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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di ...
5: ...ourteen when she was married (1533), at [[Marseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother wa...
7: ...ggle against [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]], was only too glad of the opportunity to str...
9: When her maternal aunt the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County...
11: ...ver, soon grew weary of the domination of the Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition. ... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...67). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html]
4: ...e of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local di...
6: ...iro. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
7: ...rah.png|thumb|200px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] highlighted.]]
11: ...arge bright area centre left of the image, Credit-ESA 2004.]] - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: ...1607;وريّة مصرالعربي...
21: | '''Other widely spoken languages'''
24: | '''[[Capital]] and Largest City'''
27: | '''[[President of Egypt|President]]'''
34: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 29th]] <br /> [[1 E12 m2|1,001,450... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ... [[Chad]] to the west, and [[Libya]] to the northwest.<!--
15: official_languages = [[Arabic language|Arabic]] |
19: ...tles = [[List of Presidents of Sudan|President]] |
20: leader_names = [[Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir|U. H. ...
21: largest_city = [[Khartoum]] | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
19: ...[Akira Yamaoka|Yamaoka, Akira]] (born 1968), Japanese composer
20: ...saki|Yamasaki, Minoru]] (1912-1986), [[United States|US]] [[architect]]
21: ...ant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...f thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
7: ... explored science and made many landmark discoveries.
10: ...on. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science."
12: ... determine the law of acceleration of falling bodies, for instance, required accurate measurements of ...
14: ...he experiments and even indicated the particular results that led to the time-squared law (Drake, 1973... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...scount St Albans''' in [[1621]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ...erimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses. In the context of his time, such methods were co...
8: He was the youngest of five sons of [[Nicholas Bacon|Sir Nicholas Ba...
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustome...
14: ...ed barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives. - 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]]. - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...ndana]]s, using [[AK-47]]s rather than [[cutlass]]es.
4: ...rldwide losses of $13 to $16 billion [[United_States_dollar|USD]] per year), particularly in the water...
6: ==Other terms for pirates==
8: ...irates and took their name with them. These pirates were eventually organized and at their height whe...
10: ...re not pirates, but adventurers involving themselves in [[Latin American revolution]]s and [[coup d'et... - 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. - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...coast, about 25 miles north of [[Tyre]] and 30 miles south of the capital [[Beirut]]. Its name means ...
4: ... of its craftsmen in producing glass and purple dyes. It was also from here that a colonising party we...
6: ...of the Sidonians." In this inscription the gods [[Eshmun]] and [[Baal|Ba‘al]] Sidon 'Lord of Sid...
8: ...Jesus]]. [[Herod the Great]] visited Sidon; both Jesus and [[St Paul]] are said to have visited it (se...
10: ...e [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]]. The remains of the orig... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...each year to celebrate the [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus]] from the dead after his death by [[crucifixio...
4: ... [[Last Supper]] shared by Jesus and his [[disciples]] before his crucifixion is generally thought of ...
6: ... often identified as a remnant of this fertility festival, although there is no hard evidence of any l...
11: |+style="padding-right: 1.5em;"align=center|'''Dates for Easter Sunday, 2000-2020'''
13: ! '''Year''' !! '''[[Western Christianity|Western]]''' !! '''[[Eastern Christianity|Eastern]]''... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
22: * [[Eratosthenes]] (Greece, [[276 BC|276 B.C.]] - [[194 BC|194 B.C...
32: * [[Richard Hartshorne]] (United States, ([[1899]]-[[1992]])
33: ...id Harvey (geographer)|David Harvey]] (United States, Great Britain, b. [[1935]])
62: * [[Yi-Fu Tuan]] (United States, China, b. [[1930]])
68: * [[Martin Zeiller]] (Germany, [[1589]] - [[1661]]) - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...02;دس''' '''al-Quds'''; see also [[names of Jerusalem]]) is an ancient [[Middle East]]ern ...
4: ...pdf]), it is a richly [[heterogeneous]] city, representing a wide range of national, religious, and so...
6: ...and enforce this view by maintaining their embassies in [[Tel Aviv]] or in the [[suburb]]s.
7: ...part of Jerusalem as the capital of a future [[Palestinian state]].
9: ...alem and the Old City. View from the Mount of Olives]] - 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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