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- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- | order=26th President of the United States | date1=September 14, 1901 ... | date of birth=October 27, 1858 | place of birth=New York City, New York ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- Gaborone is the capital and largest city of the landlocked nation ... Gaborone was founded in 1965, as the capital of Botswana. It is notable ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- Germany from 1919 to 1933. This period of German history is often known ... The phrase Weimar Republic is an invention of historians, and was not used ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It ... and France. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1 ... The war started with military uprisings throughout Spain and its colonies. ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... The Kingdom of Gandhara lasted from around the sixth century B.C.E ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
- [[Image:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg|thumb|250px|right|The flag ... at sea, or outside the normal jurisdiction of any state, by an agent without ...24 KB (3,715 words) - 06:18, 24 November 2022
- order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- The Kuomintang of China (abbreviation KMT), also often translated ... by advocating political and legal status quo of modern Taiwan. ...28 KB (4,106 words) - 16:48, 30 March 2024
- The First War of Indian Independence was a period of rebellions in ... Mangal Pandey, a Sepoy in the colonial British army, was the spearhead ...43 KB (6,818 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...29 KB (4,345 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder ... was instrumental in the development of Mithraism, which—in Cumont ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's ... acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens." Pericles turned ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- He was responsible for thrusting awareness of the Gulag on the non-Soviet ... in helping to strip away the legitimacy of the Soviet regime should not ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 2023
- abbreviated: CH), is a landlocked nation of 7.5 million people in Western ... ) translate as "Swiss Confederation," while the German name of ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- statesman Pericles. She was born in the city of Miletus in Asia Minor, and ... Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon, Aeschines ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- which supported the general allegations of espionage by Julius, though ... (Suffolk County), New York. In the Cold War, as both sides desperately ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated ... ("the 14th of July"). The French National Day is the anniversary ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 11:09, 20 September 2023
- Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7 ... including Smolensk and Roslavl. As a result of this operation, the Red Army ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ) was a World War II battle that occurred on the Greek mainland and ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19, 1945 – March 26, 1945) was ... hidden artillery, and 18 kilometers (11 mi) of tunnels. ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer), an iconic symbol of the ... Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... the entire peninsula. Following a series of insurrections, its territory ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- [[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bust of Homer in ... traditionally credited with the composition of the epic poems the Iliad (Ἰλιάς ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- Dresden, the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony ... royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who furnished the city ...25 KB (3,605 words) - 17:41, 30 January 2024
- Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ... Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- is the fourth largest city in Japan and one of the country's ... The city of Nagoya was established in 1610 when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved ...21 KB (2,938 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
- The Iran-Iraq War, also called the First Persian Gulf War, or the ... The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, following ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- into France and Imperial Russia; for part of his life, he was also a Romanian ... A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist ...62 KB (8,909 words) - 22:59, 3 March 2023
- obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- 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
- thumb|right|Friedrich II. (the Great), King of Prussia, aged 68, by Anton Graf.]] Frederick II of Prussia, also known as Frederick the Great (January ...32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- Jewish rebels who fought against the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the ... in Jerusalem and combining the office of king and High Priest. This ...39 KB (6,358 words) - 14:51, 7 June 2023
- (in English, Octavian), for the period of his life prior to 27 B.C.E ... Although he preserved the outward form of the Roman Republic, he ruled ...27 KB (4,377 words) - 19:08, 21 August 2023
- 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
- :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...27 KB (4,082 words) - 20:00, 8 December 2022
- The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
- [[File:Battle of britain air observer.jpg|thumb|250px|Aircraft spotter ... A major campaign of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name ...41 KB (6,464 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... with Nazi and other militarist regimes at war with Britain have been the ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability ... Submarines encompass one of the largest ranges in capabilities of ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for plotting ... Arnold earlier distinguished himself as a hero through acts of cunning ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- 2, 1754 – May 17, 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand ... peace with Austria through the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville and with Britain ...51 KB (7,312 words) - 22:21, 4 December 2023
- Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ... commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- :This article covers the political aspects of the American Revolution ... The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half ...47 KB (6,905 words) - 06:45, 25 July 2023
- The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (also referred to as: Bosnian Conflict ... Since the war in Bosnia is a consequence of events in the wider region ...36 KB (5,522 words) - 14:58, 9 February 2022
