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- governor best known for his administration of Germany immediately after World ... Clay supported and lobbied for this change of policy, fearing that an impoverished ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- quot;) was the alliance formed in 1907 among the United Kingdom ... the German navy and army continued to grow in size and power. ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing. He won ... Fangio's racing career began in 1934, primarily in long-distance ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... The results for Eastern Europe were disastrous as they were held hostage ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by President ... before the Armistice with Germany ended World War I, but the Fourteen Points ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- a relaxing or easing; the term has been used in international politics since ... The two sides in the Cold War, the NATO powers and the Warsaw Pact ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world ... and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... Mass killings of over one million Jews occurred before the plans of ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- The Battle of Mohács ( mohácsi csata or mohácsi vész/Bane of Mohács; Schlacht bei Mohács ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg was established ... The scope of the European Court of Human Rights and the legally binding ...17 KB (2,642 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... | Non-profit_slogan = Quaker values in action. | homepage = ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of ... Batu's Khan's role in the Russian and European campaigns ...14 KB (2,251 words) - 18:34, 14 February 2023
- after Italy joined other European powers in establishing colonies overseas ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- Lake Ladoga, located in the northwestern part of Russia, is the largest ... In total, Lake Ladoga covers an area of 6,700 fresh water square miles ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- Peking Man (sometimes called Beijing Man), is a prominent example ... Fossils of Homo erectus also have been found in Africa, Indonesia ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- Pope Urban II (1042 – July 29, 1099) born Otho of Lagery (alternatively: ... At the outset, he had to reckon with the presence of the powerful ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- and a famous Nazi collaborator as president of Slovakia during World War II ... Tiso's role in the treatment of Slovak Jews during the war has ...13 KB (1,972 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- Habsburg (in English-speaking countries sometimes spelled Hapsburg ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- 29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... She was the eldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI, who promulgated ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- and activist. After qualifying as a lawyer in 1912, he began his own legal ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- The Counts of Cilli The house should be referred to in English by the ... and ruling house with roots and territory in present-day Slovenia. When ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 08:36, 10 January 2024
- Joan of Burgundy (June 24, 1293 – September 12, 1348), also known ... Joan's significant patronage of learning sustained the tradition ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 05:59, 5 April 2024
- Cardinals are high ranking ecclesiastical officials in the Roman Catholic ... The word "cardinal" was first used in Rome at the beginning ...9 KB (1,483 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- Lidice is a small village that lies in the rolling hills of Bohemia ... During World War II, when Czechoslovakia was occupied by the forces ...12 KB (1,879 words) - 22:48, 25 October 2022
- The naval Battle of Aegospotami took place in 404 B.C.E. and was the ... In 405 B.C.E., following the severe Spartan defeat at the Battle of ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the ... and one of the oldest art galleries and museums of human history and ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 14:53, 12 February 2022
- ) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at ... Solidarity was the first non-communist trade union in a Communist ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- 24, 1980) was a German naval leader, who was in command of the Kriegsmarine ... After the war, he was charged and convicted of "crimes against ...19 KB (2,885 words) - 18:15, 14 May 2024
- and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... He can be credited with helping to shape post-World War II Europe ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- languages: Československo) was a country in Central Europe that existed ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- – February 1, 1922) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army ... Sent to Europe in 1869 by the government to research European military ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ... Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- was forced to flee the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when communism gained ... especially the eggs representative of Easter, made of precious metals ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943 ... Boris died in 1943 during World War II and the Communists were able ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna is one of the most important cultural ... Schönbrunn was built to be on a par with the Palace of Versailles ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- 200px|thumb|Blegen Library at the University of Cincinnati.]] famous for his work on the site of Pylos in modern-day Greece ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- Stephen III of Moldavia, or Stephen III (c. 1433 - July 2, 1504), ... ; Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt, "Stephen the Great and Holy" ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- – July 2, 1963) was the founder and editor of Newsday, one of the most successful ... Alicia Patterson was a powerful force in her time. Her influential ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... ) in China, was signed at the Shunpanrō Hotel on April 17, 1895, ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- during the Third Reich. Following the post-World War II division of Germany ... treason and crimes committed during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that ... According to the ancient Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis, the ...11 KB (1,823 words) - 19:34, 3 August 2023
- journalist and publisher, the grandson of publisher Joseph Medill. He ... experience, and the ability to succeed in the business. However, he was ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 00:44, 11 August 2022
- The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... which had been suspended by the Sultan in 1878. However, the process ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- considered by many critics to be one of the finest representatives ... Friedrich was born in Greifswald in northeastern Germany. He studied ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- Farouk I of Egypt (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965), was the ... His son was king for less than a year; Egypt became a republic in ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 00:45, 14 July 2022
- He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of Prince ... Social unrest at the end of World War I led to the German Revolution ...30 KB (4,097 words) - 18:41, 7 February 2024
- Total war is a military conflict in which nations mobilize all available ... The threat of total devastation to the earth and humankind through ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle ... His pioneering efforts in the field of ethnomusicology with his colleague ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- Mehmed VI, original name in Turkish Latin alphabet Mehmed Vahdettin ... In the process, Mehmed suspended parliament and asserted personal ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer ... One of the foremost dance companies in the world, the New York City ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... The term "the Continent" (capitalized)—used predominantly ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- 18|1911|September 5) served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council ... After his assassination in 1911, the country muddled through the next ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 20:10, 16 January 2024
- is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United ... Progress Administration (WPA), starting in 1935, opening in 1938. In 1942 ...11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- One of the first American writers to use the stream of consciousness ... Dos Passos was born in Chicago, where his father was a wealthy lawyer ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
