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- |institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers |practice_name = ... and civil engineer and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. He was ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- amateur poet. While watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War ... early education at home because there were no schools nearby. At the age ...9 KB (1,528 words) - 04:51, 9 April 2024
- cessation of hostilities, across the Bridge of No Return. Portrayed in the ... (OP) #5 on the hill overlooking the Bridge of No Return became Checkpoint ...29 KB (4,546 words) - 06:45, 27 February 2023
- 1851 – July 22, 1926) was an early member of the Austrian School of economics ... Wieser was born in Vienna, Austria on July 10, 1851. He was the son ...16 KB (2,487 words) - 03:17, 1 December 2023
- Hindu mythology and religion, found in both of the major Hindu epics - the ... Hanuman is one of the more popular deities in the Hindu pantheon, ...19 KB (3,063 words) - 19:40, 29 January 2022
- Tongdosa Temple is one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea, representing ... bell-shaped stupa believed to contain relics of the Buddha, the main representation ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- Canada. This relatively shallow body of water is bounded by Manitoba ... Hudson Bay's drainage basin includes parts of five Canadian provinces ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 ... under Charles Martell. After a long period of semi-autonomy in the empire ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- to the English military occupation of Scotland during significant ... To the Scottish people, Wallace was the exemplification of undying ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- Lake Burley Griffin is the centerpiece of Canberra, an entirely purpose ... natural vegetation was an important feature of the design plan, the most important ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 23:15, 21 October 2022
- river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its ... The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- regarded as China's most important of the twentieth century. Some ... (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman ... The battle took place on October 14, 1066, between the Norman army ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful ... Commissioned by King Manuel I of Portugal to find Christian lands ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit (OM), Order ... are considered among the finest examples of vocal writing in the twentieth ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 2023
- Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of ... use. Perhaps the most significant aspect of Batu Khan's legacy and ...14 KB (2,251 words) - 18:34, 14 February 2023
- The Battle of Charleston was a Confederate victory in Kanawha County ... This battle, which featured extensive use of artillery but few casualties ...38 KB (5,738 words) - 19:45, 30 March 2024
- who first explored and described the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the shores ... At the time of his death, no permanent French settlements had yet ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 12:31, 6 November 2021
- Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service ... The Enlightenment had placed humanity at the center of the world, ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- Noh or Nō (Japanese: 能) is the oldest surviving form of classical ... are taken from the literature and history of the Heian period and are intended ...16 KB (2,586 words) - 19:45, 5 March 2023
- - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... Gold Rush, Manjiro risked execution to return to Japan, by Japanese law ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the ... Its population of 202,000, most of whom live along the coast, is very ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 10:54, 11 April 2024
- The reality of colonialism was exploitative and—until the conquered ... Wolseley was the eldest son of Major Garnet Joseph Wolseley of "the ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements ... weeks before the expedition which warned of an impending British search ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
- The Delaware Crossing was declared to be the moment of George Washington’s ... military odds and the certain destruction of the American colonies' ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 23:10, 3 May 2023
- The Defenestrations of Prague refers to either of two incidents with ... 1618, although the term "Defenestration of Prague" is more commonly ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- The Toungoo Dynasty (1486-1752) was one of the most powerful post ... another century and a half, until the death of Mahadammayaza in 1752, but ...18 KB (2,701 words) - 04:45, 1 May 2023
- ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... people. They have been at the forefront of the cultural clash that came ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- for Literature. She is considered to be one of the most prominent writers ... taught English literature at the University of Nanking. In 1926, she left ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- It includes the floodway, which consists of the stream channel and adjacent ... Floodplains constitute a valuable part of the environment. They filter ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 19:34, 9 November 2023
- In his acting, he gave a new life to some of the greatest classics in the ... English gentlemen, a true knight of the stage. On the other hand ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- and churches claimed to possess fragments of the True Cross to legitimize ... For over a millennium, these supposed fragments of the True Cross ...22 KB (3,738 words) - 18:26, 2 May 2023
- Japanese folklore is heavily influenced by the two primary religions ... by foreign literature. Some stories of ancient India were influential ...36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 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
- whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I ... Hemingway's clipped prose style and unflinching treatment of ...19 KB (2,931 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- he held sway are immortalized in, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ... Hārūn was the son of al-Mahdi, the third 'Abbasid caliph (ruled ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Falcon, The Asphalt Jungle, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo ... and generally being "an eccentric rebel of epic proportions," as ...23 KB (3,526 words) - 06:02, 3 August 2022
- علی, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif of Mecca, and Emir of Mecca from ... In 1924, he further proclaimed himself Caliph of all Muslims. He ruled ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- The piano encompasses one of the broadest and most diverse ranges ... The word piano is a short form of the word "pianoforte," ...35 KB (5,515 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly ... campaign than in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Spanish-American War ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- 1837) was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin from Pressburg ... As the bridge between the classical and romantic eras, Hummel showed ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 14:45, 1 August 2022
