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600 | 2,766,075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600 | Andorra | Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked country and microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. Believed to have been created by Charlemagne, Andorra was ruled by the count of Urgell until 988, when it was trans... |
737 | 46,005,432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=737 | Afghanistan | Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the no... |
878 | 44,120,587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=878 | Abugida | An abugida (, from Ge'ez: ), sometimes known as alphasyllabary, neosyllabary or pseudo-alphabet, is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, like a diacritical mark. This contrasts with a full alphabet,... |
924 | 4,007,668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=924 | A. A. Milne | Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World War... |
951 | 40,551,159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=951 | Antigua and Barbuda | Antigua and Barbuda (, ) is a sovereign island country in the West Indies. It lies at the conjuncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles.
The country consists of two major islands, Antigua and Barbuda, which are approximately apart, and several smaller islands... |
1,132 | 27,823,944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1132 | The Ashes | The Men's Ashes is a Test cricket series played biennially between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, "The Sporting Times", immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English crick... |
1,148 | 38,455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1148 | Adelaide | Adelaide ( ; ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym "Adelaidean" is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. Th... |
1,217 | 111,744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1217 | Anguilla | Anguilla ( ) is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin. The territory consists of the main island of Anguilla, approximately long by wide at its wide... |
1,627 | 1,176,270,193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1627 | Aberdeen | Aberdeen (; ; ; ) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and has a population estimate of for the city of Aberdeen, and for the local council area making it the United Kingdom's 39th most p... |
1,893 | 44,530,844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1893 | Albert Spalding |
Albert Goodwill Spalding (September 2, 1849 – September 9, 1915) was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods company. He was born and raised in Byron, Illinois, yet graduated from Rockford Central High School in Rockfo... |
1,944 | 6,483,916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944 | Australian Capital Territory | The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a federal territory of Australia. Canberra, the capital city of Australia, is located in this territory. It is located in southeastern Australian mainland as an enclave completely within the state of New South Wales. Fou... |
2,018 | 45,364,011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2018 | A. J. Ayer | Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer ( ; 29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989), usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books "Language, Truth, and Logic" (1936) and "The Problem of Knowledge" (1956).
Ayer was educated at Eton College and the Unive... |
2,403 | 39,494,265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2403 | Australian rules football | Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval ball between the central goal posts (worth six points), or betw... |
2,575 | 22,242,824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2575 | André the Giant | André René Roussimoff (; 19 May 1946 – 28 January 1993), better known by his ring name André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Known as "the Eighth Wonder of the World," Roussimoff was known for his great size, which was a result of gigantism caused by excess growth hormones.
Beginning his career... |
2,594 | 29,738,728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2594 | Ant | Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,000 species have been classified. They are easily identified by their geniculate... |
2,701 | 7,611,264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2701 | Aberdare | Aberdare ( ; ) is a town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare (Dâr) and Cynon. Aberdare has a population of 39,550 (mid-2017 estimate). Aberdare is south-west of Merthyr Tydfil, north-west of Cardiff and east-north-east of Swansea. During the 19th century it became ... |
2,715 | 42,273,988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2715 | Abergavenny | Abergavenny (; , archaically "Abergafenni" meaning "mouth of the River Gavenny") is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. Abergavenny is promoted as a "Gateway to Wales"; it is approximately from the border with England and is located where the A40 trunk road and the A465 Heads of the Valleys road meet.
... |
2,716 | 664,855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2716 | Abersychan | Abersychan is a town and community north of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales, and lies within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent.
Abersychan lies in the narrow northern section of the Afon Lwyd valley.
The town includes two schools; Abersychan Comprehensive School and Vi... |
2,717 | 35,354,423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2717 | Abertillery | Abertillery (; ) is a town and a community of the Ebbw Fach valley in the historic county of Monmouthshire, Wales. Following local government reorganisation it became part of the Blaenau Gwent County Borough administrative area.
The surrounding landscape borders the Brecon Beacons National Park and the Blaenavon World ... |
2,745 | 22,312,364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2745 | Azad Kashmir | Azad Jammu and Kashmir (; , ), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity and constituting the western portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 194... |
2,819 | 13,286,072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819 | Aerodynamics | Aerodynamics ( "aero" (air) + (dynamics)) is the study of the motion of air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing. It involves topics covered in the field of fluid dynamics and its subfield of gas dynamics, and is an important domain of study in aeronautics. The term "aerodynamics" is... |
2,940 | 925,175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2940 | And did those feet in ancient time | "And did those feet in ancient time" is a poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic ', one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books. The date of 1804 on the title page is probably when the plates were begun, but the poem was printed . Today it is best known as the hymn "Jerusalem"'", with music... |
3,049 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3049 | Autumn | Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons on Earth. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter an... |
3,055 | 1,174,903,703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3055 | Accrington | Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, east of Preston, north of Manchester and is situated on the culverted River Hyndburn. Commonly abbreviated by locals to "Accy", the town has a population of 35,456 according to the 2011 census.
