The Known World is a historical novel by American author Edward P. Jones, published in 2003. Set in antebellum Virginia, the novel explores the complex...

known world may refer to: the extent of geographic knowledge of a given culture at a given historical period, see history of geography Early world maps...

The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm...

This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg...

the "Rumsfeld matrix". The statement also features in a 2013 documentary film, The Unknown Known, directed by Errol Morris. Known unknowns refers to "risks...

This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual tree vary. In addition, tree ages...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, also known as the Seven Wonders of the World or simply the Seven Wonders, is a list of seven notable structures...

the only environment in Known Space to which humans are well-adapted, they are considered naïve and a bit helpless by humans from colony worlds. The Moon...

upon the confines of Europe and Asia (the known world). When Cyrus awoke from the dream, he inferred it as a great danger to the future security of the empire...

Artesia: Adventures in the Known World (Artesia: AKW), is a role-playing game based on the comic book Artesia, written and illustrated by Mark Smylie...

collectively as The Known World. Most of the story takes place on the continent of Westeros and in a large political entity known as the Seven Kingdoms...

to dominate world affairs. At the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States became the world's sole superpower...

brief and partially lost textual description. The tablet describes the oldest known depiction of the known world. Ever since its discovery there has been controversy...

Pinto has described the positive portrayal of legendary creatures from the edge of the known world in the Americas as challenging the medieval Islamic idea...

The known-plaintext attack (KPA) is an attack model for cryptanalysis where the attacker has access to both the plaintext (called a crib) and its encrypted...

"The Seven Seas" is a figurative term for all the seas of the known world. The phrase is used in reference to sailors and pirates in the arts and popular...

"head of the world"). It originates out of a classical European understanding of the known world: Europe, North Africa, and Southwest Asia. The influence...

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Americans (later known as the Red Sox) of the AL – has come to be regarded as the 1903 World Series. It had been arranged well in advance by the two club owners...

producer, and actor. The recipient of numerous awards and nominations, he is regarded as one of history's greatest musicians. He was known for his flamboyant...

streams, a general one and the other being more news-oriented, known as News Internet. The service broadcasts 24 hours a day. The World Service states that its...

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers...

other two finalists Breakthrough Prize (2013), the world's most generous science prize, known as the "Oscars of Science", recognizing outstanding achievements...

conventional fantasy settings: humans, the dominant race in most of known Athas, appear to be tougher than in other worlds; elves are nomadic desert dwellers...

the use of the term. The known world of Ancient Egypt saw the Nile as the center, and the world as based upon "the" river. Various oasis were known to...

The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. It was co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States from 1...

survive in the Orkney islands of Scotland, some of the best known of which are part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. The list also...

think. At its most compelling, the unthought known stands for those early schemata for interpreting the object world that preconsciously determine our...

The Hereford Mappa Mundi (Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than...

and human-built structures. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is the oldest known list of this type, documenting the most iconic and remarkable human-made...