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- Veronica Franco (1937 bytes)
3: ...se to leave her husband. In order to support herself she turned to the profession of courtesan and qu...
5: ...familiari a diversi'', in 1575 and 1580, respectively. She published books of letters and collected th...
7: ... acquitted of the charges. Her later life is largely obscure, though surviving records suggest reason... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...Book of Acts]], although not by name in the [[Gospel of John]].
8: ...d of Mary is given in the mid-2nd century ''[[Gospel of James]]''.The [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
11: ...Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (1575)]]
13: ...ters) from Nazareth; and while there they found shelter in the inn provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7...
15: ...is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years of age, where he was found among the doct... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ...]]. The mural on the ceiling of the [[Sistine Chapel]] is one of the most famous works of art in the w...
2: ... is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she may or may not have been the [[first wo...
6: ...wwāh in Tiberian Hebrew, and حواء (Ḥawwāʾ) in Arabic—...
13: ...them." According to this account, Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created. He was formed ou...
15: ...in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...s a [[metropolitan area]] population of approximately 15.2 million people. Cairo is the [[List of metr...
6: ...destroyed in attempts to invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], C...
12: ...ge of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]]
14: ...ks into three branches into the low-lying [[Nile Delta]] region.
16: ...o the Nile. These western areas, built on the model of [[Paris]] by [[Ismail the Magnificent]] in the... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
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4: The '''Nile''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: النيل ''an-nīl''), in...
8: ...ma;υπτος), which itself is the source of the name "Egypt".
14: ...mately 5584 km (3470 miles). It drains approximately 2.8 million to 3.4 million km² (1.1 million...
24: ...o be the source of the Nile, although the lake itself has feeder rivers of considerable size from the ...
26: ...the Bahr al Jabal with the [[Bahr el Ghazal]], itself 720 km (445 miles) long, the river beomes known ... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...gypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ...tatus as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long decline, which by the late [[Ottoman...
5: ...f-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
15: ...om [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (yellow).
19: ...yptian grain, which fed the [[Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic]] and [[Roman Empire|Roman]] world. - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
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65: ...l-Maktoom clan of Dubai. The Supreme Council also elects the Council of Ministers, while an appointed ... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...auritania]] in the southwest, and [[Morocco]] as well as a few kilometers of its annexed territory, [[...
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23: ...04;جزائر<br><small>(El Djazaﲬ Al-Jazੲ)</small><br>1,507,241 <small>(... - Jordan (20715 bytes)
1: ...f of Aqaba]] and the [[Dead Sea]]. Jordan's main religion is [[Islam]] and its main language is [[Arab...
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3: ...1617;يّة الهاشميّة<br>(Al Mamlak...
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60: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...Persian Gulf]]. A new transitional government was elected in January [[2005]], following the March 200...
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3: ...1585;ية العراقية'''<br>'''(Al-Jumhuriyah Al-...
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1: ...stline with the [[South China Sea]], it is completely surrounded by [[East Malaysia]].
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45: | ''[[Allah Peliharakan Sultan]]'' - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ...red by [[Syria]] on the east and north, and [[Israel]] on the south.
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4: ...1617;ة اللبنانيّة<br>(Al Jumhuriyah al...
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32: | [[Najib Mikati]] (resigned after parliamentary elections) - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|...
6: ...1583;ولة اسرائيل<br>("Dawlat Israil") |
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9: image_coat = Israel-coa-medium.png | - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...#1575;فغانستان) is a country in [[Central Asia]] and is ...
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40: | '''[[Religion]]s''' || [[Sunni Islam]] <small>77%</small><... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
8: ...1610;ة السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-Sudan |
60: ...Sudan. A merchant class of Arabs established themselves as economically dominant in feudal Sudan. Impo...
62: ...led. The Mahdist state survived until being overwhelmed by an Anglo-Egyptian force under [[Horatio Kit...
66: ...has a strong economic element in that economic development while under British colonial rule was focus...
68: ...ion of the north-south civil war and a degree of self-rule. This led to a ten-year [[hiatus]] in the c... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
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74: ... [[Ptolemy]] showed it on his early map with a label that translates as "''Golden Chersonese''", the S... - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
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61: ...|During the first Gulf War, most of Kuwait's oil wells were set on fire by retreating Iraqi forces. I... - Angola (15614 bytes)
1: ...urces, among which oil and diamonds are the most relevant. The country is nominally a [[democracy]] a...
61: ...wanza River in the south. Portugal established in 1575 a Portuguese colony at [[Luanda]] based on the sl...
62: ...h a base among [[Kimbundu]] and the mixed-race intelligentsia of Luanda, and links to communist partie...
68: ...s項duardo dos Santos]] of MPLA won UN supervised elections, UNITA claimed there was fraud and fightin...
70: ...8]], rendering hundreds of thousands of people homeless. President Jos項duardo dos Santos suspended t... - Giraffe (8140 bytes)
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12: ...omial | color = pink | binomial_name = Giraffa camelopardalis | author=[[Linnaeus (taxonomy) | Linnaeu...
14: The '''giraffe''' (''Giraffa camelopardalis'') is an [[even-toed ungulate]] [[mammal...
16: ..., consisting only of the giraffe and its closest relative, the [[okapi]].
23: ...d, vine-leaf shaped spots of dark chocolate on a yellowish background. Range: central and southern Ken...
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