Accring... |
3,079 | 1,177,882,075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3079 | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter e... |
3,447 | 378,390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3447 | Cue sports | Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:
Billiards has a long history from its inception in th... |
3,451 | 20,306,027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3451 | The Bahamas | The Bahamas ( ), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands... |
3,454 | 42,207,850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3454 | Bangladesh | Bangladesh (; , ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most-populous and among the most densely populated countries, with a population of around 169 million in an area of . Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the... |
3,455 | 507,787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3455 | Barbados | Barbados ( ; ; ) is an island country and microstate in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It lies on the boundary of the South American and the Caribbean Plates. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.
Inhabited by Kalina... |
3,458 | 1,177,281,270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3458 | Belize | Belize (, ; ) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a water boundary with Honduras to the southeast. It has an area of and a population of 441,471 (2022). Its mainland is about... |
3,460 | 15,996,738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3460 | Bermuda | Bermuda (; historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, approximately to the west-northwest.
Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of 181 islands, although the most signi... |
3,464 | 25,112,844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3464 | Botswana | Botswana (; , ), officially the Republic of Botswana (, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 per cent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to th... |
3,470 | 42,019,411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3470 | Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso ( , ; , ) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest. As of 2021, the country had an estimated population of 20,321,378. Previously called Repub... |
3,736 | 3,570,909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3736 | British Isles | The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands. They have a total a... |
3,780 | 35,936,988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3780 | Bal Thackeray | Bal Keshav Thackeray (; 23 January 1926 – 17 November 2012) also known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing pro-Marathi and Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra.
Thackeray began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English-lang... |
3,797 | 1,416,331 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3797 | Baseball statistics | Baseball statistics play an important role in evaluating the progress of a player or team.
Since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and normally players act individually rather than performing in clusters, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and statistics. Statistics have been recorded sin... |
3,850 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3850 | Baseball | Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batt... |
3,856 | 6,294,859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3856 | History of baseball in the United States | The history of baseball in the United States dates to the 18th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of the sport grew and amateur men's ball clubs were formed in the 1830–50s. Semi-professional baseball clubs followed... |
3,928 | 7,611,264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3928 | Ball | A ball is a round object (usually spherical, but can sometimes be ovoid) with several uses. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players. Balls can also be used for simpler activities, such as catch or juggling. Balls made from hard-wearing... |
3,942 | 32,990,417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3942 | Bijection | A bijection is a function that is both injective (one-to-one) and surjective (onto). In other words, for every element in the domain, there is a unique element in the codomain that it maps to, and every element in the codomain is mapped to by at least one element in the domain.
Formally, a bijection is a function betwe... |
4,059 | 7,852,030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4059 | Bob Hawke | Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia, from 1983 to 1991, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Previously he was the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1969 to 1980 and pre... |
4,097 | 46,598,820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4097 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called ""Bordelais" (masculine) or ""Bordelaises" (feminine). The term "Borde... |
4,109 | 794,305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4109 | Leg theory | Leg theory is a bowling tactic in the sport of cricket. The term "leg theory" is somewhat archaic, but the basic tactic remains a play in modern cricket.
Simply put, leg theory involves concentrating the bowling attack at or near the line of leg stump. This may or may not be accompanied by a concentration of fielders o... |
4,173 | 31,831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4173 | Babe Ruth | George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red S... |
4,193 | 7,852,030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4193 | Common buzzard | The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium-to-large bird of prey which has a large range. It is a member of the genus "Buteo" in the family Accipitridae. The species lives in most of Europe and extends its breeding range across much of the Palearctic as far as northwestern China (Tian Shan), far western Siberia and n... |
4,246 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4246 | Hindi cinema | Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and "Hollywood". The industry is a part of the larger Indian... |
4,367 | 203,799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4367 | Brian Lara | Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class crick... |
4,408 | 753,665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4408 | Buddy Holly | Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his ... |
4,444 | 1,176,887,310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4444 | Bandy | Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.
