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WikiCards has 597 History cards in its base set: 39 Legendary, 74 Epic, 111 Rare, 189 Uncommon and 184 Common. The strongest are Tamil Nadu, Elon Musk, Rio de Janeiro. Each card is a real Wikipedia article, with its photo credit and licence below it.
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Elon Musk
LegendaryAttack 100Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman, industrialist, and former public official who is the chief executive officer and largest…
Photo Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0
Rio de Janeiro
EpicAttack 100Rio de Janeiro, also known simply as Rio, is the capital and largest city of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Joseph Lister
UncommonAttack 99Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister was an English surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of…

Vladimir Putin
LegendaryAttack 99Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia…

Kizil Caves
UncommonAttack 98The Kizil Caves are a set of Buddhist rock-cut caves located near Kizil Township in Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture…
Photo Hiroki Ogawa, CC BY 3.0
Maharashtra
LegendaryAttack 98Maharashtra is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
Photo Dey.sandip, CC BY-SA 3.0
Augustus
LegendaryAttack 97Augustus, also known as Octavian, was the founder of the Roman Empire and the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death…
Photo Justin Benttinen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Balfour Declaration
EpicAttack 97The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War…

Pelé
LegendaryAttack 97Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known by his nickname Pelé, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a…

American frontier
EpicAttack 97The American frontier encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American…
Photo John C. H. Grabill, Public domain
New Deal
EpicAttack 97The New Deal refers to a series of economic, social, and political reforms in response to the Great Depression in the United…

Moscow
LegendaryAttack 97Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia, situated on the Moskva River in Central Russia.

Atlantic slave trade
EpicAttack 97The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African…


Nigerian Civil War
RareAttack 96The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, Nigeria–Biafra War, or Biafra War, was an armed conflict fought…
Photo Godwin Alabi-Isama, CC BY-SA 4.0
Marxism–Leninism
EpicAttack 96Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement following the October…
Photo Gustavs Klucis, Public domain
Gujarat
EpicAttack 96Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Photo Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0
British Raj
LegendaryAttack 96The British Raj was the period of rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, lasting from 1858 to 1947.

Tokugawa Ieyasu
EpicAttack 96Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which…
Photo Kanō Tan'yū, Public domain
History of Hinduism
UncommonAttack 96The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent.
Photo LACMA, Public domain

Age of Enlightenment
EpicAttack 95The Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason or simply the Enlightenment, was a period of intellectual and…

History of medicine
UncommonAttack 95The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that…

Syracuse, Sicily
RareAttack 95Syracuse is a city and municipality, capital of the free municipal consortium of the same name, located in the autonomous…
Photo AndreaCT78, CC BY-SA 2.0
History of Vietnam
UncommonAttack 95Vietnam, with its coastal strip, rugged mountainous interior, and two major deltas, became home to numerous cultures…

Industrial Revolution
LegendaryAttack 95The Industrial Revolution, sometimes called the First Industrial Revolution in contrast to the subsequent Second Industrial…

Mexican–American War
EpicAttack 95The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention…

Multiculturalism
UncommonAttack 95Multiculturalism is the coexistence of multiple cultures.
Photo Jroehl, CC BY-SA 4.0
Spanish–American War
EpicAttack 95The Spanish–American War was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898.

History of video games
RareAttack 95The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations…
Photo Hanno Böck, CC0

Hanseatic League
RareAttack 94The Hanseatic League, commonly called The Hansa, was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and…
Photo Droysen/Andrée, CC BY-SA 3.0
John Maynard Keynes
EpicAttack 94John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, was an English economist whose writings are considered the basis for the school of…

History of architecture
UncommonAttack 94The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic…
Photo Thomas Cole, Public domain

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
RareAttack 94Frederick II was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220, and…

Cao Cao
RareAttack 94Cao Cao, courtesy name Mengde, was a Chinese statesman, warlord, and poet who rose to power during the end of the Han…
Photo Wang Qi, Public domain
Venice
LegendaryAttack 94Venice is a coastal city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the region of Veneto, as well as the Metropolitan City of…
Photo kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0
History of Algeria
UncommonAttack 94Algeria's history has been shaped by its position between the Mediterranean, the Maghreb, and the Sahara.
Photo Djilali TAHRI, CC BY-SA 4.0
Imjin War
RareAttack 94The Imjin War was a series of two Japanese invasions of Korea: an initial invasion in 1592 also individually called the…

Muhammad
LegendaryAttack 93Muhammad was an Arab religious, military, and political leader, and the founder of Islam.
Photo بلال الدويك, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bernard Montgomery
EpicAttack 93Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, was a senior British Army officer who served in…

Anglo-Saxons
EpicAttack 93The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and…
Photo Eadfrith, Public domain
Aztecs
EpicAttack 93The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico from about 1300 to 1521.
Photo Aldan-2, CC BY-SA 4.0
Greek War of Independence
RareAttack 93The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of…
Photo SJCAmerican, CC BY-SA 4.0
Vienna
LegendaryAttack 93Vienna is the capital, most populous city, and one of the nine states of Austria.
Photo Superbass, CC BY-SA 3.0
History of Thailand
UncommonAttack 93The history of Thailand begins with Bronze and Iron Age sites such as Ban Chiang, occupied by about 1500 BCE.

Andrew Jackson
LegendaryAttack 92Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

Jackie Robinson
LegendaryAttack 92Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major…

Woodrow Wilson
LegendaryAttack 92Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921.

Benjamin Disraeli
EpicAttack 92Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as…

Post-classical history
UncommonAttack 92In world history, post-classical history refers to the period from about 500 CE to about 1450 or 1500 CE, roughly…
Photo Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ronald Reagan
LegendaryAttack 92Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to…
Photo Michael Evans, Public domain
Clement Attlee
EpicAttack 92Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour…

History of Peru
UncommonAttack 92The history of Peru spans 15 millennia, extending back through several stages of cultural development along the country's…

Athens
EpicAttack 92Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Photo Andrew Parlette, CC BY 4.0
Dreyfus affair
EpicAttack 92The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906.
Photo Aron Gerschel, Public domain
Zhuge Liang
RareAttack 92Zhuge Liang, courtesy name Kongming, was a Chinese statesman and strategist who lived through the collapse of the Eastern…

Self-determination
UncommonAttack 92In international law, self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity.
Photo Rob Croes / Anefo, CC0
History of Mexico
UncommonAttack 92The history of Mexico encompasses over 13,000 years between the initial migration of indigenous peoples and the modern day.

Slum
UncommonAttack 91A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and…
Photo PrydwenCK12, CC BY-SA 4.0
French invasion of Russia
RareAttack 91The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War…
Photo Albrecht Adam, Public domain
1911 Revolution
RareAttack 91The 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, culminated in the end of China's last…

Golden Horde
EpicAttack 91The Golden Horde, or Ulus of Jochi, self-designated as Ulug Ulus, was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate…

Ashoka
EpicAttack 91Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka, most commonly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha from c.

Great Game
RareAttack 91The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily…

George Washington
LegendaryAttack 90George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797.
Photo Gilbert Stuart, Public domain
Edward I
EpicAttack 90Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

Crusader states
RareAttack 90The Crusader states, or Outremer, were four Catholic polities established in the Levant region and southeastern Anatolia…
Photo Jean Colombe, Public domain
Great Pyramid of Giza
LegendaryAttack 90The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids and the most famous landmark of the Giza pyramid complex…
Photo Douwe C. van der Zee, CC BY-SA 4.0
Stonehenge
LegendaryAttack 90Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury.
Photo garethwiscombe, CC BY 2.0
History of Antarctica
UncommonAttack 90The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to…

Political positions of Nancy Pelosi
CommonAttack 90Nancy Pelosi is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the House of Representatives.
Photo Brian Birzer, Public domain
Goryeo
RareAttack 90Goryeo was a Korean state founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that…

Sukarno
RareAttack 90Sukarno was an Indonesian statesman, activist, and revolutionary who served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to…
Photo Onbekend /Anonymous, Public domain
Spanish American wars of independence
UncommonAttack 90The Spanish American wars of independence were a series of conflicts across the Spanish Empire in the early 19th century.

Damascus
EpicAttack 90Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria.
Photo Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0
Desalination
UncommonAttack 90Desalination is the artificial process by which salt water is converted to fresh water.
Photo James Grellier, CC BY-SA 3.0
Seven Years' War
LegendaryAttack 90The Seven Years' War, 1756 to 1763, was a global war fought by numerous great powers, primarily in Europe, with significant…
Photo Blaue Max, CC BY-SA 4.0
Elizabeth I
LegendaryAttack 89Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

Crusades
LegendaryAttack 89The Crusades were a series of military campaigns launched by the papacy between 1095 and 1291 against Muslim rulers for the…
Photo anonymus, Public domain
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
EpicAttack 89Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, statesman, and the founder of Pakistan.

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
EpicAttack 89Vice-Admiral of the White Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson was a British Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of…

Diocletian
EpicAttack 89Diocletian, nicknamed Jovius, was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305.
Photo Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0

Military history of the Song dynasty
CommonAttack 89The military history of the Song dynasty encompasses military activity of the Han Chinese state of Song from 960 AD with the…
Photo SY, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sun Yat-sen
EpicAttack 89Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese physician, revolutionary and political philosopher who founded the Republic of China and the…
Photo 上海波尔照相馆, Public domain
First Sino-Japanese War
RareAttack 89The First Sino-Japanese War was a conflict between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan primarily for influence…

Mahmud of Ghazni
RareAttack 89Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin, commonly known as Mahmud of Ghazni or Mahmud Ghaznavi, was the Sultan of the Ghaznavid…
Photo 1314-15, Public domain
History of agriculture
UncommonAttack 89Agriculture began independently in different parts of the globe, and included a diverse range of taxa.