- and politician. He was knighted for his work in 1920. Mackinder was instrumental ... Halford John Mackinder was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- Marcus Antonius Gordianus (January 20 225 – February 11, 244), known ... Gordian III died before he could make much of a mark. For just over ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 04:18, 24 May 2024
- Movement) was a civil disobedience movement in India launched in August 1942 ... Gandhi's speech, and the greater number of the Congress leaders spent ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... In September, 1949, when the Communists founded the People’s Republic ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- Gustav II Adolf (December 9, 1594 – November 6, 1632) (Gustav II ... own time, widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- Court Jew is a term for Jewish leaders who rose to positions of influence ... Some court Jews were also prominent people in the local Jewish community ...12 KB (1,873 words) - 20:25, 28 May 2020
- widely used to describe the popular uprising of Palestinian refugees against ... made possible when Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian Liberation ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about ... extend for more than 373 miles, and lie in a northwest-southeast direction ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the Truman Administration ... toward Asia before the National Press Club in January 1950, in which he excluded ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance ... There was another round of revival of humanism in the Age of Enlightenment ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- The Volunteer Army (Добровольческая армия in Russian ... Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- poetry, and particularly her work written in close association with the ... her work from that period as a series of failed experiments. Although ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- Sudetenland Crisis among the major powers of Europe after a conference held ... The Sudetenland was an area of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- The Norman invasion of Ireland (or the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland ... Irish history and culture developed differently as a result of the ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 19:34, 20 May 2024
- ) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic architecture ... Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches, being ...24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
- the White Knight, was a Voivode (Ruler) of Transylvania (from 1441), captain ... Facing what was at the time the only standing army in Europe, the ...19 KB (2,971 words) - 07:01, 8 April 2024
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional ... In 1937, Japan engaged in war with China for a second time, and in ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great ... The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- , is a large, artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula ... The canal allows two-way water transportation between Europe and Asia ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- whose members helped shape American politics in the twentieth century. The ... Robert F. Kennedy were her sons. Both of these public servants were ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- After being educated in both Europe and the United States, Brunner ... At first a close friend and ally of Karl Barth, Brunner split with ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic ... After the end of World War II in Europe, Germany had been divided ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 18:19, 21 May 2024
- Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy ... such as the statue and tower both located in Vilnius Lithuania and a reconstructed ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
- ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... Allianz was the largest insurer in Germany when the Nazi party came ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...27 KB (4,082 words) - 20:00, 8 December 2022
- Bertha von Suttner), born June 9, 1843 in Prague (now Czech Republic ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- Alexander (Aleksandr) II Nikolaevitch (Russian: Александр ... Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of the board (from 1976–1994 ... Morita was born in Nagoya, Japan, on January 26, 1921. His family ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... Wilhelmina won respect and admiration for her role during World War ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- Espionage is the practice of obtaining confidential information through ... ==Types of Espionage== ===Industrial Espionage=== Industrial espionage ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- Ferenc (Francis) II Rákóczi (March 27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was ... He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member ...24 KB (3,987 words) - 06:28, 24 May 2021
- Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after ... Cologne also became an important center of medieval pilgrimage. Three ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – May 8, 1943) was the commander of the ... In January 1943, the German troops tried to enter the ghetto to round ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
- Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement ... quot; was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert ...19 KB (2,696 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
- ђевић) (Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro, December 4/December ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2023
- 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
- The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran ... Reconstruction commenced in January 1993, under the direction of church ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 06:08, 3 August 2023
- The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was a decisive engagement between ... The Allied battle plan prior to the War had been based on France and ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 01:37, 26 September 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
- Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 14:29, 22 May 2024
- Subaru (スバル) is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese ... the horizontally-opposed boxer engines used in most of their vehicles. In ...19 KB (2,695 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 – April ... Communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- dedicated to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the ... It is based on the Notre-Dame in Paris but with significant differences ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- Independence Hall is a United States national landmark located in ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... regarding them as their peers. The survival of the Persian empire against ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... empires, Korea's history has been one of constantly fluctuating borders ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- was the first important tenor saxophonist in jazz. Sometimes called the ... Joining Fletcher Henderson's orchestra in 1924, Hawkins matured ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies ... Mitsubishi was the second largest of the family-owned industrial-financial ...21 KB (2,798 words) - 19:21, 9 November 2022
- 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
- through the early church's development in the Roman Empire. Although ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidona in ... The Armada was sent by King Philip II of Spain, who had been king ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- Josephine Baker (or Joséphine Baker in francophone countries) (June ... was an American-born French entertainer, and international star of ...20 KB (3,016 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... to ensure that the West would be an ally in the process of liberalization ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a world champion heavyweight fighter ... After rising to the top of the heavyweight ranks, Schmeling fought ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ... 1756 to 1763, incorporating the Pomeranian War and the French and Indian ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- Antwerp, a city and municipality in Belgium, lies on the River Scheldt ... Antwerp has long been an important city in the nations of the Benelux ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- The Children's Crusade was a movement in 1212, initiated separately ... sold into slavery or drowned at sea. Legends of both miracles and tragedies ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western ... whose helm it also became an autonomous part of the Holy Roman Empire after ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- ) was a Cossack state in the central and north-eastern regions of ... Independent from Poland in 1648, in 1654 the Hetmanate became a suzerainty ...25 KB (3,590 words) - 23:40, 6 April 2022
- Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- was a United States soldier, famous as a World War I hero. He was awarded ... York kept a diary of his years just before the war and all during ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- The United States expedition to Korea in 1871, which came to be known ... Korea had maintained a relationship of tribute with China. In exchange ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- The city of Berne, the capital of Switzerland, was founded in the ... functions. It is also headquarters of the international postal, telegraph ...18 KB (2,738 words) - 17:14, 29 September 2023
- from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland—"Ashkenaz ... Many Ashkenazim later migrated, largely eastward, forming communities ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda ... As long as war exists, we can expect new forms of psychological warfare ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- Fort Pasir Panjang, or Labrador Battery, located at the southern tip ... Great Britain, which had carved out colonies throughout the world ...15 KB (2,283 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... was especially important for its success in preventing the loss of western ...16 KB (2,454 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- and commercial center, and the largest city of Moldova. Inhabited for thousands ... Since the country gained its independence in 1991, Chişinău has ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- and journalist. As the socialite spouse of Henry R. Luce, the publishing ... from inauspicious beginnings to success in fields traditionally dominated ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- The Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665-1887), also known as the Lunda Empire ... The empire's participation in and profit from the immoral slave ...16 KB (2,448 words) - 03:03, 5 November 2022
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... Born in Minnesota to a leftist family, Hall joined the American Communist ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ... 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia for more than 26 years ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- It was initially created as the Badge of Military Merit by General George ... Designed by Washington in the form of a purple heart, it was intended ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- 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
- Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk ... center. Historically it was a member of the Hanseatic League, and remains ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear chain reaction ... Szilárd was born in Budapest at the time of the Austro-Hungarian ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... |significance = Commemorates war dead Honors military veterans (U.S.) ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The Suez Crisis (known as the Suez War or 1956 War, commonly known ... The Suez Canal had been important in Iran and the colonial penetration ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- His peaceful reign continued the policies of his predecessors, including ... The cosmopolitan city of Baghdad, founded by his father, blossomed ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino Repubblica di San Marino , also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is a country ...26 KB (3,871 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
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- [[Image:Lascaux 04.jpg|thumb|250px|Lascaux cave painting of aurochs]] Discovered in 1940, Lascaux is a series of caves in southwestern France ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- The Eighty Years' War, or Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the ... The Southern Netherlands, situated in modern-day Belgium, Luxembourg ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and ... Croce offered his “philosophy of spirit” as a humanistic alternative ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
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- tone and expressive phrasing, he was one of the most famous violinists ... After winning first prize in the Paris Conservatory's violin ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- Яросла́вич Не́вский in Russian; transliteration: Aleksandr ... St. Petersburg, is still considered one of the most heroic figures in ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 14:33, 18 July 2023
- Silesia is a historical region in east–central Europe spanning the ... Slavs arrived in the area around the sixth century and founded Great ...32 KB (4,656 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912–1913 ... The anti-Ottoman struggle that led to Serbian independence in 1878 ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
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- as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- Suleiman I, in Turkish language Süleyman and in the Arabic alphabet ... power reached its zenith and became a world power under his rule. His ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society ... While the distinction between a "civil war" and a "revolution ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Benjamin Max (d. 1958 ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction ... To the Mongols, the European invasions were a third theater of operations ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination ... The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- jpg|thumb|right|400px|Refugees arrive in Travnik, central [[Bosnia and ... Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- that originally supported the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people ... Mount Zion, a small mountain near Jerusalem. In several biblical verses, the ...20 KB (2,796 words) - 18:55, 1 November 2023
- – June 21, 2001) was an influential American post-war blues singer ... Hooker performed in a half-spoken style that, together with his deep ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 20:45, 1 May 2024
- saved through his protection while working in his enamelware and munitions ... Today there are more than 7,000 descendants of the Schindler-Jews ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- The Dutch followed Portugal and Spain in establishing a colonial global ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- The Fall of Constantinople was the conquest of the Byzantine capital ... Although Western Europe was religiously divided from the Byzantine ...20 KB (3,140 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
- widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century. He is ... Eric Blair was born on June 25, 1903, to an Anglo-Indian family in ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 14:51, 21 May 2024
- and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of government involvement in solving ... State (1967). Galbraith was active in politics, serving in the administrations ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 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
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...23 KB (3,561 words) - 16:24, 15 May 2024
- 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
- The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally ... During the war, Germany's population was reduced by 30 percent ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- 250px|right| Hershey, Pennsylvania, named in honor of Milton Hershey and ... Hershey Chocolate Company, which became one of the largest and most famous ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- Harold Harefoot (c. 1015–March 17, 1040) was King of England from ... He was the son of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, Norway ...17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
- on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what is now Libya, was originally ... Evidence suggests that Leptis was an important center of agricultural ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian ... Four and a half centuries of Venetian rule in Crete thus came to an ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927; an event that brought ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- The term Community College is used almost exclusively in the United ... four-year programs. However, the advent of community colleges undeniably ...21 KB (3,019 words) - 00:18, 8 January 2024
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... on natural law, which equated the authority of the king over his subjects ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman ... Although today part of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ... ethnic background, culture, or religion live in seclusion, voluntarily or more ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 18:52, 21 May 2024
- The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...42 KB (6,144 words) - 08:27, 10 January 2024
- ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... After World War I, Munich became a hotbed of right-wing politics, ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from ... The primary aspect of the art of conducting can be said to be bringing ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 15:01, 21 May 2024
