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- Tibetan art, or “Himalayan art,” refers to the art of Tibet and ... Tibetan visual art consists primarily of murals, thangka (painted religious ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- 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
- The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... modern-state founded solely on the basis of religion, since although India ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- ) refers to a race of large serpentine creatures that abound in the ... is still called nāg in Hindi and other languages of India today. Thus, the ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... northern Ecuador to central Chile. In search of Inca wealth, the Spanish explorer ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- Gaborone is the capital and largest city of the landlocked nation ... Gaborone was founded in 1965, as the capital of Botswana. It is notable ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- a very long neck and legs and is the tallest of all land-living animal species ... for near-by animals regarding the presence of predators. Giraffes have been ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 07:47, 24 January 2023
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- 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
- sometimes known as the "backbone" of North America. The highest ... those mountains are considered to be part of the entire American cordillera ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked ... Located in the heart of Central Asia between the Amu Darya (Oxus) ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- she changed the public's perception of people with disabilities. She ... true value comes from the height and depth of her mind. ...17 KB (2,731 words) - 09:34, 25 June 2024
- in the "National System" type of capitalism. Although greatly ... in 1789. Unwilling to follow the occupation of his father, who was a prosperous ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 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
- ) for short, is the capital and the largest city of Thailand. Bangkok ... Bangkok has one of the fastest rates in the world for construction ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or ... Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, although households ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 23:57, 26 June 2024
- instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck ... Bells are usually cast from bell metal (a type of bronze) for its ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 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