2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis
CommonAttack 89A constitutional crisis began in Sri Lanka when President Maithripala Sirisena appointed former president and member of…
Photo Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0
Kofi Annan
RareAttack 89Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from…

History of Southeast Asia
UncommonAttack 89The history of Southeast Asia covers the people of Southeast Asia from prehistory to the present in two distinct…
Photo Caspar Schmalkalden, Public domain
Philippine Revolution
UncommonAttack 89The Philippine Revolution was a war of independence waged by the revolutionary organization Katipunan against the Spanish…

Brittany
EpicAttack 89Brittany is a peninsula, historical region and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part…

History of Ethiopia
UncommonAttack 89Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in Africa; the emergence of Ethiopian civilization dates back thousands of years.
Photo Dunn, Samuel, -1794, Public domain

Ancient Israel and Judah
UncommonAttack 88Ancient Israel and Judah were two Israelite kingdoms that existed in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
Photo Edward Weller, Public domain
Shivaji
LegendaryAttack 88Shivaji I (Shivaji Shahaji Bhonsale, Marathi pronunciation: [ʃiˈʋaːdʑiː ˈbʱosle]; c.

Thirty Years' War
LegendaryAttack 88The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts…

Machu Picchu
LegendaryAttack 88Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430…
Photo Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0
History of music
UncommonAttack 88Although definitions of music vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus…
Photo inharecherche, CC BY 2.0
Xi'an
RareAttack 88Xi'an is the capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi.
Photo xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0
Telangana
EpicAttack 88Telangana is a state in southern India on the Deccan Plateau bordering Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh to the north and Andhra…
Photo Vivekanand pokala, CC BY-SA 4.0
Abidjan
RareAttack 88Abidjan is the seat of government, largest city and former capital of Ivory Coast.
Photo Abiba Pauline, CC BY-SA 4.0
Florence
EpicAttack 88Florence is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany, and, as of 2026, with a population of…
Photo Giorgio Galeotti, CC BY 4.0
Yuan dynasty
EpicAttack 88The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan, was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol…

Russian Revolution
EpicAttack 88The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.


Agra
RareAttack 88Agra is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Photo Yann ( talk ), CC BY-SA 4.0
Franco-Prussian War
EpicAttack 88The Franco-Prussian War, occasionally known as the Franco-German War, and sometimes referred to in France as the War of…
Photo Anton von Werner, Public domain
Edward III
EpicAttack 87Edward III, also known as Edward of Windsor before accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377.
Photo William Bruges, Public domain
Ernest Shackleton
EpicAttack 87Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

Novgorod Republic
RareAttack 87The Novgorod Republic, formally known as Lord Novgorod the Great, was a city-state that existed from the 12th to 15th…

Korean mythology
UncommonAttack 87Korean mythology is the group of myths told by historical and modern Koreans.

Marco Polo
EpicAttack 87Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and…

Vijayanagara Empire
RareAttack 87The Vijayanagara Empire, also known as the Karnāta Empire, was a late medieval Hindu empire that ruled much of Southern…
Photo Avantiputra7, CC0
Nnamdi Azikiwe
UncommonAttack 87Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe PC, commonly referred to as Zik of Africa, was a Nigerian politician, statesman, and revolutionary…

Rajasthan
EpicAttack 87Rajasthan is a state in northwestern India.
Photo sushmita balasubramani, CC BY 2.0
Tipu Sultan
RareAttack 87Tipu Sultan, commonly referred to as Sher-e-Mysore, was the Sultan of Mysore from 1782 until his death in 1799.

Aden
RareAttack 87Aden is an ancient port city in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, on the north coast of the Gulf of Aden…
Photo Ahmedxalkatheri, CC BY-SA 4.0
Maya Angelou
EpicAttack 86Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist.
Photo Clinton Library, Public domain
Pythagoras
EpicAttack 86Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.

Shen Kuo
UncommonAttack 86Shen Kuo or Shen Gua, courtesy name Cunzhong and pseudonym Mengqi Weng, was a Chinese polymath, scientist, and statesman of…
Photo Hans A. Rosbach, CC BY-SA 3.0
Justinian I
EpicAttack 86Justinian I, also known as Justinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 527 to 565.
Photo Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0
Francis Drake
EpicAttack 86Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer and privateer best known for making the second circumnavigation of the world in a…

Borobudur
RareAttack 86Borobudur, also transcribed Barabudur, is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, near the town of…
Photo Heri nugroho, CC BY-SA 4.0
Isabella I of Castile
EpicAttack 86Isabella I, also known as Isabella the Catholic, was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504.
Photo anonymous, Public domain
Pierre-Simon Laplace
UncommonAttack 86Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics…
Photo James Posselwhite, Public domain
Pannonian Avars
RareAttack 86The Pannonian Avars or Carpathian Avars were a confederation of Eurasian nomads.
Photo Wario2, CC BY-SA 4.0
Chichen Itza
EpicAttack 86Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period.
Photo Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0
DNA profiling
UncommonAttack 86DNA profiling is the process of determining an individual's deoxyribonucleic acid characteristics.
Photo Jerome Walker, Public domain
G20
EpicAttack 86The Group of 20 is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 sovereign countries, the European Union, and the African Union.

Jericho
EpicAttack 86Jericho is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Jericho Governorate.

Teotihuacan
EpicAttack 86Teotihuacan is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State…
Photo Hdlrosa, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
UncommonAttack 86Ellen Eugenia Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018.
Photo PMO Barbados, Public domain
Palace of Versailles
EpicAttack 85The Palace of Versailles is a château and historic monument in Versailles in the Yvelines department of France, southwest of…
Photo ToucanWings, CC BY-SA 3.0
Greco-Persian Wars
RareAttack 85The Greco-Persian Wars, also called the Persian Wars, were a series of armed conflicts involving various Greek city-states…

Giuseppe Verdi
RareAttack 85Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas.
Photo Ferdinand Mulnier, Public domain
Tikal
UncommonAttack 85Tikal is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala.
Photo Mundo Maya, CC BY-SA 4.0
Umayyad state of Córdoba
UncommonAttack 85The Emirate of Córdoba, and from 929, the Caliphate of Córdoba, was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from…

Ismail I
RareAttack 85Ismail I was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524.
Photo Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Public domain
Dmitri Shostakovich
RareAttack 85Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the…

George III
LegendaryAttack 85George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.
Photo Allan Ramsay, Public domain
Trojan War
LegendaryAttack 85The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the thirteenth or early twelfth century BC.

Babylon
LegendaryAttack 85Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq…
Photo David Stanley, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cahokia
RareAttack 85The Cahokia Mounds is the site of a Native American city directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St.
Photo Skubasteve834, CC BY 4.0
Pompeii
LegendaryAttack 85Pompeii was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.
Photo Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lombards
RareAttack 85The Lombards, Longobards or Langobards were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and…

Lord Kelvin
UncommonAttack 85William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer.

History of Sudan
UncommonAttack 85The history of Sudan refers to the territory that today makes up Republic of the Sudan and the state of South Sudan, which…

History of Oceania
CommonAttack 85The history of Oceania includes the history of Australia, Easter Island, Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea…


Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
UncommonAttack 85The Invasion of Lingayen Gulf, 3–13 January 1945, was an Allied amphibious operation in the Philippines during World War II.

Kublai Khan
EpicAttack 85Kublai Khan, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and…
Photo Araniko, Public domain
History of the National Health Service
UncommonAttack 85The name National Health Service is used to refer to the publicly funded health care services of England, Scotland and…

History of East Asia
UncommonAttack 85The history of East Asia generally encompasses the histories of China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan from prehistoric…
Photo Kitagawa Utamaro, CC0
Provence
RareAttack 85Provence is a geographical, cultural region and historical province of southeastern France, which stretches from the left…
Photo Robert Brink, CC BY-SA 3.0
History of Brazil
UncommonAttack 85Before the arrival of the Europeans, the lands that now constitute Brazil were inhabited and settled by diverse tribes for…
Photo Lopo Homem, Public domain
Mississippian period
UncommonAttack 85The Mississippian period is an archaeological cultural era in the history of the Southern United States and adjacent areas…
Photo Daderot, Public domain
Emperor Taizong of Tang
RareAttack 85Emperor Taizong of Tang, previously Prince of Qin, personal name Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty of…

Library of Alexandria
EpicAttack 84The Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world.
Photo O. Von Corven, Public domain
Pericles
RareAttack 84Pericles was a Greek statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens.
Photo Copy of Kresilas, Public domain
Yongle Emperor
RareAttack 84The Yongle Emperor, personal name Zhu Di, was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.

