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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
13: ...urther west (the [[St. Lawrence River]]) that he believed might be the much searched-for [[northwest p...
17: ...ntinue upriver to visit [[Hochelaga (village)|Hochelaga]] ([[Montreal]]) and arrived on [[October 2]],...
19: After spending two days among the Hurons of Hochelaga, Cartier returned to Stadacona on October 11. ...
23: ...of 110 that we were, not ten were well enough to help the others, a thing pitiful to see". Cartier es...
27: ...ed to kidnap Donnacona so that he may personally tell the tale of a country further north, called [[Ki... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
19: ... 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]]. - Kom Ombo (811 bytes)
1: ...''' (كوم أمبو) is an agricultural town in [[Egypt]] famous for... - 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: ...#7716;awwāh 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." - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: A '''carpet''' is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering. The term was...
14: ...ched to the warp by one of three knot types (see below) to form the pile or nap of the carpet.
16: ...design. Moquette is woven in relatively narrow panels (usually 27" or 36"). Larger works are composed...
19: ...introduced in Germany in 1804. They became extremely popular in England in the 1830s.
21: ...[Gripper Axminster]] (1890). These types were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
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21: | '''Other widely spoken languages'''
51: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...auritania]] in the southwest, and [[Morocco]] as well as a few kilometers of its annexed territory, [[...
2: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
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23: ...04;جزائر<br><small>(El Djazaﲬ Al-Jazੲ)</small><br>1,507,241 <small>(... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...Persian Gulf]]. A new transitional government was elected in January [[2005]], following the March 200...
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3: ...<big><big>'''الجمهورية العر...
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40: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.iq]] - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ...red by [[Syria]] on the east and north, and [[Israel]] on the south.
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4: ...<big><big>'''الجمهوريّة الل...
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32: | [[Najib Mikati]] (resigned after parliamentary elections) - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: ... of Djibouti''' ({{lang-ar|جيبوتي}}, Ǧībūtī) is ...
3: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
4: ...1608;رية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa Jibuti<BR>R鰵blique...
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26: | [[Ismail Omar Guelleh]] - Qatar (10610 bytes)
4: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
5: |+<big><big>'''دولة قطر<br>Dawlat Qa...
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59: ...ones of [[Bahrain]] and [[Saudi Arabia]] respectively, these clans swept through the Arabian peninsula... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|...
6: ...#1488;ל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>دولة اسرائ...
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9: image_coat = Israel-coa-medium.png | - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
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5: ...0; دولت'''<br>'''دولت اسلام...
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40: | '''[[Religion]]s''' || [[Sunni Islam]] <small>77%</small><...
46: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || ''[[Sououd-e-Melli]]'' - Sudan (18856 bytes)
8: ...1608;رية 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)
7: {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=250 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; b...
8: ...ig>'''ڤرسكوتوان مليسي...
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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: ...1583;ولة الكويت<br>(Dawlat al Kuwayt)'''</big></bi...
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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... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
2: ...ummy''' is a preserved [[corpse]] that, due to shielding from [[decomposition]] by either natural or a...
4: ...rticularly those in [[ancient Egypt]]. Egyptians believed the body was home to a person's [[Ka]] which...
12: ...word ''mūmiya'', meaning "bitumen"; this is related to another Persian word, ''mūm'', which ...
18: ...other world. There are no written records of the religion or gods from that time, and it is not known ...
29: ... the bone at the end of the [[nose]] with a [[chisel]] and inserting a special hook up the nostrils an... - Aswan (1042 bytes)
6: '''Aswan''' (أسوان ''Aswān'') ({{coor dm|24|05|N...
12: ''See also:'' [[Aswan Dam]], [[Elephantine]], [[Kitchener's Island]], [[Nag Hammadi... - Dahshur (1070 bytes)
1: ...desert on the west bank of the [[Nile]] approximately 40 kilometres south of [[Cairo]], is a royal nec...
5: ...ique, and represents a transitional pyramid form believed to have been necessitated by an engineering ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]]
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