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- as the founder of the field of folklore in France. He remains famous for ... the value of the individual need not be lost in such groups. However, others ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- the Divine Office. Such ceremonial music in the Judeo-Christian tradition ... character of liturgical music are rooted in the music's conception ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- World War II, he served as a junior officer in Africa, Italy, and Iraq. He ... To his credit, he delivered elections in 1970 but when Sheikh Mujibur ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... played an important role as a mediator in resolving disputes between ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- commonly called Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia and a part of ... and ruins of ancient civilations. Petra in Ma'an, the home of the ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- - the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India. One of only ... In 1960, the Indian state of Bombay was split into two states, Maharashtra ...12 KB (1,834 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It also ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- 5,900 feet (1,800 m) above sea level in a narrow valley, between two ... after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Crime, corruption, government ...23 KB (3,382 words) - 16:50, 14 May 2024
- Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly of the ... Located in the heart of Central Asia between the Amu Darya (Oxus) ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in ... Greece, second perhaps only to Leptis Magna, in 1982 the ruins of Cyrene were ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- The Comoros (officially the Union of the Comoros) is an island nation ... had a troubled history since independence in 1975, with an inordinate number ...32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
- The Tāj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. The Mughal emperor ... was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 when it was described ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 03:53, 27 February 2023
- Public libraries exist in most nations of the world and are often ... school libraries, or other special libraries in that their mandate is to serve ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- It covers about a century and a half in Europe, beginning with the ... of reality. Emboldened by the revolution in physics commenced by Newtonian ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Marranos or Secret Jews were Jews resident in the Iberian peninsula ... of Spain from Islamic control resulted in a wave of intolerance toward ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 16:11, 6 November 2022
- was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death in 1970. Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. It borders Afghanistan ... ethnic Russians, who were mostly employed in industry, fled to Russia, taking ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death, when ... that were often unsafe and could result in serious harm or even death ...56 KB (8,002 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- and the last Shah of the Iranian monarchy. In 1953, he went briefly into ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- Sikhism is a religion that began in sixteenth-century Northern India ... Sikhism is centered on the principle belief in one God (monotheism). For Sikhs ...38 KB (5,913 words) - 22:00, 29 January 2023
- Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern ... over one million years ago, were discovered in Eritrea in 1995. In 1999 scientists ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced ... caste. Throughout his life, a person remains in the same caste into which he ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- mar: 고려사람), the name ethnic Koreans in the Post-Soviet states use ... from Kyongsang and Jeolla provinces in the late 1930s and early 1940s ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful ... Commissioned by King Manuel I of Portugal to find Christian lands ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- of the Middle Ages. Ibn Ezra excelled in philosophy, astronomy and astrology ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- organization that arose from obscure origins in the late sixteenth to early ... critics as "a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by ...59 KB (8,933 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- rugged land ranges from five thousand feet in the western lowlands to more ... About 70 percent of the people live in rural areas, where more than ...23 KB (3,416 words) - 00:48, 7 March 2023
- is a landlocked and mountainous country in Central Asia. It borders Kazakhstan ... struggling to recover and gain a foothold in the modern world. ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian ... enabled the federation to develop rapidly in a little over 30 years, from ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- , Diyar Bakr, Mecca, Hejaz and northern Iraq in the twelfth and thirteenth ... for the Zengid King Nur ad-Din of Damascus in 1169. The name Ayyub comes ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 07:28, 23 August 2023
- ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his ... of United States and Western military forces in the Islamic world and opposed ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- , Urdu: لدّاخ; "land of high passes") is a province ... Situated on a high altitude plain, Ladakh became the midway point ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- defense of oral tradition and revelation in response to the Karaite movement ... attributed to him; many of these are used in Jewish liturgical services ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- thus being usually understood not to be evil in and of itself. The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- In addition, it is classified as a real number, A real number is a ... In the beginning, various Hindus wrote 7 more or less in one stroke ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- clandestine routes by which African slaves in the nineteenth-century United ... a symbol of freedom, and figures prominently in African-American history. It ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east ... The country is infamous for the 1994 genocide that resulted in the ...25 KB (3,542 words) - 17:40, 28 September 2023
- celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834 ... Many cultures in history used slaves, often putting them to work in ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- In its "everyday sense" morality (from Latin la|moralitas regulate their lives. Theoretical interest in morality arises from the distinct ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- the present day. More broadly, as explained in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ... a subject such as literature. However, in modern academia, history is ...33 KB (4,990 words) - 23:36, 20 April 2021
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... American involvement in the war between the communist North Vietnamese ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- state of unity thereafter. Atonement in this sense, whether the offended ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- suffering, or a possibly undignified death in a painless or minimally painful ... making someone die and letting someone die. In some instances, the first is ...39 KB (6,081 words) - 04:44, 23 March 2024
- jpg|thumb|250 px|Funeral arrangement in a Temple in Tokyo]] monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor. These customs ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
- down, derived from custom or implied. In the United States and most ... is to understand what the rights are in "civil rights." ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- principle of retributive justice expressed in the phrase "an eye for ... retaliation. This early belief is reflected in the Code of Hammurabi and in ...29 KB (4,671 words) - 22:22, 25 October 2022
- also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its components ... or physical fortitude, to participating in humiliating, dangerous, or ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- , or AP, the "Rice Bowl of India," refers to a state in ... compared to Hinduism. The same with Islam. Yet Islam has a history ...30 KB (4,151 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- of the Middle East and is a vital factor in Arab politics and in Arab-Israeli ... the Baath Party, and Syria's president in 2007 was Bashar al-Assad, son ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- In Hinduism, a sampradaya (IAST sampradāya word commands much more respect and power in the Indian context than its ...15 KB (2,058 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- right|350px|thumb|Literacy rapidly spread in several regions from 1990-2015]] language to read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions around the world ... Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred in 269 C.E ...35 KB (5,116 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2023
- 1448)Vinay Dharwadker, "Kabir" in Religions of India in Practice ... )Charlotte Vaudeville, "Kabir" in The Encyclopedia of Religion ...23 KB (3,622 words) - 17:22, 5 April 2023
- The Trinity in Christianity is a theological doctrine developed to ... officially confirmed at the Council of Nicea in 325, while the consubstantiality ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 11:56, 9 May 2024
- He succeeded his father in India in 1530, while his half-brother Kamran ... noblemen, signaled an important change in Mughal Court culture, as the ...33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
- Religion in Korea encompasses Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity ... Religion in Korea has a multi-faceted character. Shamanism, a tribal ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- on the west bank of the Jordan River in the Middle East. trenches and walls around the territory in 2003. Movement of both Israelis ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of ... Modern-day Nazareth is nestled in a hollow plateau some 1,200 feet ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- of a religious ritual. It has been practiced in many cultures throughout much ... animal sacrifice and of religious sacrifice in general, human victims were ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the ... with the topic of alleged violence against women in Islamic societies. Amsterdam ...29 KB (4,176 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- for a small coast on the Atlantic Ocean in the west. The River Gambia ... groups that live together harmoniously. In his 1977 Pulitzer Prize-winning ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded ... 1980s was followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s, though one ...22 KB (3,224 words) - 18:45, 22 November 2023
- himself by crushing a Kurdish rebellion in the west of Iran, he became ... the British and Americans to use him in overthrowing a democratically ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and the Balkan ... The name for Turkey in the Turkish language, Türkiye, can be divided ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- He spent 35 years writing his great Epic in Tus. When the Sultan, Mahmud ... and beauty of Persian, he succeeded in transcending the particularity ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry ... as United Nations chief potentially heralds in a new leadership model at the ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... nonviolent. They rejected a one-party state in a 1993 referendum and peacefully ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- (1110 - May 1, 1171) was a King of Leinster in Ireland. Ousted as King of ... In this view, MacMurrough shares some of the blame for Ireland's ...16 KB (2,466 words) - 01:09, 2 July 2020
- , is a republic of Russia. It is located in the Northern Caucasus mountains ... In November 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- Born in Harpurhey, Manchester in northwest England, he lived and worked ... , on the dying days of Britain's empire in the East; the Enderby quartet ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- of a life of service to others, of love-in-action. More than that, the ... as a social activist and as uninterested in social issues, as offering ...78 KB (12,289 words) - 02:54, 1 August 2022
