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- title=Geography of South Korea| image_name=Korea_south_map.png| ... Sea to the south; and the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east. }} ...830 bytes (140 words) - 17:05, 7 May 2021
- image_name=Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea - Project Gutenberg eText ... text=Daoism ("Taoism") is the English name for a cluster ...828 bytes (121 words) - 00:30, 8 May 2021
- from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine invertebrates that are ... terrestrial representatives. Representatives of the phylum can be found at ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:27, 11 October 2020
- monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ... Jianzhen promulgated the Lü-tsung (Vinaya) school of Buddhism, which ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 12:20, 1 August 2022
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... Hotel on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing Empire of China ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- – 708 or 710 C.E.), was a Japanese poet of the Nara period who featured ... As an official poet to the court of three successive rulers, Hitomaro ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
- Sea to the south; and the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east. South Korea ... Yellow Sea to the south; the East Sea (Sea of Japan) borders the east coast ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- its southwest. It is connected to the Sea of Japan (also known as "Korean ... Kuril Islands straits, waters from the Sea of Japan flowing through the La ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- West from the unique Christian perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Together ... Endo’s greatest work, Silence, portrays the courage of Japanese ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
- - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... four other fishermen from Tosa Province, Japan, and rescued by the American ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- Ganghwa Island (江華島), known as the first line of defense for ... island in South Korea, sits in the estuary of the Han River on the west coast ...8 KB (1,114 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- Koi is any of the ornamental, domesticated varieties of the common ... Koi is one of the world's most popular freshwater, ornamental ...13 KB (2,084 words) - 22:49, 18 October 2021
- The Kamchatka Peninsula is a long body of land jutting dramatically ... About the size of New Zealand, it is one of the largest peninsulas ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (374-413, r. 391-413) was the nineteenth ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- (1159 – June 15, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan ... The exploits of Yoshitsune and his faithful follower, the monk Benkei ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. In 1891, Hearn married ... in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. Most Japanese identify ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- Ryōkan (良寛) (1758-1831) was a Zen Buddhist monk of the Edo period ... in Echigo Province, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, in 1758. His father, ...10 KB (1,696 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- abalone), crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and sea urchins—and others including ... item, they have been important for thousands of years in the cuisines of many ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- The Jomon period (縄文時代, Jōmon-jidai) is the period of Japanese ... genetic expansion from the area of the Sea of Japan towards the rest of eastern ...17 KB (2,630 words) - 19:45, 4 May 2024
- benthic, being anchored to the bottom of the ocean or to solid structures. for seaweed, are a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 17:38, 25 January 2023
- have been formed by the incidental isolation of an existing piece of land during ... others were intended to isolate one group of people from another. More recently ...9 KB (1,326 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2023
- regarded as the holiest temple complex in Japan. Located in the city of Ise ... Jingū is in fact a shrine complex composed of over one hundred individual ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 03:00, 8 March 2024
- Tuna is any of 14 species of ocean-dwelling fish comprising the tribe ... and the Philippines and probably the Sea of Japan/East Sea, then migrate ...16 KB (2,306 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- as a Japanese hero and a founding father of the modern age. He was a visionary ... known as "Tosa," on the island of Shikoku, Japan. He was the ...18 KB (2,973 words) - 00:57, 23 December 2022
- The formlessness which characterizes much of his writing reflects the fluid ... of the northern winds coming across the Sea of Japan. The winds pick up moisture ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi-jidai) is an era in the history ... The cultivation of rice allowed the development of a sedentary agricultural ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- miles (1,300 km) northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to the Russian Kamchatka ... after which they began settlement. A group of the southern islands were seized ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Jeju-do (transliterated Korean for Jeju Province, short form of Jeju ... For most of the island's history, Jeju-do had little contact ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- or “ama shogun” (尼将軍) because of her role in the founding of ... Born in 1156 as the eldest daughter of the leader of the influential ...16 KB (2,515 words) - 16:09, 25 January 2023
- The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari, 平家物語) is an epic ... The Tale of the Heike was compiled in 1240 by an unknown author from ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- between northwestern Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, and Sea of Okhotsk ... near Russia, and has coastlines on the Sea of Japan (west), the Sea of Okhotsk ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- size and a more pointed snout than the sea lions in the same family ... The one species of Callorhinus, the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- centered in the area around the Sea of Japan, and particularly in the ... center of expansion from the Sea of Japan but cannot indicate dates ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 2023
- and Hawaiian English) is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most ... Since approximately 75 percent of the resident population of the state ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- Bulguksa, the grotto overlooks the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and rests 750 ... Image:Rinux2.jpg|The Sea of Japan can be seen on a clear day from ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
- Elapidae, whose members are known as elapids, is a family of venomous ... Elapids are a diverse group of more than 300 species placed in about ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- tallest volcano and the highest mountain in Japan. Mount Fuji is still considered ... at shrines at the base and around the rim of the crater, and Buddhists called ...18 KB (2,819 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka ... no daidokoro) or the gourmet food capital of Japan. The city has a long ...25 KB (3,427 words) - 19:39, 20 July 2023
- [[File:KarlHaushofer.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Karl Haushofer, circa ... who developed the German concept of Geopolitik. An army officer ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 00:43, 5 March 2024
- Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan fought over the control of Korea ... symbolized the degeneration and enfeeblement of the Qing Dynasty and demonstrated ...31 KB (4,561 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- Genpei gassen, 1180–1185) was a series of conflicts between the Taira ... as Gempei) comes from alternate readings of the kanji for 'Minamoto ...23 KB (3,568 words) - 19:36, 23 October 2022
- The Three Kingdoms Period of Korea (hangul: 삼국시대) featured ... Kingdoms." Founded soon after the fall of Gojoseon, the three city-states ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- philosopher known as "the sage of Ōmi." Nakae was a feudal ... Tottori prefecture) on the coast of the Sea of Japan, and a year later he moved ...13 KB (2,132 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, is a large ... The Southern Ocean lies in the farthest edge of the Southern Hemisphere ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- Jirisan (지리산, 智異山) is a mountain in the southern part ... The "ji" in the name of Jirisan or Mt. Jiri is the chinese ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 05:52, 5 April 2024