- Charles I (November 19, 1600 – January 30, 1649) was King of England ... Henrietta Maria, over the objections of Parliament and public opinion ...42 KB (6,645 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874 ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... called Mount Carstenz) makes New Guinea the world's fourth highest landmass ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- components, and semiconductors, all of which are marketed under their ... Konosuke Matsushita, almost penniless and with less than four years ...25 KB (3,633 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... The world's only sovereign Grand Duchy, Luxembourg is a parliamentary ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... committed against its own people, 20 percent of whom perished, reached almost ...47 KB (7,141 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and ... Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on ... a political association. However the Korean War galvanized the member states ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953 ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
- ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... The operational goal of Barbarossa was the rapid conquest of the European ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- (b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...51 KB (7,629 words) - 23:06, 1 April 2023
- The Kingdom of Norway, commonly known as Norway, is a Nordic country ... Norway plays a significant role in the pursuit of stability and world ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- ranking American military officer during World War II and the 34th President ... to a negotiated truce to conclude the Korean War in 1953. ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- to the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews, other minority groups ... . The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- camp for Japanese in Canada during World War II]] ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- English, and easily the most important work of literature written in that ... Although neglected for centuries, Beowulf, with the aid of a number ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- in all the ancient civilizations of the world, particularly in ... Stelae have provided invaluable evidence to archaeologists of the ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ... Modern Greece, a developed country and a member of the European Union ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- , Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...42 KB (5,917 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- Sheridan helped to perfect the comedy of manners that originated with ... burgesses five guineas each for the honor of representing them, beside gifts ...24 KB (3,861 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- authority), and the political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution ... leader (marja al-taqlid, "source of imitation") to many Shi ...50 KB (7,539 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- writers and artists from around the world, including many leading figures ... Barney was an early advocate of "free love." She opposed ...46 KB (7,032 words) - 01:28, 11 November 2022
- 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 ... One of the most significant British politicians in recent political ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's ... deeply implicated in the worst atrocities of the Stalin years – the forced ...67 KB (9,419 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- the rule, and the period, from 1858 to 1947, of the British Empire on the Indian ... by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown. Prior to ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... modern-state founded solely on the basis of religion, since although India ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (light brown) vs. other ... such a wide area has been the focus of much study and theorizing. ...25 KB (3,899 words) - 07:30, 20 September 2023
- Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore (November ... were staunchly loyal to him. At the request of the French, he built a church ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- :This page is about the World War II nuclear project. [[Image:Trinity ... The Manhattan Project was the project undertaken during World War ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the twentieth century. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( December 1, 1918,–April 17, 1941), also ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced ... Gasoline is a mixture of hydrocarbons, although some may contain significant ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created ... to its failure to avoid, with accusations of contributing to, the Great ...32 KB (4,861 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. ... The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s Religions (1989) also ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- The Rhine (German: Rhein; French: Rhin; Dutch: Rijn) is one of the ... The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 23:58, 17 March 2023
- 1917 – September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to ... witness to the resilience and determination of a people to take control of ...51 KB (7,579 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden, son of the then-presidential candidate ... to also discuss the story. The laptop was of unclear origin and contained ...75 KB (10,024 words) - 01:22, 21 September 2022
- 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
- Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States. They speak ... became famous for their "Flight" of over 1,000 miles from Idaho ...36 KB (5,544 words) - 23:25, 14 November 2022
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... His role in World War I is debated by scholars. On the one hand, he ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until ... They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97 ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- The Society of the Friends of the Constitution ( Société des amis ... ), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality ( ...43 KB (6,105 words) - 17:02, 30 September 2023
- 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
- 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
- is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, ... . The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid ("People of Monotheism ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- 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
- Skambōnidēs) meaning Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, from the deme of ... During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...58 KB (8,390 words) - 00:12, 25 October 2021
