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Eminem
2026-10-01T15:44:11Z
**Marshall Bruce Mathers III** (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as **Eminem**, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He became popular in 1999 with the release of the album *The Slim Shady LP*, which won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album that year. His next work, *The Marshall Ma...
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Bratwurst
2026-09-22T14:29:49Z
**Bratwurst** is a dish of German origin. It is a type of sausage. It is composed of pork or beef, and sometimes veal. ## Where the word comes from *Bratwurst* is a sausage in German cuisines, from Old High German *brätwurst*, from *brät* which is a derivative of the Old High German word "brato". "Brato" originally m...
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1909
2025-05-11T06:00:25Z
**1909** (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar. ## Events - March 31 – Construction of the RMS Titanic is started - April 6 – Robert Peary arrived in the north pole. - April – The Adana massacre takes place in the Ottoman c...
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Guatemala
2026-06-24T22:35:47Z
**Guatemala**, officially the **Republic of Guatemala**, is a country in Central America. It borders Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. To the northeast is the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Honduras and its capital and largest city is Guatemala City. ## Population Guatemala has the largest population in Central A...
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Tenochtitlan
2026-07-26T16:32:28Z
**Tenochtitlan** was the capital city of the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs built Tenochtitlan around 1325, right on a lake called Lake Texcoco. As the Empire grew, so did Tenochtitlan. By the early 1500s, at least 200,000 people lived in the city. This made Tenochtitlan the largest city in the Americas before Christophe...
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Eurovision Song Contest
2026-08-26T22:26:00Z
The **Eurovision Song Contest** (sometimes shortened to **ESC** or simply **Eurovision**) is an international song contest held every year by the European Broadcasting Union since 1956. Each year, different singers representing countries in Europe perform a song and the winner is decided through voting. Between 160 mi...
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Malleability
2026-09-10T15:24:56Z
**Malleability** is a substance's ability to deform under pressure (compressive stress). If malleable, a material may be flattened into thin sheets by hammering or rolling. Malleable materials can be flattened into metal leaf. One well-known type of metal leaf is gold leaf. Many metals with high malleability also have ...
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10,321
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Gay
2026-10-01T03:29:47Z
**Gay** is a word used to describe someone who is homosexual. Today, the word usually means a person who is sexually attracted to people of the same gender. Often that person is also romantically interested in people of the same gender. A gay person can be a male who likes other males or a female who likes other female...
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10,324
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Potsdam
2021-04-27T20:27:06Z
**Potsdam** (Low Sorbian: *Podstupim*) is a small German city which is right next to Berlin. In fact it touches the border of Berlin, and is about 26 km southwest of Berlin's centre. It is the capital of the state of Brandenburg. Potsdam has a small population: about 176,000 people lived in this city in 2017. On the ...
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Bremen
2024-10-10T13:11:58Z
**Bremen** is a city in north Germany. It is the capital of the State of Bremen. About 545,000 live in Bremen. It has an oceanic climate (*Cfb* in the Koeppen climate classification). It is the 11th largest city in Germany. The city's official name today includes the name *Hansestadt* (Hanseatic city) in memory of i...
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Wiesbaden
2023-01-11T00:33:50Z
**Wiesbaden** (<template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="IPA-de"><div data-arg>ˈviːsˌbaːdn̩</div><div data-arg>-</div><div data-arg>Wiesbaden.ogg</div></template>; Hessian: *Wisbade*, Latin: *Aquae Mattiacae*) is a German city near Frankfurt am Main. It is the capital of the federal state of Hesse. Wiesbaden...
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10,327
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Hanover
2025-05-08T12:24:47Z
**Hanover** (Hannover) is a German city. It is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony. Hanover has 535,932 inhabitants (31 December 2021). In **Hanover** there are some big industry companies like Volkswagen (Cars and Vans), Continental (tyres), Varta (batteries) and TUI (tourism). Hanover has a very modern...
