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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...[December 8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' w...
17: ...eign over a united Scotland and England. (Mary adopted the French spelling Stuart during her time in F...
22: ...ots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[1543]]. Due to the age of the Queen an...
26: ...ry. The [[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped...
33: ...VI) arrived in the [[Firth of Forth]] hoping to capture [[Edinburgh]] and kidnap the infant queen, but... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) wa...
16: ...lizabeth was the [[heir presumptive|heiress presumptive]] to the throne of England. After Queen Anne f...
27: ...|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be Roman...
33: ...tthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s memory, sin...
39: ...eth remained independent in her diplomacy. She adopted a principle of "England for the English". Her o... - Narcissi (1567 bytes)
2: ...ffodils_redoute.JPG|225px|Daffodils redoute]] | caption = Daffodils}}
15: ...sian]] word of this plant, نرگس (''Nargis''). - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...]]s) east, near the ancient city of [[Canopus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately ...
3: ...ty. However, upon the founding of [[Cairo]] by Egypt's mediæval Islamic rulers its status as the...
5: [[Image:Alexandria egypt 4.jpg|thumb|right|Alexandria's state-of-the-art [...
7: [[Image:Alexandria_egypt_6.jpg|thumb|right|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's E...
13: * The [[#Foundation|Ptolemaic era]] which starts with the founding of th... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
5: ...1606;ي دارالسلام<br>Negara Brunei Darussalam...
60: ...untry. There is no elected legislative body. In September 2004 the Sultan [[Hassanal Bolkiah]] convene... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...s of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel ...
6: ...sra'el")<br>دولة اسرائيل<br>("Dawlat I...
73: ...of [[Nazism]] in [[1933]] and the subsequent attempted extermination of the Jewish people in the [[Sho...
78: ...en-Gurion showed a willingness to essentially accept about 1/3 of the land that would ultimately be wo...
83: ...ict over its status. Immediately following the adoption of the Partition Plan by the United Nations Ge... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...;nistān افغانستان) is a country in [[Central ...
5: ...1605;ی افغانستان'''<br>'''Da Afghanistan Isl...
72: ... seized power in 1996. The Taliban were able to capture 90% of the country, aside from [[Northern Alli...
74: ...on in support of the opposition following the [[September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks]] forced the grou...
88: ...d in December 2003 when a new constitution was adopted creating a presidential form of government with... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...ent. The capital is [[Khartoum]]. It borders [[Egypt]] to the north, the [[Red Sea]] to the northeast,...
8: ...1607;ورية السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-S...
40: established_dates = From [[Egypt]] and the [[United Kingdom]] <br> [[January 1]], ...
58: ...d in turn influenced [[Ancient Egypt|Pharaonic Egypt]].
62: ...e survived until being overwhelmed by an Anglo-Egyptian force under [[Horatio Kitchener|Lord Kitchener... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
8: ...1578;وان مليسيا'''</big></big>
74: ...ast Asia]]n commercial centre related to China. [[Ptolemy]] showed it on his early map with a label th...
82: ... Malacca. Penang was established in [[1786]] by Captain [[Francis Light]] as a commercial outpost gran...
88: ...e citizenship as opposed to the dual-citizenship option which would have allowed the significant immig...
90: ...nder the name of '''Malaysia''' was formed on [[September 16]], [[1963]] through a merging of the Fede... - Aswan (1042 bytes)
6: ...[Egypt]], the capital of the [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] of the same name. It stands on the ...
10: ...nes]] disputed the [[Flat Earth]] theory and attempted to determine the circumference of the Earth.
14: {{Egypt}} - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
5: ...disappeared in the [[Middle Ages]]. On December 4 1587, the top was crowned by [[Pope Sixtus V]] with a ...
11: ...ective]]. The imagery is not realistic as the sculptor pays little attention to perspective. Often a v...
23: ...ilar column decorated with a spiral of relief sculpture was erected in the [[Place Vendôme]] in [[Par...
25: == Inscription ==
28: The inscription at the base of the column in finest lettering ... - Politics (7193 bytes)
30: ...ion of power in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles.
51: *[[Political corruption]]
64: [[ar:سياسة]]
78: [[fa:سیاست]]
98: - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
15: ...t the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. He accepted the position in April of [[1594]], at the age o...
27: ... She was released in October [[1621]] after attempts to convict her failed. Even though she was subj...
40: ...e universe was created, there were no numbers except the Trinity, which is God himself… For, th...
46: ...tober 17]], [[1604]], Kepler observed that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the c...
50: ...n the [[Platonic solid]]s with the classical conception of the elements: the [[tetrahedron]] was the f... - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
21: *[[1587]]-Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] founds [[Roanoke Colony]... - Monsoon (5846 bytes)
5: ... [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word "موسم" (''mausem''), which means ''season''. It...
23: ... summer monsoon season. Many desert plants are adapted to take advantage of this wet season in the usu...
33: ...rn [[summer]] monsoons occur from [[June]] to [[September]], after the winds shift during the months o... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
9: ...te uniformly to the earliest days of ancient [[Egypt]]. They are now believed to date mostly from abou...
29: ...s rather than some form of magic. When Bruno attempted to leave Venice, Mocenigo denounced him to the ...
43: ...view of a [[celestial sphere]], immutable, incorruptible, and superior to the terrestrial region. Brun...
45: ...] [[Thomas Digges]], author of ''[[A Perfit Description of the Caelestial Orbes]]'' (''sic''). [[Galil...
49: ...the immobile earth at the center of the sphere. [[Ptolemy]] had numbered these at 1,022, grouped into ... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...He wrote the first instruction book of italic script to be published in northern [[Europe]].
14: ...|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 15...
15: ... consisted of corrected versions of the maps of [[Ptolemy]] (though introducing a number of new errors... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...-Salājiqa''; [[Persian language|Persian]]: سلجوقيان...
5: ...Baghdad. [[Ahmed Sanjar]] was captured and held captive by Turkish nomads from [[1153]] to [[1156]] an...
7: ...;rül III]], was the Sultan of all Seljuk except for Anatolia. In [[1194]] Toğrül was d... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
104: ...d processing account for about 60% of export receipts, 60% of government revenues, and 30% of GDP. Eco...
143: ...IS?? رأس السنة الميل... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
155: *[[Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre]] ([[France]], [[1749]] &ndas...
200: *[[Johannes Fabricius]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1587]] – [[1615]])
240: *[[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1824]] &nda...
313: *[[Jacobus Kapteyn]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1851]] – [[1922]])
472: *[[Ptolemy]] of Alexandria ([[Roman Egypt]], circa [[85]] – [[165]])
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