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was a war between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire ... The Commonwealth, however, was terminally weakened as a result of ...

The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... several independent members of the Commonwealth of Nations, known as the Dominions ...

United Kingdom and is celebrated in a number of countries that previously formed ... and spectators prior to the banning of this sport. The origin of the ...

award for study at the University of Oxford. This scholarship program ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...

Women's suffrage is the most widely applicable aspect of the ... in New Jersey by the state constitution of 1776, where the word "inhabitants ...

The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...

Oceania is a geographical (and geopolitical) region consisting of ... Most of Oceania consists of small island nations. Australia is the ...

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...

Eastern Europe, as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division ... In some sources, Eastern Europe is defined as the nations bordered ...

Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It lies ... As a part of the once powerful British Empire, Great Britain played ...

The Bill of Rights 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the full ... The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive ...

A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth ... Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself ...

) is used for a class of materials that consist of continuous filaments ... plant, animal, and mineral sources. Examples of natural fibers and their sources ...

The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... Australia is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Much of Australia ...

sixteen people on board, citing violation of airspace. The episode took ... The Atlantique Incident, taking place one month after the end of the ...

in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...

Fiji was expelled from the Commonwealth of Nations. On December 5 of ... Fiji's membership of the Commonwealth of Nations was suspended due ...

Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado ... During the period of Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century ...

|observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... Day in countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations and the commemoration ...

history and is now part of the Commonwealth of Nations and CARICOM. ... member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organization ...

design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally ... and legally protected for a specific period of time, a trade secret can only ...

Although prawns technically are of different crustacean suborder than ... farmed for human consumption, and are part of an important shellfish fishery ...

The Suez Canal had been important in Iran and the colonial penetration ... The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 gave the United Kingdom control ...

14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... Empire and its transition into the Commonwealth of Nations. ...

politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he founded the Seychelles ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...

Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason ... born on March 18, 1922, in New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. ...

Gaborone is the capital and largest city of the landlocked nation ... became independent within the Commonwealth of nations. Following its independence ...

In law, defamation is the communication of a statement that makes ... The legal requirements of proving defamation are often difficult to ...

3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox ... was admitted as member of the Commonwealth of Nations and His Beatitude ...

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... but retained its membership in the Commonwealth of Nations. In circumstances ...

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, also known as the First Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ...

politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power ... to become Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations. ...

chronicled Polish history in a series of panoramic novels that won unprecedented ... He is best known internationally for Quo Vadis, a historical novel ...

Measurement is the estimation of the magnitude of some attribute of ... Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. In measurement theory ...

The Commonwealth of Dominica, commonly known as Dominica, is an island ... Dominica is a parliamentary democracy within the Commonwealth of Nations ...

1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great ... the genesis of the modern Commonwealth of Nations. His government ...

[[Image:Catherine03.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Equestrian portrait of Grand ... II Velikaya, born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst; May 2, 1729 ...

15, 1891 – October 14, 1944) was one of the most distinguished field ... chivalry towards his adversaries. He was one of the few German commanders who ...

The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...

system known as Civil law. For the area of law in common law countries ... Civil law, or continental law, is the predominant system of law in ...

Antigua and Barbuda is part of the Commonwealth of Nations and its ... Barbuda. It remained part of the Commonwealth of Nations and a constitutional ...

, is an outdoor sport played by two teams of 15 players each with a oval ... An adult-level rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes, consisting ...

especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...

with two neighboring islands, forms one of Australia's external dependent ... Norfolk Island is the main island of the island group the territory ...

In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...

The Battle of Verdun was one of the most important battles in World ... The Battle of Verdun resulted in more than a quarter of a million ...

“The Sea Around Us”, and “The Edge of the Sea” were immense successes ... our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the ...

The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling ... The geographical location and history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...

She was a notable first female in a variety of additional positions, including ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...

Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English Channel ... These islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Dukedom ...

The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...

Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the ... state, with special ties with the Commonwealth of Nations. In 1977, the first ...

Pacific Ocean state have a total land area of 92.7 square miles (240 sq km). National defense is the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation ...

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked nation ... such as the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the African Union. ...