The playing surface, called a bandy field or bandy rink, is a sheet of ice which measures 90–110 metres by 45–65 metres; ab... |
4,529 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4529 | Northern bobwhite | The northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), also known as the Virginia quail or (in its home range) bobwhite quail, is a ground-dwelling bird native to Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, with introduced populations elsewhere in the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. It is a member of the group of species known as ... |
4,543 | 1,960,810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4543 | Blue | Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term "blue" generally describes colors perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength between... |
4,671 | 18,527,817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4671 | Baron Aberdare | Baron Aberdare, of Duffryn in the County of Glamorgan, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 August 1873 for the Liberal politician Henry Bruce. He served as Home Secretary from 1868 to 1873. His grandson, the third Baron, was a soldier, cricketer and tennis player and a member of the In... |
4,681 | 20,319,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4681 | Boxing Day | Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December). Though it originated as a holiday to give gifts to poor people, today, Boxing Day forms part of Christmas celebrations, with many people choosing to take advantage of Boxing Day sales. It originated in Gr... |
4,721 | 43,468,913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4721 | British Empire | The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
At its height in ... |
4,862 | 46,634,647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4862 | Bengal | Bengal ( ; , ) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. The region of Bengal proper is divided between modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. The Indian states of Assam and T... |
4,973 | 40,118,625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4973 | Ballarat | Ballarat ( ) (Wathaurong: balla arat) is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Ballarat had a population of 111,973, making it the third largest city in Victoria.
Within months of Victoria separating from the colony of New South Wales in 1851, gold was discovered near Ballarat, spa... |
5,025 | 22,145,357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5025 | Brisbane Broncos | The Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club Ltd., commonly referred to as the Broncos, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos play in Australia's elite competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. The club has won seven... |
5,026 | 43,253,703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5026 | Brisbane Lions | The Brisbane Lions is a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.
The Brisbane Lions came into existence with the 1996 merger of the AFL operations of Melbourne-based VFL/AFL foundation club Fitzroy and... |
5,046 | 1,175,681,398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5046 | Belfast | Belfast ( , ; from , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 10th-largest primary urban area in the United Kingdom and the second-largest city in Ireland. Belfast City had a population of 293,298 in... |
5,177 | 40,347,300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5177 | Communication | Communication is usually understood as the transmission of information. The term can also refer to the message itself and to the field of inquiry studying these transmissions, also known as communication studies. Its precise definition is disputed. Controversial issues are whether unintentional or failed transmissions ... |
5,447 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5447 | Cameroon | Cameroon (, , , Duala: , Ewondo: , , ), officially the Republic of Cameroon (), is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline... |
5,468 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5468 | Cayman Islands | The Cayman () Islands is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the south of Cuba and northeast of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. The capital cit... |
5,500 | 38,330,476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5500 | Christmas Island | The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the same name. It is located in the Indian Ocean around south of Java and Sumatra and about northwest of the closest point on the Australian mainland. It has an area of .
Christmas Island had a population of 1,692 residents ,... |
5,520 | 7,611,264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5520 | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (; ), are an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and relatively close to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The territory's dual name (off... |
5,593 | 35,936,988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5593 | Cyprus | Cyprus ( ), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country situated in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies between the continental mainlands of Europe and Asia, but is culturally and geopolitically Southeast European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It shares a land ... |
5,643 | 7,611,264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5643 | Channel Islands | The Channel Islands are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands. Historically,... |
5,648 | 12,845,131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5648 | Cornwall | Cornwall (; ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations and is the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, Devon to the east, and the English Channel to the south. The largest settlement is Falmouth, and the co... |
5,688 | 35,936,988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5688 | Colin Dexter | Norman Colin Dexter (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his "Inspector Morse" series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, "Inspector Morse", from 1987 to 2000. His characters have spawned a sequel series, "Lewis" from 2006 to ... |
5,729 | 13,625,714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5729 | Chariots of Fire | Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and produced by David Puttnam. It is based on the true story of two British athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an En... |
5,772 | 13,286,072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5772 | Cricket (disambiguation) | Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams.
