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- best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941), Christ and ... H. Richard Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the youngest of five children ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- "confessional" singer-songwriter of the late 1960s and early 70s ... was a staff writer at the Nina Music branch of Elektra Records in the late ...19 KB (2,645 words) - 09:05, 13 March 2024
- Da Ponte Italian Library at the University of California at Los Angeles has ... he took the name Lorenzo Da Ponte, the name of the bishop of Ceneda who administered ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- " is the mythical figure who, in most of Western cultures, brings gifts ... The modern depiction of Santa Claus as a plump, jolly man wearing ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- The horn is a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into ... The horn, as a member of the brass instrumental family, is a powerful ...16 KB (2,716 words) - 14:17, 7 February 2024
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was one of the leading ... Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, Province of Posen, in the German ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian ... The return to Kant of Neo-Kantianism in the second part of the nineteenth ...24 KB (3,466 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- L. Kroeber with Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi tribe, (1911).]] was an influential figure in the development of modern American anthropology ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- 275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution": Logo ... Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of ...35 KB (5,140 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- been interchanged or merged over the course of time. Sometimes, however, dockyards ... regulations have resulted in movement of the industry to developing regions. ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- theory and field studies, and a co-founder of the German Society of Sociology ... Tönnies' concept of Gemeinschaft sees social structures such ...9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- participants disrobe and sit in temperatures of over 176°F/80°C . This induces ... wood smoke aroma still lingered and was part of the cleansing ritual. This ...15 KB (2,539 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- fuel obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, often called petrodiesel ... Diesel engines are a type of internal combustion engine. Rudolf Diesel ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- [[Image:Jan de Bray 002.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Governors of the ... A guild is an association of craftspeople in a particular trade. The ...29 KB (4,314 words) - 03:51, 11 July 2023
- that originally supported the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people ... the Israelites were called the people of Zion (Isaiah 12:6; Joel 2:23 ...20 KB (2,796 words) - 18:55, 1 November 2023
- smaller uprisings by the Prussians, one of the Baltic tribes, against ... The first uprising was supported by Polish duke Świętopełk II of ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 08:22, 1 July 2022
- In zoology, a mole is the common name for any of the small insectivorous ... and lawn pests, they do provide a number of ecological values. Moles can ...11 KB (1,753 words) - 13:05, 10 March 2023
- Normative ethics is one of three main component areas of inquiry of ... have either moral principles as standards of right action or virtues as ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 02:48, 16 November 2022
- penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment, by means of ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in ... itself. It made reference to the Springtime of Peoples, a lyrical title given ...17 KB (2,531 words) - 22:12, 30 November 2022
- and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since 1997 and is ... being deported under Stalin at the beginning of World War II when Nazi Germany ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was a United States congresswoman (1943–1947 ... The tragic death of her only daughter marked a turning point that ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit ...26 KB (4,063 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- as Pepin the Younger or Pepin III, was mayor of the palace of Austrasia and ... Pepin was born in 714, in Jupille, close to the city of Liège, in ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 00:10, 24 November 2022
- Franchising, in the economic sense of the word (distinct from the ... The greatest disadvantage is loss of control over the business, ...15 KB (2,149 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... the North Sea on the west, and a majority of its land mass lies on a peninsula ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- Murder is the unlawful and intentional killing of one human being ... homicide" both involve the killing of an unborn fetus, one being ...16 KB (2,487 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- , a German physicist who did most of his work in the Netherlands ... On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees ...13 KB (1,850 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... Liechtenstein is situated in the Upper Rhine valley of the European ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the ... Palestrina was born in Palestrina, a town near Rome, then part of ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- Rockabilly is one of the earliest forms of rock and roll as a distinct ... quot;a brash, lively, unselfconscious hybrid of blues and country," characterized ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 21:31, 16 April 2023
- is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture and, with a population of 3 ... bombing during World War II. Today it is one of Japan’s major ports along ...20 KB (2,678 words) - 11:13, 25 May 2023
- Katyn Forest Massacre, was a mass execution of Polish citizens by the order ... The massacre is of note for a number of reasons, but primarily due ...48 KB (7,094 words) - 22:04, 3 March 2023
- into use during World War II when a number of aircraft started to encounter ... are able to move faster than sound. The tip of the whip breaks the sound barrier ...16 KB (2,554 words) - 15:12, 27 April 2023
- | nationality = Germany / France | field = Medicine ... century as a humanitarian and advocate of peace. Schweitzer received ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic ... was dominated by foreign powers through much of its history. The past eight ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- rare metal. Obtained as a byproduct of molybdenum refinement, it is ... This mineral, however, is not an economically viable source of the element. ...10 KB (1,384 words) - 20:01, 8 December 2022
- Bill Haley (July 6, 1925 - February 9, 1981) was one of the first ... 1950s and scored a major hit with a cover of Big Joe Turner's "Shake ...21 KB (3,146 words) - 16:05, 31 October 2023
- [[Image:protocomicstrip.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Example of a proto-comic ... A comic strip is a drawing or sequence of drawings that tells a story ...19 KB (2,982 words) - 07:56, 14 January 2023
- philosopher, and diplomat, an advocate of peace through education. The ... L. Butler and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman ...14 KB (2,044 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- |birthplace=Chicago, Illinois, United States |deathdate =1959|3|26|1888|7|23 |deathplace=San Diego, California, United States |occupation =Novelist ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during ... A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow's work continued ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze ... which followed, aristocrats constructed many of the famous private gardens ...24 KB (3,013 words) - 00:31, 27 February 2023
