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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di ...
7: ...shadowed by more important persons. For ten years after her marriage, she had no children. In conseque...
11: ...but with very limited powers. This continued even after the accession of her sickly son [[Francis II o...
17: ...owed another toward the end of her life. In 1567, after the Enterprise of Meaux, she dismissed l'Hopit...
19: ...ry to dwell upon it. She died on [[January 5]], [[1589]], a short time before the assassination of Henry... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
4: ...e of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local di...
26: ...[3100 BC]] by [[Menes]] of [[Tanis, Egypt|Tanis]] after he had united the two kingdoms of Upper and Lo...
30: ...[Abbasid]]s, and contains the first [[mosque]] in Africa.
32: ...l-Muez Ledin-Ellah]], renamed the city Al-Qahirah after the planet [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] which was ri...
43: ...to him by its Mameluk rulers. Napoleon left Egypt after his fleet was destroyed at the [[Battle of Abo... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: ...1607;وريّة مصرالعربي...
56: ...is a [[republic]] mostly located in North-Eastern Africa.
58: ...the majority of the country is located in [[North Africa]]. It shares land borders with [[Libya]] to t...
71: ...ntrol about [[1250]] and continued to govern even after the conquest of Egypt by the [[Ottoman Turks]]...
75: ... Naguib]] as the first President of the Republic. After Naguib resigned in 1954, [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...ocratic Republic of the Congo]] and the [[Central African Republic]] to the southwest, [[Chad]] to the...
64: After independence the Arab-led Khartoum government ...
66: ...on [[25 May]] [[1969]]. The coup leader, Col. [[Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiri]], became prime minister, and ...
70: After shortages of fuel and bread, a growing insurge...
83: ...ional Congress (Sudan)|National Congress Party]]. After 1997, the structure of regional administration... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
182: * [[1816]]: [[Davy lamp|Miner's safety lamp]]: [[Humphry Davy]]
228: * [[1849]]: [[Safety pin]]: [[Walter Hunt]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
111: *[[Yoannis XIV of Alexandria]], ([[1573]]-[[1589]]), Coptic Pope
174: *[[James Young|Young, Paraffin]], (1811?1883), Scottish chemist - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
7: ... faculty in [[1589]] and taught mathematics. Soon after, he moved to the [[University of Padua]], and ...
45: ...g one of the first to understand sound frequency. After scraping a chisel at different speeds, he link...
62: ...or gunners, it offered, in addition to a new and safer way of elevating [[cannon]]s accurately, a way ...
68: ... and he made improved microscopes in [[1623]] and after. This appears to be the [[Timeline of microsco...
83: ...im at [[Arcetri]] near the end of Galileo's life, after months of effort to get permission from the In... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
16: ...[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction.
23: ...pid progress at the Bar, and in his receiving, in 1589, the reversion to the Clerkship of the Star Chamb...
29: ... to improve. She had begun to employ him in crown affairs a few years previously, and he gradually acq...
37: ...His public career ended in disgrace in 1621 when, after having fallen into debt, a Parliamentary Commi...
45: ...y. In March, 1626, he came to London, and shortly after, when driving on a snowy day, he was inspired ... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
8: ...hool in Bordeaux, the [[Coll觥 de Guyenne]], and afterwards he studied law in [[Toulouse]] and entere...
22: ...nry III of France|Henry III]] was assassinated in 1589, and Montaigne then helped to keep Bordeaux loyal...
28: ...branch of the [[University of Bordeaux]] is named after him: ''Universit頍ichel de Montaigne Bordeaux... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
12: ...[[Straits of Malacca]]. Originally a culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with pi...
14: ...]]s''', which in modern Arabic is قرصان from the Turkish '''''Korsan''''',...
48: ... of the prize. Pirates injured in battle might be afforded special compensation. Often all of these te...
60: ...gings of the crew and the contents of the ship's safe, which might contain large amounts of cash neede...
62: ...wer cruising speeds to allow for navigation and traffic control making them prime targets for piracy. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
28: *[[Sediq Afghan]]
29: *[[Jamal al-Din al-Afghani]], (1839-1897){{fn|R}}
172: *[[Paul Benacerraf]]
324: *[[Rafe Champion]]
870: *[[John of St. Thomas]] (or ''Jean Poinsot''), (1589-1644){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Quran (41479 bytes)
6: ...also believed by Muslims to be divinely inspired. After a short opening, the Qur'an proceeds to the lo...
14: ...Islamic Arabic; others say that they were created after Muhammad. Only five [[pre-Islamic Arabic insc...
16: ... case and obscure vocabulary. Several generations after the prophet's death, many words used in the Qu...
34: : Wash-shaf`i wal-watr(i)
50: ...Makka), and those revealed at [[Medina]] (Madina) after the [[Hijra]]. In general, the earlier [[Makka... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ... or '''Saida''', ([[Arabic language|Arabic]] '''صيدا''' '''Ṣaydā'''; ...
4: ...was founded. [[Homer]] praised the skill of its craftsmen in producing glass and purple dyes. It was a...
12: ... century. During [[WWI]], the British took Sidon; after the war it became part of the French [[Protect...
28: * From Sidon, at which the ship put in after leaving Caesarea, [[Paul of Tarsus|Paul]] fina... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...e the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] from the dead after his death by [[crucifixion]] (see [[Good Frida...
61: ...on the Sunday after the first [[full moon]] on or after the day of the [[vernal equinox]]''. The Churc...
87: ...χα), and the fast is broken immediately after the Divine Liturgy. Easter is immediately foll...
96: ...ame bishop of the Roman Christians. Shortly thereafter, Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna, traveled to R...
101: After Anicetus, Soter became bishop of Rome. Under ... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
6: * [[Hafiz-i Abru]] (Persia, [[15th century]])
68: * [[Martin Zeiller]] (Germany, [[1589]] - [[1661]]) - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
18: ...]]. Later it was conquered by the [[Jebusite]]s. After this it came under Jewish control. The [[Bibl...
26: ... of the many improvements Herod made to the city. After Herod's death, the province and city came unde...
32: After a brief period of oppressive Roman rule, the c...
34: ...restricting some Jewish practices. Angry at this affront, the Judeans again revolted led by [[Bar Kok...
45: ...15]], [[1099]], Christian soldiers took Jerusalem after a difficult [[Siege of Jerusalem (1099)|one mo... - Industry (5421 bytes)
56: ...gy products well is dependent on highly skilled staff.
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