John Hunyadi
RareAttack 84John Hunyadi was a leading Hungarian military and political figure during the 15th century, who served as regent of the…
Photo János Thuróczy, Public domain
Themistocles
UncommonAttack 84Themistocles was an Athenian politician and general.
Photo Evald Hansen, Public domain
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
UncommonAttack 84Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five.
Photo Valentin Serov, Public domain
Kanem–Bornu Empire
UncommonAttack 84The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire based around Lake Chad that once ruled areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger…
Photo Megartonius, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ancient Egyptian literature
UncommonAttack 84Ancient Egyptian literature was written with the Egyptian language from ancient Egypt's pharaonic period until the end of…
Photo Asta, Public domain
Tyre, Lebanon
RareAttack 84Tyre is a city in Lebanon, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
Photo RomanDeckert, CC BY-SA 4.0
War of the Austrian Succession
RareAttack 84The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740 to 1748, was a conflict between the European great powers, fought primarily in…
Photo DavidDijkgraaf, CC0
Petra
EpicAttack 84Petra, originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu, is an ancient city and archaeological site in southern Jordan.
Photo Azurfrog, CC BY-SA 3.0
War of the Spanish Succession
EpicAttack 84The War of the Spanish Succession, 1701 to 1714, was a European great power conflict, caused by the death of Charles II of…
Photo DavidDijkgraaf, CC0
Arthur Balfour
RareAttack 84Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United…

Ur
RareAttack 84Ur was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in Dhi Qar…
Photo Steve Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0
Theodor Herzl
RareAttack 84Theodor Herzl was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism.
Photo Carl Pietzner, Public domain
Aleksandr Karelin
RareAttack 84Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin is a Russian politician and retired athlete.
Photo Sokolov Aleksey, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dagestan
LegendaryAttack 84Dagestan, officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe…
Photo Sobolev Alexander, CC BY-SA 4.0
Leo Amery
UncommonAttack 84Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, also known as L.
Photo Bassano Ltd, Public domain
Second Industrial Revolution
RareAttack 84The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid scientific discovery…

Ibn Khaldun
RareAttack 84Ibn Khaldūn was an Arab Tunisian scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist.
Photo Reda Kerbush, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pre-Columbian era
RareAttack 84In the history of the Americas, pre-Columbian era, also known as pre-contact era, pre-Hispanic or as pre-Cabraline era…
Photo Fcb981, CC BY-SA 3.0
Operation Serval
UncommonAttack 84Operation Serval was a French military operation to oust Islamist militants from the north of Mali, who had begun a push…
Photo Capt. Jason Smith, Public domain
History of astronomy
UncommonAttack 84The history of astronomy focuses on the efforts of civilizations to understand the universe beyond earth's atmosphere.
Photo Johann Bayer, Public domain
Chinese calendar
RareAttack 84The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar created by or commonly used by the Chinese people.
Photo AHxiMO RPPLOU, CC BY-SA 4.0
Valentina Tereshkova
RareAttack 83Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, politician, and former Soviet cosmonaut.

Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
RareAttack 83Henry IV was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, and King of Italy and Burgundy.

Hyder Ali
UncommonAttack 83Hyder Ali, historical anglicized spelling Hyde Ally Cawn, was the sultan and de facto ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore in…

Zhang Heng
UncommonAttack 83Zhang Heng, courtesy name Pingzi, formerly romanized Chang Heng, was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman who lived…
Photo Windmemories, CC BY-SA 4.0
Göbekli Tepe
LegendaryAttack 83Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia in modern-day Turkey.
Photo Teomancimit, CC BY-SA 3.0
Guglielmo Marconi
RareAttack 83Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi, was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician…
Photo Pach Brothers, Public domain
Angkor Wat
EpicAttack 83Angkor Wat is a Theravada Buddhist temple complex originally built as a Vaishnava Hindu temple, in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

John Coltrane
EpicAttack 83John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
Photo Gelderen, Hugo van / Anefo, CC0
Albania–Turkey relations
CommonAttack 83Albania–Turkey relations are the bilateral relations between the Republic of Albania and the Republic of Turkey.


Terracotta Army
EpicAttack 83The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of…
Photo xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0
Disgust
UncommonAttack 83Disgust is an emotional response of rejection or revulsion to something potentially contagious or something considered…

Mexican War of Independence
RareAttack 83The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from the…
Photo Hpav7, Public domain
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
UncommonAttack 83George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, known as Lord Curzon, was a British statesman, Conservative…

Neolithic
EpicAttack 83The Neolithic, or New Stone Age, is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Asia, Europe and Africa.

Memphis, Egypt
RareAttack 83Memphis, or Men-nefer, was the ancient capital of Inebu-hedj, the first nome of Lower Egypt that was known as mḥw.

Georges Clemenceau
UncommonAttack 83Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917…
Photo Paul Nadar, Public domain
Stone Age
RareAttack 83The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point…
Photo BoneA, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cusco
RareAttack 83Cusco or Cuzco is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Sacred Valley of the Andes mountain range, and the Huatanay and…
Photo tomscoffin, CC BY 2.0
French Revolutionary Wars
RareAttack 83The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted…
Photo Ruedi33a, CC BY-SA 4.0

Cnut
EpicAttack 82Cnut, also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and…

William Wilberforce
RareAttack 82William Wilberforce was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the Atlantic slave…
Photo Anton Hickel, Public domain
Basil II
RareAttack 82Basil II Porphyrogenitus, given the epithet the Bulgar Slayer, was the senior Byzantine emperor from 976 to 1025.

Great Zimbabwe
RareAttack 82Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Masvingo.

Rhodri Morgan
UncommonAttack 82Hywel Rhodri Morgan was a Welsh Labour politician who was the First Minister of Wales and the Leader of Welsh Labour from…

Seleucid Empire
EpicAttack 82The Seleucid Empire was a Greek state in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.
Photo Hartmann Linge, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tocharians
UncommonAttack 82The Tocharians or Tokharians were speakers of the Tocharian languages, a group of Indo-European languages known from around…

Zheng He
RareAttack 82Zheng He was a Chinese admiral and diplomat from the early Ming dynasty.
Photo Marcin Konsek, CC BY-SA 4.0
Desertion
UncommonAttack 82Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission and is done with the intention of not returning.
Photo Octav Băncilă, Public domain
Taj Mahal
LegendaryAttack 82The Taj Mahal ( TAHJ mə-HAHL, TAHZH -; Hindustani: [t̪ɑːd͡ʒ ˈmɛɦl]; lit.

Monroe Doctrine
LegendaryAttack 82The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes any foreign interference in the Western…
Photo Louis Dalrymple, Public domain
History of Turkey
UncommonAttack 82The history of Turkey, understood as the history of the area now forming the territory of the Republic of Turkey, includes…

Pantheon, Rome
EpicAttack 82The Pantheon (UK: , US: ; Latin: Pantheum, from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον '[temple] of all the gods') is an ancient temple in…
Photo NikonZ7II, CC BY-SA 4.0
An Lushan rebellion
UncommonAttack 82The An Lushan rebellion was a civil war in China that lasted from 755 to 763, at the approximate midpoint of the Tang…
Photo SY, CC BY-SA 4.0
Roman numerals
EpicAttack 82Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout…
Photo Alex1011, CC BY-SA 3.0
Persepolis
RareAttack 82Persepolis or Parseh, also known in modern Persian as Takht-e Jamshid, was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire.
Photo Laurens R. Krol, CC BY 4.0
History of the Ukrainian minority in Poland
CommonAttack 82The history of the Ukrainian minority in Poland dates back to the Late Middle Ages, preceding the 14th century…
Photo Birczanin, Public domain
Burial
UncommonAttack 82Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the…
Photo Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0
Dar es Salaam
RareAttack 82Dar es Salaam is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania and capital of the Dar es Salaam Region.

Kyoto
EpicAttack 82Kyoto, officially Kyoto City, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most…
Photo Nina R from Africa, CC BY 2.0
Ancient Greek literature
UncommonAttack 81Ancient Greek literature encompasses the literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the…

Clovis culture
UncommonAttack 81The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to…
Photo Tim Evanson, CC BY-SA 2.0
Ravi Shankar
EpicAttack 81Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer.
Photo Markgoff2972, CC BY-SA 4.0
Manchuria
EpicAttack 81Manchuria is a historical region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China and parts of the…
Photo CIA, Public domain
Eduard Shevardnadze
UncommonAttack 81Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for several…
Photo Robert D. Ward, Public domain
Abu Bakr
EpicAttack 81Abu Bakr, born Abd Allah ibn Abi Quhafa, was a senior companion, closest friend, and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet…
Photo Mark Ahsmann, CC BY-SA 3.0
Shah Jahan
EpicAttack 81Shah Jahan I, also called Shah Jahan the Magnificent, was the fifth Mughal Emperor from 1628 until his deposition in 1658.
Photo Bichitr, Public domain
Ernest Rutherford
RareAttack 81Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher…

Ritual
UncommonAttack 81A ritual is a repeated, structured sequence of actions or behaviors that alters the internal or external state of an…
Photo Candra Firmansyah, CC BY-SA 4.0
History of games
UncommonAttack 81The history of games dates to the ancient human past.
Photo Ferdowsi, Public domain
Hernando de Soto
UncommonAttack 81Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador, who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan…
Photo John Sartain, Public domain
Hugo Grotius
UncommonAttack 81Hugo Grotius, also known as Hugo de Groot or Huig de Groot, was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist…

Huế
UncommonAttack 81Huế, formerly Thừa Thiên Huế province, is a centrally-governed city in central Vietnam, located approximately at the center…
Photo Lê Huy Hoàng Hải, CC BY-SA 4.0
Carl von Clausewitz
RareAttack 81Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz was a Prussian army officer and military theorist who stressed the "moral" and…
Photo Wilhelm Wach, Public domain
Giacomo Puccini
RareAttack 80Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

Valley of the Kings
RareAttack 80The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is an area in Egypt where, for a period of…

Book of Kells
RareAttack 80The Book of Kells is an illustrated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New…
Photo Unattributed, Public domain
Louis IX of France
RareAttack 80Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270.

Human settlement
UncommonAttack 80A human settlement, locality or populated place is a place where people live and carry out social, economic, political, and…
Photo Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0
Kanō Jigorō
UncommonAttack 80Kanō Jigorō was a Japanese judoka, educator, politician, and the founder of judo.

