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13 hours ago · Early use of white southerner. White Southerners are White Americans from the Southern United States, primarily originating from the various waves of Northwestern and Southern European immigration to the region beginning in the 16th century to the British Southern colonies, French Louisiana, the Spanish-American colonies; and the subsequent waves of immigration from Northwestern Europe ...
13 hours ago · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
13 hours ago · The Ming dynasty ( / mɪŋ / MING ), [7] officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell ...
13 hours ago · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...
13 hours ago · The 17,821,419 million Dutch inhabitants are concentrated on an area of 41,543 km 2 (16,040 sq mi) including water surface, the land surface being 33,895 km 2 (13,087 sq mi). This means that the country has a population density of 526/km 2 (1,360/sq mi). The density of 500 inhabitants/km 2 was reached in the first half of 2014.
13 hours ago · Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas. [1] Its intention was, according to leader André Breton, to "resolve the previously ...
13 hours ago · It has been hypothesised that a Proto-Indo-European word *morwi- was the root for Sanskrit vamrah, Greek μύρμηξ mýrmēx, Old Church Slavonic mraviji, Old Irish moirb, Old Norse maurr, Dutch mier, Swedish myra, Danish myre, Middle Dutch miere, and Crimean Gothic miera. Taxonomy and evolution