- psychology. He is best known as the creator of the Stanford-Binet IQ test ... County, Indiana, seventeen miles southeast of Indianapolis. He was the twelfth ...14 KB (2,037 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases ... for "study of." However, today the term neuroscience is ...20 KB (2,815 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- The Rhine (German: Rhein; French: Rhin; Dutch: Rijn) is one of the ... The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 23:58, 17 March 2023
- 749.jpg|thumb|200px|left|First arrival of the Roma outside Berne in the ... Germany Greece Hungary Italy Macedonia Moldova Montenegro ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- singer and songwriter. Cash was the husband of country singer and songwriter ... a-boom or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing ...23 KB (3,723 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- the 95 Theses and nailed them to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Protactinium (chemical symbol Pa, atomic number 91) is a member of ... The isotope protactinium-231 occurs in pitchblende to the extent of ...9 KB (1,150 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- [[Image:AFP Paris dsc04592.jpg|thumb|200 px|Paris headquarters of AFP]] the oldest news agency in the world, and one of the three largest, together ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- raisins found in the Qur'anic account of paradise.Christoph Luxenberg ... and descriptions have been the source of much speculation and debate ...18 KB (2,560 words) - 21:26, 7 January 2023
- He served as the U.S. Commissioner of Education, during which time ... In 1859, he became a principal in one of the public schools in St ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- August 1914 to the final Armistice with Germany on November 11, 1918. During ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- would quickly renounce these views in favor of a life-long, if sometimes cynical ... French) and graduated after only three years of study. While at Harvard, Lippmann ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- Carl Gustav Hempel (January 8, 1905, Oranienburg, Germany - November ... Hempel was a major theorist of logical positivism, but, at later stage ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... Wilder attended school. After dropping out of the University of Vienna, Wilder ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- but most often middle schools consist of sixth, seventh, and eighth ... rise and the social and biological changes of puberty affect the students ...19 KB (2,829 words) - 17:33, 9 November 2022
- is an entity responsible for the money of its country or of its group ... Though the primary purpose of a central bank is to act as a financial ...30 KB (4,733 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- Review, were instrumental in the development of early twentieth century English ... Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- Arkansas (are-can-saw) is a state located in the southern region of ... Little Rock became the center of international attention in 1957 when ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- comprising the western and central thirds of the Czech Republic. It has ... whose helm it also became an autonomous part of the Holy Roman Empire after ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- during World War II by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada ... #039; fears from the 1930s that Nazi Germany might be developing nuclear ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... Hall, leading to the resignation of Eleanor Roosevelt from the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... agreement providing such a high degree of individual protection. State ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- and activist who became famous as one of the survivors of the sinking ... Margaret Tobin was born in Hannibal, Missouri, one of six children ...10 KB (1,600 words) - 03:54, 6 November 2022
- Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...58 KB (8,390 words) - 00:12, 25 October 2021
- William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... quot; sowed the seeds on which the United States would be built. He declared ...16 KB (2,612 words) - 10:39, 11 May 2023
- Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household ... its themes reflect a Medieval culture of princes and Medieval superstitions ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 00:39, 8 December 2022
- Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ... situations, propaganda involves deception of the audience, for a purpose ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- and about 2,400 miles from the east coast of North America. The westernmost ... southeast direction. The vast extension of the islands defines an immense ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... in 1783. Some Crimean Tatars were accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- for a train. It has no payload capacity of its own and its sole purpose ... controlled from a cab at the opposite end of the train. ...22 KB (3,331 words) - 07:49, 9 March 2023
- Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that spanned the course of ... The term "Gothic" originated as a means of belittling by ...29 KB (4,407 words) - 15:08, 30 December 2022
- May 16, 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning ... won a much more favorable re-negotiation of the peace-terms, established ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an ... based on historic events and individuals of the fifth century and sixth ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...17 KB (2,707 words) - 09:04, 18 November 2022
- movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 22, 1942) was one of the pioneers ... Franz Boas was born in Minden, Westphalia, Germany. Although his grandparents ...37 KB (5,468 words) - 05:16, 9 April 2024
- distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and ... Discussions of relativism usually begin with the empirical claim that ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- longing, or storm and impulse) is the name of a movement in German literature ... to have provided the ideological basis of Sturm und Drang, and Johann ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- Youngest Ambassador" in the United States and the "Goodwill Ambassador ... around the world through the simple act of writing a letter to the leader ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger overall concern over ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- update Alfred Nobel on the progress of the peace movement. After 1899 ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- clearly formulate the fundamental principles of thermodynamics. He also placed ... Clausius was born in Köslin in the Province of Pomerania, the son ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As ... with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he had me ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many ... Goering was one of the central figures in the Nazi regime that was ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern ... Maximilian Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany, the eldest of seven ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- Just War refers to the concept of warfare as being justified, typically ... The Just War tradition is, first of all, a set of criteria that act ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
- began in London, England, with the founding of Toynbee Hall, emerged from ... The settlement movement began in 1884, with the founding of London’s ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
- Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial ... to detect them due to technical limitations of his apparatus ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume ... remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. ...24 KB (3,505 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- A university is an institution of higher education and research, which ... Universities are seen as a place of great personal development, but ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- In nature, it occurs mainly in the form of a black-brown oxide (MnO2) ... The greatest demand for manganese is for the production of iron and ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 11:03, 9 March 2023