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Düsseldorf
2025-09-18T22:44:46Z
**Düsseldorf** (IPAC: UKˈdʊsəldɔːrf, IPAC: USˈdjuːs-, <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="IPA-de"><div data-arg>ˈdʏsl̩dɔʁf</div><div data-arg>lang</div><div data-arg>De-Düsseldorf.ogg</div></template>; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: *Düsseldörp* <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="IPA-all...
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Mainz
2026-03-07T20:29:28Z
**Mainz** (Määnz or *Meenz*, (Mogontiacum) is a German city. It is the capital of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz is on the left side of the river Rhine, on the right side is the city Wiesbaden. Mainz has about 203,000 people. Its main economic product is wine. It has an oceanic climate (*Cfb* in the Koeppen ...
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Kiel
2023-09-10T15:17:10Z
**Kiel** (<template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="Audio-IPA"><div data-arg>De-Kiel Pronunciation.ogg</div><div data-arg>[kiːl]</div></template>) is a city in the north of Germany. It is the capital of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It has a population of 239,526 people. It is a port on the sea and has an ...
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Fred Rogers
2026-07-26T11:43:27Z
{{vgood}} **Fred McFeely Rogers** (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was the creator, producer, head writer, and host of the children's television show *Mister Rogers' Neighborhood* from 1968 until he left...
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10,337
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Sri Yukteswar Giri
2026-08-05T12:52:38Z
**Sri Yukteswar Giri** (May 10, 1855 - March 9, 1936) was an Indian guru and swami. His real name was **Priya Nath Karar** and was born in Serampore, West-Bengal, India. He is one of the famous people who appears on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He became known through "Autobiograp...
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10,338
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Aleister Crowley
2026-09-24T17:50:52Z
**Aleister Crowley** (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was a British mystic, occultist, writer, poet, mountain climber and nicknamed "The Wickedest Man In the World.". He was an influential member in some occult organisations, such as the Golden Dawn, the A∴A∴, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and is better known ...
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
2025-09-30T16:28:48Z
**Karlheinz Stockhausen** (22 August 1928 - 5 December 2007) was a German composer. He was an important German composer in the years after World War II. During this time composers were exploring many new ideas. Stockhausen used serialism in new ways, and he invented many ways of composing electronic music. His works in...
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W. C. Fields
2026-06-13T21:43:00Z
**William Claude Dukenfield** (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946) was an American actor, comedian, juggler and writer. ## Trivia - He is one of the famous people on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
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Carl Jung
2026-08-04T06:43:41Z
**Carl Gustav Jung** (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and writer. He created many theories and ideas that are still used in psychology today. Psychology is the science of how people think and feel. His kind of psychology was called analytical psychology or *Jungian Analysis*. Jung worked for about...
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Edgar Allan Poe
2026-09-10T16:07:35Z
**Edgar Allan Poe** (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer. He wrote horror stories and poems. ## Early life Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. His parents were two touring vaudeville actors, David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hotkins. David left the family under unknown circumstances ...
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Fred Astaire
2026-07-26T07:21:46Z
**Fred Astaire** (born **Frederick Austerlitz**, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), was an American dancer, actor, singer, choreographer and presenter. He was the most famous stage, movie and television dancer of his time. He has gotten many honors. He won a Honorary Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Awar...
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Game Boy Advance
2026-04-21T21:46:49Z
The **Game Boy Advance**, commonly abbreviated as ***GBA***, is a 32-bit handheld video game console. It was manufactured by Nintendo. The predecessor to the Game Boy Advance was the Game Boy Color. The Game Boy Advance was eventually succeeded by the Nintendo DS in 2004. The Game Boy Advance was released in Japan on ...
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Amerie
2026-05-14T19:40:32Z
**Amerie Mi Marie Rogers**, (born married name **Nicholson**, January 12, 1980), known mononymously as **Amerie** or **Ameriie**, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, model and record producer. ## Early life Amerie was born to a South Korean mother and African American father. Her first language is Korean...
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Ben Stein
2021-02-06T11:57:46Z
**Ben Stein** (November 25, 1944) is an American attorney, writer, actor, comedian, and television personality. He was a lawyer, then speech writer for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He went into show business helping some liberal writers write accurate portrayals of conservatives for a television show. He soon turned...
