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- Aleksandra Lisowska (1848 bytes)
3: ..., wife of [[Suleiman the Magnificent|S?n the Magnificent]] of the [[Ottoman empire]], also variously k...
5: ...y in [[Rohatyn]]. She was captured and taken to [[Istanbul]] in the [[1520s]] as a [[slave]], but was select...
7: ...led - see [[Suleiman the Magnificent|S?n the Magnificent]] for details.
9: Khourrem was to bear S?n five children and, in an astonishing break with trad...
11: ...rusalem]], and the first to endow a [[mosque]] in Istanbul. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...t to nursing, a career with a poor reputation and filled mostly by poorer women. Traditionally, the ro...
11: ...ading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of [[C...
19: ...ightingale's pioneering work in Crimea and in the field of nursing, and Nightingale became a key advis...
27: ...ts began to filter back to Britain about the horrific conditions for the wounded. On [[October 21]], [...
31: ... for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short sup... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...ioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family an...
10: ...so recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is ...
23: ..., experimental, and substantially longer than the first two albums, it garnered mixed reviews. The err...
27: ...ternal to [[Atlantic Records]], called Igloo. Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "...
30: ...ed '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, the "Five and a Half Weeks" tour with [[Alanis Morissette... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...ngly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Ge...
11: ...part of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, was exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military personne...
13: Upon their arrival at [[SOE]] offices in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], it came as a shock to...
15: ...]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the visas.
17: There were also specific suspicions about Kowerski. These were addressed... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
3: ...t of the organization, are able and willing to fulfill these obligations. The General Assembly determi...
5: ...[[World War II]], to refer to the [[Allies]]. Its first formal use was in the [[1942]] [[Declaration b...
20: ...I]], the [[Allies]] used the term "United Nations Fighting Forces" to refer to their alliance. From Au...
24: ...945]], after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the [[United Nations Secur...
26: ...y architech [[Oscar Niemeyer]]. UN headquarters officially opened on [[January 9]], [[1951]]. While th... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
1: ...of a [[text]] on rectangular sheets of [[paper]]. First invented in [[China]] in [[1041]], the printin...
4: ...ostly used to print [[Bible]]s. Because of the difficulties inherent in carving massive quantities of ...
6: ...o used Chinese characters in literature), the benefit of the technique is not as apparent as with alph...
8: ...ake the text. Gutenberg is also credited with the first use of an oil-based [[ink]], and using "rag" [...
12: ...r day. Books produced in this period, between the first work of Johann Gutenberg and the year 1500, ar... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
11: largest_city = [[Istanbul]] |latd=41|latm=1|latNS=N|longd=28|longm=57|longE...
12: official_languages = [[Turkish language|Turkish]]|
58: ...oundations of the current republic. Even though official history of the state begins on [[May 19]], [[...
62: ... the history of Turkey. The least disputed classification is based on three global periods: [[Turkish...
72: ...ces. The Grand National Assembly is elected every five years. To be represented in Parliament, a party... - Greece (54754 bytes)
15: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Greek language|Greek]]
50: ...el|''Ellás''}} ([[IPA]]: [{{IPA|e̞ˈlas}}])), officially the '''Hellenic Republic''' ({{lang|el|Ελ...
65: ... Greece's [[Aegean Sea]] saw the emergence of the first civilizations in Europe, namely the [[Minoan c...
68: ... the eastern Mediterranean. When the Roman Empire finally split in two, the [[Eastern Roman Empire]], ...
82: ...ire]]. Its last emperor, [[Constantine XI]], died fighting on the walls and was buried anonymously alo... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
4: There are no fixed or universally agreed dates for the beginning ...
6: ...ek period was taken to begin with the date of the first [[Olympic Games]] in [[776 BC]], but most hist...
24: ...taly|Syracuse]], [[Naples]], [[Marseilles]] and [[Istanbul]] had their beginnings as the Greek colonies Syra...
28: ...formal practice of [[pederasty]], in an effort to find a permanent solution to the problem of overpopu...
32: ... landowners, who formed a warrior [[aristocracy]] fighting frequent petty inter-city wars over land. B... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region t...
6: ...e zones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as ...
14: ...+ 2 (e.g. if it is 03:00 UTC, then it is 05:00 in Istanbul)
24: Note: The time zone adjustment for a specific location may vary due to the use of [[daylight s...
31: ... About [[August 23]], [[1852]], time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Gree... - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...ued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial and scientific language in Mesopotamia until about 1 AD. Then, ...
