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- luminance can elicit different perceptions of brightness in different contexts ... White's illusion is made up of a series of black and white horizontal ...3 KB (488 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded ... Archduchess Isabella, daughter of Philip II of Spain wrote about the ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- revolutionary, infamous as the founder of the Bolshevik secret police ... Dzerzhinsky's statue, which towered over Lubyanka Square in Moscow ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- . This uprising took place in the Senate Square in St. Petersburg. In 1925 ... The Decembrists represented the elite of the military officers whose ...14 KB (2,074 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- 6, 1973)—was the de facto military ruler of Cuba from 1933 to 1940, and ... His authoritarian government during this period generated opposition ...18 KB (2,625 words) - 11:10, 20 September 2023
- Potash has been used since antiquity in the manufacture of glass, ... its discovery in the water-soluble fraction of wood ash. The element potassium ...6 KB (830 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution4glyph.png Indians would add a horizontal line on top of the numeral, and the Kshatrapa ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- to Sōdai (早大, Sōdai), is one of the top universities in Japan ... Korea, and other Asian countries, many of whom became influential political ...16 KB (2,213 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- His unorthodox ideas on the birth and death of ethnoses (ethnic groups) have ... Neo-Eurasianism is a Russian school of thought, popularized in Russia ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- correctly categorical syllogism, is a kind of logical argument in which one ... A syllogism consists of three parts—a major premise, a minor premise ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 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
- 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
- , is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- to magnify the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum experiments to the ... and Georgine Emilia Brenda (daughter of Alexander Bauer, Professor ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though ... thousand refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan along its eastern border ...18 KB (2,606 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- three different but related meanings, all of them derived from the word ... theology and mysticism recognizes the limits of conceptual understanding or ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American ... full generals in the army since the birth of the nation, but Farragut was ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and occupies ... Libya into northwestern Sudan. A group of oases enables the cultivation ...13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi Der Stürmer newspaper ... and for their impact on the treatment of Jews in "places where ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... destruction wrought by nearly two decades of civil war during the Cold War ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of ... lift, a push, or a pull. A familiar example of force is the weight of an object ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 2022
- birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control ... children were initially met with fierce opposition, she gradually won support ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- is an island nation in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island ... Similar to other Caribbean islands, it has a history of being ravaged ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- covers 1.9 million acres (2,968.75 square miles) of land in the U.S ... It is a high, rugged, and remote area which consists of three main ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 14:39, 31 December 2022
- His work in systematizing the languages of Southeast Asia revealed connections ... and dedicated his life to service of others. In 1890, he joined ...10 KB (1,397 words) - 12:00, 5 May 2023
- main guard for reinforcements. The officer of the day was Captain Thomas ... In the midst of the commotion, Private Hugh Montgomery was struck ...9 KB (1,444 words) - 19:51, 20 November 2023
- in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami ... East Pakistani politics and within the ranks of the Awami League as a charismatic ...37 KB (5,519 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- ) was a series of protests and political events that took place in ... public perception that the results of the run-off vote of November ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 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
- 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
- and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival ... The child of a wealthy and patriotic family, Rakovski attended monastery ...16 KB (2,460 words) - 20:16, 13 December 2023
- United States. The park occupies 81.4 square miles (211 square kilometers ... Little is known of the people who constructed these dwellings, and ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 10:33, 10 March 2023
- lofty, elevated, exalted), is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude ... The first study of the value of the sublime is the treatise ascribed ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- during which he made a then-division record of 14 title defenses. championship run, despite being accused of domestic violence and beating ...10 KB (1,638 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- [[Image:Greeley-Horace-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|Photographic portrait of ... and politician. His New York Tribune was one of America's most influential ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024
- , the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located in the ... in the tenth to twelfth centuries a capital of Kievan Rus', a medieval ...26 KB (3,695 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- Coast (in English, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire), is a ... Once one of the most prosperous of the tropical West African states ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- park with the exception that the President of the United States can quickly ... monument and national park is the amount of diversity in what is being ...19 KB (2,589 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... borders on the north stretch into the center of the Sahara Desert, while the ...15 KB (2,110 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- the South Pacific Ocean. Known as "Rock of Polynesia," it is one ... Niue is located about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) northeast of New Zealand ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 02:29, 16 November 2022
