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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], ...
12: ... [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
17: ...ted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
24: ... there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep her from rolling off.
31: ...ted them to break their traditional alliance with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
7: ...Since her father's style took heavily inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style wa...
18: ... marry [[Pierantonio Stiattesi]], a modest artist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple mov...
24: ...nd the protection of influential people, starting from Granduke Cosimo II de' [[Medici]] and expecial...
26: ...was rising. The success and the fashion radiating from her figure fueled many voices about her private...
28: From this period we remember the [[La Conversione de... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
8: ...1576;يّة المتّحدة<br>Al-Imārā...
65: ...pointed 40-member Federal National Council, drawn from all the emirates, reviews proposed laws. There ...
67: ... bin Sultan Al Nahyan]] was the union's president from the nation's founding until his death on [[2 No...
71: ...as [[Burj Al Arab]] and [[The Palm Islands]], and friendliness to the West have led many to call it th...
151: *[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/aetoc.html Library of Congress - Country Stud... - Djibouti (8746 bytes)
2: ... the Red Sea, on the [[Arabian Peninsula]], 20 km from the coast of Djibouti, is [[Yemen]].
4: ...1585;ية جيبوتي<br>Jumhuriyaa Jibuti<BR>R鰵blique de Dji...
20: | [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[French language|French]]
45: | [[Djiboutian Franc|Franc]] ([[ISO_4217|DJF]])
64: ...de]]. In [[1967]], the name was changed to the '''French Territory of the Afars and the Issas'''. On [... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...257;n افغانستان) is a country in [[Central Asia]] ...
5: ...1740; افغانستان'''<br>'''Da Afghanistan Islami Daw...
36: | From [[United Kingdom|the British]]<br>[[1919]]
55: ...Afghanistan. The remainder of the name originates from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''stā...
64: ...ans. The Mohammadzay furnished the Saddozay kings frequently with top counsellors, who served occasion... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
8: ...<big><big>'''ڤرسكوتوان مليس...
43: | From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[August 31]], [[1...
66: ...wly-built [[Putrajaya]]</small><br> <small>2. 020 from [[Singapore]]</small>
76: The earliest recorded Malay kingdoms grew from coastal city-ports established in the [[10th ce...
78: ...by a prince (Parameswara) from Palembang who fled from the island Temasek (now known as Singapore). Wi... - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
5: ...1604;ة الكويت<br>(Dawlat al Kuwayt)'''</big></big>
41: | [[June 19]], [[1961]] from the United Kingdom
65: ...igrated to the northern shore of the Persian Gulf from the Najd, their famine-stricken homeland in cen...
66: .... The current rulers of the country are descended from Sabah I, who was chosen by the community, which...
68: ...was occupied by tribes and used for spice trading from [[India]]. By the [[18th century]], most of the... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ... the country's early history, stemming as it does from the Roman name ''Portus Cale'', a possibly mixe...
15: ...C]], several waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from [[Central Europe]] and intermarried with local ...
17: ...Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the [[Conii]]. Over decades, the R...
25: ...s. From there they aimed to reconquer their lands from the [[Moors]] (mainly [[Berber]] with some [[Ar...
27: ...r of the Iberian Peninsula, faced new competition from other regions. The lords of the cities of [[Coi... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Politics (7193 bytes)
9: ...d equal right to every resource in nature and was free to use any means to acquire those resources. H...
16: The word "Politics" is derived from the Greek word for city-state, "Polis". Corpor...
21: ...governed. However, this democracy was limited to free, male, landholders.
25: ...bility of education and leisure to otherwise disenfranchised classes along with a desire to participat...
78: [[fa:سیاست]] - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...ember 13]], [[1592]]) was an influential [[France|French]] [[Renaissance]] writer, generally consider...
6: ...Bordeaux]]. His mother, Antoniette de Lopez, came from a Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised...
8: ...g at the Bordeaux Parlement, he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de...
16: ...ce, respected both by the Catholic [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and the Protestant [[Henry o...
18: ...one]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, par... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...ius]] and [[Gaspar Myrica]]. They worked together from [[1535]] to [[1536]] to construct a terrestrial...
15: ...gh introducing a number of new errors). Maps of [[France]], [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]] were a...
22: ...ra'' (Atlas, or Cosmographical Meditations on the Frame for the World and its Form) by Gerardus Mercat... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Quran (41479 bytes)
6: ...umbers, but by an Arabic name derived in some way from the sura. (See [[sura|List of sura names]].) Th...
14: ...1; Arabic. There are few other examples of Arabic from that time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspen...
24: ...e, exhortation, and legal prescription. The suras frequently combine all these modes, not always in wa...
46: ...-final consonants. Some suras also include a [[refrain]] repeated every few verses, for instance [[ar...
52: ...ndness. And it is not lawful for you that ye take from women aught of that which ye have given them; e... - Libya (12985 bytes)
1: Libya is a country in [[North Africa]], bordering the [[Mediterranean Sea]], locate...
3: ...sometimes referring to the entire continent of [[Africa]].
6: ...1576;ية الإشتراكية<br>al-Jam...
59: ...[[terrorism]]. All Libyan diplomats were expelled from the United States and the United States officia...
67: ...man [[La Belle (discotheque)|La Belle]] nightclub frequented by U.S. servicemen on [[April 5]], which ... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...[Iran]]. The Elamite period is considered to last from ca. [[2700 BC]] to [[539 BC]], with a preceding...
10: ...cial name [[Khuzestan|Khuzestān]] is derived from the Old Persian root ''Hujiyā'', which mea...
19: ...C]]. But we can only really trace Elamite history from records dating to beginning of the [[Akkadian E...
57: ...anced with federalism must have suffered, and the fraternal, sectional strife that so weakened Elam in...
60: ...ng the sack of Susa in 647 BCE. Here, flames rise from the city as Assyrian soldiers topple it with pi... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
5: ...t known system of classifying forms of life comes from the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classi...
11: ...everinus]] (1580–1656), [[William Harvey]] (1578–1657), and [[Edward Tyson]] (1649–170...
13: ...ding to similarities and differences that emerged from observation.
19: ...as [[binomial nomenclature]], and the name formed from the two parts is known as the [[scientific name...
23: ...p at a given layer is composed of a set of groups from the layer directly below. Simply knowing the tw... - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...mer and mathematician [[Pedro Nunes]] ([[1492]]-[[1578]]) who invented the principle. - Mobile phone (30513 bytes)
12: ...st communication systems related to, but distinct from mobile phones, such as [[satellite phone]]s and...
18: ...ere (calls cost more to make to a mobile, but are free to receive) cannot be used, and as a result use...
36: ...on more than one [[GSM frequency ranges|GSM radio frequency]]. The multi-mode case occurs mostly in GS...
40: ...hones, the base band processing is very different from system to system. This leads to real difficulti...
42: ...iers in the area. This mode allows for safe inter-frequency handovers with channel measurements which ... - Industry (5421 bytes)
2: ...manufacturing]] which involves large amounts of upfront [[capital (economics)|capital]] investment bef...
4: ...a third of the world's economic output is derived from manufacturing industries— more than [[agr...
54: ...e manufacturing sector has been assumed to result from a decline in the competitiveness of the sector,...
79: [[fa:صنعت]]
80: [[fr:Industrie]]
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