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- in digital form and exhibits them via the Internet. Most virtual museums ... Some virtual museums exist solely in a virtual environment. The Museum ...12 KB (1,742 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- a museum, library, archive, zoo, and others. The term originates from the from ... and global contexts. Curators have the unique role of building a ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- 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
- Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... Still, most societies regard the existence of standards defining what ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... The European Convention is still the only international human rights ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- present-day Iraq). His work resulted in some of dramatic discoveries, including ... Woolley's work also included findings of sediment that he believed ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject. Her most famous photo appeared on the front cover of Rolling Stone ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic ... arts, cabinet making, crafts, and even the "cottage" garden ...15 KB (2,276 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- He is famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial ... From about 1760 until 1774, Copley painted the finest portraits of ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 07:49, 3 August 2022
- established for charitable purposes only. The law favors charities because ... to benefit society or a specific group of people within that society ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to ... The art of improvisation often focuses on bringing one's personal ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵 ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United ... In February 1926, Carter G. Woodson launched the celebration of "Negro ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- – August 27, 1988, Ithaca, New York, United States) was a distinguished ... Cambridge where he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was one of the foremost ... After he began spending summers in Gloucester, Massachusets his art ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high ... school and weekend programs for students of all ages, including even college ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 01:09, 7 April 2022
- diplomat, and philanthropist. He inherited the successful newspaper publishing ... through Ellis Island to begin a life in the United States. Beginning his ...16 KB (2,264 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- Kyudo (弓道) (The "Way of the Bow") is the Japanese art ... approximately half a million practitioners of kyudo today. In Japan, by most ...13 KB (2,130 words) - 04:14, 6 October 2022
- in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo, "art for art ... The symbol was apt, for Whistler's art was characterized by a ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 08:36, 1 April 2024
- is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory ... The major goals of elementary education are achieving basic literacy ...23 KB (3,445 words) - 10:17, 21 January 2023
- adventurer and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics and ... Malraux studied Oriental languages at the École des Langues Orientales ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- A Fabergé egg is considered to be any one of the sixty-nine ... his assistants between 1885 and 1917. Fifty of those eggs—known as the Imperial ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites ... The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they ...16 KB (2,149 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic ... Repin was born in the town of Chuguev near Kharkov in the heart of ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 16:31, 12 February 2024
- Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until ... Art Deco experienced a decline in popularity during the late 1930s ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 04:01, 15 August 2023
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- Building or "Castle" on the National Mall serves as the ... The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest educational ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- spelled vélo) model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race]] old) is a collectible item desirable because of its age, rarity, condition ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ... cravings, Tolstoy came to embrace a life of personal austerity based on ...19 KB (2,888 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- in library and information science, which is the organization and management ... today are required to have a high degree of diversified and specialized ...23 KB (3,189 words) - 11:04, 7 March 2023
- 31, 1986) was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, ... made him exceptionally wealthy towards the end of his life. However, ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 07:50, 22 January 2024
- painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art ... The name Vorticism was given to the movement by Ezra Pound in 1913 ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Espionage is the practice of obtaining confidential information through ... ==Types of Espionage== ===Industrial Espionage=== Industrial espionage ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- May 14, 1727 – August 2, 1788) was one of the foremost portrait and landscape ... He is recognized among the most innovative and enigmatic artists of ...17 KB (2,489 words) - 21:10, 30 April 2023
- important influence on popular music during the late 1950s and early 60s. ... Raised in Minnesota, Cochran moved with his family to California in ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter ... In addition to painting two United States presidents - Theodore Roosevelt ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair ... The lesson that he learned from his own career as a popular and much ...10 KB (1,620 words) - 00:46, 29 November 2023
- Typically, a fire extinguisher consists of a hand-held cylindrical pressure ... Fire extinguishers have been a major part of fire prevention. The ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
- institution that teaches an inclusive range of subjects across the academic ... While some continue to support the idea of selective education, with ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- an illustration by John Leech that satirizes the preparatory cartoons for frescoes ... A cartoon is a form of expression, or communication, that refers to ...17 KB (2,492 words) - 00:46, 29 November 2023
