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    County Cork (Irish: Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city...
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    Benoît Paire (French pronunciation: [bənwa pɛːʁ]; born 8 May 1989) is a French professional tennis player. His best result in a Grand Slam has been reaching...
    104 KB (7,094 words) - 18:59, 18 July 2024
  • Castile or Castille (/kæˈstiːl/; Spanish: Castilla [kasˈtiʎa]) is a territory of imprecise limits located in Spain. The use of the concept of Castile relies...
    20 KB (1,699 words) - 07:17, 30 May 2024
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    Valkenburg aan de Geul (Dutch: [ˈvɑlkə(m)bʏr(ə)x aːn də ˈɣøːl] ; Limburgish: Valkeberg [ˈvɑl˦əkəˌbæʀ˦əx] ) is a municipality situated in the southeastern...
    13 KB (1,169 words) - 08:35, 24 April 2024
  • Tellurocracy (from Latin: tellus, lit. 'land' and Greek: κράτος, romanized: krátos, lit. 'state') is a concept proposed by Aleksandr Dugin to describe...
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    Hamburg was founded in the 9th century as a mission settlement to convert the Saxons. Since the Middle Ages, it has been an important trading center in...
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  • Thumbnail for Rhins of Galloway
    The Rhins (or Rhinns) of Galloway is a double-headed peninsula in southwestern Scotland. It takes the form of a hammerhead projecting into the Irish Sea...
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    Paris buns are a sweetened breadlike cake similar to scones. A recipe from an 1881 cookbook refers to Paris buns as "Scotch" and says that three of the...
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    Anne Sophie Swetchine (née Sofia Petrovna Soymonova; 22 November 1782 – 10 September 1857), known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, born in Moscow...
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    The Saint Laurence Gate is a barbican which was built in the 13th century as part of the walled fortifications of the medieval town of Drogheda in Ireland...
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    The Vechtstreek (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈvɛxtˌstreːk]) (Dutch for "Vecht area") is a region in the Dutch provinces of Utrecht and North Holland along the...
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  • The Maurist Party (Spanish: Partido Maurista, PM), initially known as the Maurist Conservatives (Spanish: Conservadores Mauristas, CM) or simply the Maurists...
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    Hermann Ganswindt (12 June 1856, Voigtshof bei Seeburg, East Prussia – 25 October 1934) was a German inventor and spaceflight scientist, whose inventions...
    5 KB (521 words) - 18:41, 13 January 2024