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Delta Works, in the southwestern Netherlands, a giant flood-control project ... Currency Exchange Rate: 1 USD equals 0.879 euro. (Show more). Seat Of ...

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The Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games were an international athletic competition held in Pyeongchang county, South Korea, from February 9 to 25, 2018.

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5 days ago — The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set in Paris during the 15th century. The story centers on Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame ...

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5 Sept 2025 — The latter was an all-around competition consisting of five events—the long jump, the javelin throw, the discus throw, a footrace, and wrestling ...

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Area 51 is not accessible to the public and is under 24-hour surveillance. The only confirmed use of the installation is as a flight-testing ...

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Michael Jackson (born August 29, 1958, Gary, Indiana, U.S.—died June 25, 2009, Los Angeles, California) was an American singer, songwriter, and ...

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Vertically striped green-white-red national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3. A rich history of flags and coats of arms has existed in Italy since at ...

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Rotterdam is a city and seaport in the western Netherlands, a major port and commercial city, and one of the world's busiest cargo ports. It is also a cultural ...

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7 days ago — Rotterdam, major European port and second largest city of the Netherlands. It lies about 19 miles (30 km) from the North Sea, to which it is linked by a canal ...

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4 days ago — The couple had three children, including Mark, making him the youngest of seven. Mark Rutte was deeply affected by the death of one of his ...

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Maastricht is the principal city in the southeastern appendix of the Netherlands and is only 2 miles (3 km) from the Belgian border. Maastricht, Netherlands

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The dark blue stripe, substituted for the original green, is said to stand for hope and the sky, yellow is for the sun, and red is for the unity of the nation.

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Saint Nicholas's relics have given a particular gift each year on May 9 at the Basilica of San Nicola: an extraction of consecrated liquid known as the “manna ...

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The ships for the first voyage—the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María—were fitted out at Palos, on the Tinto River in Spain.

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Vincent van Gogh (born March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands—died July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, France) was a Dutch painter, ...

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13 Aug 2025 — Utrecht has many fine old castles and manor houses founded by wealthy Amsterdam merchants in the “Golden Age” (1650–1720). Near Baarn in the ...

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Friesland, coastal provincie (province), northern Netherlands. Occupying the western portion of the historic region of Frisia.

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Catalonia, autonomous community and historic region of Spain. It is bordered by France and Andorra to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the east, ...

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NATO's original members in 1949 were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and ...

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Grammy Award winners ; 1982, "Rosanna," Toto, "Always on My Mind," Willie Nelson ; 1983, "Beat It," Michael Jackson, "Every Breath You Take," the Police ; 1984, " ...

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Austria-Hungary, the Habsburg empire from the constitutional Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 between Austria and Hungary until the empire's collapse in 1918.

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Maintenance work was performed on the clock in 2007. On August 21, 2017, Big Ben stopped chiming, as the tower was undergoing a four-year restoration project ...

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Victor Hugo produced an enormous output of work, including the novels Notre-Dame de Paris (1831; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) and Les Misérables (1862); the ...

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Millennial, term used to describe a person born between 1981 and 1996, though different sources can vary by a year or two.

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This is an alphabetically ordered list of sports, grouped by manner of play (individual or team). Sports that may be played with either opposing individuals or ...

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World War I (1914–18) was an international conflict that embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the U.S., the Middle East, and other ...

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World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3.

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Area 111 square miles (288 square km). Pop. (2010 est.) 13,389. This article was most recently revised and updated by Lorraine Murray.

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Many world-famous players began their careers with Boca, including former Argentine captain Antonio Rattin and strikers Gabriel Batistuta, ...

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Procyonid, (family Procyonidae), any of a group of tree-climbing mammals comprising raccoons, coatis, olingos, the New World ringtail, the cacomistle, ...

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5 days ago — Gender symbols are visual signs of self-conception as male (♂), female (♀), or other. Examples include the transgender symbol (⚧) and bigender  ...

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What is the total distance of the Tour de France? The distance of the Tour de France changes slightly each year, though it is generally about 3,600 km (2,235 ...

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Falling to the French in 1794, it was the chief town of the French département of Bouches-du-Rhin until 1814. Also called: Den Bosch. (Show ...

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2 Sept 2025 — Leo, July 23–August 22, fire ; Virgo, August 23–September 22, earth ; Libra, September 23–October 23, air ; Scorpio, October 24–November 21, water ...

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8 days ago — Bosnia was rapidly absorbed into the Ottoman Empire and was divided into military-administrative districts, or sanjaks (from the Turkish sancàk, ...

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8 days ago — Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country in the western Balkan Peninsula of Europe. Bosnia, the larger region, occupies the country's northern ...

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23 Sept 2025 — Liturgically, Easter comes after the Great Vigil, which was originally observed sometime between sunset on Easter Saturday and sunrise on Easter ...

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23 Sept 2025 — Easter is a principal Christian holiday marking Jesus' Resurrection, celebrated as a joyous holiday and the end of Lent, and a central doctrine ...

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Coda, in musical composition, a concluding section (typically at the end of a sonata movement) that is based, as a general rule, on extensions or ...

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Río de la Plata, a tapering intrusion of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of South America between Uruguay to the north and Argentina to the south.

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Vatican City holds the title as the world's smallest country, with an area of just 0.17 square mile (0.44 square km).

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Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch artist known especially for his paintings of 17th-century daily life. The 36 or so of his paintings that survive show a remarkable ...

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Naturalism differed from realism in its assumption of scientific determinism, which led naturalistic authors to emphasize man's accidental, physiological nature ...

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5 days ago — The Hunchback of Notre Dame, American dramatic film, released in 1939 ... Cast. Charles Laughton (Quasimodo). Maureen O'Hara (Esmeralda).

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