- The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy ... Scholars distinguish the Old Academy (Plato and his immediate successors ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- (July 19, 1893 – April 14, 1930) was among the foremost representatives for ... He was born the third child and only son to his family in Bagdadi ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons ... Physical techniques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- Taejo of Goryeo (877-943, r. 918-943 Combining his rule of Taebong ... ), the founder of the Goryeo Dynasty, ruled Korea from the tenth to ...14 KB (1,907 words) - 02:50, 27 February 2023
- Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July or July 4th) is ... other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions ...20 KB (2,843 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- 1920) was a Russian jeweler, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs he designed ... he felt his unique creations, especially the eggs representative of Easter ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- quot;), also referred to as King David, was the second and most famous king ... The successor to King Saul, who was the first official king of the ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- Bowling has been popular for hundreds of years, with different variations ... There are many different forms of the game in various parts of the ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
- The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg was established ... The scope of the European Court of Human Rights and the legally binding ...17 KB (2,642 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- are also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting ... The calendar is not only a tool for organizing information and dates ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- ) (967 – August 15, 1038) was Grand Prince of the Magyars (997-1000/1001 ... in Hungary and his decrees could ensure the internal peace in his kingdom ...19 KB (3,077 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom ... In the past, the British Library restricted use of its reading room ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 02:43, 22 November 2023
- Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) was the pen name of ... Seferis helped to introduce the poetry of Symbolism to the Greek language ...11 KB (1,573 words) - 20:33, 29 August 2021
- in Freudian psychoanalysis, focused on the self as a social being, using ... by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas ... Her name is virtually identical to that Menrva, the Etruscan goddess ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his ... management. Orr became a pupil-teacher at the Academy, from where he went ...11 KB (1,795 words) - 02:42, 4 November 2022
- sparkling wit and dialogue. He was also one of the early pioneers of what ... Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- February 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916) was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke ... 9, 1867, just one year and a half before the start of the Meiji Reformation ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- British amateur archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, collector, author ... 5, 1817 in Paris, France, into a family of Huguenot descent. His father ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- using electronic devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical ... electromechanical designs and they paved the way for the later emergence ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- The British Film Institute (BFI) is one of the oldest film organizations ... The BFI manages the British Film Institute National Archive (previously ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 02:42, 22 November 2023
- [[Image:protocomicstrip.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Example of a proto-comic ... A comic strip is a drawing or sequence of drawings that tells a story ...19 KB (2,982 words) - 07:56, 14 January 2023
- Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 - January 1, 1787) was one of the ... The son of Henry Middleton, one of South Carolina's representatives ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, Order of Merit (OM), Privy Council ... She was the 155th Speaker to be elected. She had served as Deputy ...16 KB (2,349 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- 400px|The gentle and pensive virgin has the power to tame the unicorn ... The unicorn, a legendary creature usually depicted with the body of ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya ... His father, Leopold, was also partly of Belarusian-Polish noble descent. ...17 KB (2,362 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- Museum.jpg|thumb|right|250px|General view of the room displaying the Elgin ... The Elgin Marbles (IPA: /'ɛl gən/), also known as the Parthenon ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 16:10, 13 February 2024
- Free schools have their roots in the anarchist Modern Schools of Spain ... A variety of free schools and affiliated organizations are found throughout ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 06:52, 23 January 2023
- thumb|300px|right|The Louvre in Paris, one of the largest and most famous ... A museum (from the Greek mouseion, which denotes a place or temple ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- The Tuareg (sometimes spelled Touareg in French, or Twareg in English ... The Tuareg have been disrupted by the post-colonial division of nations ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- Honolulu is the capital and most populous city area in the United ... Honolulu's history includes habitation beginning in the twelfth ...22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
- Parochial school is a term used (particularly in the United States ... be educated in a God-centered environment, the narrowness of the vision of ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- for her photo essays taken while traversing the globe for Life Magazine. In ... She was known for her sharp instincts and her willingness to get the ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage ... in Bombay (now Mumbai), in 1909. He was one of two sons. His father was a ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- She became known for her portraits of celebrities of her day, and ... in her life. Her work had a major impact on the development of modern photography ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- "lap organs," which were built in the United States around 1840 ... The melodeon is the forerunner of the more familiar pump organ reminiscent ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- Anthony Trollope ( April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882 ) became one ... Baretshire is focused on the inner workings of an imaginary cathedral ...17 KB (2,461 words) - 05:26, 31 July 2023
