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- Aleksandra Lisowska (1848 bytes)
5: ...y in [[Rohatyn]]. She was captured and taken to [[Istanbul]] in the [[1520s]] as a [[slave]], but was select...
9: ...an astonishing break with tradition, eventually became his wife, leading to one of her sons, [[Selim I...
11: ...rusalem]], and the first to endow a [[mosque]] in Istanbul.
19: *[http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/islam/empires/ottoman/roxel... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...], [[1820]] – [[August 13]], [[1910]]), who came to be known as ''The Lady with the Lamp'', wa...
9: ...oncerned with the appalling conditions of medical care for the legions of the poor and indigent. She a...
11: ...]], extending far beyond the provision of medical care.
13: ...d was greatly impressed by the quality of medical care and by the commitment and practises of the sist...
17: ...ge would interfere with her ability to follow her calling to nursing, Nightingale continued to reject ... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...]] [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] charts. Classically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-b...
7: ...timore Orioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for ...
10: ... band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
13: ..., it was released in America to breakthrough critical success. The accompanying singles were "Me and a...
16: ...ncluding a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song "A Case of You". - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...pable of all SOE's women agents. (She actually became a British agent months before the [[Special Ope...
7: ..., and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...tually murder her at one of their [[concentration camps]]. An achievement of the Polish courier missi...
11: ...rthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]]...
13: ... contacts with a Polish intelligence organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." This group had been fo... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...of countries|countries]] are members. Other political entities, notably the [[Republic of China| Repu...
7: ...ix principal organs, part of what is collectively called the [[United Nations System]]:
24: ...g the total of original signatories to 51. The UN came into existence on [[October 24]], [[1945]], aft...
26: ...N are in [[New York]], there are major agencies located in [[Geneva]], [[The Hague]], [[Vienna]], and ...
30: ...owing the end of the Cold War, there were renewed calls for the UN to become the agency for achieving ... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: The '''printing press''' is a mechanical device for [[printing]] many copies of a [[text]...
4: ...and used words sparsely. As a new block had to be carved for each page, printing different [[book]]s w...
8: ...press in Europe is not accepted by all. The other candidate advanced is the [[The Netherlands|Dutchman...
12: ...s wrote them out by hand. Books were therefore a scarce resource. While it might take someone a year t...
14: ...r encountered in much of the Islamic world, where calligraphic traditions were extremely important, an... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
9: image_map = LocationTurkey.png |
10: capital = [[Ankara]] |latd=52|latm=31|latNS=N|longd=...
11: largest_city = [[Istanbul]] |latd=41|latm=1|latNS=N|longd=28|longm=57|longE...
33: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $7,900 |
34: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank =76th | - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...lly influential in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[Africa]].
13: ...er colspan=2 style="background:#fff;" | [[image:LocationGreece.png]]
17: | '''[[Capital]]''' || [[Athens]]
23: ...nisters of Greece|Prime Minister]]''' || [[Costas Caramanlis|Ks Karamanl�]
31: ...duct|GDP]]'''<br> - Total<br> - GDP per capita - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...nown as [[Magna Graecia|Great Greece]]), and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are...
10: ...18th]] and [[19th century]] Europe and [[The Americas]].
15: ...which no primary texts, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondary and tertiary texts ...
17: ..., furthermore, concentrate almost wholly on political, military and diplomatic history, and ignore eco...
24: ...taly|Syracuse]], [[Naples]], [[Marseilles]] and [[Istanbul]] had their beginnings as the Greek colonies Syra... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...the shapes of time zones can be quite irregular because they usually follow the boundaries of states, ...
6: ...etermined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at Greenwich.
8: ... Sunday in March. For the remainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in the [[United King...
10: The time for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
11: *[[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[California]], [[United States|USA]]: UTC − 8 (... - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
15: ... gifts to the high priestess of [[Adab]] on the occasion of her election]]
16: ...but Rawlinson's volumes contain little Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets from [[Akkadian ...
18: ...vating the Sumerian site of Tello (ancient Girsu, capital of the state of [[Lagash]]) in 1877, and pub...
