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21,139 | 53,396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21139 | North America | North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. The region includes Canada, the Caribbean, Central... |
21,265 | 11,745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21265 | Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares an open border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. At the 2021 census, its population was 1,903,100, making up around 3%... |
21,292 | 39,695,814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21292 | Namibia | Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of t... |
21,342 | 1,010,519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21342 | New Caledonia | New Caledonia ( ; ) is a "sui generis" collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the B... |
21,383 | 44,407,002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21383 | Nigeria | Nigeria ( ), officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south in the Atlantic Ocean. It covers an area of , and with a population of over 230 million, it is the most populous country in Africa, and the world's sixt... |
21,436 | 27,556,023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21436 | Negligence | Negligence (Lat. negligentia) is a failure to exercise appropriate and/or ethical ruled care expected to be exercised amongst specified circumstances. The area of tort law known as "negligence" involves harm caused by failing to act as a form of "carelessness" possibly with extenuating circumstances. The core concept o... |
21,482 | 44,120,587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21482 | Nairobi | Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase , which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census. The city is commonly referred to as The Green Ci... |
21,592 | 27,968,844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21592 | Netball | Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball ( in circumference) through the defender's goal ring ( in diameter mounted high to a goal post at each end of the court) while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own goal r... |
21,654 | 44,146,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21654 | New South Wales | New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are enclaves within the... |
21,713 | 1,176,550,682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21713 | Nijmegen | Nijmegen (; Nijmeegs: ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole. Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands and the first to be recognized as such in Roman times. In 2005, it celebrated 2,000 ye... |
21,748 | 10,951,369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21748 | Nationalism | Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its perceived homeland ... |
21,765 | 33,099,684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21765 | New Malden | New Malden is an area in South West London, England. It is located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the London Borough of Merton, and is from Charing Cross. Neighbouring localities include Kingston, Norbiton, Raynes Park, Surbiton, Tolworth, Wimbledon, Old Malden, and Worcester Park. Prior to the cr... |
21,922 | 28,331,428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21922 | Neoteny | Neoteny (), also called juvenilization, is the delaying or slowing of the physiological, or somatic, development of an organism, typically an animal. Neoteny is found in modern humans compared to other primates. In progenesis or paedogenesis, sexual development is accelerated.
Both neoteny and progenesis result in paed... |
21,950 | 199,071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21950 | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; Hindko, , ), commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is a province of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the fourth largest province of Pakistan by land area and the third-largest province by population. It is bordered by the Pakistani provinces of Balo... |
21,980 | 42,056,547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21980 | Newfoundland and Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador ( , ; ; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of 405,212 square kilometres (156,500 sq mi). In 2023, the population of ... |
22,106 | 11,308,236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22106 | North Melbourne Football Club | The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Kangaroos also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and women's... |
22,308 | 12,845,131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22308 | Oxford | Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. It had a population of 162,100 at the 2021 census. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world; it has... |
22,316 | 35,936,988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22316 | Oman | Oman ( ; , ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ), is a country located in West Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of the Persian Gulf. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, while sharing maritime borders with Iran and Pakis... |
22,499 | 1,177,985,496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22499 | Off spin | Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner. Off spinners are right-handed spin bowlers who use their fingers to spin the ball. Their normal delivery is an off break, which spins from left to right (from the bowler's perspective) when the ball bounces ... |
22,512 | 42,528,041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22512 | Odense | Odense ( , , ) is the third largest city in Denmark (behind Copenhagen and Aarhus) and the largest city on the island of Funen. As of 1 January 2023, the city proper had a population of 182,387 while Odense Municipality had a population of 207,762, making it the fourth largest municipality in Denmark (behind Copenhagen... |
22,529 | 44,120,587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22529 | Onomatopoeia | Onomatopoeia is the use or creation of a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia. Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "meow" (or "miaow"), "roar", and "chirp". Onomatopoeia can differ by language: it co... |
22,621 | 46,605,266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22621 | Oceania | Oceania ( , , ) is a geographical region that is described as a continent in various parts of the world. It includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Spanning the Eastern and Western hemispheres, at the center of the water hemisphere, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of about and a population ... |
22,645 | 37,134,054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22645 | Orkney | Orkney (; ; ; ), also known as the Orkney Islands or The Orkneys, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north of the coast of Caithness and has about 70 islands, of which 20 are inhabited. The largest island, the Main... |
22,794 | 18,261,013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22794 | Limited overs cricket | Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket or white ball cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day. There are a number of formats, including List A cricket (8-hour games), Twenty20 cricket (3-hour games), and 100-ball cricket (2.5 hours). The name reflect... |
22,943 | 372,290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22943 | Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea (; ), is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia). It shares its only land border wit... |
23,235 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23235 | Pakistan | Pakistan ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (ISO: , ), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of 241.5 million people, and has the world's largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and fi... |
23,508 | 22,888,068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23508 | Plymouth | Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west.