- who is best remembered for her portraits of Marie Antoinette, and for her ... Today she is generally regarded as the most famous woman painter of ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- Hōryū-ji (法隆寺; Temple of the Flourishing Law) is a Buddhist ... his final illness. A fire in 670 destroyed the original buildings, but a ...23 KB (3,463 words) - 00:01, 25 August 2023
- Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... The term broadcast was coined by early radio engineers from the mid ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- [[Image:Cotta_Greif_1839.jpg|thumb|200 px|The logo of Cottasche Verlagsbuchhandlung ... The Griffin (sometimes spelled gryphon or griffen, gryphos in Ancient ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 19:20, 31 January 2023
- Polynesia (from the Greek words meaning "many islands") ... Polynesia may be described as the islands within a triangle with its ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore ... habitable but to serve other functions using the height of the tower. For example ...12 KB (1,664 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2024
- Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... The Industrial Revolution led to major changes in the job market, ...23 KB (3,363 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- The Science Museum (London) is one of many major science museums in ... The Museum not only holds remarkable historical collections but also ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army ... He physically fed, clothed, and nursed the sick. It is perhaps regrettable ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- Roy O. Disney, Walt Disney Productions, and the Disney World and Disneyland ... a particularly happy childhood, and saw many of his movies fail at the box ...23 KB (3,587 words) - 22:09, 3 May 2023
- Geb (also spelled Seb, and Keb) was an important member of the Ennead ... and cosmological belief system developed in the Nile river basin from earliest ...20 KB (3,212 words) - 17:11, 23 October 2022
- A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the body ... Bottles have been developed and used over millennia of human history ...10 KB (1,456 words) - 14:41, 28 April 2020
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 ... The Museum's collection ranges from ancient to contemporary with ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British ... The State Rooms form the nucleus of the working Palace and are currently ...28 KB (4,475 words) - 16:52, 22 November 2023
- |motto = Terras irradient (Let Them Give Light to the World) ... |nickname = The Singing College, The Fairest College, Lord Jeffs, Jeffs ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- A national library is a library specifically established by the government ... The first national libraries had their origins in the royal collections ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 04:12, 11 March 2023
- The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ... While Yoruba can be found throughout the entirety of West Africa, ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- [[File:Figure 5 Literacy has rapidly spread Reading the past writing ... Literacy is usually defined as the ability to read and write, or the ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched of the brass instruments ... Among the instrumental groups of definite pitch in the modern symphony ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 2023
- Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin apis, a "bee") is ... interact with nature. In order to receive the product of honeybees, or their ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 10:23, 26 September 2023
- between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. His ... Bruno Walter is ranked among the twentieth century's greatest ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- was a major Russian playwright and perhaps the foremost modern writer of ... for his several hundred short stories, many of which are considered masterpieces ...19 KB (2,819 words) - 06:50, 31 July 2023
- writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Amosis I and "Amenes" and meaning The Moon is Born) was a pharaoh ... During his reign he completed the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos ...39 KB (6,109 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- [[Image:Tea House.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Japanese style tea house at ... A tea house or tearoom is a venue designed for people to gather for ...29 KB (4,641 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
- Magadha (मगध) formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit ... The Śiśunāga dynasty ruled Magadha for more than two hundred years ...20 KB (3,019 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- , also known as brussels sprout (without the capital B) and brussel sprout ... in Europe, has resulted in diverse cultivars of Brussels sprouts, selected ...12 KB (1,657 words) - 16:48, 22 November 2023
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ... The organization has 192 Member States and 6 Associate Members. Based ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 01:23, 3 May 2023
- Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation ... The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Curry (from Tamil: கறி) is the English term for a general variety ... Curry originated on the Indian subcontinent, but was carried by emigrants ...30 KB (4,736 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- Khachaturian made a notable contribution to the world of music while preserving ... Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia (then a part ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... The organization faced controversy on several occasions over its discriminatory ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- Gyeongju is a city (see Subdivisions of South Korea) and prominent ... Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla, a fact to ...25 KB (3,647 words) - 14:22, 14 December 2021
- 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
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... Rome's history spans more than 2,500 years. It is renowned as ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- was a renowned Czech photographer, dubbed the "Poet of Prague." Born when Bohemia was a kingdom in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2022
- Times, The (London) The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 17:36, 30 April 2023
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... Initially a site for English penal colonies in the eighteenth and ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- a Russian historian. His unorthodox ideas on the birth and death of ethnoses ... Neo-Eurasianism is a Russian school of thought, popularized in Russia ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- The Goryeo Dynasty marks the last Buddhist-shaped dynasty in Korea ... Silla, which had united the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 668, weakened ...19 KB (2,644 words) - 18:12, 26 December 2022
