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- Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
1: ...fealty from a vassal, possibly Melisende herself, from the [[Melisende Psalter]]]]
3: ...) was [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|Queen of Jerusalem]] from [[1131]] to [[1153]].
9: ...the [[Count of Boulogne|County of Boulogne]] in [[France]]. Melisende was the heir of this dynasty, an...
13: ...son of previous marriage, [[Geoffrey of Anjou|Geoffrey]] was in these same years married to Empress Ma...
15: ...d of his crusader knights Fulk excluded Melisende from granting titles and other forms of patronage, a... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...ize]] and the [[Sakharov Prize|Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobe...
6: ...[[Aung San]], who negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in [[1947]] and was [[assassination|ass...
8: ...ed Kingdom]] and at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]]. While in...
12: ...der [[house arrest]] in [[1989]]. She was offered freedom if she would leave the country, but she refu...
16: ... He died in March [[1999]]. She remains separated from their children, who remain in the UK. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ...of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chu...
13: ... 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles (about 130 kilometers) from Nazareth; and while there they found shelter in...
15: ...|Matt. 1:21]]), because he was to save his people from their sins. This was followed by the presentat...
19: ...Acts 1:14). From this time she wholly disappears from the historical biblical accounts, although it i...
25: ... Virgin Mary]]'' or ''Our Lady'' (this latter, in French, Spanish, and Italian, is rendered ''Notre Da... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
1: [[Image:matahari.jpg|frame|Mata Hari, [[striptease|exotic dancer]] and co...
5: ..., she moved to [[Paris]]. She posed as a princess from [[Java (island)|Java]] and became an exotic dan...
7: ... Mata Hari was probably a low level agent for the French and the Germans, but there is no evidence tha...
17: A fictionalized version of Margarete Zelle, a French super-spy code-named Malkovich, appears as a ... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
14: ...ds alternate with a supplementary weft that rises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular ang...
16: ...uard mechanism (see [[Jacquard loom]]) in 1812 in France and c. 1825 in England. The addition of stea...
21: ...r Axminster]] (1890). These types were developed from the American [[Halcyon Skinner]]'s 1860s invent...
26: The warp threads are set up on the frame of the loom before weaving begins. A number o...
30: ...al carpet production are: [[Turkey]], [[Northern Africa]], the [[Caucasus]], [[Iran]], [[Nepal]], [[Tu... - Shofar (6586 bytes)
5: ... the voice of a shofar, "exceeding loud," issuing from the thick cloud on [[Mount Sinai]] that made al...
7: ... praise (Ps. xcviii. 6; comp. ib. xlvii. 5). More frequently it was used as the signal-horn of war, li...
15: ...[halakha|Jewish law]] women and minors are exempt from the command to hear the shofar-blowing, but the...
17: ...ce resembling that of a European [[trumpet]] or [[French horn]], but smaller.
25: Ten appropriate verses from the Bible were recited at each repetition, whic... - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
36: | From [[Ethiopia]]<br /> [[May 29]], [[1991]]<br...
53: ... Having achieved independence on May 24, [[1993]] from [[Ethiopia]], it is one of the youngest indepen...
57: ...ΑΙΑ (''Erythra'), which derives from ΕΡΥΘΡΑ Θ[...
66: ...cement, reduced economic development, and one of Africa's more severe landmine problems. The [[Ethiop...
71: ...s entirely populated by members of the [[People's Front for Democracy and Justice]] (PFDJ). This assem... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...ocidal]] [[Second Congo War]] (known also as the African World War), the deadliest conflict since [[Wo...
16: official_languages = [[French language|French]] |
41: established_dates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[June 30]], [[1960]] |
42: currency = [[Congolese franc]] |
50: ...on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest International Comparison Programme b... - Isis (20790 bytes)
7: ...er origins are uncertain but are believed to come from the [[Nile Delta]]; however unlike other [[Anci...
22: ...ctor, and mother, and the lusty aspect originally from Hathor, she was also made the patron goddess of...
51: ...of the role came later by association. In many [[African]] tribes, the king's throne is known as the m...
56: .... The tale describes how Nephthys became sexually frustrated with Set, who was [[gay]] (and already ha...
