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- Ahmose I (sometimes written Amosis I and "Amenes" and meaning The Moon is Born) was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the ...39 KB (6,109 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов) (January 15, 1795 – February 11, 1829 ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. Image:Animexample.gif This animation moves at 10 frames per second. ...12 KB (1,946 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States to a Joint session of the Congress on ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- The name king Vikramaditya ( विक्रमादित्य ) is a Sanskrit tatpurusha, from विक्रम ( vikrama ) meaning "valour ...12 KB (1,714 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Religion Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using the conscious mind ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = University of Cambridge ...34 KB (4,989 words) - 13:06, 3 May 2023
- Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- Alms or almsgiving is the general practice of charitable giving to the poor; it is based upon any number of religious teachings. In the Abrahamic ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov is sometimes rendered in English as Paul Miliukov or Paul Milukoff. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- Evil is a term used to describe something that brings about harmful, painful, and unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- The Crimean War lasted from March 28, 1853 until April 1, 1856 and was fought between Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met in 1774, early in the American ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- Shahbag (also Shahbaugh, শাহবাগ Shabag; ˈʃabag ) is a major neighborhood in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. A major public transport ...25 KB (3,589 words) - 18:25, 6 January 2024
- Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), was a magician, escape artist, and daredevil who captivated much of the Western world with ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 20:47, 29 January 2022
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a twelfth century English scholar, best known for translating many important ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- Tel Megiddo ( מגידו ) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site of the ancient city of Megiddo, and famous for several ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder--for there were five surviving brothers, among them Ludwig Emil Grimm, the ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- 1 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book written by a Jewish author and included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons of the Bible. Protestants ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- Maryland is a state located on the East Coast of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic region, amid the great commercial and population complex ...45 KB (6,596 words) - 08:44, 10 March 2023
- The Qing Dynasty; Manchu: daicing gurun), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was a dynasty founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- Alexander Neckam (sometimes spelled "Nequam") (September 8, 1157 – 1217, Hertfordshire, England), was an English theologian, philosopher ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the victors of World War I to negotiate the peace treaties between the Allied ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Gwangjong (광종 光宗) (949 – 975) was the fourth Emperor of the Goryeo dynasty which ruled Korea from the fall of Silla in 935 until the ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 02:33, 28 July 2023
- Vajrayana Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Esoteric Buddhism, and the Diamond Vehicle) refers to a family of Buddhist lineages ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, that is generally used symbolically by a nation, state, or organization, however ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Gajah Mada (died c. 1364) was, according to Javanese old manuscripts, poems and mythology, a famous military leader and prime minister (mahapatih ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- } |- | |- | [[Image:Battle-Pass-1792.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The Battle Pass area, also known as Flatbush Pass in the area of Prospect Park and ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- Matthias Corvinus (Matthias the Just) (February 23, 1443 – April 6, 1490) was king of Hungary and Croatia, ruling between 1458 and 1490. Corvinus ...23 KB (3,564 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- Thomas Kyd (1558 – 1594) was an English dramatist who gained great popularity in his own day but faded into almost complete obscurity after ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- Margaret Valdemarsdatter (Norwegian: Margrete Valdemarsdotter) (1353 – October 28, 1412) was Queen of Norway, Regent of Denmark and Sweden ...12 KB (1,911 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 9,926 square miles (25,708 sq km) and ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- Philip IV (1268 – November 29, 1314), called the Fair (French: le Bel), son and successor of Philip III, reigned as King of France from 1285 ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since it was a crusading ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- Kalmyk (alternatively "Kalmuck," "Kalmuk," "Calmouk," or "Kalmyki") is the name given to western Mongolian ...59 KB (8,959 words) - 02:32, 5 October 2022
- The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. His defeat put a final end to his rule as Emperor ...52 KB (8,210 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- Category:Psychologists Rhine, J. B. Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 – February 20, 1980) was a pioneer in parapsychological research ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka ( Михаил Иванович Глинка , Mihail Ivanovič Glinka) ( June 1|1804|May 20 – February 15|1857|February 3 ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- Samuel Wilberforce (September 7, 1805 – July 19, 1873) was an English bishop, third son of William Wilberforce the anti-slave campaigner and ...12 KB (1,800 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- Shinbutsu shūgō (Japanese for the "fusion of kami and Buddhas") refers to a form of cultural-religious syncretism that arose in Japan ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 20:48, 31 December 2023
- Mahajanapadas (Sanskrit: महाजनपद, Mahājanapadas) literally "Great Kingdoms" (from Maha, "great," and Janapada ...50 KB (7,467 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty originating from Lithuanian House of Gediminas dynasty that reigned in Central European countries (present ...13 KB (1,810 words) - 12:40, 6 November 2021
- Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917), originally named Lydia Kamakaeha, also known as Lydia Kamakaeha Paki ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 15:42, 7 December 2022
- Aphra Behn (July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689) was a prolific dramatist and novelist of the Restoration period who was arguably the first woman ...12 KB (1,861 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro (Hebrew: יִתְרוֹ, Yitro; "His Excellence/Posterity") was the priest of Midian and Moses' father ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom of Benin, was a large pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria. There ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region including the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It is characterized by common ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- Category:Public Perry, Matthew C. [[Image:Matthew Calbraith Perry.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry|Matthew Calbraith Perry]]]] ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- Category:Public {| class="infobox" style="float:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em;font-size:90%;clear:right;" cellspacing="5" ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbár, (alternative spellings include Jellaladin, Celalettin) also known as Akbar the Great (Akbar-e-Azam) (October 15, ...23 KB (3,546 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900, ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (Heß in German) (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler ...23 KB (3,538 words) - 17:39, 22 December 2022
- Leon Battista Alberti or Leone Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, poet, linguist, architect, philosopher ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (May 10, 1866 - December 28, 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer who revolutionized the arts ...13 KB (1,809 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from February 4, ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was the son of Bahram I (273–276). During his reign, most of Armenia was lost ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War Bertrand Taithe. Citizenship and Wars: France in Turmoil ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists category:biography Panizzi, Antonio [[Image:Panizzi.jpg|thumb|200px| Anthony Panizzi]] ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Archaeological ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- The Counts of Cilli The house should be referred to in English by the original historic name "of Cilli," although the name "of ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 08:36, 10 January 2024
