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特別行政區 ... (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and is the other branch, besides Tibetan ... The teachings of Shingon are based on esoteric Vajrayana texts, the ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- The Rigveda (Sanskrit: sa|ऋग्वेद , meaning "verses of wisdom") is the oldest translatable ...41 KB (6,083 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- The Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited island group ... off the coast of Chile. Administratively, the islands belongs to the ...22 KB (3,070 words) - 05:59, 10 May 2024
- Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union ... mountain setting is recognized as one of the world¹s most problematic ...20 KB (2,986 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... Amsterdam is the capital city (hoofdstad), and The Hague (Dutch: Den ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- 1, consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. The player of the joke or hoax ... beneficial or harmful. Laughter is good for the individual, and the coming ...22 KB (3,192 words) - 15:56, 11 August 2023
- , d. 154 B.C.E.) was a Chinese political adviser and official of the ... Chao Cuo fell victim to execution when political rivalries at the ...20 KB (3,183 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ... While Yoruba can be found throughout the entirety of West Africa, ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... only by natural causes without assuming the existence or non-existence ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.9 million ... area which consists of three main regions: The Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 14:39, 31 December 2022
- #With respect to the first question, a person is coerced when he acts ... #Interest in the second question arises particularly in the context ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- Magnolia is the common name and genus name for a large group of deciduous ... Magnolia species are native to the Western Hemisphere (eastern North ...24 KB (3,395 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- motorcycle daredevil, a well-known figure in the United States and elsewhere ... His achievements and failures got him into the Guinness Book of World ...38 KB (5,931 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- Wheat includes any agricultural cereal grass of the genus Triticum ... extent as a forage crop for livestock and the straw can be used as fodder ...21 KB (3,052 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- film director, is regarded as one of the masters of Japanese cinema ... unorthodox techniques, including training the camera directly on the actors ...21 KB (3,096 words) - 09:52, 23 May 2023
- Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled ... The use of nuclear power has also engendered much debate. Critics ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is an alto string ... The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate ... Flight simulators are extensively used by the aviation industry for ...23 KB (3,448 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- National Park in northeastern California. The dominant feature of the park ... to the east due to the prevailing wind. It was the most powerful series ...22 KB (3,291 words) - 17:48, 25 October 2022
- California is a state on the West Coast of the United States, along ... California is rich in natural resources. The California Gold Rush ...42 KB (5,921 words) - 18:24, 25 November 2023
- Urbanization is the increase over time in the population of cities ... At the same time, the rise of computer technology, and particularly ...23 KB (3,351 words) - 13:43, 3 May 2023
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... intertwining many different traditions. The southern and central parts ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- Tasmania is an Australian island and a state of the same name. The ... long from the northernmost point to the southernmost point and ...42 KB (6,077 words) - 04:33, 27 February 2023
- a British writer, author of novels including The Grass is Singing and The Golden ... (1944–1956), when she was writing on the theme of radical social issues ...22 KB (3,145 words) - 21:11, 26 March 2024
- that can be steered and propelled through the air. It is classified as an ... Airships were the first form of aircraft to make controlled, powered ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- traditions developed around religion and the political and social circumstances ... Little is known about the earliest cultures in the region. The Plain ...42 KB (6,594 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South ... On average, Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... Bahrain was the first location in the region in which oil reserves ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- 1176–1248) also known as Subetai the Valiant was the primary strategist ... When Batu returned to Mongolia for the election of the new Great Khan ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 21:26, 26 February 2023
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the ... The original native people of Aruba and surrounding islands were the ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Aphrodite (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη) is the ancient Greek goddess ... When Christianity swept over the Greek world, the worship of Aphrodite ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... Gansu has a unique role in China. Sitting on the terminus of the Silk ...21 KB (2,969 words) - 04:27, 18 April 2024
- The switch may also take the form of a "logic gate." Logic ... In the simplest case, a switch has two pieces of metal called contacts ...28 KB (4,495 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- and territories—mostly islands—in the Pacific Ocean. The exact scope ... Oceania is the smallest continental grouping in land area and the ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- lift and therefore flight, for travel in the air or another gaseous medium ... The wing shape is usually an airfoil. An airfoil-shaped body moved ...23 KB (3,705 words) - 22:06, 25 November 2022
- literally means Japanese poem in Japanese. The word was originally coined ... or even of line. Instead of lines, waka has the unit (連) and the phrase ...23 KB (3,429 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National ... Russell is widely considered one of the best defensive players in ...74 KB (11,022 words) - 16:07, 31 October 2023
- church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great ... a visual Axis Mundi for connecting with the Divine. Furthermore, they ...26 KB (4,257 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist school, who delineated ... Despite the dark tone of Hardy's oeuvre—or perhaps because ...20 KB (3,171 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- Panama, officially the Republic of Panama ( República de Panamá ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on an ...42 KB (6,441 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that ... from other hard materials; this depends on the function. Some small bells ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 2023