- or ice. It is the deepest hypersaline lake in the world, at 1,083 feet (330 ... (18 km) wide at its widest point. It lies in the Great Rift Valley. The ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- of the limitations of government programs in addressing social problems. ... a general figure meaningless, especially in the absence of any overall ...22 KB (3,066 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- , is a small, largely mountainous country in the Middle East, located at ... The name Lebanon ("Lubnān" in standard Arabic; "Lebnan ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- Republic of Ethiopia, is a country situated in the Horn of Africa. It has ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- before the vast majority accepted Buddhism, Islam, or Lamaism. It centers around ... and respect for these deities and living in harmony with the universe. ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- carpet. These carpets are normally found in the contract market (such as ... (see below), such as shag which was popular in the 1970s, to form the pile ...28 KB (4,327 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- beliefs and practices are typically defined in light of a shared canonical ... In this context, religious thought and practice are aimed at delineating ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- ng Pilipinas), is an island nation located in the Malay Archipelago in Southeast ... is one of only two Roman Catholic countries in Asia, the other being East ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- of the world until the Muslim conquest in the seventh century. The work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- and is consulted for religious guidance in all aspects of life. ... The Holy Book is organized in the form of hymns written in praise ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- is famous for his incessant campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated ... Rus' whose name is indisputably Slavic in origin (as opposed to his predecessors ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- are often impossible, or unlikely to occur, in physical reality: they are ... desires, thoughts, secrets that we repress in our waking lives but which ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:34, 30 January 2024
- From c. 6000 B.C.E., rock drawings in Africa have included representations ... determine the function of a particular work. In many tribes, the artist had ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- numerous successors until the creation of the KGB in 1954. arm of the Bolshevik communist government. In 1921 the Troops for the Internal ...23 KB (3,169 words) - 07:52, 13 January 2023
- In typical usage, the term water refers to its liquid state, but the ... factors, including the Earth's location in the Solar System. If Earth ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- flourished during a poorly documented period in the history of Eastern Europe ... mentioned by the title of "khagan" in several historical sources ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- Persanes (“Persian Letters”), published in 1721 just after the end of ... judicial. This concept is a basic assumption in modern discussions of government ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- Age" Hollywood with leading roles in film. Rita was a gifted dancer ... As an actress, she pushed the envelope on what was acceptable in terms ...30 KB (4,610 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- of Jesus. The Epistles attributed to him in the New Testament, seven of ... Saul is described in the New Testament as a Hellenized Jew and Roman ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... The previously socialist FRELIMO party still is the dominant force ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- Mali, which is among the poorest countries in the world. Estimated in 2006 ... empires, a French colony until independence in 1960, and it went through 24 ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- or Dhilli, is the second largest metropolis in India after Mumbai. Located ... Delhi is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world ...33 KB (4,788 words) - 09:20, 28 January 2024
- and thought. At times a controversial figure in Chinese history, his legacy ... sincerity. These values gained prominence in China over other doctrines ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- is usually used to refer to those who live in mainland Australia, Tasmania ... 200 of the languages of these groups remain in use—all but 20 are highly ...50 KB (7,297 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- 15, 1975) was a Bengali political leader in East Pakistan and the founding ... A student political leader, Mujib rose in East Pakistani politics ...37 KB (5,519 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- than the birth parents. Adoption results in the severing of the parental ... are unable to adequately care for a child. In some countries, where single ...42 KB (6,335 words) - 06:13, 15 June 2023
- Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self ... The person may experience healing, or in cases of religious ecstasy ...33 KB (4,676 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- The Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, in what is now Ethiopia ... In the twentieth century, the last emperor of Ethiopia took on special ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- to the Greco-Roman world and culminating in the Nazi Holocaust. Before ... been racial anti-Semitism. With its origins in the cultural anthropological ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- that lasted for roughly nine months in 1971. The war resulted in Bangladesh ... Pakistan's partition from India in 1947 had arisen from the ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- Sea, is an independent island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean ... low-lying, with some higher regions in the island's interior ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... Harare is situated in the northeastern part of Zimbabwe in the uplands ...23 KB (3,136 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- New Zealand is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific ... than the Philippines. The population, in slight excess of four million ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 18:04, 25 July 2023
- ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... agglomeration and the second largest city in Kerala after the capital. ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- 1948) was one of the most important leaders in the fight for freedom in India ... As a member of a privileged and wealthy family, he studied law in ...56 KB (8,938 words) - 15:04, 16 June 2023
