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- the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of 1,780 square kilometers, ten ... Guadeloupe was colonized by France and is an overseas department of ...26 KB (3,654 words) - 02:55, 26 February 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 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- Simon V de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 – August 4, 1265 ... Henry agreed to reforms, including a council of fifteen to which governance ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- , literally "without breeches") were the common people of ... The sans-culottes, most of them urban laborers, served as the driving ...31 KB (4,299 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- schizoanalysis. He also developed a concept of three interacting and interdependent ... Guattari was a leading thinker of what came to be called Post-structuralism ...23 KB (3,142 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south-central Mali. It is just ... architecture, most notably the Great Mosque of Djenné, considered by many ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 06:46, 18 April 2024
- The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... the San Francisco earthquake. Her memories of her mother helping victims ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and ... reformation may not have met with the level of success it enjoyed. ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- The Insurrection of August 10, 1792 was a defining event of the French ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...38 KB (5,991 words) - 14:42, 31 August 2022
- Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- November 1, 1894) reigned as Tsar (Emperor) of Russia from March 14, 1881 ... role that his father had granted members of the educated class, he gave ...18 KB (2,859 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... Senegal, though poor, has a tradition of political stability and peaceful ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...86 KB (12,847 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country of ... and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict ...23 KB (3,228 words) - 18:48, 22 November 2023
- politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island nation ... Archaeologists place the first arrival of humans on the island to ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...49 KB (7,367 words) - 18:14, 1 December 2022
- The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... committed against its own people, 20 percent of whom perished, reached almost ...47 KB (7,141 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- fell ill and died in Russia during the fall of 1920. He was given a state ... in what is now the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. His grandmother ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ... to concentration camps and executions of between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews. ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- ) was a parliament of the French Revolution, following the two-year ... The Convention came about in the wake of the King's Flight to ...73 KB (10,932 words) - 21:23, 26 December 2022
- the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
- The Russian Revolution of 1905 began as a wave of mass political and ... By the end of 1905, the revolution resulted in a number of reforms ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United ... The House of Commons evolved at some point during the fourteenth century ...50 KB (8,030 words) - 02:42, 22 November 2023
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- Panama, officially the Republic of Panama ( República de Panamá ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on an ...42 KB (6,441 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...95 KB (14,231 words) - 15:44, 12 June 2023
- Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical ... hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires ...78 KB (10,754 words) - 22:08, 30 March 2023
- Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society ... His literary career began in the early 1860s with the publication ...52 KB (7,872 words) - 04:11, 15 November 2022
- the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the twentieth century. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( December 1, 1918,–April 17, 1941), also ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