- blues musician and, arguably, one of the most influential. Widely known ... Johnson was also a significant figure in the transition of Delta blues ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The Elizabeth Tower, formerly known as the Clock Tower, is the world ... Although not as historical a London landmark as the Tower of London ...22 KB (3,639 words) - 22:14, 23 November 2023
- Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of ... The lake is the largest remnant of Lake Bonneville, a pluvial lake ...23 KB (3,613 words) - 12:54, 22 January 2023
- The Northeastern United States, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- been published in digital formats. Use of the term "sheet" is ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy mountain range") is ... The Sierra Nevada, home to the largest trees in the world--the Giant ...23 KB (3,404 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
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- as kettledrums) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type ... Timpani evolved from military drums to become a staple of the classical ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- Dubrovnik, formerly Ragusa, is a city on the Adriatic Sea coast in ... It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- melodramas to historical and period films to the occasional comedy, though ... #039;Hara, a role Davis coveted, in Gone with the Wind, and a radio poll named ...21 KB (3,286 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- The Mi'kmaq ([miːgmaɣ]; (also spelled Míkmaq, Mi'gmaq ... Although early reports made the Micmac appear fierce and warlike, ...22 KB (3,368 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- Spencer) (July 1, 1961—August 3, 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince ... An iconic presence on the world stage, Diana was beloved by her British ...23 KB (3,638 words) - 11:53, 29 January 2024
- Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural ... An absolute requirement for life is an energy source, and the notion ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- The Shawnee, or Shawano, are a people native to North America. They ... Like many other Algonquians, the Shawnee generally joined forces with ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 13:23, 27 January 2023
- The avocado (Persea americana) is a tree native to Mexico and Central ... gastrointestinal irritation, of which the fruit is known to help cure. ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:18, 23 August 2023
- The Alhambra (Arabic: الحمراء—Al-Ħamrā'; literally ... Mohammed I, the first king of the Nasriden—a Moorish dynasty in ...22 KB (3,517 words) - 00:37, 9 January 2023
- Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties hold the royal remains ... , patterned in an arc-shape at the foot of the Jundu Mountains south ...24 KB (3,553 words) - 16:44, 12 February 2024
- In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes around another ... observational data. First, he found that the orbits of the planets in our ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 01:05, 18 November 2022
- a (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (476 – 550 C.E.) was the first ... Aryabhata was born in the region lying between Narmada and Godavari ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- The Cologne Cathedral ( Kölner Dom , officially de|Hohe Domkirche ... Christianity, of Gothic architecture and of the faith and perseverance of ...24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
- The ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba; '銀杏' in Chinese; plural ginkgoes ... centuries it was thought to be extinct in the wild, but is now known to ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- The Russell Cave National Monument is a United States National Monument ... In 1958, the cave and site area–310 acres (1.3 km²) of land–were ...23 KB (3,387 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2023
- (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according ... In 1937, Japan engaged in war with China for a second time, and in ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- Belize, formerly known as British Honduras, is a small nation on the ... The name is derived from the Belize River which Belize City, the former ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 11:57, 9 May 2024
- "drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer ... Taiko has become particularly popular in recent years as the central ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons ... Physical techniques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes are the largest ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- The Buddhas of Bamyan ( بت های باميان statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan ...24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- The Falkland Islands ( Islas Malvinas ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- gas, which produces a pressure wave inside the gun barrel, sufficient to ... a slower pressure wave less likely to damage the barrel of a gun. ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- The Osage Nation is a Native American tribe in the United States, ... The Osage were originally known by Ni-U-Kon-Ska, which means meaning ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:50, 11 March 2023
- The Aleutian Islands (possibly from the Chukchi language aliat, meaning ... The islands, including their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- is the largest city in the province of Quebec and the second-largest ... Once the largest city in Canada (a distinction acquired by Toronto ...44 KB (6,520 words) - 21:16, 9 November 2022
- production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind), and stars Judy Garland ... His prior commitment to direct Gone with the Wind required him to leave ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, ... Governmental instability during the 1970s and 1980s was followed by ...22 KB (3,224 words) - 18:45, 22 November 2023
- environments and where water, which covers the soil or is near the surface ... The great variety of wetland types and the difficulty in defining ...25 KB (3,675 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- Praise and blame are closely connected with the concept of moral responsibility ... and blame derives from questions surrounding the appropriateness praise and ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God ... In Christian Bibles, Yahweh is usually translated as "the LORD ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 ... Founded by a Gallic tribe and later flourished under the Phoenicians ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- Dakar, the largest city of Senegal, is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula ... An administrative center, Dakar is home to the National Assembly of ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- The Amarna letters (sometimes "Amarna tablets") are an archive ... The known tablets currently total 382 in number. The Amarna letters ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- 9, 1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England ... Van Dyck's religious works reflect the extent which Christianity ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- known for his large realistic landscapes of the American West. In obtaining ... Bierstadt's was a second-generation member of the Hudson River ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- on having a direct personal experience with God through the baptism of ... "On the day of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus' resurrection ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- ) is the capital and the largest city of Nepal, and is situated in ... Founded in 723, Kathmandu was ruled by the Malla Dynasty from the ...24 KB (3,331 words) - 17:13, 5 October 2022
