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- design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally ... and legally protected for a specific period of time, a trade secret can only ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 04:53, 1 May 2023
- Although prawns technically are of different crustacean suborder than ... farmed for human consumption, and are part of an important shellfish fishery ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 20:04, 21 April 2023
- The Suez Canal had been important in Iran and the colonial penetration ... The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 gave the United Kingdom control ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... Empire and its transition into the Commonwealth of Nations. ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he founded the Seychelles ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason ... born on March 18, 1922, in New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- Gaborone is the capital and largest city of the landlocked nation ... became independent within the Commonwealth of nations. Following its independence ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- In law, defamation is the communication of a statement that makes ... The legal requirements of proving defamation are often difficult to ...26 KB (4,112 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox ... was admitted as member of the Commonwealth of Nations and His Beatitude ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... but retained its membership in the Commonwealth of Nations. In circumstances ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power ... to become Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations. ...31 KB (4,378 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- chronicled Polish history in a series of panoramic novels that won unprecedented ... He is best known internationally for Quo Vadis, a historical novel ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- Measurement is the estimation of the magnitude of some attribute of ... Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. In measurement theory ...18 KB (2,732 words) - 14:42, 5 December 2023
- The Commonwealth of Dominica, commonly known as Dominica, is an island ... Dominica is a parliamentary democracy within the Commonwealth of Nations ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 17:13, 30 January 2024
- 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great ... the genesis of the modern Commonwealth of Nations. His government ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- [[Image:Catherine03.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Equestrian portrait of Grand ... II Velikaya, born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst; May 2, 1729 ...19 KB (2,933 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
- 15, 1891 – October 14, 1944) was one of the most distinguished field ... chivalry towards his adversaries. He was one of the few German commanders who ...24 KB (3,681 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- system known as Civil law. For the area of law in common law countries ... Civil law, or continental law, is the predominant system of law in ...15 KB (2,321 words) - 22:28, 10 December 2023
- Antigua and Barbuda is part of the Commonwealth of Nations and its ... Barbuda. It remained part of the Commonwealth of Nations and a constitutional ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- , is an outdoor sport played by two teams of 15 players each with a oval ... An adult-level rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes, consisting ...32 KB (5,080 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- with two neighboring islands, forms one of Australia's external dependent ... Norfolk Island is the main island of the island group the territory ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- The Battle of Verdun was one of the most important battles in World ... The Battle of Verdun resulted in more than a quarter of a million ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:41, 26 September 2023
- “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
- The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling ... The geographical location and history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- She was a notable first female in a variety of additional positions, including ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English Channel ... These islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Dukedom ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the ... state, with special ties with the Commonwealth of Nations. In 1977, the first ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Pacific Ocean state have a total land area of 92.7 square miles (240 sq km). National defense is the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation ...16 KB (2,204 words) - 02:53, 8 January 2024
- Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked nation ... such as the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the African Union. ...20 KB (2,852 words) - 19:53, 20 November 2023
- [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... accompanied by the claim that the blood of victims is used in various ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any ... The Jewish diaspora began with the conquests of the eighth to the ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating money or goods, or providing ... Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating extensive financial ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 03:17, 24 November 2022
- Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and ... Caribbean States (OECS), the Commonwealth of Nations, and the World Trade ...26 KB (3,667 words) - 18:33, 31 January 2023
- Poppy is the common name for any of the plants comprising the Papaver ... The flower color of poppy species include: white, pink, yellow, orange ...16 KB (2,490 words) - 11:58, 13 February 2022
- The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea ... Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and King ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy ... In the history of war (which covers basically all of human history ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- 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
- an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on November 30, ... Barbados remains a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- – August 27, 1975) was de jure Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 ... within. To the outside world, he was heir of an ancient dynasty possibly ...31 KB (5,022 words) - 16:46, 21 January 2024
- Military intelligence (abbreviated “MI” or “int.” in Commonwealth ... advances have ensued as a result of military intelligence operations ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries are called building ... members to obtain loans for the purpose of buying a home, they were intended ...19 KB (3,012 words) - 17:07, 23 December 2022