Pope Gregory I
RareAttack 80Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 until his death…
Photo British Library, CC0
History of the Jews in Syria
UncommonAttack 80Syrian Jews descend from Jews who inhabited the region of today's Syria since the time of Roman rule; and from Sephardim…
Photo R. Y. Young?, Public domain
Alans
RareAttack 80The Alans were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today the North Caucasus; some…

NYU Langone Health
UncommonAttack 80NYU Langone Health is an integrated academic health system located in New York and Florida.

Massachusetts Line
CommonAttack 80The Massachusetts Line was those units within the Continental Army that were assigned to Massachusetts at various times by…
Photo John Trumbull, Public domain
Visigothic Kingdom
RareAttack 80The Visigothic Kingdom, Visigothic Spain or Kingdom of the Goths was a barbarian kingdom that occupied what is now…

Lighting
UncommonAttack 80Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects.
Photo Spirosparas, CC BY-SA 4.0
Superstition
UncommonAttack 80A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural.

Pedro Álvares Cabral
UncommonAttack 79Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman, colonizer, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the…

Béla IV of Hungary
UncommonAttack 79Béla IV was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1235 and 1270, and Duke of Styria from 1254 to 1258.
Photo Márk Kálti, Public domain
Kasbah of Moulay Ismail
CommonAttack 79The Kasbah of Moulay Ismail is a vast palace complex and royal kasbah built by the Moroccan sultan Moulay Isma'il ibn Sharif…
Photo Robert Prazeres, CC BY-SA 4.0
Leif Erikson
EpicAttack 79Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky, was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot…

Władysław II Jagiełło
UncommonAttack 79Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło, was Grand Duke of Lithuania beginning in 1377 and King of Poland from 1386 until his…

Selim I
RareAttack 79Selim I, also known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520.
Photo Naḳḳāş ʿOs̠mān, Public domain
Dag Hammarskjöld
RareAttack 79Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the…

Tamar of Georgia
UncommonAttack 79Tamar the Great reigned as the Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213, presiding over the apex of the Georgian Golden Age.

Great Sphinx of Giza
RareAttack 79The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a resting sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the…
Photo Hesham Ebaid, CC0
Holy Grail
RareAttack 79The Holy Grail is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature.

Hejaz
RareAttack 79The Hejaz or Hijaz is a historical region of the Arabian Peninsula that includes the majority of the western region of Saudi…
Photo Selami Akceylan, CC BY 3.0
Cardinal Richelieu
RareAttack 79Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and…

Italian Wars
RareAttack 79The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559 in the Italian Peninsula, with subsidiary theatres…
Photo Waylon1104, Public domain
Stefan Dušan
UncommonAttack 79Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, also known as Dušan the Mighty, was the King of Serbia from 8 September 1331 and Emperor of the Serbs…

Sam Rayburn
UncommonAttack 79Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was an American politician who served as the 43rd speaker of the United States House of…

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
RareAttack 79Sigismund of Luxembourg was Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 until his death in 1437.

Fortification
UncommonAttack 79A fortification is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule…
Photo John Scofield, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ottoman wars in Europe
UncommonAttack 79A series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and various European states took place from the Late Middle Ages…
Photo Frans Geffels, Public domain

Amr ibn al-As
UncommonAttack 78Amr ibn al-As ibn Wa'il al-Sahmi was an Arab commander and companion of Muhammad who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt and…
Photo Sherief1969, CC BY-SA 4.0
William Blackstone
UncommonAttack 78Sir William Blackstone was an English jurist, justice, and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of…


Plan Rubber
CommonAttack 78An operation with the codename Plan Rubber was the amphibious component of the Joint Basic Plan for the Occupation of…
Photo United States, Public domain
Hal Newhouser
UncommonAttack 78Harold Newhouser, nicknamed "Prince Hal" and "Hurricane Hal," was an American professional baseball player.

Ranavalona I
UncommonAttack 78Ranavalona I, also known as Ramavo or Ranavalo-Manjaka I or Ranavalona reniny, was the sovereign of the Kingdom of…

Kingdom of Candia
UncommonAttack 78The Realm or Kingdom of Candia or Duchy of Candia was the official name of Crete during the island's period as an overseas…
Photo Marco Boschini, Public domain
Mikhail Bakunin
RareAttack 78Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and political philosopher.
Photo Nadar, Public domain
Humayun
RareAttack 78Nasir al-Din Muhammad, commonly known by his regnal name Humayun, was the second Mughal emperor, who ruled much of what is…

Michel de Montaigne
RareAttack 78Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant writers of…

Federally recognized tribe
UncommonAttack 78A federally recognized tribe is a Native American tribe recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding…

Kelly Armstrong
UncommonAttack 78Kelly Michael Armstrong is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2024 as the 34th governor of North Dakota.

Noah Webster
UncommonAttack 78Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor…
Photo James Herring, Public domain
Edward Gibbon
UncommonAttack 78Edward Gibbon was a British essayist, historian and politician.
Photo Henry Walton, Public domain
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
UncommonAttack 78Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi was the Imam of the Adal Sultanate from 1527 to 1543.
Photo Ugaas Raage, CC0
Hayreddin Barbarossa
RareAttack 78Hayreddin Barbarossa, also known as Hayreddin Pasha, Hızır Hayrettin Pasha, and simply Hızır Reis, was an Ottoman corsair…
Photo AsiaticLion7, CC0
Jan Žižka
RareAttack 78Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha was a Czech military leader and knight who was a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus, and a…
Photo User:Miaow Miaow, Public domain
Dutch Golden Age
UncommonAttack 78The Dutch Golden Age was a period in the history of the Netherlands which roughly lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic…

Emperor Gaozu of Han
RareAttack 78Emperor Gaozu of Han, personal name Liu Bang, was the founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty.

Mansa Musa
LegendaryAttack 77Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign.

Chandragupta II
UncommonAttack 77Chandragupta II, also known by his title Vikramaditya, as well as Chandragupta Vikramaditya, was the emperor of the Gupta…
Photo PHGCOM, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tenzing Norgay
EpicAttack 77Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer.

Baybars
UncommonAttack 77Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari, commonly known as Baibars or Baybars and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh, was…
Photo 14th century artist, Public domain
Joseph Cook
UncommonAttack 77Sir Joseph Cook was the sixth prime minister of Australia, serving from 1913 to 1914.
Photo Crown Studios, Public domain
Pierre de Coubertin
UncommonAttack 77Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator…

Wall Street crash of 1929
EpicAttack 77The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash in the United States which…
Photo US-gov, Public domain
Çatalhöyük
RareAttack 77Çatalhöyük is a tell of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed…
Photo Murat Özsoy 1958, CC BY-SA 4.0
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
UncommonAttack 77Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the…

Luoyang
UncommonAttack 77Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province, China.

Peloponnesian War
EpicAttack 77The Peloponnesian War was fought in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Athenian-led Delian League and the Spartan-led…

Samora Machel
UncommonAttack 77Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from the…

Prefabs in the United Kingdom
UncommonAttack 77Prefabs were a major part of the delivery plan to address the United Kingdom's post–World War II housing shortage.
Photo Deb, CC BY-SA 3.0
Albert A. Michelson
UncommonAttack 77Albert Abraham Michelson was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and…

Merovingian dynasty
RareAttack 77The Merovingian dynasty was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until Pepin the Short…
Photo Rudric, CC BY-SA 3.0
Martha Jefferson Randolph
UncommonAttack 76Martha "Patsy" Randolph was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson.
Photo Thomas Sully, Public domain
Alaric I
UncommonAttack 76Alaric I was the first king of the Visigoths, from 395 to 410.
Photo Allan Stewart, Public domain
History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent
CommonAttack 76The oldest evidence for Indian agriculture is in north-west Indian subcontinent dates from the Neolithic c.
Photo Beckamrajeev, CC BY-SA 3.0
Michiel de Ruyter
UncommonAttack 76Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter was a Dutch States Navy officer.
Photo Ferdinand Bol, Public domain
Eastern Arabia
UncommonAttack 76Eastern Arabia, also known as Bahrain Region, is a historical region encompassing the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula…

Divination
UncommonAttack 76Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a magic ritual or practice.
Photo Amcaja, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cyril of Alexandria
UncommonAttack 76Cyril of Alexandria was a Christian theologian and Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444.
Photo Rabe!, CC BY-SA 4.0
Roman Forum
RareAttack 76The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum, is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several…

Kanishka
UncommonAttack 76Kanishka I, also known as Kanishka the Great, was an emperor of the Kushan dynasty, under whose reign the empire reached its…

Ferdinand Magellan
EpicAttack 76Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–1522 Spanish expedition to the…

Yalta Conference
RareAttack 76The Yalta Conference, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States…

Pope Gregory VII
UncommonAttack 76Pope Gregory VII, born Hildebrand of Sovana, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 April…

Acropolis of Athens
EpicAttack 76The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the…
Photo Giles Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tiwanaku
UncommonAttack 76Tiwanaku is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, about 70 kilometers from La Paz, and…
Photo CLAUDIOLD, CC BY-SA 4.0
Department for International Development
UncommonAttack 76The Department for International Development was a ministerial department of the government of the United Kingdom, from 1997…

Joseph-Louis Lagrange
UncommonAttack 76Joseph-Louis Lagrange, also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia, was an Italian and naturalized French…
Photo Unknown author Unknown author, CC0
Najd
UncommonAttack 76Najd is a historical region of the Arabian Peninsula that includes most of the central region of Saudi Arabia.
Photo saudipics, CC BY-SA 4.0
1987 New Zealand general election
CommonAttack 76The 1987 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the 42nd sitting of the New Zealand…
Photo Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0
Alexander Nevsky
UncommonAttack 75Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky was Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir.

