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- Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains ... like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by "divergent ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- reflecting the contemporary pronunciation of Japanese) ... was a Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyo of ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 08:38, 20 January 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's ... over a thousand kilometers along the Yellow Sea, with the Yangtze River passing ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- The unicorn, a legendary creature usually depicted with the body of ... thumb|right|300px| Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... and nineteenth centuries as well as a base of British economic exploitation ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... at 50 percent in 2001. About 42 percent of the East Timorese live below ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- opportunity in the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire. The dynasty ... civilization—equal to or surpassing that of the Han Dynasty—as well as ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- that it stays aloft primarily by means of a large cavity filled with ... Airships were the first form of aircraft to make controlled, powered ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, ... mythology and the major belief systems of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in ... by the Spanish in the south caused many of its financial, intellectual ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... to 1975 brought Vietnam to the attention of the world. That war has been ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- public. Beyond recreation, other functions of zoos include research, education ... observing nature and have a role as stewards of creation, have, in the ideal ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 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
- the global Cold War superpowers. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater of ... victory in Indochina that year. One of the poorer countries in South ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- By definition, the Prehistory of Korea lacks written records. Records ... See History of Korea, History of North Korea, and History of South ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 11:25, 26 June 2022
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [http://www.aseansec.org/64 ... AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc) ...43 KB (5,937 words) - 05:04, 18 August 2023
- Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve ... sport, swimming is featured in a range of local, national, and international ...26 KB (3,876 words) - 13:41, 23 March 2023
- ) is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China ... on the island. The People's Republic of China government claims Hainan ...25 KB (3,616 words) - 16:53, 21 January 2024
- existed from approximately 1270 (beginning of Solomonid Dynasty) until 1974 ... In the twentieth century, the last emperor of Ethiopia took on special ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial ... The heinous acts of torture committed by Unit 731 mirrored the inhumane ...57 KB (8,103 words) - 19:47, 9 February 2022
- Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of the Earth's ocean ... same reason in the Gulf of Mexico and Sea of Japan. On the southern coast ...37 KB (5,992 words) - 23:32, 30 April 2023
- to transport material from the surface of a celestial body, particularly ... ) However, current technology is not capable of manufacturing practical materials ...39 KB (5,875 words) - 15:17, 27 April 2023
- and newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the ... and poets, as well as to American poets of all races and creeds. He has ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- The mantle is a particular type of layer within an astronomical body ... Past episodes of melting and volcanism at the shallower levels of ...21 KB (3,036 words) - 02:57, 6 November 2022
- Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha ... believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until ...26 KB (3,758 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- 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
- Fishing is the practice of catching wild fish for food, recreation ... activity that can enhance a personal sense of balance, strengthen intergenerational ...49 KB (7,746 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- quot;) are marine mollusks (phylum Mollusca) of the class Cephalopoda, a group ... There are around 800 known extant species of cephalopods, although an estimate ...18 KB (2,469 words) - 01:46, 13 January 2023
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- led directly to the Synthetist style of Modern Art, while his expression ... Separating from his wife and five children and suffering from bouts ...13 KB (1,899 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2022
- The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... Korea's economy had developed into one of the strongest in the world ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental ... . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- quot; refers to both the geographic origin of these systems, which form almost ... storm surge. They develop over large bodies of warm water, and lose their ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite ... Since mesons are composed of quarks, they participate in both the ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson ... from attacks by Japanese naval air and sea forces. The battle was the ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- 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
- Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from ... The development of transport vehicles has had an incredible impact ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 02:08, 2 May 2023
- Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus—to adjure) is the practice ... The concept of possession by evil spirits and the practice of exorcism ...20 KB (3,223 words) - 23:55, 24 March 2024
- gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- Hibernation is a state of inactivity (deep sleep) and metabolic depression ... Hibernation is one of several types of dormancy, a general term used ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 2023