- artillerie) refers to any engine used for the discharge of large projectiles ... The word as used in the current context originated in the Middle Ages ...76 KB (11,884 words) - 17:42, 16 August 2023
- Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, and a major ... The city of Freetown was founded in 1787, by Great Britain as a settlement ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- and actor widely regarded as one of the most influential martial artists ... Like many of his colleagues, Lee saw the martial arts in part as a ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 16:58, 29 April 2020
- actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s. He was a major star ... In the last decades of his career, Wayne transformed into an American ...21 KB (3,062 words) - 16:07, 1 October 2022
- was a term for the military nobility in pre-industrial Japan who were ... Samurai gradually developed Bushido (武士道), or the “Samurai ...49 KB (7,556 words) - 03:06, 23 December 2022
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... The Hawaiian Islands, once known as the Sandwich Islands, form an ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- Natural gas in the broad sense is a gaseous material consisting primarily ... natural gas fields and also in association with oil fields and coal beds. ...25 KB (3,786 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... The first Europeans to arrive on the islands were the Spanish under ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- In its human-powered form, the canoe is propelled by the use of paddles ... classes of modern sailing canoes include the 5m² and the international ...28 KB (4,725 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- planted” or "potted plant") is the art of aesthetic miniaturization ... Penzai (盆栽; pun-sai), the practice of cultivating single specimen ...25 KB (3,891 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- instrument for finding directions on the earth. It consists of a magnetized ... a magnetic device using a needle to indicate the direction of the magnetic ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- , estimated population 3,145,300 (2005), is the capital of Vietnam. From 1010 ... The city is located on the right bank of the Red River. Hanoi is located ...24 KB (3,621 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka ... Osaka is home to the innovative Kansai Airport, built on an artificial ...25 KB (3,427 words) - 19:39, 20 July 2023
- 1905) was a Russian poet who rose to fame in the late 1890s. In her lifetime ... (1830–1884) was a well-known lawyer of the time,Victor Terras, [https://books ...28 KB (3,939 words) - 20:33, 30 August 2023
- The Baroque style began as somewhat of a continuation of the Renaissance ... The Council of Trent (1545-1563), in which the Roman Catholic Church ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 10:50, 20 September 2023
- Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ... Akiva set the standard of Judaism's strong yet flexible adherence ...23 KB (3,911 words) - 07:17, 16 June 2023
- Diatom is the common name for a major group of unicellular or (less ... The silica shells (frustules) of diatoms show a wide diversity in ...26 KB (3,706 words) - 11:59, 29 January 2024
- The Adirondack Mountains are a mountain range located in the northeastern ... The Adirondacks region, which runs through ten counties covering more ...25 KB (3,782 words) - 05:58, 15 June 2023
- of Leicester (1208 – August 4, 1265) was the principal leader of the baronial ... by his involvement in Sicily. As discontent with Henry's wars and demands ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- Journey to the West (Traditional Chinese: 西遊記; Simplified Chinese: ... The novel tells the entertaining story of the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- The Cherokee (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, a-ni-yv-wi-ya, in the Cherokee language ... Today, the Cherokee Nation and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians ...50 KB (7,562 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
- was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western ... pistols at his disposal. It was reported in the General History of the Pirates ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- leaves. They are frequently confused with and mistaken for palms or ... Like the other seed plants traditionally grouped as gymnosperms (conifers ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- The Cannes Film Festival ( link=no|Festival de Cannes ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ( fr|Festival ...31 KB (4,402 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... When Yucatán became a state in 1824 it occupied the entire peninsula ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- In the Bible, Baal (also rendered Baʿal) was an important Canaanite ... The worship of this deity was prevalent in Canaan from ancient times ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce ... a behemoth that it creates its own weather. The mountain and the surrounding ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1,700 islands in the ... by south and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited ...27 KB (4,181 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately ... The world ocean, an integral part of global climate, is constantly ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... The polka had become very popular with European immigrants to the ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- and load support. Tires are inflated with air, which provides a flexible ... 1846 – Robert William Thomson invented and patented the pneumatic tire ...28 KB (4,401 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- The archetype, a concept developed by Carl Jung, refers to an idealized ... The archetype is a concept first developed in psychology by Carl Jung ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the ... Countries bordering the Black Sea are Turkey to the south, Bulgaria ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- The Navajo (also Navaho) people of the southwestern United States ... The Navajo resemble Apache in many ways, although contact with Pueblo ...48 KB (7,395 words) - 15:33, 11 November 2022
- In Buddhist doctrine and metaphysics, the word skandha (Sanskrit: ... The term skandha can also mean "compound, mass, heap, bundle ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally ... ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through ...28 KB (3,998 words) - 16:21, 17 January 2023
- Teton, which at 13,770 feet (4,197 m), is the tallest mountain in the Teton ... The origin of the name is controversial. The most common explanation ...24 KB (3,641 words) - 19:45, 19 September 2021