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- to describe a group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those ... Some promote change that serves the interest of a small, vocal minority; some ...27 KB (4,003 words) - 08:31, 10 January 2024
- - November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States of America ... During the final days of the Cold War, he was responsible for managing ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- , was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. his own authority over the apparatus of government. As president and ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... When Britain acquired an Empire of its own, reference to His or Her ...53 KB (8,072 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2022
- The River Gambia flows through the center of the country and empties into ... Like its neighbor, The Gambia relies heavily on the export of groundnuts ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA ... were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, ...30 KB (4,076 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from ... During her period in office, the leader of the official opposition ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- from Latin, Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus), son of King Pippin ... III and is therefore regarded as the founder of the Holy Roman Empire (as Charles ...56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... was still coming to terms with defeat in World War I in which many people ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- Japan made two invasions of Korea, in [Japan's Korea War: First ... When negotiations got underway in the spring of 1593, China and Korea agreed ...32 KB (4,655 words) - 22:08, 8 February 2023
- an 'a' at the end) was the ruler of the Maurya Empire from 273 ... in Sanskrit. Ashoka was the first ruler of ancient Bharata (India), after ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- July 23, 1885) was the commanding general of the combined Union armies during ... Grant's tenacity in war was matched by his discretion and magnanimity ...47 KB (7,335 words) - 03:32, 17 November 2023
- Francisco Franco, was the Dictator of Spain in parts of the country ... power in order to preserve a traditional way of life that was threatened, in ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- Respectfully dubbed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee," Washington ... In the decades after the war, millions of Southern freedmen needed ...32 KB (5,107 words) - 19:08, 20 November 2023
- he is sometimes called "the father of scientific management." ... #039;s views may be too naive in terms of the relationship between workers ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- was a Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial ... in Washington D.C., had an understanding of American character and a profound ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI ... from the Indian but he also had a sense of obligation towards the people ...36 KB (5,555 words) - 08:08, 23 January 2023
- Mahmud of Ghazni (October 2, 971 – April 30, 1030 C.E.), also known ... In any case, in the long run, no believer will be proud of historical ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- barriers and to build musical bridges for a new world sound. Cowell's willingness to be open to a multitude of musical influences ...28 KB (4,110 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- opportunity in the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire. The dynasty ... Xi'an), the most populous city in the world at the time, is regarded ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was one of the most influential and widely ... as well as fellow film directors, to be one of the finest film directors of ...35 KB (5,656 words) - 01:57, 26 March 2024
- 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... For thirty-three years one of the great mysteries of American politics ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- swordsman. He is believed to have been one of the most skilled swordsmen ... discovered were applicable to diverse phases of human life. He constantly tested ...36 KB (6,131 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the pillars of the Western ... upon his conviction about the immortality of the soul, Socrates defined ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British ... in that region, contained only with the fall of Gwalior on June 20, 1858. The ...41 KB (6,196 words) - 18:35, 4 March 2024
- align:center;" | [[Image:Elizabeth I of England - coronation portrait ... | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Mary I ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- produced through rapid, confined burning of a propellant. This process ... was a variation on the contemporary terms of bow arm and drawing arm still ...44 KB (7,015 words) - 19:53, 26 March 2024
- sometimes Countess Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She ... and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- The Republic of Cameroon is a "hinge" state bridging central ... and linguistic groups, with the cultures of both the central and western ...36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte ... armies to oppose him. The principal armies of Napoleon's opponents were ...52 KB (8,210 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- 26, 1902) was an activist and a leader of the early women's rights ... Until their disagreement over ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth ...33 KB (5,008 words) - 16:16, 13 February 2024
- whose wilderness exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the ... Boone was a militia officer during the American Revolutionary War ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- West as Alexander the Great or Alexander III of Macedon, in Greek ... (Megas Alexandros), King of Macedon (336–323 B.C.E.), was the most ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively ... The self-interests of the various parties hampered the process over ...102 KB (14,729 words) - 11:39, 3 May 2023
- (population: 371,767 in 2007; population of urban area is some 1,007,972 ... , named Zurich the city with the best quality of life in the world. ...53 KB (7,882 words) - 06:16, 13 June 2023
- Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...60 KB (8,706 words) - 05:53, 10 May 2024
- Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel, serving from 2007 to ... and led Alignment and Labor. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he ...47 KB (6,756 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium ... and to pay off his debts. Still, Gaul was of significant military importance ...77 KB (12,113 words) - 23:58, 4 March 2024
- at its peak, with an estimated population of over 100 million people. The ... Eurasia, beginning with the conquests of Western Xia in north China ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- - an important ruling dynasty of ancient Karnataka in India ... After the rise of the imperial Chalukyas of Badami, the Gangas accepted ...47 KB (6,741 words) - 17:20, 4 May 2023
