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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...he known Islamic world, extending also to present-day [[India]], the [[Maldives]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[So...
4: ...natively be rendered '''ibn Batuta''', '''ibn Batuda''' or '''ibn Battutah'''. He is also sometimes kn...
6: ...Juzayy]], whom he had met while in [[Granada|Granada]]. This account, recorded by Ibn Juzayy and inter...
8: ... about Ibn Battuta's life comes from one source – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn Juzayy). In place...
11: ...tely) twenty Ibn Battuta went on a ''[[hajj]]'' – a pilgrimage to [[Mecca]]. Once done, however,... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: '''Anne''' ([[6 February]] [[1665]]–[[1 August]][[1714]]) became Queen of [[England...
15: ...s II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]], ...
17: ...tant [[Prince George of Denmark]], brother of the Danish King [[Christian V of Denmark|Christian V]]. ...
19: ...m and Mary. They were to be followed by any descendants of William by a future marriage.
26: ...ver|Sophia, Electress of Hanover]], and her descendants, who descended from [[James I of England]] thr... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ...enees| Pyrenees mountains]] making their way to [[Gibraltar]] and eventually London. There, SOE trained her a...
11: ...humously, Britain awarded her the "[[King's Commendation for Brave Conduct]]." In France, posthumous h... - Culture (23440 bytes)
6: Many people today use a conception of "culture" that developed in ...
10: ...and [[value]]s; but rather that only a single standard of refinement suffices, against which one can m...
14: Today most social scientists reject the [[monadic]] co...
19: ...[[anthropology|anthropologists]] had adopted and adapted the term ''culture'' to a broader definition ...
21: ...s a supplement to it, as the main means of human adaptation to the world. - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...exchange between emergent peoples of the region — [[Egyptian|Egyptians]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek...
11: ...499;ון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the German equivalent ''Mittelmeer''. I...
17: ...[[Sea of Marmara]] and [[Black Sea]], by the [[Dardanelles]] and the [[Bosporus]] respectively, on the...
38: ...04.jpg|thumb|right|A view across the [[straits of Gibraltar]]]]
43: ...tic Sea]] between the Italian peninsula and the [[Dalmatia]]n coast, - Europe (23835 bytes)
18: ... entered a long period of stasis, known as the "[[Dark Ages]]" to [[Renaissance]] thinkers and as the ...
20: ...hese conquests Europe stabilised, but the old foundations were already beginning to crumble.
25: ...pg|right|250px|thumb|Political and geographic boundaries in Europe do not always match. This physical ...
29: ...separates Europe from [[Africa]]. The western boundary is the [[Atlantic Ocean]], but [[Iceland]], muc...
42: ...ns much like the mouth of a funnel, until the boundary with Asia is reached at the Ural Mountains. - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...ands on the Mediterranean side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such as ...
39: established_dates = [[1492]] |
58: ...-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a separate [[ethnic group]]. The most importa...
62: ...olony was [[Carthago Nova]] (Latin name of modern day [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]]).
77: By [[1512]], most of the kingdoms of present-day Spain were politically unified, although not as ... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...er]] from the [[Phocaean]] colony [[Massilia]] (today Marseille). He made a voyage of exploration to n...
8: ...rthage|Carthaginians]] had closed the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] to all ships from other nations. Some historian...
12: Pytheas visited an island six days sailing north of Britain, called [[Thule (myth)...
14: ...e night in Thule was only two to three hours. One day further north the congealed sea began, he claime... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...ite irregular because they usually follow the boundaries of states, countries or other administrative ...
4: [[image:Timezones.png|thumb|400px|Standard Time Zones of the World by the CIA]]
6: ...ve. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time...
8: ... the remainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British...
12: *[[Toronto, Ontario|Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]: UTC − 5 (e.g. if it is 11:00 UTC, then i... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
10: ...[Politics of Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua and Barbuda]] - [[Politics of Argentina|Argentina]] - [[Polit...
13: ...ics of Benin|Benin]] - [[Politics of Bermuda|Bermuda]] - [[Politics of Bhutan|Bhutan]] - [[Politics of...
16: ...of Cameroon|Cameroon]] - [[Politics of Canada|Canada]] - [[Politics of Cape Verde|Cape Verde]] - [[Pol...
28: ...s of Greece|Greece]] - [[Politics of Grenada|Grenada]] - [[Politics of Guadeloupe|Guadeloupe]] - [[Pol...
