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9,602 | 39,166,520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9602 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh ( ; ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. The modern city is located between the rivers Almond and Esk on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, in the historic region of Lothian, bounded on its southern side by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh is Scotland's second most populous c... |
9,904 | 43,699,399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9904 | England national football team | The England national football team has represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872. It is controlled by The Football Association (FA), the governing body for football in England, which is affiliated with UEFA and comes under the global jurisdiction of world football's gover... |
9,946 | 525,927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9946 | Ed Sullivan | Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American television personality, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the "New York Daily News" and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. He was the creator and host of the television variety program "Th... |
10,049 | 11,761,454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10049 | Eric Clapton | Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. He ranked second in "Rolling Stone"s list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibsons "Top 50 Guitarists of All T... |
10,088 | 44,938,552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10088 | Eastern Caribbean dollar | The Eastern Caribbean dollar (symbol: EC$; code: XCD) is the currency of all seven full members and one associate member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The successor to the British West Indies dollar, it has existed since 1965, and it is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign "$" or, alterna... |
10,257 | 1,178,038,404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10257 | Essendon Football Club | The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their Ascot Vale home "Alisa", and while the exact date is unknown, it is generally ... |
10,289 | 7,126,990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10289 | Emsworth | Emsworth is a town in the Borough of Havant in the county of Hampshire, on the south coast of England near the border with West Sussex. It lies at the north end of an arm of Chichester Harbour, a large and shallow inlet from the English Channel, and is equidistant between Portsmouth and Chichester.
Emsworth had a popul... |
10,568 | 492,929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10568 | Association football | Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goa... |
10,653 | 4,880,401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10653 | Fantasy sport | A fantasy sport (also known less commonly as rotisserie or roto) is a game, often played using the Internet, where participants assemble imaginary or virtual teams composed of proxies of real players of a professional sport. These teams compete based on the statistical performance of those players in actual games. This... |
10,707 | 287,161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10707 | Fiji | Fiji ( , ; , ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, "Fijī"), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500... |
10,783 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10783 | History of film | The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. However, the commercial, public screening of ten of the Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895, ca... |
10,886 | 46,423,626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10886 | Field hockey | Field hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with eleven players in total, made up of ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must move a hockey ball around a pitch by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting circle and then ... |
11,040 | 7,930,436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11040 | First-class cricket | First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the compe... |
11,228 | 1,177,361,374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11228 | Fulham F.C. | Fulham Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, Greater London, England. The team competes in the , the top level of the English football league system. They have played home games at Craven Cottage since 1896, other than a two-year period spent at Loftus Road whilst Craven Cottage underwent redev... |
11,513 | 1,894,081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11513 | Fort William, Scotland | Fort William is a town in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands, located on the eastern shore of Loch Linnhe. At the 2011 census, Fort William had a population of 10,459, making it the second largest settlement in both the Highland council area, and the whole of the Scottish Highlands; only the city of Inverness has a lar... |
11,715 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11715 | McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle | The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather tactical fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing). Following reviews of proposals, the United States Air Force (USAF) selected McDonnell Douglas's design in 1969 to meet the service's need for a dedicated air superiority... |
11,741 | 43,244,208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11741 | Fantasy film | Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction films and horror films, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often h... |
11,998 | 41,255,362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11998 | Godzilla vs. Megalon | is a 1973 Japanese "kaiju" film directed by Jun Fukuda, written by Fukuda and Shinichi Sekizawa, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. Distributed by Toho and produced under their effects subsidiary Toho–Eizo, it is the 13th film in the "Godzilla" franchise, and features the fictio... |
12,108 | 5,316,600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12108 | Greece | Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea t... |
12,166 | 20,306,027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12166 | Guernsey | Guernsey (; Guernésiais: "Guernési"; ) is the second largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It forms the major part of the jurisdiction of the same name, which also comprises three other inhabited islands (Herm, Jethou and Lihou) and many small islets and rocks. The jur... |
12,334 | 44,254,629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12334 | God Save the King | "God Save the King" (alternatively "God Save the Queen" when the UK monarch is female) is the national anthem of the United Kingdom and the royal anthem of each of the British Crown Dependencies, one of two national anthems of New Zealand since 1977, and the royal anthem of most Commonwealth realms. The author of the t... |
12,501 | 40,291,663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12501 | Geoff Hurst | Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst (born 8 December 1941) is an English former professional footballer. A striker, he became the first, and one of the only two men, to ever score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, when England recorded a 4–2 victory over West Germany at Wembley Stadium in 1966.