- Category:Public Johnson, Samuel [[Image:Samuel Johnson.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.]] ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78 ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- The Basilica of Saint Petrus, commonly called Saint Peter's Basilica, is considered one of the holiest of all Christian sites in the Catholic ...25 KB (3,946 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2022
- Arnold of Brescia (c. 1090 – c.1155), also known as Arnaldus (Italian: Arnaldo da Brescia), was a monk from Italy who called on the Catholic ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 03:56, 15 August 2023
- Krishna (meaning "dark" or dark-blue"), also known as Govinda ("cow-protector") among many other names, is one of the ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- In Kabbalah and European Jewish folklore, a dybbuk is a spirit of a dead person that attaches itself to a person on earth. The word "dybbuk ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源 義経) (1159 – June 15, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian period and early Kamakura ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- Qin Shi Huang (November / December 260 B.C.E. – September 10, 210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 ...27 KB (4,481 words) - 23:18, 3 November 2023
- Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by Korean writers. For much of history, it was written both in classical Chinese ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- Journey to the West (Traditional Chinese: 西遊記; Simplified Chinese: 西游记; Hanyu Pinyin: Xīyóu-jì; Wade-Giles: Hsiyu-chi) is one ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- Antonio Lucio Vivaldi John C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 3rd ed. (London, UK: Longman, 2008, ISBN 978-1405881180). Peter Roach, Cambridge ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- Zōu Yǎn or Tsou Yen ( c=鄒衍/邹衍|p=Zōu Yǎn|w=Tsou Yen ; 305 B.C.E. - 240 B.C.E.) was the representative thinker of the School of Yin ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- The Medici family was a powerful and influential Florentine family from the thirteenth to seventeenth century closely associated with the Renaissance ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 04:04, 9 November 2022
- The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the islands of the Sulu Sea, in the southern Philippines. Though Muslim historians ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- Oleander is the common and species name for a poisonous evergreen shrub or small tree, Nerium oleander, in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, characterized ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- Alfred (also Ælfred from the Old English: Ælfrēd) (c. 849 – October 26, 899) is often considered to be the founder of the English nation ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder, (Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1949) (from Ryder's esteemed ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- The America’s Cup is the most famous and most prestigious regatta and Match Race in the sport of sailing, and the oldest active trophy in international ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- Zerubbabel ( זְרֻבָּבֶל , Zərubbāvel; Greek: ζοροβαβελ, Zŏrobabel) was the leader of the first group of Jews, numbering ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- Mahavira (599 – 527 B.C.E.) (meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- Beowulf (c. 700 C.E.) is a heroic epic poem, written in Old English, and easily the most important work of literature written in that language ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which it renamed the Democratic Kampuchea—from 1975 to 1979. The term "Khmer ...47 KB (7,141 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- category:image wanted Dominique Pire (Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire) (February 10, 1910 – January 30, 1969) was a Belgian Dominican ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 23:54, 28 November 2022
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh ( ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ), also called "Sher-e-Punjab" ("The Lion of the Punjab ...14 KB (2,163 words) - 05:26, 5 November 2022
- Moses or Móshe (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה) was the Hebrew liberator, prophet and lawgiver, who according to the Bible and the Qur'an (by his ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- Sir Frederick William Herschel, FRS KH (November 15, 1738 - August 25, 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky ( Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский , Aleksandr Fjëdorovich Kerenskij) ( ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately 1300 C.E. The largest West African empire to exist in present day Yorubaland ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- Częstochowa ( Tschenstochau , טשענסטעכאוו-Chenstekhov ) is a city in south-central Poland on the Warta River. It was formed from two ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Annie Oakley, (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 05:10, 31 July 2023
- Pope Saint Damasus I (c. 304 - 384 C.E.) was pope from 366 to 384. Possibly born in present Spain or Portugal in the Western Roman Empire, he ...13 KB (2,066 words) - 18:08, 24 January 2024
- The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (also referred to as: Bosnian Conflict, Aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Bosnian Civil War) was an ...36 KB (5,522 words) - 14:58, 9 February 2022
- Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (May 25, 1803 – January 18, 1873) was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. Lord ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- The Council of Ephesus, also known as the Third Ecumenical Council, was a gathering of leaders of the Christian churches in the Roman Empire ...15 KB (2,352 words) - 08:26, 10 January 2024
- 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
- The Warsaw Insurrection (otherwise the Warsaw Uprising of 1794; insurekcja warszawska ) was an armed Polish insurrection by the city's populace ...40 KB (6,116 words) - 22:10, 18 November 2022
- The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor state of the once powerful Hindu and Buddhist Khmer Empire, which ruled ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- John Gower (c.1330–October 1408) was an English poet who is remembered primarily for three major works, the Speculum Meditantis, Vox Clamantis ...27 KB (4,375 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086 C.E., executed ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Tsimshian |image= [[Image:Tsimshian tea ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- Ise Shinto Shrine or Ise Shrine (Ise-jingū 伊勢神宮) is a Shinto shrine to the goddess Amaterasu ōmikami(天照大神). The Ise Shrine ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 03:00, 8 March 2024
- The Chola Dynasty ( சோழர் குலம் , 'ʧoːɻə ), a Tamil dynasty, ruled primarily in southern India until the thirteenth ...44 KB (6,505 words) - 17:15, 10 December 2023
- The Mausoleum of Maussollos (or Mausoleum of Halicarnassus) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 B.C.E. at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 00:51, 9 November 2022
- Francesco Borromini, also Francesco Castelli (September 25, 1599 – August 3, 1667) was a prominent and revolutionary Neapolitan and Sicilian ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 06:44, 1 April 2024
- The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling) Islands, is a territory of Australia comprising twenty-seven tiny coral ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- Belly dance ( رقص شرقي|Raqs sharqi|oriental dance ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and torso. The Egyptian ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- Turnip is the common name for a root vegetable, Brassica rapa var, rapa (Brassica rapa rapa). This plant is grown in temperate climates worldwide ...14 KB (2,268 words) - 00:26, 3 May 2023
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1, 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
- Ahn Jung-Geun or An Jung-Geun (September 2, 1879 - March 26, 1910) (Baptismal name: Thomas) was a Korean independence activist. In 1909, during ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- Padua ( Padova 'padova , Latin: Patavium, Padoa ) is the capital city and the economic and communications hub of Padova province, in the ...25 KB (3,594 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- Félix Rubén García y Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan journalist, diplomat, and poet who wrote under the ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (October 20, 1784 – October 18, 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according to the United Nations Statistics Division, [https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). Albatrosses are among the ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking," was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in and ...36 KB (5,482 words) - 01:19, 11 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group| |group=Yupik |image=[[Image:Edward S. Curtis ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- Pope Leo I, or Leo the Great, was pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 29, 440 to November 10, 461. He was a Roman aristocrat and ...15 KB (2,335 words) - 20:05, 25 October 2022
- Rajendra Chola I, the son of Rajaraja Chola I, the great Chola king of South India, succeeded his father in 1014 C.E. as the Chola emperor. During ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- Confucius (Kong Fuzi or K'ung-fu-tzu, lit. "Master Kong") (traditionally September 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- Cyprian of Carthage, also known as Saint Cyprian (died September 14, 258) was a bishop of Carthage, martyr, and an important early Christian ...14 KB (2,280 words) - 19:36, 22 December 2022