- September 5, 1877, was a major war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought ... became a resistance leader. He led a force of 1,200 Oglala and Cheyenne against ...19 KB (3,137 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- he was only 15 years old, under the command of his older brother Oliver Hazard ... However, it did lead to the rest of the world gaining much from ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- entrepreneur and media owner, the founder of Reuters news agency. Born into ... was experimenting with the transmission of electrical signals via wire ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- are frames-bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes normally for vision ... Modern glasses are typically supported by pads on the bridge of the ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- 1900) in Haicheng County, Fengtian province of China – October 14, 2001 ... In the X’ian Incident of December 1936, Zhang kidnapped Chiang Kai ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost ... Over the course of its existence, Lisbon has both flourished and suffered ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (1540-1542). She is sometimes ... immediately after his annulment from Anne of Cleves was arranged. However ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 16:15, 3 December 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 guitar is a musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical ... Due to the instrument's scopic range of sound, it is valued by enthusiasts ...50 KB (8,328 words) - 03:18, 12 July 2023
- The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from ... [[Image:Bridge of no return.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Bridge of ...20 KB (2,911 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It stretches ... The taming of the river for human use, and the industrial waste that ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: Ryojunkō Heisoku Sakusen, February ... The opening stage of the Russo-Japanese War began with preemptive ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 10:20, 22 September 2023
- and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest creators of old ... . His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was ... quot;Domesday" (Middle English spelling of Doomsday) in the twelfth century ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- in the self, particularly the development of the self within the context ... his death: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Of Time and River (1935); and ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- Illuminating Heaven”) or Ōhiru-menomuchi-no-kami (大日孁貴神) is in ... Amaterasu is seen as the highest manifestation of Kunitokotachi, the ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- fight against each other for the control of political power. Some civil ... [[Image:Bridge of no return.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Bridge of ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- 1973) was an American pioneer in the history of photography and its struggle ... artists who eventually became legends of modern art, as well as eventual ...20 KB (3,055 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- “The Sea Around Us”, and “The Edge of the Sea” were immense successes ... our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- Several railways had been built in the mountainous regions of India ... to nominate a representative example of its historic railways to UNESCO ...33 KB (4,994 words) - 17:47, 10 November 2022
- ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from ... During her period in office, the leader of the official opposition ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- in the late eleventh century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern ... Surrounded by enemies, Hassan dispatched teams of trained assassins ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- golfer who is generally considered one of the greatest golfers in the ... At the age of eleven, he became a caddy at Glen Garden Country Club ...31 KB (4,762 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also known as the Second Battle of the Philippine ... The "Battle" of Leyte Gulf was actually a campaign consisting ...48 KB (7,546 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- while western church, under the discipline of the papacy, denounced the doctrine ... Monophysitism received new life again during the reign of Justinian ...23 KB (3,529 words) - 20:01, 9 November 2022
- [[Image:Chauvethorses.jpg|thumb|right|Drawing of horses from Chauvet Cave]] Cave is a cave in the Ardèche region of southern France near Vallon ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:45, 5 December 2023
- known for his large realistic landscapes of the American West. In obtaining ... Bierstadt's was a second-generation member of the Hudson River ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation in 1838, of the ... This was caused by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Cherokee Trail ...16 KB (2,520 words) - 04:56, 1 May 2023
- an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA ... trajectories, launch windows and emergency return paths for Project Mercury ...30 KB (4,076 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka ... 039;s kitchen" (天下の台所 tenka no daidokoro) or the gourmet food ...25 KB (3,427 words) - 19:39, 20 July 2023
- ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also ... least the eighth century, with some evidence of its existence in pre-Islamic ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned ... A typical geotechnical engineering project begins with a review of ...29 KB (4,284 words) - 02:56, 30 November 2022
- called by Pindar "the minstrel father of songs." ... or Hesiod, though he was known by the time of Ibycus (c. 530 B.C.E.). ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... 1500), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice. Inspired by the new ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- [[image:Baptism-christ.jpg|thumb|The Baptism of Christ, by Piero della ... Christians as being a prophet and forerunner of Jesus Christ. The New Testament ...19 KB (3,228 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- American sculptor. She was a master of naturalistic animal sculpture ... Huntington is recognized as one of America's finest animaliers ...28 KB (4,145 words) - 06:44, 28 July 2023
- 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
- 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 Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles ... The Oslo Accords were a culmination of a series of secret and public ...20 KB (2,928 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was ... wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on large corporations ...48 KB (7,371 words) - 15:05, 9 February 2024
- 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
- [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...31 KB (4,680 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- – April 23, 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving ... Yeltsin was blamed for many of the problems of this period. By the ...42 KB (6,205 words) - 19:43, 20 November 2023
- [[Image:CodexOfHammurabi.jpg|thumb|350px|An inscription of the Code ... The Code of Hammurabi (also known as the Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi ...42 KB (7,282 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- mile (499 km) long river in the U.S. states of Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming ... , with a drainage basin of some 86000|sqmi|km2|0|sp=us , a large portion ...19 KB (2,928 words) - 01:50, 10 April 2023
- first baseman. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent ... and third World Series title after his return in 1946. His third MVP award ...74 KB (10,809 words) - 20:06, 28 April 2024
- Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni ... or example of the Prophet Muhammad. They represent the branch of Islam ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company ... Carnegie's writings provide insight into his philosophy of successful ...35 KB (5,539 words) - 20:11, 26 July 2023
- urban renewal project, a transformation of a large former disused docks ... Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.]] ...41 KB (6,131 words) - 00:41, 13 January 2024
- during the American Civil War on the grounds of the antebellum plantation of ... . Veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... cities formed in locations where a number of people were gathered to live ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). ... The Rāmāyaṇa consists of 24,000 verses About 480,000 words, or ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic ... From the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Velázquez's ...37 KB (5,925 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