[[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... accompanied by the claim that the blood of victims is used in various ...

– "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any ... The Jewish diaspora began with the conquests of the eighth to the ...

Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating money or goods, or providing ... Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating extensive financial ...

Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and ... Caribbean States (OECS), the Commonwealth of Nations, and the World Trade ...

Poppy is the common name for any of the plants comprising the Papaver ... The flower color of poppy species include: white, pink, yellow, orange ...

The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea ... Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and King ...

A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy ... In the history of war (which covers basically all of human history ...

Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...

Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation ... the Maldivian ethnic identity is a blend of people of South Indian, Sinhalese ...

an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on November 30, ... Barbados remains a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. ...

The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...

– August 27, 1975) was de jure Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 ... within. To the outside world, he was heir of an ancient dynasty possibly ...

Military intelligence (abbreviated “MI” or “int.” in Commonwealth ... advances have ensued as a result of military intelligence operations ...

in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries are called building ... members to obtain loans for the purpose of buying a home, they were intended ...

There are several configurations of fire engines relating to the position ... The primary purpose of the engines is for direct fire suppression ...

2019) was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving ... state sector industries, ended subsidization of loss-making industries, sold ...

Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...

Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; June 23, 1894 – ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward VIII held the titles of ...

bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...

Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... highest mortality rate among all African nations and very high incidences ...

Damselfly is the common name for any of the predaceous insects comprising ... the larvae and adults are key components of aquatic and terrestrial food ...

Tengri is the supreme god of the old Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar ... Tengri is a probable precursor of the Chinese deity Tian, which became ...

World Heritage Site in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia ... The Area is comprised of seven contiguous national parks and one protected ...

strong supporter of links with the Commonwealth of Nations and with the United ... Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, on December ...

on a person. It can be used as a means of intimidation, as a deterrent ... Torture is almost universally considered to be a violation of human ...

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...

Jamaica is an island nation of the West Indies. The third largest ... island Xaymaca (Jamaica), meaning "Land of Wood and Water." Christopher ...

Prize. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963 ... and political cooperation among the nations of the world so that all ...

public figure. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ... While widely recognized as a leading representative of Judaism in ...

Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...

Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Established ... The economy of Barbados is susceptible to various issues, such as ...

Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... 780,000 residents between 1940 and 1954. Of them, an estimated 120,000 ...

The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...

it has now mostly evolved into the Commonwealth of Nations, British influence ... dominion nation within the Commonwealth of Nations, while the six counties ...

The Battle of Gallipoli took place at Gallipoli from April 1915 to ... Çanakkale Savaşları, after the province of Çanakkale. In the United Kingdom ...

Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... engineer. Those licensed in specific areas of engineering may have formal ...

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of ... on popular culture, both in the Commonwealth of Nations and elsewhere. It ...

The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, little is known of ...

21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other ... its transformation into the Commonwealth of Nations. By the time of ...

Energy independence is self-sufficiency in terms of the availability ... amounts to meet the needs (consumption) of a particular entity. ...

Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, Order of the Nation (ON), Member of ... the faceless. She helped to set up a network of child-care centers to encourage ...

Bell pepper is the common name for a cultivar group of the species ... quot;pepper," whereas in many Commonwealth of Nations countries, such ...

Samoa, is part of an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean formerly ... Samoa is located east of the International Date Line and south of ...

Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... |Commonwealth of Nations | align="center" |1931 ...

The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...

Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... African Development Community, the Commonwealth of Nations, and La Francophonie ...

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... people. They have been at the forefront of the cultural clash that came ...

Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...

Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 ... km (62 mi) from east to west. It is the size of Israel, about one-third the ...

thumb|200px|Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper ... and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy, he ruled ...

Ocean, located 300 miles from the coast of Argentina, 671 miles west ... are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have ...

The River Gambia flows through the center of the country and empties into ... constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations. Shortly thereafter ...

Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country ... the Non-Aligned Movement, the Commonwealth of Nations, and many other ...

the most well-known North American Native of his generation, meeting and ... spent attempting to rectify the injustice of the Iroquois lands being handed ...

George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...

. A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ... Much of the sea's coastal features are the result of glacial ...