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24: Credit for being first to scientifically treat a bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian text bel...
28: ...students studying Sumerian. Poebel's grammar was finally superseded when, in 1984, appeared The Sumer... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
7: ...ass of warriors who now had very little to do but fight among themselves and terrorize the peasant pop...
9: ...e [[mercenaries]] from elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic [[Moors]]. In [[1063]], [[...
11: ...ifest in the overwhelming popular support for the First Crusade, and the religious vitality of the 12t...
20: The trigger for the First Crusade was Emperor [[Alexius I]]'s appeal to ...
23: ..., with its sense that the highest good was to die fighting for the cause of the right deity, in a Chri... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...at the entrance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul (Constantinople).</small>
46: ...ts capital in [[Constantinople]]. In certain specific contexts, usually referring to the centuries tha...
51: ...played a crucial role in this. Henceforth, it was fixed policy in the West to refer to the emperor in ...
57: "[[Byzantium]] may be defined as a multi-ethnic empire that emerged as a Chr...
61: Byzantines identified themselves as Ρωμαί	... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
11: The sport is regulated by the FIA, [[F餩ration Internationale de l'Automobile]], ...
18: ...ampionship was not formalized until [[1947]], and first run in [[1950]]; a championship for constructo...
22: ...Fangio is remembered for dominating Formula One's first decade.
24: The first major technological development, [[Cinquemani]...
26: ...]], [[British racing green]] came to dominate the field for the next decade. Between [[Jim Clark]], [[... - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
9: ...e (from the [[Latin]] word ''princeps'', meaning "first citizen", the only title Augustus would permit...
11: ... [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [[History of Bulgaria|first and second Bulgarian empires]] (see [[List of ...
21: ...or several long-lasting achievements that would define the Empire:
22: *Creation of a hereditary office, which we refer to as [[Emperor]] of Rome.
23: ...le. Duration of Roman military service marked the final step in the evolution of the [[Roman Army]] fr... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...bringing pirates to [[justice]].<ref>{{cite news |first=M.Chiarugi |last=D.Archibugi |url=http://www.o...
9: [[File:Romtrireme.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mosaic of a [[T...
12: ...ifty, and the pirates indeed raised the ransom to fifty talents. After the ransom was paid, Caesar rai...
14: The Senate finally invested [[Pompey]] with powers to deal with... - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...ilated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[M...
15: ...in Europe and was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
19: ...d the rest of the country. Nevertheless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted to coloni...
23: ... revive, and organized its own war of reconquest, finally subjugating its enemies and annexing their t...
27: ...(title)|Caesar]]'', also written Czar) of Russia, finalized this process, consolidated surrounding are... - Ottoman Empire (15917 bytes)
16: | '''[[Official language]]'''
20: | [[Istanbul|İstanbul]] ([[Constantinople]]/[[Asitane]]/...
47: ...antinople|captured]] [[Constantinople]] (modern [[Istanbul|İstanbul]]) from the [[Byzantine Empire]], ...
53: ...the ''Ottoman Principality''. [[Murad I]] was the first Ottoman to claim the title of [[sultan]] (king...
57: ... II]], [[Selim I]] and [[Suleyman I]]. The scientific advantage the Ottomans had over the other Europe... - Hagia Sophia (7132 bytes)
2: ...agia-Sofia-01s.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Hagia Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1994]]
3: ...converted to a [[mosque]], now a [[museum]], in [[Istanbul]], formerly [[Constantinople]]. It is universally...
7: ...he 4th century. Following the destruction of the first church, a second was built by [[Constantius II...
10: ...cribed in [[Procopius]]' ''On Buildings'' (De Aedificiis). The Byzantine poet [[Paulus the Silentiary]...
14: ...pg|right|thumb|400px|Interior of the Hagia Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey. Image provided by [http://classroomclipa... - Ankara (15129 bytes)
2: ...y]] and the country's second largest city after [[Istanbul]]. The city has a population of 5,153,000 (2005),...
8: ... the streets are narrow. There are, however, many fine remains of [[Architecture of Ancient Greece|Gre...
15: ...y the [[Gaul]]ish race [[Galatia]]ns who were the first to make Ankara their capital. It was then know...
23: ...ober 29]], [[1923]], Ankara having had replaced [[Istanbul]] (formerly Constantinople) as the capital of the...
26: ...ers, shopping malls, and high-rises. Government offices and foreign embassies are also located in the ...
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