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Soft rock
2025-12-19T18:36:31Z
**Soft rock** is a subgenre of rock music. Some may find it lighter and more relaxing than genres like rock and roll. ## Examples Musical ensembles involved in soft rock include Steely Dan, Michael McDonald, Bread, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Carpenters, Air Supply and Chicago.
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Angela Merkel
2026-04-14T14:36:53Z
**Angela Dorothea Merkel** (born *Angela Dorothea Kasner* on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg) is a German politician, and was Chancellor of Germany from 22 November 2005 to 8 December 2021. She was born in Hamburg, at the time part of West Germany, and grew up in the former German Democratic Republic, where she lived until th...
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3,328
10,436
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Chinese dragon
2026-08-25T20:27:52Z
A **Chinese dragon** was the symbol of the Emperor of China. The dragon in the Qing Dynasty came out on national flags. Dragons are often found in Chinese art and stories. Since people discovered dragons in Chinese art and stories, dragons are sometimes thought of as a symbol for China. There are people inside Chines...
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10,454
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Robert Duvall
2026-08-11T09:26:18Z
**Robert Selden Duvall** (January 5, 1931, California – February 15, 2026, Virginia) was an American actor and director. Duvall won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in *Tender Mercies* (1983). He has also won the Screen Actors Guild Award, several Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. ## Early life Duv...
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10,459
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Stevie Wonder
2026-09-26T14:54:35Z
**Stevland Hardaway Judkins** (born May 13, 1950) known by his stage name **Stevie "The Visionary" Wonder**, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, Wonder became one of the most successful and well-known artists on the Motown label. He has recorded 23 a...
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10,460
8,223,343
Littleton, Colorado
2022-05-14T00:39:17Z
**Littleton** is a community in Colorado, near Denver. It is most famous in 1999 because of the Columbine High School massacre at Columbine High School, which is not actually in the city of Littleton, but is in a ZIP code assigned to Littleton.
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Motown
2025-10-09T02:23:25Z
**Motown** is a famous record label founded in Detroit, Michigan in the late 1950s by Berry Gordy. It is known for signing many well-known rhythm and blues singers and groups. Some of the artists who sang on the label include: - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - The Temptations - The Supremes - The Jackson 5 - Four T...
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1893
2025-08-17T20:57:32Z
**1893** (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar. ## Events - January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers. - February 1 – Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange,...
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10,471
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Mustelid
2021-04-26T18:42:51Z
**Mustelids** are a family of carnivorous mammals. They are the family **Mustelidae**, in the order Carnivora. They are the largest family of mammals. They are diverse, from weasels who eat mice to wolverines that can kill prey much larger than themselves. Mustelids live in many habitats: otters for example, live most...
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3,335
10,474
652,309
Vanilla Ninja
2026-05-17T08:14:37Z
**Vanilla Ninja** is a music group made up of three women named **Lenna Kuurmaa**, **Piret Järvis** and **Kerli Kivilaan**. Previous members are **Katrin Siska**, **Triinu Kivilaan** & **Maarja Kivi**. They in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Cool Vibes", they finished 8th in the Final. They in the Eur...
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10,477
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1835
2025-09-02T00:36:51Z
{{#Year article header}}1835{{/Year article header}} ## Events - January 1 – Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64.000 dalers (Swedish dollars) - January 30 – Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol – first assassination attempt agai...
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3,337
10,481
1,824,182
Haile Selassie I
2026-07-06T12:52:47Z
**Haile Selassie I** (Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ; July 23, 1892 - August 27, 1975) was the Emperor of Ethiopia from April 2, 1930 to September 12, 1974. He was Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930, when he was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia as one of the Solomonid dynasty. He fought against Italy, shortly before ...
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Ethiopia
2026-07-30T04:43:22Z
**Ethiopia** has one of the longest known histories as a country in Africa. Ethiopia was one of the few countries in Africa that escaped the Scramble for Africa. It avoided being colonized until 1935, when it was invaded by the Italians under Benito Mussolini, who took over the country for a brief time. Ethiopia used ...