- 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the twentieth century, founder ... was the first publisher to use photographs in testimonials, and he advertised ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- The Battle of Largs was an military engagement fought between the ... The type of iconic status that the Battle assumed in Scottish folk ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- 23, 1443 – April 6, 1490) was king of Hungary and Croatia, ruling ... born at Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca) in the house currently known as ...23 KB (3,564 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- 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
- – March 25, 1973) was an American pioneer in the history of photography ... He and photographer Alfred Stieglitz collaborated in creating galleries ...20 KB (3,055 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English Channel ... These islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Dukedom ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- scientific, and governmental center of the Republic of Croatia. It ... Croatia first appeared as a duchy in the seventh century and then ...25 KB (3,575 words) - 05:19, 13 June 2023
- from August 1, 527 until his death. One of the most important rulers of ... and was the emperor who reconquered the city of Rome from the Ostrogoths. He ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- Mary II (April 30, 1662 – December 28, 1694) reigned as Queen of ... William III, who became the sole ruler of both countries upon her death ...22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:05, 16 December 2022
- objector sentenced to 15 years hard labor in the [[United States Disciplinary ... beliefs incompatible with being a combatant in military service, or they may ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (February 10 ... His main focus as Prime Minister was on the economy, but in the end ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 09:22, 19 January 2024
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- The late nineteenth century settlement movement, which began in London ... The settlement movement began in 1884, with the founding of London’s ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
- ) is a city in south-central Poland on the Warta River. It was formed ... The town is known for the famous Paulist monastery of Jasna Góra ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Hindemith helped to create a new conception of tonality with the 12-tone scale ... Born in Hanau, Germany, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- auth234 George Steiner] Contemporary Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03 ... literature and society, and the impact of The Holocaust. ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) ... Brandt was forced to resign as chancellor in 1974 after it became ...21 KB (3,209 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on January 1 ... Where strife exists, rightly of wrongly, on ethnic lines and national ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 09:17, 15 January 2023
- – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- 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
- Marxism." Later, he was a founder of the Constitutional Democratic ... Peter Struve is probably the best known member of the Russian branch ...14 KB (2,049 words) - 14:45, 28 March 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Cyprus fell in 1571, and the Venetians retained Crete until 1670. ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 13, 1981), better known ... In 2003, Ring Magazine rated Joe Louis No. 1 on the list of 100 greatest ...15 KB (2,326 words) - 06:38, 5 April 2024
- work on the British radical movements in the late eighteenth and early ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... approximately two million and were one of the most formidable tribes ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- ) is a Japanese multinational corporation that specializes in imaging ... devotes approximately 10 percent of its net sales to research and ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...33 KB (5,138 words) - 15:34, 30 April 2023
- German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine studies ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- for his Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science. He was also ... as an economist but he was also a key figure in the advancement of the British ...12 KB (1,648 words) - 04:20, 29 October 2022
- divided into two very distinct stages, that of a lost and disillusioned youth ... Waugh "the greatest English novelist of the century." Time magazine ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- Major general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air ... Although convinced that the airborne attack he led against Japan in ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- ) was de facto regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and then the first ... Godunov's life was the subject of two of the great works of Russian ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- - December 10, 1999) was the first president of Croatia from 1990 until 1999 ... For him, this made Croatia an ideal candidate for membership of the ...32 KB (4,830 words) - 06:17, 23 January 2023
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- 10, 1878 - June 14, 1946) was President of Guatemala from February 14 ... He would attempt to install a close friend in his post when he was forced ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 06:28, 6 May 2024
- Philip II ( Felipe II de España ; Filipe I ) (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- In addition to extensive territory around and beyond the Baltic, Sweden ... As a modern day supporter of the peace keeping activities of the United ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock ... who led the opposition. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... to another, often over long distances or in large groups. Humans are known ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
- ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... The Belle Époque was so named in retrospect, when it began to be ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- who became known in his capacity as a Roman citizen as Flavius Josephus, ... who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. His works ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa. There are more than ... Roses are members of the family Rosaceae, which is one of the largest ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... during her childhood so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- among the original thirteen colonies settled in the seventeenth century (though ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to Ghettos ... Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st pope of the Roman Catholic Church and ... Pope John XXIII was instrumental in opening up the Roman Catholic ...21 KB (3,268 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- 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 ...35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... the conditions for peaceful resolution of conflict, and to end war. Speaking ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
- Program (ERP)), was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding ... The reconstruction plan was developed at a meeting of participating ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
- The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens ... The name of Athens in Ancient Greek was Athḗnai (Ἀθῆναι ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 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
- , the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, is located in the ... Founded in the fifth or sixth century as a trading post, it acquired ...26 KB (3,695 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- Maronites are members of one of the Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches ... Before the conquest of Lebanon by Arabian Muslims, which resulted ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential poets ... Auden was a poet of prodigious talent and output, living at a time ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Friedrich_II_transparent.png|266px|thumb|right|Friedrich II ... Frederick II of Prussia, also known as Frederick the Great (January ...32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- widely noted for her aesthetics and advances in film technique. Most notable ... On account of that film, Leni Riefenstahl has been, and remains, controversial; ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- The Cold War was the protracted ideological, geopolitical, and economic ... and communism was popularly termed The Cold War because direct hostilities ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument that uses a reed, in addition ... Perhaps because of the ancient nature of their sound, the bagpipes ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- center-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 ... He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- The Treaty of Georgievsk ( Георгиевский трактат ... Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti on July 24, ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... a precedent and my God will Make it the Seed of a Nation. That an example may ...16 KB (2,612 words) - 10:39, 11 May 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