- William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington ... Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English ...49 KB (7,679 words) - 11:02, 9 May 2023
- leader whose role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the ... Caesar fought in a civil war that left him undisputed master of the ...44 KB (7,133 words) - 19:23, 4 February 2024
- | image name=Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg | order=40th President of the United States | date1=January 20, 1981 ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated ... Although commonly referred to in the singular, the territory consists ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- country in Central Europe and a member state of the European Union. Though ... As Czechoslovakia, independence was gained after World War I, but ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France would be taking part ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- The Fall of Rome or the Fall of the Roman Empire refers to the defeat ... Some European nations saw themselves as so indebted to the legacy ...28 KB (4,463 words) - 00:34, 25 March 2024
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- 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was one of the most important leaders ... As a member of a privileged and wealthy family, he studied law in ...56 KB (8,938 words) - 15:04, 16 June 2023
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- and control behavior as a function of environmental histories of ... College in New York, with the intention of becoming a writer and received ...20 KB (3,039 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
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- Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ... Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
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- 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
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- The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance ... for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity following ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- Waka (和歌), or Yamato uta, is a genre of Japanese poetry. Waka ... Traditionally, waka has had no concept of rhyme (certain arrangements ...23 KB (3,429 words) - 22:05, 3 May 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
- unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- ) 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
- 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
- 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
- " "origin") is the first book of the Bible, also called The ... The book begins with a description of God's act of creation, ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- an Irish writer and poet, regarded as one of the seminal figures of modernism ... Joyce pushed the limits of the "stream-of-consciousness" ...32 KB (5,105 words) - 21:18, 20 March 2024
- , (August 16, 1913 - March 9, 1992) was head of the Zionist underground ... as prime minister--and in the view of many, his singular accomplishment ...40 KB (6,019 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was an effective ... corvette ARA Guerrico. Military occupation of the Falklands followed on April ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet Union between 1928 ... superpower and did not see the elimination of millions of lives as an impediment ...78 KB (11,852 words) - 06:34, 6 May 2024
- 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
- A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a ... America. The twentieth century saw the rise of fascist and communist dictatorships ...76 KB (10,337 words) - 22:00, 28 January 2023
- military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many ... Goering was one of the central figures in the Nazi regime that was ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... themselves and even support certain rulers of the "other side." ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- he is also considered to be the father of the modern Italian language ... Dante is sometimes considered to be the most important poet of the ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 22:11, 25 January 2024
- In Hinduism, the Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics ... total, it is the longest epic poem in the world (roughly 10 times the size ...33 KB (5,198 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in ... Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- , or Tunisia, with a population of over 10 million, is a predominately ... Forty per cent of the country is comprised of the Sahara Desert, with ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May 17, 1995 until ... His internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- rights activist who served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. After ... including issues surrounding command of the military. However, Poland ...29 KB (4,198 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- The political integration of India established a united nation for ... India's leaders faced the prospect of inheriting a nation fragmented ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- τινούπολη) was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and, following ... history. Depending on the background of people, and their language ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- 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
- ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German ... The first report of the fire came shortly after 9:00 p.m., when a Berlin ...45 KB (6,712 words) - 21:11, 28 September 2023
- The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Defeat in World War I and the February and October Revolutions in ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- history who served as the Prime Minister of IranMike Thomson, [http://www ... Risen, [http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index ...33 KB (4,921 words) - 19:30, 9 November 2022
- article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies ... In 2008, Sokal published Beyond the Hoax, which revisited the history ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 13:50, 2 February 2023
- Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... northern areas which are roughly four fifths of the entire country, while Herzegovina ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... ferocity and pillaging raids, the voyages of the Vikings also linked different ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- North Africa—located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis across from the ... Originally a settlement of Phoenician colonists, Carthage grew into ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- leader often referred to as the "father of modern China." He played ... Although Sun Yat-sen is considered one of the greatest leaders of ...36 KB (5,408 words) - 22:52, 26 February 2023