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10,485
1,452,189
Utah
2026-08-25T16:48:11Z
**Utah** is a state in the western United States. Previously known as the Utah Territory, it was admitted to the Union in 1896 as the 45th U.S. state. Utah's capital and largest city is Salt Lake City. ## Geography Utah is bordered by Idaho and Wyoming in the north and Colorado in the east. It touches a single point ...
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10,487
888,818
The Bahamas
2026-07-31T14:26:44Z
**The Bahamas** (officially called **Commonwealth of The Bahamas**) are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. The country's capital, Nassau, is on New Providence Island. The Taino were the first people living there. In 1492, Christopher Columbus found the Americas by landing on another of the islands, San Salvador....
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10,489
1,011,873
Vanuatu
2026-08-02T23:25:12Z
**Vanuatu** is a country in the Pacific Ocean. The official languages of Vanuatu are Bislama, English and French. In 2020, 300,019 people lived in Vanuatu. The capital of Vanuatu is Port Vila. The country was ruled as a colony by England and France. It got its independence in 1980. During the colonial time, it was name...
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Crayola
2025-10-19T14:29:05Z
**Crayola** is an American brand of crayons and other writing and drawing utensils, such as markers, chalk and colored pencils. The company used to be called "Binney & Smith Company". It is based in Northampton, Massachusetts. Since 1984, it has been owned by the company Hallmark Cards. ## Colors **Crayola** is brand...
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3,343
10,505
1,150,185
Ringo Starr
2026-06-04T13:40:56Z
**Sir Richard Starkey** (or simply **Richard Starkey**) (born 7 July 1940), known professinally as **Ringo Starr**, is an English musician and actor. He is known as a former member of the Beatles, where he mainly played drums. ## The Beatles He joined the group in 1962 as a replacement for their first drummer Pete Be...
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3,344
10,506
1,687,111
Oslo
2025-11-15T19:20:17Z
**Oslo** is the capital city of Norway. It is Norway's largest city, with a population of 709037 people in 2023. The area near the city has a total population of 1588457. The city government of Oslo and the county are the same thing. ## Oslo today The city is a big place for economy and culture. A lot of important in...
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10,510
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Lincoln Thompson
2024-11-04T19:45:39Z
**Lincoln Thompson** (10 July 1949 - 14 January 1999) was a Jamaican reggae musician, songwriter and Rastafarian. He spent 2 years in the Tartans as a teenager before working under Coxsone Dodd in the early 1970s. In 1974, he released his first record, *Humanity*. The album had popular singles but it did not sell many ...
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Tom Hanks
2026-09-26T23:26:40Z
**Tom Hanks** (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and writer. ## Career Many of Hanks' early movies were comedies. He was made famous by his roles in *Splash* and *Big*. He made his way into drama with *A League of Their Own* and *Philadelphia*. He combined the two genres with ...
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3,347
10,516
1,508,758
Sir Mix-A-Lot
2025-02-08T15:37:56Z
**Sir Mix-a-Lot** (born **Anthony Ray** on August 12, 1963) is an American rapper and producer. His style of music is called "hip-hop." He was born in Seattle, Washington. He is best known for his hit song "Baby Got Back". That song has catchy phrases and cheap humor, and it talks about liking women with big buttocks....
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3,348
10,517
440,188
Dick York
2024-06-17T07:43:29Z
**Dick York** (September 4, 1928 – February 20, 1992) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Darrin Stephens on the television series *Bewitched*. York left the series in 1969 and was replaced by Dick Sargent.
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James Earl Jones
2026-07-26T16:44:48Z
**James Earl Jones** (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) was an American actor. He was famous for doing the voice of Darth Vader in the *Star Wars* movies, for doing the voice of Mufasa in *The Lion King* and in the 2019 remake, and for the CNN tagline ("This...is CNN"). He starred in *Lincoln Portrait* which has m...
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3,350
10,520
693,482
Calvin and Hobbes
2026-07-26T14:58:01Z
**"Calvin and Hobbes"** is a comic strip by Bill Watterson about a boy called Calvin and a tiger called Hobbes. When Calvin looks at Hobbes, he sees a real tiger. However, everyone else sees Hobbes as a toy. This comic began in 1985 and has been in over 2,400 newspapers. Readers bought almost 23 million Calvin and Hobb...