- " Her myths are the most important of the indigenous Japanese faith ... Amaterasu is seen as the highest manifestation of Kunitokotachi, the ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- An otter is any member of 13 extant species of semi-aquatic and aquatic ... Asia, North America, and South America. The Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) is ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- There are not specific matsuri days for all of Japan; dates vary from area ... and still others around contests where many of the participants sport loin ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- later use. Mochi is used to make a variety of traditional Japanese sweets ... In Japan, mochi is traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki ...16 KB (2,504 words) - 12:55, 10 March 2023
- Echigo province during the Sengoku Period of Japanese history and nearly ... of Echigo province, located along the Sea of Japan, in the northern part ...16 KB (2,605 words) - 11:26, 18 April 2023
- Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical ... "to seek," which was the name of an island in the Red Sea that ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... betrayal" was coined in several of these countries to describe ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- asserts that it has a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons. North Korea ... #039;s provocative missile tests in the Sea of Japan and noncompliance with ...25 KB (3,635 words) - 06:33, 16 November 2022
- was an uprising of Japanese peasants, most of them Christians, in ... After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the Christian lords Konishi ...25 KB (3,619 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The ... occupation of Korea, including the Sea of Japan naming dispute, visits ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- The Jurassic period is an interval of about 55 million years defined ... The start of the Jurassic period is marked by the major Triassic-Jurassic ...11 KB (1,508 words) - 16:34, 14 May 2024
- Carp is a common name for various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae ... carp are esteemed as a food fish in China, Japan, and Taiwan. They are also ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 00:56, 13 January 2023
- A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... Europe, although it can also mean Asia when said in Japan. ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- It won fame for playing a vital role winning sea battles against Japanese ships ... and leadership to stop, let alone defeat, Japan. On to this scene appeared ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
- battle occurred incidental to the mission of the General Sherman to attempt ... and passed a law that prohibited the return of shipwrecked seaman, especially ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally ... Onjo of Baekje, the son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, founded ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- , is the largest port city in the Republic of Korea. With a population of ... was more than doubled by an influx of refugees from the north. Busan ...19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
- Mustelidae is a diverse family of the order Carnivora, whose extant ... help to control prey populations. The sea otters, for example, are keystone ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... refers to the province's location east of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- Eastern) dragon. Unlike the Western dragon of Europe that is representative ... dragon is benevolent and powerful, bringer of good fortune. Its image was ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- JPG|thumb|right|280px|right|Statue of Guan Yin on Mount Putuo]] Chinese: 觀音) is known as the bodhisattva of infinite compassion in East ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- East China Sea to the south, and the Sea of Japan (East Sea) to the east ... Ulleung-do, a volcanic island in the Sea of Japan (East Sea), has a greater ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- who is most famous for his mission to Japan, which opened that country ... he was only 15 years old, under the command of his older brother Oliver Hazard ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded ... details that revealed the characteristics of the figures he drew and paid ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- :For other uses of the word Taira see Taira (disambiguation) ... clan name bestowed by the emperors of the Heian Period on certain ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:27, 21 January 2024
- not necessarily round), lustrous object made of nacre (mother-of-pearl) that ... Pearls are formed inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks when ...20 KB (3,138 words) - 19:56, 22 April 2023
- - 1662), was a military leader at the end of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. Born ... Zheng Chenggong was a prominent leader of the Ming loyalist movement ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 15:22, 3 December 2022
- Mitsui Group is one of the largest corporate conglomerates (keiretsu ... shogunate and began operating a system of money exchanges. They received ...22 KB (3,120 words) - 12:54, 10 March 2023
- The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- Caviar is the processed, salted roe of certain species of fish, most ... in the United States, high consumption of caviar led to over-fishing ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- Japanese navy during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) during the ... Yi is also known for his innovation of the Turtle ships (거북선 ...34 KB (5,442 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic ... 147° east meridian. The northernmost extent of the Indian Ocean is approximately ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- === 1983 - Sea of Japan tsunami === 7.7 earthquake occurred in the Sea of Japan, about 100 km west of ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- Salmon is the common name for several species of large food and game ... and the island of Kyūshū in the Sea of Japan in the western Pacific; ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- post-war writing and the circumstances of his ritual suicide in public ... Mishima actively engaged in martial arts and tried to live a life ...26 KB (3,997 words) - 18:56, 9 November 2022
- 1190) was a Japanese Buddhist priest-poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura ... his own poems against each other. Many of his poems are included in the ...14 KB (2,344 words) - 18:56, 22 December 2022
- waiting in the imperial court at the height of the Heian period (795–1185 ... The name “Lady Murasaki” refers both to the author of The Tale ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- , the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in ... In Chinese culture, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- Gaya refers to a confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley ... The Gaya confederacy became a key component of the Silla dynasty. ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- which lived during a large part of the Mesozoic era, were the ... now is used more for the parent clade of the Ichthyosauria. ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 17:21, 10 February 2024
- or other aquatic organisms. The activity of catching the aquatic species ... The focus of a fishery may be fish, but the definition is expanded ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... The western Pacific, south of the sea of Japan, experiences dramatic ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- provide a look at the heart and soul of Korea. The Parks host and protect ... anniversary, and the twentieth anniversary of the Korea National Park Service ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:16, 11 March 2023
- quot; "drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is often used to ... in recent years as the central instrument of large drum ensembles called ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ... a businessman. After a short experience of office work proved him to be ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state ... After World War II, Shinto lost its status of state religion; some ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- Mussel is the common term for members of several families of freshwater ... Most freshwater mussels require a host during one stage of the life ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- began to withdraw as the possible collapse of North Korea in the wake news ... country, because the People's Republic of China has refused to grant ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- The dugong is only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; ... Dugongs are part of the order Sirenia along with manatees, both of ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- Sea turtle (or seaturtle) is the common name for any of the large ... Sea turtles provide important functions for the ecosystem. They are ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- been interchanged or merged over the course of time. Sometimes, however, dockyards ... regulations have resulted in movement of the industry to developing regions. ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan ... Korea has sometimes been described as a shrimp between two whales ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. He is today regarded ... gossip. Basho, drawing on his own studies of Zen Buddhism, revolutionized ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 16:53, 7 November 2022