- a resource-rich but poorly developed nation in West Africa. A port on the ... In 2006, Transparency International ranked Guinea as the most perceived ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- to China and the largest single ethnic group in the world. Han Chinese constitute ... , people who lived along the Yellow River in northern China. The name “Han” ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- is a worldwide religious tradition rooted in Indian culture and based on ... It is an English term, probably first used in the 1829 Oxford English Dictionary ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of ... Violence in many forms can be preventable. There is a strong relationship ...62 KB (8,789 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- , Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world by area, and is the ... Khan Tengri Mountain, on the Kyrgyz border in the Tian Shan range, is 23 ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- de Honduras) is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly ... tree, many of which were found floating in the waters off the northwest ...34 KB (4,896 words) - 12:36, 2 February 2024
- the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Its current population ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- , a hill station (a hill town) nestled in the Shiwalik Hills (or Lower ... number among the famous education institutes in Kamlipong. Recently, Kalimpong ...23 KB (3,374 words) - 17:14, 14 May 2024
- Republic of Timor-L'este, is a country in Southeast Asia comprising the ... East Timor has the lowest per capita income in the world (US$400 per annum ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- many, and theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods ... needed if we are to avoid misunderstandings. In particular, some beliefs that ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Nassarius shell beads found on Mount Carmel, in Israel.Paul Rincon, ... (to show membership), or for protection (in the form of amulets and magical ...33 KB (4,967 words) - 20:02, 13 September 2023
- Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... autonomous provinces—Kosovo and Metohija in the south that was under the ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan country in western Africa, named after ... control of much of the Hausa territory in the late eighteenth century. ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
- Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... peoples living west of the Nile River. In Greek, the tribesmen were called ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- 1199) was king of England from 1189 to 1199. In his own time, the troubadour ... probably because he went off and fought in the Third Crusade and was not ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- war lasted from 1645 to 1669, and was fought in Dalmatia, Crete, and in numerous ... Four and a half centuries of Venetian rule in Crete thus came to an ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- , and formerly known as "Persia" in the West, is one of the world ... importance because of its central location in Eurasia. Iran is significant ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor ... In 2005, oil and natural gas deposits were found beneath Cambodia ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- ) (1666-1708) was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna ... Guru Gobind Singh was born as Gobind Rai in Patna, Bihar, to the ninth ...43 KB (7,122 words) - 06:18, 10 January 2024
- Persian Gulf. The capital city, Baghdad, is in the center-east of the country. Iraq was known in ancient times as Mesopotamia, the world's first ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- Gruiformes. Cranes are distinguished readily in flight because they fly with ... 15 extant species of cranes, occur in the wild on all the continents ...19 KB (2,899 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- [[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Isaiah the Prophet in Hebrew ... known either as prophecy or as revelation. In popular usage, a prophet is ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- Western Sahara, located in northwestern Africa, is one of the most ... and concerns about the spread of terrorism in the region play a role in the ...31 KB (4,505 words) - 17:20, 4 May 2023
- The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," ... Israel declared its independence in 1948. With a diverse population ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- Few concepts in human history have generated as much fascination, ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- existed as a South Indian empire based in the Deccan. Established in ... The previous temple building traditions in South India came together in ...55 KB (7,789 words) - 20:20, 3 May 2023
- Often, however, the term detergent is used in a narrower sense to refer to ... Detergents are commonly used in products for personal hygiene, dishwashing ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2023
- Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern ... ethnically and culturally diverse countries in the world. ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
- colonies or administrative dependencies in which indigenous populations ... continue to impact the lives of many people in the world today, informing ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- most prominent leader of a reform movement in sixteenth century Christianity ... Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Germany ...61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
- Homosexuality has been widely maligned as deviant or sinful behavior ... the same sex as a part of their identity. In so doing, they may have to ...91 KB (13,332 words) - 16:14, 25 January 2023
- areas stretching from Central Asia in the North and West to Myanmar ... the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1950. The Tibetans are one ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- center of the contiguous United States are in the Midwest. ... Chicago is the largest city in the region, followed by Detroit and ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- on the African continent and the richest in mineral wealth. The name "Congo ... Its people live in dire poverty and suffer from famine and disease ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- been historically based, which was recorded in the Roman Age under the name ... is slightly smaller than West Virginia in the United States. The country ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- from her mother's abdication in 1948 to her own abdication ... As Holland readjusted itself to a new status in the world without ...35 KB (5,244 words) - 09:51, 12 May 2024