- The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known ... ==History of the Recorder== The recorder was popular from medieval ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- This article is part of the branches of CAM series. CAM Classifications ... Naturopathic medicine (also known as naturopathy) is a school of medical ...20 KB (2,831 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and ... Nurses develop a plan of care, working collaboratively with physicians ...27 KB (3,663 words) - 10:11, 11 March 2023
- organization based on common control of the means of production as ... is generally associated with the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ...45 KB (6,718 words) - 00:12, 8 January 2024
- often meat. It uses the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood, or hot ... an outdoor environment heated by the smoke of wood or charcoal. Restaurant ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- Charles I of Hungary (1288, Naples, Italy – July 16, 1342, Visegrád ... his descendants' claim to the Kingdom of Naples, but he could achieve ...26 KB (3,949 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- to July 13, 1954), was a Mexican painter of the indigenous culture of her ... Kahlo's life was a tragic one. Stricken with polio at the age ...18 KB (2,754 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- September 10, 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary, King ... He shared the privations and hardships of camp life with his soldiers ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- found in formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons ... sources. In a typical barrel 84 percent (37 of 42 gallons) of the hydrocarbons ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Babiy yar) is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, located between the ... where more than 100,000 Soviet civilians, of whom a significant number were ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- history that coincides with the reign of King James I (1603-1625). The ... James I was caught up in this situation of flux. He was, however, a committed ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 08:05, 18 March 2024
- Lynching is a form of violence, usually murder, considered by its ... [[Image:Lynching-of-lige-daniels.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Postcard depicting ...23 KB (3,493 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- invented herself and eventually became one of the entertainment icons of ... 27, 1901, in Schöneberg, a district of Berlin, Germany. ...31 KB (4,546 words) - 16:02, 6 November 2022
- unfettered by concerns about conditions of their employment will be more ... A life tenure or lifetime tenure is a term of office that lasts for ...21 KB (3,170 words) - 03:41, 30 April 2023
- may also be used to refer to airports of varying sizes. An airport consists of at least one runway or helipad (for helicopters ...33 KB (5,029 words) - 20:47, 27 October 2023
- and politician. Having risen to the rank of brigadier-general after distinguishing ... for whether this furthered the welfare of the people he purportedly served ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ... commonly involuntarily with varying degrees of enforcement by the dominant ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- Francisco Franco, was the Dictator of Spain in parts of the country ... power in order to preserve a traditional way of life that was threatened, in ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, that ... The history of the flag dates back to at least Roman times. The study ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- The Historic Center of Macau ( O Centro Histórico de Macau ... ) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 21:51, 31 January 2024
- Easter, also called Pascha, commemorates the resurrection of Jesus ... Easter also refers to the season of the church year, called Eastertide ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 17:05, 10 October 2020
- Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players ... above; the team with more points at the end of the game wins. The ball can ...42 KB (6,657 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... territorial or political agreements among states and international organizations ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- ) is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel, often ... In the Bible, water-rich Beersheba was once the home of each of the ...24 KB (3,637 words) - 10:25, 26 September 2023
- existed from 1346 to 1371, and was one of the larger states in Europe ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- Monarchianism (also known as monarchism) refers to a heretical body ... Many theological explanations of the relationship between the Father ...19 KB (2,965 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- In business, administration consists of the performance or management ... schools” began offering a Master of Business Administration (MBA ...13 KB (1,727 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- [[Image:Harrods at night.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The exterior of Harrods ... which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a predominant ...29 KB (4,395 words) - 09:47, 29 January 2024
- Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France would be taking part ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of ... waged war but favored peace. The making of war and peace was discussed ...33 KB (4,840 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- Saint Alban was the first known Christian martyr of Britain. Shortly ... including that he changed the course of a river on his way to the site ...10 KB (1,607 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- A Fabergé egg is considered to be any one of the sixty-nine ... his assistants between 1885 and 1917. Fifty of those eggs—known as the Imperial ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear chain reaction ... Szilárd was born in Budapest at the time of the Austro-Hungarian ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published ... Ages, portrayed through the experiences of a woman from birth until death ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United ... never occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... s-Gravenhage) is the Netherlands' seat of government (regeringszetel ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- ministry. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian ... a divine will that worked through the agency of heroes and leaders. In his ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 18:40, 30 April 2023
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- military clan-uniform. In many parts of the West, wearing a skirt may ... A gender role is a set of behavioral norms associated particularly ...23 KB (3,388 words) - 20:48, 23 October 2022
- to both capitalism and Stalinism. Consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, ... In France in 1938, Trotsky and many of his supporters, having been ...51 KB (7,375 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- Coal is a black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed primarily ... into nearby water courses. The process of burning of coal generates waste ...32 KB (4,888 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- to June 1901) demonstrating the principles of Bertillon's anthropometry.]] Anthropometry is the measurement of physical attributes of human beings ...14 KB (1,919 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- as art. Every culture since the beginning of human existence has sculpted ... As intelligence develops the human ability to use the materials of ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933 ... successful engineer, and a dynamic Secretary of Commerce. He was highly regarded ...41 KB (6,027 words) - 14:27, 9 February 2022
