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- Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...21667). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html]
4: While al-Qāhirah is the official name of the city, in local speech it is typic...
16: ...ings and modern architecture, the eastern half is filled with hundreds of ancient [[mosque]]s that act...
18: ...government buildings are located and government officials live. Bridges also cross the Nile attaching...
28: The first settlement on the location of modern Cairo was... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: |+<big><big>'''جمهوريّة مص...
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
67: ...ṣr''', the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and official name for Egypt, is of [[Semitic]] origin, and...
69: ...t of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa [[3200 BC]] by King [...
75: ...ne]] [[1953]] with Gen. [[Mohamed Naguib]] as the first President of the Republic. After Naguib resign... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
3: |+<big>'''الجمهورية الج...
19: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Arabic language|Arabic]]
21: ...r language|Berber]], [[French language|French unofficial but commonly used in administration]]
62: ...n [[Hafsid]]s, and Moroccan [[Merinid]]s. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, [[Spain]] started...
64: ...Mediterranean resulted in the [[First Barbary War|First]] and [[Second Barbary War]] with the [[United... - Jordan (20715 bytes)
3: ...1606;ّيّة الهاشميّة<br>(Al...
19: | '''[[Official language]]'''
69: ...ameluks]], [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Turks, and, finally, the British. At the end of [[World War I]],...
75: ...erritory occupied by Israel and believes that its final status should be determined through direct neg...
77: ...nty and security of the Hashemite state, and open fighting erupted in June 1970. - Andorra (11532 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]''': || [[Catalan language|Catalan]...
69: ...harter to the Andorran people in return for their fighting the [[Moors]]. Overlordship over the territ...
73: ... France|Henry IV]] of France, he issued an edict (1607) that established the head of the French state an...
81: ...oroughly modernized in 1993, the year in which it finally became a member of the United Nations.
87: ..., [[legislative]], and [[judicial]] branches. Ratified and approved in 1993, the [[Constitution of And... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
3: |+<big><big>'''الجمهورية الع...
17: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Arabic language|Arabic]]
49: ...alist [[Ba'ath]] Party to power. The Ba'ath's key figure became [[Saddam Hussein]] who acceded to the ...
62: ...n troops can remain in control of the country indefinitely despite the transfer of sovereignty. Since ...
64: ...Government has two major tasks ahead of them. The first is to attempt to reign in the insurgency which... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
4: |+<big><big>'''الجمهوريّة ال...
19: | '''[[Official language]]'''
71: Lebanon is one of the fifteen present-day countries that comprise what is ...
73: ...ions]] [[French Mandate of Lebanon|mandated]] the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [...
75: ...ebanon's constitution, drawn up in [[1926]], specified a balance of political power among the major re... - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
4: |+<big><big>'''جمهورية جيب...
19: | '''[[Official language]]s'''
70: ...resident of the tiny Horn of Africa nation, the official news agency, Agence Djiboutienne d'Informatio...
72: ...s second president, Guelleh was first elected to ofice in 1999, taking over from his uncle, Hassan Gou...
77: ...ch consists of 65 members which are elected every five years. - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ... '''Republic of Sudan''' (in recent years the [[definite article]] has increasingly been dropped in co...
8: native_name = جمهورية الس...
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... - Dahshur (1070 bytes)
1: '''Dahshur''' (Arabic دهشور ''Dahšūr'' [oft...
5: ...onstruction, while the Red Pyramid is the world's first "true", or smooth-sided pyramid. - Maine (17312 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
38: ...uth Company]], the coastal areas of western Maine first became the [[Province of Maine]] in [[1622]] l...
45: ...ts]]. In [[1968]], [[Hubert Humphrey]] became the first Democrat in half a century to carry Maine (san...
49: ...te Representative in Maine, its highest elected official nationwide. Maine politicians, Republicans an...
74: ...st of Maine are lighthouses, sandy beaches, quiet fishing villages and thousands of offshore islands, ... - Virginia (23198 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
36: ... the [[Mid-Atlantic_States|Mid-Atlantic]]. Its official name is the '''Commonwealth of Virginia'''; i...
40: ...n]] and [[Zachary Taylor|Taylor]] died while in office.)
46: ...n [[1607]]. Its Second Charter was officially ratified on [[May 23]], [[1609]].
48: ...lish Civil War]]. [[Patrick Henry]] served as the first Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779, and a... - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
13: ...nnual Fiesta when Santa Feans burn [[Zozobra]], a fifty-foot puppet also called "Old Man Gloom."
24: founded = [[1607]] |
43: Santa Fe was founded in [[1607]], making it the oldest capital city and the seco...
60: ...ian]], 0.08% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 15.29% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|oth... - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
8: *[[Moammar Al Qadhafi|Qadhafi, Moammar]], Libyan military leader
10: ... of Prime Ministers of Fiji|Prime Minister]] of [[Fiji]] (2000-present)
42: ...linus the Elder|Quellinus, Erasmus, the Elder]], (1607-1678), painter
55: ...|Quidde, Ludwig]], (1858-1941), historian and pacifist
64: *[[Richard Quine|Quine, Richard]], film director - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...the solar wind than dust is, and follows magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. Whil...
21: Comets are classified according to their orbital periods. ''Short per...
29: ...nd Halley]] demonstrated that the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 were the same body and successfully pre...
33: Until [[1994]], comets were first given a provisional designation consisting of ...
35: ...}} So Halley's Comet, the first comet to be identified as periodic, has the systemic designation 1P/16... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: '''Meteorology''' is the scientific [[science|study]] of the [[Earth's atmosphere|at...
12: ...endence of [[atmospheric pressure]] on height was first shown by [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[René „escarte...
14: ...r conditions on a daily basis, and was one of the first Americans to forecast the weather on a daily b...
16: ...ation of the Earth affects airflow was partial at first. Late in the 19th century the full extent of t...
18: ...eather observations were still hindered by the difficulty of establishing certain weather characterist... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
381: *[[Beverly K. Effinger]] ([[1955]]-)
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
412: *[[Stanislaw Fijalkowski]] ([[1922]]-) - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aristotle]]. In additio...
7: ...rsity of Pisa]], but was forced to "drop out" for financial reasons. However, he was offered a positio...
10: ...losophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science....
18: ...makers. His work on the device also made for a profitable sideline with merchants who found it useful ...
20: ...humb|200px|right|It was on this page that Galileo first noted an observation of the [[natural satellit... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...ize an inductive methodology for [[science|scientific]] inquiry, often called the ''[[Baconian method]...
8: He was the youngest of five sons of [[Nicholas Bacon|Sir Nicholas Bacon]], ...
12: At Cambridge he first met the Queen, who was impressed by his precoc...
18: ... a fifth of that money. Having started with insufficient means, he borrowed money and became habitual...
25: ...nt in 1594 and Bacon became a candidate for the office, Lord Essex's influence could not secure him th... - Timeline of United States pre-history (1600-1699) (5684 bytes)
8: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Jamestown, Virginia]]
9: *[[1607]]-Settlement of [[Popham Colony]] in [[Maine]]
18: *[[1619]]-First African [[slavery|slaves]] arrive at Jamestown
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