- or simply Shqipëria) is a Balkan country in south-eastern Europe. Its motto ... than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule in the late twentieth century ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof (the most widely spoken ... a population officially estimated at 176,000 in 2005. Founded in 1659, Saint ...21 KB (2,973 words) - 18:57, 22 December 2022
- Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after ... Cologne became a member of the trading guild alliance Hanseatic League ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- Bali is an Indonesian island positioned in a chain with Java to the ... Most of the Balinese people are involved in agriculture, primarily ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He was born in Saint Ann's Bay, Saint ... quot;above the prejudice of the world." In a statement issued July 16 ...30 KB (4,654 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- introducing a couple as potential partners in marriage. People in diverse ... Historically, in many cultures parents would request the assistance ...21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
- adoption. There are a number of variations in the basic family structure ... of its families. For this reason, as stated in Article 16(3) of the Universal ...66 KB (10,046 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... Slavs, a central European people, beginning in the seventh century C.E. ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- that began as an Amalfitan hospital founded in Jerusalem in 1080, to provide ... At times it competed in popularity with the Knights Templar, a more ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- It is a term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy ... In specifically economic contexts, globalization is often used in ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. The dynasty was founded ... day Xi'an), the most populous city in the world at the time, is regarded ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- the leadership of the Uddhav Sampraday in 1802 by his guru Ramanand Swami ... The organization is based on vedic Hinduism. In addition to its grounding in ...48 KB (6,849 words) - 14:17, 28 April 2023
- One of the most isolated nations in the world, Bhutan is often described ... for a small strip of subtropical plains in the extreme south that is intersected ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
- vampire tradition, his novel was influential in helping to shape it for the ... as now called "The Crescent"—in Clontarf, Barbara Belford ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- many South Slavic elements. The first work in colloquial Russian, the autobiography ... the poet Aleksandr Pushkin and culminating in two of the greatest novelists ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- Malwa (Malvi:माळवा, IAST: Māļavā), a region in west-central ... and dynasties ruling the region. With roots in the Neolithic period, Malwa ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- from Cairo University with a degree in medicine and a master's ... United Nations, respectively, for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- their teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries of ... of the teachings must have arisen somewhere in what is today known as the ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- "rest"; Shabbos or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), ... For Muslims, Friday is a type of Sabbath in which normal noon-time ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- after United Nations supervised elections in 1948. The Soviet Union had ... of Korea), which declared its independence in September 1948. To the west ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- been made famous as the most “beautiful women in the world” by her bust ... include all nations and cultures and people in his embrace. As Akhenaten expressed ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- , IPA: [kəɾˈnɑːʈəkɑː]), a state in the southern part of India ... a reference to the black cotton soil found in the Bayaluseeme region of Karnataka ...50 KB (6,914 words) - 20:25, 4 January 2024
- of Paraguay, is a landlocked country located in the center of South America ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...27 KB (3,892 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- by the United States until his death in October 2019.Rewards for Justice ... Baghdadi rose to prominence in ISIL after his detainment in 2004 with ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- Saddam Hussein Takrity was born in the town of Al-Awja, 13 km (8 mi ... wife, was a devout Sunni Muslim. Later in his life, relatives from his ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- brothers born in Thessaloniki in the ninth century, who became missionaries ... The two brothers, Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- is a landlocked, mountainous country located in the Southern Caucasus between ... During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- is an island nation off the coast of Africa in the southwest Indian Ocean ... In addition to the island of Mauritius, the republic includes the ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- languages, and an estimated 1,200 languages in all, including many that do ... local heroes and places and are expressed in local languages and dialects ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- at the feast of Saint Nicholas at Bzheta in Shkreli territory, Albania, 1908]] before the emergence of nation-states, and, in some cases, continuing to exist ...37 KB (5,635 words) - 16:06, 27 July 2021
- ), archaically spelled Luxemburg, is a small landlocked country in ... Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in Europe, and ranked ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island nation ... gazh"). The primary language spoken in Madagascar is Malagasy. ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- central and western Africa. It is triangular in shape, bordered by the Atlantic ... diverse population is among the most urban in western Africa, large numbers ...36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- and at times directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The objective ... popular response across all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- In 327 C.E., Christianity was declared the official state religion ... Georgia borders the Black Sea, between Turkey and Russia, in the Caucasus ...46 KB (6,605 words) - 20:12, 4 September 2023
