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  • developed from the logographic characters of Chinese origin, known in Japan ... into Taiwanese to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters like furigana ...
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  • revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...
    95 KB (14,231 words) - 15:44, 12 June 2023
  • His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia ... His most famous, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, is based on events ...
    18 KB (2,675 words) - 21:43, 25 June 2022
  • and writing. Falk was best known as creator of popular comic strip superheroes ... Falk also contributed to a series of novels about the 'Phantom ...
    28 KB (4,294 words) - 19:00, 25 October 2022
  • Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... in the north, and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast ...
    50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
  • ) refers to an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern ... The rise of the Chalukyas marks an important milestone in the history ...
    41 KB (5,966 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
  • European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...
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  • ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. It has an estimated ...
    42 KB (5,893 words) - 03:23, 8 June 2024
  • Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... Senegal, though poor, has a tradition of political stability and peaceful ...
    33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
  • in Kannada) stood as a prominent South Indian empire that ruled most ... The Hoysala rulers originally lived as hill peoples of Malnad Karnataka ...
    35 KB (5,038 words) - 18:09, 15 March 2023
  • Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country ... greatly under the devastating effects of rebel incursions. To end rebel ...
    38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
  • East Indies and styled the "father of Chinese Malay literature" ... spent three years working in various lines of employment until he found stability ...
    37 KB (5,417 words) - 14:50, 24 June 2024
  • The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... The king is viewed as spiritual leader of the country and dominates ...
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  • to as ADS) is a digital library portal of over 7,000,000 astronomy and ... had a significant impact on the efficiency of astronomical research since ...
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  • poetry that has the form and musical quality of a song, or a usually short ... element, as opposed to the revelry of the Dionysian. ==Forms== ...
    22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
  • The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located ... shaped country between the two major powers of Brazil and Argentina has long ...
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  • with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.28 million ... Sydney is one of the most multicultural cities in the world which ...
    33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
  • texts developed an elaborate hierarchy of physically immortal beings ... "immortality." Some scholars of Taoism allege that later practitioners ...
    38 KB (6,009 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
  • civilization is the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference ... and technological development, and no sign of slavery or exploitation of ...
    32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
  • Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine ... Slovenia has been part of the Roman Empire, the Duchy of Karantania ...
    45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023

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