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20 hours ago · Russia,[b]or the Russian Federation,[c]is a country spanning Eastern Europeand North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zonesand sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d]It is the world's ninth-most populous countryand Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised country ...
20 hours ago · The Rus', [ a ] also known as Russes, [ 2 ][ 3 ] were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD.
20 hours ago · Muhammad[ a ] (/ moʊˈhɑːməd /; Arabic: مُحَمَّد, romanized:Muḥammad, lit. 'praiseworthy'; [mʊˈħæm.mæd]; c.570 – 8 June 632 CE) [ b ] was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. [ c ] According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet who divinely inspired to preach and confirm the ...
20 hours ago · Zambia is a landlocked country in southern Africa, with a tropical climate, and consists mostly of high plateaus with some hills and mountains, dissected by river valleys. At 752,614 km 2 (290,586 sq mi) it is the 39th-largest country in the world, slightly smaller than Chile.
20 hours ago · Regency of Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna and Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna (January – 20 June 1448) Charles (VIII) [a] Karl Knutsson Bonde. 20 June 1448 – 24 February 1457. (8 years, 8 months and 4 days) (first reign) Swedish nobleman, elected king in Sweden after Christopher's death in opposition to the union monarchs.
3 days ago · Mali Empire. The Mali Empire (Manding: Mandé[3] or Manden Duguba; [4][5] Arabic: مالي, romanized: Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita (c. 1214 – c. 1255) and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa (Musa Keita). At its peak, Mali was the largest ...
20 hours ago · Steven Brill (B.A. 1972, J.D. 1975), founder of Court TV and The American Lawyer; Robert Brustein (DRA 1951), founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre, critic, author; Thad Carhart, writer of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and other books; Lan Samantha Chang (B.A. 1987), writer and director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
