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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...ndash; [[July 24]], [[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because ...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Ma...
12: ...tland]], on [[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de G...
14: ...es could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
15: ...ary ascended the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before the de... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...x|''[[Book of Judith|Judith]] Beheading [[Holofernes]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria...
3: ...ligious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...o Gentileschi]], one of the greatest representatives of the school of [[Caravaggio]]. Artemisia was in...
12: ...promise and Orazio reported Tassi to the authorities.
14: ...the [[feminism|feminist]] view of Atermisia Gentileschi during the [[20th century]] - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
2: ...efore 1971, they were known as '''the Trucial States''' or '''Trucial Oman''', in reference of a ninet...
8: ...1576;يّة المتّحدة<br>Al-Imārā...
21: ...ound: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationUnitedArabEmirates.png]]
26: | '''[[Capital]] and largest city'''
29: | '''[[List of countries by area|Area]]''' - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: ...by [[Eritrea]] in the north, [[Ethiopia]] in the west and south, and [[Somalia]] in the southeast. The...
4: ...1585;ية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa Jibuti<BR>R鰵blique de Dji...
25: | '''[[President of Djibouti|President]]'''
32: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 147th]] <br />[[1 E10 m?|23,000 km...
37: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 161st]] - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...rt of the country. It is among the poorest countries in the world.
3: ...Loya jirga]], Afghanistan was referred to by the West as the ''Transitional Islamic State of Afghanist...
5: ...an Islami Dawlat'''<br>'''Dawlat-e Eslami-e Afghanestan'''</big>
23: ...]'''<br> - Population:<br> - [[Coordinates]]: || [[Kabul]]<br>1,424,400 <small>([[1988]])</s...
25: | '''[[President of Afghanistan|President]]''' || [[Hamid Karzai]] - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
3: ...ysia]] (Peninsular Malaysia, Malay Peninsula) shares a land border on the north with [[Thailand]] and ...
5: ... Sultanate of [[Brunei]] on the east, south, and west.
8: ...<big><big>'''ڤرسكوتوان مليس...
37: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 64th]] <br> 329,750 [[square kilom...
40: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 46th]]<br> 25,720,000 (Q3-20... - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
5: ...1604;ة الكويت<br>(Dawlat al Kuwayt)'''</big></big>
35: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 152nd]] <br> 17,818 [[square kilom...
38: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 141st]]<br> 2,041,961<br> 11...
58: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
61: ...il wells were set on fire by retreating Iraqi forces. It took several months before the fire could be... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...cean|Atlantic]], such as the [[Azores Islands|Azores]]and [[Madeira Islands|Madeira and Porto Santo]] ...
5: ...omic, political, and cultural power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the r...
7: ...cial and economic progress in the subsequent decades, with a clear slow-down in the last few years.
13: ''Main articles: '''[[Lusitanian|Pre-Roman]]''' and '''[[Lusitani...
15: ...9, "A Lusit⮩a" paragraph 1}} The [[Conii]] were established in southern Portugal for a long time. Th... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
12: ..., ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
14: ...1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
17: ..., ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
33: *[[Jacques-Laurent Agasse]] ([[1767]]-[[1848]])
42: *[[Mikolas Ales]] ([[1852]]-[[1913]]) - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: '''Politics''' is the process and method of making decisions for groups. Altho...
4: ...]''' is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. th...
9:
11: ...e the rationale for creating [[societies]] (polities).
14: ...which require densely populated settlements - cities. - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...didness and personal flavor, he takes mankind and especially himself as the object of study. He was a ...
6: ...Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised Protestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with ...
8: ...e was at the court of [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]]. While serving at the Bordeaux Parlement, h...
12: ...;teau where in his library he began work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]].
16: ...[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and the Protestant [[Henry of Navarre]]. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ... [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[cartographer]] of German descent, remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] n...
9: ...ercator produced a map of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] ([[1537]]), another map of the world ([[153...
12: ...as compass courses could be marked as straight lines.
15: ...r of parts, the first of which was published in [[1578]] and consisted of corrected versions of the maps...
17: ...atormuseum in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator's life and work. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC)
51: *[[Alexander of Hales]], (d. 1245){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...ransliterated]] as '''Quran''', '''Koran''', and less commonly '''Alcoran''') is the [[Sacred text|hol...
6: ...gest sura, and closes with some of the shortest ones.
10: ...is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling paragraphs and comprising roughly ten ayat...
14: ...uspended Odes'', are believed by some to be examples of pre-Islamic Arabic; others say that they were ...
16: ...emains to this day the speech used in Qur'anic times, rather than the current spoken dialects. - Libya (12985 bytes)
1: ...the south and [[Algeria]] and [[Tunisia]] to the west. Its [[capital]] city is [[Tripoli]]. The three ...
3: ...all of [[North Africa]] west of Egypt, and sometimes referring to the entire continent of [[Africa]].
6: ...1576;ية الإشتراكية<br>al-Jam...
26: | '''[[President of Libya|President]]''' || [[Zentani Muhammad az-Zentani]]
30: | '''[[Area]]'''<br>- Total || [[List of countries by area|Ranked 16th]] <br> 1,759,540 [[square kil... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...kad]], centered in [[Susa]], in what is now southwestern [[Iran]]. The Elamite period is considered to...
8: ..., where they are called the offspring of Elam, eldest son of [[Shem]] (see [[Elam (Hebrew Bible)]]).
10: ... fact, the modern provincial name [[Khuzestan|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''...
13: ...iest date back to the third milennium BCE, the latest to the [[Achaemenid Empire]].
16: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}} - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ...mon descent]]. [[Molecular systematics]], which uses [[genome|genomic DNA]] [[bioinformatics|analysis]...
5: ...iest known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who cla...
7: ... translation into Latin by [[Michael Scot]] survives.
9: ...fessor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation of life know...
11: ...ist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people like [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628&n... - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...mer and mathematician [[Pedro Nunes]] ([[1492]]-[[1578]]) who invented the principle.
3: ...t]]s, machinists' measuring tools (all sorts, but especially calipers and [[micrometer]]s) and on [[th...
5: ...dditional level of precision without resorting to estimation.
8: ...indicator scale measurement corresponding to the best-aligned pair of indicator & data gradations yiel...
10: ==Examples== - Mobile phone (30513 bytes)
2: A '''mobile phone''' is a device which behaves as a normal
3: ...ing able to move over a wide area (compare [[cordless phone]] which acts as a telephone only within a ...
4: phones allow connections to be made to the
7: current mobile phones use a combination of [[radio wave]]
8: ...rk, especially for services such as [[Internet access]] and [[WAP]]. - Industry (5421 bytes)
2: ...nts of upfront [[capital (economics)|capital]] investment before any [[profit]] can be realized, also ...
4: ...dash; more than [[agriculture]]'s share, but now less than that of the [[service]] sector.
8: ==List of industries and prominent companies==
10: ...stics|statistical]] and national accounting purposes.
15: ...ware and software is together with the second largest category of the Wilshire 5000.
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