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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... [[Valois Dynasty|Valois]] branch of the kings of France, and mother of three further kings of that br...
5: ...the time, but who would become King [[Henry II of France]].
7: ...proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to see his grandchildren b...
11: ...r the accession of her sickly son [[Francis II of France]] at age 15. His wife, [[Mary I of Scotland|...
13: ...e or metal. They forcefully shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
4: ...e of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local di...
6: ...invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are e...
26: The current location of Cairo was too far from the ancient course of the Nile to support a cit...
28: ...t]], which lay close to an ancient Egyptian canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.
30: ...Abbasid]]s, and contains the first [[mosque]] in Africa. - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: ...1607;وريّة مصرالعربي...
22: | [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]]
40: | from the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br />[[28 February]],...
56: ...s a [[republic]] mostly located in North-Eastern Africa.
58: ...he majority of the country is located in [[North Africa]]. It shares land borders with [[Libya]] to th... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...cratic Republic of the Congo]] and the [[Central African Republic]] to the southwest, [[Chad]] to the ...
40: established_dates = From [[Egypt]] and the [[United Kingdom]] <br> [[Jan...
64: ...7 years of [[First Sudanese Civil War|civil war]] from [[1955]] to [[1972]].
66: ...s born of the North (Arab, Muslim) versus South (African, Christian and animistic) and has a strong ec...
83: ...r limited budgets are determined by and dispensed from Khartoum. The states, as a result, remain econo... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
46: *[[Frank Yates|Yates, Frank]], ([[1902]]-[[1994]]), statistician
48: ...[[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
57: *[[Yazdegerd I of Persia]], from [[399]] to [[420]].
58: *[[Yazdegerd II of Persia]], from [[438]] to [[457]].
59: *[[Yazdegerd III of Persia]], from [[632]] to [[651]]. - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ... early example of the conflict of authority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]],...
7: ...er, he was offered a position on its faculty in [[1589]] and taught mathematics. Soon after, he moved to...
10: ...tters of science and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the prima...
12: ...eo's experiments, in particular the distinguished French [[History of science and technology|historian...
14: ...esearch into Galileo's unpublished working papers from as early as [[1604]] clearly showed the reality... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
1: [[image:Francis_Bacon.jpg|thumb|250px|Sir Francis Bacon]]
2: ...lish]] [[philosopher]], [[statesman]], [[spy]], [[freemason]] and [[essayist]]. He was knighted in [[1...
4: ...n method]]''. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, obse...
6: Francis Bacon was born at York House, Strand [[Londo...
16: ...nt and society in [[France]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political i... - 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... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...ry|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognised [[sovereignty|sovereign]] nation. ...
4: ... it is also much reduced in the [[Caribbean Sea]] from days of yore. Seaborne piracy against transport...
8: ...ecue|barbacoa]]'' elsewhere). These were used by French hunters called ''boucaniers''. These hunters...
10: ... corrupted into the English '''freebooters''' and French '''flibustiers'''. It came back into English...
14: ...rived from the European word, which in turn comes from the mediaeval Latin ''cursa'', "raid, expeditio... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fré¤İric 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... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ... or '''Saida''', ([[Arabic language|Arabic]] '''صيدا''' '''Ṣaydā'''; ...
4: ...n in producing glass and purple dyes. It was also from here that a colonising party went to found the ...
6: ...Eshmunazar|Eshmun’azar]] II was discovered. From a Phoenician inscription on its lid, it appears...
12: ...h took Sidon; after the war it became part of the French [[Protectorate]] in the Eastern Mediterranean...
15: ... wheat and vegetables are grown and there is much fruit also; some fishing is carried on. The heavily-... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...ad after his death by [[crucifixion]] (see [[Good Friday]]), which Christians believe happened at abou...
4: ... language|German]], the holiday's name is derived from ''Pesach'', the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] name...
6: ...ter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from ''Pesach'' and are instead related to ancient n...
69: ...such as the one developed by mathematician [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]].
81: ...er]] and the [[Crucifixion]]. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to ... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
27: * [[Michael Frank Goodchild]] ([[1944]] -)
65: * [[Alfred Weber]] (Germany, [[1868]] - [[1958]]
68: * [[Martin Zeiller]] (Germany, [[1589]] - [[1661]]) - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
9: ...|thumbnail|300px|Jerusalem and the Old City. View from the Mount of Olives]]
16: ...mbnail|150px|[[Archaeology|Archaeological]] ruins from [[King David]]'s time]]
30: ...G|right|thumb|150px|Sack of Jerusalem. A fragment from the [[Arch of Titus]], Rome.]]
34: ...stricting some Jewish practices. Angry at this affront, the Judeans again revolted led by [[Bar Kokhb...
36: ...city, except under a brief period of Persian rule from 614-629. - 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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