Svatopluk I of Moravia
UncommonAttack 75Svatopluk I or Svätopluk I, also known as Svatopluk the Great, was a ruler of Great Moravia, which attained its maximum…

Krishnadevaraya
RareAttack 75Krishnadevaraya was emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1509 to 1529 and the third ruler of the Tuluva dynasty.

Tassili n'Ajjer
UncommonAttack 75Tassili n'Ajjer is a mountain range in the Sahara desert, located in south-eastern Algeria.
Photo Heribertus2, CC BY-SA 4.0
Battle of Imphal
UncommonAttack 75The Battle of Imphal, also known as the "Stalingrad of the East" in combination with Kohima, took place in the region around…

City-state
RareAttack 75A city-state is an independent city that encompasses the totality of its sovereign territory.
Photo Tobi 87, CC BY-SA 3.0
Upper Paleolithic
UncommonAttack 75The Upper Paleolithic is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.
Photo Dagmar Hollmann, CC BY-SA 4.0
Guild
UncommonAttack 75A guild is a professional association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a…
Photo Rembrandt, Public domain
Guelphs and Ghibellines
UncommonAttack 75The Guelphs and Ghibellines were factions supporting the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in the Italian city-states of…
Photo Giovanni Sercambi, Public domain
1973 in the Vietnam War
CommonAttack 741973 in the Vietnam War began with a peace agreement, the Paris Peace Accords, signed by the United States and South Vietnam…

Göktürks
UncommonAttack 74The Göktürks, also known as Türks, Celestial Turks or Blue Turks, were a Turkic people in medieval Inner Asia.
Photo The Göktürks, Public domain
Ministry of the Interior and Administration
CommonAttack 74The Ministry of the Interior and Administration is an administration structure controlling main administration and security…

Mohenjo-daro
RareAttack 74Mohenjo-daro is an archaeological site in the Larkana District of Sindh, Pakistan.
Photo Saqib Qayyum, CC BY-SA 3.0
Stendhal
UncommonAttack 74Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a French writer.

Grace Mugabe
UncommonAttack 74Grace Ntombizodwa Mugabe is a Zimbabwean entrepreneur, politician and the widow of the late President Robert Mugabe.
Photo User:DandjkRoberts, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ernst Mach
UncommonAttack 74Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who contributed to the understanding of the…

Tokhtamysh
UncommonAttack 74Tokhtamysh was Khan of the Golden Horde from 1380 to 1395.
Photo 1436 painter, Public domain
Jin dynasty
RareAttack 74The Jin dynasty or the Jin Empire, officially Jin, sometimes distinguished as the Sima Jin or the Two Jins, was an imperial…
Photo Ian Kiu, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tacitus
RareAttack 74Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus, was a Roman historian and politician.
Photo Pe-Jo, Public domain
USS Birmingham
UncommonAttack 74USS Birmingham was a Cleveland-class light cruiser of the United States Navy, which were built during World War II.
Photo U.S. Navy, Public domain
Civil rights movements
CommonAttack 74Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.
Photo Rowland Scherman, Public domain
Embassy of the United States, Saigon
UncommonAttack 73The United States Embassy in Saigon was first established in June 1952, and moved into a new building in 1967 and eventually…

Naram-Sin of Akkad
UncommonAttack 73Naram-Sin, also transcribed Narām-Sîn or Naram-Suen, was a ruler of the Akkad, who reigned c.
Photo Levi Clancy, CC0
Roger II of Sicily
UncommonAttack 73Roger II or Roger the Great was King of Sicily and Africa, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon.
Photo User:Matthias Süßen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Baiae
UncommonAttack 73Baiae is an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples and now in the comune of Bacoli.
Photo Mentnafunangann, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tenochtitlan
EpicAttack 73Tenochtitlan, also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico…
Photo thomas kole, CC BY 4.0

Meroë
UncommonAttack 73Meroë was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan…
Photo Wufei07, Public domain
Igbo culture
UncommonAttack 73Igbo culture also called Odinala Ndị Igbo are the customs, practices and traditions of the Igbo people of southeastern…
Photo Johnnybam, CC BY-SA 4.0
Godfrey of Bouillon
RareAttack 73Godfrey of Bouillon was a preeminent leader of the First Crusade, and the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1099…

Referendum
UncommonAttack 73A referendum, plebiscite, or ballot measure is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.

Charles Martel
RareAttack 73Charles Martel, Martel being an Old French sobriquet meaning "The Hammer", was a Frankish political and military leader who…

Abd al-Rahman III
UncommonAttack 73ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān…
Photo Numismática Pliego, CC BY-SA 3.0
Thebes, Egypt
RareAttack 73Thebes, known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about 800 kilometers…
Photo Marc Ryckaert, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hulegu Khan
UncommonAttack 73Hulegu Khan, also known as Hülegü or Hulagu, was a Mongol ruler who conquered much of West Asia.

Su Shi
UncommonAttack 73Su Shi, courtesy name Zizhan, art name Householder Dongpo, was a Chinese literatus, scholar-official, poet, writer…
Photo Zhao Mengfu, Public domain
Taejo of Joseon
UncommonAttack 73Taejo, personal name Yi Sŏnggye, later changed to Yi Tan, was the founder and first monarch of Joseon.

Post–World War II economic expansion
UncommonAttack 73The post–World War II economic expansion, also known as the postwar economic boom or the Golden Age of Capitalism was a…
Photo David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0
Congress of Berlin
UncommonAttack 73At the Congress of Berlin, the major European powers revised the territorial and political terms imposed by the Russian…
Photo Anton von Werner, Public domain
Gediminas
UncommonAttack 72Gediminas was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1315 or 1316 until his death in 1341.
Photo Alessandro Guagnini, Public domain
Vladimir-Suzdal
UncommonAttack 72The Grand Principality of Vladimir, before 1157 the Principality of Suzdal, commonly known as Vladimir-Suzdal, or simply…

Peace of Westphalia
RareAttack 72The Peace of Westphalia is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of…
Photo Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0
Gold rush
UncommonAttack 72A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold, sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals…

Abd al-Rahman I
UncommonAttack 72Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya, commonly known as Abd al-Rahman I, was the founder and first emir of the Emirate of Córdoba…
Photo Numismática Pliego, CC BY-SA 3.0

Pre-Columbian Ecuador
CommonAttack 72Pre-Columbian Ecuador included numerous indigenous cultures, who thrived for thousands of years before the ascent of the…
Photo Walters Art Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0
Juries in England and Wales
UncommonAttack 72In the legal jurisdiction of England and Wales, there is a long tradition of jury trial that has evolved over centuries.
Photo John Morgan, Public domain
Electoral Commission
CommonAttack 72The Electoral Commission, sometimes referred to as the Hayes-Tilden or Tilden-Hayes Electoral Commission, was a temporary…

Eighty Years' War
RareAttack 71The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels…

Casimir III the Great
UncommonAttack 71Casimir III the Great reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370.
Photo Bornholm, CC BY-SA 4.0
Yaroslav the Wise
UncommonAttack 71Yaroslav I Vladimirovich, better known as Yaroslav the Wise, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054.

Muhammad Ahmad
UncommonAttack 71Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Faḥal was a Sudanese religious and political leader.
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Brian Jean
CommonAttack 71Brian Michael Jean is a Canadian politician who, since June 9, 2023, has been Alberta's minister of Energy and Minerals.
Photo Chris Bolin, CC BY 3.0
1959 Alberta general election
CommonAttack 71The 1959 Alberta general election was held on June 18, 1959, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

Ove Gjedde
CommonAttack 70Ove Gjedde was a Danish nobleman and Admiral of the Realm, who established the first Danish colony in Asia.

Stephen Báthory
UncommonAttack 70Stephen Báthory was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania as well as Prince of Transylvania, after previously being…
Photo After Martin Kober, Public domain
Zapotec civilization
UncommonAttack 70The Zapotec civilization (Be'ena'a "The People that came from the clouds"; c.
Photo Yavidaxiu, Public domain
Rampart scandal
RareAttack 70The Rampart scandal was a police corruption scandal that unfolded in Los Angeles, California during the late 1990s and early…
Photo Ucla90024, CC BY-SA 3.0
Anglo-Dutch wars
UncommonAttack 70The Anglo–Dutch wars were a series of four conflicts fought between the Dutch Republic and the states of England and Great…
Photo Abraham Storck, Public domain
Alexis of Russia
UncommonAttack 69Alexei Mikhailovich (Russian: Алексей Михайлович, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ]; 19 March [O.S.

Autumn
RareAttack 69Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons on Earth.

Han Yu
CommonAttack 69Han Yu, courtesy name Tuizhi, and commonly known by his posthumous name Han Wengong, was an essayist, Confucian scholar…

Charles the Fat
RareAttack 69Charles the Fat was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 887.

Kremlin
RareAttack 69The Moscow Kremlin, commonly known as the Kremlin, is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia.