- civil engineer, and known slave trader, of the Elizabethan age. He became ... Although he was famous for his courage in battle, he was not liked ...19 KB (3,035 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been ... In 1907, following a large international conference, Henri La Fontaine ...22 KB (3,199 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... Socialism developed as a political ideology in the nineteenth century ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- Nazi medical doctors and officials accused of criminal human experimentation ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- most recently, a historic state originating in Brandenburg, an area that for ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- Mitsui Group is one of the largest corporate conglomerates (keiretsu ... In the seventeenth century, the Mitsui family established close ties ...22 KB (3,120 words) - 12:54, 10 March 2023
- Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known as Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks ... He was born in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales. His parents were not ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:07, 8 February 2022
- #039;a dinastia) was the ruling family of Georgia. Their ascendancy lasted ... This period of time, particularly the reigns of David IV (1089-1125 ...21 KB (3,136 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- Sorbonne.jpg|thumb|300 px|Main buildings of the University of Paris I Panthéon ... The historic University of Paris (Université de Paris) first appeared ...30 KB (4,606 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- ) was a pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9–10, 1938. On a single ... The Nazis coordinated an attack on Jewish people and their property ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... Rome's history spans more than 2,500 years. It is renowned as ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... universal access to and the understanding of law serves an important role ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent ... Many scholars argue that the U.N. definition of Southern Africa is ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- international Communist organization founded in Moscow in March 1919. The International ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, ( Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres ), located in Chartres, about 50 miles from Paris, is considered one ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
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- Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, ... Racial segregation is characterized by separation of people of different ...23 KB (3,411 words) - 22:42, 7 December 2022
- Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich ... movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ideals of Western ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of ... ==Frontiers of Hungary== The Hungarian government terminated the personal ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 14:59, 2 May 2023
- American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots ... Flying Cross and the French Legion of Honor, and she still holds ...19 KB (3,058 words) - 08:12, 18 March 2024
- communist international organization working in opposition to both capitalism ... In France in 1938, Trotsky and many of his supporters, having been ...51 KB (7,375 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- Diaz) (c. 1450 – May 29, 1500), a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a ... Dias died at sea in 1550, in a storm off the Cape. Just over a century ...10 KB (1,706 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- quot;)) is the rapid and extensive spreading of a disease whereby there is ... A pandemic is simply an epidemic that affects a large proportion of ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
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- Lynching is a form of violence, usually murder, considered by its ... [[Image:Lynching-of-lige-daniels.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Postcard depicting ...23 KB (3,493 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
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- to plane, is a heavier-than-air craft in which movement of the wings ... Fixed-wing aircraft include a large range of craft from small trainers ...20 KB (3,021 words) - 07:09, 16 June 2023
- poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during ... Unlike many of the poets who had memorialized the great achievements ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 14:37, 27 January 2023
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... Not only is it the smallest German-speaking country in the world, ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- writer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest American writers ... for the "Lost Generation" of Americans born in the 1890s ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1 ... The war started with military uprisings throughout Spain and its colonies. ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- historian, best known as "the father of containment" and was a ... In the late 1940s, his writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 15:44, 20 May 2024
- born conductor and composer. He was born in Berlin, but moved to several ... Growing up as a pianist and then working in operatic venues in Vienna, ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Georgian Bay (French: baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron ... Georgian Bay was the first area of the Great Lakes to be visited by ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 16:41, 21 May 2024
- is a form of traditional Japanese theater. Kabuki theater is known ... The term kabuki originally suggested the unorthodox character of this ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:49, 14 May 2024
- Gunpowder is a low-explosive substance that is used as a propellant ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- accepted the call to pastor a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, Ralph ... Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King were best of friends, partners ...18 KB (3,027 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- ) is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers under the Romanian ... for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People") ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance ... The word renaissance in French, (rinascimento in Italian) literally ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1871 – January 15, 1919, in Polish Róża ... and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party ...25 KB (3,897 words) - 19:13, 16 December 2022
- ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... the North Sea on the west, and a majority of its land mass lies on a peninsula ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- [[Image:NBC, NewYork.jpg|thumb| The front entrance of the NBC Tower ... an American television network headquartered in the GE Building (formerly RCA ...26 KB (4,061 words) - 14:41, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...24 KB (3,681 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes ... At times it competed in popularity with the Knights Templar, a more ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- The Mausoleum of Maussollos (or Mausoleum of Halicarnassus) was a ... triumph that the ancient historian Antipater of Sidon identified it as one ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 00:51, 9 November 2022
- trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is ... Considered one of the greatest African empires, from the early fifteenth ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- Persian: دربند, Darband) is a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia ... Often identified with the legendary Gates of Alexander, Derbent claims ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- and playwright who became the founder of modern political Zionism. His ... from anti-Semitism and that the creation of a Jewish state was the only ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- republikais), is a landlocked country in Central Europe with a population ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...34 KB (4,802 words) - 15:55, 22 May 2024
- often hailed as the greatest violinist of the twentieth century. on audiences and fellow musicians in Europe before making his debut ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 09:58, 1 April 2024
- 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
- Cornelia Johanna Arnalda ten Boom, is known to the world as Corrie ... estimated 800 Jews escape the Nazis during World War II. Born in Haarlem, ...21 KB (3,559 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- 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
- Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7 ... including Smolensk and Roslavl. As a result of this operation, the Red Army ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- , also called Haakon the Old, was king of Norway from 1217 to 1263. Under ... a single (rather than two co-rulers) king of legitimate birth succeeded ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2023
- or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation ... The advent of the printed Bible ushered in an age in which Bibles ...21 KB (3,123 words) - 02:56, 27 July 2023
- , which was made into an Oscar-winning movie in 1979. The Painted Bird was ... Kosinski was born Josek Lewinkopf in Lodz, Poland. As a child during ...21 KB (3,001 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2023
- The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571 when a galley ... fought solely between rowing vessels was one of history's most decisive ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England ... both personally and relating to succession of the Crown and religious polarization ...29 KB (4,444 words) - 15:41, 7 December 2022
- who is best remembered for her portraits of Marie Antoinette, and for her ... Today she is generally regarded as the most famous woman painter of ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... In contrast to George I, who ruled as a constitutional monarch, the ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- The World Cup, sometimes called the FIFA World Cup, is an international ... The tournament's final phase is often called the World Cup Finals ...41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
- , also known as Kipchak Khanate or the Ulus of Jochi, was a Mongol state established ... that Batu Khan established to mark a place of his future capital on the Volga ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 04:08, 24 May 2024
- sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass ... A key figure of early Post-minimalism in the United States and one ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- In general discussion, a nation-state is variously called a "country ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- writer who is best known for his development of Christian realism. As he served ... theological ethics acknowledges the reality of human sinfulness a bit too ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- for a train. It has no payload capacity of its own and its sole purpose ... Traditionally, the locomotive hauls (pulls) the train. In local passenger ...22 KB (3,331 words) - 07:49, 9 March 2023
- Budapest is the capital city of Hungary. It is its country's ... Budapest was the focal point of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, ...27 KB (3,960 words) - 16:54, 22 November 2023
- (Latin: regnum Francorum, "Kingdom of the Franks"), Frankish ... The idea behind the Holy Roman Empire was of a Christian Europe united ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ... She was already well-known in Poland, but became better known internationally ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with ... Bratislava was a key economic and administrative center of the Kingdom ...38 KB (5,662 words) - 22:52, 20 November 2023
- von Taaffe; 11th Viscount Taaffe and Baron of Ballymote, in the peerage of ... Taaffe contributed significantly to the democratization process in ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- Florenszoon Boeyens, served as Bishop of Rome from January 9, 1522, ... Born in Utrecht, he studied at the University of Louvain in France ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- Chinese rebellion against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics ... In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- Others suggest that Beckett was, in truth, a devout optimist who ... Beckett is a unique figure in the history of Western literature. Born ...30 KB (4,732 words) - 01:16, 21 April 2023
- was the largest contiguous land empire in history, covering over 33 million ... Eurasia, beginning with the conquests of Western Xia in north China ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders. It was ... revolutionary factions, with the passage of the Law of Suspects and the ...30 KB (4,279 words) - 19:45, 31 August 2023
- Cannes is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes ... with monastic Christianity, although most of the city’s growth has occurred ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- Dahomey, a precolonial West African kingdom, is located in what is ... Unusual in Africa, Dahomey was ruled by a form of absolute monarchy ...28 KB (4,382 words) - 17:35, 27 December 2022
- The Strait of Magellan (often referred to as the Straits of Magellan ... sailing for Spain, who discovered the strait in 1520 during the first successful ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- 28, 1925 - October 10, 2005), Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and ... While attending a meeting of the British Commonwealth in 1971, he ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought ... Shils believed in liberty and reason, sustained by an organic, coherent ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- The Somali Revolution started in 1986, when President Siad Barre began ... The United Nations was involved on the ground in Somalia from 1992 ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 01:10, 4 February 2023
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... society and achieved prominent positions in government and in the military ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world. ... and by the year 1400 B.C.E. had become part of a powerful Mycenaean city. ...17 KB (2,700 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- a Castilian military and political leader in medieval Spain. Born of the ... The nickname "El Cid Campeador" is a compound of two separate ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- thumb|200px|Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper ... and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy, he ruled ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (also referred to as: Bosnian Conflict ... Since the war in Bosnia is a consequence of events in the wider region ...36 KB (5,522 words) - 14:58, 9 February 2022
- 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 ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- ) is a Japanese trading company and one of the largest sogo shosha ... quot; and "red." It was founded, in 1858, from humble beginnings ...25 KB (3,645 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- Ljubljana is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is regarded ... position. Ljubljana lies at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin, and Slavic ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... The lands governed by the republic were the southernmost part of the ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- organization based on common control of the means of production as ... A major force in world politics since the early twentieth century ...45 KB (6,718 words) - 00:12, 8 January 2024
- West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- Sucre, which is located in the south-central part of Bolivia, is the ... Sucre is also called “The City of Four Names.” Charcas was the ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- ) spans nearly a century of political tensions and open hostilities ... ==Scope of the Conflict== The conflict is sometimes referred to as ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- Charcoal is the blackish material consisting mainly of carbon obtained ... Historically, wood charcoal was used as a constituent of gunpowder ...15 KB (2,216 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
- and most prestigious regatta and Match Race in the sport of sailing, and the ... During the year of the first World's Fair, American boatbuilders ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A body ... "Choir" has the secondary definition of a subset of an ensemble; ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 17:11, 10 December 2023
- ranking American military officer during World War II and the 34th President ... to a negotiated truce to conclude the Korean War in 1953. ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of ... /hanseatic.html Hanseatic League: Europe's First Common Market ...33 KB (4,840 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- [[Image:A-Procession-in-the-Catacomb-of-Callistus.jpg|thumb|right ... Catacomb refers to a network of underground burial galleries, the ...16 KB (2,439 words) - 14:27, 29 November 2023
- The Baltic Sea is a semi-enclosed inland sea located in Northern Europe ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- , 2-3. that ruled Iran from 1794 to 1925. In 1794, the Qajar family took ... Britain and Iran fought a war in 1856 over territory between Iran ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- British statesman, politician, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1925 ... Elected to Parliament in 1882, by 1902, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 00:00, 3 December 2021
- Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, and a major ... The city of Freetown was founded in 1787, by Great Britain as a settlement ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- [[Image:Gamla uppsala.jpg|350px|thumb|The Royal mounds of Gamla Uppsala ... A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- was a Spanish painter and sculptor. One of the most recognized figures ... Cubism is perhaps the quintessential modernist artist movement. In ...22 KB (3,461 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- components, and semiconductors, all of which are marketed under their ... Konosuke Matsushita, almost penniless and with less than four years ...25 KB (3,633 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- Airlines vary in size and service, ranging from small companies with ... The setting up of airline services is among the most important developments ...33 KB (4,986 words) - 07:02, 16 June 2023
- Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... had a long and turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was a world-renowned Hungarian Romanian ... Wiesel was a passionate and powerful writer and author of more than ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows ... The concertina was developed independently in both England and Germany. ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British ... The State Rooms form the nucleus of the working Palace and are currently ...28 KB (4,475 words) - 16:52, 22 November 2023
- for CBS. Noted for honesty and integrity in delivering the news, he is ... A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow's work continued ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Since ... Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum, a key text ...19 KB (2,792 words) - 17:34, 12 July 2023
- - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy ... This philosophy would later be applied by the Nazis in their Final ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (born February 4, 1906 in Breslau, now Wrocław ... Bonhoeffer's writings, especially his book The Cost of Discipleship ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... The U.S. ended its occupation in part to bolster its efforts in the ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- τινούπολη) was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and, following ... history. Depending on the background of people, and their language ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- – May 28, 1971) was an American soldier in World War II, who later became ... In 27 months of combat action in World War II, Murphy became the most ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe ... His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, born in ... made him exceptionally wealthy towards the end of his life. However, he lived ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 07:50, 22 January 2024
- Guerrilla warfare (also spelled guerilla) is a method of combat by ... While some efforts on the part of guerrilla forces can be understood ...49 KB (7,286 words) - 23:47, 6 March 2023
- Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... a reed or a fipple. A woodwind may be made of any material, not just wood ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- Socialism in one country links=no|социализм в отдельно ... than socialism globally. Given the defeats of the 1917–1923 European communist ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 18:00, 8 December 2022
- [[Image:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg|thumb|250px|right|The flag ... at sea, or outside the normal jurisdiction of any state, by an agent without ...24 KB (3,715 words) - 06:18, 24 November 2022
- jpg|thumb|right|250px|Increasingly the world is thought of as a whole]] Globalization, as a concept, refers both to the "shrinking" ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 17:40, 23 May 2024
- ), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic ... was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. ...46 KB (6,600 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington ... Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English ...49 KB (7,679 words) - 11:02, 9 May 2023
- in Moscow - January 21|1870|9 January in Paris) was a major Russian pro-Western writer and thinker generally ...24 KB (3,543 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess ... Her contemporaries included Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, (Peter Abelard ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known ... He argued, controversially, that members of such groups as the Communist ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- from other developed nations because of its national credo, historical ... The difference is often expressed in American circles as some categorical ...29 KB (4,328 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2023
- ), the largest city in Belgium, is also that nation's capital ... Brussels has grown from a seventh century chapel into a metropolis ...30 KB (4,219 words) - 04:45, 22 November 2023
- would use fiscal and monetary measures in attempts to mitigate the adverse ... John Maynard Keynes was the son of John Neville Keynes, an economics ...21 KB (3,193 words) - 02:29, 2 May 2024
- under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt (323 B.C.E. — 283 B ... Ptolemy I's legacy lived on in the dynasty he founded and in ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a noose ... While hanging, especially when carried out in public, is generally ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation." ... + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races, especially ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- revolutionary. She was the daughter of a Military officer. She married ... at a young age and met Lenin as a result of her revolutionary activity ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 23:02, 10 November 2022
- The City of Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and the ... On April 1, 1996, the government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the four ...34 KB (5,199 words) - 16:57, 21 January 2024
- The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... until it became bankrupt and was formally dissolved in 1800, ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe ... At first, Prester John was imagined to be in India, with tales of ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting ... Saint Helena, named after Saint Helena of Constantinople since it ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political ... Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September ... After achieving a truce a truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he began ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- Francisco Franco, was the Dictator of Spain in parts of the country ... Franco did not have deep political convictions, but rose to power ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the Popes of the Renaissance ... He was renowned for his mistresses but also for his patronage of the ...30 KB (4,978 words) - 14:44, 18 July 2023
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its Allies ... defeats during the summer and autumn of 1941, Soviet forces counter ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- and military officer who participated in both the American and French ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 12:41, 22 May 2024
- was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started ... to the new crusade bull was poor, and it in fact had to be reissued when ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- made from metal—usually lead. A bullet (in contrast to a shell) does not ... to refer to the loaded combination of bullet, cartridge case, gunpowder ...22 KB (3,492 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
- The Fall of Rome or the Fall of the Roman Empire refers to the defeat ... Some European nations saw themselves as so indebted to the legacy ...28 KB (4,463 words) - 00:34, 25 March 2024
- The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign ... Monaco is the world's most densely populated state and second ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- The Second Italo–Ethiopian War (also referred to as the Second Italo ... Ethiopia had been the only African state to avoid colonization in ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- known as the Communist Party United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist ... In the late 1920s, the party was shaken by internal factionalism when ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... 1900–1959), a Polish Jewish legal scholar, in 1943, from the roots genos ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- economic, social, and political development of developing countries. It may ... The Marshall Plan, in which the United States provided significant ...34 KB (5,026 words) - 10:14, 29 January 2024
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- was an American industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company. He built ... The Getty family serves as a good example of the old saying that ...17 KB (2,774 words) - 08:23, 13 March 2024
