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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
9: ...England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately the same time ([[1516]] – [[1558]]), and w...
17: ... Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and...
22: Mary was crowned as Queen of Scots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[154...
24: ...y Lord Livingston in solemn procession to the Chapel Royal. Inside, Lord Livingston brought Mary forwa...
26: ...rd of State was presented by the [[Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll|Earl of Argyll]], and the Ca... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...lso the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic theme...
9: ...usanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...located in the [[Sch?rn collection]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guida...
12: ...ed the Tuscan painter to tutor his daughter privately. The unfortunate effect was that Artemisia was r...
14: ...orture device in the belief that if a person can tell the same story under torture as without it, the ... - 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 ... - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: ...bouti''' ({{lang-ar|جيبوتي}}, Ǧībūtī) is a count...
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4: ...1585;ية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa Jibuti<BR>R鰵blique de Dji...
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26: | [[Ismail Omar Guelleh]] - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...257;n افغانستان) is a country in [[Central Asia]] ...
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5: ...1740; افغانستان'''<br>'''Da Afghanistan Islami Daw...
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40: | '''[[Religion]]s''' || [[Sunni Islam]] <small>77%</small><... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
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8: ...<big><big>'''ڤرسكوتوان مليس...
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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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5: ...1604;ة الكويت<br>(Dawlat al Kuwayt)'''</big></big>
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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... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ...rtugal#Naming of Portugal|naming of Portugal]] itself reveals most of the country's early history, ste...
15: ...ng time. The [[Celtic|Celtics]], a later wave of Celts, settled in [[Alentejo]].
17: ...n in the north, the [[Lusitanians]] successfully held off the Romans, took back land and ransacked [[C...
21: [[Image:Castelo guimaraes2.jpg|thumb|right|230px|The [[10th cent...
23: ...an [[Alans]], were also present, but were both expelled or partially integrated by the [[Visigoths]]. - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ...ons including [[corporate]], [[academic]], and [[religious]].
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when,...
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14: ... taxation, and writing. All of which require densely populated settlements - cities. - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
1: ...:Michel-eyquem-de-montaigne 1.jpg|thumb|right|Michel de Montaigne]]
2: ...sonal flavor, he takes mankind and especially himself as the object of study. He was a [[Skepticism|sk...
6: ...as six, and while he lived there he spoke exclusively in [[Latin]], the language of the educated class...
14: [[Image:Michel_de_Montaigne 1.jpg|left|thumb|Michel de Montaigne]]
16: ...he [[Wars of Religion]] in France, Montaigne, himself a [[Roman Catholic]], acted as a moderating forc... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
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9: ...]. Although he never travelled extensively, he developed an interest in [[geography]] as a means of ea...
12: ...ction and first used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of longitude to aid navigation by sea, as c...
15: ...r of parts, the first of which was published in [[1578]] and consisted of corrected versions of the maps...
17: The Mercatormuseum in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640) - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...riod of 23 years by the Angel [[Jibreel]] ([[Gabriel]]).
6: ...ghly by size, also believed by Muslims to be divinely inspired. After a short opening, the Qur'an proc...
10: ...r a month, one manzil or one juz' a day, respectively. A juz' is sometimes further divided into two [[...
14: ...e ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Islamic Arabic...
16: ...graphy soon became important sciences, and the model for the literary language remains to this day the... - Libya (12985 bytes)
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6: ...1576;ية الإشتراكية<br>al-Jam...
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51: ...aly. Since [[1969]] Libya has been ruled by Colonel [[Moammar al-Qadhafi]], who came to power in a [[... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
1: :''For biblical characters named Elam, see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]].''
4: ...2700 BC]] to [[539 BC]], with a preceding [[Proto-Elamite]] period beginning around [[3200 BC]].
8: ... offspring of Elam, eldest son of [[Shem]] (see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]]).
10: ...he Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which means "Elam."
12: ==Elamite language== - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [[systemati...
7: ...ow lost, but its translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: The next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Sw...
11: ...pists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694), [[Jan Swammerdam]...
17: ... work, the ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', ran through twelve editions during his lifetime (1st ed. 1735). He... - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...mer and mathematician [[Pedro Nunes]] ([[1492]]-[[1578]]) who invented the principle.
5: ...m) is used to provide an even finer additional level of precision without resorting to estimation.
8: ...est-aligned pair of indicator & data gradations yields the value of the finer additional precision.
11: ...s using decimal measure, as shown in the diagram below, the indicating scale would have 10 gradations ... - Mobile phone (30513 bytes)
3: ...area (compare [[cordless phone]] which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). Mobile
5: [[Public Switched Telephone Network|telephone network]], normally by
8: ...ommunications)|transmission]] and conventional [[telephone]] [[circuit switching]], though [[packet sw...
10: ...Sagem]], [[Sanyo]], [[Siemens AG|Siemens]], [[SK Teletech]], and [[Sony Ericsson]].
12: ...to, but distinct from mobile phones, such as [[satellite phone]]s and [[Professional Mobile Radio]]. - Industry (5421 bytes)
4: ...nabling private [[company (law)|companies]] to develop to then-unheard of size and [[wealth]]. Followi...
19: ====>[[Telecommunications]]====
45: ====>[[Steel]] production====
50: ...due to various economic factors, including the development of replacement technology or the loss of co...
52: ...n]]. In a post-industrial society, manufacturers relocate to more profitable locations through a proce...
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