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- Egypt (18830 bytes)
62: ...yramid_complex|Giza Pyramids]], the [[Karnak]] Temple and the [[Valley of the Kings]]; the southern ci...
67: ...-k3-ptḥ'' ("Hut ka Ptah"), the name of a temple of the god [[Ptah]] at [[Memphis, Egypt|Memphis]...
69: ...y and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by [[desert]]s to ...
73: Following the completion of the [[Suez Canal]] in [[1869]], Egypt bec...
86: ...for the fire, used as part of their predetermined plot to overthrow Farouk. - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...urope]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], and the [[Central Asia|Ce...
76: ...ailway]] from [[Orenburg]] to [[Tashkent]] was completed in 1906, and the movement was overseen and en...
84: ... mass demonstrations by young ethnic Kazakhs took place in [[Almaty]] to protest the methods of the [[...
91: ... standards. The prime minister, who serves at the pleasure of the president, chairs the Cabinet of Min...
93: ...administrative divisions (14 regions, or oblasts, plus the cities of Astana and Almaty). The president... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...and it is a [[Jewish state]]. Israel was the birthplace of [[Judaism]] in the [[17th century BCE]] and...
60: ... Israel is not limited to Judaism, it is also the place where [[Christianity]] was born, and contains ...
73: ...bsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Shoah]], or [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]]...
78: ...ted, but the [[White Paper of 1939]] policy was implemented well into the end of [[WW2]], and enforced...
83: ...bly, the Palestinian Arab leadership rejected the plan to create the as-yet-unnamed Jewish state and l... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
54: ...[[European Union]] and [[NATO]]. Usually known simply as the '''United Kingdom''' or the '''UK''', it ...
64: ...) has been proposed, but is little used outside diplomatic circles.
69: ...land was on the brink of economic ruin and was deeply unpopular with the broader Scottish population.
71: ...nd]]. This was also an unpopular decision, taking place just after the unsuccessful United Irishmen Re...
74: ...he 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witnessed ... - Egyptian pyramids (20601 bytes)
25: ...configuration was found to be less stable than simply stacking horizontal courses on top of each other...
27: ...ds was much reduced, and poor quality limestone replaced granite as the chief building material. Infil...
41: ...haelogicical consensus is that not only was it completed, but that it was originally about the same si...
49: ''Main article:'' [[Giza pyramid complex]]
62: ...oximately twenty metres in height; had it been completed it is likely to have exceeded forty. - Set (mythology) (12196 bytes)
10: ...ssociated with things that were red, including people with [[ginger hair]], which is not an attribute ...
15: ...only the head of the ''Set animal''. It has no complete resemblence to any known creature, although it...
17: ...rs near [[Kom Ombos]], one of the sites of a [[Temple]] of Set, with the two square fins being what ar...
20: ...d one of Horus' [[eye]]s was parly gourged out, explaining why the moon was not as bright as the sun, ...
22: .... To prove his dominance to the other gods, Set explains to them that Horus submitted to his advances,... - Al Fayyum (5562 bytes)
5: ...) southwest of [[Cairo]]. The Fayyum proper is an oasis in the [[Libya]]n Desert, its eastern border bein...
9: ...Aswan dam|Aswan Low Dam]] by ensuring a fuller supply of water enabled 20,000 acres (80 km²)...
14: ...al lake of the Fayyum as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons. Anci...
16: ... us with a window into a remarkable society of peoples of mixed origins ?Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Sy... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: ...s lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which he app...
9: ...eeping in the company of snakes, but by [[Zeus]]. Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.2-3) relates that both Phi...
11: ...er was [[Zeus]], rather than Philip. According to Plutarch (''Alexander'' 2.1), his father descended f...
14: ...omannus]], the recently crowned King of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander t...
16: ...ad pledged allegiance to Philip were not quick to pledge it to a 20-year-old boy. He immediately order... - Desert (21206 bytes)
8: ... erosion. Because deserts are dry, they are ideal places for human artifacts and fossils to be preserv...
16: ...ccurate description of what a desert is. For example, [[Phoenix, Arizona]] receives less than 250 mil...
18: ...ferent from the simple definition of a desert: a place where evaporation exceeds precipitation.
20: ...freezing year-round, rendering the land almost completely lifeless.
22: ...a moderating, effect in environments where it is plentiful. In some parts of the world deserts are cr... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
6: ...nic]] and [[Norse mythology]]. Tyr was however supplanted by [[Odin]] as the supreme god among the [[G...
13: Zeus played a huge role in the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] O...
15: The various titles applied to Zeus emphasized different aspects of his wi...
17: ... all the Hellenes') to whom [[Aeacus]]' famous temple on [[Aegina]] was dedicated.
25: ...tance, could be found at any number of [[Greek temple]]s from [[Asia Minor]] to [[Sicily]]. Certain mo... - Egyptian mythology (14567 bytes)
1: ...name for the succession of beliefs held by the people of [[Egypt]] until the coming of [[Christianity]...
5: The main early beliefs can be split into 5 distinct localised belief groups,
16: ...is, Isis, and Horus, and their enemy, Set, as exemplified by the [[Legend of Osiris and Isis]]. The tr...
19: ...Egypt, the dead were originally buried in [[reed (plant)|reed]] caskets in the searing hot [[sand]], w...
21: ...ns. In the case of royalty, this was usually then placed inside a series of nested coffins the outermo... - Hyksos (23575 bytes)
2: ...e an ethnically mixed group of Western Asiatic people who appeared in the eastern [[Nile Delta]] durin...
15: ...names of the six rulers in the same order. To complicate matters further, the spellings are so distor...
29: ...o a violent armed invasion by Asiatic hordes. Simply put, they had superior military hardware, so whe...
31: ...reat Hurrian empire, as Helck thought, for the simple reason that there was never any Hurrian empire. ...
33: ...udan. All these items have been satisfactorily explained as items of trade, not as indicators of dire... - History of Greek and Roman Egypt (25856 bytes)
3: ...ed first from [[Rome]] and then from [[Constantinople]] until the Arab conquest in AD [[639]].
8: ... on pilgrimage to the oracle of [[Amun]] at the [[Oasis of Siwa]]. The oracle had the good sense to decla...
14: ...warded with grants of farm lands, and Greeks were planted in colonies and garrisons or settled themsel...
26: ...ences in later reigns. The material and literary splendour of the Alexandrian court was at its height ...
29: ... out of the wars of the other Greek kingdoms, and plunged into a war with the [[Seleucid dynasty|Seleu... - Coral (8108 bytes)
1: ...ge:Reef0484.jpg|thumb|left|A coral reef can be an oasis of marine life.]]
12: ...|right|Various coral skeletons in a zoological display.]]
42: ...or snorkelling, however this has conservational implications due to damage from removal or destruction...
44: ...on land are often mined for [[limestone]]. An example of this is the quarrying of [[Portland limestone...
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