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- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...23 KB (3,561 words) - 16:24, 15 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... The KGB was the umbrella organization for the Soviet Union's ...41 KB (6,043 words) - 16:44, 14 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (4,093 words) - 04:08, 3 May 2024
- |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 (5,244 words) - 09:51, 12 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1918 – December 15, 2010), nicknamed "the Heater from Van Meter" ... minor leagues, Feller made his debut with the Indians at the age of 17. ...63 KB (9,620 words) - 14:15, 10 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- [[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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The terms Hmong (IPA: [m̥ɔ̃ŋ] ) and Mong ( [mɔ̃ŋ] ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- The Meiji period (明治時代, Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year ... The Meiji Period began with a political revolution that brought about ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized ... James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct ...60 KB (8,930 words) - 17:58, 31 October 2023
- as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. ... The company's main business is the exploration for and the production ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- The Gulf War (August 28, 1990 – February 28, 1991) was a conflict ... led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations in order ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements ... supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
- American cultural anthropologist, a pioneer of the feminist movement in America ... her Anglican Christianity and an emphasis on the importance of early childhood ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 03:56, 6 November 2022
- Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science ... 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the only child of Winfield Scott ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- colonizer whose epochal voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- former Communist Party member, testified to the House Un-American Activities ... During the pretrial discovery process, Chambers produced new evidence ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- – January 19, 2013), nicknamed "Stan the Man," was an American ... Signed to a professional contract by the St. Louis Cardinals as a ...74 KB (10,809 words) - 20:06, 28 April 2024
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... Her support for German re-armament because she saw the Third Reich ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- , was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. As vice president under his cousin, General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga or the ... policy that has rewarded veterans of the Bush War with farms previously ...37 KB (5,599 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international ... human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- in eastern and southern Afghanistan and in the North-West Frontier Province ... Pashtuns have rarely been politically united. "Biography Khushal ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