- from slightly different viewpoints to each of the viewer's eyes, merge ... Almost from the invention of the telescope in the seventeenth century ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 17:52, 31 October 2023
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- another object while under the influence of a source of centripetal force ... who formulated his results in his three laws of planetary motion based on Tycho ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 01:05, 18 November 2022
- The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... powers started on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery ... In the woods, is perpetual Youth. The currents of the Universal Being ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used ... Funeral rites can be traced back to the most primitive of societies ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 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
- Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, the country's second ... area extends well beyond the boundaries of a single local authority. Greater ...30 KB (4,384 words) - 20:30, 18 January 2024
- used in nuclear medicine for a wide variety of diagnostic tests. 99Tc is used ... Before the element was discovered, many of the properties of element ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
- in the twentieth century. When one side of a conflict participates in ... The threat of total devastation to the earth and humankind through ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history ... and nation in East Asia. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 ... Ming rule saw the construction of a vast navy, including four-masted ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was one of the foremost ... Massachusets his art focused on watercolors of sailboats, lighthouses, seascapes ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria ... Nigeria, is two and half times the size of Lagos city, the former capital ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- quot;) describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. The ... The outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two ...57 KB (8,619 words) - 02:46, 8 January 2024
- often established in an underdeveloped part of a state’s territory, to detain ... where unpaid prisoners labored on behalf of their country’s colonial ...21 KB (3,190 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... newly independent nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- , 709–785) was a leading Chinese calligrapher and a loyal governor ... history. His style assimilated the essence of the previous 500 years, and ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:43, 15 October 2020
- Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... s-Gravenhage) is the Netherlands' seat of government (regeringszetel ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- [[Image:Licorne Edimbourg Scotland.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Arms of Scotland ... Examples of legendary creatures can be found in medieval bestiaries ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... lanes, controlling access to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean with proximity ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed ... The first types of pottery were made about 11,000 years ago, during ...32 KB (4,846 words) - 22:42, 13 January 2023
- combined in several minerals and is one of the 26 elements that commonly ... several salts. Their colors reminded him of chromium salts, so he named ...15 KB (2,022 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since 1997 and is ... being deported under Stalin at the beginning of World War II when Nazi Germany ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana ... An accomplished storyteller, Berton was one of Canada's most ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- Modern China: A Guide to a Century of Change. (Harvard University ... United Front in 1936 to resist the invasion of Manchuria by Japan. After Japan ...40 KB (5,930 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- Amherst is a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows ... to prepare its students for a wide variety of careers, allowing them to develop ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- collectively referred to as the travels of "Eunuch Sanbao to the ... service. He became a close confidant of the Yongle Emperor. Between ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- in the southern hemisphere and largely south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica ... and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest ... A child of economic and social privilege, he overcame a crippling ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- the German colonial empire, consisting of the northeastern part of New ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor ... could have a profound impact on the future of Cambodia's economy. ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public ... interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified ...28 KB (4,023 words) - 23:51, 10 August 2023
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- or public even if the consequences of that activity are not conclusively ... appropriate precautions even in the absence of scientific consensus that the ...46 KB (6,708 words) - 18:54, 17 February 2022
- A scroll is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper which has been ... While a scroll is a roll of paper, papyrus, or parchment, a codex ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- 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
- Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae ... form over several years, with the use of ritualized dances, and will ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... long, and is slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut in the United States. ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... "East Sea" in South Korea and Sea of Japan). Japan lies east of the ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- The Great Lakes of Africa are a series of lakes in and around the ... the three largest lakes have a host of middle-sized and small lakes ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist ... Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan (Oxford ...35 KB (5,340 words) - 10:04, 14 December 2022