- Inuit (plural: the singular, Inuk, means "man" or "person ... Prior to the arrival of Europeans, and even after their arrival since ...53 KB (8,160 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- Þórr) was a widely worshipped deity among the Viking peoples and revered ... Thor was the focus of numerous Norse folk tales and he was seen to ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- Indonesia. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic ... Tambora erupted in 1815 with a rating of seven on the Volcanic Explosivity ...27 KB (3,837 words) - 17:13, 6 December 2023
- Ham is the thigh and rump of any animal that is slaughtered for meat ... prohibitions, and was introduced to the North American continent by ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- Cinematography, from the Greek words kine (movement) and graphos ... Cinematography is an art form unique to motion pictures. Although ...29 KB (4,666 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
- The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling ... The geographical location and history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- Arabic: سليمان Sulayman) was the son of king David and the ... The name Solomon (Shlomo) means "peaceful," or "complete ...29 KB (4,624 words) - 00:50, 4 February 2023
- Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the ... that is prolonged or present much of the time, and 0.5 percent are ...32 KB (4,615 words) - 17:17, 18 April 2023
- a famous Irish author, novelist, and one of the great spokespersons for Christianity ... As a youth, the untimely death of his mother, the cruelty of his schoolmates ...27 KB (4,330 words) - 19:28, 24 November 2023
- ) indicates the distinctive building style developed under the rule ... The vigorous temple building activity of the Hoysala Empire arose ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:15, 18 March 2023
- Kanji (漢字) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern ... Chinese characters. After World War II the Japanese government introduced ...32 KB (4,676 words) - 02:41, 5 October 2022
- 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 ...26 KB (3,833 words) - 05:33, 5 November 2022
- west of Tokyo (to which it is linked by the Yokosuka Railway Line to Yokosuka ... pilgrimages because of its grand temples; in the last century, it has become ...27 KB (3,754 words) - 07:04, 28 February 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- of mobility give it survivability, while the tracks allow it to cross rough ... First used in World War I to break the deadlock of the trenches, tanks ...57 KB (9,115 words) - 04:01, 27 February 2023
- guitarist. Hendrix is recognized as one of the most influential guitar players ... He achieved worldwide fame in 1967, after a monumental performance ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...28 KB (3,852 words) - 03:30, 23 December 2022
- The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a rebellion ... The rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win independence ...29 KB (4,554 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2020
- ), sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, or Baki, located on the western ... The city entered a period of decline after the break-up of the Soviet ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- came to public notice when he vindicated the defeat and murder of Charles ... and his third wife, Elizabeth, née Cole). The family were English, not Anglo ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- #039;s three capital cities, serving as the legislative capital and seat ... ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India, and the Far East more than 200 years ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- Born in Manchuria, he was drafted into the Japanese military, where he ... Most of the sixteen Kurosawa–Mifune films are considered cinema ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 04:42, 1 May 2023
- In 27 months of combat action in World War II, Murphy became the most ... Murphy had a successful movie career, including the extremely popular ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- The Pueblo People are a diverse group of Native American inhabitants ... The Pueblo people have retained their pre-Spanish way of life to a ...29 KB (4,495 words) - 18:09, 14 April 2023
- The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both ... The event was first held in January 1944, organized by the Hollywood ...36 KB (5,125 words) - 21:44, 6 January 2024
- The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic ... The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- Huss (c. 1369 - 1415) was a Czech (living in the area then known as Bohemia ... Hus was a precursor to the Protestant movement and many of his ideas ...28 KB (4,685 words) - 08:56, 1 April 2024
- A geisha is a traditional Japanese entertainer. Often confused with ... The geisha saw their peak numbers in the 1920s, with over 80,000 practicing ...30 KB (4,689 words) - 06:34, 18 April 2024
- Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used by the film, television ... They are also used when creating the effect by normal means is prohibitively ...30 KB (4,494 words) - 19:11, 7 February 2023
- a favorite leading lady during an era when the Golden Years of Hollywood ... be the most anticipated movie since Gone With the Wind (1964). Hepburn was ...27 KB (4,189 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation ... The TVA's jurisdiction covers most of Tennessee, parts of Alabama ...28 KB (4,146 words) - 03:01, 19 April 2023
- classical or art music and from folk music. The term does not refer specifically ... and various other styles. For example, in the 1920s–1950s pop music drew ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- ) is a large seaport city on the northern coast of Colombia. Founded ... The city's history includes its role as a center for the Spanish ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... Not only is it the smallest German-speaking country in the world, ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- satirist, and social critic, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" ... He is well-known as the journalist who covered the Scopes Trial, which ...28 KB (4,252 words) - 18:12, 29 July 2023
- The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern ... Together with the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole the Creek ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- quot;) of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately ... Based on experiences with Earth, the environment of a planet can be ...32 KB (4,766 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ... voluntarily or more commonly involuntarily with varying degrees of enforcement ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 May 2024
- The story of a Great Flood sent by God or the gods to destroy civilization ... Many of the world's cultures past and present have stories of ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, July 6, 1967 ... crisis of huge proportion. Images of the suffering reached the global ...31 KB (4,828 words) - 22:13, 28 November 2023
- of popular comic strip superheroes 'The Phantom', and 'Mandrake ... Falk also contributed to a series of novels about the 'Phantom ...28 KB (4,294 words) - 19:00, 25 October 2022
