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    The Boot Monument is an American Revolutionary War memorial located in Saratoga National Historical Park in the state of New York.Sculpted by George Edwin Bissell and erected during 1887 by John Watts de Peyster, it commemorates Major General Benedict Arnold's service at the Battles of Saratoga while in the Continental Army, but does not mention him on the monument as Arnold later defected ...
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    Wikipedia [c] is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, [3] [4] and is consistently ranked among the ten most visited websites; as of December 2024, it was ranked fifth by Semrush, [5] and seventh by ...
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    The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia.It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition.. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.Its content, written independently of other editions by volunteer ...
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    Jamaica [a] is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies.At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [9] Jamaica lies about 145 km (78 nmi) south of Cuba, 191 km (103 nmi) west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and 215 km (116 nmi ...
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    The Inca Empire, [a] officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "land of four parts" [5]), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. [6] The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco.The Inca civilization rose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the early 13th century.
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    Cuba, [c] officially the Republic of Cuba, [d] is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet.Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of ...
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    A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, [1] [2] used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.Its name in English is a (pronounced / ˈ eɪ / AY), plural aes. [nb 1] [2]It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. [3] The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the ...
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    A web page from Wikipedia displayed in Google Chrome. The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. [1] It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer ...
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    UNESCO and its mandate for international cooperation can be traced back to a League of Nations resolution on 21 September 1921, to elect a commission to study the feasibility of having nations freely share cultural, educational and scientific achievements. [16] [17] This new body, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC), was created in 1922 [10] and counted such figures ...
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    Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency.Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto, an unknown entity (person or persons). [5] Use of bitcoin as a currency began in 2009, [6] with the release of its open-source implementation. [7]: ch. 1 In 2021, El Salvador adopted it as legal tender. [4]

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