- meaning "island") are a chain of more than 150 mostly volcanic ... The islands, including their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- Fort Pasir Panjang, or Labrador Battery, located at the southern tip ... the world, understood the importance of coaling stations and coastal ...15 KB (2,283 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- The Aleuts (Unangax, Unangan or Unanga) are the indigenous people ... Despite this, an estimated 90 percent of the population died during ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- Shinran Shonin (親鸞聖人) (1173-1262) was a pupil of Honen and ... to Echigo Province on the coast of the Sea of Japan. After five years Honen ...16 KB (2,491 words) - 14:15, 27 January 2023
- a colonial global empire outside of continental Europe. Their skills ... century, the Netherlands reigned supreme at sea, and dominated global commerce ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State Parties (countries ... The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- to the genus Hippoglossus from the family of right-eye flounders (Pleuronectidae ... The Atlantic halibut is native to the temperate waters of the northern ...23 KB (3,573 words) - 13:25, 24 January 2023
- Tripitaka") is a Korean collection of the Tripitaka (Buddhist scriptures ... preserved and most complete extant version of Buddhist canon in Chinese script ...7 KB (985 words) - 17:42, 2 May 2023
- Nichiren (日蓮), was a Buddhist monk of thirteenth century Japan. A ... Nichiren’s ideal of establishing a Buddhist ideal land on earth ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- Oceania is a geographical (and geopolitical) region consisting of ... Most of Oceania consists of small island nations. Australia is the ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- Japanese folklore is heavily influenced by the two primary religions ... by foreign literature. Some stories of ancient India were influential ...36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 2022
- Dutch) chartered by the States-General of the Netherlands to expand trade ... its possessions and the debt being taken over by the government of ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- generally followed the comedic misadventures of well-meaning but unscrupulous ... Smollett was born at Dalquhurn, now part of Renton, in present-day ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2023
- small invertebrates are important members of the zooplankton, particularly ... As this taxonomic group advances in its individual need of growth ...32 KB (4,630 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... The Republic of Palau consists of eight principal islands and more ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, ... Traditionally, some of the objects in a still life were likely to ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 2022
- Prominent in Japanese cuisine, sushi is a food made of vinegared rice ... There are various types of sushi. Sushi served rolled in nori (dried ...23 KB (3,535 words) - 00:29, 27 February 2023
- Cranes are any of the large, long-legged, long-necked, wading birds ... Representatives of the Guidae family, comprising 15 extant species ...19 KB (2,899 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Giant squid is the common name for any of the very large squid comprising ... (33 ft) for males from caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles (second ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Many consider Ahn Chang-ho to be one of the key moral and philosophical ...16 KB (2,495 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... of Unoke, a farming village on the Sea of Japan, about twenty miles from ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of ... as the most important naval engagement of World War IIU.S. Navy, [http://www ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- and "Ichiyusai Hiroshige") was one of the last great ukiyo-e (“pictures ... Impressionists and Post Impressionists, many of whom were influenced by his ...13 KB (2,024 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2024
- Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service ... The Enlightenment had placed humanity at the center of the world, ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... ratified by Spain (at the time, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon), July 2 ...16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- carnivorous mammals in the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family, typically ... Originally, the name "weasel" was applied to one species ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- was a major daimyo during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, and one of ... Born the son of an insignificant daimyo in Owari province, near present ...25 KB (4,007 words) - 23:52, 17 November 2022
- may also be used for a canal or a flow of water—for consumption, for ... the construction in the twentieth century of such undersea tunnels as the ...17 KB (2,599 words) - 00:21, 3 May 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... after the Japanese defeat and at the onset of the Chinese Civil War. The ...23 KB (3,109 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- Most commonly, rivers flow on the surface of the land, but there are also ... ==Origins of river water== A river may have its source in a spring ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. It is ... Europe and Asia without circumnavigation of Africa. Before its opening ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Bluefin tuna is the common name for three of the eight species of ... and the Philippines and probably the Sea of Japan/East Sea, then migrate ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- in 1558 when T'oegye was at the peak of his notoriety. However T'oegye ... Xi's Thought in Korea and set the path of Korean Neo-Confucianism leading ...21 KB (3,447 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- In rail transport, a train consists of rail vehicles that move along ... the steam engine was the dominant form of locomotive power through the ...16 KB (2,477 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- is an entity responsible for the money of its country or of its group ... Though the primary purpose of a central bank is to act as a financial ...30 KB (4,733 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- Hawaii and Australia. With the exception of tiny Vatican City, Tuvalu has ... Tuvalu consists of four reef islands and five true atolls. Its small ...20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
- Scallop is the common name for any of the marine bivalve mollusks ... Scallops constitute a cosmopolitan family, found in all of the world ...19 KB (2,833 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... territory and its people being invaded. Some of these consequences can be beneficial ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Clupea harengusThe most abundant species of fish in the world. ... life, and limbs—if present—in the form of fins. Poikilothermic refers ...18 KB (2,549 words) - 06:51, 17 May 2021
- until 1910, lasted for five centuries as one of the world's longest running ... Shortly following the declaration of the Korean Empire in 1897, the ...39 KB (5,700 words) - 15:30, 6 May 2024
- Roman Catholic priest. Born into a family of Christian converts at a time ... by eradicating Christianity; the sacrifice of these early Korean Christians ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 17:52, 27 July 2023
- Japan made two invasions of Korea, in [Japan's Korea War: First ... == Negotiations and Truce between China and Japan (1594–1596) == ...32 KB (4,655 words) - 22:08, 8 February 2023
- An open air museum is a distinct type of museum that exhibits its ... American models focus on representations of daily life, which should properly ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- The most popular line is monofilament line made of a single fiber ... and other marine life. Toray Industries, Japan, developed biodegradable ...12 KB (1,938 words) - 17:31, 28 March 2024
- Surf fishing is the sport of catching fish while standing on the shoreline ... therefore, must have a working knowledge of factors that effect fishing ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 23:52, 26 February 2023
- Strait (Tsushima Strait) and East Sea (Sea of Japan), is Japan. Approximately ... Korea to the west, and the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east. The Korea ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also known as the Second Battle of the Philippine ... The "Battle" of Leyte Gulf was actually a campaign consisting ...48 KB (7,546 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- Most of the sixteen Kurosawa–Mifune films are considered cinema ... Japanese parents, and grew up in the Chinese city of Dalian ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 04:42, 1 May 2023
- China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into the ... The Yellow River is called the "Mother River of China" and ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- one" or "March 1") was one of the earliest manifestations ... demonstrations failed to accomplish the goal of effecting independence, they ...28 KB (4,439 words) - 11:10, 9 March 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