- Jacob or Ya'akov (Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב; Arabic: يعقوب, Yaʿqūb ; "holds the heel"), also known as Israel ("Struggles ...29 KB (4,809 words) - 08:01, 18 March 2024
- Philip Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was, for over 35 years, one of America's leading anti-war and anti-nuclear activists ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 14:50, 28 March 2023
- Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), born Nathaniel Adams Coles, was a popular American jazz singer-songwriter and pianist. ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov ( Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков , Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (September 21, 1842 – February 10, 1918) was the thirty ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists of his era, was a prolific American ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942, Seattle, Washington – September 18, 1970, London, England) was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Hendrix ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- The Mali Empire or Manding Empire or Manden Kurufa was a medieval West African state of the Mandinka from c. 1235 to c. 1600. The empire was ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics The Prague Linguistic Circle (French: Cercle linguistique de Prague; Czech: Pražský ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- Kang Kam-chan or Gang Gam-chan (948 – 1031) was a medieval Korean government official and military commander during the early Goryeo Dynasty ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 07:45, 23 January 2023
- The Amalekites were a biblical people and enemy of the Israelites. They were reportedly wiped out almost entirely as the result of Israelite ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- Frog is the common name for any of the members of the amphibian order Anura, whose extant species are characterized by an adult with longer hind ...41 KB (6,365 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- Category:Image wanted Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte ( Серге́й Ю́льевич Ви́тте|r=Sergéy Yúl'yevich Vítte|p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈjʉlʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ...50 KB (7,301 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- Alfonso VIII (November 11, 1155 – October 5, 1214), called the Noble or Él de las Navas, was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death and ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 06:52, 20 July 2023
- Vaishali, or Vesali (Pali), had been the capital of the Licchavis and the Vajjian Confederacy. In Buddha's time, Vesali had been a heavily ...15 KB (2,417 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of Granada was a siege of the city of Granada fought over a period of months leading up to its surrender on January 2, 1492. The city ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
- Dahomey, a precolonial West African kingdom, is located in what is now southern Benin. Founded in the seventeenth century, Dahomey reached the ...28 KB (4,382 words) - 17:35, 27 December 2022
- Assateague Island is a 37|mi|km|adj=on long barrier island located off the Atlantic coast of Maryland and Virginia, United States. Barrier islands ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 04:57, 18 August 2023
- Dorothea Lange (May 25, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her ...14 KB (2,023 words) - 17:26, 30 January 2024
- The Volunteer Army (Добровольческая армия in Russian, or Dobrovolcheskaya armiya) was a counterrevolutionary army in South ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:642px-John Bauer 1915.jpg|thumb|256px|Trolls with ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- Kyiv (/kiːv/ KEEV), or Kiev (/ˈkiːɛv/ KEE-ev) Ukrainian: Київ, romanized: Kyiv, pronounced [ˈkɪjiu̯], the capital and the largest ...26 KB (3,695 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- Sir Edward Mutesa II, KBE (November 19, 1924 - November 21, 1969), was the thirty-sixth kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1939 until his death, and ...15 KB (2,301 words) - 19:37, 10 November 2022
- Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one ...14 KB (2,158 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- Anthony Collins (June 21, 1676 - December 13, 1729) was an English philosopher, theologian, politician, and a provocative proponent of Deism ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- ---- {{Pharaoh Infobox | Name=Ramesses II| Image=RamsesIIEgypt.jpg| Caption=Ramesses II: One of four external seated statues at Abu Simbel| ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- The Gulf of Aqaba (Arabic: خليج العقبة; transliterated: Khalyj al-'Aqabah), in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- The Battle of Verdun was one of the most important battles in World War I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French armies from ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:41, 26 September 2023
- Category:Economists Menger, Carl [[Image:Carl Menger.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Austrian School economist Carl Menger]] Carl Menger (February 28, 1840 ...18 KB (2,699 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- Alfonso de Albuquerque (or Afonso d'Albuquerque - disused) ( ɐˈfõsu dɨ aɫbuˈkɛɾk(ɨ) ) (treated with a Don by some although his birth ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (October 24, 1784-July 28, 1885) was one of the most famous British Jews in the nineteenth century. Montefiore was ...14 KB (2,182 words) - 16:59, 10 November 2022
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889) was an English poet and playwright who, along with Alfred Lord Tennyson is perhaps one of ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- The Sunga Empire (or Shunga Empire) is a Magadha dynasty that controlled North-central and Eastern India as well as parts of the northwest (now ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess of Poitou (c. 1124 –April 1, 1204) was one of the most powerful women in ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- Catherine de' Medici (April 13, 1519 – January 5, 1589) was born in Florence, Italy, as Caterina Maria Romula di Lorenzo de' Medici ...68 KB (10,504 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- Prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history) is the period before written history became available to assist our understanding ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- The Book of Zechariah is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament attributed to the prophet Zechariah, who prophesied after the ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937-September 9, 1945) was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan before ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- B. bison B. bonasus B. antiquus extinct B. latifrons extinct B. occidentalis extinct B. priscus extinct Bison are members of the genus Bison of ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 02:50, 8 March 2023
- Saints Cyril and Methodius ( Κύριλλος και Μεθόδιος , Old Church Slavonic: кѵрилъ и меѳодии New Church Slavonic: ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- The Minangkabau ethnic group (also known as Minang or Padang) is indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra, in Indonesia. The Minangs are the ...38 KB (5,501 words) - 17:01, 21 December 2023
- Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. The twelfth-largest state by area in the U.S., Minnesota ...43 KB (5,977 words) - 17:20, 12 May 2024
- Opera is a form of theater in which the drama is conveyed wholly or predominantly through music and singing. Opera emerged in Italy around the ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Alexander Gordon Laing (December 27, 1793 – September 26, 1826) was a Scottish explorer and army officer who contributed ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of Israel. In the New Testament, it is described as the childhood home of Jesus ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- Category:Media Professionals Category:Image wanted Annenberg, Walter Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American ...16 KB (2,264 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- The Assassins (originally called Hashashim, Hashishin, or Hashashiyyin) were a religious sect of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims (from the Nizari ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 22:24, 8 November 2021
- Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the Netherlands, was founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village ...29 KB (4,176 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- A Fabergé egg is considered to be any one of the sixty-nine [https://www.wintraecken.nl/mieks/faberge/eggs/eggs.htm List of Fabergé eggs] Mieks ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556-539 B.C.E. Although his background is uncertain ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites Location=Saqqara | Left=105 | Top=46 [[Image:Saqqara ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak); Danish: Søslaget ved Jylland / Søslaget om Skagerrak) was the largest ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- Mozi or Mo-tzu (墨子, Lat. as Micius, Pinyin Mozu,, original name Mo Ti, also spelled Motze, Motse, or Micius), (ca. 470 B.C.E. –ca. 390 ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine ( alfɔ̃s maʁi lwi dəpʁa də lamaʁtin|lang ; October 21, 1790 February 28, 1869 Gorton Carruth ...30 KB (4,259 words) - 22:02, 30 April 2023
- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations' (UN) global development network, is the largest multilateral source ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, (c. March 1471-1475 – November 28 or November 29, 1530), born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, was a powerful English ...31 KB (4,953 words) - 20:23, 31 October 2022
- 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 ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks ( יעקב צבי זקס, romanized: Ya'akov Tzvi Zaks; March 8, 1948 - November 7, 2020) was a British ...46 KB (6,319 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
- Georgi Sava Rakovski (Георги Сава Раковски) (1821 – October 9, 1867), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (Съби Стойков ...16 KB (2,460 words) - 20:16, 13 December 2023
- Category:Public Copernicus, Nicolaus [[image:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Nicolaus Copernicus]] Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19 ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division of Korea in the 1940s. See History of North Korea and History of South ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM ( ˈlɒɹəns əˈlɪvieɪ ; May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA ...43 KB (6,624 words) - 17:52, 25 October 2022
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (March 8, 1714 – December 14, 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second surviving son of five sons from ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- Japanese architecture (日本建築, Nihon kenchiku) has a long history similar to that of other aspects of Japanese culture, characterized by ...29 KB (4,292 words) - 09:48, 1 April 2024
- Havana, officially Ciudad de La Habana, is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. Havana has a long and colorful ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- The Bornu Empire (1396-1893) was a medieval African state of Niger from 1389 to 1893. It was a continuation of the great Kanem-Bornu Kingdom ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Ge Hong (Wade-Giles: Ko Hung; 284 – 364 C.E.), also known as Zhichuan, was a prolific Chinese writer and political official during the Jìn ...30 KB (4,865 words) - 06:29, 18 April 2024
- The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William III ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 18:55, 31 December 2023
- Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787) was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- The Maurya Empire (322 – 185 B.C.E.), ruled by the Mauryan dynasty, was a geographically extensive and powerful political and military empire ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明, Kurosawa Akira; also 黒沢 明 in Shinjitai) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese film ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- Henryk Sienkiewicz (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916), a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and journalist, chronicled Polish history in a series of ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- A Bhikkhu (Pāli), or Bhiksu (Sanskrit), is a fully ordained male Buddhist monastic. Female monastics are called Bhikkhunis. The holy orders ...18 KB (2,886 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- Ingrid Bergman (August 29 1915 – August 29 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning Swedish actress. In addition, she won two Emmy Awards ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:21, 19 November 2022
- John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous for his biography of Adolf Hitler. John Toland (November 30, 1670 - March 11 ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 on Breed's Hill, as part of the Siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations New Yorker, The The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
- Boris I or sometimes Boris-Mihail (Michael) ( Борис I (Михаил) ), also known as Bogoris (died May 2, 907) was the ruler of Bulgaria ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- The Durrani Empire (also referred to as the Afghan Empire) was a large state that included modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, northeastern Iran, and ...17 KB (2,664 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and ...17 KB (2,345 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère ) (c. 1165 – December 23, 1230) was queen consort to King Richard I, the Lionheart. She was ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a British statesman who served under two of Britain's most influential ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2022
- The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา ) was a Thai kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767. King Ramathibodi I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-nineteenth through ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to deploy and, in most cases recover, aircraft, acting as a sea-going airbase. Aircraft carriers thus ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday | |holiday_name=Thanksgiving Day |image=The First ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- Restoration Comedy is the name given to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1700. After public stage ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 19:57, 8 December 2022
- Sei Shōnagon (清少納言), (c. 965 C.E. - c. 1010 C.E.) was a Japanese author and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- The term Holy Orders comes from the Latin Ordo (order) and the word holy referring to the church. Historically, an order refers to an established ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- The Lüshi Chunqiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor Lü Buwei ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Aristophanes (Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης ) (c. 446 B.C.E. – c. 388 B.C.E.) was a Greek dramatist of the Old and Middle Comedy period. He ...16 KB (2,554 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city, as well as the economic, administrative, and cultural center of Romania. It is located ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was an ancient state, located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Ivan Andreyevich Krylov ( Ива́н Андре́евич Крыло́в ; February 13, 1769 – November 21, 1844) is Russia's best-known ...31 KB (4,830 words) - 07:40, 12 March 2024
- The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was the period of Queen Victoria's rule from June 1837 to January 1901. ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- Jaisalmer Jaisalmer.ogg|pronunciation (Hindi: जैसालमेर), nicknamed "The Golden City," is a town in the state of Rajasthan ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 12:43, 6 November 2021
- Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors) was a major engagement in the Napoleonic Wars, when Napoleon's ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music inspired by or attempting to replicate the mind-altering experiences brought on by psychoactive drugs ...40 KB (6,210 words) - 08:25, 2 December 2022
- Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 01:36, 23 November 2022
- The February Revolution ( Февра́льская револю́ция , ru|Fevrálʹskaya revolyútsiya ), known in Soviet historiography as ...46 KB (6,600 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- The Ghana Empire or Wagadou Empire (existed c. 750-1076) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 23:55, 6 December 2022
- Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56 C.E. – c. 117 C.E.) was one of the important historians of Roman antiquity. The surviving portions ...43 KB (6,444 words) - 02:48, 27 February 2023
- Palm Sunday is a Christian feast day which falls on the Sunday before Easter. It commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in ...17 KB (2,712 words) - 06:25, 18 November 2022
- Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme northwest portion of the North American continent, is the largest U.S ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- The United Nations Children's Fund (or UNICEF) was created by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 1946. In 1953, its name was shortened ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 11:42, 3 May 2023
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents a continuous cultural tradition from the time of the Vedas in the second ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The city is located in the south of the province, in a region of foothills and ...52 KB (7,693 words) - 18:23, 25 November 2023
- The Ballets Russes ( balɛ ʁys|lang ) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed throughout Europe between 1909 and 1929 and ...49 KB (6,850 words) - 17:32, 30 August 2023
- The French campaign against Korea of 1866, known as Byeonginyangyo (Korean: 병인양요, Western Disturbance of the byeong-in year (1866)), ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
- In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων , Apóllōn; or Ἀπέλλων , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- The Count of Saint Germain (c. 1710–1784) was a mysterious gentleman who appeared among the royal families of Europe in the eighteenth century ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 08:29, 10 January 2024
- Robert Nesta Marley, (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the most widely known performer ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- Völund is a mythical smith-god of the Nordic and Germanic peoples, whose shocking and brutal tale of revenge is relayed in the Völundarkviða ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- The Republic of South Africa, most commonly referred to as South Africa, occupies the southern tip of the African continent and borders the nations ...35 KB (4,809 words) - 15:13, 27 April 2023