65: ...of her husband. In one instance, Isis heals Horus from a lethal scorpion sting; she also performs othe... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
1: ...vilization]] that existed in [[Europe]], [[North Africa]], and the [[Middle East]] between [[753 BC]] ...
9: [[Image:Lupaegemelli.jpg|framed|right|The female wolf, feeding the baby twins...
11: ...Palatine Hill]], approximately eighteen [[mile]]s from the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the river [[Tiber]]. ...
25: ... each other for power. Caesar emerged victorious from the resulting Civil War, and was made dictator ...
27: ...ements ([[27 BC]] and [[23 BC]]) transformed Rome from a Republic to an Empire. His designated success... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Pyrrho (3149 bytes)
1: ...[[Pyrrhonism]]'''. [[Diogenes Laertius]], quoting from [[Apollodorus]], says that he was at first a pa...
3: ...nly proper attitude is ''[[ataraxia]]'', "freedom from worry". - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ... for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ... time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even thoug...
37: ...ime that is not offset by a number of whole hours from Greenwich Mean Time. - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...the [[19th century]]. Sumerian is distinguished from other languages of the area such as [[Hebrew la...
16: ...le Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets from [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]-speaking [[Ninev...
26: ...r a dozen years, starting in 1885, even the great Friedrich Delitzsch accepted Halevy's arguments, not...
30: ...ranslating Sumerian can be illustrated by a quote from Miguel Civil of the University of Chicago's [[O...
34: ... to scholars as many literary tablets as possible from the collections in Philadelphia, Istanbul, and ... - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
5: ...ding the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[France]], and [[Germany]]. Edison started the [[Moti...
7: ...et at his winter retreat (The Mangoes). They were friends until Edison died. The [[Edison and Ford Win...
14: From [[Port Huron]], Sam Edison moved to [[Detroit]]...
16: ...to read and experiment. Many of his lessons came from reading the book [["Parker's School of Natural ...
18: ...ork as it blocked out noises and prevented Edison from hearing the telegrapher sitting next to him. So... - Sundial (16148 bytes)
14: Sundials are known from ancient Egypt, and were developed further by ot...
24: ...rection table, and must be adjusted for longitude from the center of the time zone. The admittedly in...
34: The sun casts a shadow from the gnomon to a surface called the ''dial face'...
67: ...t of the gnomon (the ''substyle'') are calculated from the formula face-angle = arctan(sin(latitude)*t...
74: ...tional ancient convenience. They are easy to see from large distances and inexpensive to arrange. On... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
6: ...term "Christ" to describe Jesus, which is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] translation for "M...
8: ...lly grouped into three main branches, which split from one another in disputes over doctrine:
14: ... but not [[Restorationism]]) derive their beliefs from the conclusions reached by the Council of Nicea...
29: ...stles and other followers claimed that Jesus rose from the dead, and set out to [[preach]] the new mes...
35: * via [[Egypt]] into [[North Africa]], [[Sudan]] and [[Ethiopia]] - List of religions (13836 bytes)
3: ...major religions" have historically been separated from the list of all religions can be found in the a...
59: ***[[Jacob Frank|Frankists]]
129: ***[[Society of Friends]] (Quakers)
145: *African religions
230: ...a|Orisha religions]] (beliefs of the former West African slaves in the New World) - Cockroach (5997 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox infraclassis entry | taxon = [[Neoptera]]}}
19: ...''Blattaria'''). The name of the order is derived from [[Greek language|Greek]] ''blatta'', meaning co...
24: ... holds about 30-40 long, thin eggs, packed like [[frankfurter]]s in the case called an [[ootheca]].
26: The eggs hatch from the combined pressure of the hatchlings [[gulp]...
28: ... drops the capsule prior to hatching. Development from eggs to adults takes 3-4 months. Cockroaches li... - Archery (18991 bytes)
7: ...involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy from a set distance or distances. This is the most p...
11: ...ionale de Tir à ¬'Arc). Olympic rules are derived from FITA rules.
15: ... 18 m and 25 m. Outdoor distances range from 30 m to 90 m (for senior archers, jun...
25: ... spaced concentric rings, which have score values from 1 through 10 assigned to them. In addition, the...
60: ...rks or flags are set out in an area archers shoot from a start point at an elected mark attempting to ...
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