20: The University of Pennsylvania began excavating Sumerian [[Nippur]] in 1888.
24: Credit for being first to scientifically treat a bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian text belon... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...ople]], the [[Albigensian Crusade]] against the [[Cathars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crus...
6: == Historical background ==
7: ...ry, combined with the relative stabilization of local European borders after the Christianization of t...
9: ...ose who were killed in battle. Even today Spanish Catholics are allowed to substitute [[Friday abstine...
11: ...o marshal public opinion in their favor, people became personally engaged in a dramatic religious cont... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...at the entrance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</small>
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
21: | Justinian's generals reconquer North Africa and Italy from the [[Vandals]] and [[Ostrogoths]]...
27: ...he following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conquer Sicily as well.
41: ...ople is liberated by the Byzantine emperor of [[Nicaea]], Michael Palaeologus. - Formula One (29650 bytes)
2: | [[Image:Formula One race.jpg|thumb|215px|Cars jockey for position during the [[2004 Monaco Gr...
9: ...[[Mexico]], [[India]], [[Russia]] and [[South Africa]] have reinforced the sport's "worldwide" image.
18: Historically, the Formula One series evolved from the Europ...
21: ...zine, showing a [[BRM]] H16 Formula One engine in car]]
22: ...s remembered for dominating Formula One's first decade. - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...der the leadership of Octavian (better known as [[Caesar Augustus]]). Although Rome accumulated a col...
5: ...pire is traditionally set in [[476]], when [[Odovacar]] deposed the last Emperor and sent the Imperial...
7: Because the empire of Rome lasted for such a long peri...
9: ...he situation was far more nuanced: certain historical forms continued until the [[Byzantine]] period, ...
11: ...as many other aspects of Western life remains inescapable. Roman titles of power were adopted by succe... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
4: ...s or property on board a ship or aircraft. Piracy can also be committed against a ship, aircraft, pers...
10: ...sold as [[slave]]s.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/trade.html Phoenician Ec...
12: ...nsom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death.
14: ...are managed to suppress the threat. (See [[Pompey#Campaign against the pirates]]).
16: ...antly raiding the [[Adriatic Sea]], the Illyrians caused many conflicts with the [[Roman Republic]]. I... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...twice the territory of the next-largest nation, [[Canada]]. It ranks eighth in the world in population...
4: ...mber [[1991]]. In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Repu...
13: ...entury]] onwards and slowly assimilated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribe...
15: ...y|11th centuries]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperous,...
17: ... Duchy of [[Lithuania]] and [[Poland]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
19: | '''[[Capital]]'''
20: | [[Istanbul|İstanbul]] ([[Constantinople]]/[[Asitane]]/...
26: | ''ca'' 40 million
45: ...tolia]], the [[Middle East]], part of [[North Africa]], and south-eastern [[Europe]]. It was establish...
47: ...ar I]], during which most of its territories were captured by the [[Allies]], Ottoman elites establish... - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
2: ...agia-Sofia-01s.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Hagia Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1994]]
3: ...converted to a [[mosque]], now a [[museum]], in [[Istanbul]], formerly [[Constantinople]]. It is universally...
8: ... supervision of emperor [[Justinian I]] and rededicated on December 26, [[536]].
10: ...tant poetic ''ekphrasis'', probably for the rededication of [[563]], which followed the collapse of th...
12: ...rings. The temple itself was so richly and artistically decorated that Justinian is said to have procl... - Ankara (15129 bytes)
2: ...]]''' or '''Engürü''', and in the classical period, as '''Ancyra'''.
4: ...]], [[honey]], and the region's [[Muscat_grape|muscat]] [[grapes]].
6: ...y of the Sakarya (Sangarius) River. The city is located 39°52'30" North, 32°50' East (39.875, ...
8: ...''Monumentum Ancyranum''<sup>[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/ho...
13: ...[[Alexander the Great]]. In [[333 BC]], Alexander came from [[Gordium]] to Ankara and stayed in the ci...
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