37: ...ics of Johnston Atoll]] - [[Politics of Jordan|Jordan]] - Flood (7770 bytes)
7: ...The control of annual flooding, by dikes and by [[dam]]s, also prevents the deposition of silt on the ...
16: ...slip on continental shelf'') may all engender a tidal wave called a [[tsunami]] that causes destructio...
22: ...lta Works]] with the [[Oosterschelde|Oosterscheldedam]] as its crowning achievement.
31: ...r continental movement had closed the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] (variously placed at 8 million or 5.5 million y...
33: ...s a great flood caused by the breaking of the ice dams holding [[Lake Agassiz]]. - Ape (10931 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Chordata]]}}
10: ..._authority | author = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]] | date = [[1825]]}}
13: [[Hylobatidae]]<br>
14: [[Hominidae]]
19: *the family [[Hylobatidae]] consists of 12 species of [[gibbon]]s, includi... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
6: ...ly by a line of [[latitude]] with no landmass boundaries.
12: ...n a piece of oceanic sea floor like the Strait of Gibraltar.)
24: ...the surface of the ocean through the use of boats dates back to prehistoric times, but only in modern ...
55: ...efully be better known after the full analysis of data from the [[Huygens probe]] of the [[Cassini-Huy...
62: * [[World Ocean Day]] - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...mos, [[Trujillo]] and [[Granada, Nicaragua | Granada]] were taken. In [[1666]] Morgan commanded a ship...
6: ...tress. The governor of Panama, astonished at this daring adventure, in vain attempted to drive out the...
8: ...spent a few weeks at the Venezuelan settlement of Gibraltar on [[Lake Maracaibo]], torturing the wealthy resi...
26: ...-wales.co.uk/morgan.htm Henry Morgan entry at www.data-wales.co.uk] - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
1: ..., looms large as an important figure in the early days of European [[colonial]] expansion.
3: ...e [[North Africa]]n coast across the [[Straits of Gibraltar]] from the Iberian peninsula. The Portuguese conq...
7: ...ation of the Azores during Pedro's regency (1439–1448).
9: ...f geography and navigation added over time. [[Jehuda Cresques]], a noted cartographer, received an inv...
13: - March 17 (9666 bytes)
1: ...alendar]] (77th in [[Leap year]]s). There are 289 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
6: ...mpeius|Pompey the Younger]] in the [[Battle of Munda]].
9: *[[1756]] - [[St. Patrick's Day]] is celebrated in [[New York City]] for the fir...
15: ...S Utopia|SS ''Utopia'']] sinks off the coast of [[Gibraltar]], killing 574. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
1: ...alendar]] (80th in [[Leap year]]s). There are 286 days remaining.
3: {{MarchCalendar}}
7: *[[1413]] – [[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of...
8: *[[1602]] – The [[Dutch East India Company]] is establishe...
9: *[[1739]] – [[Nadir Shah]] occupies [[Delhi]] in [[India]]... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...e the territory of the next-largest nation, [[Canada]]. It ranks eighth in the world in population, fo...
17: ...uled the southern and central expanses of present-day Russia, while its western zone was largely incor...
27: ...n Czar) of Russia, finalized this process, consolidated surrounding areas under Moscow's dominion, and...
43: ...#1072;я Дума, ''Gosudarstvennaya Duma''), comprising 450 ''deputies'' al...
58: ...tries, the great area south of these still accommodates a great variety of landscapes and [[climate]]s... - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
7: ...Soviet economy, the Russian economy includes formidable assets. Russia possesses ample supplies of man...
11: ... Committee (''Gosudarstvennyy planovyy komitet''—[[Gosplan]]) formulated countrywide output targ...
19: ...few years of the post-Soviet period. But other fundamental parts of the economic infrastructure, such ...
21: ...stioned the accuracy of official Russian economic data. Although the market now determines most prices...
23: According to official Russian data, in 1994 the national gross domestic product (G... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
33: |[[Antigua and Barbuda]]||[[Fair Antigua, We Salute Thee]]
59: ...ous community)|Basque Country]]''||<i>[[Eusko Abendaren Ereserkia]] (Anthem of the Basque Homeland)</i...
71: ...[[Benin]]||[[L'Aube Nouvelle]] (The Dawn of a New Day)
103: |[[Canada]]||[[O Canada]] Royal Anthem: [[God Save the Queen]]
105: |[[Cape Verde]]||[[C⮴ico da Liberdade]]
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