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- Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys wit...
5: ... [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...l><sub>2</sub></small>— [[Pyrite]]. Iron oxide is a soft [[sandstone]]-like material with limite...
11: ...similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at 1...
13: ...ry similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...bacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-199...
9: *[[Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara
52: ... Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...al monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. S...
9: ...]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed with impat...
11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|ho...
16: ...on after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Successio...
18: ...daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbish... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...stern Sahara]], in the west. The name Algeria is derived from the name of the city of Algiers; from t...
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3: ...1585;اطية الشعبية'''<br>'''Al-Jumh$...
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1: ...the coastlines of the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] and the [[Dead Sea]]. Jordan's main religion is [[Islam]] and ...
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3: ...1610;ّة الهاشميّة<br>(Al Mamlakah al U...
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11: ...ign="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Jordan|In Detail]]) - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
1: ...ts center. In [[1965]], The Gambia became independent from the [[British Empire]]. [[Banjul]] is its...
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27: | '''[[List of Presidents of The Gambia|President]]''' - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...ast, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]] to the southeast, [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and the [[Central...
19: ...s = [[List of Presidents of Sudan|President]] |
20: leader_names = [[Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir...
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31: population_density = 15 | - Dahshur (1070 bytes)
1: ...or three pyramids, two of which are amongst the oldest, largest and best preserved in [[Egypt]].
5: ... Pyramid is the world's first "true", or smooth-sided pyramid. - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
3: ...e hands of their countrymen. They settled in [[Leiden]] for 12 years, but by [[1617]] a poor economy a...
4: ...ge:Pigrims_ship.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
5: ...being brought up in a Dutch environment, they decided to move to a place better suited to them, and in...
6: ...Image:Pilgrimschurch.jpg|thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
7: ...Image:Pilgrimworkers.jpg|thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impression...
36: *[[Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz]] ([[1852]]-[[1916]])
49: *[[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] ([[1836]]-[[1912]])
117: *[[Romare Bearden]] ([[1914]]-[[1988]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - Donatello (10376 bytes)
3: ...''Donato di Niccolo Betto Bardi''') ([[1386]] - [[December 13]], [[1466]])
7: ... eventually construct the cupola of [[Santa Maria del Fiore]] in Florence, while Donatello acquired hi...
10: ...hitectural setting. In fact, so strong is this tendency that the ''Saint Mark'', when inspected at the...
13: [[Image:Davide (Donatello).jpg|right|thumb|100px|[[Donatello's D...
14: ... copied from life with all their angularities and deviations from the lines of beauty. - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...ualled, due to his understanding of the range and depth of human emotions. A colossal figure in world ...
6: Shakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Ch...
8: ...ence on the English-speaking world shows in the widespread use of [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shakes...
12: ...t through the study of considerable historical evidence.
14: ...haps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ... the cause of [[freedom of thought]] because his ideas went against church doctrine.
7: ...ook the name Giordano on becoming a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint ...
10: ... illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical e...
11: ...covered ideas of [[Plato]]. Other influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]...
13: ...for the same reason and abandoned the Dominican order. He travelled to [[Geneva]] and briefly joined t... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
1: ...chel-eyquem-de-montaigne 1.jpg|thumb|right|Michel de Montaigne]]
2: ...essay]]. In his main work, the ''Essays'', unprecedented in its candidness and personal flavor, he tak...
6: ...the mayor of [[Bordeaux]]. His mother, Antoniette de Lopez, came from a Spanish Jewish family, but was...
8: ...;tienne de la Boétie]] whose death in 1563 deeply influenced Montaigne.
10: ...er died and Montaigne inherited the Château de Montaigne, to which he moved back in 1570. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
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7: ...a [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[cartographer]] of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] ...
9: ...ther map of the world ([[1538]]) and a map of Flanders ([[1540]]). During this period he learned [[Ita...
12: ...d it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of longitude to aid navigation by sea, as compass courses coul...
15: ...further maps were published in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]. - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
2: ... fleet which defeated the [[Spanish Armada]] in [[1588]].
7: ...e in his life. Francis was the eldest or second eldest of twelve children.
9: ... Drake made the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]] expeditions.
12: ... against the [[Spanish Empire]]; the Spanish considered him an outlaw [[pirate]], but to England he wa...
13: ... Train to the nearby port of Nombre de Dios. He made off with a fortune in gold, but had to leave behi... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
1: ...|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
29: *[[Alexander Anderson (mathematician)|Alexander Anderson]] (Scotland, [[1582]] - [[1620]])
30: *[[Adolf Anderssen]] (Germany, [[1818]] - [[1879]])
36: *[[Archimedes]] (Syracuse, [[287 BC|287 B.C.]] - [[212 BC|212 ...
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]]) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[Nat...
4: ...Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (peopl...
6: ...artes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...abandoning his three children to the care of an older brother Francis. Hobbes was educated at Westport...
12: ... Hardwick (and later [[Duke of Devonshire|Earl of Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Quran (41479 bytes)
6: ... believe they were revealed) but in a different order, roughly by size, also believed by Muslims to be...
8: == The Qur'an as divided for reading and recitation ==
10: ...into four quarters. A different structure is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling ...
14: ...at time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Is...
16: ...ography soon became important sciences, and the model for the literary language remains to this day th...
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