- best known for having predicted the return of the comet that bears his name ... Halley was born at Haggerston, London, the son of Edmond Halley, a ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being. recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There ...59 KB (8,933 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The area of Antigua and Barbuda is 171 ... to have been due to the combined effects of disease, malnutrition, and ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a noose ... considered a rather inhumane method of execution it was the method ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- as either the "hidden imam" of Islam or the "Gateway ... The son of a merchant from Shiraz, Iran, the Báb announced himself ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier." He ... approach and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- the southwest and the People's Republic of China to the southeast. girls," a reference to the Manas of folklore unifying 40 tribes ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- 1, 1755, at 9:40 in the morning. It was one of the most destructive and deadly ... in theodicy and in the philosophy of the sublime. As the first earthquake ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... individual piety and submission to the will of "heaven," or "Shang ...17 KB (2,759 words) - 19:44, 9 November 2022
- The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- The Warsaw Insurrection (otherwise the Warsaw Uprising of 1794; ... Army, it aimed to throw off Russian control of the Polish capital. It began ...40 KB (6,116 words) - 22:10, 18 November 2022
- 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
- Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... all African nations and very high incidences of HIV/AIDS infection. Zimbabwe ...23 KB (3,136 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, ... He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- rule. It started on August 1, 1944, as part of a nationwide uprising, Operation ... failed to make further headway in the course of the Uprising, leading to accusations ...33 KB (5,102 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- 1977 motion picture, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The Antiquities Act, granting the President authority to restrict ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period. applying its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- Canadian Rockies, the park is 80 miles west of Calgary in the province of ... As Banff is one of the world's most visited national parks, the ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... for the largest expansion in total land area of the nation's boundaries ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- 1530 – March 18, 1584) was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 C.E. to 1547 ... in Church Slavonic) was a long-awaited son of Vasili III. Upon his father ...11 KB (1,776 words) - 06:37, 11 March 2024
- politician. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid-twentieth ... to cite Karl Marx and supported recognition of China under Mao Zedong. On ...28 KB (4,168 words) - 18:03, 27 July 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
- for power within the Communist Party of China, in which at least half ... reassert his leadership after the disasters of the Great Leap Forward which ...30 KB (4,513 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
- located in the Caribbean to the east of Central America. The 36 islands ... The islands extend east-west for 60 miles and are located just west ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... | date of birth= March 15, 1767 | place of birth= Waxhaw, South Carolina ...39 KB (5,930 words) - 17:50, 27 July 2023
- |order=5th Prime Minister of Israel |term_start =July 13, 1992 ... |birth_place =Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) ...37 KB (5,856 words) - 11:15, 24 May 2023
- Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...27 KB (3,892 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- take relationship with God in every moment of human life. Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...28 KB (4,280 words) - 08:41, 20 January 2024
- He was one of the first to expose the use of psychiatric imprisonment ... Vladimir Bukovsky was born in the town of Belebey, Bashkirian ASSR ...20 KB (2,721 words) - 20:45, 3 May 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
- Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... and 660,000 displaced, and all but 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature ... Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate ...20 KB (2,938 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- as the two-hundred-and-sixty-fourth Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from ... His early reign was marked by his opposition to Communism, and he ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of ... with popular belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States ultimately ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- [http://www.olympic.org/ Official website of the Olympic movement]. Retrieved ... ==History of the Sport== Field hockey history The sport of field hockey ...33 KB (5,580 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931, founded ... De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- protection and to promote awareness of environmental issues such as ... Earth Day grew out of the recognition by young people that the earth ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... the strongest candidate for highest point of the Australia/Oceania continent. ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- , Syriac: ܒܝܪܘܬ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. ... Prior to 1975, the country was considered the banking capital of the ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 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
- Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation ... the Maldivian ethnic identity is a blend of people of South Indian, Sinhalese ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- leader who served as the key architect of the October Revolution, and ... Communism's expansion into the rest of the world would be achieved ...42 KB (6,401 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. ... The origin of the name is controversial. The most common explanation ...24 KB (3,641 words) - 19:45, 19 September 2021
- whose assassination led to the first of the Great Purges. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 ... Bhutto was executed in 1979 for allegedly authorizing the murder of ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... Barbados' total land area is about 430 square kilometers, (166 ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- name Nuestra Señora de La Paz (“Our Lady of Peace”), is the administrative ... southeast of Lake Titicaca, the city lies in a deep, broad canyon ...25 KB (3,650 words) - 05:31, 4 March 2023
- ) is the capital of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent Province. The city ... past remain, most destroyed as a result of the late nineteenth century ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