- Nasiruddin Humayun (Persian: نصيرالدين همايون) (March 6, 1508 – February 22, 1556), the second Mughal Emperor, ruled modern ...33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
- 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 ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- Japan made two invasions of Korea, in [Japan's Korea War: First Invasion (1592-1596)|Japan's first invasion 1592 and 1596], creating ...32 KB (4,655 words) - 22:08, 8 February 2023
- Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (March 9, 1749 - April 2, 1791) was a leader of the early stages of the French Revolution. A noble ...44 KB (6,937 words) - 18:06, 5 December 2022
- The Nuzhen or Jurchens ( t=女眞|s=女真|p=nǚzhēn ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast China) until the ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and the only constitutionally bilingual province ...32 KB (4,639 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- Pope Urban II (1042 – July 29, 1099) born Otho of Lagery (alternatively: Otto or Odo), was Pope from 1088 to July 29, 1099. He is most known ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- Paracelsus (November 11 or December 17, 1493 – 24 September, 1541) was a Swiss alchemist, physician, astrologer, and philosopher. Born Theophrastus ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 07:39, 18 November 2022
- The Mughal Empire, (Persian language: مغل بادشاۿ) was an empire that at its greatest territorial extent ruled parts of Afghanistan, ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (January 18, 1689 – February 10, 1755), more commonly known as Montesquieu ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl'ɡɑr/), fought on October 21, 1805, was part of the War of the Third ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- Zion National Park is a United States national park located in the southwestern part of the country, near Springdale, Utah. It is a part of the ...32 KB (4,872 words) - 06:07, 13 June 2023
- Kendo (剣道 Kendō) is the martial art of Japanese fencing, developed from traditional techniques of Japanese swordsmanship known as kenjutsu ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 22:07, 3 March 2023
- Typhoid fever (or enteric fever) is an illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi (Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi, which is historically ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral nomadic tribes of Mongolian origin whose ancestral home is in the Dzungaria ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768 – July 4, 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:AlexanderPope.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Alexander Pope, English poet.]] Alexander Pope (May 22, 1688 – May 30, 1744) was ...16 KB (2,637 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- Nāga (Sanskrit: नाग ) refers to a race of large serpentine creatures that abound in the mythologies of Hinduism and Buddhism. Although ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( أبومصعب الزرقاوي , ’Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Slovakia (Slovensko) is a landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million, bordering the Czech Republic and Austria ...34 KB (4,817 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was a prominent American jazz pianist and band leader. Like his contemporary ...17 KB (2,747 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- The Shroud of Turin is an ancient linen cloth which some believe is the cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb. ...62 KB (9,799 words) - 14:29, 27 January 2023
- In Hinduism, an avatar (from the Sanskrit avatāra: meaning "downcoming") refers to a "descent" of the divine into the realm ...18 KB (2,850 words) - 07:10, 23 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:GermanWoodcut1722.jpg|thumb|300 px|German woodcut ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- Pocahontas (c. 1595 – March 21, 1617) was a Native American woman who married an Englishman, John Rolfe, and became a celebrity in London toward ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 08:11, 24 November 2022
- Louis Riel (October 22, 1844 – November 16, 1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis ...46 KB (7,007 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- Mitanni (also Mittani or Hanigalbat) was a Hurrian kingdom in northern Mesopotamia from c. 1500 B.C.E. At the height of its power, during the ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom of belief and freedom of worship for individuals and groups. It is generally ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- Yejong of Goryeo (1079 - 1122) was the 16th emperor of the Korean Goryeo dynasty. He was the son of Emperor Sukjong (숙종; 肅宗; the 15th ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- Category:Anthropologists Maspero, Gaston [[Image:Gaston MASPERO.jpeg|thumb|Gaston Maspero]] Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 - June ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 04:40, 18 April 2024
- Jewelry also Jewelery and Jewellery, is a personal ornament, such as a necklace, ring, or bracelet, made from gemstones, precious metals or other ...33 KB (4,967 words) - 20:02, 13 September 2023
- Yi Sun-sin (April 28 1545 – December 16 1598), also commonly transliterated Yi Soon-shin, earned fame as a Korean naval leader noted for his ...34 KB (5,442 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- Benjamin Jonson (c. June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet, and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of the Ottoman parliament by Sultan the Abdul Hamid II, who abdicated, marking ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya ( Надежда Константиновна Крупская , scientific transliteration ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 23:02, 10 November 2022
- Robben Island (Afrikaans Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, 5 miles (8 km) off the coast of South Africa, approximately 6 miles (10 km ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
- Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: es|San Isidro or es|San Isidoro de Sevilla ) (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- Wayang is an Indonesian word for theater. Bayang, the Javanese word for shadow or imagination, also connotes "spirit." When the term ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- Montenegro, meaning "black mountain" is a small, mountainous state in south-west Balkans, bordering Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- Transylvania is a Central European region located in the eastern half of the Carpathian Basin, in present-day central Romania. Bounded in the ...47 KB (6,836 words) - 02:15, 2 May 2023
- Publius Licinius Valerianus (c. 200 - after 260), commonly known in English as Valerian or Valerian I, was the Roman Emperor from 253 to 260 ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- Dr. Muhammad Yunus ( মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস , pronounced bn-Latn|Muhammôd Iunus ) (born June 28, 1940), is a Bangladeshi banker ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך mlk) is a Canaanite god in the Old Testament associated with human sacrifice ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- Charles Kingsley (June 12, 1819 – January 23, 1875) was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- Category:Image wanted Plisetskaya, Maya [[File:Maya Plisetskaya 2011.png|200px|thumb|Maya Plisetskaya in 2011]] Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- Ion Heliade Rădulescu or Ion Heliade (also known as Eliad or Eliade Rădulescu; jon he.li.'a.de rə.du.'les.ku ; January 6, 1802–April ...64 KB (9,591 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- The Five Classics ( t=五經|p=Wǔjīng ) is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books that makes up part of the basic canon of the Confucian school ...20 KB (2,978 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- The Deccan sultanates refer to five Muslim-ruled late medieval kingdoms–-Bijapur, Golkonda, Ahmadnagar, Bidar, and Berar of south-central India ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 09:00, 28 January 2024
- Isaac or Yitzchak (Hebrew: יִצְחָק Yiẓḥaq Arabic: إسحٰق, ʾIsḥāq ; "he will laugh") is the son and heir of Abraham ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- Mount Vernon, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first president of the United States, George Washington. Built of wood in a neoclassical ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- Kyōto (京都市, Kyōto-shi, lit. “capital capital,” or “capital of capitals") was the Imperial capital of Japan from 794 until ...36 KB (5,281 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the southern Levant from the eleventh century B.C.E until Roman times. The region ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- Horror films are films of the horror genre that are designed to elicit from audiences emotions of fright, fear, and terror. In such plots, evil ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 14:21, 7 February 2024
- The Doukhobors or Doukhabors ( Духоборы , Dukhobory), earlier Dukhobortsy ( Духоборцы ) are a Christian group of Russian origin. ...38 KB (5,415 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazz musicians of the latter half of the twentieth ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and contemporary European powers, then joined into a Holy League ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- The Russian battleship Potemkin ( Князь Потёмкин Таврический|translit=Kniaz Potyomkin Tavricheskiy , "Prince Potemkin ...35 KB (5,047 words) - 18:20, 22 December 2022
- Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an entrepreneur in popular entertainment, who developed the modern American circus ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. It tells the story of dragon-slayer Siegfried ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- The Chalukya dynasty (Kannada: ಚಾಲುಕ್ಯರು ʧaːɭukjə ) refers to an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern ...41 KB (5,966 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
- The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary) Monarchy, was a dualistic state (1867 ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- The Boshin War|{{linktext|戊|辰|戦|争|Boshin Sensō|extra="War of the Year of the Dragon"}} was a civil war in Japan, fought from ...49 KB (7,292 words) - 13:40, 28 April 2020
- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India Company between 1814 and 1816. It is sometimes called the Gorkha War or the ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music popular from the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Musical influences on disco include Motown, ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
- Dame Vera Margaret Lynn CH DBE OStJ ( Welch ; March 20, 1917 – June 18, 2020) was an English singer, songwriter, and entertainer whose musical ...44 KB (6,146 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2023
- Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was also worshiped in ancient Egypt. In Ugaritic her name appears as ‘nt and ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- In Hinduism, the Rāmāyaṇa is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha or Hızır Hayreddin Paşa; also Hızır Reis before being promoted to the rank of Pasha and becoming the Kaptan-ı ...38 KB (6,070 words) - 17:40, 30 January 2022
- Catherine Parr (c. 1512 – September 5, 1548), also known as Katherine or Katharine Parr(e), was the last of the six wives of Henry VIII of ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- Sarah Bernhardt ( saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt|lang ; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; October 22 or 23, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a French stage actress ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
- The Buddha most commonly refers to Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhāttha Gotama), also called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” ...39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
- Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions of philosophical thought that originated in India. Indian philosophy has a ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, QC, DCL, LL.D (January 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891), was the first Prime Minister of Canada. He was ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- The Almoravids, was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat, who is best known ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[File:Chinese dragon asset heraldry.png|thumb|400px|Chinese ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located in the far north-eastern part of the country. It borders the states of ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- The Battle of the Somme, fought in the summer and autumn of 1916, was one of the largest battles of the First World War. With more than one million ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- Traditional Thai art was heavily influenced by Buddhist and Hindu traditions brought from India and neighboring countries by various empires ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- Édouard Manet (January 23 1832 – April 30 1883) was a French, modernist painter. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia ...18 KB (2,830 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 19:54, 7 May 2024
- Khalsa (Punjabi: pa|ਖਾਲਸਾ , literally "Pure") refers to the collective body of all baptized Sikhs. The Khalsa was originally ...20 KB (3,030 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- Category:Public [[image:Richard coeurdelion g.jpg|thumb|right|Richard I of England]] Richard I (September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199) was king ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Sedevacantism is a theological position embraced by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics which holds that the Papal See has been vacant since ...21 KB (3,214 words) - 20:24, 21 December 2023
- 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 ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- George Washington Carver (c. early 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American botanist who dedicated his life to applying science and ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Hebrew Bible named after the prophet Ezekiel. The book records a number of visions and prophecies, purportedly ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- The Historic Center of Macau ( O Centro Histórico de Macau ; t=澳門歷史城區 ) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 21:51, 31 January 2024
- Buddhism has been a major force in the creation of Korean culture and civilization since the Three Kingdoms of Korea period. Missionaries from ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- Henry Fuseli (in German, Johann Heinrich Füssli) (February 7, 1741 – April 16, 1825) was a painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, who was ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr (March 17, 1902 - December 18, 1971) was one of the most dominant figures in the sport of golf by winning ...19 KB (3,121 words) - 05:16, 17 November 2023
- Carpetbaggers in the United States were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between 1865 and 1877. They formed a coalition ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil caused by World War I (1914–1918) in Europe. The war was fought in Finland ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Magyars or Hungarians In contexts where it is necessary to disambiguate between ethnic Hungarians and inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary, ethnic ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal figures of the Ramayana, a famous Hindu scripture of epic proportions, which ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- Arjuna (Sanskrit: Meaning "bright," "shining," or "silver") is one of the major characters and heroes of the famous ...20 KB (3,256 words) - 22:46, 9 March 2022
- The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian that spread widely in Europe in the thirteenth century and became a fixture of Christian ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- Josephine Baker (or Joséphine Baker in francophone countries) (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) official site of Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker ...20 KB (3,016 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- Francis Marion (February 26, 1732–February 27, 1795) was a military leader during the French and Indian War, who distinguished himself as a ...20 KB (3,146 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ritual. It has been practiced in many cultures throughout much of history ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- Ouyang Xiu ( t=歐陽修|s=欧阳修|w=Ou-yang Hsiu ) (1007 – September 22, 1072 Eighth day of the eighth month of Xining 5 (熙寧五年八月八日 ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- Haakon Haakonsson (1204 – December 15, 1263) (Norwegian Håkon Håkonsson, Old Norse Hákon Hákonarson), also called Haakon the Old, was king ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2023
- Chaim Azriel Weizmanz (Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 16:52, 21 January 2024
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (August 26, 1875 – February 11, 1940), was a Scottish novelist, best known for his novel ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8 1828–March 24 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre, best known for novels such ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:I samma ögonblick var hon förvandlad till en ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- Kumārajīva (Simplified Chinese: 鸠摩罗什; Traditional Chinese: 鳩摩羅什; Pinyin:Jiūmóluóshí; also Kiu-kiu-lo, Kiu-mo-lo-che, Kiu ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- The Goryeo Dynasty marks the last Buddhist-shaped dynasty in Korea after 1000 years of political influence. Goryeo, established in 918, united ...19 KB (2,644 words) - 18:12, 26 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Tomtebobarnen.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Little älvor ...21 KB (3,288 words) - 10:19, 21 January 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but lighter in terms of both music and subject matter. Because it is closely related ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- Ezekiel (592 to 570 B.C.E.) (Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל—"God will strengthen") was a major prophet in the Hebrew Bible during the ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- Arthur is a legendary British "king" of mythical proportions. Although his historicity is controversial, he ranks as one of the most ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 11:02, 16 August 2023
- The Society of the Friends of the Constitution ( Société des amis de la Constitution ), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom ...43 KB (6,105 words) - 17:02, 30 September 2023