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... Canada's membership in the Commonwealth of Nations and La Francophonie ...

is a generic term meaning the assembled set of components that makes up whatever ... delivered to the opponent in any situation of combat or quasi-combat. Thus ...

The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...

the aircraft carrier as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously ... 000 tonnes or more, has been the pinnacle of carrier development since their ...

ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...

Copyright is the exclusive right given to the creator of a creative ... not just literary work, but also forms of creative work such as sound ...

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (March ... Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during ...

Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... in 1948. Although it enjoyed a stable period of democracy and economic progress ...

and William Leonard Langer, The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval ... policy that has rewarded veterans of the Bush War with farms previously ...

A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... Militias, being composed of civilians rather than professional soldiers ...

London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... performed by regiments of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] and ...

The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... destruction wrought by nearly two decades of civil war during the Cold War ...

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 ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...

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 ...

Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...

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 ...

The Republic of Guatemala ( República de Guatemala , re'puβlika ... of American States and the Commonwealth of Nations to conclude it. ...

are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands ... from the sea. Located 575 miles southeast of Miami, the Turks and Caicos ...

fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected ... At the invitation of South Africa's first post-apartheid president ...

The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... including membership in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth citizenship ...

It is also called Aotearoa or the "Land of the Long White Cloud" ... constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations. ...

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland, is a country of northwestern ... over winter. Over the next centuries, people of Nordic and Gaelic origin settled ...

The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ... During the Roman Empire, the cross was an instrument of capital punishment ...

the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...

The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...

Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...

Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island ...

Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it has ...

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 ...

as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes ... system which eventually made it the target of a zealous, impoverished French ...

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in ... Togo was once part of the area known as the "Slave Coast" ...

March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... Gorbachev was wildly popular in the West, largely because of the way ...

28, 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry ... 1879, in Frankfurt am Main, the youngest son of the glazier and entrepreneur ...

prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed ... He was Member of the Parliament of England briefly and was also a ...

of Ireland, or of a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Also, British citizens ... of Ireland, or of a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, in order to be ...

The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita the Allied (Greece and the British Commonwealth) and Axis (Nazi Germany ...

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the most populous ... Criminal Court, and the Commonwealth of Nations. Nigeria has remained ...

Athletics also known as track and field is a collection of sporting ... While most recognize the Olympic Games as the start of track and field ...

Kingston, the capital, the largest city, and chief port, of Jamaica ... 6, 1962, remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The first prime ...

Johnny Weissmuller (June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was one of ... also inspired people through his portrayal of Tarzan, who always protected ...

the modern libertarian movement and revival of classical liberalism. Prominent ... on September 29, 1881, in Lemberg (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ...

Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England ... Several significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry ...

The largest portion lies within the borders of Poland; the rest is within ... century on, after the Czech king Charles IV of the Luxembourg dynasty became ...

Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...

Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1896 - November 25, 1997) was the leader of ... state, and a special assembly stripped him of his title. Banda ran for president ...

[[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...

an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... world, including members of the Commonwealth of Nations such as Australia ...

The political integration of India established a united nation for ... India's leaders faced the prospect of inheriting a nation fragmented ...

1919 – March 1921) was an armed conflict of Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine ... By 1919, the Polish forces had taken control of much of Western Ukraine ...

Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago ... to rule, dominating politics by its control of every aspect of the society ...

urban renewal project, a transformation of a large former disused docks ... Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.]] ...

1916 – July 17, 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 ... he did as Prime Minister. He was a member of the Brandt Commission on International ...

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and ... Elizabeth. Before the official announcement of their engagement in July 1947 ...

The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country ... Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed ...

:"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...

a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader ... Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth ...

Winnipeg is both the largest city and capital city of the province ... Prairies, on a flood plain at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers ...

from Jeddah, in the narrow sandy Valley of Abraham, 277 metres (909 ft ... The city is revered by Muslims for containing the holiest site of ...

Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The ... east of the Canadian Rockies. Calgary is well-known as a destination ...

designates the National Flag Carrier of Bangladesh, with its main hub ... Biman Bangladesh Airlines has a history that mirrors the formation ...

historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... nation-state or ethnic groups as the unit of history, but from civilizations ...