- (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa with its capital ... the system under which land was held in common by the tribes in order ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- [[Image:Tagore3.jpg|thumb|200px|Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c ... works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late ninteenth and early ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- mountain" is a small, mountainous state in south-west Balkans, bordering ... that tore other areas of the Balkans apart in the 1990s, arguably because ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, Mexico. Building ... Civilization refers to a complex human society, in which people live ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
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- as its cultures and peoples and has flowered in many indigenous forms as well ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- of law enforcement agencies worldwide. In the wake of this reality, the ... with 300lbs of smuggled morphine shipped in cylinders of soda sulphate ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... and dominates political life as well. In the past decade, he has introduced ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 ... The most famous historic site in Hebron sits on the Cave of the Patriarchs ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... #039;s independence from the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- and accidents. The principal causes of death in developed countries are diseases ... Nearly every culture has had some belief in an afterlife, some form of ...47 KB (7,217 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
- crossed over into another culture, who in some respects was more at home ... Lawrence's public image was due in part to U.S. traveler and ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- of Christianity, where it is exemplified in Christ's sacrificial love ... Perhaps the best context in which to develop such love is the family ...70 KB (11,122 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- The Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella ... however, freedom of religion did not exist in Spain or its territories, so ...61 KB (9,267 words) - 12:36, 18 September 2023
- one of the most successful military leaders in history. He believed himself ... While his image in much of the world is that of a ruthless, bloodthirsty ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ... The word Parasu means 'axe' in Sanskrit and therefore the ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- tower's destruction is not described in Genesis, but is mentioned in ... The story is found in Genesis 11:1-9 as follows: 1 And the whole earth ...34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- of war as persons captured while fighting in the military. Rules on the ... In the history of war (which covers basically all of human history ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- of the West Indies. The third largest island in the Caribbean Sea, after Cuba ... Christopher Columbus landed on the island in 1494, renaming it Santiago ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- McCarthyism is a term describing the intense anti-communist suspicion ... suspicions were government employees, those in the entertainment industry ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula in Europe, bordered by Sweden ... Norway plays a significant role in the pursuit of stability and world ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... the founding Republics of the Soviet Union in 1922. Ukraine and became independent ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest ... Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837. It rapidly became a major ...42 KB (6,247 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee in justification for occupying ... Following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Empire entered ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- was flourishing center of Islamic learning. In the early nineteenth century ... leaders and delegates to advise the Emperor in its governance. While Europeans ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- grant that mentions their rule from Manpur in the Malwa region of modern ... impressive empire with the Gulbarga region in modern Karnataka as its base ...53 KB (7,699 words) - 00:10, 14 November 2023
- It produces many symptoms, including changes in tactile sensation, visual problems ... between 20 and 40 years, and is more common in women than in men by about ...42 KB (6,258 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- for enabling everyone to be involved in the decision making process ... records, as well as being referred to in ancient texts, and modern democracies ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
- Republic, is a landlocked socialist republic in Southeast Asia. Laos traces ... than stimulated, growth and development, in 1986 the government announced ...33 KB (5,048 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East ... Han immigration, and the island was annexed in 1683 by the Qing dynasty of ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in eastern India on the east bank ... education, science, culture and politics in India, Kolkata witnessed economic ...53 KB (7,578 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- ), officially Swiss Confederation ("Confoederatio Helvetica" ... The titles commonly used to name Switzerland in French ( ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located ... Colombia is the 26th largest nation in the world and the fourth-largest ...40 KB (5,666 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- themselves are politically contentious. In recent times, the broadest ... is held sacred by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Since the early twentieth ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- of Andorra, is one of the smallest states in Europe. At 180 square miles ... Andorra was created by Charlemagne to serve as a buffer state in order ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations in order ... include Gulf War, Persian Gulf War, War in the Gulf, 1990 Gulf War, Gulf ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- E.) was a kingdom of southern India founded in 1399 by Yaduraya in the region ... Under the Mysore Kingdom, the fine arts flourished in southern India ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... largest regions are Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north, with 58 percent ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