- Sinocentrism (中華思想) is any ethnocentric political ideology that regards China to be central or unique relative to other countries. ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including present day Spain and Portugal) as well as the ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- , also known as Shin Buddhism, was founded by the former Tendai Japanese monk Shinran Shonin (1173-1263), himself a disciple of Honen (1133-1212 ...23 KB (3,447 words) - 20:10, 24 April 2023
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. He was one of the founding members of the Pre ...19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
- The Devil is the title given to the supernatural being who is believed to be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. The name ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were ...54 KB (8,276 words) - 04:54, 18 August 2023
- The Battle of Plassey (Pâlāshīr Juddha) was a battle that took place on June 23, 1757, on the banks of the Bhagirathi River, about 150 km ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- Jacques René Chirac (November 29, 1932 - September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May 17, 1995 until May 16, 2007. As President ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- Ellesmere Island is the largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Belonging to the Nunavut territory of Canada ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan country in South Asia. It is a culturally rich kingdom with eight of ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- Aaron (אַהֲרֹן;, Aharon—related to the Egyptian Aha Rw, "Warrior Lion"), was the brother of Moses and Miriam and founder of ...22 KB (3,503 words) - 07:12, 13 June 2023
- Saint Columba (December 7, 521– June 9, 597) was a venerable Irish saint, sometimes referred to as Columba of Iona, or, in Old Irish, as Colm ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 19:21, 22 December 2022
- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher ( ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃlaɪɐˌmaxɐ|lang ; November 21, 1768 – February 12, 1834) was a German Reformed ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- The Weimar Republic ( Weimarer Republik , IPA: [ ˈvaɪ̯marər repuˈbliːk ]) is the common name for the republic that governed Germany from ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and France, with a short coastline ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration of Independence]] The Declaration of Independence is the ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- Moscow ( Москва́ , romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country's economic, financial, educational, and transportation ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco y Bahamonde ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- Charles George Gordon, C.B. (January 28, 1833 – January 26, 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew: נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands that lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Goering) (January 12, 1893 October 15, 1946) was a German politician, military leader and a leading member ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- 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 ...39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
- Romania is a country in Southeastern Europe bordering Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south. ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- Gabriele d'Annunzio (March 12, 1863, Pescara – March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev ( Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ради́щев ; August 31 |1749|August 20 – September 24 ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 20:28, 23 June 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Bedouin_Resting.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Bedouin resting ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- Kathakali (കഥകളി, kat̪ʰəkaɭi ), a form of ritual dance drama, originated in the Southern Indian state of Kerala during the late ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- Legalism (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: Fǎjiā; Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four main schools of thought ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- The Pharisees were a religious and political movement of ancient Israel and the precursors of Rabbinic Judaism. They emerged in opposition to ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- Pierre Francis Berton, (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Shakespeare.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The famous Chandos portrait that is believed to be of William Shakespeare]] ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental questions concerning the social or communal life of human beings. It ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family In an arranged marriage ...25 KB (3,836 words) - 02:27, 9 January 2023
- The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply Shqipëria) is a Balkan country in south-eastern Europe. Its motto is ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. His ...21 KB (3,433 words) - 18:45, 4 May 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth century until its declaration of independence in 1821. After capturing Constantinople ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- A Jacobin ( ʒakɔbɛ̃ ; lang|pron|ˈ|dʒ|æ|k|ə|b|ᵻ|n ) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the ...49 KB (6,809 words) - 17:38, 1 July 2022
- James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment ...56 KB (8,516 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- Doris May Lessing CH, OBE (née Tayler; October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013) was a British writer, author of novels including The Grass is Singing ...22 KB (3,145 words) - 21:11, 26 March 2024
- Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. Situated in the southern hemisphere and largely south of the Antarctic ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- Chişinău ( ki.ʃi.'nəw ) (also known as Kishinev, Кишинёв , Kishinyov) is the capital city, the industrial and commercial center ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- Japan made two invasions of Korea, in 1592 and 1596, starting a war that lasted until, including a truce period, 1598. They are also known as ...42 KB (6,114 words) - 09:44, 1 April 2024
- Ahmad Shāh Durrānī (c. 1723 - 1773) (Pashto/ احمد خان درانی ), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī (Pashto/ احمد خان ابدالی ...21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) (October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980), styled ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Inuit Amautiq 1995-06-15.jpg|thumb|250 px|right|Two ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:253 Mathilde small.jpg|thumb|250px|right|253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. This image was taken by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 05:10, 18 August 2023
- Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin) Though none of Chopin's family spelled their surname in the Polonized form ...96 KB (14,156 words) - 07:08, 15 April 2024
- Eyeglasses, also called glasses or spectacles, are frames-bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes normally for vision correction or eye protection ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theaters in 1642, after the Puritan revolution ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- Rohtas Fort ( قلعہ روہتاس Qila Rohtas) - a garrison fort built by the great Afghan king Sher Shah Suri. The fort measures approximately ...24 KB (3,894 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an American theater and film director, and theater, radio and film actor. He gained ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- Ulrich Zwingli or Huldrych Zwingli (1484 –1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in German-speaking Switzerland. Independent from ...22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
- Shimon Peres ( שמעון פרס ; born Szymon Perski; August 2, 1923 – September 28, 2016) was a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the ...47 KB (6,756 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (December 25, 1961 - ) is a Colombian politician and one of the most outspoken and daring anti-corruption activists ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 22:51, 5 February 2023
- Loyalists were British North America colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolution. They were also ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Rigore Valli Aeli, "the line along Hadrian's frontier") is a stone and turf fortification built by ...23 KB (3,617 words) - 16:37, 21 January 2024
- John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1040? – July 1099), was a Castilian military and political leader in medieval Spain. Born of the Spanish nobility and ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between Britain and the Zulus. From complex beginnings, the war is notable for several particularly bloody ...42 KB (6,753 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial holdings in India. At the time of ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing, MCCF, (February 2, 1926 - December 2, 2020) was a French center-right politician who was ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European ...23 KB (3,470 words) - 03:58, 8 December 2022
- category:fix cite refs [[Image:Defoliation_agent_spraying.jpg|thumb|right|275px|U.S. aircraft spraying chemical defoliants in South Vietnam]] ...70 KB (11,017 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians ...48 KB (7,492 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the twentieth century. The official name was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ...24 KB (3,571 words) - 22:55, 5 April 2021