Hurst began his career with West ... |
12,583 | 4,007,668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12583 | Gary Lineker | Gary Winston Lineker (; born 30 November 1960) is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer. Lineker is the only player to have been the top goalscorer in England with three clubs: Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. He also played for Barcelona in Spain, and won 80 caps for England. H... |
12,601 | 4,328,878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12601 | Governor-General of Australia | The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in Australia. The governor-general is appointed by the monarch on the recommendation of the prime minister. The governor-general has formal presidency over the Federal Executive Council and is commander-in-chief of the A... |
13,007 | 23,646,674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13007 | Geelong Football Club | The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition, and are the 2022 reigning premiers.
The club formed in 1859, making it the second-oldest club... |
13,075 | 1,176,770,314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13075 | Gosford | Gosford is a waterfront city on the northern extremity of Brisbane Water in the heart of the Central Coast in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Gosford is the commercial hub and gateway of the Central Coast that is known for boating and scenic views along the shore of Brisbane Water and the surrounding valleys. ... |
13,459 | 45,242,303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13459 | H. G. Wells | Herbert George Wells (21 September 186613 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells' science fiction... |
13,462 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13462 | Harlan Ellison | Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. His published works include more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic book scripts, teleplays, essays, and... |
13,467 | 46,629,840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13467 | Hamburg | Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (; ), is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin, as well as the overall 8th-largest city and largest non-capital city within the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. Hamburg's urban area has a population of around 2.5 million an... |
13,699 | 53,396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13699 | Hobart | Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/palawa kani: nipaluna) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the southernmost and least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-smallest if territories are taken into account, before Darwin, Norther... |
13,830 | 46,587,038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13830 | Hastings | Hastings ( ) is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England,
east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west at Senlac Hill in 1066. It later became one of the medieval Cinque Ports. In th... |
13,861 | 7,611,264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13861 | Hampshire | Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, Dorset to the west, and Wiltshire to the north-west. The city of Southampton is the largest settlement, and t... |
13,867 | 15,691,403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13867 | Harold Holt | Harold Edward Holt (5 August 190817 December 1967) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia, from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Holt was born in Sydney and moved to Melbourne in child... |
13,961 | 45,687,745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13961 | Hansie Cronje | Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje (25 September 1969 – 1 June 2002) was a South African international cricketer and captain of the South Africa national cricket team in the 1990s. A right-handed all-rounder, as captain Cronje led his team to victory in 27 Test matches and 99 One Day Internationals. Cronje also led South ... |
13,981 | 14,835,592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13981 | Hockey | Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers of players, apparel, and playing surface, they share broad characteristics of... |
14,065 | 3,306,290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14065 | Harwich | Harwich is a town in Essex, England, and one of the Haven ports on the North Sea coast. It is in the Tendring district. Nearby places include Felixstowe to the north-east, Ipswich to the north-west, Colchester to the south-west and Clacton-on-Sea to the south. It is the northernmost coastal town in Essex.