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation ... These tribes were peaceful, except for historical enmity with the ...33 KB (4,861 words) - 19:50, 28 November 2023
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... consisting of several sovereign states with their own history, distinct ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting ... day, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. Ascension ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Wade-Giles: Ch'ung-ch'ing) is the largest and most populous ... Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, Chongqing is intersected ...30 KB (3,987 words) - 17:18, 10 December 2023
- and philosophy, which attempts to solve The Problem of Evil—the problem ... Almost all traditional theodicies have attempted to logically solve ...38 KB (6,068 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- (February 17, 1899 - October 22, 1954) is the most popular Bengali poet ... . Born in a literary family, with a schoolmaster father and a poet ...31 KB (4,652 words) - 01:09, 9 February 2023
- The Volga ( Во́лга|a=Ru-Волга.ogg|p=ˈvoɫɡə ) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- of usually woody, perennial plants in the true grass family Poaceae ... Unlike most grasses, bamboos can grow very tall, with some members ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Order of the Garter (KG), Order of New ... his first major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier. ...37 KB (5,516 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is the second largest species ... Some cultures revere the elk as a spiritual force. In parts of Asia ...32 KB (4,952 words) - 08:44, 31 December 2021
- was an Austrian composer considered to be the last master of the Viennese ... that could have provided insights into the motivations and inspirations ...30 KB (4,803 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- In many religious and philosophical systems, the word "soul" ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings ... Ethiopia was different from that within. To the outside world, he was heir ...31 KB (5,022 words) - 16:46, 21 January 2024
- The geological history of Earth began 4.567 billion years ago, when ... known as Theia, impacting the Earth in a glancing blow. ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- | order=38th President of the United States | date1=August 9, 1974 ... | order2=40th Vice President of the United States | term_start2=December ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2021
- The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located ... Its geographic position as a small, wedge-shaped country between the ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
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- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 15:01, 21 May 2024
- and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before ... in Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) during the early 1950s, Tangier was his ...32 KB (4,975 words) - 16:49, 21 November 2022
- use a lariat so well that he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records ... By the mid-1930s, Rogers was beloved by the American people and was ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in the autumn of ... Bowie also achieved success as a stage and film actor, notably in ...30 KB (4,767 words) - 07:53, 28 January 2024
- The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit sa|भगवद् गीता ... , "Song of God" or “The Lord’s Song”) is a Sanskrit ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- Redwood is a common name used for three species of trees with red ... The term is also used for the wood of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris ...28 KB (4,391 words) - 18:22, 27 July 2022
- The tale of the Forty-Seven Ronin, also known as the Forty-Seven Samurai ... , or the Genroku Akō Incident|元禄赤穂事件|Genroku akō jiken ...34 KB (5,606 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- :For the history of Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The history of North Korea formally begins with the establishment ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Olympic was intended to capture the southern third of the southernmost ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- park, established in 1885. Located in the Canadian Rockies, the park ... The Canadian Pacific Railway was instrumental in Banff's early ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- was a German fighter pilot known as "The Red Baron." He was the ... Von Richthofen was the most famous member of the Lutskreitkräfte ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 17:23, 7 December 2023
- , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery, music, medicine ... As one of the most popular of the Olympian deities and the patron ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... there are a number of common elements to the music, especially within regions ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- Chichen Itza ("At the mouth of the well of the Itza") is ... Chichen Itza was a major regional center in the northern Maya lowlands ...32 KB (4,966 words) - 20:59, 9 December 2023
- The State of Georgia is a state in the United States and was one of ... background for the 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind and the 1939 film of ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 15:18, 21 May 2024
- Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador ... Quito is considered to have one of the oldest and best preserved colonial ...31 KB (4,586 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2023
- Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the state ... Baltimore's harbor has always been a major asset. Once the second ...32 KB (4,493 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- Maize, also known as corn and Indian corn, is any of the diverse cultured ... Maize was native to the New World, being domesticated in Mesoamerica ...30 KB (4,684 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... Acts tells the story of the Early Christian church, with particular ...37 KB (5,957 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- religions speak of demonic forces within the cosmos representing the antithesis ... Most religions and cultures of the world accept the existence of demons ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- quot; or "radiotelegraphy," is the wireless communication of ... Radio technology gives humanity the convenience of extremely rapid ...35 KB (5,160 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Air pollution is the human introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals ... 27, 2017. Air pollution is often identified with major stationary sources, ...34 KB (4,855 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- Yellowstone National Park is a U.S. National Park located in the western ... of ash that covered all of what is now the Western United States, much ...33 KB (5,106 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, known simply as Nakhichevan, ... Armenian tradition holds that Nakhichevan was founded by Noah, of ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- The Nez Perce (autonym: Niimíipu) are Native American people who ... Initially successful in their relationships with white settlers, like ...36 KB (5,544 words) - 23:25, 14 November 2022