Cricket also commonly refers to:
Cricket(s) or The Cricket(s) may also refer to: |
5,778 | 36,811,923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5778 | Cave | A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word "cave" can refer to smaller openings such as sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos, that extend a relatively short distance int... |
5,882 | 44,690,822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5882 | Cardiff | Cardiff (; ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of 362,310 in 2021, and forms a principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff (). The city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingdom. Located in the south-east of Wales and in the Cardiff Capital Region, Cardiff is t... |
5,884 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5884 | Charles Dickens | Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th ... |
5,942 | 18,872,885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5942 | History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | The history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is typically divided into three broad time periods:
The LDS Church traces its origins to the Burned-over district of Western New York, where Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, was raised. Smith gained a small following in the late... |
5,945 | 53,396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5945 | Chicago White Sox | The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, and plays its home games at Guaranteed Rate Field, located on Chicago's South Side.... |
6,321 | 40,473,099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6321 | Channel 4 | Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It is publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is instead funded entirely by its own commercial activities, including publicity. It began its tra... |
6,427 | 14,264,656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6427 | Cheddar, Somerset | Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, north-west of Wells, south-east of Weston-super-Mare and south-west of Bristol. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross. The parish had a population of 5,755 ... |
6,514 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6514 | County Dublin | County Dublin ( or ) is a county in Ireland, and holds its capital city, Dublin. It is located on the island's east coast, within the province of Leinster. Until 1994, County Dublin (excluding the city) was a single local government area; in that year, the county council was divided into three new administrative counti... |
6,641 | 45,544,898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6641 | Cane toad | The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia. It is a member of the genus "Rhi... |
6,653 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6653 | Cape Town | Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
The city is known f... |
6,690 | 53,396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6690 | Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings each day. Coca-Cola ranked No. 87 in the 2018 "Fortune" 500 list of the largest United States co... |
6,742 | 1,177,848,929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6742 | Central Asia | <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the former Soviet republics of Ka... |
6,749 | 45,861,503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6749 | Cheerleading | Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to entertain the audience, or for competition. Cheerleading routines typically range... |
6,963 | 1,166,471,264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6963 | Canadian football | Canadian football () is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's scoring area (end zone).
In Canada, football may refer to Canadian football and American footb... |
6,999 | 8,729,451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6999 | Culture of Canada | The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social elements that are representative of Canadians. Throughout Canada's history, its culture has been influenced firstly by its indigenous cultures, and later by European culture and traditions, mostly by the British and F... |
7,239 | 46,416,861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7239 | Cricket World Cup | The Cricket World Cup, officially known as ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), every four years, with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals ... |
7,406 | 144,047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7406 | Cheshire | Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the north-west of England. It is bordered by Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south, and the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham to the west, with a short coastline on the Dee Estuary. Warrington is th... |
7,473 | 28,761,549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7473 | Chelsea F.C. | Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won th... |
7,672 | 1,175,881,608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7672 | Chuck Jones | Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, director, and painter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Da... |
7,888 | 24,902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7888 | D. W. Griffith | David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the narrative film.
Griffith is known, to modern audiences, primarily for directing... |
8,166 | 24,673,396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8166 | Devon | Devon ( , historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west. The city of Plymouth is the largest settlement, and the city of Exeter is the... |
8,212 | 44,151,335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8212 | Disc golf | Disc golf, formerly known as frisbee golf, is a flying disc sport in which players throw a disc at a target; it is played using rules similar to golf. Most disc golf discs are made out of polypropylene plastic, otherwise known as polypropene, which is a thermoplastic polymer resin used in a wide variety of applications... |
8,408 | 1,176,858,681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8408 | Darwin, Northern Territory | Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With a population of 139,902 at the 2021 census, the city contains most of the sparsely populated Northern Territory's residents. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's ... |
8,418 | 1,177,567,945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8418 | Dartmouth College | Dartmouth College (; ) is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although originally established to educate Native Americans in Christian theology and the English way o... |
8,449 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8449 | Developmental biology | Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop. Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and differentiation of stem cells in the adult organism.
Perspectives.
The main processes involved in th... |
8,485 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8485 | Diego Maradona | Diego Armando Maradona (; 30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award.
An advanced playmaker who operated in the c... |
8,504 | 262,716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8504 | Dublin | Dublin (; , ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2022 census, the municipal area had a population of 592,713, while Dublin City and its subu... |
9,055 | 40,756,922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9055 | Derry | Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The old walled city lies on the west bank of the River Foyle, which is spanned by two road bridges and one footbridge. The city now covers both banks (Cityside on the west and Waterside on ... |
9,262 | 18,998,846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9262 | Entertainment | Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but it is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.
Al... |
9,316 | 11,308,236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9316 | England | England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north, while Ireland is located across the Irish Sea to its west and northwest, and the Celtic Sea lies to its southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and th... |
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