- The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea ... defined as Melanesia. With a land area of 452,860 square kilometers, ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- preeminent architect in America at the turn of the twentieth century, Burnham ... incorporating his own personal style. Much of his career work modeled the ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- | birth_place = Dobzau, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria ... | death_place = United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 20:11, 17 November 2023
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its ... on October 9, 1997, through the signing of the Oklahoma City National ...19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
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- War II. After experiencing the excesses of Stalinism, he became a critic ... His novel, The Thaw, gave expression to many of the problems of Soviet ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- for his pioneering work on the sociology of human migration with his studies ... He co-operated with Florian Znaniecki on the formulation of what became ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- the cultural and literary renaissance of Spain in the twentieth century ... As part of his own “project of life,” Ortega acted on his convictions ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- mile area located in the westernmost region of the African continent. It is ... Africa is generally defined as consisting of the following 16 countries ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- The Banc d'Arguin National Park lies on the west coast of Mauritania ... It is a major breeding site for migratory birds. A wide range of species ...16 KB (2,318 words) - 17:29, 10 February 2023
- An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... territory and its people being invaded. Some of these consequences can be beneficial ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Pedagogy, literally translated, is the art or science of teaching ... able to embrace both the art and science of pedagogy, acting as "parents ...26 KB (3,614 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- published magazine in the United States. It specializes in bringing ... interested in fields outside their own areas of expertise made up the magazine ...13 KB (1,844 words) - 17:24, 25 January 2023
- 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ... In recognition of his achievements he was awarded the Harmon Trophy ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
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- 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes ... The VAT was first adopted in France in 1954. By the end of the twentieth ...31 KB (5,015 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2023
- is listed as one the top 100 best actresses of the century. and often are selected as the top movies of the twentieth century. Those ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 15:36, 12 August 2022
- The Northeastern United States, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau ... freedom. Massachusetts was also one of the key colonies in the events ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... The operational goal of Barbarossa was the rapid conquest of the European ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- center-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 ... He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- was a Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial ... Yamamoto, who had studied in the United States, and had spent time ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- strident, but pleasing tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has ... Clarinets actually comprise a musical family of instruments of differing ...30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- the Nobel Prize in 1922. He was also part of the team of physicists working ... Niels Bohr is one of the most important scientists from Denmark; he ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- arts, and film. This movement was an amalgam of many different styles and movements ... 1930s and early 1940s, and soon fell out of public favor. The time frame ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 04:01, 15 August 2023
- " which were built in the United States around 1840 mainly by builders ... The melodeon is the forerunner of the more familiar pump organ reminiscent ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to ... The art of improvisation often focuses on bringing one's personal ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- cultivator that works the soil by means of rotating tines or blades. Rotary ... tillers have been used to clean the exterior of oilfield pipes and to prepare ...10 KB (1,524 words) - 22:27, 16 December 2022
- - Plate 1 - The Young Heir Takes Possession Of The Miser's Effects.jpg ... :This article is concerned with the inheritance of physical and monetary ...15 KB (2,362 words) - 17:02, 21 November 2020
- Antifa is a political movement, expecially in Germany and the United States, that is composed of multiple far-left, autonomous, militant groups ...100 KB (13,503 words) - 18:35, 7 July 2020
- The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought ... seeds for the founding of the nation-states of Germany and Italy by starting ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots ... Flying Cross and the French Legion of Honor, and she still holds ...19 KB (3,058 words) - 08:12, 18 March 2024
- and Toshisuke in his youth, was one of the Meiji Era’s most famous ... movement. In 1863, he was chosen to be one of the “Chōshū Five” who ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 06:30, 11 March 2024
- was an American engineer, early advocate of scientific management and a ... The Gilbreths are considered the founders of modern industrial management ...16 KB (2,285 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- concentrations above 5.6 percent. A solution of hydrogen cyanide in water is ... used by the Nazi regime for the mass murder of Jews in the gas chambers of ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 13:19, 4 February 2023
- to the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews, other minority groups ... . The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- entails the inward-looking self-observation of conscious thoughts.]] on thinking, reasoning, and examination of one's own thoughts and ...17 KB (2,469 words) - 11:00, 6 March 2024
- /ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full ...30 KB (4,264 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- The term has come to refer to all aspects of the system, from the receiver ... With the growth and influence of the television industry, it is not ...27 KB (3,983 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl ... The attack was one of the most important engagements of World War ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- 1944) was an American urban sociologist, one of the founders of the Chicago ... Minnesota, where he grew up. He was the son of Hiram Asa Park and Theodosia ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 05:02, 15 December 2022
- The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... " (Mark 12:17) fostered the development of separate rival Church and State ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- :For the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, see Louis ... and is often referred to as the "father of modernism." He is considered ...24 KB (3,459 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- Afonso I, King of Portugal, more commonly known as Afonso Henriques ... Afonso I left his mark on the map of Europe. The impetus created by ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 19:49, 28 September 2020
