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Featured Article: Rhine

The Rhine in Basel, Switzerland
The Rhine (German: Rhein; French: Rhin; Dutch: Rijn) is one of the major European rivers. During its course from the Alps to the North Sea, the Rhine passes through four countries and constitutes six different country borders. It has been a vital navigable waterway bringing trade and goods deep inland from the days of the Roman Empire, with numerous castles and defenses built along it attesting to its prominence as a waterway since that time. Recognized for its beauty as well as its importance as a route of economic and cultural exchange, the Rhine has inspired many writers, painters, and musicians.

Popular Article: Sitting Bull

Giant Panda
Sitting Bull (Sioux: Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotank), (c. 1831 – December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man. He is notable in American and Native American history in large part for his major victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn against Custer’s 7th Cavalry, where his premonition of defeating them became reality. Towards the end of his life, Sitting Bull accepted that the new society of Europeans in the Americas was there to stay and realized that cooperation was better than confrontation. He was known among the Lakota and even among his adversaries as an inspirational leader and man of principle, whose deep religious faith motivated his life and gave him prophetic insight.

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Francisco Pizarro founded the city of Lima, which he named la Ciudad de los Reyes (the City of Kings), to serve as the capital of Peru on January 18, 1535 (source: Francisco Pizarro)

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