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- Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succe...
9: ...is era. In addition, [[Francis Drake]] became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; [[Fran...
18: ... before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbishop of [[Canterbury]] after Elizabeth b...
25: .... In [[1553]], however, Edward died at the age of fifteen, having left a will which purported to super...
27: ...r house arrest under the guard of Sir Henry Bedingfield; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsel... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ... may not have been the [[first woman]], or Adam's first wife.
6: Ḥawwāh in Tiberian Hebrew, and حواء (Ḥawwāʾ) in...
13: ...ccording to this account, Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created. He was formed out of the...
17: ... them both were opened" and they made aprons of [[fig]] leaves to cover themselves.
22: ...rtly after their expulsion, Eve brought forth her first-born child, and called him [[Cain]]. Only thre... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
8: ...1617;ة المتّحدة<br>Al-Imārāt al-‘Ar...
23: | '''[[Official language]]'''
65: ...he Supreme Council every five years. Although unofficial, the Presidency is hereditary to the Al-Nahya...
71: ...ts sources of income and lessen its dependence on finite oil reserves. One result of these efforts is ...
88: ...crude oil. The UAE is considered to be one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "[[Cradle... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...se during the time of the [[United Provinces]] ([[1581]]–[[1795]]). After the Napoleonic era, Holl...
14: official_languages = [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Frisi...
49: ...on]] and [[Limburgish language|Limburgish]] are official [[regional language]]s<br><sup>2</sup> Prior ...
55: ...or most foreign embassies. The Netherlands ranked fifth on the [[2004]] [[UN Human Development Index]]...
66: ...1637, and, according to Murray Sayle, the world's first bear raider -- Isaac le Maire, who forced pric... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h...
40: ...ces in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed by the wealth of the [[Order of Christ]], a... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - Meditation (26064 bytes)
20: ...focus' need not include concentration on any specific item and may include intuitive inner 'quantum le...
53: ...s described in the [[Bible]] this period was a difficult one of struggle and [[temptation]]. [[Saint F...
58: ...at one can ''do''. But he said that it is very difficult for modern man to just sit and be in meditati...
65: ...e and inducing favorable [[brain wave]]s. (Scientific American 226: 84-90 (1972)) The meditative aspec...
67: ...community that mental factors such as stress significantly contribute to a lack of physical health, an... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
10: Montaigne married in 1565; he had five daughters, but only one survived childhood. In ...
12: ...e in his library he began work on his ''Essays'', first published in [[1580]].
18: ...ered from painful [[kidney stone]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Germany, Austria,...
20: While in [[Rome]] in 1581, he learned that he was elected mayor of Bordeaux...
33: ... and especially himself, with utter frankness. He finds the great variety and volatility of human natu... - List of computing topics (15876 bytes)
166: [[Code and fix]] --
177: [[Commodore 1581]] --
225: [[Deterministic finite state machine]] --
237: [[Distance field]] --
240: [[Dvorak Simplified Keyboard]] -- - Dance (8662 bytes)
5: ...h as [[ballet]]. In [[sport]]s, [[gymnastics]], [[figure skating]] and [[synchronized swimming]] conta...
10: ...ence from [[prehistory|prehistoric times]] to the first examples of written and pictorial documentatio...
13: ...storic]] times it is unclear which artform came ''first''. However, as [[rhythm]] and [[sound]] are th...
30: ...oreology'' to describe the ''aesthetic and scientific study of all forms of human movement by movement...
72: ...heatre Art: Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present''. Princeton Book Co. ISBN 0871271... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...anning, will link Bahrain to Qatar as the longest fixed link in the world.
4: ...1605;لكة البحرين<br>Mamlakat al Bahrayn'''</...
16: ...all>''[[National motto]]: [[Bahrainona]] بحريننا''</small>
20: | '''Official [[language]]s''' || [[Arabic language|Arabic]...
61: ...s, [[Babylonian]]s, [[Greeks]], [[Persians]], and finally the [[Arabs]], under whom the island became ... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
52: *[[Claude Gaspard Bachet de M麩riac]] (France, [[1581]] - [[1638]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]]) - Quran (41479 bytes)
14: ... say that they were created after Muhammad. Only five [[pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions]] survive.)