- in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries ... It is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals ...31 KB (4,402 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- and important figure in the development of sports journalism. Herald-Tribune referred to the University of Notre Dame's backfield ...14 KB (2,078 words) - 14:51, 31 December 2022
- 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...35 KB (5,244 words) - 09:51, 12 May 2024
- the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in ... Togo was once part of the area known as the "Slave Coast" ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- or Lettland), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvija or ... The ancient Balts of this time actively participated in the trading ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles ... entirely autobiographical. As the title of his column suggested (Notes ...22 KB (3,383 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- , Nikolaos, "victory of the people") was Bishop of Myra ... modern day Demre in the Antalya province of Turkey, and his death date ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... refers to the province's location east of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
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- institution which has formed the foundation of the family throughout history ... Challenges to the institution of marriage in the twentieth century ...46 KB (7,206 words) - 14:15, 7 May 2024
- The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its Allies ... On June 22, 1941, Germany and the Axis powers invaded the Soviet Union ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- ” Widely considered to be the father of modern management, his many ... Having experienced the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, observed ...31 KB (4,468 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- cowpox virus, which has gained fame because of its use in the eighteenth century ... The discovery of this nature-provided means of inoculating against ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. German Nazism ... Fascism led to Italy's support of Hitler's Germany during ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- writer who is best known for his development of Christian realism. As he served ... theological ethics acknowledges the reality of human sinfulness a bit too ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts ... for nuclear power and to drive the explosion of nuclear weapons. Both uses ...31 KB (4,827 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- used globally for the finish construction of interior walls and ceilings ... The use of drywall offers the advantages of speed in construction ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- Barbershop music is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal ... produced by singing a particular combination of notes that are perfectly tuned ...25 KB (3,778 words) - 08:05, 20 September 2023
- The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place ... The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- Emperor from 244 to 249. He became a member of the Praetorian guard under ... as barbarian. This may be an early example of Culture War. There is, however ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 03:50, 24 November 2022
- , derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of ... and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...15 KB (2,018 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- Pacis (“On the Law (and Rights and Wrongs) of War and Peace,” 1625) secured ... Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- recently and from the metabolic by-products of living organisms. They include ... sources are photosynthetic plants. A number of agricultural crops are being ...36 KB (5,134 words) - 17:54, 31 October 2023
- Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a nation ... The Tanzanian geography is one of the most varied and unique in the ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
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- January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for ... in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- The Daily Telegraph is regarded as one of the "big three" quality ... to maintain its place offering one of the several options available ...11 KB (1,656 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
- Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... infantry advances. However, a combination of entrenchments, machine gun ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- German Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and ... newly recruited French armies in a series of battles fought across northern ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- to 1831, the hall was crowded as the hall of no philosophical teacher in ... In 1840, when Cousin became Minister of Public Instruction in France ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in ... spray. Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, also generate ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2022
- quot; or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the ... particular with works such as the Satyricon of Petronius and later, and more ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- Olivine (also called chrysolite) is a name used for a series of minerals ... Chemically, members of this series are composed of magnesium iron ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder ... Indian family (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- United Kingdom and is celebrated in a number of countries that previously formed ... and spectators prior to the banning of this sport. The origin of the ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning, which ... father, Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, was one of Ryazan's most respected ...11 KB (1,563 words) - 07:43, 12 March 2024
- Florenszoon Boeyens, served as Bishop of Rome from January 9, 1522, ... Born in Utrecht, he studied at the University of Louvain in France ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- Gwanghaegun or Prince Gwanghae (1574 – 1641) was the fifteenth king ... Gwanghaegun endeared himself to generations of Koreas for guiding ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 08:20, 27 July 2023
- The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named ... There were about 1.5 million Mennonites worldwide as of 2006. Mennonite ...44 KB (6,423 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per ... the massive and impassive destructive power of the machine guns changed the ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution ... that impress all visitors. The glory of aviation and space technology ...18 KB (2,632 words) - 01:35, 11 November 2022
- William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) ... While the use of Ockham's Razor in the later development of philosophy ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- cough followed by a high-pitched intake of breath that sounds like "whoop ... coverage with this vaccine, pertussis is one of the leading causes of vaccine ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
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- Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near ... Bordered by the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois, ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
- Viking peoples and revered as the "God of Thunder." Historical evidence ... Thor was the focus of numerous Norse folk tales and he was seen to ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda ... quot; or "Usama bin Ladin," both of which are abbreviated to UBL. ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- Retailing consists of the sale of goods or merchandise, from a fixed ... Retailers often provided boardwalks in front of their stores to protect customers ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 08:16, 4 August 2022
- The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... any revenue benefiting Iran. In the United States, Operation Ajax (originally ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest ... A child of economic and social privilege, he overcame a crippling ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...49 KB (7,066 words) - 17:42, 22 December 2022
- Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... to establish an authoritarian regime in a Germany that was still coming to ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- thumb|300px|right|The Louvre in Paris, one of the largest and most famous ... later made public. There are different types of museums all over the world ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the ... with the imperial project in India freed her of the obligation to value everything ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- Owl is the common name for any of the birds of prey comprising the ... They are found in all regions of the Earth except Antarctica, most ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 19:47, 20 July 2023
- home-bred screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many ... Jackson, in Indiana, Pennsylvania. The son of a prosperous hardware store ...25 KB (3,865 words) - 16:36, 30 January 2023
- The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... the San Francisco earthquake. Her memories of her mother helping victims ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... by Nikita Khrushchev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- In Norse mythology, Njord or Njordr (Old Norse Njörðr) is one of ... The mother of these two gods was, according to the Heimskringla (a ...22 KB (3,533 words) - 02:30, 16 November 2022
- Igor Stravinsky, George Antheil became one of the pioneers in searching for ... Antheil grew up in a family of Lutheran immigrants from Ludwigswinkel ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- American Craftsman movement, a descendent of the British Arts and Crafts ... Stickley was the most well-known name of the American Arts and Crafts ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 23:59, 26 July 2023
- Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country ... Despite the beauty of the land, poverty is on the increase, closely ...23 KB (3,416 words) - 00:48, 7 March 2023
- A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
- and actor. A premier representative of the New German Cinema. Famous ... current underlying his work and the air of scandal surrounded his artistic ...50 KB (7,532 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is ... Considered one of the greatest African empires, from the early fifteenth ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- focused along secular lines. He had a string of R&B hits, including "Cry ... His biggest hit came in 1969: A cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- – June 11, 1970) served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian ... In the aftermath of the collapse of the autocracy, hastened by Russian ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century Romanticism ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- the past – it referred to all inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary irrespective ... Magyars were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was one of the foremost ... Massachusets his art focused on watercolors of sailboats, lighthouses, seascapes ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes ... system which eventually made it the target of a zealous, impoverished French ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...63 KB (9,535 words) - 21:17, 6 May 2024
- 9, 1934) is often considered the founder of modern public relations, or ... Criticized, as many in PR have been, for selling propaganda instead ...11 KB (1,658 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953 ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
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- He is widely considered to be one of the greatest cellists of the ... His father, Leopold, was also partly of Belarusian-Polish noble descent. ...17 KB (2,362 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- Deuterium (chemical symbol D or ²H) is a stable isotope of hydrogen ... Scientists have developed a variety of applications for deuterium ...31 KB (4,687 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century German Idealism ... system practically unrivaled in the scope of its ambition. Hegel’s highly ...43 KB (6,642 words) - 07:00, 18 April 2024
- March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... Gorbachev was wildly popular in the West, largely because of the way ...27 KB (3,969 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures ... in Gangwashi, Beijing in 1922. With the help of Reverend Robert Kenneth Evans ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
- most likely die in the process. The means of such attacks have included ... with Samson's suicidal destruction of a Philistine temple (as recounted ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
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- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
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- Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with ... Bratislava was a key economic and administrative center of the Kingdom ...38 KB (5,662 words) - 22:52, 20 November 2023
- Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes ... all actions and decisions. Applications of personal wisdom include one ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced ... Gasoline is a mixture of hydrocarbons, although some may contain significant ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
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- The Count of Saint Germain (c. 1710–1784) was a mysterious gentleman ... music, and magic. He had no visible means of support, but no lack of resources ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 08:29, 10 January 2024
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- He thus sought to establish the school of journalism at Columbia University ... His father was a wealthy grain merchant of Magyar-Jewish descent and his ...20 KB (2,932 words) - 04:55, 7 May 2024
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- Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] and people broadly fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...37 KB (5,369 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
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- human rights activist, former Prisoner of Zion, Israeli politician and author. As a refusenik and dissident, he became a member of the Moscow Helsinki ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
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- The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( ... published in London, the Manifesto is one of the world's most influential ...44 KB (6,124 words) - 22:56, 14 September 2023
- The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes ... silence. Even Ultra (the allies reading of secret German radio messages ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
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- 1945) was the prime minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943 ... Mussolini entered World War II in June, 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany ...40 KB (6,139 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- November 18, 1969) was a prominent United States businessman and political ... He served briefly as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ...31 KB (4,694 words) - 04:52, 7 May 2024
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- Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). While differing ... Africa and India, but are now, because of migration, found also in Western ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- Fate or Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events, which ... The very notions of fate and destiny imply a limitation of human freedom ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- compact automobiles, a full range of motorcycles, All-Terrain Vehicles ... Suzuki, begun in 1909 as a manufacturer of wooden looms, has been ...32 KB (4,585 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- Known as a craftsman who "changed the world with a pair of scissors ... women to be free from the lengthy process of curling and teasing, and the ...17 KB (2,513 words) - 21:48, 12 January 2024