Its position ... |
14,131 | 41,898,136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14131 | Hazaras | The Hazaras (; ) are an ethnic group and a principal component of the population of Afghanistan, native to, and primarily residing in the Hazaristan region in central Afghanistan and generally scattered
throughout Afghanistan. They are one of the largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan, and significant minority groups in... |
14,189 | 9,023,670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14189 | Haryana | Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 November 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land area. The state capital is Chandigarh, which it shares with the neighbour... |
14,421 | 42,522,270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14421 | Henry Chadwick (writer) | Henry Chadwick (October 5, 1824 – April 20, 1908) was an English-American sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian, often called the "Father of Baseball" for his early reporting on and contributions to the development of the game. He edited the first baseball guide that was sold to the public. He is credited w... |
14,458 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14458 | Hail | Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It is distinct from ice pellets (American English "sleet"), though the two are often confused. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Ice pellets generally fall in cold weather, while hail growth is greatly inhibited during low surface... |
14,533 | 35,498,457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14533 | India | India, officially the Republic of India (ISO: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwes... |
14,535 | 43,209,736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14535 | Music of India | Owing to India's vastness and diversity, Indian music encompasses numerous genres in multiple varieties and forms which include classical music, folk, rock, and pop. It has a history spanning several millennia and developed over several geo-locations spanning the sub-continent. Music in India began as an integral part ... |
14,560 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14560 | Republic of Ireland | Ireland ( ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. Around 2.1 million of the country's population of 5.15 million people reside in the Greater... |
14,604 | 237,572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14604 | Foreign relations of India | India, officially the Republic of India, has full diplomatic relations with 201 states, including Palestine, the Holy See, and Niue. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is the government agency responsible for the conduct of foreign relations of India. With the world's third largest military expenditure, second larg... |
14,727 | 18,872,885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14727 | Isle of Man | The Isle of Man ( , also ), also known as Mann (), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Governor. The government of the United Kingdom is responsible for the isle's m... |
14,790 | 25,046,916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14790 | Ice hockey | Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance, and shoot a closed, vulcanized, rubber disc calle... |
14,975 | 41,553,921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14975 | Ivy League | The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference, which comprises eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The conference's headquarters is located in Princeton, New Jersey. The term "Ivy League" is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools as a gro... |
15,116 | 32,901,089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15116 | Inter Milan | Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter is the only Italian side to have always competed in the top flight of Italian foot... |
15,308 | 32,904,124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15308 | Ian McKellen | Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. With a career spanning more than six decades, he is noted for his roles on the screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is regarded as a British cultural icon and was knighte... |
15,524 | 29,077,096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15524 | Ian Botham | Ian Terence Botham, Baron Botham, (born 24 November 1955) is an English cricket commentator, member of the House of Lords, a former cricketer who has been chairman of Durham County Cricket Club since 2017 and charity fundraiser. Hailed as one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of the game, Botham represented E... |
15,660 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15660 | Jamaica | Jamaica (; , ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third largest after Cuba and of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic); the British Overseas ... |
15,661 | 14,730,724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15661 | History of Jamaica | The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery. By roughly 800 AD, a second wave of inhabitance occurred by the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos, prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. Early inhabitants of Jama... |
15,693 | 44,120,587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15693 | Jersey | Jersey ( ; ), also known as the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uni... |
15,858 | 46,477,849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15858 | John Cleese | John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on "The Frost Report". In the late 1960s, he cofounded Monty Python... |
15,898 | 1,176,836,483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15898 | John Major | Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He previously held Cabinet positions under prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the last as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1989 to 1990. Major was ... |
16,036 | 8,917,946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16036 | John Peel | John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.