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3,351
10,521
1,508,758
Tony Randall
2025-08-28T17:26:48Z
**Anthony Leonard Randall** (born **Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg**; February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Felix Unger on the television series *The Odd Couple*. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1975, he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He was nominated for six Golden Globe A...
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3,352
10,522
1,703,257
Lesbian
2026-07-19T05:06:26Z
A **lesbian** is a homosexual woman. This means a woman who is sexually or romantically attracted to other women, and not to men. A woman who is sexually or romantically attracted to both women and men is bisexual or pansexual. The word lesbian comes from Lesbos (Λέσβος), an island in Greece. An ancient poet, Sappho, ...
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Maine
2025-07-30T18:32:34Z
**Maine** is the northeast-most state in the United States. The capital is Augusta, although the city of Portland, farther south, is the largest in the state. Maine became the 23rd state, on March 15, 1820. It was previously a part of Massachusetts. Commercial Fishing, including lobster trapping, is a traditional and ...
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1884
2025-07-05T13:54:50Z
{{#Year article header}}1884{{/Year article header}} ## Events - December 10 – Mark Twain's *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* is first published, in London. ## Births - May 8 – Harry S. Truman, thirty-third President of the United States (d. 1972) - October 11 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, wi...
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Samoa
2026-07-21T14:06:21Z
**The Independent State of Samoa** is a country in the Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. It has two islands, including Upolu and Savai'i. The capital of Samoa is Apia. It is on the island of Upolu. The head of the country is Va'aletoa Sualauvi II. The languages spoken in Samoa include Sam...
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Davy Jones (musician)
2023-09-02T07:40:21Z
**David Thomas "Davy" Jones** (December 30, 1945 – February 29, 2012) was an English singer and actor. He was born in Manchester, England. His father wanted him to be a jockey, but he wanted to be a performer. He appeared in the television programme, *Coronation Street* and in the London and Broadway versions of *Oli...
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3,357
10,534
1,508,758
Michael Nesmith
2025-02-08T15:37:58Z
**Robert Michael Nesmith** (December 30, 1942 – December 10, 2021) was an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman and philanthropist. Nesmith was born in Dallas, Texas on December 30, 1942. His mother, Bette Nesmith Graham invented Liquid Paper in 1951 and made the family very rich. In t...
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Peter Tork
2024-09-11T21:20:39Z
**Peter Halsten Thorkelson** (February 13, 1942 – February 21, 2019), better known as **Peter Tork**, was an American actor and musician. He was born in Washington, D.C. He started as a folk musician in Greenwich Village. In 1966, he became famous as a member of The Monkees. He was recommended for the group by his frie...
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3,359
10,537
1,331,376
Micky Dolenz
2023-10-28T21:47:42Z
**George Michael Dolenz, Jr.** (born March 8, 1945), better known as **Micky Dolenz** is an American actor, singer, director, and voice artist. He is most famous as a member of The Monkees.
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Goldstar beer
2016-12-21T07:23:05Z
**Goldstar** is an Israeli beer that has been brewed in Israel since the 1950s. It is defined as a Munich-style beer. Goldstar contains 4.9% alcohol.
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1797
2025-07-05T15:34:55Z
{{#Year article header}}1797{{/Year article header}} ## Events - January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers. - January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Republic adopts the Italian green-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of th...
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1,011,873
1851
2025-07-05T15:31:03Z
{{#Year article header}}1851{{/Year article header}} ## Events - January 23 – The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. - March 1 – Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United Stat...
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1,477,024
Dominique de Villepin
2025-05-14T10:18:54Z
**Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin** (born November 14, 1953), simply known as **Dominique de Villepin**, was Premier (or Prime Minister) of France from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007. He was made Premier by Jacques Chirac after the French President removed Jean-Pierre Raffarin from the premiership. Raff...