- As of January 1, 2007, International Standard Book Numbers have been ... An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation (except reprintings ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
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- political sociology and the philosophy of history. His Lettres Persanes ... Montesquieu defined three forms of government: republics, monarchies ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
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- Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 Housing Act ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg ... He began composing at the young age of ten, producing short pieces ...35 KB (5,095 words) - 03:55, 15 August 2023
- that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- the construction, maintenance, and repair of ships, boats, and other watercraft ... According to the ancient Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis, the ...11 KB (1,823 words) - 19:34, 3 August 2023
- known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra ... and educator remain important aspects of his artistic life. By establishing ...13 KB (1,788 words) - 09:57, 26 January 2023
- San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino Repubblica di San Marino , also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is a country ...26 KB (3,871 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application ... Forensic scientists utilize principles and techniques from such fields ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 06:30, 1 April 2024
- German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist of Jewish descent. He coined the ... At Gestalt Therapy's core is the promotion of awareness, the ...13 KB (1,898 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- to as the 80-20 principle—that 80 percent of the wealth belongs to 20 percent ... from what is now the Polytechnic University of Turin. His thesis was entitled ...21 KB (3,117 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
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- 1919 – March 1921) was an armed conflict of Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine ... By 1919, the Polish forces had taken control of much of Western Ukraine ...77 KB (11,326 words) - 23:09, 8 October 2023
- barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling" ... the contained deflagration (rapid burning) of gunpowder; this was originally ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- Space tourism (or spaceflight) is the recent phenomenon of tourists ... Among the primary attractions of space tourism are the uniqueness ...31 KB (4,415 words) - 16:01, 27 November 2023
- The Baptist Church is a Christian denomination—or group of denominations—that ... The focus of Baptist church services is the proclamation of the Gospel ...25 KB (3,609 words) - 07:57, 20 September 2023
- [[File:Battle of britain air observer.jpg|thumb|250px|Aircraft spotter ... A major campaign of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name ...41 KB (6,464 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
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- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... Members of all branches of the U.S. military are eligible to receive ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- early 1890s by J.W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip ... Because of the ease of carrying and the direction of sound, it is ...19 KB (2,980 words) - 22:02, 24 February 2024
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots ... the human spirit through the recognition of distinguished or ancient lineage ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- Romanesque architecture is the term that describes the architecture ... symmetrical plans. The overall appearance is of simplicity when compared to ...63 KB (10,037 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...33 KB (4,933 words) - 21:55, 31 January 2024
- Open access publishing is a form of publishing that allows users free ... , music, fine arts, or any product of intellectual activity. In this ...20 KB (2,877 words) - 00:47, 18 November 2022
- Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany – February 3, ... Mayr's theories on speciation remain the leading view of how ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- 1887 – September 2, 1964) was a United States soldier, famous as a World ... York kept a diary of his years just before the war and all during ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
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- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... as the Sandwich Islands, form an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... 1994 genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Since ...25 KB (3,542 words) - 17:40, 28 September 2023
- Ukiyo-e (浮世絵), "pictures of the floating world," is ... an original painting. The original subject of ukiyo-e was city life—more ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 01:28, 3 May 2023
- is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely ... on artificial turf, with a goal at each end of the field. The object of the ...38 KB (6,157 words) - 21:43, 30 January 2023
- This bacterium, transmitted through the bite of a flea, has caused the death ... The epidemiological use of the term "plague" is currently ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter ... In addition to painting two United States presidents - Theodore Roosevelt ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship ... globally controversial. The rise and fall of several groups known for mass ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- fell ill and died in Russia during the fall of 1920. He was given a state ... in what is now the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. His grandmother ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution varies in different ... life, and lineage, is commodified, the value of a human being is inevitably ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... from custom or implied. In the United States and most continental European ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- attitudes towards minorities. Kipling, of course, was a man of his times ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central ... The gorge is the greatest concentration of arches east of the Rocky Mountains ...39 KB (5,531 words) - 22:12, 3 March 2023
- strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics promulgated ... The Hasidic movement, which is a subset of Haredi Judaism, is less focused ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- Asbestos describes any member of a group of minerals that can be fibrous ... the past, it was used to insulate the wiring of electric ovens and hotplates ...20 KB (2,941 words) - 18:08, 16 August 2023
- quot;)) is the rapid and extensive spreading of a disease whereby there is ... A pandemic is simply an epidemic that affects a large proportion of ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- A goat is a member of the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family ... a distinct species, C. hircus. It was one of the first animals domesticated ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- Copyright is the exclusive right given to the creator of a creative ... not just literary work, but also forms of creative work such as sound ...45 KB (6,771 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
- represent its content or origins. The act of creating a counterfeit is called ... This is especially true of digital recordings of music and movies ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:32, 10 January 2024
- Przewalski's horse is a rare, wild horse of Asia, Equus ferus ... endangered in the wild. As a result of its preservation and reintroduction ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 01:25, 12 April 2023