- Japan made two invasions of Korea, in 1592 and 1596, starting a war ... The Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) refers to two invasions ...42 KB (6,114 words) - 09:44, 1 April 2024
- The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal ... the war. The campaign marked the beginning of the transition by Allied forces ...54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- Ming) T'ai Tsung, was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty (明朝) of ... Though he was despotic and ruthless, Yongle is considered one of the ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Nautilus (from Greek nautilos, "sailor") is the common name ... by having an external shell and two pair of gills rather than one (Vecchione ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- quot;many islands") is a large grouping of over one thousand islands scattered ... Island. A Polynesian island group outside of this great triangle is Tuvalu ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- as Chuseok in Korea and Tsukimi in Japan. This festival is held on ... festival. These cakes, named after the shape of the full moon, reflects the ...32 KB (4,726 words) - 17:31, 9 November 2022
- Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ... During World War I, a force of Japanese destroyers supported the Allies ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally ... or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years ...28 KB (3,998 words) - 16:21, 17 January 2023
- In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand formed by eolian ... Some coastal areas have one or more sets of dunes running parallel ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 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
- mouth or, more rarely, by snagging the body of the fish. Fish hooks have been ... Fish hooks are normally attached to some form of line or lure that ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 17:26, 28 March 2024
- In Korea, Buddhist temples are abundant. Many of the oldest and most ... ==Brief History of Korean Buddhism== :See Korean Buddhism for more ...21 KB (3,080 words) - 04:34, 4 March 2023
- is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, on the opposite ... is a major factor in the exploration of and the research conducted ...23 KB (3,208 words) - 15:38, 4 February 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... The Torres Strait Islanders are a sea-faring people. They have been ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- (or pitvipers, pit-vipers), is a subfamily of venomous vipers (family Viperidae ... There more than 150 species of crotalines, distributed in both the ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating ... but little else is known about the origins of tofu and its method of production ...37 KB (5,817 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), is a province of ... whose area of control extended to the Sea of Japan to encompass much of what ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- The French campaign against Korea of 1866, known as Byeonginyangyo ... Though Joseon Dynasty Korea maintained a policy of isolation from ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
- Infrared astronomy is the branch of astronomy and astrophysics that ... that occur during the birth and death of stars, as well as to observe ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- The crowns of Silla, discovered and displayed in Gyeongju, are unique ... The crowns of Silla were made in the Korean kingdom of Silla approximately ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 06:29, 11 January 2024
- 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
- cough followed by a high-pitched intake of breath that sounds like "whoop ... coverage with this vaccine, pertussis is one of the leading causes of vaccine ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- Seahorse is the common name for any of the small, marine, upright ... For humans, the interesting form and behaviors of these fish add to ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- Didymus, meaning "Twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus ... it eastwards as far as India. The churches of Malankara in India trace their ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 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
- marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes ... fine dining restaurants. Blue marlin meat is of good quality because it has ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- ) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of ... and the editing, revising, and collating of them was organized under official ...31 KB (4,609 words) - 00:37, 3 May 2023
- The geological history of Earth began 4.567 billion years ago, when ... Some of this object's mass merged with the Earth and a portion ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- Bass fishing is one of the most popular recreational types of fishing ... a popular game sport in the Eastern regions of the United States. Although ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 18:03, 11 February 2023
- The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea ... defined as Melanesia. With a land area of 452,860 square kilometers, ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- Bean is a common name for edible plant seeds or seed pods of several ... The various species of bean plants include some of the very first ...19 KB (3,083 words) - 16:15, 14 November 2023
- , "Island of Atlas") is a mythical island nation first mentioned ... Plato's account of Atlantis, believed to be the first, is found ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- :For the history of Korea before its division, see History of Korea. ... to the border with Russia and the Sea of Japan (known as "Korean ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan's Imperial Japanese ... The attack was one of the most important engagements of World War ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern ... The one-time fishing village of Shenzhen was singled out by late Chinese ...24 KB (3,404 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- labor are collective terms for a variety of work relations in which people ... The institution of the corveé was and remains an accepted form of ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 06:20, 1 April 2024
- Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, ... is 1,500 miles (2414 km) southeast of Tokyo and 6,000 miles (9656 ...22 KB (3,229 words) - 03:09, 26 February 2023
- Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical ... In aquatic environments, enhanced growth of choking aquatic vegetation ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers ... It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- Although convinced that the airborne attack he led against Japan in ... After the war he was active in the reorganization of the American ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) is a province of China located on the southeast ... center and pristine nature. The ecology of the province has been threatened ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- Cremation, or the practice of burning the dead, refers to the disposal ... Cremation practices may be used for a variety of reasons. Some cultures ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- or semi-solid that is present in most types of crude petroleum and in some ... residue from the distillation process of selected crude oils. Outside ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:53, 18 August 2023
- Boar, or wild boar, is an omnivorous, gregarious mammal, Sus scrofa ... The boar is native across much of Central Europe, the Mediterranean ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- Province, on the coast of the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Nearby cities ... Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla, a fact to ...25 KB (3,647 words) - 14:22, 14 December 2021
- [[Image:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg|thumb|250px|right|The flag ... Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or outside the normal jurisdiction ...24 KB (3,715 words) - 06:18, 24 November 2022
- The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and ... their Phoenician ancestry). The main cause of the Punic Wars was the clash ...26 KB (4,140 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- Pinyin: Huìnéng) (638 – 713) was one of the most important figures ... Huineng is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment ...20 KB (3,245 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American ... full generals in the army since the birth of the nation, but Farragut was ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers ... century C.E., annexation as a protectorate of the United States in 1900, ...22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
- [[Image:Lincoln's coffin, replica.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A replica ... box used in the display and containment of deceased remains for burial ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- Herring is the common name for any of the various fish comprising ... While herring generally is the term used for members of the family ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 22:35, 1 January 2023
