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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
1: [[Image:Cartier.png|thumb|200px|right|Jacques Cartier]]
3: '''Jacques Cartier''' ([[December 31]], [[1491]] – [[S...
5: ...arance in baptismal registers as godfather or witness.
7: No contemporary portrait of Jacques Cartier has been found and the most familiar port...
9: ...tained. Considering that Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous and hitherto unknown wa... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
9: ...[[1677]] - The future [[Mary II of England]] marries [[William III of England|William, Prince of Orang...
12: ...ombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...ublican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive term...
22: ...d as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - Kom Ombo (811 bytes)
1: ... of [[Aswan]] gave it some control over trade routes from [[Nubia]] to the Nile Valley, but its main r... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ...2-Sistine Chapel.png|250px|thumb|right|''God creates Adam'', by [[Michelangelo]]. The mural on the cei...
2: ...esis 1.27) as Adam, depending on which part of Genesis is read and how it is interpreted. Depending on...
6: ...#7716;awwāh in Tiberian Hebrew, and حواء (Ḥawwāʾ) in Arabic...
10: ==Adam in Genesis==
12: ...the Garden of Eden with many of the "lower creatures."]] - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...ficant numbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Western Europe.
3: ...at is loose-laid, most often for decorative purposes.
7: == Carpet types ==
8: ...[Image:Swatches of carpet 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of machine-made carpet]]
10: ...k]], [[plain weave]], and [[tapestry weave]]. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, D... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: |+<big><big>'''جمهوريّة مصر...
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... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...c]] word ''al-jazā’ir'', which translates as ''the islands'', referring to the four islands...
3: |+<big>'''الجمهورية الجز...
23: ...<br><br> - Population:<br> - [[Coordinates]]:||[[Algiers]] الج&...
25: ...tate]]''' || [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]], <small>''President''</small>
31: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 11th]] <br /> 2,381,740 [[square k... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
1: ...UK (as reported by BBC news, CNN, The New York Times, The Economist)
3: ...<big><big>'''الجمهورية العر...
21: | '''[[President of Iraq|President]]''' || [[Jalal Talabani]]
25: ...p;- Total <br> - % water || [[List of countries by area|Ranked 57th]] <br> 437,072 [[square kilom...
27: ...[Population density|Density]] || [[List of countries by population|Ranked 44th]]<br> 25,374,691<br> 59... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ... East]], along the [[Mediterranean Sea]] (on the west), bordered by [[Syria]] on the east and north, a...
4: ...<big><big>'''الجمهوريّة الل...
9: ... width="140" | [[Image:Lebanese_COA.png|95px|Lebanese COA]]
28: | '''[[List of Presidents of Lebanon|President]]'''
32: | [[Najib Mikati]] (resigned after parliamentary elections) - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: ...by [[Eritrea]] in the north, [[Ethiopia]] in the west and south, and [[Somalia]] in the southeast. The...
4: ...1608;رية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa Jibuti<BR>Ré°µblique...
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]] - Qatar (10610 bytes)
3: ... of ''Qatar'' in [[English language|English]] varies; see [[List of words of disputed pronunciation]].
5: |+<big><big>'''دولة قطر<br>Dawlat Qa...
31: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 162nd]] <br> 10,360 [[square kilom...
34: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 154th]] <br> 817,052 <br> 79...
51: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]''' - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...e from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], the [...
6: ...#1488;ל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>دولة اسرائ...
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: ...1608;رية السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-Sudan |
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: ...ig>'''ڤرسكوتوان مليسي...
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: ...1583;ولة الكويت<br>(Dawlat al Kuwayt)'''</big></bi...
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... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
2: A '''mummy''' is a preserved [[corpse]] that, due to shielding from [[dec...
4: ... the body was home to a person's [[Ka]] which was essential in one's [[afterlife]].
6: ... corpses have been recovered from submerged [[cypress]] coffins packed with medicinal herbs.
8: ...l over the world. Some of the best-preserved mummies formed under natural conditions date from the [[I...
12: ... Greek historians record that the Persians sometimes mummified their kings and nobility in wax, though... - 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... - Dahshur (1070 bytes)
1: ... which are amongst the oldest, largest and best preserved in [[Egypt]].
3: ...u]], while the mostly ruined [[Black Pyramid]] dates from the much later reign of [[Amenemhat III]]. T...
5: ...ransitional pyramid form believed to have been necessitated by an engineering crisis encountered durin...
7: {{Egypt_pictures}} - 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]]
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