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| Battle of Leyte Gulf Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf | |
| Battle of Bir Hakeim Bir Hakeim (sometimes written Bir Hacheim) is a remote oasis in the Libyan desert, and the former site of a Turkish fort. During the Battle of Gazala the First Free French Division of General Marie Pierre Koenig defended the site from 26 May to 11 June 1942 against attacking German and Italian forces directed by General Erwin Rommel. Battle_of_Bir_Hakeim | |
| USS Nevada (BB-36) USS_Nevada_(BB-36) | |
| Kōbō Abe , pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (Abe Kimifusa, March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor.His name is romanized as Kobo Abe in Vintage International's English-language editions of his book, while Columbia University Press offers Three Plays by Kōbō Abe. Kōbō_Abe | |
| USS New Mexico (BB-40) USS_New_Mexico_(BB-40) | |
| Minami Torishima Minamitori-shima (南鳥島) or Marcus Island is an isolated island in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located at . The Japanese meaning of the name is "Southern Bird Island". It has an area of . It is the hottest place in Japan. It is the easternmost territory belonging to Japan, lying some SE of Tokyo and east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of the Ogasawara Islands, and nearly on a straight line between Tokyo and Wake Island, which is east southeast. Minami_Torishima | |
| Dumbarton Oaks Conference Dumbarton Oaks Conference (or Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization) was an international conference at which the United Nations was formulated and negotiated. It was held from 21 August to 7 October 1944 in Dumbarton Oaks, a mansion in Washington, DC, United States, and was attended by representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of China. Dumbarton_Oaks_Conference | |
| List of country name etymologies Talk:List_of_country_name_etymologies | |
| Chūichi Nagumo Chūichi_Nagumo | |
| Great Learning The Great Learning () was selected as one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism which from the mid 12th century until 1905 CE formed the core of the curriculum for the examinations for the state civil service in China. The "Four Books" were selected by a neo-Confucian, Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi) during the Song Dynasty as a foundational introduction to Confucianism. His commentary of the book provided additional support to Confucius' ideals. Great_Learning | |
| USS Seawolf (SS-197) USS_Seawolf_(SS-197) | |
| John P. Lucas John Porter "Old Luke" Lucas (January 14, 1890 - December 24, 1949) was a general and the commander of VI Corps (1943-1944) during World War II. Lucas, a graduate of West Point, class of 1911, originally was in the cavalry, but transferred to field artillery. Lucas was in the 13th Cavalry at the Battle of Columbus. He served as a battalion commander during World War I, and was wounded. John_P._Lucas | |
| Coalition of the willing coalition of the willing is a post-1990 political phrase used to describe military or military/humanitarian interventions for which the United Nations Security Council cannot agree to mount a full UN peacekeeping operation. It has existed in the political science/international relations literature at least since UN peacekeeping operations began to run into deep trouble in 1993-94, and alternatives began to be considered. Coalition_of_the_willing | |
| Beet The beet (Beta vulgaris) is a plant in the beet root family. It is best known in its numerous cultivated varieties, the most well known of which is probably the red root vegetable known as the garden beet. However, other cultivated varieties include the leaf vegetables chard and spinach beet, as well as the root vegetables sugar beet, which is important in the production of table sugar, and mangelwurzel, which is a fodder crop. Beet | |
| USS New Orleans (CA-32) USS_New_Orleans_(CA-32) | |
| USS Lexington (CV-2) USS_Lexington_(CV-2) | |
| Fritz Todt Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash during World War II. Fritz_Todt | |
| HMS Ark Royal (91) HMS_Ark_Royal_(91) | |
| Coalition of the willing Talk:Coalition_of_the_willing | |
| Friendly fire Friendly fire is a euphemism for fire from one's own side or allied forces, as opposed to fire coming from enemy forces, and was originally adopted by the United States military.Friendly fire occurs when there was intent to do harm to the enemy which causes injury to one's own side. Friendly_fire | |
| Dead Sea scrolls Talk:Dead_Sea_scrolls | |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (conventionally ) was one of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a series of student meetings led by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina in April 1960. Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee | |
| Till We Have Faces Talk:Till_We_Have_Faces | |
| Task Force 16 Task Force 16 (TF16) was one of the most storied task forces in the United States Navy, a major participant in a number of the most important battles of the Pacific War.It was formed in mid-February 1942 around Enterprise (CV-6), with Vice Admiral William F. Halsey in command of the force, and supported by cruisers Salt Lake City (CA-25) and Northampton (CA-26), along with a half-dozen destroyers. Task_Force_16 | |
| Compress compress is a UNIX compression program based on the LZC compression method, which is an LZW implementation using variable size pointers as in LZ78. Compress | |
| USS Maryland (BB-46) USS_Maryland_(BB-46) | |