Battle of Berestechko
UncommonAttack 68The Battle of Berestechko was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian…
Photo Vernier, Public domain
AMX-30E
CommonAttack 68The AMX-30E is a Spanish main battle tank based on France's AMX-30.
Photo JonCatalan ( talk ), CC BY 3.0
Second Battle of the Alps
UncommonAttack 68The Second Battle of the Alps was a military campaign fought between combined German and Italian Social Republic forces, and…
Photo Feldyguy, Public domain
Rök runestone
UncommonAttack 68The Rök runestone is one of the most famous runestones, featuring the longest known runic inscription in stone.
Photo Arkland, CC BY-SA 4.0
History of Ireland
CommonAttack 68The history of Ireland between 1534 and 1691 saw the conquest and colonisation of the island by the English state and the…

Joe FitzPatrick
CommonAttack 68Joseph Martin FitzPatrick is a Scottish politician who most recently served as Minister for Local Government Empowerment and…
Photo Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0

Isabella Greenway
CommonAttack 67Isabella Dinsmore Greenway was an American politician who was the first congresswoman in Arizona history, and the founder of…


Spring
RareAttack 67Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer.
Photo JackyM59, CC BY-SA 4.0
HMS Inflexible
UncommonAttack 67HMS Inflexible was a Victorian ironclad battleship carrying her main armament in centrally placed turrets.
Photo User:Morven, Public domain
Military exercise
UncommonAttack 67A military exercise, training exercise, maneuver, manoeuvre, drill or war game is the employment of military resources in…

Chi-squared test
RareAttack 67A chi-squared test is a statistical hypothesis test used in the analysis of contingency tables when the sample sizes are…
Photo Mikael Häggström, Public domain
Ruth Beitia
CommonAttack 67Ruth Beitia Vila is a Spanish retired high jumper who was the 2016 Olympic champion in the women's high jump.
Photo Augustas Didžgalvis, CC BY-SA 4.0
Wampanoag-class frigate
CommonAttack 66The Wampanoag class was a series of wooden-hulled screw frigates built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
UncommonAttack 66The Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War, also known as the Great Teutonic War, occurred between 1409 and 1411 between the…
Photo Jan Matejko, Public domain
Moat
UncommonAttack 66A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building or garrisoned town, either dry or filled with…
Photo G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0
Summer
RareAttack 66Summer or summertime is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn.
Photo Luc Viatour, CC BY-SA 3.0
Japanese cruiser Takao
UncommonAttack 66Takao was the lead vessel in the Takao-class heavy cruisers, active in World War II with the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Diplomatic mission
UncommonAttack 66A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to…
Photo John Jason Junior, CC BY-SA 4.0
HMS Thetis
UncommonAttack 66HMS Thetis was a Group 1 T-class submarine of the Royal Navy which sank during sea trials in Liverpool Bay, England on 1…

16th Air Army
CommonAttack 66The 16th Red Banner Air Army was the most important formation of the Special Purpose Command.
Photo Барвенковский, Public domain
Ryan PT-22 Recruit
UncommonAttack 65The Ryan PT-22 Recruit, the main military version of the Ryan ST, is a military trainer aircraft that was used by the United…

Chunar Fort
UncommonAttack 65The Chunar Fort is located in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh, in India.

Battle of Cape Bon
CommonAttack 65The naval Battle of Cape Bon took place on 13 December 1941 during the Second World War, between two Italian light cruisers…

Showa/Nakajima L2D
UncommonAttack 65The Shōwa L2D and Nakajima L2D, given the designations Shōwa Navy Type 0 Transport and Nakajima Navy Type 0 Transport, were…
Photo U.S. Navy, Public domain
Tourism in Mithila
CommonAttack 65The region of Mithila in the Indian subcontinent is believed to be the ancient inhabitat place of the Videha Kingdom in the…
Photo Hayat, CC BY-SA 4.0
Faik Konica
CommonAttack 65Faik Bey Konica was an important figure in Albanian language and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Photo Harris & Ewing, Public domain
Desmond FitzGerald
CommonAttack 65Desmond FitzGerald was an Irish revolutionary, politician, and poet, known for his role in the Irish independence movement…
Photo CeltBrowne, Public domain
Montgomery District
CommonAttack 65Montgomery District was an administrative division of the former Punjab Province of British India, in what is now Pakistan.
Photo See description, Public domain
Khosrow Mirza
CommonAttack 64Prince Khosrow Mirza Qajar was the seventh son of Crown Prince Abbas Mirza and a grandson of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.
Photo Филипп Берже, Public domain
Drilling
UncommonAttack 64Drilling is a cutting process where a drill bit is spun to cut a hole of circular cross-section in solid materials.
Photo Cosme2c, CC BY-SA 3.0
Nicknames of New York City
UncommonAttack 64During its four-century history, New York City has been known by a variety of alternative names and euphemisms, both…

Joel Barlow
CommonAttack 64Joel Barlow was an American poet, diplomat, and politician.
Photo Robert Fulton, Public domain

Joseph T. McNarney
CommonAttack 64Joseph Taggart McNarney was a four-star general in the United States Army and in the United States Air Force, who served as…
Photo U.S. Air Force, Public domain
Beriah Magoffin
CommonAttack 63Beriah Magoffin was the 21st governor of Kentucky, serving during the early part of the Civil War.

Atropatene
UncommonAttack 63Atropatene, also known as Atropatia or Atropatian Media, was an ancient Iranian kingdom established in c.
Photo Golden, CC BY-SA 4.0
Iskandar Muda
CommonAttack 63Iskandar Muda was the twelfth Sultan of Aceh, under whom the sultanate achieved its greatest territorial extent, holding…

Uffizi
UncommonAttack 63The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the…
Photo Arek N., CC BY-SA 3.0
Astragalomancy
UncommonAttack 63Astragalomancy, also known as cubomancy or astragyromancy, is a form of divination that uses dice specially marked with…
Photo Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0
USS Spiegel Grove
CommonAttack 63USS Spiegel Grove was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy.

Macedonian Wars
UncommonAttack 63The Macedonian Wars were a series of conflicts fought by the Roman Republic and its Greek allies in the eastern…
Photo Kryston, Public domain
USS Nashville
CommonAttack 63USS Nashville was a Brooklyn-class cruiser.
Photo U.S. Navy, Public domain
Japanese battleship Fuji
CommonAttack 63Fuji was the lead ship of the Fuji class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British…
Photo Unknown, Public domain
Adam Müller
CommonAttack 63Adam Heinrich Müller was a German-Austrian conservative philosopher, literary critic, and political economist, working…

Anglo-Cherokee War
UncommonAttack 63The Anglo-Cherokee War, was also known from the Anglo-European perspective as the Cherokee War, the Cherokee Uprising, or…
Photo Henry Timberlake, Public domain
Barbara Keeley
CommonAttack 63Barbara Mary Keeley, Baroness Keeley, is a British Labour Party politician.
Photo Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0
Séamus Brennan
CommonAttack 63Séamus Brennan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism from 2007 to 2008…

Battle of Bound Brook
CommonAttack 62The Battle of Bound Brook was a surprise attack by British and Hessian forces on a Continental Army outpost in Bound Brook…
Photo Johann von Ewald, Public domain
Court
UncommonAttack 62A court is an institution, often a government entity, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and…

History of the British national debt
UncommonAttack 62The history of the British national debt can be traced back to the reign of William III, who engaged a syndicate of City…
Photo Chris55, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ethan Berkowitz
CommonAttack 62Ethan Avram Berkowitz is an American attorney, businessman, and politician from Alaska.

1732
CommonAttack 621732 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian…

Sultan Agung of Mataram
CommonAttack 62Sultan Agung Adi Prabu Anyakrakusuma, commonly known as Sultan Agung, was the third Sultan of Mataram in Central Java ruling…
Photo Basuki Bawono, CC BY-SA 3.0
Siege of Emesa
CommonAttack 62The siege of Emesa was laid by the forces of the Rashidun Caliphate from December 635 up until March 636.
Photo NouraRaslan, Public domain
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
CommonAttack 62Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, widely known as Malek osh-Sho'arā and Malek osh-Sho'arā Bahār, was a renowned Iranian poet, scholar…

Ellsberg paradox
UncommonAttack 62In decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox is a paradox in which people's decisions are inconsistent with subjective expected…

USS Montpelier
CommonAttack 61USS Montpelier was one of 27 United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruisers completed during or shortly after World War…
Photo USN, Public domain
Trim Castle
UncommonAttack 61Trim Castle is a castle on the south bank of the River Boyne in Trim, County Meath, Ireland, with an area of 30,000 m2.
Photo Andrew Parnell, CC BY 2.0
Michele Emiliano
CommonAttack 61Michele Emiliano is an Italian politician, former judge and president of Apulia from 2015 to 2026.
Photo Damiano Zoffoli, CC BY-SA 2.0
1932 Winter Olympics medal table
CommonAttack 61The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event held in…
Photo G.T. Rasineau, Public domain
Karl Grün
CommonAttack 61Karl Theodor Ferdinand Grün, also known by his alias Ernst von der Haide, was a German journalist, philosopher, political…


Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple
CommonAttack 60Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, KG, PC was a British politician and peer who served as Lord Privy Seal from 1757…
Photo Allan Ramsay, Public domain
Mikael Damberg
CommonAttack 60Lars Mikael Damberg is a Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party.


Ras Mengesha Yohannes
CommonAttack 60Ras Mengesha Yohannes was governor of Tigray and a son of Emperor Yohannes IV.
Photo 1895-01-06, Public domain
Citadel of Qaitbay
UncommonAttack 59The Citadel of Qaitbay is a 15th-century defensive fortress located on the Mediterranean sea coast, on Pharos Island in…
Photo Hmkree, CC BY-SA 4.0

Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
CommonAttack 59Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was a German-born British shipbuilder and politician.