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Francis Drake
2025-04-23T21:37:25Z
Vice Admiral **Sir Francis Drake** (1540 – 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Drake became a powerful enemy to the Spanish Empire. He was the second sea captain ever to circumnavigate the world. Encyclopedia Britannica calls him "the most ...
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House of Commons of the United Kingdom
2026-07-20T12:26:23Z
The **House of Commons** is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is made up of Members of Parliament elected by the people. Sometimes it is called the 'lower house'. (The 'upper house' is called the House of Lords.) Other countries also have a bicameral parliament with a House of Commons working ...
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Wank
2017-07-28T14:59:24Z
**Wank** is a mountain in the Bavarian Alps, by Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, close to the Austrian border. Wank is 1780m tall, and has a cable car, the *Wankbahn*, which takes people almost all the way to the top. Near the peak, there is an inn called the *Wankhaus* which was built in 1911 that allows people to ...
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1685
2025-05-11T07:03:34Z
{{#Year article header}}1685{{/Year article header}} ## Events - February 6 – James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. - February 18 – Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas. - Febr...
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10,589
693,482
Hank Aaron
2026-07-26T16:47:06Z
**Henry Louis Aaron** (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021) was a professional baseball player who played right field. He played baseball professionally for 22 years and hit 755 home runs. Even though he has 755 home runs in his career, he never hit 50 or more in a season. He was selected for 25 All-Star games. He wa...
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3,369
10,590
1,875,685
Vishnu
2026-09-20T06:00:45Z
**Vishnu**, also known as **Narayana** and **Hari**, is the supreme god in Hinduism. He is the Absolute truth (Parabrahman), Supreme self (Paramatma) and Ultimate reality in Vaishnavism, the largest denomination of Hinduism. He is considered as one of the principal deities, generally a representation of the Trimurti...
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3,370
10,593
1,153,909
Money laundering
2025-01-28T03:36:28Z
**Money laundering** is a process some criminals do to hide the money they make from crimes or political corruption, which is called "dirty money". Such dirty money needs to be "cleaned" so it looks like it came from legal sources, and banks can accept it without being suspicious on where it came from. Criminals also d...
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3,371
10,594
1,161,963
Zeus
2026-07-20T03:09:04Z
**Zeus** (/zuːs/; Ancient Greek: Ζεύς, Modern Greek: Δίας), is the supreme Deity in Hellenism and Ancient Greek mythology, and ruler of all the gods on Mount Olympus. Zeus is the seventh child of Titan gods Cronos and Rhea, who were the previous king and queen of the gods respectively. His father, Cronos, swallowed his...
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3,372
10,595
9,463,907
Evolutionary biology
2024-04-06T15:48:43Z
**Evolutionary biology** is a subfield of biology that studies how species start and change over time; or in other words, how species evolve. Someone who studies evolutionary biology is known as an **evolutionary biologist**. ## History Evolutionary biology became an academic subject as a result of the modern evolut...
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3,373
10,596
1,011,873
1488
2025-11-09T15:51:50Z
{{#Year in various calendars}}1488{{/Year in various calendars}} {{#Year article header}}1488{{/Year article header}} ## Births - January 6 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (d. 1540) - January 20 - John George, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian noble (d. 1533) - Sebastian Münster, German scholar, carto...
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3,374
10,597
10,249,890
1695
2025-05-11T07:00:34Z
{{#Year article header}}1695{{/Year article header}} ## Events - February 6 – Mustafa II (1695–1703) succeeds Ahmed II as Ottoman Emperor. - July 17 – The Bank of Scotland is founded. - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire. - Gold is discovered in Brazil. - April 17 – Juana de Asbaje
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3,375
10,598
10,249,806
1767
2025-05-11T06:43:55Z
{{#Year article header}}1767{{/Year article header}} ## Events - July 2 – Pitcairn Islands discovered (found) by Captain Philip Cartaret in *HMS Swallow* ## Births - March 15 – Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States (d. 1845) - July 11 – John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States (d. 18...
