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- The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom ... Within his own community, the Oba is symbolic of a long cultural and ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de ... the hierarchical Church was in dire need of reform, and some of their greatest ...26 KB (4,095 words) - 19:47, 22 December 2022
- the 95 Theses and nailed them to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... themselves and even support certain rulers of the "other side." ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- #039;l-Muzaffar Shihab ud-din Muhammad, Sahib-i-Qiran-i-Sani, Shah Jahan I ... to the Mughal throne after the death of Jahangir. He succeeded to the ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes ... balanced sculptures and elaborate feats of megalithic engineering and ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- May 20, 1989) was a British economist, one of the most influential economists ... Hicks was not a follower of a particular school of economics, but ...15 KB (2,155 words) - 07:42, 3 August 2022
- Didymus, meaning "Twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus ... throughout the nations. While Saints Peter and Paul were said to have ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- and Batavia is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Located on the northwest ... Jakarta faces many of the challenges of large cities in developing ...29 KB (4,012 words) - 08:43, 18 March 2024
- and Rhine Rivers. Antwerp, an integral part of an enormous harbor complex ... Antwerp has long been an important city in the nations of the Benelux ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- The Sacred Heart is a devotional representation of Jesus' physical ... Churches, where, however, it remains a point of controversy as an example of ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 18:34, 22 December 2022
- the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in search of a direct sea route to the Indies ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- only existed since 1861, by which time Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- are an archipelago in Indonesia, and part of the larger Malay Archipelago ... The Maluku Islands are located on the Australian Plate, lying east ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit ...26 KB (4,063 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...33 KB (5,138 words) - 15:34, 30 April 2023
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... priest and missionary and founding member of the Society. Xavier, however ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- /kɛlt/ now refers primarily to a member of any of a number of peoples ... Although today restricted to the Atlantic coast of Western Europe ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