Plymouth's early history extends to the Bronze Age when a settlement emerged at Mount Bat... |
23,757 | 28,543,345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23757 | Purdue University | Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture in his name. ... |
23,906 | 1,177,389,761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23906 | Peterborough | Peterborough ( ) is a cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district of Cambridgeshire, England. The city and its surroundings, the Soke of Peterborough, had an independent county council between 1889 and 1965. It formed part of the short-lived Huntingdon and Peterborough between 1965 and 1974. Before 1889, it was... |
24,082 | 10,270,558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24082 | Pole vault | Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Mycenaean Greeks, Minoan Greeks and Celts. It has been a full medal event at th... |
24,207 | 248,739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24207 | Portsmouth | Portsmouth ( ) is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England. Most of Portsmouth is located on Portsea Island, off the south coast of England in the Solent. This means Portsmouth is the only English city not located primarily on the mainland. Located south-west of London, west of Brighton and Hove, and sou... |
24,260 | 44,066,899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24260 | Pervez Musharraf | Pervez Musharraf (11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was a Pakistani army general and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He also served as the 10th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1998 to 2001 and the 7th Chief of Army Staff from 1998 to 2007.
Born in Delhi, Musharr... |
24,304 | 40,107,148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24304 | Password | A password, sometimes called a passcode (for example in Apple devices), is secret data, typically a string of characters, usually used to confirm a user's identity. Traditionally, passwords were expected to be memorized, but the large number of password-protected services that a typical individual accesses can make mem... |
24,355 | 35,531,018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24355 | Perth | Perth () is the capital and largest city of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coasta... |
24,443 | 1,177,953,830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24443 | Polo | Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ball through the opposing team's goal. Each team has four mounted riders, and ... |
24,573 | 29,849,162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24573 | Pepsi | Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by PepsiCo. Originally created and developed in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and introduced as Brad's Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898, and then shortened to Pepsi in 1961. In 2022, it was the second most valuable soft drink brand worldwide, behind Coca-Cola.
History.
P... |
24,602 | 43,909,830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24602 | Port Adelaide Football Club | Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed the Power, while its reserves men's team competes in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL)... |
25,002 | 22,873,674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25002 | Pretoria | Pretoria ( ; ) is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.
Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends eastward into the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountains. It has a reputation as an academic city ... |
25,254 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25254 | Qantas | Qantas Airways Limited ( ) is the flag carrier of Australia and the largest airline by fleet size, international flights, and international destinations in the country and Oceania. It is the second-oldest continuously operating airline, having been founded in November 1920. "Qantas" is an acronym of the airline's origi... |
25,405 | 27,217,964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25405 | Rugby union | Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is simply based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each... |
25,645 | 372,290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25645 | Rwanda | Rwanda ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Cong... |
25,657 | 6,908,984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25657 | Roman numerals | Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, each letter with a fixed integer value. Modern style uses only these seven:
The us... |
25,695 | 40,943,757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25695 | Russell Crowe | Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor. He was born in New Zealand, spent 10 years of his childhood in Australia, and moved there permanently at age 21. He has earned various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award.
Crowe began acting in Australia and ... |
25,736 | 431,183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25736 | Rowing (sport) | Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is divided into two disciplines: sculling and sweep rowing. In sculling, each rowe... |
25,839 | 32,266,465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25839 | Robert Menzies | Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978) was an Australian politician who was the 12th and longest-serving prime minister of Australia, holding office from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1949 to 1966. He played a central role in the creation of the Liberal Party of Australia, defining its policies and it... |
26,091 | 35,759,347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26091 | Rupert Murdoch |
Keith Rupert Murdoch ( ; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK ("The Sun" and "The Times"), in Austra... |
26,219 | 1,176,863,988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26219 | Rhodesia | Rhodesia (, ; ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the "de facto" successor state to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, which had been self-governing since achieving responsible go... |
26,464 | 45,477,629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26464 | Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) | The Afghan Civil War was fought from 14 November 1928 to 13 October 1929. Rebelling, and subsequently governing Saqqawist ("Saqāwīhā") forces under Habibullāh Kalakāni fought against various opposing tribes and rival monarchs in the Kingdom of Afghanistan, among whom Mohammed Nādir Khān eventually achieved a prepondera... |
26,479 | 11,073,905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26479 | Richie Benaud | Richard Benaud (; 6 October 1930 – 10 April 2015) was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. Following his retirement from international cricket in 1964, Benaud became a highly regarded commentator on the game.