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3,376
10,599
1,011,873
1848
2025-07-05T15:29:30Z
{{#Year article header}}1848{{/Year article header}} ## Events - February 24 – The February Revolution begins. ## Births - February 27 – Hubert Parry, English composer - March 19 – James Otis, American children's writer - June 7 – Paul Gauguin, French painter ## Deaths - February 23 – John Quincy Adams, 80, sixth...
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3,377
10,600
22,027
222 BC
2016-02-10T08:30:22Z
## Events ### By place #### Greece - Cleomenes III is defeated and the Spartan army annihilated by the Achaean League and the Macedonians in the Battle of Sellasia. - Ptolemy IV succeeds his father Ptolemy III as king of Egypt. #### Rome - Marcus Claudius Marcellus leads the Romans to victory in the Battle of Clas...
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3,378
10,601
693,482
Mozilla Firefox
2026-08-02T15:05:04Z
**Firefox**, also known as **Mozilla Firefox** is a free and open source web browser that is made by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It works on common operating systems, such as Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. With Firefox, browsing features can be added or removed and users can ...
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3,379
10,602
1,076,609
Lenny Kravitz
2025-05-29T05:43:32Z
**Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz** (born May 26, 1964) is an American rock singer, musician, songwriter and actor. Some of his biggest hit songs include "It Ain't Over Til It's Over", "Again", and "Fly Away". He sung on "(I Can't Make It) Another Day" Michael Jackson's 2010 album *Michael*. He also wrote and produced t...
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3,380
10,605
190,121
1854
2025-07-23T19:04:48Z
{{#Year article header}}1854{{/Year article header}} ## Events - January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is born. - March 20 –The Boston Public Library opens to the public. - June 24 - Franz Liszt shows Franz Schubert's opera Alfonso und Estrella in Weimar. This was thirty-two years after it was composed....
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3,381
10,606
1,688,831
1900
2025-11-12T15:57:28Z
**1900** (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and *Anno Domini* (AD) designations, {{#Year article header/year number}}1900{{/Year article header/year number}}. Due to a leap...
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3,382
10,607
1,368,232
Birdbox
2025-03-03T21:06:50Z
A **birdbox** is a human-made, usually wooden box used as a house for birds. It is suitable as a bird home because it is similar to a natural bird home, such as a hollow tree, and birds often make nests inside birdboxes. Birdboxes are often put on trees. They are often made by people who are fond of birds, but they are...
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3,383
10,610
532,461
Accent
2026-07-04T17:23:57Z
An **accent** is the way a person speaks. Some people pronounce words differently. Often, in different countries that speak the same language the same words are pronounced in a different way. Usually they can be understood, but to listeners notice they sound different. This may, or may not, be a difficulty. Sometim...
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3,384
10,623
5,295
Louis Braille
2025-10-20T08:16:10Z
**Louis Braille** (4 January 1809 - 6 January 1852) was a French inventor. He was born in Coupvray. He invented the script braille system, which helps blind people to read. Braille is read by passing one's fingers over characters made up of an arrangement of one to six raised points. It has been adapted to almost every...
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3,385
10,624
532,461
Marsupial
2026-09-23T20:52:16Z
**Marsupials** are in the infraclass of mammals called the Metatheria. This is the marsupials and their extinct ancestors. There are about 320 different species today. ## Reproduction Marsupials give birth to living young. The young are called *joeys*. The joeys feed on milk. They are born very small. Marsupials ha...
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3,386
10,625
248,920
B. J. Thomas
2026-05-15T18:27:04Z
**Billy Joe "BJ" Thomas** (August 7, 1942 – May 29, 2021) was an American country singer-songwriter. Thomas was born in Hugo, Oklahoma. His most famous songs are "Hooked upon a feeling" and "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head", which was in the movie *Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid*. He sang throughout the 1970s. H...
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3,387
10,632
314,538
Laws of war
2025-09-17T23:51:49Z
The **laws of war** are some simple rules or international laws which most people accept about war, out of humanitarianism. Many people think that because there is fighting, there should be no rules. This is called "total war". However, laws of war have been made so that wars do not get worse than they need to be. ## ...