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...

or other substances. Jewelry is made out of almost every material known ... Whether used as currency, protection, or fashion, jewelry is one of ...

law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice ... played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. ...

) and born as Ahmad Khān Abdālī, was the founder of the Durrani ... The Pashtuns of Afghanistan often call him Bābā ("father" ...

Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – August 16, 2003) was President of Uganda ... 1971, while Obote was attending a Commonwealth of Nations summit meeting in ...

in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...

Alberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces, joining the confederation ... the fur trade, and in the latter half of the twentieth century its bitumen ...

Hawaii and Australia. With the exception of tiny Vatican City, Tuvalu has ... Tuvalu consists of four reef islands and five true atolls. Its small ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army ...

for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during World War ... Thomas' sensationalized reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence ...

who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... in American history. He served as Speaker of the House longer than any man ...

known as a tank tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored ... (the United States and the Commonwealth of Nations) to its European ...

The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal ... the war. The campaign marked the beginning of the transition by Allied forces ...

derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced ... Except for Canada, most current or former Commonwealth countries use ...

country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ... Like many Latin American nations, the Dominican Republic has a long ...

1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... by 30 percent on average; in the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had ...

Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...

abbreviated: CH), is a landlocked nation of 7.5 million people in Western ... ) translate as "Swiss Confederation," while the German name of ...

track and field athletics, is a collection of sports events that involve ... The Roman Games stressed the Greek sports of chariot racing and wrestling ...

2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument that uses a reed, in addition ... Perhaps because of the ancient nature of their sound, the bagpipes ...

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked ... Located in the heart of Central Asia between the Amu Darya (Oxus) ...

The Republic of Cameroon is a "hinge" state bridging central ... Cameroon is a member of both the Commonwealth of Nations and La Francophonie ...

realms that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations of which he is also ... a member of the G8, NATO, and the Commonwealth of Nations. ...

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 ...

The Bailiwick of Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri) is a British Crown dependency ... The defense of all these islands is the responsibility of the United ...

float|300px|Scouts coming from various nations sing at the European Jamboree ... of many member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, the highest rank ...

in Northern Europe. Considered an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is connected ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...

The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... (Saint James). However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish ...

The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...

but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts ... resolved to devote himself to the practice of law. He contributed to the ...

is known as the "national pastime" of the United States, although ... The game also involves a unique combination of individual competitiveness ...

journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen ... It is for his series of articles published in June 1931 covering Stalin ...

is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...

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 ...

Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...

and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...

commanded a battalion and later a brigade of the 1st Infantry Division. ... After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President ...

England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... Many went on to join the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association ...

- December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...

The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... Ajax (originally viewed as a triumph of covert action), is now regarded ...

Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...

(Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...

023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...

[http://www.olympic.org/ Official website of the Olympic movement]. Retrieved ... ==History of the Sport== Field hockey history The sport of field hockey ...

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...

those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...

Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent ... possibly the culture and even ethnic group of an individual has implications ...

The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign ... ) which refers to Hitler's, rather than Napoleon's, invasion ...

Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...

refers to any engine used for the discharge of large projectiles in war. The ... century an artillier referred to a builder of any war equipment, and for ...

(b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...

Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... the position of Ireland within the Commonwealth of Nations. ...

The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the ... placed on the patentee, and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely ...

caliber gun. Heavy armor and a high degree of mobility give it survivability ... First used in World War I to break the deadlock of the trenches, tanks ...

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is the seventh largest ... Located in the southeast of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east coast ...

the southwest and the People's Republic of China to the southeast. girls," a reference to the Manas of folklore unifying 40 tribes ...

transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... Socialist Republic (RSFSR), a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the ... Originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin at least ...

Founded by a group of separatists who later came to be known as the ... Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of people who later came to ...

denotes Russians citizens and/or residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin ... The Sakhalin Koreans experienced slaughter at the hands of the Russians ...

Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal ... Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701 ...

Jewish rebels who fought against the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the ... in Jerusalem and combining the office of king and High Priest. This ...

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 ...

obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...

The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms ...

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The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied ... the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Substantial Free French ...

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