16: ...cographers came to seek out Bedouin to explain difficult words or elucidate points of grammar. Partly...
18: ... "The Qur'an." The title must always include a defining adjective (avoiding conceivable confusion wit...
28: ...ch with [[metre]] and [[rhyme]]) nor [[prose]] (defined as normal speech or rhymed but non-metrical sp...
38: ...ive a less loose example, the whole of surat [[al-Fil]]: - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...uru]] ideal, and [[bhajan]]s) as well as [[Sufi|Sufi Islam]].
6: ...s. The five baptised Sikhs were named Panj Pyare (Five Beloved Ones), who in turn baptised the Guru at...
8: ...ikh Holy Scripture was compiled and edited by the Fifth Guru, [[Guru Arjan]] in AD [[1604]].(Although ...
26: ... [[1604]] he installed the [[Adi Granth]] for the first time as the [[Holy Book]] of the Sikhs. In [[1...
28: ...]] and led the Sikhs until [[1675]], when he sacrificed his life to save the [[Kashmiri Hindu]]s who h... - Ballet (9155 bytes)
3: '''Ballet''' is the name given to a specific [[dance]] form and [[ballet technique|technique]...
5: ...]) and was a [[ballet comique]] (ballet drama). [[1581]] also saw the publication of [[Fabritio Caroso]]...
11: ...yale de Danse in 1661, the same year in which the first com餩e-ballet, composed by [[Jean-Baptist Lul...
13: ...sition by composers such as [[Christoph Gluck]]. Finally, opera was divided into three formal techniq...
15: ...n ballets, and teachers like [[Carlo Blasis]] codified ballet technique in the basic form that is stil... - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
5: ... was Christian. In [[1023]], merchants from [[Amalfi]] and [[Salerno]] in [[Italy]] were given permiss...
7: ..., established the first significant Hospitaller infirmary near to the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]]...
9: ...ings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were the work of either t...
15: ...order sought refuge in the [[Kingdom of Cyprus]]. Finding themselves becoming enmeshed in the politics...
17: ...y were forced to become a more militarized force, fighting especially with the [[Barbary pirates]]. Th... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...hemistry prior to the formulation of the [[scientific method]].
11: ... traditions, basic observations, and mysticism to fill in the gaps.
17: ...of the fundamental [[empirical knowledge]] of the fields of chemistry and modern [[medicine]].
21: ...s research did not enter the mainstream of scientific discussion.
23: ...ms, being unstable [[isotope]]s, lasted for under five seconds before they broke apart. More recently... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...fer to the season of the church year, lasting for fifty days, which follows this holiday and ends arou...
4: ...ed by Jesus and his [[disciples]] before his crucifixion is generally thought of as a Passover [[seder...
6: ...] [[Eostre]]. The [[Easter Bunny]] is often identified as a remnant of this fertility festival, althou...
59: ...oveable feast]]s'', in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the [[Gregorian calendar | Gregorian]]...
61: ...]] during the reign of [[Charlemagne]], when they finally adopted the Alexandrian method. Since wester... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
6: ...puted. The [[1949 Armistice Agreements|1949 cease-fire line]] between [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]], also ...
12: ...ection between the name and ''Shalim'' the personification of dusk in [[Ugarit|Ugaritic]] myth. See al...
20: ...according to the Bible, the [[Temple in Jerusalem|First Jewish Temple]] was built in Jerusalem by [[Ki...
22: ...ah become historically identifiable, and the significance the Temple had in Jewish religious life is c...
34: ..., the Jews continued to live in Jerusalem in significant numbers, and were allowed to practice their r... - Mobile phone (30513 bytes)
16: ...twork costs are mostly call volume related, while fixed-line telephony has a much higher subscriber re...
18: ...]30), and the availability of relatively low-cost fixed-line networks (around $30 for unlimited local ...
24: ...the carrier will put the customer's handset identifier into its subscriber database so that the handse...
32: ...ures aimed toward personalisation, such as user defined and downloadable [[ring tone]]s and [[operator...
40: ...rent from system to system. This leads to real difficulties in component integration and so to larger ...
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