| John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC (10 July 1886 - 31 March 1946) was a British and Anglo-Irish soldier who served in both World War I and II, rising to the rank of field marshal and receiving the Victoria Cross, the highest Commonwealth award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy". John_Vereker,_6th_Viscount_Gort | |
| Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (born 8 December 1922) is a British painter of German origin. Lucian_Freud | |
| Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 17, 1796French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot | |
| Menger sponge mathematics, the Menger sponge is a fractal curve. It is the universal curve, in that it has topological dimension one, and any other curve (more preciselyhomeomorphic to some subset of it. It is sometimes called the Menger-Sierpinski sponge or the Sierpinski sponge. It is a three-dimensional extension of the Cantor set and Sierpinski carpet. It was first described by Austrian mathematician Karl Menger in 1926 while exploring the concept of topological dimension. Menger_sponge | |
| St. James Infirmary Blues "St. James Infirmary Blues" is an American folksong of anonymous origin, though sometimes credited to the songwriter Joe Primrose (a pseudonym for Irving Mills). Louis Armstrong made it famous in his influential 1928 recording. St._James_Infirmary_Blues | |
| Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands (; formerly Kingsmill Islands) are a chain of 16 atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean. They are the main part of the Republic of Kiribati ("Kiribati" is the rendition of "Gilberts" in Gilbertese Gilbert_Islands | |
| Phitsanulok Province Phitsanulok () is one of the provinces (changwat) of Thailand, located in the North of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from east clockwise) Loei, Phetchabun, Phichit, Kamphaeng Phet, Sukhothai, Uttaradit. In the north-east it also has a short border with Xaignabouli of Laos. Phitsanulok_Province | |
| Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fourth and youngest son of Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England by his first wife, Mary de Bohun, brother to Henry V of Monmouth, King of England, and uncle to the latter's son, Henry VI, King of EnglandThe place of his birth is unknown, but he was named after his maternal grandfather, Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford. Humphrey,_Duke_of_Gloucester | |
| Ray Mabus Raymond Edwin "Ray" Mabus, Jr. (born October 11, 1948) is 75th United States Secretary of the Navy. Mabus served as Governor of the U.S. state of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992 and as United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1996. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Ray_Mabus | |
| Joseph Cornell Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 December 29, 1972) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. Joseph_Cornell | |
| Sexual assault Sexual assault is an assault of a sexual nature on another person. Although sexual assaults most frequently are by a man on a woman, it may be by a man on a man, woman on a man or woman on a woman. Approximately one in six American women will be a victim of a sexual assault in her lifetime. Largely because of child rape and an epidemic of prison rape approximately ten percent of all rapes are suffered by males. Sexual_assault | |
| Reichstag Fire Decree Talk:Reichstag_Fire_Decree | |
| Grid computing Talk:Grid_computing | |
| Image use policy/copyright Wikipedia_talk:Image_use_policy/copyright | |
| Personal identity (philosophy) In philosophy, personal identity refers to the numerical identity of persons through time. That is to say, the conditions under which a person is said to be identical to himself through time. Personal_identity_(philosophy) | |
| Pointillism Talk:Pointillism | |
| Velvalee Dickinson Velvalee Dickinson (October 12, 1893 - ca. 1980), was convicted for espionage against the United States on behalf of Japan during World War II. Velvalee_Dickinson | |
| Japanese art Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper, and a myriad of other types of works of art. It also has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present. Japanese_art | |
| USS Skate (SS-305) USS_Skate_(SS-305) | |
| Art movement An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement more or less strictly so restricted (usually a few months, years or decades). Art_movement | |
| Mariana and Palau Islands campaign The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign was an offensive launched by United States forces against Imperial Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands and Palau in the Pacific Ocean between June and November, 1944 during the Pacific War. The United States offensive, under the overall command of Chester Nimitz, followed the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign and was intended to neutralize Japanese bases in the central Pacific, support the Allied drive to retake the Philippines, and provide bases for a strategic bombing campaign against Japan. Mariana_and_Palau_Islands_campaign | |
| XF-91 Thunderceptor XF-91_Thunderceptor | |
| Reincarnation Talk:Reincarnation | |
| Shtetl shtetl (, diminutive form of Yiddish shtot שטאָט, "town", pronounced very similarly to the South German diminutive "Städtle", "little town"; cf. MHG:Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe. Shtetls (Yiddish plural:shtetlekh) were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia, and Romania. Shtetl |
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