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- [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... cities formed in locations where a number of people were gathered to live ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, and ... overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French ...20 KB (3,217 words) - 15:13, 21 May 2024
- vacuum tube, which ushered in a new age of electronics through its use ... Lee De Forest born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the second eldest of three ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 18:59, 25 October 2022
- and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) was a series of civil wars fought ... The Wars were fought largely by the landed aristocracy and armies ...33 KB (5,447 words) - 22:07, 18 November 2022
- Babylonia, named for its capital city of Babylon, was an ancient state ... ruler Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem and took the Israelites ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding ... as a reaction against the rationalization of nature during the Enlightenment ...19 KB (2,987 words) - 04:48, 3 August 2022
- – June 9, 1870) was an English novelist of the Romantic and Victorian ... even political leaders have pointed out, one of the most politically revolutionary ...35 KB (5,506 words) - 01:58, 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
- 2006, leading to speculation about his lack of loop and his waning value as ... on the cricket field. As a visible member of the Sikh faith, a minority ...42 KB (6,183 words) - 19:43, 29 January 2022
- was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan ... in 1937 and ended only with the surrender of Japan in 1945. The war was ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- the period generally known as The Silver Age of Russian literature. The Golden ... Naturalism was a later development of Realism that was influenced ...37 KB (5,536 words) - 16:30, 7 September 2023
- novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne ...38 KB (6,119 words) - 06:49, 28 July 2023
- military conflict between the United States of America and the nascent First ... ISBN 9718958002). This date marked the end of the war as far as the United ...65 KB (9,572 words) - 20:45, 23 September 2023
- .nsf/mf/3238.0.55.001 Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... 2.7% of Australia's population |popplace=New South Wales 2.9 ...50 KB (7,297 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- Pure August Jade Emperor or August Personage of Jade (玉皇上帝 (Yu Huang ... is the ruler of Heaven (Tian) in Chinese mythology and is among the ...18 KB (2,861 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- is the Islamic rite of pilgrimage in Mecca, the city in Saudi Arabia ... It is the most overt demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim ...29 KB (4,558 words) - 20:42, 22 June 2024
- Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- by the Colorado River, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is contained largely ... Geologists estimate that formation of the canyon required at least ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- face off in a circular area. The sport is of Japanese origin and is surrounded ... many ritual elements, such as the use of salt for purification, from ...39 KB (6,360 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