- 16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, ... executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent years some ...41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- was the first and most prominent leader of a reform movement in sixteenth ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
- and from 1967 to 1998 the second President of Indonesia. After briefly working ... 86 years old in Jakarta in 2008. The legacy of Suharto's presidency is ...58 KB (8,552 words) - 13:46, 28 April 2023
- 1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in ... despair among Puritans, or the literature of rapid communication and trade ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... movement, Zarqawi opposed the presence of United States and Western military ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division ... However, Korea's history has been one of constant struggle between forces ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- The Philippine-American War was an armed military conflict between ... ISBN 9718958002). This date marked the end of the war as far as the United ...65 KB (9,572 words) - 20:45, 23 September 2023
- figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty when ... During the last decades of the Qing Dynasty, the government was split ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...63 KB (9,535 words) - 21:17, 6 May 2024
- descriptive sense to the economic effects of nations with large state sectors ... There has developed a diverse array of ideas that have been referred ...42 KB (6,187 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...41 KB (6,043 words) - 16:44, 14 May 2024
- available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book, namely, Jews and ... The term connotes an obligation of the state to protect the individual ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... by Greeks and Romans. It is a successor of the powerful European Bulgarian ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Order of the British Empire (January 3, ... His works address the inner struggle of good and evil within each of ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
- The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi ... With the genocide, and the resurgence in the civil war, Rwanda's ...45 KB (6,822 words) - 18:26, 22 December 2022
- is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson ... administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is the ...36 KB (5,238 words) - 15:40, 7 December 2022
- Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ... Asia and South America, Portugal was one of the world's major economic ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- 14, 1799) was the commander in chief of the Continental Army in the ... Washington first gained prominence leading Virginia troops in support ...58 KB (9,004 words) - 11:02, 13 December 2023
- Transylvania is a Central European region located in the eastern half ... the region is known for the scenic beauty of its Carpathian landscape and ...47 KB (6,836 words) - 02:15, 2 May 2023
- Kurufa was a medieval West African state of the Mandinka from c. 1235 to ... The kingdom included the ancient city of Timbuktu, which was flourishing ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, first as ... Trotsky's ideas form the basis of the Communist theory of Trotskyism ...93 KB (14,349 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- it as a Liberal. He was Secretary for War 1809 to 1828. He is best remembered ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian ... lacked the military and political power of the former USSR. Russia managed ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- West Virginia is a state in the Appalachia/Upland South region of ... West Virginia is one of the Border States. The state's Northern ...40 KB (5,933 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- Baptist minister. He is considered one of the most influential Christian ... work reached beyond a narrow understanding of Christianity, embracing people ...66 KB (9,276 words) - 17:37, 31 October 2023
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... United Kingdom, or the same as the island of Great Britain, which consists ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned ... 1921. His strong support for and defense of the New Economic Policy (NEP ...53 KB (7,506 words) - 19:11, 19 January 2023
- and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011 ... and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between Britain and the Zulus ... One of the puzzles of the Anglo-Zulu war is that although the British ...42 KB (6,753 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population, known ... incredible geological diversity in the form of snowcapped mountains to well ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- [[image:Richard coeurdelion g.jpg|thumb|right|Richard I of England]] Richard I (September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199) was king of England ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle (1996). ...69 KB (10,533 words) - 13:50, 28 April 2023
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... enthusiastic: Some powers linked the demise of the Ottomans with the fate ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces ... Defeat at the Battle of Hakodate broke this last holdout and left ...49 KB (7,292 words) - 13:40, 28 April 2020
- or Türk yazını) is the collection of written and oral texts composed ... The history of Turkish literature spans a period of nearly 1,500 years ...56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- 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
- territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing. The Qing Dynasty ... with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height of Imperial Chinese influence ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- The Pilgrim Fathers is the common name for a group of English separatists ... The founding of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts and its historic ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 20:39, 9 April 2023
- Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn) is one of several names for ... Different geographic definitions of Palestine have been used over ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- and philanthropist. Witnessing the murder of his parents as a child leads ... Miller. That show, together with the success of director Tim Burton's ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- the Latin or Turkish), is the founder of Islam—the world's second ... and Medina are cities in the Hejaz region of present day Saudi Arabia. He ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- 69 and 96 C.E., encompassing the reigns of Vespasian (69–79 C.E.), and ... The reign of Titus was struck by multiple natural disasters, the most ...53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
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