Benaud was a Test cricket all-rounder, blending leg spin bowling with lower-or... |
26,547 | 20,319,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26547 | Six Nations Championship | The Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international men's rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. The current champions are Ireland, who won the 2023 tournament.
The tournament is organised by the u... |
26,558 | 1,174,069,402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26558 | Redmond, Washington | Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle. The population was 73,256 at the 2020 census, up from 54,144 in 2010.
Redmond is best known as the home of Microsoft and Nintendo of America.
With an annual bike race on city streets and the state's only velodrome, Redmond is also kno... |
26,716 | 44,146,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26716 | South Australia | South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 mill... |
26,750 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26750 | Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka (, ; (); ()), historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka shares a maritime ... |
26,769 | 15,996,738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26769 | South America | South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern subregion of a single continent called America.
South America is bordered on th... |
26,805 | 41,050,391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26805 | Sex | Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes. Male organisms produce small mobile gametes (spermatozoa, sperm, pollen), while female organisms produce larger, non-mobile gametes (ova, often called egg cells). Organisms that produce both types of gametes are ca... |
26,828 | 1,177,998,529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26828 | Suriname | Suriname ( ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( , ), is a country in northern South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, and Brazil to the south. At under , it is the smallest country in South America.
It has a population of approximately , domin... |
26,945 | 27,015,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26945 | Saint Helena | Saint Helena (, ) is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constituent parts of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tri... |
26,956 | 16,528,233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26956 | Silent film | A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of inter-title cards.
The term "silent fi... |
26,994 | 892,079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26994 | Scotland | Scotland (; ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, Scotland is the second-largest country in the United Kingdom, and accounted for 8% of the population in 2019. Scotland's only land border is a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise ... |
27,032 | 15,977,090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27032 | Rock paper scissors | Rock paper scissors (also known by other orderings of the three items, with "rock" sometimes being called "stone", or as Rochambeau, roshambo, or ro-sham-bo) is an intransitive hand game, usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. These sh... |
27,067 | 1,177,904,693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27067 | Sub-Saharan Africa | Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa, is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the African countries and territories that are situated fully in that s... |
27,168 | 45,079,649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27168 | Shiv Sena | Shiv Sena (IAST: "Śhiva Sēnā") () is a right-wing Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray. Shiv Sena's election symbol is the "Bow and Arrow." It uses the saffron colour in its flag and a image of a roaring tiger.
Initially apolitical, the organisation wa... |
27,198 | 35,498,457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27198 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Saint Kitts and Nevis (), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, is an island country and microstate consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles. With of territory, and roughly 50,000 inhabitants, it is t... |
27,208 | 1,177,756,748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27208 | Saint Lucia | Saint Lucia ( ; , ) is a constitutional monarchy and an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs (respectively), two Amerindian peoples. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it... |
27,228 | 372,290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27228 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ( ) is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea, where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.
Its territory consists of the main ... |
27,238 | 38,020,738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27238 | Samoa | Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and until 1997 known as Western Samoa (), is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, ... |
27,308 | 8,410,945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27308 | Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It shares its southeastern border with Liberia, and the northern half of the nation is surrounded by Guinea. Covering a total area of , Sierra Leone has a tropical climate, with diverse environments ranging from s... |
27,318 | 36,340,545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27318 | Singapore | Singapore ( ), officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It is located about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South ... |
27,451 | 46,602,132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27451 | Eswatini | Eswatini ( ; ), formally the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland ( ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, south, and southeast. At no more than north to south and east to west, Eswatini is one... |
27,485 | 45,950,396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27485 | Slartibartfast | Slartibartfast is a character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", a comedy/science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. The character appears in the first and third novels, the first and third radio series (and the LP adaptation of the first radio series), the 1981 television series, and the 2005 feature fil... |
27,640 | 44,690,822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27640 | Samuel Beckett | Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. His work became... |
27,643 | 10,689,882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27643 | Shanghai | Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the third greatest in the wo... |
27,737 | 10,951,369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27737 | Saint Kitts | Saint Kitts, officially Saint Christopher, is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Kitts and the neighbouring island of Nevis constitute one country: the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saint Kitts and Nevis are s... |
27,862 | 34,662,868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27862 | Sydney | Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, and the Royal National Park and Macarthur to the south an... |
27,886 | 20,836,525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27886 | Suffolk | Suffolk () is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county town.