- Seattle is a coastal port city and the largest city in the Pacific ... south of the Canada – United States border in King County, of which ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- known as Vlad Dracula or simply Dracula, in Romanian Drăculea (1431 – ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...62 KB (10,177 words) - 20:44, 3 May 2023
- is the largest city in the province of Quebec and the second-largest ... Once the largest city in Canada (a distinction acquired by Toronto ...44 KB (6,520 words) - 21:16, 9 November 2022
- Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... and admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. In 2006, the Census Bureau ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- ), is a country located in Southern Europe, with two small exclaves ... country with the ninth-largest economy in the world. Spain's history ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- Bible, also called The First Book of Moses. In Hebrew, it is known as בראשית ... act of creation, the origins of humankind in Adam and Eve, the first sin ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- infancy to adulthood. This is usually done in a child's family by the ... The relationships in the family form the basis for how children perceive ...34 KB (4,978 words) - 07:57, 18 November 2022
- ) is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, and the capital ... and Nur Jehan are popular tourist spots in the city. Colonial British ...30 KB (4,227 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
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- Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed Sukhothai ... In 1767, Burma invaded Ayutthaya, repelled the Ming Dynasty and took ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- been variously named the Boxing Day Tsunami in Australia, Canada, New Zealand ... of catastrophic tsunamis that followed in its wake, had a lesson to teach ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions ... and French nationals moved into the region in the very early seventeenth ...44 KB (6,512 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- considered part of the culture of Spain in general, flamenco actually ... Once the seeds of flamenco were planted in Andalusia, it grew as a ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- of the most strategic transportation hubs in the world. International affairs ... widely on the Caribbean coast and by many in business and professional fields ...42 KB (6,441 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- Kata Iōannēn) is the fourth gospel in the canon of the New Testament ... mission" to redeem humanity. Only in John does Jesus engage in long ...37 KB (5,608 words) - 20:09, 13 September 2023
- Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon ... his metaphysical ability to remove obstacles in his devotees' lives. Widely ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- various Western colonies and protectorates in Asia and [Africa]] following ... nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community of nations. The ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- Lydda, is one of the most venerated saints in the Anglican Church, Eastern ... In Christian hagiography, Saint George is the patron saint of Aragon ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- of the United States of America, located in the east north central portion ... has the longest freshwater shoreline in the world, and the second longest ...46 KB (6,626 words) - 17:13, 9 November 2022
- ]]/) is a state in the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains regions ... The state ranks fourth in area, but 44th in population with 944,632 ...59 KB (8,584 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United ... coined the usage of neoconservative in a 1973 Dissent magazine article ...51 KB (7,336 words) - 04:32, 11 March 2023
- millennia. The oldest Tamil communities live in southern India and north-eastern ... of Tamil, one of the oldest languages in India, has the oldest extant ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- for large-scale oilsands projects occurring in northern Alberta and large ... has one of the lowest population densities in North America, about 9.4 percent ...47 KB (6,763 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- , is a democratic republic in Central America. It is the largest nation ... (Xolotlán), as well as lagoons and rivers in the region. ...59 KB (8,536 words) - 09:43, 11 March 2023
- The largest country in the world by land area, Russia has the world ... the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. After the Soviet ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- However, when Louis-Napoleon became emperor in 1852, he legitimized his cousin’s ... toppled an unjust, totalitarian system in the name of brotherhood, equality ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- the Nazi Party. Since the defeat of Germany in World War II, Hitler, the Nazi ... to establish an authoritarian regime in a Germany that was still coming ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire. Some main ... ==The situation of the Armenians in Anatolia== In 1914, before World ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- ), commonly known as India, is a country in South Asia. The name India ... people), and the most populous democracy in the world. This population ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the ... speaking peoples at the time of European contact in 1498. ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- military dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in 1961, the Dominican Republic ... eastern portion of the second largest island in the Greater Antilles, Hispaniola ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy ... of the first half of the twentieth century in architecture, art, and literature; ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- the Soviet Union between 1928 and his death in 1953. Stalin held the title ... at the conclusion of World War II resulted in the creation of the North Atlantic ...78 KB (11,852 words) - 06:34, 6 May 2024
