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- The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- his highly imaginative modern ballets. As the founder and artistic director ... Noted for making ballet more accessible to the American public, the ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
- 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
- The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, often referred to ... The Music Center's current mission is to go beyond its role as ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- The St Andrews Agreement was an agreement between the British and ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... It serves as a distribution point for the surrounding agricultural and ...23 KB (3,136 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- | order=28th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1913 ... | date of birth=December 28, 1856 | place of birth=Staunton, Virginia ...37 KB (5,512 words) - 23:30, 17 May 2023
- an influential front office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National ... As coach of the Celtics from 1950 to 1966, Auerbach won nine NBA titles ...21 KB (3,308 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- Cliff-dwelling is the general archaeological term for the habitations ... Cliff-dwellings are found throughout the world and in some cases are ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era ... constitutional precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic ... The region was devastated by drought in the 1980s, bringing to head ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 22:17, 25 January 2024
- and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948 ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ... Although a staunch Protestant and member of the Orange Order, Trimble was ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 08:32, 28 January 2024
- The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... The coup was precipitated when Mosaddeq nationalized Iran's oil ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- Tenzin Gyatso (born July 6, 1935) is the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- teaching, and service to their community. The process is subject to ongoing ... Academic tenure is primarily intended to guarantee the right to academic ...21 KB (3,170 words) - 03:41, 30 April 2023
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda ... As long as war exists, we can expect new forms of psychological warfare ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- for honesty and integrity in delivering the news, he is considered among ... A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow's work continued ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... Djibouti's main advantage is its strategic location near the ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been ... Henri La Fontaine and Otlet created the Central Office of International ...22 KB (3,199 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a Latin ... Like many Latin American nations, the Dominican Republic has a long ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- #039;s first well-known naval hero in the American Revolutionary War ... John Paul started his maritime career at the age of 12, sailing out ...18 KB (2,783 words) - 03:55, 2 May 2024
- allegedly passing atomic weapons secrets to the Soviet Union, as they were ... In the 1990s, Soviet communications decrypted in the Venona project ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- Myanmar - swift and strong (from the native words, myan meaning swift ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) is the ... his career as a writer and propagandist for the American war effort against ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- 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
- jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender ...79 KB (11,056 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ... Invited to join anthropological expeditions as a photographer of native ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League ... Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress expounding ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- quot; or "radiotelegraphy," is the wireless communication of ... Radio technology gives humanity the convenience of extremely rapid ...35 KB (5,160 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...37 KB (5,383 words) - 22:39, 7 January 2024
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | birthplace = Ohio, United States | deathdate = 2019|08|05|1931|2|18 ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... ) is an Eurasian island nation in the eastern part of the Mediterranean ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- | order=26th President of the United States | date1=September 14, 1901 ... | date of birth=October 27, 1858 | place of birth=New York City, New York ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... attract upscale tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- Antigua and Barbuda is a three-island nation located in the eastern ... The islands' indigenous people became virtually extinct not long ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
- park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within ... elevation than nearby Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon. The rim at Bryce ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... and abolitionists, Missouri today mirrors the demographic, economic, and ...37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... ascribing all such development as rooted in the birth trauma, has found wide ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- American public intellectual, was a scholar of extraordinary range who made ... energy to developing and promoting his style of libertarianism, developing ...36 KB (5,322 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of ... The battle was a decisive victory for the Americans, widely regarded ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- volcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of ... eruption on May 18, 1980. This eruption was the deadliest and most economically ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- The Vietnam War was a military conflict in which communist forces ... The chief cause of the war cause was Ho Chi Minh’s desire to establish ...70 KB (11,017 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... Inheriting the social and institutional problems left over from the ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- pilot, and businessman. In 1961, he became the first American to travel into ... A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard ...57 KB (8,455 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- St. Louis is an independent city, separate from St. Louis County ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...33 KB (4,943 words) - 18:26, 26 February 2024