- There are several configurations of fire engines relating to the position ... The primary purpose of the engines is for direct fire suppression ...18 KB (2,795 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
- 2019) was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving ... state sector industries, ended subsidization of loss-making industries, sold ...25 KB (3,662 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; June 23, 1894 – ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward VIII held the titles of ...39 KB (6,106 words) - 02:44, 17 January 2023
- bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... highest mortality rate among all African nations and very high incidences ...23 KB (3,136 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- Damselfly is the common name for any of the predaceous insects comprising ... the larvae and adults are key components of aquatic and terrestrial food ...12 KB (1,619 words) - 18:12, 24 January 2024
- Tengri is the supreme god of the old Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar ... Tengri is a probable precursor of the Chinese deity Tian, which became ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023
- World Heritage Site in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia ... The Area is comprised of seven contiguous national parks and one protected ...15 KB (2,192 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- strong supporter of links with the Commonwealth of Nations and with the United ... Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, on December ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- on a person. It can be used as a means of intimidation, as a deterrent ... Torture is almost universally considered to be a violation of human ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 04:41, 1 May 2023
- Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...28 KB (3,852 words) - 03:30, 23 December 2022
- Jamaica is an island nation of the West Indies. The third largest ... island Xaymaca (Jamaica), meaning "Land of Wood and Water." Christopher ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- Prize. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963 ... and political cooperation among the nations of the world so that all ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- public figure. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ... While widely recognized as a leading representative of Judaism in ...46 KB (6,319 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Established ... The economy of Barbados is susceptible to various issues, such as ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... 780,000 residents between 1940 and 1954. Of them, an estimated 120,000 ...40 KB (5,565 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- it has now mostly evolved into the Commonwealth of Nations, British influence ... dominion nation within the Commonwealth of Nations, while the six counties ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- The Battle of Gallipoli took place at Gallipoli from April 1915 to ... Çanakkale Savaşları, after the province of Çanakkale. In the United Kingdom ...37 KB (5,841 words) - 21:41, 25 June 2022
- Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... engineer. Those licensed in specific areas of engineering may have formal ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of ... on popular culture, both in the Commonwealth of Nations and elsewhere. It ...49 KB (7,998 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, little is known of ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other ... its transformation into the Commonwealth of Nations. By the time of ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, Order of the Nation (ON), Member of ... the faceless. She helped to set up a network of child-care centers to encourage ...21 KB (2,959 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- Energy independence is self-sufficiency in terms of the availability ... amounts to meet the needs (consumption) of a particular entity. ...14 KB (1,937 words) - 20:52, 8 February 2023
- Bell pepper is the common name for a cultivar group of the species ... quot;pepper," whereas in many Commonwealth of Nations countries, such ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 18:58, 11 January 2023
- Samoa, is part of an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean formerly ... Samoa is located east of the International Date Line and south of ...18 KB (2,581 words) - 11:51, 6 September 2022
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... |Commonwealth of Nations | align="center" |1931 ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... African Development Community, the Commonwealth of Nations, and La Francophonie ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 ... km (62 mi) from east to west. It is the size of Israel, about one-third the ...37 KB (5,617 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- Ocean, located 300 miles from the coast of Argentina, 671 miles west ... are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- thumb|200px|Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper ... and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy, he ruled ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- The River Gambia flows through the center of the country and empties into ... constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations. Shortly thereafter ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country ... the Non-Aligned Movement, the Commonwealth of Nations, and many other ...23 KB (3,416 words) - 00:48, 7 March 2023
- the most well-known North American Native of his generation, meeting and ... spent attempting to rectify the injustice of the Iroquois lands being handed ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ... Much of the sea's coastal features are the result of glacial ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... Canada's membership in the Commonwealth of Nations and La Francophonie ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- is a generic term meaning the assembled set of components that makes up whatever ... delivered to the opponent in any situation of combat or quasi-combat. Thus ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- the aircraft carrier as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously ... 000 tonnes or more, has been the pinnacle of carrier development since their ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- Copyright is the exclusive right given to the creator of a creative ... not just literary work, but also forms of creative work such as sound ...45 KB (6,771 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
- Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (March ... Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... in 1948. Although it enjoyed a stable period of democracy and economic progress ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- and William Leonard Langer, The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval ... policy that has rewarded veterans of the Bush War with farms previously ...37 KB (5,599 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