- the South Pacific Ocean. Known as "Rock of Polynesia," it is one ... Niue is located about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) northeast of New Zealand ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 02:29, 16 November 2022
- Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte ... allies stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany during World War II. ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (JOKB) Korea's largest denomination ... The Jogye order came fully into prominence following the end of the ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 06:43, 5 April 2024
- Tahiti is the largest island of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago ... being at 7,352 feet (2,241 meters) above sea level (Mount Orohena). The ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 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
- to enhance or protect the appearance or odor of the human body. They include ... cosmetics-labeling-requirements Summary of Cosmetics Labeling Requirements ...24 KB (3,549 words) - 18:25, 17 January 2023
- in most cases recover, aircraft, acting as a sea-going airbase. Aircraft carriers ... 12 U.S. carriers served 27 tours in the Sea of Japan as part of the Task Force ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- attitudes towards minorities. Kipling, of course, was a man of his times ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. ... processing, transportation and marketing of hydrocarbons (oil and gas) ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- The Territory of Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia ... It maintains about 1,500 residents who live in a number of "settlement ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in ... The Federated States of Micronesia is located in the region known ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign ... behind Vatican City. It has a population of 32,410 in a total land area ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- found in formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons ... sources. In a typical barrel 84 percent (37 of 42 gallons) of the hydrocarbons ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, that ... The history of the flag dates back to at least Roman times. The study ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake ... The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and series of catastrophic tsunamis ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- victory in the Chinese Civil War. At the age of eighteen, he entered Whampoa ... After the establishment of the People's Republic in October 1949 ...22 KB (3,630 words) - 04:11, 29 October 2022
- 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
- most likely die in the process. The means of such attacks have included ... with Samson's suicidal destruction of a Philistine temple (as recounted ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- a prominent head, and a modification of the mollusk foot into the form ... characterized by simple suckers, the suckers of squids also are armed by hooks ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 10:16, 11 March 2023
- Dolphins are considered to be among the most intelligent of animals ... There is no strict definition of the term dolphin (Grzimek 2004) and ...28 KB (4,061 words) - 16:40, 29 January 2024
- to the west and northwest, by the Sea of Japan; and from the Russian ... islands stretch in an arc between the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- around the world through the simple act of writing a letter to the leader ... participated in peacemaking activities in Japan, giving an address to the ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- Rook is the common name for members of the Old World bird species ... intelligent, the rook adds to the wonder of nature, particularly with their ...10 KB (1,526 words) - 21:41, 16 April 2023
- the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in search of a direct sea route to the Indies ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- quot; in Japanese) (617 – 686), was one of the leading philosophers, writers ... With his life spanning the end of the Three Kingdoms period and the ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- was a term for the military nobility in pre-industrial Japan who were ... spiritual ethos. Almost all the key leaders of the Meiji Restoration were ...49 KB (7,556 words) - 03:06, 23 December 2022
- fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang ... Most of Hanshan's 600 poems were inscribed on tree trunks or ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... the strongest candidate for highest point of the Australia/Oceania continent. ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan ... in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling ... The geographical location and history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- all ancient, historical sites in many parts of the world because it does not ... In everyday usage the term pottery encompasses a wide range of ceramics ...28 KB (4,471 words) - 22:01, 30 November 2022
- Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside ... Chinese dominate almost all the economies of Southeast Asia, and have sometimes ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located along ... dramatic upsurge in its economy and standard of living during the twentieth ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of ... terrestrial eruption of the twentieth century. Successful predictions ...24 KB (3,489 words) - 17:08, 10 November 2022
- Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled ... The use of nuclear power has also engendered much debate. Critics ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Salt is a mineral, composed primarily of sodium chloride, which is ... Sodium and chlorine, the two components of salt, are necessary for ...36 KB (5,357 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- by the Colorado River, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is contained largely ... Geologists estimate that formation of the canyon required at least ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- 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
- Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains ... like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by "divergent ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- reflecting the contemporary pronunciation of Japanese) ... was a Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyo of ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 08:38, 20 January 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's ... over a thousand kilometers along the Yellow Sea, with the Yangtze River passing ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- The unicorn, a legendary creature usually depicted with the body of ... thumb|right|300px| Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... and nineteenth centuries as well as a base of British economic exploitation ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... at 50 percent in 2001. About 42 percent of the East Timorese live below ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- opportunity in the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire. The dynasty ... civilization—equal to or surpassing that of the Han Dynasty—as well as ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- that it stays aloft primarily by means of a large cavity filled with ... Airships were the first form of aircraft to make controlled, powered ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, ... mythology and the major belief systems of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
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- Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in ... by the Spanish in the south caused many of its financial, intellectual ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... to 1975 brought Vietnam to the attention of the world. That war has been ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- public. Beyond recreation, other functions of zoos include research, education ... observing nature and have a role as stewards of creation, have, in the ideal ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- the global Cold War superpowers. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater of ... victory in Indochina that year. One of the poorer countries in South ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- By definition, the Prehistory of Korea lacks written records. Records ... See History of Korea, History of North Korea, and History of South ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 11:25, 26 June 2022
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [http://www.aseansec.org/64 ... AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc) ...43 KB (5,937 words) - 05:04, 18 August 2023
- Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve ... sport, swimming is featured in a range of local, national, and international ...26 KB (3,876 words) - 13:41, 23 March 2023
- ) is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China ... on the island. The People's Republic of China government claims Hainan ...25 KB (3,616 words) - 16:53, 21 January 2024
