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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di ...
19: ...ry to dwell upon it. She died on [[January 5]], [[1589]], a short time before the assassination of Henry...
21: ...reine Catherine de Medecis'', in which Henri Estienne undoubtedly collaborated. - Cairo (12536 bytes)
4: ...e of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local di...
45: ...ehemet Ali]] with the introduction of a railway connection to [[Alexandria]] in [[1851]]. Significant ...
47: ...newly redesigned city of [[Baron Haussmann|Haussmann]] and, funded by a booming [[cotton]] trade, deci...
49: ...sha Mubarak]] and designed by the French urban planner [[Pierre Grand]]. A new area of luxurious villa...
51: ...was dominated by westerners, however, and city planners tended to emphasize [[Christianity|Christian]]... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: ...1607;وريّة مصرالعربي...
56: ...gypt''', (in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: مصر, [[Romanization|romanized]] ''Miṣr'...
62: ...nt civilization]] and some of the world's most stunning ancient monuments, including the [[Giza_pyrami...
69: ...] who dug the predecessor of the Suez canal and connected the [[Red Sea]] to the [[Mediterranean]]. La...
86: ... late [[February 2005]], President Hosni Mubarak announced on a surprise television broadcast that he ... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
60: ... years include [[Makuria]] and the [[Kingdom of Sennar]].
68: ...vil war. In September [[1983]] President Nimeiri announced his decision to extend Islamic [[Shari'a]] ...
92: ...t of the [[Sudan People's Liberation Army]]. Beginning from the mid-1990s Sudan gradually began to mo...
98: ...iver Nile, Sudan|River Nile]], [[Sennar (state)|Sennar]], [[South Darfur]], [[South Kurdufan]], [[Unit...
126: ...[[Manasir]] (المناصير) and Shaiqiyah (ال... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
17: ===[[9th millennium BC]]===
21: ===[[8th millennium BC]]===
24: ===[[7th millennium BC]]===
29: ===[[6th millennium BC]]===
33: ===[[4th millennium BC]]=== - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
14: ...[[Linus Yale, Jr.|Yale, Linus Jr.]] (1821-1868), innovator of locks
34: *[[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro|Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]], (born 1942), US horror author
73: *[[Stephen Yenser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
91: ...o Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]]
99: *[[Yoannis I of Alexandria]], ([[496]]-[[505]]), Coptic Po... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...]]. Galileo's career coincided with that of [[Johannes Kepler]]. The work of Galileo is considered to ...
7: ...er, he was offered a position on its faculty in [[1589]] and taught mathematics. Soon after, he moved to...
26: ... Fabricius]] and his son [[Johannes Fabricius|Johannes]].
53: ...ation of mathematics to experimental physics was innovative, his mathematical methods were the standar...
62: ...kly computing the charge of [[gunpowder]] for [[cannonball]]s of different sizes and materials. As a g... - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: .... In the context of his time, such methods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [...
8: ...zabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. His mother, [[Ann Cooke Bacon]] was the second wife of Sir Nicholas...
16: ...entered ''de societate magistrorum'' at [[Gray's Inn]], and a few months later they went abroad with S...
18: ...mself, he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn in 1579.
21: ...r the next two years he worked quietly at Gray's Inn giving himself seriously to the study of law, unt... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
8: ...ose friends with the humanist writer [[Étienne de la Boétie]] whose death in 1563 deeply...
18: Beginning in 1578, Montaigne suffered from painful [[kid...
22: ...nry III of France|Henry III]] was assassinated in 1589, and Montaigne then helped to keep Bordeaux loyal... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
14: ...]]s''', which in modern Arabic is قرصان from the Turkish '''''Korsan''''',...
104: ...re, pirates are associated with a stereotypical manner of speaking and dress. This tradition owes much...
131: ...he wooden timbers of one's ship "shivered" by a cannonball, in the archaic sense of the term shivered)
137: ...ly 1960s British pop group called themselves [[Johnny Kidd and the Pirates]] and wore eye-patches whil...
139: ...ilee]] of [[Elizabeth II]] the [[Sex pistols]], banned from performing on land, hired a pleasure boat ... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
13: *[[Johann Heinrich Abicht]], (1762-1816)
48: *[[Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno]], (1433-1504){{fn|R}}
78: *[[Anniceris]], (fl. 300 BC){{fn|C}}
94: *[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
105: *[[Kenneth Arrow]], (born 1921){{fn|O}} - Quran (41479 bytes)
30: ...tween successive verses; for instance, at the beginning of surat [[al-Fajr]]:
56: == The beginnings of the suras ==
66: ... that ye say, ..." (4:43), a prohibition of drunkenness but not alcohol. Later verses expanded prohibi...
101: ... pronounced. It is believed that this process of annotation began around 700 CE, soon after Uthman's c...
123: ...is extremely unreliable, as it projects current Sunni orthodoxy onto the past -- much as if [[New Test... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ... or '''Saida''', ([[Arabic language|Arabic]] '''صيدا''' '''Ṣaydā'''; ... - Easter (31700 bytes)
6: ... [[fertility goddess]] [[Eostre]]. The [[Easter Bunny]] is often identified as a remnant of this ferti...
101: ...of Rome. Under him Easter was established as an annual festival. The celebration was to be "the Sund...
105: ...cial holiday throughout the Christian year is an innovation postdating the early church. The ecclesias...
107: ...was not immediately opposed to the observance of annual holidays. As the far more common worldwide nam...
117: ...aditionally Orthodox Christian majority. Easter-connected social customs are native and rich. Christma... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
35: * [[Johann Homann]] (Germany, [[1664]] - [[1724]])
60: * [[Johann Heinrich von Th? (Germany, [[1783]] - [[1850]])
68: * [[Martin Zeiller]] (Germany, [[1589]] - [[1661]]) - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
12: ...'Ir Shalem'' ("city of Salem"). Some consider a connection between the name and ''Shalim'' the personi...
36: ...hurch of the Holy Sepulcher]] in 335. Jews were banned from the city, except under a brief period of P...
59: ... world, and is, as it were, a collection of all manner of abominations''. As ''abominations'' he liste...
70: ... Old City. In time, as the communities grew and connected geographically, this became known as the New...
76: ... the British bequests to the city was a [[town planning]] order requiring new buildings in the city to... - Industry (5421 bytes)
6: In [[economics]] and [[urban planning]], ''industrial'' is an intensive type of land...
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