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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: ...horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' Medici]]
3: ...r lived in [[France]] under the name '''Catherine de M餩cis''', was Queen of France as the wife of Ki...
5: ...t [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother was alive at the time, but who would bec...
11: ...il 1]], [[1560]] she named as chancellor [[Michel de l'H?al]], who advocated a policy of conciliation.
13: ...upport was the [[corset]], with laces and stays made of whalebone or metal. They forcefully shrank wom... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...he world. Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (30.03333, 31.21667). [http://earth-inf...
4: ...e of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local di...
6: ...ere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
11: ...20040617.jpg|thumb|left|200px|This Envisat ASAR Wide-Swath radar multicolour composite image is focuse...
14: ...aks into three branches into the low-lying [[Nile Delta]] region. - Egypt (18830 bytes)
1: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
2: ...1607;وريّة مصرالعربي...
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21: | '''Other widely spoken languages'''
27: | '''[[President of Egypt|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...
24: area_magnitude = 1 E12 |
31: population_density = 15 | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...s ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]?
66: ...ntury BC|200s BC]]: Compound [[pulley]]: [[Archimedes]]
74: * [[1st century]]: [[Rudder|Stern mounted rudder]] in [[History of China|China]]
83: * [[9th century|800s]]: [[Black powder|Gunpowder]] in [[History of China|China]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
7: *[[Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich]] (born 1923)
8: *[[Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev|Yakovlev, Alexander Sergeyevich]] (1906-1989)
11: *[[Yakubu Gowon]] (born 1934), military leader of [[Nigeria]]
12: *[[Alexander Yakushev|Yakushev, Alexander]], ice hockey player
37: ..., Yury]], (born 1942), Russian politician, former deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Arist...
7: ...610]]. During this time he explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
10: ...ion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
12: ...00s]]. According to Koyr鬠the law was arrived at deductively, and the experiments were merely illustr...
14: ... rolling balls) were replicated using the methods described by Galileo (Settle, 1961), and the precisi... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ... best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the [[scientific revolution]]. His works esta...
8: ...Nicholas Bacon]], Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. His moth...
10: ...ge of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
16: ...ce]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction. - 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. - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: A '''pirate''' is one who [[Robbery|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognised [...
4: ...ains a significant problem (with estimated worldwide losses of $13 to $16 billion [[United_States_doll...
8: ...neer]]s'''. The word comes from ''boucan'', a wooden frame used for cooking meat (called a ''[[barbec...
10: ... known as '''kapers''' or '''vrijbuiters''' ("plunderers"), the latter combining the words ''vrij'' me...
14: ...urkish '''''Korsan''''', which seems to have been derived from the European word, which in turn comes ... - 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... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ... or '''Saida''', ([[Arabic language|Arabic]] '''صيدا''' '''Ṣaydā'''; ...
4: ..., a great Mediterranean commercial empire was founded. [[Homer]] praised the skill of its craftsmen in...
6: ...priestess of [[`Ashtart|‘Ashtart]], "the goddess of the Sidonians." In this inscription the gods...
10: ...he [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]]. The remains of the ori...
12: ...e in the seventeenth century, it regained a great deal of its earlier commercial importance. The Egypt... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...iday and ends around [[Pentecost]]. See [[Eastertide]].)
4: ...n]] has a different chronology which has Christ's death at the time of the slaughter of the Passover l...
6: ... fertility festival, although there is no hard evidence of any link.
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59: ...ed on a [[lunar calendar]] similar—but not identical—to the [[Hebrew Calendar]]. The preci... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
1: ...] [[alphabet|alphabetical]] [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]s).
2: [[Image:Environment_09.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
18: * [[John Dee]] (England, [[1527]] - [[1608]])
31: * [[Torsten H䧥rstrand]] (Sweden, ([[1916]]-[[2004]])
41: * [[Halford John Mackinder]], (UK [[1861]] - [[1947]]) - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
4: ...oups. The section called the "Old City" is surrounded by walls and consists of four quarters: [[Jew]]i...
12: ...brew]] ''Ir Shalem'' ("city of Salem"). Some consider a connection between the name and ''Shalim'' the...
18: .... David then expanded the city to the south, and declared it the capital city of the united [[Kingdom...
22: ... history, the kings of Judah become historically identifiable, and the significance the Temple had in ...
24: ... burnt, and the city's walls were ruined, thus rendering what remained of the city unprotected. - Industry (5421 bytes)
4: ...perhaps a third of the world's economic output is derived from manufacturing industries— more th...
10: ...ssification System]] and other national variants identify sectors of economic activity for [[statistic...
13: ... + 5%''' ([http://www.streetauthority.com/terms/index/wilshire5000.asp])
21: *[[GTE]] (defunct)
24: *[[WorldCom]] (defunct)
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