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  • is the fourth largest city in Japan and one of the country's ... The city of Nagoya was established in 1610 when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved ...
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  • Brasília is the capital of Brazil, located in the central part of ... As the world's first capital city conceived by modern standards ...
    27 KB (4,135 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
  • |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... – is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces ...
    26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
  • ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... by the Romans. It became the capital city of the Arab Aghlabid dynasty and ...
    17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
  • South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United ... In the southwestern portion of the state rise the Black Hills, a group ...
    41 KB (6,101 words) - 15:37, 4 February 2023
  • Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America ... The centers of all three branches of the U.S. federal government are ...
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  • Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...
    27 KB (3,843 words) - 22:47, 6 June 2024
  • city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers ... century C.E., annexation as a protectorate of the United States in 1900, ...
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  • or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation ... The advent of the printed Bible ushered in an age in which Bibles ...
    21 KB (3,123 words) - 02:56, 27 July 2023
  • ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... brief, somewhat turbulent history as capital of a French colony, then of a ...
    17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
  • ) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic architecture ... Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches, being ...
    24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
  • Nepal in the west, Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and east ... highest peak, sits in the northwestern part of the state on the boundary with ...
    35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
  • Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving ... In the mid-twentieth century racial segregation in the form of apartheid ...
    25 KB (3,503 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
  • Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is one of South Africa ... Cape Town is well-known for its history of apartheid, a system of ...
    27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
  • Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital ... Beginning with the end of colonialism, Uganda had suffered an era ...
    19 KB (2,830 words) - 17:26, 14 May 2024
  • The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...
    27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
  • large white-colored obelisk at the west end of the National Mall in Washington ... The monument is made of marble, granite, and sandstone. It was designed ...
    23 KB (3,484 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
  • Santiago, officially Santiago de Chile, is the federal capital of ... Approximately two decades of uninterrupted economic growth have transformed ...
    25 KB (3,606 words) - 18:44, 25 January 2024
  • Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland ... Founded by the British in 1781 and named for King George III of the ...
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  • Luanda (formerly spelled Loanda) is the capital and largest city of ... in 1844, and by 1850, Luanda had become one of the most developed cities in ...
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