Spanish frigate Victoria
CommonAttack 59Victoria is the second of the six Spanish-built Santa Maria-class frigates of the Spanish Navy, based on the American Oliver…

Sponheim family
CommonAttack 59The House of Sponheim or Spanheim was a medieval German noble family, which originated in Rhenish Franconia.
Photo Kooij, CC BY-SA 3.0
Treaty of Paris between Italy and the Allied Powers
UncommonAttack 59The Treaty of Paris between Italy and the Allied Powers was signed on 10 February 1947, formally ending World War II…
Photo Herigona, Public domain
Government Junta of Chile
CommonAttack 59The First Government Junta of Chile, officially the Provisional Government Junta of the Kingdom in the name of Ferdinand…

Chancellor of France
CommonAttack 59The Chancellor of France, also known as the Grand Chancellor or Lord Chancellor, was the officer of state responsible for…
Photo PHGCOM, Public domain
Fricks Locks Historic District
CommonAttack 58Fricks Locks Historic District or more simply Frick's Lock is an abandoned village, along the also abandoned Schuylkill…
Photo James Bubeck, CC0
Ziggurat of Ur
UncommonAttack 58The Ziggurat of Ur is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of Ur near Nasiriyah, in present-day Dhi Qar Province…

Ianto's Shrine
UncommonAttack 58Ianto's Shrine was a shrine dedicated to the fictional character Ianto Jones, located in Cardiff, Wales.
Photo Suntooooth, CC BY-SA 4.0
Myrtle Corbin
RareAttack 58Josephine Myrtle Corbin was an American sideshow performer born as a dipygus.

Sleep position
CommonAttack 58A sleep position is the body configuration assumed by a person during or prior to sleeping.

Prussian deportations
CommonAttack 58The Prussian deportations, also known as the Prussian expulsions of Poles, were the mass expulsions of Poles from Prussia…
Photo Wojciech Kossak, Public domain
Shin Hyun-joon
CommonAttack 58Shin Hyun-Joon was the first Commandant of the Republic of Korea Marine Corps.
Photo Jfdurand, CC BY-SA 4.0
HMS Investigator
CommonAttack 58HMS Investigator was a merchant ship purchased in 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Northwest Passage…

William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth
CommonAttack 58William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, styled as Viscount Lewisham from 1732 to 1750, was a British statesman who served as…

Hoshang Shah
CommonAttack 58Hisam al-Din Hoshang Shah was the first formally appointed Sultan of the Malwa Sultanate of Central India.
Photo Drnsreedhar1959, CC BY-SA 3.0
Trunk-or-treating
UncommonAttack 57Trunk-or-treating is a form of Halloween tradition which often serves as an alternative to trick-or-treating in the United…

Niels Juel
CommonAttack 57Admiral Niels Juel was a Danish naval officer who served as supreme commander of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy during the…

Fort Reno
CommonAttack 57Fort Reno also known as Fort Connor or Old Fort Reno, was a wooden fort established on August 15, 1865, by the United States…
Photo Caveman1949, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hassan Modarres
CommonAttack 57Hassan Modarres was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric and a notable supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.
Photo Antoin Sevruguin, Public domain
Andrey Ivanayev
CommonAttack 57Colonel General Andrey Sergeyevich Ivanayev is a Russian military officer who has served as the commander of the Central…
Photo Alexei Nikolsky, CC BY 4.0
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
CommonAttack 57The Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command or CNMOC, serves as the operational arm of the Naval Oceanography Program for…


Malaria in the River Thames
CommonAttack 56Malaria was a common affliction in populations that lived beside the River Thames until the middle of the Victorian era, not…

Natore Rajbari
CommonAttack 56Natore Rajbari was a royal palace in Natore, Bangladesh.
Photo Nur-E-Saud, CC BY-SA 4.0
Snape Castle
CommonAttack 56Snape Castle is a semi-fortified manor house in the village of Snape, North Yorkshire, England.
Photo Ian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0
Qased
CommonAttack 56The Qased rocket is an Iranian expendable small-lift orbital space launch vehicle.
Photo Fars News Agency, CC BY 4.0
Byrdcliffe Colony
CommonAttack 56The Byrdcliffe Colony, also called the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony or Byrdcliffe Historic District, was founded in 1902 near…
Photo Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dollar princess
UncommonAttack 56Dollar princesses were wealthy American women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who married into titled European…

Holy Ampulla
CommonAttack 56The Holy Ampulla or Holy Ampoule was a glass vial which, from its first recorded use by Pope Innocent II for the anointing…



Talhae of Silla
CommonAttack 56Talhae was the fourth king of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.
Photo Abasaa, Public domain
Zurab Japaridze
CommonAttack 56Zurab Girchi Japaridze is a Georgian politician and co-founder of a libertarian party called Girchi.

Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu
CommonAttack 56Alhaji Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu , also known as MD Yusufu or MD Yusuf was a Nigerian policeman, Inspector General of the…
Photo Seven Ways Zaria, Public domain
Clare Scriven
CommonAttack 56Clare Michele Scriven is an Australian politician.
Photo Alison Newman, CC BY-SA 4.0
Roman jewelry
CommonAttack 55Ancient Roman jewelry was characterized by its use of colored gemstones and glass, in contrast to earlier Greek jewelry…
Photo The MET, Public domain
19th Royal Hussars
CommonAttack 55The 19th Royal Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, created in 1858.
Photo Dormskirk, CC BY-SA 3.0
"W" Hour
CommonAttack 55"W" Hour, also spelled as W-Hour, was the codename for the date and time that began Operation Tempest in German-occupied…

Henry Cantwell Wallace
CommonAttack 55Henry Cantwell Wallace was an American farmer, journalist, and political activist who served as the secretary of agriculture…

Nancy Karetak-Lindell
CommonAttack 55Nancy Uqquujuq Karetak-Lindell is a politician who has served as a senator from Nunavut since December 2024 and was…

2025 Bilderberg Conference
UncommonAttack 55The 2025 Bilderberg Conference was held between June 12–June 15, 2025 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, Sweden.
Photo Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Francesco Foscari
CommonAttack 55Francesco Foscari was the 65th Doge of the Republic of Venice, serving from 1423 until his death in 1457.
Photo Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0
Battle of Idistaviso
UncommonAttack 55The Battle of the Weser River, sometimes known as the First Battle of Minden or Battle of Idistaviso, was fought in 16 AD…

Magistrates' Court of Victoria
CommonAttack 55The Magistrates' Court of Victoria is the lowest court in the Australian state of Victoria.
Photo Canley, CC BY-SA 4.0
Onegesius
CommonAttack 55Onegesius was a powerful Hunnic logades who supposedly held power second only to Attila the Hun.
Photo Mór Than, CC BY-SA 4.0
Da'am Workers Party
CommonAttack 55The Da'am Workers Party is a revolutionary socialist, multi-ethnic political party in Israel, where it is commonly known by…
Photo Oren Rozen, CC BY-SA 3.0
Aureliu Ciocoi
CommonAttack 55Aureliu Ciocoi is a Moldovan diplomat and politician who served as Acting Prime Minister of Moldova from December 2020 to…
Photo Privesc.Eu Moldova, CC BY 3.0
Ōshio Heihachirō
CommonAttack 55Ōshio Heihachirō was a Japanese philosopher, revolutionary, writer, and yoriki who led an academy of Wang Yangming school…
Photo Kikuchi Yōsai, Public domain
Oserheimen Osunbor
CommonAttack 54Oserheimen Aigberaodion Osunbor is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the governor of Edo State from 2007 to…
Photo Dzaine, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hope Grant
CommonAttack 54General Sir James Hope Grant, GCB was a British Army officer.
Photo Francis Grant, Public domain
March for the Republic and Against Antisemitism
CommonAttack 54The March for the Republic and Against Antisemitism was a protest that took place in many cities, but predominantly Paris…
Photo Siren-Com, CC BY-SA 4.0
Speos Artemidos
CommonAttack 54The Speos Artemidos is an archaeological site in Egypt.
Photo Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0
Shish Gumbad
CommonAttack 53Shish Gumbad, also spelt Shisha Gumbad, is a tomb from the Lodi dynasty and is thought to have possibly been constructed…
Photo AKS.9955, CC BY-SA 4.0
Newhaven Fort
CommonAttack 53Newhaven Fort is a Palmerston fort built in the 19th century to defend the harbour at Newhaven, on the south coast of…
Photo Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0
Metropolis, Nevada
CommonAttack 53Metropolis, Nevada is a ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, 12 mi northwest of Wells.
Photo Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Uprising of Asen and Peter
CommonAttack 53The Uprising of Asen and Peter was a revolt of Bulgarians and Vlachs living in Moesia and the Balkan Mountains, then the…
Photo Kandi, CC BY-SA 4.0
Temple of Apollo
CommonAttack 53The Temple of Apollo, also known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is a Roman temple built in 120 BC and dedicated to the Greek…
Photo Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0
Fars
CommonAttack 53Fars territory or Ancient Persia (Persian: سرزمین فارس یا پارس کهن, in Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿) is in the southern part of Iran…
Photo پرسی سایکس, Public domain

Battle of Alapan
CommonAttack 53The Battle of Alapan was fought on May 28, 1898, and was the first military victory of the Filipino Revolutionaries led by…
Photo Ervin Malicdem, CC BY-SA 4.0
Takaji Wachi
CommonAttack 53Takaji Wachi was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

USS Comstock
UncommonAttack 53USS Comstock is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy.

Maejima Hisoka
CommonAttack 53Baron Maejima Hisoka, born Ueno Fusagorō, was a Japanese statesman, politician, and businessman in Meiji-period Japan.

Greek ligatures
CommonAttack 52Greek ligatures are graphic combinations of the letters of the Greek alphabet that were used in medieval handwritten Greek…

Paranda Fort
CommonAttack 52Paranda Fort is situated in Paranda, a small town in the Osmanabad district in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Photo Kiranpawar3210, CC BY-SA 4.0
YFD-2
CommonAttack 52YFD-2 was an auxiliary floating drydock built for the United States Navy in 1901.
Photo USN, Public domain
Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley
CommonAttack 52Katharine Louisa Russell, Viscountess Amberley, was a British suffragist and an early advocate of birth control in the…
Photo Camille Silvy, Public domain
Field Marshall
CommonAttack 52Field-Marshall was a brand of farm tractor which was manufactured by Marshall, Sons & Co.
Photo Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0
Jerusalem during the Byzantine period
CommonAttack 52During the Byzantine period, in the years between Constantine the Great's rise to power and its conquest by the Rashidun…

Princess Maria Theresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
CommonAttack 52Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was the only child of Prince Louis of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Trani and his wife…

Nicholas Biddle
CommonAttack 52Captain Nicholas Biddle was a Continental Navy officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.