- |name = The Open University |native_name = ... |country = United Kingdom |campus = Distance learning ...25 KB (3,516 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- contact, outdoor sport played by two teams of 13 players each, with an oval ... from what was initially a breakaway faction of England's Rugby Football ...29 KB (4,628 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to any of several public holidays ... Today, May Day is celebrated in several European nations and the United ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... The word blasphemy is derived from the Middle English blasfemen, which ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- 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
- a professional who practices medicine with the purpose of promoting, maintaining ... Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself ...29 KB (3,911 words) - 19:59, 15 May 2020
- htm South Africa grows to 44.8 million], on the site [http://www.southafrica ... The Zulu are a South African ethnic group of an estimated 17-22 million ...23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- In common terminology, twilight is the time interval shortly before ... Recognizing the romantic quality of the ambient light at this time ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 20:41, 17 January 2024
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the ... The original native people of Aruba and surrounding islands were the ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- A graphic novel is a type of comic book. As the name suggests, it ... formats than familiar comic magazines, using the same materials and methods ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth ... faith" in Spanish) had a population of 62,203 according to the April ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- A computer museum is a museum devoted to the preservation, education ... Some computer museums are part of science museums, while some are ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 02:34, 8 January 2024
- object selected for special recognition as art. Every culture since the beginning ... As intelligence develops the human ability to use the materials of ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- painter. Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone ... Wright is currently rated as one of the leading indigenous British ...28 KB (4,262 words) - 00:34, 10 February 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
- The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque ( bɛlepɔk|lang ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- The Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA, French ... The need for a single body to oversee the worldwide game became apparent ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. As well as more ... During World War II he entertained the troops but also engaged in ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 02:34, 16 November 2022
- nationalist and suffragette. During the Easter Rising of 1917, she ... She was imprisoned by the British authorities in 1911, in 1916, in ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 17:49, 16 May 2020
- an American jazz musician and bandleader in the swing era. He became one of ... Miller's best-known recordings include "In the Mood," ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 17:09, 16 December 2022
- Aikido is a modern Japanese budo (martial art), developed by Morihei ... with or without weapons, in a variety of positions. Aikido training ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- Traditional Thai art was heavily influenced by Buddhist and Hindu ... In ancient Thailand, as in most parts of Southeast Asia, artists typically ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- emphasize activity as an important form of education, especially for children ... International professional organizations of children's museums ...29 KB (4,459 words) - 16:38, 10 December 2023
- a skyscraper if it clearly stands out above the surrounding built environment ... Skyscrapers are amazing feats of architecture and construction technology ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- The reed organ is a keyboard instrument that operates via bellows ... Most pressure wind type reed organs were built in Europe, although ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 03:00, 8 December 2022
- = before and ιστορία = history) is the period before written history ... Religious accounts of creation, such as the biblical account in Genesis ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- A public library is a library that is open to the public and generally ... Public libraries exist in most nations of the world and are often ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... The era is often characterized as a long period of peace, known as ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- |birthplace=Chicago, Illinois, United States |deathdate =1959|3|26|1888|7|23 |deathplace=San Diego, California, United States |occupation =Novelist ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- is commonly associated with Neo-orthodoxy or the dialectical theology movement. After being educated in both Europe and the United States, Brunner ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- based comedy duo who became famous during the early half of the twentieth ... The two comedians worked together briefly in 1919, on The Lucky Dog ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... The Sogdians occupied a key position along the ancient Silk Road, ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- Photocopying is a process that makes paper copies of documents and ... Xerographic office photocopying was introduced by Xerox in the 1960s ...16 KB (2,312 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2023
- Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was the most widely ... Henson's success as an artist and entrepreneur was the consummation ...18 KB (2,873 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- The sport of Fencing is a sport of armed combat that is one of the ... The sport traces its origin to ancient times as fencing was an ancient ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, known in the 1960s as Jackie ... Mrs. Kennedy's gallant courage during the tragedy of her husband's ...21 KB (3,354 words) - 08:15, 18 March 2024
- Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western ... Bohemia was unified under the Premyslid dynasty, under whose helm ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Melanesian island ... Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands, two of which—Matthew and ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto ... Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (psychological ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is ... and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, it is one of the principal official residences ...30 KB (4,758 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New ... The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- won two Academy Awards for her portrayals of American "southern belles ... In her 30-year career she made only 20 films, most of them in the ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 17:29, 16 August 2023
- Records and made a major contribution to the record industry. He also co ... The son of a distinguished Turkish diplomat, Ertegun co-founded Atlantic ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- and ingenious. Her popular Woman in the Nineteenth Century, published ... She grew up in the Unitarian Church and became friends with Ralph ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- Old Italian: Fiorenza, Latin: Florentia) is the capital and most populous ... more than 2000 years. Initially a small city of moneylenders and textile merchants ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:40, 28 March 2024
- Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and ranks sixth in ... metropolitan area was the fifth-largest in the United States. A commercial ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... African American genres are the most important ethnic vernacular tradition ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the ... Because the border with the Saudi kingdom is simply a line on the ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- Avignon is a commune in southern France with a population of 89,300 ... Founded by a Gallic tribe and later flourished under the Phoenicians ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique, numerical ... As of January 1, 2007, International Standard Book Numbers have been ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a nation ... The Tanzanian geography is one of the most varied and unique in the ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... Militias, being composed of civilians rather than professional soldiers ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- The Gothic Revival was an architectural movement that originated in ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
- Lake Burley Griffin is the centerpiece of Canberra, an entirely purpose ... The Griffins incorporated town planning and urban design with landscape ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 23:15, 21 October 2022
- a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle ... His pioneering efforts in the field of ethnomusicology with his colleague ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland ... Founded by the British in 1781 and named for King George III of the ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- The Three Gojoseon kingdoms first appear in Joseon Sangosa and has ... Some leading Korea scholars omit mention of the Three Gojoseon kingdoms ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- Archives refer to a collection of records, and also refers to the ... Archives are made up of records which have been created during the ...30 KB (4,298 words) - 06:20, 12 August 2023
- The Ostrogoths ( Ostrogothi or Austrogothi ) were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a ...25 KB (3,947 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:HiltonofCadboll01.JPG|thumb|A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll ... The Picts were a confederation of tribes who lived to the north of ...35 KB (5,272 words) - 05:13, 24 November 2022
- San Diego is a large coastal California city located in the southwestern ... It lies along the Pacific Ocean at San Diego Bay just north of the ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- Library science is an interdisciplinary science incorporating the ... terms, perhaps adopted to increase the "science" aspect ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations ... archaeology inevitably includes an element of imaginative reconstruction ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate ... Successful edutainment is discernible by the fact that learning becomes ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- which is now an acknowledged classic of English literature, and is ... Brontë possessed a powerful understanding of the society in which she lived ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- in popular entertainment, who developed the modern American circus. In ... " and later his circus, dubbed "The Greatest Show on Earth," ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- The Munich Agreement ( Mnichovská dohoda ; Mníchovská dohoda ... ) was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland Crisis among the major ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (August 26, 1676 – March 18 ... is nevertheless acknowledged as having held the de facto office due to the ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 00:47, 29 November 2022
- |poptime=est. 18,600Seminole Nation of Oklahoma 15,572 enrolledSeminole ... The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, and ...17 KB (2,474 words) - 16:40, 24 November 2023
- As the way in which war is prosecuted, and the nature of war itself ... and is thus most likely to be the correct version. [[File:Ostfriedhof ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and ... and practiced in many schools around the globe. Its popularity is not ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during ... Unlike many of the poets who had memorialized the great achievements ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 14:37, 27 January 2023
- complete God’s providential purposes for the world. Unification thought ... ==The Goal of History== The goal of history is restoration or "re ...26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
- Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- The Almoravids, was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over ... The exact meaning of "Murabit" (from which Almoravid is ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- The Seljuqs (also Seljuk or Seljuq Turks) were a Muslim dynasty of ... The dynasty marked the beginning of Turkic power in the Middle East ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... The Shakers are famous for their ecstatic religious dances and work ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- first modern world heavyweight champion and the last of the great bare-knuckle ... a turning point in boxing history. It was the final world-title bout fought ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 06:07, 3 August 2022
- Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is the seventh largest ... Located in the southeast of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east coast ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 18:11, 12 February 2024