- World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Earl Hines is one of jazz music’s most legendary pianists and one ... Earl Hines was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Duquesne, Pennsylvania ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
- The territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French: ... Originally settled in the seventeenth century due to the attraction ...22 KB (3,091 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. A well-known critic of the Polish Communist government, Milosz was ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Inquisition, (capitalized I) as broadly used, refers to the judgment ... to the modern mindset. However, the notion of religious liberty and of freedom ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from ... Ian Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch in the small town of ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- He is widely considered to be one of the greatest cellists of the ... Rostropovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR, to ethnic Russian ...17 KB (2,362 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- became an American legend for his success in prosecuting organized crime ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- Sweden is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern ... develop an advanced manufacturing industry. In the twentieth century, Sweden ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- telegraphy traffic. Subsequent generations of cables carried telephone traffic ... had introduced their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the ... with Amsterdam at the center. The use of soft drugs was tolerated, making ...29 KB (4,176 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- and journalist, chronicled Polish history in a series of panoramic novels ... He is best known internationally for Quo Vadis, a historical novel ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- Robert Musil (Klagenfurt, Austria, November 6, 1880 - April 15, 1942 ... As a result of Musil's background, he is an instrumental figure ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- [[Image:Japanese internment camp in British Columbia.jpg|thumb|250px ... ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland ... It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 17:01, 20 May 2024
- 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States ... presidential nomination over Seward in 1860, when Lincoln appointed ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- ("oil major") with headquarters in London. The company is among ... BP began as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd., registered in 1909 ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- A. A. Milne, was a prolific English author of books, plays, and poems. He ... the Pooh characters help to fund an artist-in-residence program for professional ...15 KB (2,362 words) - 06:49, 13 June 2023
- Dubrovnik, formerly Ragusa, is a city on the Adriatic Sea coast in ... It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- and powerful political and military empire in ancient India. Originating ... At its zenith, the Empire stretched to the northern natural boundaries ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- "Sheep Islands," are a group of islands in Northern Europe ... was politically detached from Norway in 1814. The Faroes are represented ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... ), archaically spelled Luxemburg, is a small landlocked country in ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- ) is the capital city of the Province of Milano and of Lombardy region ... The city was important for the history of Christianity as the site of ...27 KB (3,967 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- and the Berlin Philharmonic. A conductor of great stature, his unorthodox ... the Hitler era. He became a cultural icon in his native Germany and was ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- [[Image:Cannibals.23232.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cannibalism in Brazil ... Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- A graphic novel is a type of comic book. As the name suggests, it ... Graphic novels are typically bound in longer and more durable formats ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- ,(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King ... base from which people can participate in a global community. For much ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 2023
- "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... with Nazi and other militarist regimes at war with Britain have been the ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on ... a political association. However the Korean War galvanized the member states ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- Attila (c. 406 - 453 C.E.) was the monarch of the Hun people from ... and noble king, and he plays major roles in three Norse sagas, in much ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 18:24, 21 August 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
- was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. Born in Denmark and raised in Norway ... Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter, a trilogy about life ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- Sales tax is a consumption tax charged at the point of purchase for ... this by charging the tax only on the final end user, unlike a gross receipts ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors ... Austerlitz effectively brought the Third Coalition to an end. On December ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- was a physicist and chemist. She was born in Warsaw and spent her early ... Mme. Curie was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. Together with ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- A war an armed conflict between nations or conflicting political and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- |Born = January 23, 1910 in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium |Died = May 16, 1953 in Fontainebleau, France |Instrument = Guitarbanjo ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- Nachman of Breslov (Hebrew: נחמן מברסלב), also known as ... The great-grandson of Hasidism's founder, the Baal Shem Tov, ...16 KB (2,514 words) - 23:00, 10 November 2022
- Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated ... The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen ...17 KB (2,377 words) - 02:43, 11 March 2023
- Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia and the most populous ... The island nation was initially a site for penal colonies in the eighteenth ...24 KB (3,443 words) - 02:23, 22 November 2023
- coined the term "ethnocentrism" in the nineteenth century, although ... Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- represent its content or origins. The act of creating a counterfeit is called ... This is especially true of digital recordings of music and movies ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:32, 10 January 2024
- Canada. This relatively shallow body of water is bounded by Manitoba ... Hudson Bay's drainage basin includes parts of five Canadian provinces ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- laureate, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic ... Like other German authors, already in their prime during the rise ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- A Passion play is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of ... elaborate and sometimes featured hundreds of actors, were highly popular ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 09:02, 18 November 2022
- Health insurance is a type of insurance that covers costs incurred ... There are many types of health insurance plans. Some are high-deductible ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 09:24, 20 January 2024
- asserts that it has a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons. North Korea ... The world community left the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) world ...25 KB (3,635 words) - 06:33, 16 November 2022
- 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
- A university is an institution of higher education and research, which ... Universities are seen as a place of great personal development, but ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, couples, or groups ... Fleming were among the most beloved athletes of their respective generations ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- (November 22, 1890 – November 9,1970), in France commonly referred to ... Prior to World War II he was mostly known as a tank tactician and ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- The Siege of Malta (also known as the Great Siege of Malta) took place ... Nevertheless, the siege should not be viewed in isolation. Rather ...33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
- for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... In reality the situation was much more nuanced and complicated. Christian ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
