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- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming ... Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- popular and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and an ... Joining the touring company of the legendary Ma Rainey, Smith emerged ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi, theoretician of mysticism, and hagiographer ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- The Mormon handcart pioneers were participants in the migration of ... in Utah, but lacking funds for full teams of oxen or horses, nearly 3,000 ...42 KB (6,112 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... O'Connor was the crucial swing vote of the Court for many of her final ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet ... treasures ever discovered. Many of the scrolls today are housed ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- a Major League club when he became manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1978. us/Culture062003.html Larry Doby, part of history, “courage, dignity ...22 KB (3,428 words) - 17:46, 25 October 2022
- Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park. ... often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
- ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the ... with the imperial project in India freed her of the obligation to value everything ...24 KB (3,546 words) - 09:37, 25 June 2024
- piloting the first non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927; an ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, little is known of ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... World War I soon established the importance of a reliable national oil supply ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy ... and liberal, his strong endorsement of freedom, his commitment to ...49 KB (7,803 words) - 19:01, 25 October 2022
- | birthplace = Newark, New Jersey | deathdate = 2018|5|22|1933|3|19|mf=y | deathplace = Manhattan, New York City | occupation = novelist ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- a can manufactured to hold a single serving of a beverage. In the United States ... The early metal beverage can was made out of steel (similar to a tin ...13 KB (2,176 words) - 03:29, 1 October 2023
- Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... 1500), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice. Inspired by the new ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers ... It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted ... Most accurate sources put the total deaths during the fifteen years ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
