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- Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...pic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city...
19: ...in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that the city would prosper, pa...
21: ...with exact knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frighten...
23: ...e five native villages scattered along the strip between Lake Mareotis and the sea, according to a his...
25: ...ion, Alexander left Egypt for the East and never returned to his city. His general, Ptolemy (later [[P... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
2: ...n''', in reference of a nineteenth-century truce between the British and some Arab [[sheikh]]s. It bor...
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15: ...="165px" | <font size="-1">([[Flag of the UAE|In Detail]])</font>
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61: ...ontrol of their defense and foreign affairs in nineteenth-century treaties. In [[1971]], six of these ... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress...
54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...thods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]].
8: ... Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.
10: ...te. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1573 at the age of 13, living for three years there wi...
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precocious in...
14: ...f science brought him to the conclusion that the methods (and thus the results) were erroneous. His re... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ... [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the two were not yet distinct) and [[alchemist]]. He had [[Uraniborg]]...
8: ...he Latinised form Tycho at around age fifteen (sometimes written Tÿcho). He was born at his famil...
10: ...d to any disputes nor did his parents attempt to get him back. Tycho lived with his childless uncle an...
12: ... his uncle, he studied law but also studied a variety of other subjects and became interested in [[ast...
14: ... others. There are just as many measurements and methods as there are astronomers and all of them disa... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
2: ...h I]]. He was second in command of the English fleet which defeated the [[Spanish Armada]] in [[1588]]...
9: ...company with his cousin, Sir [[John Hawkins]]. Together, Hawkins and Drake made the first English [[At...
12: ...he favour of [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth]].
13: ... survivor was rich for life. However, Queen Elizabeth, who had up to this point sponsored and encourag...
16: ...nish along the Pacific coast of the Americas. He set sail from Plymouth, England, in December aboard t... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - Origami (9154 bytes)
5: ...ar]], [[circle|circular]], or other non-square sheet of paper.
9: ...], which started in [[Muromachi era]] ([[1392]]-[[1573]]). That of [[Europe]]an origami, represented by ...
11: ...ques of the past and models are now frequently [[wet-folded]] or constructed from materials other than...
13: ...he 1920s and 30s. His methods, which involved sheets of round paper that were folded into spirals and...
15: ...ding to allow the finished product to hold shape better, and variations such as modular origami, where... - Libya (12985 bytes)
1: ...]], bordering the [[Mediterranean Sea]], located between [[Egypt]] on the east, [[Sudan]] on the south...
3: ...ing all of [[North Africa]] west of Egypt, and sometimes referring to the entire continent of [[Africa...
6: ...1588;عبية الإشتراكية...
13: ...=140px | <font size=-1>([[Libyan coat of arms|In Detail]])</font>
30: ...y area|Ranked 16th]] <br> 1,759,540 [[square kilometre|km²]] - Corinthian order (9508 bytes)
6: ...us]] said. [[Claude Perrault]] incorporated a vignette epitomizing the tale in his illustration of the...
9: ... capital, recalling the base of the legendary basket.
11: ... or chains of husks may take the place of the fillets in the fluting, for Corinthian is the most playf...
15: ...ling corners of the capital, and it may have a rosette at the center of each side.
17: [[Image:NYC-broadway-post-office-detail.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Festive Corinthian capit... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...goal of alchemy is the [[transmutation]] of any metal into either [[gold]] or [[silver]].
2: ...try prior to the formulation of the [[scientific method]].
7: ==Etymology==
8: ...cient Egypt through what linguists term a "[[folk etymology]]."
13: ...t would have been as partial and incomplete as a metaphysics devoid of physical manifestation. So the ... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
13: ...- [[Lewis and Clark Expedition|Lewis and Clark]] return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.
15: *[[1846]] - Discovery of [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] by French astronomer [[Urbain Le Verri...
19: *[[1912]] - First [[Mack Sennett]] "Keystone Comedy" is released.
24: *[[1962]] - The [[Jetsons]] aired for the first time.
26: *[[1973]] - [[Juan Peron]] returns to power in [[Argentina]] - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
4: ...opulation/new_2004/tab_3.pdf]), it is a richly [[heterogeneous]] city, representing a wide range of na...
6: ...1949 Armistice Agreements|1949 cease-fire line]] between [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]], also known as the ...
12: ...'' ("city of Salem"). Some consider a connection between the name and ''Shalim'' the personification o...
20: ...vercoming other ritual centers such as Shilo and Bethel. Near the end of the reign of King Solomon, t...
22: ...ugh recent achaeological finds may push the date yet earlier (see [[Tel Dan Stele]]), around the ninth...
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