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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... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...irgin Queen''', '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch ...
9: ...en saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VI...
11: ...ies, one [[earl|earldom]] and seven [[baron|baronies]] in the [[Peerage of England]], and one barony i...
13: ...ica]] and afterwards a member of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen...
16: ... under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]]. - Narcissi (1567 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Asparagales]]}}
11: ...vision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = Species}}
15: ...sian]] word of this plant, نرگس (''Nargis'').
19: Narcissi are sometimes called jonquils in [[North America]], but strictl...
21: [[Daffodil]]s are the large trumpeted varieties of narcissi. - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...r dm|31|12|N|29|15|E|}}, 208 km (129 miles) northwest of [[Cairo]]. The Canopic mouth of the [[Nile]]...
3: ...s of Egypt quickly became one of the greatest cities of the [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]] w...
5: ...right|Alexandria's state-of-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated i...
19: ...er's seers, and in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that the city w...
21: ...knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the mon... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
5: ...1606;ي دارالسلام<br>Negara Brunei Darussalam...
28: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 163rd]] <br /> 5,765 [[square kilo...
33: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 162nd]]
49: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
55: ...[16th century]], covering the southern [[Philippines]], [[Sarawak]] and [[Sabah]]. [[Europe]]an influe... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...e from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], the [...
6: ...sra'el")<br>دولة اسرائيل<br>("Dawlat I...
13: official_languages = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Arabic]] |
14: capital = [[Jerusalem]]<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup> |
17: leader_titles = [[Prime Minister]]<br>[[President]] | - 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]] - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ... [[Chad]] to the west, and [[Libya]] to the northwest.<!--
8: ...1607;ورية السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-S...
15: official_languages = [[Arabic language|Arabic]] |
19: ...tles = [[List of Presidents of Sudan|President]] |
20: leader_names = [[Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir|U. H. ... - 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: ...1578;وان مليسيا'''</big></big>
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... - Aswan (1042 bytes)
1: ...Spices at the outdoor market in Aswan. Photo courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
6: ...outh of [[Egypt]], the capital of the [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] of the same name. It stand...
8: ... not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses.
10: ...famous for providing a basis on which [[Eratosthenes]] disputed the [[Flat Earth]] theory and attempte... - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
1: ...in the [[Trajan's Dacian Wars|Dacian Wars]]. Its design has inspired numerous [[victory column]]s, bot...
3: ...aft, a spiral staircase of 185 stairs provides access to a viewing platform at the top. The capital bl...
5: ...disappeared in the [[Middle Ages]]. On December 4 1587, the top was crowned by [[Pope Sixtus V]] with a ...
11: ...rspective. Often a variety of different perspectives are used in the same scene, so that more can be r...
13: ...realistically (not superhuman), makes 59 appearances among his troops. - 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. - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...y motion|laws of planetary motion]]. He is sometimes referred to as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] ...
4: Kepler was a [[professor]] of [[mathematics]] at the [[University of Gr...
6: ...er, since he wrote his ''magnum opus'' '''harmonices mundi''' ("The Harmony of the world") in Linz dur...
9: ...s said to have been a weak and sickly child, but despite his ill health, he was precociously brilliant...
15: ...f teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the pos... - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events '''before [[1600]]'''.
8: *[[1494]]-[[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divides the New World between [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]]
13: ...co N?de Balboa]] crosses isthmus of [[Panama]], sees [[Pacific Ocean]]
16: *1520s-Spanish begin conquest of [[Maya civilization]]
17: *[[1521]]-Cortes destroys the Aztec empire - Monsoon (5846 bytes)
2: ...[season]] in which this wind blows from the southwest in [[India]] and adjacent areas that is characte...
5: ... in the [[Arabian Sea]], that blow from the southwest during one half of the year and from the northea...
9: == Processes ==
10: ...h (atmospheric)|high pressure]] to areas of low pressure, an ''extremely'' constant wind blows from th...
12: ...erature difference between the ocean and land is less than in summer, this wind is not as constant. - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...stronomer]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the...
7: ...near [[Naples]]. In [[1572]] he was ordained a priest.
9: ...t time were thought to date uniformly to the earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed...
10: ...stration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical elemen...
11: ...r influences included [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Ni... - 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.
14: ...|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 15...
15: ...e took the word [[atlas (cartography)|atlas]] to describe a collection of maps, and encouraged [[Abrah... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...o [[Persia]], fighting and conquering various tribes on their way to [[Transoxiana]].
3: ...mic world against [[Crusade|Crusaders]] from the West, and conquering the [[Byzantine Empire]].
5: ... Seljuk|Mahmud II]] proclaimed himself Sultan and established a capital in Baghdad. [[Ahmed Sanjar]] w...
7: ...n the [[1260s]] and divided it into small [[emirates]] called the [[Anatolian beyliks]], which in turn...
101: ...org.tr/english/sanat/selcuklu.htm Sadberkhanim Muzesi: Seljuk Art] - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...n planning, will link Bahrain to Qatar as the longest fixed link in the world.
32: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 175th]] <br /> 665 [[square kilome...
37: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 157th]]
39: note: includes 235,108 non-nationals (July 2004 est.)
55: | '''[[List_of_country_calling_codes|Calling Code]]''' - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: *[[Marc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: *[[George Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
12: *[[Charles Greeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]])
13: *[[Charles Hitchcock Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1868]] – [[1951]])
15: *[[Walter Sydney Adams]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1876]] – [[1956]])
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