The county has an area of and a population of 758,556. After Ipswich (14... |
28,504 | 3,560,547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28504 | San Diego | San Diego ( , ; ) is a city in the U.S. state of California located alongside the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. With a population of over 1.3 million residents, the city is the eighth-most populous in the United States and the second-most populous in California after Los Angeles. The city is located immediately... |
28,523 | 1,175,531,070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28523 | St Albans | St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major town on the old Roman road of Watling Street for travellers heading north and became the city of Verulam... |
28,695 | 1,177,005,169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28695 | Mercy rule | A mercy rule, slaughter rule, knockout rule, or skunk rule ends a two-competitor sports competition earlier than the scheduled endpoint if one competitor has a very large and presumably insurmountable scoring lead over the other. It is called the "mercy" rule because it spares further humiliation for the loser. It is c... |
28,771 | 44,032,986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28771 | St. John's, Saint John | St. John's is the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 22,219, St. John's is the commercial centre of the nation and the chief port of the island of Antigua.
History.
The settlement of St. John's has been the administrative centre of Antigu... |
28,922 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28922 | Scorpion | Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs, and are easily recognized by a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always ending with a stinger. The evolutionary history of scorpions goes back 435 milli... |
29,210 | 12,109,580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29210 | Sydney Swans | The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The Sydney Swans Academ... |
29,392 | 7,611,264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29392 | Summer | Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, daylight hours are longest and darkness hours are shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The earliest sunrises and latest sunsets also occur nea... |
29,405 | 40,104,967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29405 | Sikhs | Sikhs (singular Sikh: (like "sick") or (like "seek"); , ' ; Devanagari: सिख) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhi or Sikhism, a Dharmic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak. The term "Sikh" has its origin in t... |
29,773 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29773 | Tennis | Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of... |
29,789 | 6,046,731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29789 | Tourism | Tourism is travel for pleasure or business, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in p... |
29,812 | 21,240,663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29812 | The Beatles | The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all time and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form. Rooted... |
29,918 | 44,120,587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29918 | Tamil Nadu | Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost state of India. The tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population, Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language—one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world—is widely spoken in the state and serves as its official lang... |
29,944 | 44,146,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29944 | Tasmania | Tasmania (; Palawa kani: "lutruwita") is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, separated from it by the Bass Strait, with the archipelago containing the southernmost point of the country. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26t... |
30,040 | 287,744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30040 | Titanium | Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Found in nature only as an oxide, it can be reduced to produce a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength, resistant to corrosion in sea water, aqua regia, and chlorine.
Titanium was discovered in Cornwall, Grea... |
30,108 | 15,955,641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30108 | Tajikistan | Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. It has an area of and an estimated population of 9,750,065 people. Dushanbe is the country's capital and largest city. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the... |
30,169 | 1,175,011,139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30169 | History of Trinidad and Tobago | The history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Indigenous First Peoples. Trinidad was visited by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498, (he never landed in Tobago), and claimed in the name of Spain. Trinidad was administered by Spanish hands until 1797, but it was largely se... |
30,217 | 38,643,245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30217 | Turks and Caicos Islands | The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; and ) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies. They are known primarily for tourism and as an offshore finan... |
30,227 | 7,611,264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30227 | Tuvalu | Tuvalu ( ), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. Its islands are situated about midway between Hawaii and Australia. They lie east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Vanuatu, southeast... |
30,388 | 15,996,738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30388 | Thylacine | The thylacine (; binomial name Thylacinus cynocephalus), also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. The thylacine died out on New Guinea and mainland Australia around 3,600-3,200... |
30,529 | 4,637,213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30529 | Thai cuisine | Thai cuisine (, , ) is the national cuisine of Thailand.
Thai cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components and a spicy edge. Australian chef David Thompson, an expert on Thai food, observes that unlike many other cuisines, Thai cooking is "about the juggling of disparate elements t... |
30,581 | 1,175,799,965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30581 | The Crying Game | The Crying Game is a 1992 thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Stephen Woolley, and starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Ralph Brown, and Forest Whitaker. The film explores themes of race, sex, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Troubles i... |
30,786 | 45,544,898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30786 | Tuatara | Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) are reptiles endemic to New Zealand. Despite their close resemblance to lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. The name "tuatara" is derived from the Māori language and means "peaks on the back".
The single extant species of tuatara is the only surviving m... |
30,863 | 4,007,668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30863 | Test cricket | Test cricket is a form of first-class cricket played at international level between teams representing full member countries of the International Cricket Council (ICC). A match consists of four innings (two per team) and is scheduled to last for up to five days. In the past, some Test matches had no time limit and were... |
30,892 | 12,845,131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30892 | Truro | Truro (; ) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and a centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its population was 18,766 in the 2011 census. People of Truro can be called Truronians. It grew as a trade centre through its port an... |
30,965 | 7,903,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30965 | The Band | The Band was a Canadian-American rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario, in 1967. It consisted of Canadians Rick Danko (bass, guitar, vocals, fiddle), Garth Hudson (organ, keyboards, accordion, saxophone), Richard Manuel (piano, drums, vocals), Robbie Robertson (guitar, songwriting, vocals), and American Levon Helm (drum... |
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