- existed from approximately 1270 (beginning of Solomonid Dynasty) until 1974 ... In the twentieth century, the last emperor of Ethiopia took on special ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial ... The heinous acts of torture committed by Unit 731 mirrored the inhumane ...57 KB (8,103 words) - 19:47, 9 February 2022
- Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of the Earth's ocean ... same reason in the Gulf of Mexico and Sea of Japan. On the southern coast ...37 KB (5,992 words) - 23:32, 30 April 2023
- to transport material from the surface of a celestial body, particularly ... ) However, current technology is not capable of manufacturing practical materials ...39 KB (5,875 words) - 15:17, 27 April 2023
- and newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the ... and poets, as well as to American poets of all races and creeds. He has ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- The mantle is a particular type of layer within an astronomical body ... Past episodes of melting and volcanism at the shallower levels of ...21 KB (3,036 words) - 02:57, 6 November 2022
- Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha ... believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until ...26 KB (3,758 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- and Batavia is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Located on the northwest ... Jakarta faces many of the challenges of large cities in developing ...29 KB (4,012 words) - 08:43, 18 March 2024
- Fishing is the practice of catching wild fish for food, recreation ... activity that can enhance a personal sense of balance, strengthen intergenerational ...49 KB (7,746 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- quot;) are marine mollusks (phylum Mollusca) of the class Cephalopoda, a group ... There are around 800 known extant species of cephalopods, although an estimate ...18 KB (2,469 words) - 01:46, 13 January 2023
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- led directly to the Synthetist style of Modern Art, while his expression ... Separating from his wife and five children and suffering from bouts ...13 KB (1,899 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2022
- The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... Korea's economy had developed into one of the strongest in the world ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental ... . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- quot; refers to both the geographic origin of these systems, which form almost ... storm surge. They develop over large bodies of warm water, and lose their ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite ... Since mesons are composed of quarks, they participate in both the ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson ... from attacks by Japanese naval air and sea forces. The battle was the ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- are an archipelago in Indonesia, and part of the larger Malay Archipelago ... The Maluku Islands are located on the Australian Plate, lying east ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from ... The development of transport vehicles has had an incredible impact ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 02:08, 2 May 2023
- Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus—to adjure) is the practice ... The concept of possession by evil spirits and the practice of exorcism ...20 KB (3,223 words) - 23:55, 24 March 2024
- gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- Hibernation is a state of inactivity (deep sleep) and metabolic depression ... Hibernation is one of several types of dormancy, a general term used ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 2023
- from slightly different viewpoints to each of the viewer's eyes, merge ... Almost from the invention of the telescope in the seventeenth century ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 17:52, 31 October 2023
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- another object while under the influence of a source of centripetal force ... who formulated his results in his three laws of planetary motion based on Tycho ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 01:05, 18 November 2022
- The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... powers started on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery ... In the woods, is perpetual Youth. The currents of the Universal Being ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used ... Funeral rites can be traced back to the most primitive of societies ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
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- used in nuclear medicine for a wide variety of diagnostic tests. 99Tc is used ... Before the element was discovered, many of the properties of element ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
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- Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
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- Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria ... Nigeria, is two and half times the size of Lagos city, the former capital ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
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- The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... newly independent nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- , 709–785) was a leading Chinese calligrapher and a loyal governor ... history. His style assimilated the essence of the previous 500 years, and ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:43, 15 October 2020
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- [[Image:Licorne Edimbourg Scotland.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Arms of Scotland ... Examples of legendary creatures can be found in medieval bestiaries ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... lanes, controlling access to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean with proximity ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed ... The first types of pottery were made about 11,000 years ago, during ...32 KB (4,846 words) - 22:42, 13 January 2023
- combined in several minerals and is one of the 26 elements that commonly ... several salts. Their colors reminded him of chromium salts, so he named ...15 KB (2,022 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since 1997 and is ... being deported under Stalin at the beginning of World War II when Nazi Germany ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana ... An accomplished storyteller, Berton was one of Canada's most ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- Modern China: A Guide to a Century of Change. (Harvard University ... United Front in 1936 to resist the invasion of Manchuria by Japan. After Japan ...40 KB (5,930 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
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- collectively referred to as the travels of "Eunuch Sanbao to the ... service. He became a close confidant of the Yongle Emperor. Between ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- in the southern hemisphere and largely south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica ... and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest ... A child of economic and social privilege, he overcame a crippling ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- the German colonial empire, consisting of the northeastern part of New ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor ... could have a profound impact on the future of Cambodia's economy. ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public ... interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified ...28 KB (4,023 words) - 23:51, 10 August 2023
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- or public even if the consequences of that activity are not conclusively ... appropriate precautions even in the absence of scientific consensus that the ...46 KB (6,708 words) - 18:54, 17 February 2022
- A scroll is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper which has been ... While a scroll is a roll of paper, papyrus, or parchment, a codex ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae ... form over several years, with the use of ritualized dances, and will ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... long, and is slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut in the United States. ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... "East Sea" in South Korea and Sea of Japan). Japan lies east of the ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- The Great Lakes of Africa are a series of lakes in and around the ... the three largest lakes have a host of middle-sized and small lakes ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist ... Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan (Oxford ...35 KB (5,340 words) - 10:04, 14 December 2022
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... as the Sandwich Islands, form an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States ... It lies along the Pacific Ocean at San Diego Bay just north of the ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... Settled for more than 2,800 years, Tonga is part of the cradle of ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- Bamboo comprises more than 1200 species of usually woody, perennial ... tall, with some members reaching heights of up to 30 meters (98 feet). ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... in 1783. Some Crimean Tatars were accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The concept ... The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist ...48 KB (7,076 words) - 03:33, 24 July 2023
- ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... among the Jurchens, and began a process of sinicization which ultimately ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one ... Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- term also is used to refer to all members of the order Crocodilia, a group ... that are primarily found in tropical regions of Asia, the Americas, Africa ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- July 23, 1885) was the commanding general of the combined Union armies during ... Called to Washington to assume command of the Union armies after his ...47 KB (7,335 words) - 03:32, 17 November 2023
- Wayne is most famous for his work in one of America's greatest native ... In the last decades of his career, Wayne transformed into an American ...21 KB (3,062 words) - 16:07, 1 October 2022
- is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible ... Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from ...46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... Gandhi but was unable to avoid the Partition of India, although he would have ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- Bootlegging is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport ... unauthorized audio or video recording, often of a concert, distributed without ...25 KB (3,823 words) - 17:51, 27 April 2020
- ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... by the Romans. It became the capital city of the Arab Aghlabid dynasty and ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space ... Cold is the absence of heat, hence in order to decrease a temperature ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily ... The earliest use of the term "Uyghur" (Weihu), during the ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
- Korea's first religion, the religion of Dangun, the mythical founder ... and Christianity absorbed elements of Shamanism, Buddhism, and Daoism ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Located on the west ... years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after Sri Lanka ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation ... The site of ancient port cities and a possession of several empires ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- thanatos, "death") is the practice of terminating the life of a human ... Of related note is the fact that suicide, or attempted suicide, is ...39 KB (6,081 words) - 04:44, 23 March 2024
- Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies ... One of Europe's oldest cities, with a history of 7000 years, ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- [[Image:Pygmy.png|thumb|right|200px|Comparative height of a Pygmy ... In anthropology, a Pygmy is a member of a hunter-gatherer people characterized ...27 KB (4,197 words) - 20:58, 14 April 2023
- Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227), the founder of the largest contiguous ... stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Sea of Japan. The empire's expansion ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- Never the largest newspaper in terms of circulation, The New York ... In 1896, Adolph Ochs, publisher of The Chattanooga Times, acquired ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 15:40, 30 April 2023
- Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest ... in a little over 30 years, from a collection of poor desert-coast sheikdoms ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's ... morally and legally, consuming the flesh of one already dead raises different ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... World War I soon established the importance of a reliable national oil supply ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- Ammonoid or Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals of the ... both commonly used to refer to any member of subclass Ammonoidea. However ...20 KB (3,015 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard ... Shepard was designated as the commander of the first crewed Project ...57 KB (8,455 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- The small island nation of Saint Lucia (pronounced "saint LOO ... The volcanic nature of Saint Lucia accounts for its being more mountainous ...18 KB (2,530 words) - 23:24, 1 August 2023
- located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era ... the Portuguese, ventured over vast stretches of ocean to reach new countries ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... in the Korean War. During a Soviet boycott of the meetings over the inclusion ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... society, in which people live in groups of settled dwellings comprising ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution varies in different ... life, and lineage, is commodified, the value of a human being is inevitably ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- one thousand years and ended with the rise of Christianity. It is considered ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- Anatidae is the biological family of medium to very large-sized birds ... Members of Anatidae are adapted for swimming, floating on the water ...30 KB (4,269 words) - 01:03, 9 January 2023
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية ... The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 2023
- chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The heaviest ... 235 (0.72 percent), and a very small amount of uranium-234 (0.0058 percent ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular ... It is estimated that there are perhaps 10,000 species of liverworts ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation ... the Maldivian ethnic identity is a blend of people of South Indian, Sinhalese ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( ... held on March 17, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick ( ...52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
- Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... northern Ecuador to central Chile. In search of Inca wealth, the Spanish explorer ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... plant that grew on the marshy shores of the bay. In the sixteenth century ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- Born in Haarlem, North Holland, she was one of the leaders of the Dutch resistance ... In December of 1967, Corrie ten Boom received recognition from the ...21 KB (3,559 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Natural satellites ... surface reaches Earth in 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light). ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture ... The idea of qi represents one of the unique and foundational elements ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... territory in 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- as the commercial and industrial center, of Peru. It is located in the ... as La Ciudad de los Reyes, or "The City of Kings." It became the ...28 KB (4,030 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- and scholars for his broad understanding of both Chinese classics, and ... and daughter survived during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, and ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- system and is named after the Roman god of war. It is also known as the ... and seasonal cycles are similar to those of the Earth. Of all the planets ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- an aquatic stage where they spend part of their time, as well as a terrestrial ... A highly diverse group of animals with only a core percentage exemplifying ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by ... The development of Korean Literature is quite unique due to the creation ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Tiriti o Waitangi) is a treaty first ... the Treaty is nonetheless the subject of heated debate. Many Māori ...36 KB (5,742 words) - 16:42, 2 May 2023
- and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement ... The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears ...44 KB (6,485 words) - 18:07, 12 February 2024
- texts developed an elaborate hierarchy of physically immortal beings ... "immortality." Some scholars of Taoism allege that later practitioners ...38 KB (6,009 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the ... Modern Cairo remains the cultural center of the Arabic world, and ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen ... Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, on December ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- the United States. In 2007, the population of the city proper was estimated ... and the social and geographical center of the original 13 American colonies. ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- produced by hydropower—that is, the energy of moving water. It is the world ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- producer, best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles, one of the most ... Not the most outspoken or public member of The Beatles, George was ...35 KB (5,701 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s. Some of the bitterest fighting of World ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 14:00, 3 May 2024
