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- (b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...51 KB (7,629 words) - 23:06, 1 April 2023
- building behind the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne.]] century in Europe, particularly as a result of the Industrial Revolution. ...22 KB (3,153 words) - 02:54, 8 January 2024
- to generate and receive the sound. The study of underwater sound is known as ... There are two kinds of sonar — active and passive. The frequencies ...46 KB (7,281 words) - 01:12, 4 February 2023
- Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- the viola serves as the middle voice because of its mid-range in the stringed ... The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...60 KB (8,706 words) - 05:53, 10 May 2024
- from Mississippi who is regarded as one of America's most influential ... Williams, Faulkner is often considered one of the most important writers ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- screenplays for Hollywood, and in turn, many of his works, which are full of ... stories and experience the political world of various nations up close. Many ...28 KB (4,089 words) - 18:46, 24 May 2024
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... plant that grew on the marshy shores of the bay. In the sixteenth century ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel ... a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- thus move loads beyond the normal capability of a human. Cranes are commonly ... Greeks and were powered by men or beasts-of-burden, such as donkeys. These ...37 KB (5,784 words) - 20:21, 28 May 2024
- commanded a battalion and later a brigade of the 1st Infantry Division. ... After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign ... ) which refers to Hitler's, rather than Napoleon's, invasion ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- photographer who spent a considerable part of his career working from the ... a sense, he regarded photography as a type of painting, a way of capturing ...35 KB (5,110 words) - 09:50, 25 June 2024
- general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium ... and to pay off his debts. Still, Gaul was of significant military importance ...77 KB (12,113 words) - 23:58, 4 March 2024
- in land area, belonging to the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in ... tourist attraction and summer colony. Much of the island has undergone extensive ...24 KB (3,463 words) - 22:57, 7 May 2023
- 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving ... America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states' ...32 KB (4,916 words) - 21:09, 7 February 2024
- voyage, in 1912. This event ranks as one of the worst peacetime maritime ... In the early part of the twentieth century, White Star Line sought ...33 KB (4,881 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- and successful general. During the course of the American Civil War he quickly ... After the war he was alleged to have participated in the founding ...54 KB (8,703 words) - 02:44, 11 March 2023