Vajji
CommonAttack 51Vajji or Vriji was an ancient Aryan tribe of north-eastern South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.
Photo Antiquistik, CC BY-SA 4.0
Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford
CommonAttack 51Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, known as the Lord Grey of Groby from 1614 to 1628, was an English nobleman and military…

Nordkirchen Castle
CommonAttack 51Schloss Nordkirchen is a palace situated in the town of Nordkirchen in the Coesfeld administrative district in the state of…
Photo Vincent van Zeijst, CC BY-SA 3.0
Susan O'Keeffe
CommonAttack 51Susan O'Keeffe is an Irish journalist and former Labour Party politician.

Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine
CommonAttack 51Nicole was reigning Duchess of Lorraine and Bar from 1 August 1624 to 21 November 1625, and duchess consort of Lorraine in…

George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield
CommonAttack 51George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, was a British soldier and hereditary peer.

Mirza Jahangir
CommonAttack 51Mirza Jahangir was the son of Prince Mirza Jahan Shah, who became the Emperor Akbar Shah II in 1806 and his wife Empress…
Photo Babur258, CC BY-SA 4.0
Max Hoelz
CommonAttack 50Max Hoelz was a German Communist, most known for his role as a 'Communist Bandit' in the Vogtland region.

Tube
CommonAttack 50A tube, squeeze tube, or collapsible tube is a collapsible package which can be used for viscous liquids such as toothpaste…
Photo M.Minderhoud, CC BY-SA 3.0
Crown of Queen Adelaide
CommonAttack 50The Crown of Queen Adelaide was the consort crown of the British queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
Photo David Liuzzo, Public domain
Yaakov Dori
CommonAttack 50Yaakov Dori, born Yaakov Dostrovsky, was the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
Photo David Eldan, Public domain
Balamand Monastery
CommonAttack 49The Balamand Monastery, is a monastery for the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch founded in 1157 in Balamand, the Crusader…

Giridih Municipal Corporation
CommonAttack 49Giridih Municipal Corporation is the municipal corporation governing Indian city of Giridih.
Photo Flashthomsom, CC BY 4.0
Autorité des Marchés Financiers
CommonAttack 49The Autorité des marchés financiers is the securities commission in France.
Photo Albert Bergonzo, CC BY-SA 4.0
I'm Alone
CommonAttack 49I'm Alone was a Canadian ship used as a rum runner during the era of Prohibition in the United States.

Jai Jawan Jai Kisan
UncommonAttack 49Jai Jawan Jai Kisan was a slogan of Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India spoken in 1965 at a public…
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Adolphus Frederick II
CommonAttack 49Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg, was the first Duke of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz, reigning from 1701 until his…

Aeroflot Flight 2415
CommonAttack 49Aeroflot Flight 2415 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Moscow to Leningrad that crashed shortly after takeoff…
Photo Lars Söderström, CC BY-SA 3.0
Battle of Reichenberg
CommonAttack 49The Battle of Reichenberg took place during the Third Silesian War on 21 April 1757 near the town of Reichenberg in Bohemia.

Marcantonio Giustinian
CommonAttack 49Marcantonio Giustinian was the 107th Doge of Venice, reigning from his election on 26 January 1684 until his death.
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Francisco Paulo de Almeida, Baron of Guaraciaba
CommonAttack 48Francisco Paulo de Almeida, first and only Baron of Guaraciaba, was a Brazilian landowner and banker.

King Lud
CommonAttack 48Lud, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical History of the Kings of Britain and related medieval texts, was a…
Photo Matt Brown, CC BY 2.0
Yuko Kishida
CommonAttack 48Yuko Kishida is the wife of the former Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida.

Battle of Halidzor
CommonAttack 48The Battle of Halidzor took place in the spring of 1727 at Halidzor Fortress, in what is now the Syunik region of Armenia…
Photo mshakuyt.com, CC BY-SA 4.0
Danuta Wałęsa
CommonAttack 48Mirosława Danuta Wałęsa is the wife of former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa.

Great Sleigh Drive
CommonAttack 48"The Great Sleigh Drive" from December 1678 to February 1679 was a daring and bold maneuver using sleighs by Frederick…
Photo Wilhelm Simmler, Public domain
Hoover Moratorium
CommonAttack 48The Hoover Moratorium was a one-year suspension of Germany's World War I reparations obligations and of the repayment of the…

Austro-Hungarian strike of January 1918
CommonAttack 48The Austro-Hungarian strike of January 1918 was a strike which spread across Austria-Hungary between January 3 and 25, 1918…

Condor of Bermuda
CommonAttack 48Condor of Bermuda is a maxi yacht campaigning under the leadership and funding of London-based international businessman Bob…
Photo Robert Bell, CC BY 3.0
Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
UncommonAttack 48The Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, abbreviated DMG, is a scholarly organization dedicated to Oriental studies, that…

Two Penny Blue
CommonAttack 47The Two Penny Blue, or Two Pence Blue was the world's second official postage stamp, produced in the United Kingdom of Great…

William Byron, 4th Baron Byron
CommonAttack 47William Byron, 4th Baron Byron was an English nobleman, politician, peer, and Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Prince George…

Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
CommonAttack 47Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort was an English politician.
Photo Michael Dahl, Public domain
Palamagamba John Aidan Mwaluko Kabudi
CommonAttack 47Palamagamba John Aidan Mwaluko Kabudi is a Tanzanian lawyer who from April 2021 to January 2022 served as the country's…
Photo Kombethedon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Tahia Abdel Nasser
CommonAttack 46Tahia Abdel Nasser was the First Lady of Egypt from 23 June 1956 to 28 September 1970 as the wife of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the…
Photo Zdravko Pečar, CC BY-SA 4.0
Arado Ar 195
CommonAttack 46The Arado Ar 195 was a single-engine prototype carrier-based torpedo bomber, built by the German firm Arado for service on…

Ahom rebellion
CommonAttack 46Ahom Rebellion was an attempted uprising against the British East India Company in 1828 in Rangpur in present-day Assam.


Taistoism
CommonAttack 46Taistoism was an orthodox pro-Soviet tendency in the mostly Eurocommunist Finnish communist movement in the 1970s and 1980s.

We Believe
CommonAttack 44We Believe is a yard sign created as a response to Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 United States presidential election.

Sisenand
CommonAttack 44Sisenand was the Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia from 631 to 636.
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Directorate
CommonAttack 44The Directorate was the short-lived transitional government of Russia during the Russian Revolution.

Sennefer
CommonAttack 43The ancient Egyptian noble Sennefer was "Mayor of the City" and "Overseer of the Granaries and Fields, Gardens and Cattle of…
Photo Djehouty, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lunasea
CommonAttack 43Lunasea, formerly known as Hasna, was launched at the Feadship yard at the Kaag Island in 2017.
Photo kees torn, CC BY-SA 2.0
Battle Hospital
CommonAttack 43Battle Hospital was a National Health Service hospital in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire.
Photo Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0
Bakhtiyor Saidov
CommonAttack 43Bakhtiyor Odilovich Saidov is an Uzbek diplomat and politician serving as minister of foreign affairs since 2022.

Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick
CommonAttack 43Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, was an English nobleman, known as Baron Rich between 1581 and 1618, when…
Photo Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0
Jam Sadiq Ali
CommonAttack 42Nawab Jam Sadiq Ali was a politician from Sindh, Pakistan.
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Hamza al-Mustafa
CommonAttack 42Hamza al-Mustafa is a Syrian politician, academic, researcher, and media executive who served as the Minister of Information…
Photo Mozamaniac, CC BY-SA 4.0

Black Powder-class support vessel
CommonAttack 41The Black Powder class is a class of Submarine and Special Warfare Support Vessels under the United States Navy.


Worry stone
UncommonAttack 40Worry stones are smooth, polished gemstones, usually in the shape of an oval with a thumb-sized indentation, used for…
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Ian Lovejoy
CommonAttack 40Ian Travis Lovejoy is an American politician, business owner, and educator who served as a member of the Virginia House of…
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Mose Humphrey
CommonAttack 40Mose Humphrey was a member of Fire Company 40 in New York City in the 19th century, and the inspiration for the folk hero…
Photo "James Brown", Public domain
Vali Muhammad Khan
CommonAttack 39Valī Muḥammad Khān the son of Jani Bek was a leader of the Ashtarkhanid dynasty in the Khanate of Bukhara from 1605–1611 AD.
Photo 1647 artist, Public domain
Gloria Deukmejian
CommonAttack 38Gloria May Deukmejian is a former First Lady of California from 1983 to 1991 and the widow of former California Governor…
Photo Gary Friedman, CC BY 4.0
Bely Gorod
CommonAttack 38Bely Gorod is the central core area of Moscow, Russia beyond the Kremlin and Kitay-gorod.
Photo Николай Аввакумов., Public domain
Great Construction Projects of Communism
CommonAttack 37Great Construction Projects of Communism is a phrase that is used to identify a series of the most ambitious construction…
Photo Е.Гундобин, Public domain
Roman Theatre
CommonAttack 35The Roman Theatre of Cádiz is an ancient structure in Cádiz, Andalusia, in southern Spain.
Photo Axel Cotón Gutiérrez, CC BY-SA 4.0