- Cholera is transmitted and spread to humans through consumption of ... cholerae most often occurs due to a lack of proper sanitation (clean water ...32 KB (4,728 words) - 17:16, 10 December 2023
- The Sun is the star at the center of the Earth's solar system ... About 74 percent of the Sun's mass is hydrogen, 25 percent is ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- Shark is the common name for any member of several orders of cartilaginous ... Due to a short history of shark attacks on humans, most sharks inspire ...44 KB (6,861 words) - 14:42, 7 June 2023
- = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical ... Telegraphy forms the foundation for almost all of the communication ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... maintaining global security because, with Japan it was regarded as a potential ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... It was part of the 1663 charter in which Charles I of England granted ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- It is also called Aotearoa or the "Land of the Long White Cloud" ... 270,000 km², is about the same as that of Colorado and somewhat smaller ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 18:04, 25 July 2023
- New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- (or Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch). Proponents of De Stijl sought to express ... that he called compositions, consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- Earth's atmosphere. Almost 90 percent of all the incoming cosmic ray ... Cosmic rays originate from a wide variety of sources--ranging from ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... an ideology that advocates the unification of all ethnic Somalis under one ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- protection and to promote awareness of environmental issues such as ... Earth Day grew out of the recognition by young people that the earth ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- Placozoa is a phylum of very simple, small, balloon-like marine animals ... Placozoans are the simplest in structure of all known multicellular ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ... The modern emirate of Dubai was created with the formation of the ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive ... However, such societies generally occur in times of societal stress ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- an internal wick rising through the center of a column of solid fuel. Prior ... With the advent of kerosene lamps and electric lights, candles are ...26 KB (4,080 words) - 19:18, 25 November 2023
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- == Evolution of the glyph == J upside down. The main contribution of the western Ghubar Arabs was ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... in 1948. Although it enjoyed a stable period of democracy and economic progress ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- ; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ... The factors leading to war are often complicated and due to a range ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 Housing Act ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- Médecins Sans Frontières was created in 1971 by a small group of ... The organization is known in most of the world by its French name ...42 KB (6,193 words) - 17:12, 25 February 2024
- The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country ... Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- [[File:Initiation ritual of boys in Malawi.jpg|right|330px|thumb|Initiation ... quot; or "person") is the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- celebrity, due to the emerging role of mass media in the lives of ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- , represents the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ ... between North and South Korea and a source of incidents. The truce that called ...29 KB (4,482 words) - 19:40, 4 May 2024
- le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté ... high in her right hand. The statue is made of pure copper on a framework ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- (1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... the Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan belong to the Pacific ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- British Army officer and creator of special military units in World ... Perhaps the most important aspect of Wingate's legacy is that ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Command module pilot Michael ... UTC, and it was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
- best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the ... position to lobby for international control of atomic energy and to avert ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf ... 14th largest in the world. With a population of almost 109 million, it is the ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... country was considered the banking capital of the Arab world and was widely ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- This bacterium, transmitted through the bite of a flea, has caused the death ... The epidemiological use of the term "plague" is currently ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...40 KB (5,976 words) - 22:28, 13 November 2022
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- Angkor refers to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the ... and most vibrant Hindu empire outside of India. The Khmer name has become ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... a wealthy nation. With a per capita GDP of $25,300 in 2006, Bahrain was ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- ) (May 2, 1921–April 23, 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, one of the ... the Apu trilogy. Ray worked on an array of tasks, including scripting ...43 KB (6,599 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located ... and Peru), with an area more than twice that of France. ...40 KB (5,666 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- the molecular level, liquid ethanol consists of hydrogen-bonded pairs of ethanol ... Ethanol has a refractive index of 1.3614. Ethanol is a versatile solvent ...49 KB (7,279 words) - 04:30, 22 March 2024
- laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug ... During the mid-twentieth century, Borlaug led the introduction of ...46 KB (6,869 words) - 10:00, 11 March 2023
- Kanji Kun'yomi (Japanese reading) of 定家, (1162 – September ... of Japanese poets, and perhaps the greatest master of the waka form ...30 KB (4,827 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- [[Image:Camuccini Lamentation over the Corpse of Socrates.jpg|thumb ... Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Death ...47 KB (7,217 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
- Canadian Rockies, the park is 80 miles west of Calgary in the province of ... As Banff is one of the world's most visited national parks, the ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on ... structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital city of the South American nation of ... financial, and political center of Colombia. As with many large ...33 KB (4,818 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected military ... or La Era de Trujillo), was one of the longest for a non-royal leader ...66 KB (9,421 words) - 19:56, 29 April 2024
- Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically ... ==History of research== ===Beginnings=== In his Dream Pool Essays of ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a mammal of the Felidae family and ... Native to the mainland of southeastern Asia, the tiger is an apex ...34 KB (5,273 words) - 03:13, 4 November 2022
- ) for short, is the capital and the largest city of Thailand. Bangkok ... Bangkok has one of the fastest rates in the world for construction ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated ... The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the ...62 KB (8,764 words) - 22:12, 30 March 2023
- Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- Musical theater is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken ... Austria, the Philippines, France, Canada, Japan, Eastern Europe, Australia ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- or other substances. Jewelry is made out of almost every material known ... Whether used as currency, protection, or fashion, jewelry is one of ...33 KB (4,967 words) - 20:02, 13 September 2023
- |name = Columbia University inthe City of New York light shall we see the light) (a paraphrase of Psalm 35:10) ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- States, located in the north-central part of the state, near the junction ... Dallas is the main economic center of the 12 county Dallas, Fort Worth ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
- Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing ... which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to ...101 KB (14,057 words) - 17:18, 7 May 2024
- symbolist poet and translator who became one of the major figures of the Silver ... and had an injured writing-hand for the rest of his life. He became involved ...51 KB (7,071 words) - 15:34, 30 June 2023