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3,388
10,648
1,809,836
Maharashtra
2026-05-25T00:22:39Z
**Maharashtra** is a state in Western India. Its language is Marathi. It is the third biggest state of India by area and second biggest state in India based on population. Only one Indian state has more people (Uttar Pradesh). Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra. Pune is the cultural and educational capital. ## Ge...
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3,389
10,655
1,570,152
Pete Best
2025-04-30T21:01:27Z
**Randolph Peter Best** or **Pete Best** (born **Randolph Peter Scanland**; 24 November 1941) was The Beatles's original drummer. He was born on 24 November 1941 in Madras, India to an Indian mother and an English father. His mother, Mona, later owned the Casbah Club in Liverpool, where The Beatles would sometimes perf...
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3,390
10,656
526,706
Dionne Quintuplets
2026-03-11T22:52:38Z
The **Dionne Quintuplets** were the first quintuplets (five babies born at the same time from the same mother) to survive after being born. They were born in Ontario, Canada on May 28, 1934 to Elzire and Oliva Dionne. They were: - Annette (died on December 24, 2025) - Cecile (died on July 31, 2025) - Emilie (died on ...
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3,391
10,677
640,235
All's Well That Ends Well
2023-10-22T12:47:19Z
***All's Well That Ends Well*** is a play by William Shakespeare. It is a comedy. It was based on a story in Boccaccio's *Decameron*. The date *All's Well* was written is uncertain, but it was probably written between 1600 and 1603. It was probably first performed about 1602-1603, and probably first printed in the Firs...
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3,392
10,713
10,471,894
Christ (title)
2025-08-22T01:55:31Z
In Christianity, **the Christ** (IPAC: kraɪst; <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="Lang-el"><div data-arg>Χριστός</div><div data-arg data-name="lit">the Anointed One</div><div data-arg data-name="translit">Khristós</div></template>) is a title for the savior and redeemer who would bring salvation to the...
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3,393
10,722
1,750,004
Christian Bale
2026-02-18T21:41:15Z
**Christian Charles Philip Bale** (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. He is from Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire. Bale is best known for playing Batman in Christopher Nolan's *The Dark Knight Trilogy*. He began in a movie of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun. He also played in *American Psycho* and *The Machi...
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3,394
10,744
693,482
Eric Clapton
2025-07-22T18:55:10Z
**Eric Patrick Clapton** <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="post-nominals"><div data-arg data-name="country">GBR</div><div data-arg>CBE</div></template> (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist, singer and composer. Clapton is regarded as one of the greatest guitarists in the history of rock. *Roll...
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3,395
10,745
10,065,341
Buenos Aires
2025-02-08T21:14:30Z
**Buenos Aires** is the capital and largest city in the South American country of Argentina. It has its own executive, legislative and judicial powers. It is in the central-eastern region of the country, on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, in the Pampas region. The city was ceded in 1880 by the Province of Bu...
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3,396
10,747
1,392,959
Lyndon B. Johnson
2026-09-29T20:20:16Z
<template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="redirect-multi"><div data-arg data-name="2">LBJ</div><div data-arg data-name="3">his family</div><div data-arg data-name="4">LBJ (disambiguation)</div></template> **Lyndon Baines Johnson** (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) commonly known as **LBJ**, was an America...
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3,397
10,754
1,853,963
Catholic Church
2026-08-23T22:00:16Z
The **Roman Catholic Church** is the largest Christian church in the world. It has over one billion members, and is the world's largest religious group. Its members believe that Jesus Christ started the Catholic Church 2,000 years ago. The Church’s headquarters are in the Vatican City, a sovereign state governed by the...
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3,398
10,760
9,612,667
Villeneuve-d'Ascq
2024-06-23T10:50:16Z
**Villeneuve-d'Ascq** (which means *New city of Ascq* in French) is one of the main cities of the metropolis of Lille, in France. It is between Lille and Roubaix, at the crossroads of the principal freeways towards Paris, Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels, ## Demography Villeneuve-d'Ascq has more than 65,000 people and att...
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3,399
10,762
5,295
Hillary Clinton
2026-05-26T10:51:03Z
**Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton** (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and former diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Before becoming secretary of state, she was the United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and first lady of the United States fro...
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