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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...[December 8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' w...
9: ...y, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("B...
14: ...t, because the legitimacy of Robert's children of first marriage were questionable. Females and female...
33: ...Duke of Somerset]] by Edward VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and...
37: ...sailed back to France from Dumbarton carrying the five-year-old Queen of Scots on board. - 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... - Narcissi (1567 bytes)
15: ...sian]] word of this plant, نرگس (''Nargis''). - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...abic language|Arabic]], '''الإسكندرية''', [[...
3: ...d had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
7: [[Image:Alexandria_egypt_6.jpg|thumb|right|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close...
21: ...act knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the...
23: ...t of fishermen and pirates. Behind it there were five native villages scattered along the strip betwe... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
3: ...theast Asian Nations]] (ASEAN) and the [[Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation]] (APEC).
5: ...1606;ي دارالسلام<br>Negara Brunei Darussalam...
21: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Malay language]]
60: ...Brunei on the Sultan's payroll to protect the oil fields in the West of the country. There is also a l...
84: ...ving as chairman for the 2000 [[APEC]] (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation) forum. Stated plans for t... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...1618;لَةْ اِسْرَائِي...
6: ...sra'el")<br>دولة اسرائيل<br>("Dawlat I...
13: official_languages = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Ara...
60: ...d contains many locations of great spiritual significance in Judaism, Christianity, and [[Islam]]. Sta...
73: ...ficant [[Immigration to Israel|immigration]]. The first waves of Jewish immigration to the then Turkis... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...;nistān افغانستان) is a country in [[Central ...
3: ...f Afghanistan|constitution]] the country is now officially named the '''[[Islamic republic|Islamic Rep...
5: ...1605;ی افغانستان'''<br>'''Da Afghanistan Isl...
21: | '''[[Official language]]s''' || [[Persian language|Persian]...
64: ...ellors, who served occasionally as regents, identified with the epithet Mohammadzay. - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ... '''Republic of Sudan''' (in recent years the [[definite article]] has increasingly been dropped in co...
8: ...1607;ورية السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-S...
15: official_languages = [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ...
64: ...southern army officers that sparked 17 years of [[First Sudanese Civil War|civil war]] from [[1955]] t...
70: ...civilian government. However the civil war intensified in lethality and the economy continued to deter... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
8: ...1578;وان مليسيا'''</big></big>
24: | '''[[Official language]]'''
80: ...st, thus ending the [[Sultanate of Malacca]]. The first ever Malacca sultan was Parameswara. However, ...
82: ... administration was transferred to the Colonial Office in London.
84: ...avoured the merchants of the Straits Settlements. Finally, the [[Pangkor Treaty of 1874]] paved the wa... - Aswan (1042 bytes)
6: ...It stands on the east bank of the [[Nile]] at the first [[cataract]] and is a busy market and tourist ...
10: This is identified with the ancient city of [[Syene]], which is fa... - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
5: ...op was crowned by [[Pope Sixtus V]] with a bronze figure of [[St. Peter]], which remains to this day.
9: ... the [[Dacia]]ns; the lower half illustrating the first (101-102), and the top half illustrating the s...
11: The two sections are separated by a personification of [[Victoria (mythology)|Victory]] writing...
13: ...diers, statesmen and priests, showing about 2,500 figures in all and providing a valuable source of in...
17: ...e, having offered the visitor in antiquity a magnificent view over the surrounding Trajan's forum; 43 ... - Politics (7193 bytes)
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
14: ...ion were the institutionalization of social stratification, non-agricultural specialized crafts (inclu...
23: ...democracy]], having various officers selected for fixed terms by popular [[election]]. Following the ...
34: ...timacy for authority known as ([[tripartite classification of authority]]). He proposed three reasons ...
40: ...ten short lived, seldom outliving the charismatic figure that leads them. Examples include [[Hitler]]... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...arl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
15: ... of the T?n faculty. However, before he took his final exams he was recommended for the vacant post o...
23: ...ograph on the origins of [[snow|snowflakes]], the first known work on the subject. He correctly theori...
25: ...ed. He initially rejected this idea, but later confirmed it on [[May 15]] of the same year.
31: ==Scientific work== - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
9: *[[1497]]-[[John Cabot]] is the first European since the [[Viking]]s to reach the No...
13: ...alboa]] crosses isthmus of [[Panama]], sees [[Pacific Ocean]]
21: ...[[Walter Raleigh]] founds [[Roanoke Colony]], the first English settlement in the New World, in the [[... - Monsoon (5846 bytes)
2: ...haracterized by very heavy [[rainfall]], and specifically the rainfall that is associated with this wi...
5: ... [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word "موسم" (''mausem''), which means ''season''. It...
7: ...However, it is more likely that he was simply the first Greek to master the monsoon, as Yemeni sailors...
18: ...monsoons have come to be better understood, the definition has been broadened to include almost all of... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
7: He was born named Filippo in [[Nola]], in [[Campania]], the son of Gio...
10: ...s are the four [[classical element]]s: earth, air fire, water]]
11: ...inas]], [[Averroes]], [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Nicholas of Cusa]].
17: ...e our [[Sun]], that the universe was [[infinity|infinite]], with a "Plurality of Worlds", and that all...
21: ...makes a case that Bruno is the previously unidentified 'Henry Fagot' whose reports to Francis Walsingh... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...suited for copper engraving of maps. He wrote the first instruction book of italic script to be publis...
12: ...ve]] in [[1564]]. He devised a new projection and first used it in [[1569]]; it had parallel lines of ...
14: ...|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 15...
15: ... produced his own atlas in a number of parts, the first of which was published in [[1578]] and consist...
22: ...phicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura'' (Atlas, or Cosmographical Meditations on th... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ... Seljuks migrated from the north into [[Persia]], fighting and conquering various tribes on their way ...
5: ...[[1118]], the third son [[Ahmed Sanjar]], unsatisfied by his portion of the inheritance, took over th...
7: ...of [[Khwarezmid Empire|Khwarezm]], and the Seljuk finally collapsed. Of the former Great Seljuk Empire... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...anning, will link Bahrain to Qatar as the longest fixed link in the world.
20: | '''Official [[language]]s''' || [[Arabic language|Arabic]...
61: ...s, [[Babylonian]]s, [[Greeks]], [[Persians]], and finally the [[Arabs]], under whom the island became ...
67: ... the rest and since then the name of Bahrain specifically referred to today's Bahrain.
69: ...f Bahrain chose to reject Iran's claims, and to define themselves, as well as their culture to be Arab... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
200: *[[Johannes Fabricius]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1587]] – [[1615]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]])
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