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  1. 11 hours ago · The Umayyads continued the Muslim conquests, conquering Ifriqiya, Transoxiana, Sind, the Maghreb and Hispania ( al-Andalus ). At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100,000 km 2 (4,300,000 sq mi), [1] making it one of the largest empires in history in terms of area. The dynasty was toppled by the Abbasids in 750.

  2. 4 hours ago · The central character of New York Times correspondent Ed Wong's memoir, At the Edge of Empire, is not Wong himself — it's his father, who studied in Beijing in the 1950s and staunchly supported ...

  3. 11 hours ago · Mike Mangini. Website. dreamtheater .net. Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 in Boston, Massachusetts. The band comprises John Petrucci (guitar), John Myung (bass), Mike Portnoy (drums), James LaBrie (vocals) and Jordan Rudess (keyboards). Dream Theater was formed under the name Majesty by Petrucci, Myung and ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › UzbekistanUzbekistan - Wikipedia

    11 hours ago · Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein.

  5. 11 hours ago · e. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922 to 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a ...

  6. 11 hours ago · Ukraine war latest: Putin says he will take Trump 'seriously' on ending war. Vladimir Putin has said Russia takes Donald Trump's declaration that he could end the war "completely seriously ...