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 22:49, 3 February 2022
- Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke AC (December 9, 1929 - May 16, 2019) ... Hawke's government floated the Australian dollar, deregulated ...25 KB (3,662 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- The Florida Everglades is a subtropical marshland located in the southern ... Few places are as biologically rich as the ecosystem that lies within ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 23:51, 24 March 2024
- a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the fundamental principles ... Historically, the term "fundamentalism" was first used in ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- philosopher, and physician, renowned in the twentieth century as a humanitarian ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... Turkey invoked its role as a guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President ... and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... The KGB was the umbrella organization for the Soviet Union's ...41 KB (6,060 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and ... In 1983, Grenada was invaded by U.S.-led troops that toppled the pro ...26 KB (3,667 words) - 18:33, 31 January 2023
- was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... law firm before becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia. In ...85 KB (12,298 words) - 05:39, 11 August 2023
- 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
- made into a silent movie with Mary Pickford. The Secret Garden, called a masterpiece ... The rags-to-riches themes of her stories echo her own rise from impoverished ...16 KB (2,561 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- military leader, and from 1967 to 1998 the second President of Indonesia ... and died at 86 years old in Jakarta in 2008. The legacy of Suharto's presidency ...58 KB (8,552 words) - 13:46, 28 April 2023
- The Reichstag fire ( Reichstagsbrand ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German ...45 KB (6,712 words) - 21:11, 28 September 2023
- appeared in more than 60 movies, including The Barefoot Contessa, Mogambo ... Gardner is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest ...18 KB (2,786 words) - 07:08, 23 August 2023
- |flag=[[File:Flag of the Comanche Nation.svg|center|225px]] ... |popplace=United States (Oklahoma, Texas, California) |rels=Christianity ...41 KB (6,731 words) - 00:03, 8 January 2024
- licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing ... Originally founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the ...49 KB (6,708 words) - 10:40, 10 March 2023
- 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... As Holland readjusted itself to a new status in the world without ...35 KB (5,252 words) - 06:40, 28 February 2023
- John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one ... on real historical conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth ...27 KB (4,116 words) - 07:52, 3 August 2022
- known as Diarmaid na nGall or "Dermot of the Foreigners"), anglicized ... What followed, Ireland's history of oppression under British ...16 KB (2,466 words) - 01:09, 2 July 2020
- Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at ... short stories, novels, and poems are full of thought provoking "what ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- owned by Thomas Jefferson, believed to be the mother of several children ... became an issue in American politics in the early 1800s. Hemings' ...27 KB (3,996 words) - 01:50, 23 December 2022
- and author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published ... Peck described human life as a series of obstacles to be overcome ...37 KB (5,607 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence ... One of the founders of Rhode Island was Roger Williams. In 1636, Williams ...30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- The Weimar Republic ( Weimarer Republik , IPA: [ ˈvaɪ̯marər repuˈbliːk ]) is the common name for the republic that governed Germany from ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks ... The Internet connects information resources and provides various services ...48 KB (7,277 words) - 23:46, 30 November 2022
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- activist. Sontag was an original, who broke the mold, creating a new role ... fur trading business in China, where he died of tuberculosis when Susan was ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism ... Thompson himself became a central figure in the 1960s and 1970s ethos ...43 KB (6,622 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2024
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... Arab geographers, for over a thousand years the island was ruled by independent ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...28 KB (3,888 words) - 23:14, 3 March 2023
- The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... The Union victory resulted in the abolition of slavery and consolidation ...63 KB (9,343 words) - 03:27, 24 July 2023
- state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce ... a behemoth that it creates its own weather. The mountain and the surrounding ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- Fake news, also known as junk news or pseudo-news, is a type of yellow ... news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- Bessie Smith (July, 1892 or April, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was ... Joining the touring company of the legendary Ma Rainey, Smith emerged ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential ... Marino Crescent—then as now called "The Crescent"—in Clontarf, ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- Conflict is a state of disagreement between two or more parties. This ... While differences are natural, the ways to resolve them can be violent ...32 KB (4,807 words) - 18:58, 15 May 2020
- [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], during the war, 1993. Photo by Mikhail ... Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- Utah, a state located in the western United States, was the 45th state ... Utah's pivotal central western location makes the state a natural ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Cyprus fell in 1571, and the Venetians retained Crete until 1670. ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a ... The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of ...49 KB (7,650 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... Before the American Civil War, Mississippi was the fifth-wealthiest ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