- (“induced”) by an electric current. The current may be as small as ... Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from the solar wind whose ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- or emotion that is linked primarily to the body or to the mind. Examples ... Mental suffering persists, however, even in the most ideal physical circumstances ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- prefectures, and consists of hundreds of the Ryūkyū Islands in a chain ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- intended to transport material from the surface of a celestial body ... reaching from geostationary orbit to the ground. (A tensile structure ...39 KB (5,875 words) - 15:17, 27 April 2023
- genesis%2011;&version=31; Chapter 11] of the Bible, the Tower of Babel ( ... Migdal Bavel) was a tower built to reach the heavens by a united humanity ...34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- between parties. Contract law is based on the Latin phrase pacta sunt servanda ... part of a general law of obligations (along with tort, unjust enrichment, or ...41 KB (6,819 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- The cathode ray tube (CRT), invented by German physicist Karl Ferdinand ... The electron beam is deflected and modulated in a way which causes ...37 KB (6,021 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the ... The failure of Parliamentary efforts to exclude James from the succession ...41 KB (6,020 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- naval leader noted for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Japanese ... Yi is also known for his innovation of the Turtle ships (거북선 ...34 KB (5,442 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial ... More colloquially, when speaking of the last few million years, "the ...38 KB (5,850 words) - 17:11, 10 February 2024
- In common usage, the term light (or visible light) refers to electromagnetic ... The study of light and its interaction with matter is termed optics ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- to understand without a background in the elementary concepts of game theory. ... In game theory, the prisoner's dilemma PD is a type of non-zero ...41 KB (6,536 words) - 23:01, 30 November 2022
- Ashoka the Great (304 B.C.E. - 232 B.C.E.; also known as Asoka, Sanskrit: ... The name ‘Ashoka’ translates as “without sorrow” in Sanskrit ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: ספר שמואל—Sefer Sh'muel ... The Books of Samuel originally formed a single text, which probably ...37 KB (5,923 words) - 19:27, 20 November 2023
- The double bass, also known as the standup bass, is the largest and ... The double bass is generally regarded as the only modern descendant ...40 KB (6,473 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- The Vietnam War was a military conflict in which communist forces ... The chief cause of the war cause was Ho Chi Minh’s desire to establish ...70 KB (11,017 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- Ontario is a province located in the east-central part of Canada, ... The capital of Ontario is Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Ottawa ...35 KB (5,025 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... transfers of power. It successfully made the transition from a one-party ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- Apache is the collective name for several culturally related groups ... The Apache featured significantly in the history of the Southwestern ...37 KB (5,440 words) - 05:56, 11 August 2023
- The Gaza Strip (Arabic:Qita' Ghazzah; Hebrew:Retzu'at & ... Following the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
- The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... The collection dates back to 405, when Saint Mesrop Mashtots created ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- The United States housing bubble, a real estate bubble, and its subsequent ... In 2008 alone, the United States government allocated over $900 billion ...40 KB (5,653 words) - 11:59, 3 May 2023
- steps move up or down on tracks that keep the surfaces of the individual ... (colloquial name, not to be confused with Trav-O-Lator®, a registered ...37 KB (6,013 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America ... metropolitan area, the sixth-largest in the United States with a population ...38 KB (5,412 words) - 18:57, 7 February 2024
- An electric motor converts electrical energy into kinetic energy. ... phenomena, such as electrostatic forces and the piezoelectric effect, also ...46 KB (7,150 words) - 00:15, 13 February 2024
- Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery ... == The American landscape == In The Beginning, All the World was America ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- koku) is an island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan ... Archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- Climate Change, in its broadest sense, is any change in the state ... In popular, current usage, the term is typically employed in the narrow ...86 KB (12,789 words) - 20:17, 1 June 2023
- Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...37 KB (5,383 words) - 22:39, 7 January 2024
- 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the Kennedy ... Kennedy was 30 years old when he first entered the Senate following ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- Japanese folklore is heavily influenced by the two primary religions ... greatly modified and adapted to appeal to the sensibilities of common people ...36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 2022
- was a Catalan Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of ... in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region close to the French ...38 KB (5,792 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- United States National Park located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range ... square km—over 3.4 million acres), it is the largest national park in the ...35 KB (5,565 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- The Republic of Guatemala ( República de Guatemala , re'puβlika ... ), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the northwest ...37 KB (5,339 words) - 23:54, 8 March 2024
- The Konbaung Dynasty, 1752-1885, also known as Third Burmese Empire ... An expansionist dynasty, the Konbaung kings waged campaigns against ...38 KB (5,866 words) - 22:29, 15 September 2023
- Ammonia is a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, with the ... balance in animals. It is produced during the normal metabolism of amino ...39 KB (5,803 words) - 07:35, 25 July 2023
- Spiders are predatory, invertebrate animals with two body segments ... All spiders produce silk, a thin, strong protein strand extruded by ...40 KB (6,291 words) - 21:38, 7 February 2023
- inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ... Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician ...45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- of Baroque music. He was regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers ... Vivaldi composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- Atlanta is the capital and the largest city in the U.S. state of Georgia ... On December 15, 1939, Atlanta hosted the premiere of Gone With the ...39 KB (5,622 words) - 06:05, 21 August 2023