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire (KBE ... Chaplin was one of the founders of United Artists Studios and he maintained ...32 KB (4,840 words) - 00:37, 5 December 2023
- Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- be expressed with either, both, or neither of these words. The definition ... documented, albeit controversially, over the centuries and numerous cultures ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Middle school, also known as Junior High school, is a school in the ... The middle school years are a significant time in compulsory schooling ...19 KB (2,829 words) - 17:33, 9 November 2022
- Majulah Singapura ("Onward Singapore") is the national anthem ... Originally composed in the key of G major, in 2001, the national anthem ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 00:16, 22 October 2023
- soldier who converted to Islam and served the Muslim caliphs and the Ottoman ... The first Mamluks served the Abbasids caliphs in ninth-century Baghdad ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont ... Born on the same day in Bulgaria and Morocco, respectively, the pair ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
- A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ... In addition to completing this level of academic studies, high schools ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... The word Thai (ไทย) means "freedom" in the Thai language ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- A sauna session is usually a social affair in which the participants ... The word sauna is also used metaphorically to describe an unusually ...15 KB (2,539 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา ) was a Thai kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767. King Ramathibodi ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- | countryofbirth = United Kingdom | dateofdeath = February 24, 1993 (age 51) ... | countryofdeath = United Kingdom | position = Defender ...23 KB (3,813 words) - 05:17, 17 November 2023
- fish, shellfish, or other aquatic organisms. The activity of catching the aquatic ... The focus of a fishery may be fish, but the definition is expanded ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- a database that contains descriptive records of books, periodical articles ... researchers to find descriptive records of relevant information sources ...27 KB (3,849 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- 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
- crime and its penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- The Royal Opera House, the United Kingdom's most important performing ... The current Royal Opera House is the third theater built on the Covent ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot (4,322-meter) stratovolcano, is the second ... mountain and rising abruptly from miles of level ground which encircle ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 17:45, 10 November 2022
- Jamaica is an island nation of the West Indies. The third largest ... Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taino inhabitants named the island ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- Samaritans today are both a religious and an ethnic group located ... In the New Testament, Samaritans were despised by the Judean Jews; ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- was a Polish-born British novelist, one of the most important and respected ... Conrad's works draw on the symbolism of the Romantics and the ...22 KB (3,425 words) - 07:21, 10 August 2022
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- Home education, also called homeschooling or home school, is the process ... Especially in the English-speaking nations, homeschooling provides ...29 KB (4,035 words) - 16:36, 1 March 2023
- The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt ... Sinai is a land of contrasts. The desert interior comes to an abrupt ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- or simply alternative) is a branch of the rock music genre that became ... Independent record labels were established during the punk era, which ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- The Uyghur (also spelled Uygur, Uighur, Uigur; Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر; ... ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
- is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean 22 miles (35 km) off the coast ... , raffia, and tourism. Zanzibar is also the home of the endemic Zanzibar ...19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
- Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument that uses a reed, in addition ... Perhaps because of the ancient nature of their sound, the bagpipes ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found ... The flower structure contains the plant's reproductive organs ...22 KB (3,368 words) - 15:42, 21 January 2023
- traditions developed around religion and the political and social circumstances ... Little is known about the earliest cultures in the region. The Plain ...42 KB (6,594 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more ... The awards were founded by theatre producer and director Brock Pemberton ...32 KB (4,813 words) - 19:02, 14 May 2023
- Cinematography, from the Greek words kine (movement) and graphos ... Cinematography is an art form unique to motion pictures. Although ...29 KB (4,666 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
- or other substances. Jewelry is made out of almost every material known ... The word jewelry is derived from the word jewel, which was Anglicized ...33 KB (4,967 words) - 20:02, 13 September 2023
- religion established by Felix Adler in 1876. The Ethical Culture Movement is ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- He painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America, as ... In March, 2000, Audubon's complete, double-elephant folio copy ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA ... The first BAFTA Awards ceremony was held in 1949, and the ceremony ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
- Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisureCategory:Performing arts ... Lion dance (s=舞狮|t=舞獅|p=wǔshī) is a form of traditional ...24 KB (3,959 words) - 00:19, 5 September 2023
- This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division ... The Korean peninsula has been inhabited since Lower Paleolithic times ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- is an ad valorem tax that an owner pays on the value of the property being ... and assessment, with various methods of assessing property value in ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- [[Image:Los Angeles skyline.JPG|thumb|right|200 px|The city of Los ... Urbanization is the increase over time in the population of cities ...23 KB (3,351 words) - 13:43, 3 May 2023
