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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
9: ... losing a ship, that he entered and departed some fifty undiscovered harbours without serious mishap a...
11: ==First Voyage 1534==
13: ...ched-for [[northwest passage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] ...
17: ... site of their arrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault, a l... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - Kom Ombo (811 bytes)
1: ...''' (كوم أمبو) is an agricultural town in [[Egypt]] famous for... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ... may not have been the [[first woman]], or Adam's first wife.
6: ...#7716;awwāh in Tiberian Hebrew, and حواء (Ḥawwāʾ) in Arabic...
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... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...ing of trade routes in the 17th century were significant numbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Wes...
3: ...d rug. The former indicates a covering that is affixed to a floor and the latter a floor covering tha...
16: ...orming a knot. Because of the loom structure only five colors can be used to create the design. Moquet...
34: ...rtical red stripe near the hoist side, containing five carpet guls (designs used in producing rugs).
41: ...d, angular calligraphy called [[Kufic]], pseudo-Kufic, or Kufesque. - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: |+<big><big>'''جمهوريّة مصر...
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 الجز...
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... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
3: ...<big><big>'''الجمهورية العر...
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 الل...
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)
2: ... of Djibouti''' ({{lang-ar|جيبوتي}}, Ǧībūtī) is ...
4: ...1608;رية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa Jibuti<BR>R鰵blique...
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... - Qatar (10610 bytes)
5: |+<big><big>'''دولة قطر<br>Dawlat Qa...
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
59: ...n peninsula and camped on the coasts within small fishing and pearling villages. The clans battled ea...
61: ...ense of political self although it did not gain official standing as a British [[protectorate]] until ...
63: ...e in 1961. Seven years later when the British officially announced that it would disengage (politica... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...el''; [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: دَوْلَةْ اِ...
6: ...#1488;ל<br>("Medinat Yisra'el")<br>دولة اسرائ...
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)
3: ...f Afghanistan|constitution]] the country is now officially named the '''[[Islamic republic|Islamic Rep...
5: ...0; دولت'''<br>'''دولت اسلام...
21: | '''[[Official language]]s''' || [[Persian language|Persian]...
64: ...ellors, who served occasionally as regents, identified with the epithet Mohammadzay.
72: ...4]], when 10,000 people were killed from factions fighting in the Kabul area. Backed by Pakistan and h... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ... '''Republic of Sudan''' (in recent years the [[definite article]] has increasingly been dropped in co...
8: ...1608;رية السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-Sudan |
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: ...ig>'''ڤرسكوتوان مليسي...
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... - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
5: ...1583;ولة الكويت<br>(Dawlat al Kuwayt)'''</big></bi...
19: | '''[[Official language]]'''
61: ... Iraqi forces. It took several months before the fire could be controlled.]]
68: ...hip. Kuwait, having amassed great wealth, was the first of the Persian Gulf-Arab states to declare ind...
70: ...in]]) in August [[1990]]. Hussein's primary justifications included a charge that Kuwaiti territory w... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
2: ...g from [[decomposition]] by either natural or artificial means, has retained its physical form. This c...
4: ...at have been [[embalming|embalmed]] with the specific purpose of preservation, particularly those in [...
6: ...have been recovered from submerged [[cypress]] coffins packed with medicinal herbs.
12: ...istorians record that the Persians sometimes mummified their kings and nobility in wax, though this pr...
15: ...:Louvre egyptologie 21.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Mummified cat from Ancient Egypt. [[Mus�e du Louvre]], ... - 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... - Dahshur (1070 bytes)
1: '''Dahshur''' (Arabic دهشور ''Dahšūr'' [often incorrectly...
5: ...onstruction, while the Red Pyramid is the world's first "true", or smooth-sided pyramid. - 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]]
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