- economic, social, and political development of developing countries. It may ... The Marshall Plan, in which the United States provided significant ...34 KB (5,026 words) - 10:14, 29 January 2024
- painter who was called the "Father of Impressionism" ... and his contribution to the formation of the genre's style, practices ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 18:56, 25 November 2023
- has often achieved the highest circulation of daily papers in Britain. It ... women journalists. With its innovative use of photography and populist right ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2020
- Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age. She was one ... Garbo is regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie ...20 KB (3,159 words) - 16:14, 18 July 2022
- contribution to peace was his analysis of the issues surrounding disarmament ... the London County Council and in the House of Commons. Initially educated ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- Christianity became the official religion of Europe and so suffered from ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- the aircraft carrier as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously ... 000 tonnes or more, has been the pinnacle of carrier development since their ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... Germany is a democratic parliamentary federal republic, historically ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- country in Central Europe and a member state of the European Union. Though ... for more than 40 years, until the breakup of the Soviet empire in 1989. ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... that year was the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- international operations with hundreds of airplanes offering many services ... The setting up of airline services is among the most important developments ...33 KB (4,986 words) - 07:02, 16 June 2023
- The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign ... behind Vatican City. It has a population of 32,410 in a total land area ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- Marxism." Later, he was a founder of the Constitutional Democratic ... Peter Struve is probably the best known member of the Russian branch ...14 KB (2,049 words) - 14:45, 28 March 2023
- Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department ... successful, while it was forced to pull out of Germany and South Korea when ...58 KB (8,209 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- representatives for the poetic futurism of early twentieth-century Tsarist ... forest ranger. Both parents were descendants of Cossacks. At the age of 14 ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- and philanthropist often considered as one of the fathers Reform Judaism. Born in Halberstadt in today's Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Jacobson ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of ... as the most important naval engagement of World War IIU.S. Navy, [http://www ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- in society that are deemed to be the objects of discrimination. Since the late 1980s, advocates of the term use it to describe a preference ...38 KB (4,999 words) - 19:46, 31 October 2022
- The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated ... Aztec and Mesoamerican roots. The Day of the Dead is widely observed ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- originally a Phoenician colony, later part of the Carthaginian empire, the ... Evidence suggests that Leptis was an important center of agricultural ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- network, is the largest multilateral source of development assistance in the ... The focuses of UNDP are providing expert advice, training, and grant ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- east and northeast by Norway and Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands to the ... . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Bible) as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and ... Tiberian Qərā’îm), meaning "Readers (of Scripture)," ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential poets ... Auden was a poet of prodigious talent and output, living at a time ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans Baptized Mary Anne ... 22, 1880) an English novelist who was one of the leading writers of the ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- , tr: Bolshaya chistka) is the name given to campaigns of political ... officially used to denote the prosecution of people recognized as counter ...32 KB (4,761 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- Lethal injection involves injecting a person with a fatal dose of ... However, the humaneness of lethal injection as a process of execution ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 23:34, 21 October 2023
- National League The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award1957 Cy Young ... and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973. ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability ... Submarines encompass one of the largest ranges in capabilities of ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- that is especially honored either because of its antiquity, association ... building, usually located at the center of a Roman town (forum). Public ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 03:32, 1 January 2022
- Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming) is the process of producing ... Agriculture has been an important aspect of economics throughout the ...27 KB (3,893 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...33 KB (5,138 words) - 15:34, 30 April 2023
- Ethnobotany is the systematic study of the relationships between plants ... that humans perceive and classify different kinds of plants ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied ... Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Substantial Free ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- a background from which the main elements of the composition rise. There are three basic forms of relief sculpture: bas-relief (low-relief ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... for its success in preventing the loss of western Ukrainian lands to ...16 KB (2,454 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- referred to as the belief that the United States differs qualitatively from ... also be used in a negative sense by critics of American policies to refer ...29 KB (4,328 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2023
- was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan ... in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate ... (c. 1922), which clarified the behaviour of photons (the particles of light ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 17:03, 23 December 2022
- known as the Communist Party United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist ... "peace" platform during the years of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, and ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts ... resolved to devote himself to the practice of law. He contributed to the ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- postcard, commenting on the consequences of sexual ignorance.]] sexual intercourse, and other aspects of human sexuality. Common avenues ...26 KB (3,715 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman ... Värmland, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Lagerlöf was the daughter ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- A longhouse or long house is a type of long, narrow, single-room building ... In North America two types of longhouse were developed: The Native ...35 KB (5,411 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- metropolitan newspaper in the United States, and it gave its name to ... Never the largest newspaper in terms of circulation, The New York ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 15:40, 30 April 2023
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