Peel was one of the first broadcasters to play ... |
16,135 | 80,913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16135 | Jonathan Meades | Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food. His work spans journalism, fiction, essays, memoir and over fifty highly idiosyncratic television films, and has been described as "brainy, scabrous, mischievous," "icon... |
16,274 | 18,206,476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16274 | Jalalabad | Jalalabad (; ]) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about from the capital Kabul. Jalalabad is located at the junction of the Kabul River and the Kunar River in a plateau to the south of the H... |
16,336 | 1,178,057,244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16336 | Jeffrey Archer | Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist, life peer, convicted criminal, and former elected politician who remains a member of the House of Lords. Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament (1969–1974), but did not seek re-election after a fi... |
16,590 | 6,941,696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | Junkers Ju 87 | The Junkers Ju 87 or "Stuka" is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and served the Axis in World War II from beginning to end (1939–1945)... |
16,759 | 10,653,874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16759 | Kevlar | Kevlar (para-aramid) is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora. Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, the high-strength material was first used commercially in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires. It is typically spun into ropes or... |
16,766 | 16,511,937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16766 | Kent | Kent is a ceremonial county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe. It borders Essex across the entire estuary of the River Thames to the north; the French department of Pas-de-Calais across the Strait of Dover to the south-east; East Sussex to the south-west; Surrey to the west and ... |
16,826 | 24,050,972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16826 | Kabul | Kabul (; ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. According to 2023 estimates, the population of Kabul was 4.95 million people. In contempor... |
16,876 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16876 | Kingston upon Thames | Kingston upon Thames (hyphenated until 1965, colloquially known as Kingston) is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, England. It is situated on the River Thames and southwest of Charing Cross. It is notable as the ancient market town in which Saxon kings were crowned and today is the a... |
16,880 | 14,770,366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16880 | Karnataka | Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu), formerly Mysore State , is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, and renamed "Karnataka" in 1973. The state was part of the Carnatic region in British terminology. I... |
16,926 | 46,624,289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16926 | Kabaddi | Kabaddi (also known as kaudi) is a contact team sport played between two teams of seven players. The objective of the game is for a single player on offense, referred to as a "raider", to run into the opposing team's half of the court, touch out as many of their players and return to their own half of the court, all wi... |
17,003 | 6,611,590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17003 | Tettigoniidae | Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called katydids (especially in North America), or bush crickets. They have previously been known as "long-horned grasshoppers". More than 8,000 species are known. Part of the suborder Ensifera, the Tettigoniidae are the only extant (living) family in the superfamily Tett... |
17,012 | 1,177,854,079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17012 | Kim Philby | Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 191211 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a spy for the Soviet Union. In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War. Of th... |
17,034 | 43,579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17034 | Protea cynaroides | Protea cynaroides, also called the king protea (from , ), is a flowering plant. It is a distinctive member of "Protea", having the largest flower head in the genus. The species is also known as giant protea, honeypot or king sugar bush. It is widely distributed in the southwestern and southern parts of South Africa in ... |
17,123 | 43,836,990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17123 | Karachi | Karachi (; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh. It is the largest city in Pakistan and 12th largest in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former capital of Pakistan. Ranked as a beta-global ci... |
17,168 | 46,289,404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17168 | Kathmandu | Kathmandu, officially Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is the capital and most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households as of the 2021 Nepal census and 2.9 million people in its urban agglomeration. It is located in the Kathmandu Valley, a large valley in the high plateaus in central Nep... |
17,503 | 211,728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17503 | Leisure | Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. Leisure as an experience usually emphasizes dimensions of perceived freedom and choice. I... |
17,844 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17844 | Lord Peter Wimsey | Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective... |
17,867 | 35,763,168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17867 | London | London () is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of around 8.8 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial c... |
17,911 | 30,585,864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17911 | Lord Dunsany | Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, (; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. He published more than 90 volumes of fiction, essays, poems and plays in his lifetime, with a modest amount of material published posthumously. He gained... |
18,053 | 38,927,932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18053 | Bodyline | Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia. It was designed to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's leading batsman, Don Bradman. A bodyline delivery was one in which the cricket ball was bowled ... |
18,062 | 15,996,738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18062 | Leather | Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats, equine animals, buffalo, pigs and hogs, and aquatic animals such as seals and alligators.
Leather can be used to make ... |
18,080 | 14,984,434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18080 | Lacrosse | Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively modified by European colonists, reducing the violence, to create its c... |
18,081 | 248,739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18081 | Liverpool | Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England, with a population of 500,500 in 2022. The city is part of a broader metropolitan area that is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.24 million. A historic port city, Liverpool lies on the eastern side of the Mersey... |
18,121 | 3,236,687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18121 | Leg spin | Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery causes the ball to spin from right to left (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces on the pitch. For a right-handed batter, that is away from the leg side, and this is w... |
18,148 | 1,174,932,638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18148 | Left-arm orthodox spin | Left-arm orthodox spin, Left-arm off spin also known as slow left-arm orthodox spin bowling, is a type of left-arm finger spin bowling in the sport of cricket.
Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left-arm bowler using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch (from the bowler's perspective)... |
18,157 | 1,177,000,641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18157 | Lucent | Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Lab... |
18,184 | 46,286,651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18184 | Lizard | Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia, although some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than ... |
18,387 | 42,425,010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18387 | Lanista | Lanista is a genus of African bush-crickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in the subfamily Conocephalinae. |
18,544 | 46,157,501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18544 | Left-arm unorthodox spin | Left-arm unorthodox spin, also known as slow left-arm wrist-spin, is a type of spin bowling in the sport of cricket. Left-arm unorthodox spin bowlers use wrist spin to spin the ball, and make it deviate, or 'turn' from left to right after pitching. The direction of turn is the same as that of a traditional right-handed... |
18,650 | 1,168,190,276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18650 | Flipper (cricket) | The flipper is a particular bowling delivery used in cricket, generally by a leg spin bowler. In essence it is a back spin ball. Squeezed out of the front of the hand with the thumb and first and second fingers, it keeps deceptively low after pitching and can accordingly be very difficult to play. The flipper is compar... |
19,189 | 32,623,161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19189 | Mumbai | Mumbai (, , IAST: ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the "de facto" financial centre and the most populous city of India with an estimated city proper population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropo... |
19,281 | 1,177,727,681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19281 | Montserrat | Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with roughly of coastline. It is nicknamed "The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean" both for its resemblance to coastal ... |
19,301 | 42,500,989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19301 | Mozambique | Mozambique (; , ; ; ; ), officially the Republic of Mozambique (, ), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign state is separated fro... |
19,532 | 18,872,885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19532 | Cardiff Arms Park | Cardiff Arms Park (), also known as The Arms Park, is situated in the centre of Cardiff, Wales. It is primarily known as a rugby union stadium, but it also has a bowling green. The Arms Park was host to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1958, and hosted four games in the 1991 Rugby World Cup, including the t... |
19,701 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19701 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film satirizing the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) and directed by Gilliam and Jones in their feature directorial debuts. It was conc... |
19,735 | 22,522,124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19735 | Macquarie University | Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney.
Established as a verdant university, Macquarie has five faculties, as... |
19,765 | 16,030,466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19765 | Melbourne Cricket Ground | The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as The G, is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the 11th largest globally, and the second largest cricket ground by capaci... |
20,090 | 7,611,264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20090 | Marmite | Marmite ( ) is a British savoury food spread based on yeast extract, invented by the German scientist Justus von Liebig. It is made from by-products of beer brewing (lees) and is produced by the British company Unilever. Marmite is a vegan source of B vitamins, including supplemental vitamin B12. A traditional method o... |
20,167 | 13,286,072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20167 | Mexican cuisine | Mexican cuisine consists of the cooking cuisines and traditions of the modern country of Mexico. Its earliest roots lie in Mesoamerican cuisine. Its ingredients and methods begin with the first agricultural communities such as the Olmec and Maya who domesticated maize, created the standard process of nixtamalization, a... |
20,206 | 44,120,587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20206 | Manchester | Manchester ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of Greater Manchester, England; it had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The two cities and the surrounding t... |
20,451 | 39,606,237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20451 | Men at Work | Men at Work are an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1978 and best known for breakthrough hits such as "Down Under", "Who Can It Be Now?", "Be Good Johnny", "Overkill", and "It's a Mistake". Its founding member and frontman is Colin Hay, who performs on lead vocals and guitar. After playing as an acoustic duo... |
20,629 | 5,718,152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20629 | Maharashtra | Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to the southeast and Chhattisgarh to the east, Gujarat and Madhya P... |
20,804 | 44,318,890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20804 | Magdeburg | Magdeburg (; ) is the capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river.
Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg, was buried in the city's cathedral after his death. Magdeburg's version of German town law, known as Magdeburg rights, spread through... |
20,905 | 43,126,905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20905 | Muttiah Muralitharan | Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (, ), also spelt Muralidaran and often referred to as Murali (born 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, former professional cricketer, businessman and a member of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Averaging over six wickets per Test match, Muralitharan is widely regarded as the most successf... |
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