- The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... Denmark borders the Baltic Sea on the southeast and the North Sea ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the ... Puritan colonists from England founded the city in 1630. During the ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Sumer (or Šumer) was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient ... The history of Sumeria dates back to the beginning of writing and ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- colonizer whose epochal voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and one ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
- that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s. Its roots are firmly ... socially conscious and avoid these extremes, the impact of such lyrics has ...41 KB (6,469 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2020
- a Scottish actor. He gained recognition as the first actor to portray fictional ... As an actor, Connery brought the characters he played to life, providing ...44 KB (6,554 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving ... This effect is caused by the Coriolis force, which appears in the ...54 KB (8,553 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- Bobcat is the common name for a medium-sized wild cat of North America ... The bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas, as ...41 KB (6,143 words) - 23:59, 11 January 2023
- occupies a plateau of volcanic origin in the western part of Madhya Pradesh ... Malwa has experienced wave after wave of empires and dynasties ruling ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in ... Often when playing certain types of music on the violin, notably folk ...45 KB (7,281 words) - 20:27, 3 May 2023
- , Hindi: अहमदाबाद Ahmadābād), the largest city in ... Founded in 1411, the city served as the capital of the Sultanate of ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- is turned to his or her disadvantage through the use of “soft” techniques ... The origins of tai chi chuan are known only through legend and speculation ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- held four different Cabinet-level posts, the being Elliot Richardson. In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 14:57, 21 May 2024
- was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era ... constitutional precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- original purpose, can also be used as toys. The term "toy" can also ... Playing with toys can be an enjoyable way of training young children ...41 KB (6,246 words) - 04:50, 1 May 2023
- Muhammad bin Suleiman,Ana Laguna, "In the Name of Love: Cervantes's ... Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature ...45 KB (6,828 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest recorded ... The official name of the system is the Mammoth Cave System, though ...40 KB (6,197 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- Psychoanalysis comprises several interlocking theories concerning ... Psychoanalysis was devised in Vienna in the 1890s by Sigmund Freud ...46 KB (6,384 words) - 01:27, 12 April 2023
- best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic ... in two genres: symphony and song. Besides the nine completed numbered symphonies ...43 KB (6,581 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2023
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational ... also houses several museums. MIT is one of the foremost centers of science ...42 KB (5,941 words) - 09:17, 10 March 2023
- and nuclear weapons testing at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami ... at sea, forming only a passing "hump" in the ocean. ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- ” or “Kirghizia”), officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked ... The name "Kyrgyz," both for the people and for the nation ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of the ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 17:25, 12 May 2024
- Maryland is a state located on the East Coast of the United States ... It was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution ...45 KB (6,596 words) - 08:44, 10 March 2023
- |rels=Various forms of Traditional belief systems based around the ... Indigenous Australians are descendants of the first human inhabitants ...50 KB (7,297 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- of rock music's most successful acts, the group have sold over 200 million ... including 74.5 million albums in the United States alone. ...51 KB (7,954 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- |image=[[Image:Anishinabe.svg|200px]] Crest of the Ojibwa people ... The Ojibwa or Chippewa (also Ojibwe, Ojibway, Chippeway) is one of ...46 KB (6,830 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern region of the ... The majority of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis ...43 KB (5,977 words) - 17:20, 12 May 2024
- on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder ... attracted enormous international attention, with critics accusing the prosecution ...47 KB (7,315 words) - 18:33, 22 December 2022
- The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary ... Theoretical support for the Big Bang comes from mathematical models ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- :This article is about the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas ... and development of writing is counted among the many achievements and innovations ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- The term Celt, normally pronounced /kɛlt/ now refers primarily to ... Although today restricted to the Atlantic coast of Western Europe ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- The Bailiwick of Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri) is a British Crown dependency ... The defense of all these islands is the responsibility of the United ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- or marketing contexts can be synonymous with, the broader definition of ... Science fiction often involves one or more of the following elements: ...54 KB (7,938 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...46 KB (7,008 words) - 06:33, 6 May 2024
- The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, (I) that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir ...53 KB (8,038 words) - 18:09, 14 May 2024
- Sparke and J.S. Gallagher III, Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction ... Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million (107) stars ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently the only fully functional ... Since the first experimental satellite was launched in 1978, GPS has ...54 KB (8,113 words) - 20:37, 29 December 2023
- rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk ... and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most ...65 KB (9,151 words) - 15:55, 15 May 2023
- Nebraska is a state located on the Great Plains of the United States ... Originally home to the Plains Indians, the area was part of Louisiana ...48 KB (6,855 words) - 04:25, 11 March 2023