- The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway ...32 KB (4,813 words) - 19:02, 14 May 2023
- The Kingdom of Norway, commonly known as Norway, is a Nordic country occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula in Europe, bordered ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Nubia is a region in Southern Egypt along the Nile River and in what is now northern Sudan. While the ancient kingdoms of Nubia had changing ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- Thucydides (c. 460 B.C.E. - c. 400 B.C.E.), Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukudídēs) was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- Ibn Sina, Abu- ‘Ali- al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) ([[Kyūjitai| Kyūjitai ]]: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 ja-Dai-Nippon_teikoku_kaigun ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, second only to Adolf Hitler. ...23 KB (3,487 words) - 19:53, 9 May 2024
- Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 - May 9, 2020), better known by the stage name Little Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and ...23 KB (3,362 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
- Sir John Major KG CH PC ACIB (born March 29, 1943), is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the British ...49 KB (7,394 words) - 02:27, 2 May 2024
- Virtual reality (VR) is technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment through one's senses. The term ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war waged by the Greeks to win independence ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was an English poet of the Romantic school, who was easily the ...22 KB (3,443 words) - 02:41, 4 November 2022
- Eliezer Wiesel (commonly known as Elie) (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was a world-renowned Hungarian Romanian Jewish novelist, philosopher ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His artistry is grounded ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- The Timurids, self-designated GurkānīThe Columbia Encyclopedia, [http://www.bartleby.com/65/ti/Timurids.html Timurids.] Retrieved October 23 ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante, (c. June 1, 1265 – September 14, 1321) was an Italian and Florentine poet. His greatest work ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 22:11, 25 January 2024
- Sir Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA, (July 30, 1898 – August 31, 1986) was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, born ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 07:50, 22 January 2024
- The Rastafari movement (or "Rasta" for short) is a Jamaican religion that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- Vivien Mary, Lady Olivier (November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967), known as Vivien Leigh, was an English actress who won two Academy Awards for her ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 17:29, 16 August 2023
- The American film industry, often referred to as Hollywood (from the place name of its birth), is the industry leader in the form of artistic ...22 KB (3,307 words) - 22:38, 4 July 2022
- The Meiji period (明治時代, Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in the Gregorian calendar, from October 23 ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings Originally "van Dijck," with the "IJ" digraph, in Dutch. Anthony is the English ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- The French Revolutionary Wars ( Guerres de la Révolution française ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is most remembered ...23 KB (3,587 words) - 22:09, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group|0 |group=Tlingit |image=[[image:taku.jpg|250px ...47 KB (7,545 words) - 03:50, 1 May 2023
- A state religion (also called an official religion, established church or state church) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- The Bailiwick of Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri) is a British Crown dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. The Bailiwick includes the uninhabited ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to as the She-Wolf of France, was the Queen consort of Edward II of England ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- William Carey (August 17, 1761 – June 9, 1834) was an English missionary and Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- José Ortega y Gasset (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- Maitreya, the "future Buddha" in Buddhist eschatology, is a Bodhisattva that many Buddhists believe will eventually appear on earth ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- Carl Philipp Gottfried von Note regarding personal names: von is a title prefix denoting some sort of (former) nobility, translated as of. It ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) His first name is usually spelled as Gioacchino but currently the [http://www ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- (Tamil: இளையராஜா, ɪləjəɹɑːdʒɑː ) (born June 2, 1943 as Gnanadesikan), an Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist, ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- The Apostle Peter, also known as Saint Peter, and Cephas—original name Simeon son of Jonah—was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. His life ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, 360|km|mi west from the capital Ulaanbaatar ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- B.B. King, born Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015), was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, widely considered ...26 KB (3,986 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,427 words) - 19:39, 20 July 2023
- Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont ( Константи́н Дми́триевич Бальмо́нт|p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ ...51 KB (7,071 words) - 15:34, 30 June 2023
- Akiva ben Joseph (Hebrew: עקיבא) or simply Rabbi Akiva—also spelled Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ...23 KB (3,911 words) - 07:17, 16 June 2023
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg , Grand-Duché de Luxembourg , Großherzogtum Luxemburg ), archaically spelled Luxemburg ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- In Christianity, an Apostle (Greek: Ἀπόστολος apostolos: meaning "messenger") designates an individual commissioned by God ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success ...65 KB (9,151 words) - 15:55, 15 May 2023
- Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country in central and south-eastern Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine country bordering Italy and the Adriatic Sea. Slovenia has been part of the ...45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- The Pagan Kingdom (849-1287) is considered to be the first Burmese empire. During the time of the Pyu kingdom, between about 500 and 950, the ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- Ballet is a highly stylized dance form that developed into a popular courtly entertainment during the Italian Renaissance, a serious dramatic ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- In the Bible, Baal (also rendered Baʿal) was an important Canaanite god, often portrayed as the primary enemy of the Hebrew God Yahweh. The ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction of Russian principalities, such as Kiev and Vladimir, under the leadership ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- Category:Public In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive evidence for the existence of true matriarchal societies ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. Specific ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Exodus (meaning: "mass migration or exiting of a people from an area") is the second book of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. The ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 2023
- The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ritual described in the Book of Leviticus, wherein a goat was symbolically ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov ( Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в ; 16 February|1831|4 February – 5 March|1895|21 February ...52 KB (7,872 words) - 04:11, 15 November 2022
- Aaron Temkin Beck (July 18, 1921 November 1, 2021) was an American psychiatrist, regarded as the father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral ...32 KB (4,326 words) - 17:50, 15 February 2024
- Category:Image wanted John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 04:46, 3 August 2022
- Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis - map and graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the Earth on a ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- The Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") is an institution of great importance in Tibetan Buddhism, whose incumbent is considered ...29 KB (4,223 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- Mehndi (or Hina) is the application of henna (Hindustani: हेना- حنا- urdu) as a temporary form of skin decoration, most popular in ...26 KB (4,222 words) - 09:39, 10 March 2023
- Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence") was the political and social movement that unified different states ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabinet, it was effected by Gen. Fazlollah ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Ark_of_the_Covenant.png|thumb|246px|right|A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- Cinematography, from the Greek words kine (movement) and graphos (writing), is the art and craft of creating and filming images for motion pictures ...29 KB (4,666 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