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... as the Sandwich Islands, form an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States ... It lies along the Pacific Ocean at San Diego Bay just north of the ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... Settled for more than 2,800 years, Tonga is part of the cradle of ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- Bamboo comprises more than 1200 species of usually woody, perennial ... tall, with some members reaching heights of up to 30 meters (98 feet). ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... in 1783. Some Crimean Tatars were accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The concept ... The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist ...48 KB (7,076 words) - 03:33, 24 July 2023
- ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... among the Jurchens, and began a process of sinicization which ultimately ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one ... Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- term also is used to refer to all members of the order Crocodilia, a group ... that are primarily found in tropical regions of Asia, the Americas, Africa ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- July 23, 1885) was the commanding general of the combined Union armies during ... Called to Washington to assume command of the Union armies after his ...47 KB (7,335 words) - 03:32, 17 November 2023
- Wayne is most famous for his work in one of America's greatest native ... In the last decades of his career, Wayne transformed into an American ...21 KB (3,062 words) - 16:07, 1 October 2022
- is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible ... Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from ...46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... Gandhi but was unable to avoid the Partition of India, although he would have ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- Bootlegging is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport ... unauthorized audio or video recording, often of a concert, distributed without ...25 KB (3,823 words) - 17:51, 27 April 2020
- ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... by the Romans. It became the capital city of the Arab Aghlabid dynasty and ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space ... Cold is the absence of heat, hence in order to decrease a temperature ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily ... The earliest use of the term "Uyghur" (Weihu), during the ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
- Korea's first religion, the religion of Dangun, the mythical founder ... and Christianity absorbed elements of Shamanism, Buddhism, and Daoism ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Located on the west ... years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after Sri Lanka ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation ... The site of ancient port cities and a possession of several empires ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- thanatos, "death") is the practice of terminating the life of a human ... Of related note is the fact that suicide, or attempted suicide, is ...39 KB (6,081 words) - 04:44, 23 March 2024
- Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies ... One of Europe's oldest cities, with a history of 7000 years, ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- [[Image:Pygmy.png|thumb|right|200px|Comparative height of a Pygmy ... In anthropology, a Pygmy is a member of a hunter-gatherer people characterized ...27 KB (4,197 words) - 20:58, 14 April 2023
- Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227), the founder of the largest contiguous ... stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Sea of Japan. The empire's expansion ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- Never the largest newspaper in terms of circulation, The New York ... In 1896, Adolph Ochs, publisher of The Chattanooga Times, acquired ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 15:40, 30 April 2023
- Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest ... in a little over 30 years, from a collection of poor desert-coast sheikdoms ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's ... morally and legally, consuming the flesh of one already dead raises different ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- 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
- energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... World War I soon established the importance of a reliable national oil supply ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- Ammonoid or Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals of the ... both commonly used to refer to any member of subclass Ammonoidea. However ...20 KB (3,015 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard ... Shepard was designated as the commander of the first crewed Project ...57 KB (8,455 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- The small island nation of Saint Lucia (pronounced "saint LOO ... The volcanic nature of Saint Lucia accounts for its being more mountainous ...18 KB (2,530 words) - 23:24, 1 August 2023
- located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era ... the Portuguese, ventured over vast stretches of ocean to reach new countries ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... in the Korean War. During a Soviet boycott of the meetings over the inclusion ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... society, in which people live in groups of settled dwellings comprising ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution varies in different ... life, and lineage, is commodified, the value of a human being is inevitably ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- one thousand years and ended with the rise of Christianity. It is considered ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- Anatidae is the biological family of medium to very large-sized birds ... Members of Anatidae are adapted for swimming, floating on the water ...30 KB (4,269 words) - 01:03, 9 January 2023
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية ... The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 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
- an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 2023
- chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The heaviest ... 235 (0.72 percent), and a very small amount of uranium-234 (0.0058 percent ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular ... It is estimated that there are perhaps 10,000 species of liverworts ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- 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
- Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( ... held on March 17, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick ( ...52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
- Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... northern Ecuador to central Chile. In search of Inca wealth, the Spanish explorer ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... plant that grew on the marshy shores of the bay. In the sixteenth century ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- Born in Haarlem, North Holland, she was one of the leaders of the Dutch resistance ... In December of 1967, Corrie ten Boom received recognition from the ...21 KB (3,559 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- 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
- operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Natural satellites ... surface reaches Earth in 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light). ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture ... The idea of qi represents one of the unique and foundational elements ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... territory in 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- as the commercial and industrial center, of Peru. It is located in the ... as La Ciudad de los Reyes, or "The City of Kings." It became the ...28 KB (4,030 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- and scholars for his broad understanding of both Chinese classics, and ... and daughter survived during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, and ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 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
- system and is named after the Roman god of war. It is also known as the ... and seasonal cycles are similar to those of the Earth. Of all the planets ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- an aquatic stage where they spend part of their time, as well as a terrestrial ... A highly diverse group of animals with only a core percentage exemplifying ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by ... The development of Korean Literature is quite unique due to the creation ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Tiriti o Waitangi) is a treaty first ... the Treaty is nonetheless the subject of heated debate. Many Māori ...36 KB (5,742 words) - 16:42, 2 May 2023
- and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement ... The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears ...44 KB (6,485 words) - 18:07, 12 February 2024
- texts developed an elaborate hierarchy of physically immortal beings ... "immortality." Some scholars of Taoism allege that later practitioners ...38 KB (6,009 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the ... Modern Cairo remains the cultural center of the Arabic world, and ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen ... Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, on December ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- the United States. In 2007, the population of the city proper was estimated ... and the social and geographical center of the original 13 American colonies. ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- produced by hydropower—that is, the energy of moving water. It is the world ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- producer, best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles, one of the most ... Not the most outspoken or public member of The Beatles, George was ...35 KB (5,701 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s. Some of the bitterest fighting of World ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 14:00, 3 May 2024
- Cholera is transmitted and spread to humans through consumption of ... cholerae most often occurs due to a lack of proper sanitation (clean water ...32 KB (4,728 words) - 17:16, 10 December 2023
- The Sun is the star at the center of the Earth's solar system ... About 74 percent of the Sun's mass is hydrogen, 25 percent is ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- Shark is the common name for any member of several orders of cartilaginous ... Due to a short history of shark attacks on humans, most sharks inspire ...44 KB (6,861 words) - 14:42, 7 June 2023
- = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical ... Telegraphy forms the foundation for almost all of the communication ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... maintaining global security because, with Japan it was regarded as a potential ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... It was part of the 1663 charter in which Charles I of England granted ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- It is also called Aotearoa or the "Land of the Long White Cloud" ... 270,000 km², is about the same as that of Colorado and somewhat smaller ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 18:04, 25 July 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 Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch). Proponents of De Stijl sought to express ... that he called compositions, consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- Earth's atmosphere. Almost 90 percent of all the incoming cosmic ray ... Cosmic rays originate from a wide variety of sources--ranging from ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... an ideology that advocates the unification of all ethnic Somalis under one ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- protection and to promote awareness of environmental issues such as ... Earth Day grew out of the recognition by young people that the earth ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- Placozoa is a phylum of very simple, small, balloon-like marine animals ... Placozoans are the simplest in structure of all known multicellular ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ... The modern emirate of Dubai was created with the formation of the ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive ... However, such societies generally occur in times of societal stress ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- an internal wick rising through the center of a column of solid fuel. Prior ... With the advent of kerosene lamps and electric lights, candles are ...26 KB (4,080 words) - 19:18, 25 November 2023
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- == Evolution of the glyph == J upside down. The main contribution of the western Ghubar Arabs was ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- 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
- ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- ; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ... The factors leading to war are often complicated and due to a range ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 Housing Act ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- Médecins Sans Frontières was created in 1971 by a small group of ... The organization is known in most of the world by its French name ...42 KB (6,193 words) - 17:12, 25 February 2024
- The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country ... Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- [[File:Initiation ritual of boys in Malawi.jpg|right|330px|thumb|Initiation ... quot; or "person") is the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- celebrity, due to the emerging role of mass media in the lives of ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- , represents the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ ... between North and South Korea and a source of incidents. The truce that called ...29 KB (4,482 words) - 19:40, 4 May 2024
- le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté ... high in her right hand. The statue is made of pure copper on a framework ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- (1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... the Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan belong to the Pacific ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- British Army officer and creator of special military units in World ... Perhaps the most important aspect of Wingate's legacy is that ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Command module pilot Michael ... UTC, and it was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
- best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the ... position to lobby for international control of atomic energy and to avert ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf ... 14th largest in the world. With a population of almost 109 million, it is the ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... country was considered the banking capital of the Arab world and was widely ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- This bacterium, transmitted through the bite of a flea, has caused the death ... The epidemiological use of the term "plague" is currently ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...40 KB (5,976 words) - 22:28, 13 November 2022
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- Angkor refers to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the ... and most vibrant Hindu empire outside of India. The Khmer name has become ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... a wealthy nation. With a per capita GDP of $25,300 in 2006, Bahrain was ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- ) (May 2, 1921–April 23, 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, one of the ... the Apu trilogy. Ray worked on an array of tasks, including scripting ...43 KB (6,599 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located ... and Peru), with an area more than twice that of France. ...40 KB (5,666 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- the molecular level, liquid ethanol consists of hydrogen-bonded pairs of ethanol ... Ethanol has a refractive index of 1.3614. Ethanol is a versatile solvent ...49 KB (7,279 words) - 04:30, 22 March 2024
- laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug ... During the mid-twentieth century, Borlaug led the introduction of ...46 KB (6,869 words) - 10:00, 11 March 2023
- Kanji Kun'yomi (Japanese reading) of 定家, (1162 – September ... of Japanese poets, and perhaps the greatest master of the waka form ...30 KB (4,827 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- [[Image:Camuccini Lamentation over the Corpse of Socrates.jpg|thumb ... Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Death ...47 KB (7,217 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
- Canadian Rockies, the park is 80 miles west of Calgary in the province of ... As Banff is one of the world's most visited national parks, the ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on ... structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital city of the South American nation of ... financial, and political center of Colombia. As with many large ...33 KB (4,818 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected military ... or La Era de Trujillo), was one of the longest for a non-royal leader ...66 KB (9,421 words) - 19:56, 29 April 2024
- Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically ... ==History of research== ===Beginnings=== In his Dream Pool Essays of ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a mammal of the Felidae family and ... Native to the mainland of southeastern Asia, the tiger is an apex ...34 KB (5,273 words) - 03:13, 4 November 2022
- ) for short, is the capital and the largest city of Thailand. Bangkok ... Bangkok has one of the fastest rates in the world for construction ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated ... The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the ...62 KB (8,764 words) - 22:12, 30 March 2023
- 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
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- Musical theater is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken ... Austria, the Philippines, France, Canada, Japan, Eastern Europe, Australia ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- or other substances. Jewelry is made out of almost every material known ... Whether used as currency, protection, or fashion, jewelry is one of ...33 KB (4,967 words) - 20:02, 13 September 2023
- |name = Columbia University inthe City of New York light shall we see the light) (a paraphrase of Psalm 35:10) ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- States, located in the north-central part of the state, near the junction ... Dallas is the main economic center of the 12 county Dallas, Fort Worth ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
- Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing ... which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to ...101 KB (14,057 words) - 17:18, 7 May 2024
- symbolist poet and translator who became one of the major figures of the Silver ... and had an injured writing-hand for the rest of his life. He became involved ...51 KB (7,071 words) - 15:34, 30 June 2023
- Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria ... newly recruited French armies in a series of battles fought across northern ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- only been applied to the energy and forms of energy harnessed but also to ... could be classified under the category of alternative energy; however ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
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