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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Victor_HugoVictor Hugo - Wikipedia

    22 hours ago · Succeeded by. Leconte de Lisle. Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] ( French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.

  2. 22 hours ago · David Furse-Roberts. 6 July 2024. 12:15 PM. Detecting a sea-change in the taste of American movie-goers in the mid-1990s, the 1996 Presidential hopeful, Bob Dole, remarked that, ‘Americans are choosing the good over the grotesque; excellence over-exploitation; quiet virtue over gratuitous violence; and character over pointless cruelty.’.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › CopenhagenCopenhagen - Wikipedia

    22 hours ago · Copenhagen [9] ( Danish: København [kʰøpm̩ˈhɑwˀn] ⓘ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of approximately 660,000 in the municipality and 1.4 million in the urban area. [10] [11] The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › MegalodonMegalodon - Wikipedia

    22 hours ago · Megalodon. Otodus megalodon ( / ˈmɛɡələdɒn / MEG-əl-ə-don; meaning "big tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), from the Early Miocene to the Pliocene epochs.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AlaskaAlaska - Wikipedia

    22 hours ago · Alaska ( / əˈlæskə / ⓘ ə-LASS-kə) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. It is in the Western United States region. The only other non-contiguous U.S. state is Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost (the Aleutian Islands cross the antimeridian into the ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nazi_GermanyNazi Germany - Wikipedia

    22 hours ago · Nazi Germany, [h] officially known as the German Reich [i] and later the Greater German Reich, [j] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, [k] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim ...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › IndiaIndia - Wikipedia

    22 hours ago · India, officially the Republic of India ( ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya ), [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; [22] [23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.