- Romansh, is official only for communicating with persons of Romansh language ... The titles commonly used to name Switzerland in French ( ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east ... The lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was one of the leading ... Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, Province of Posen, in the German ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- of large, discount department stores. It is the world's largest public ... It operates in Mexico as Walmex, in the UK as ASDA, and in Japan as ...58 KB (8,209 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- The West Bank ( الضفة الغربية , הגדה המערבית and Samaria, is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the Jordan River ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- This article is about the nation of Georgia. For the U.S. state, see ... , known officially from 1990 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia, is a ...46 KB (6,605 words) - 15:22, 21 May 2024
- and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist ... Scruton embraced conservatism after witnessing the May 1968 student ...58 KB (8,069 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... on how to portray emotion and connect with the audience. She played several ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
- His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture ... McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand ...50 KB (7,471 words) - 00:44, 26 February 2023
- The Rhine (German: Rhein; French: Rhin; Dutch: Rijn) is one of the ... , it is the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (after ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 23:58, 17 March 2023
- 10, 1921 – April 9, 2021) was a member of the British royal family as the ... Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan ... Although the country is the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- of British children's literature in the eighteenth century. Her periodical ... school programs and to write for children and the poor. ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- of value theory or axiology, which is the study of sensory or sensori ... The term aesthetics comes from the Greek αἰσθητική ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- , IPA: 'kolkat̪a]), formerly Calcutta, is the capital of the ... Kolkata served as the capital of India during the British Raj until ...53 KB (7,578 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- 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 ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... some might say arbitrarily partitioned by the former colonial powers. Pan ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human history ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- Baseball is a team sport popular in North America, Latin America, ... Baseball is a rare sport in which there is no time limit for play ...67 KB (11,273 words) - 11:05, 20 September 2023
- records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He had his first number-one popular song with "Because of You ...61 KB (9,033 words) - 20:13, 12 September 2023
- 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 ...57 KB (8,103 words) - 19:47, 9 February 2022
- Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with molecular structures ... These cylindrical carbon molecules form the strongest and stiffest ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
- :This article is about the chemical substance. {|class="infobox ... In typical usage, the term water refers to its liquid state, but the ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... *Mitchell, Margaret, Gone with the Wind *Reed, Ishmael, Flight to Canada ...63 KB (9,343 words) - 03:27, 24 July 2023
- He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement ... and Marxist philosophy, and in 1969 formed the Dziga Vertov Group with other ...63 KB (9,163 words) - 20:22, 22 September 2023
- in Indian culture and based on teachings of the Vedas. Hinduism is the third ... Some Hindus dislike the name “Hinduism,” although many now use ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- Christianity existed in China as early the seventh century. ... The Nestorians were accepted in China because of their ability to ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) ([[Kyūjitai| Kyūjitai ... or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during ... The chronological anchors of the era are generally vague, largely ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- ::This article is about the physical universe. Natural|Natural World ... Nature, broadly defined, refers to the physical (natural, material ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية , al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Saʻūdiyya) is the largest country ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- Muhammed, and sometimes Mahomet, following the Latin or Turkish), is the ... . Both Mecca and Medina are cities in the Hejaz region of present day ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied ... Normandy on D-Day itself came from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- body of facts or information that supports the theory of evolution. Complications ... The theory of descent with modification postulates that all organisms ...79 KB (11,963 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- define love more precisely, as living for the sake of another, motivated ... The ancient Greeks described love with a number of different words: ...70 KB (11,122 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- Tibet, called “Bod” by Tibetans, or 西藏 (Xīzàng) by the Chinese ... The Tibetan Empire came into existence in the seventh century when ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic ... polymer of simple units called nucleotides, with a backbone made of sugars ...74 KB (10,725 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- The German Resistance refers to those individuals and groups in Nazi ... The term German Resistance should not be understood as meaning that ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- 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 ...77 KB (12,113 words) - 23:58, 4 March 2024
- :This article is about the mineral. {{Infobox mineral | name = Diamond ... Diamond is the hardest known natural material and the third-hardest ...81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
- as a major prophet and some regard him as the Messiah. Many Hindus also ... As might be expected with a man of this stature, partial understandings ...78 KB (12,289 words) - 02:54, 1 August 2022
- Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 ... Most Buddhist traditions share the goal of overcoming dukkha (suffering ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the ... The decision to undertake a cross-channel invasion in 1944 was taken ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in southwestern ... The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded ... Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and ...100 KB (15,015 words) - 14:55, 21 May 2024
- England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... England is often mistakenly considered the same as the United Kingdom ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the ... was mentored by Brother Matthias Boutlier of the Xaverian Brothers, the school ...148 KB (22,705 words) - 23:33, 13 May 2024
- There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...199 KB (24,192 words) - 20:08, 19 September 2022
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