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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ...[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Med...
5: Born in [[Florence, Italy]], she was a daughter of [[Lorenzo II de' Medi...
7: ...quence, whispers of a divorce began at court, and it seemed possible that Francis, alarmed at the poss...
9: ...l aunt the Duchess of Albany died, Catherine inherited the [[County of Auvergne]].
11: ... Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition. On [[April 1]], [[1560]] she named as chancel... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...as by population|thirteenth most populous metropolitan area]] in the world. Cairo is located at 30°...
4: ...e of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local di...
6: ...uer of the enemies". This title was given to the city as many armies were destroyed in attempts to inv...
7: [[Image:EgyptAlQahirah.png|thumb|200px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] high...
10: ...G|thumb|200px|right|Average temperature and precipitations in Cairo]] - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: ...1607;وريّة مصرالعربي...
24: | '''[[Capital]] and Largest City'''
36: ...tal (2003) <br /> - [[Population density|Density]]
40: | from the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br />[[28 February]], [[1922]]<br ...
56: ...gypt''', (in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: مصر, [[Romanization|romanized]] ''Miṣr'... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ... the north, the [[Red Sea]] to the northeast, [[Eritrea]] and [[Ethiopia]] to the east, [[Kenya]] and ...
16: capital = [[Khartoum]] |
18: government_type = [[Authoritarian]] [[regime]] |
19: leader_titles = [[List of Presidents of Sudan|Pre...
21: largest_city = [[Khartoum]] | - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...ntion into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded versio...
5: ===[[Paleolithic|Paleolithic Era]]===
36: * 3500 BC: [[Cuneiform script|Writing]] in [[Sumer]]
62: ...century BC|400s BC]]: [[Catapult]] in [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]
99: ...eglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
5: ...|Yadav, Laloo Prasad]] (born 1948), [[India]]n politician
11: *[[Yakubu Gowon]] (born 1934), military leader of [[Nigeria]]
13: ...ihu Yale|Yale, Elihu]] (1649-1721), [[Yale University]] benefactor
20: ... Minoru]] (1912-1986), [[United States|US]] [[architect]]
21: *[[Tomoyuki Yamashita|Yamashita, Tomoyuki]] (1885-1946), Japanese lieutenant gen... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...thority and [[freedom of thought]], particularly with [[science]], in [[Western society]].
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[Vincenzo Galilei]], a mathe...
7: ...ved to the [[University of Padua]], and served on its faculty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], an...
10: ...ted to the rejection of blind allegiance to authority (like the Church) or other thinkers (such as [[A...
12: ...rements of time, which appeared to be impossible with the technology of the [[1600s]]. According to Ko... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...'Viscount St Albans''' in [[1621]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ...context of his time, such methods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]...
8: ...of Sir Nicholas, a member of the Reformed or [[Puritan]] Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, ...
10: ...3 at the age of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
14: ..., which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives. - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: ...n his main work, the ''Essays'', unprecedented in its candidness and personal flavor, he takes mankind...
6: ...otestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage with a peasant family and a tutor until he was six, a...
8: ... he became very close friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de la Boétie]] whose de...
10: ...dhood. In 1568 his father died and Montaigne inherited the Château de Montaigne, to which he mov...
12: ...]]'s ''Theologia naturalis'', then a posthumous edition of Boétie's works. In 1571 he retired t... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ... Unlike the [[stereotype|stereotypical]] pirate with [[cutlass]] and masted [[sailing ship]], today m...
4: ... oceans, and specifically in the straits of [[Strait of Malacca|Malacca]] and [[Singapore]], used by o...
8: ...These hunters became pirates and took their name with them. These pirates were eventually organized a...
10: ...the disruptive parliamentary maneuver of talking without stopping.
12: ...f seafaring people, their name became synonymous with piracy in the 15th century. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
43: *[[Rogers Albritton]]
112: *[[Titus Pomponius Atticus]], (110-32 BC)
163: *[[James Beattie (writer)|James Beattie]], (1735-1803){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
239: *[[Richard-Bevan Braithwaite]], (1900-1990){{fn|O}} - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...am]]. [[Muslim]]s believe that the Qur'an is the literal word of God and the culmination of God's reve...
6: ... Qur'an proceeds to the longest sura, and closes with some of the shortest ones.
8: == The Qur'an as divided for reading and recitation ==
10: ...ture is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling paragraphs and comprising roughly ten...
14: ...one of the first written works in Arabic. It is written in an early form of classical [[Arabic languag... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ...]] and 30 miles south of the capital [[Beirut]]. Its name means ''a fishery''.
4: ...m here that a colonising party went to found the city of [[Tyre]].
6: ...name of the Lord', a title also found in an [[Ugaritic]] text.
8: ...th Jesus and [[St Paul]] are said to have visited it (see ''Biblical Sidon'' below).
10: ...eigneury in the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]]. The remai... - Easter (31700 bytes)
1: {{christianity}}
2: ...er''' is the most important [[holiday]] of the [[liturgical year|Christian year]], observed in [[March...
4: ... much of its symbolic meaning but also for its position in the calendar; the [[Last Supper]] shared by...
6: ...]] is often identified as a remnant of this fertility festival, although there is no hard evidence of ...
13: ...hristianity|Western]]''' !! '''[[Eastern Christianity|Eastern]]''' - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
1: ...guage|English]] [[alphabet|alphabetical]] [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]s).
32: * [[Richard Hartshorne]] (United States, ([[1899]]-[[1992]])
33: ...eographer)|David Harvey]] (United States, Great Britain, b. [[1935]])
42: * [[August Meitzen]], (Germany [[1822]] - [[1910]])
62: * [[Yi-Fu Tuan]] (United States, China, b. [[1930]]) - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...e to the [[religion]]s of [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], and [[Islam]].
4: ...consists of four quarters: [[Jew]]ish, [[Christianity|Christian]], [[Armenian (people)|Armenian]], and...
6: ...nize Israeli sovereignty over some or all of the city and enforce this view by maintaining their embas...
7: ...]]s also claim all or part of Jerusalem as the capital of a future [[Palestinian state]].
9: ....jpg|right|thumbnail|300px|Jerusalem and the Old City. View from the Mount of Olives]] - Industry (5421 bytes)
2: ...(economics)|capital]] investment before any [[profit]] can be realized, also called "heavy industry." ...
4: ...dustrial countries then assumed a [[capitalism|capitalist]] economic policy. [[Railroad]]s and [[Steam...
6: ... type of land use and economic activity involved with [[manufacturing]] and production.
10: ...tional variants identify sectors of economic activity for [[statistics|statistical]] and national acco...
13: ...cap size: '''11% + 5%''' ([http://www.streetauthority.com/terms/index/wilshire5000.asp])
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