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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mid_horoscope_catherine_de_medici.jpg|thumb|Catherine de' ...
3: ...]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici''', and later lived in ...
5: ...arseilles]], to the duke of Orl顮s, whose elder brother was alive at the time, but who would become K...
7: ...uld listen to such a proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to se...
13: ... or metal. They forcefully shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38,... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
1: ...an Pyramids|Pyramids]] have become a symbol of Cairo internationally]]
2: ...ost populous metropolitan area]] in the world. Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (3...
4: ...y, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local dialect.
6: ...airo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
7: ...age:EgyptAlQahirah.png|thumb|200px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] highlighted... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
1: ...cing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-co...
2: ...1607;وريّة مصرالعربي...
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25: | [[Cairo]]
40: | from the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br />[[28 February]], ... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...s the [[definite article]] has increasingly been dropped in common usage) is the largest country in [[...
40: established_dates = From [[Egypt]] and the [[United Kingdom]] <br> [[Janu...
60: ...ced into Sudan in the third or fourth centuries, around AD [[640]], [[Islam]] came to Sudan. A merchan...
62: ...igious leader [[Muhammad ibn Abdalla]], the self-proclaimed [[Mahdi]] ([[Messiah]]), attempted to unif...
64: ... years of [[First Sudanese Civil War|civil war]] from [[1955]] to [[1972]]. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...ctical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where the...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
10: * 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
16: *[[Yamagata Hiro]] (born 1964), author
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
23: *[[Yan Chia-kan]] (1905-1993), ROC politician
27: ...nkovic|Yankovic, "Weird Al"]] (born 1959), US [[parody]] musician
31: ...ssociation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]] - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...ristotle]]. In addition, his conflict with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is taken as a major early ex...
7: ...ty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[1610]]. During this time he explore...
10: ...ters of science and to the separation of science from [[philosophy]] or religion. These are the primar...
14: ...search into Galileo's unpublished working papers from as early as [[1604]] clearly showed the reality ...
16: ==Astronomy== - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...yist]]. He was knighted in [[1603]], created '''Baron Verulam''' in [[1618]], and created '''Viscount ...
4: ...mplies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of h...
10: ... 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
14: ...ilosophy, which seemed barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives.
16: ...[Gray's Inn]], and a few months later they went abroad with Sir [[Amias Paulet]], the English ambassad... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
6: ... a Spanish Jewish family, but was herself raised Protestant. Montaigne was sent to a small cottage wi...
8: ...of the [[Parlement]] in Bordeaux (a high court). From 1561 to 1563 he was at the court of [[Charles IX...
16: ...c [[Henry III of France|King Henry III]] and the Protestant [[Henry of Navarre]].
18: ...ntaigne suffered from painful [[kidney stone]]s. From 1580 to 1581, Montaigne travelled in France, Ger...
20: ...etween Catholics and Protestants. The [[plague]] broke out in Bordeaux toward the end of his term. - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...y|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognised [[sovereignty|sovereign]] nation. ...
4: ... against transport vessels remains a significant problem (with estimated worldwide losses of $13 to $1...
8: ...e known as '''[[buccaneer]]s'''. The word comes from ''boucan'', a wooden frame used for cooking meat...
14: ...e mediaeval Latin ''cursa'', "raid, expedition, inroad".
24: ...s Drake]] and [[England]] was the main nation in promoting them. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
11: *[[John Abercrombie]], (1780-1844)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
22: *[[Robert Adamson]], (1852-1902) - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ... of God's revelation to mankind, revealed to the Prophet [[Muhammad]] over a period of 23 years by the...
6: ...nely inspired. After a short opening, the Qur'an proceeds to the longest sura, and closes with some of...
10: ...ntical units resembling paragraphs and comprising roughly ten ayat each.
14: ...; Arabic. There are few other examples of Arabic from that time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspend...
16: ...bscure vocabulary. Several generations after the prophet's death, many words used in the Qur'an had be... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ... or '''Saida''', ([[Arabic language|Arabic]] '''صيدا''' '''Ṣaydā'''; ...
4: ... in producing glass and purple dyes. It was also from here that a colonising party went to found the c...
6: ...t appears that he was a "king of the Sidonians," probably in the [[5th century BCE]], and that his mot...
8: ... Rome|Romans]] in the years before [[Jesus]]. [[Herod the Great]] visited Sidon; both Jesus and [[St P...
10: ...[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]]. The remains of the origina... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ... fifty days, which follows this holiday and ends around [[Pentecost]]. See [[Eastertide]].)
4: ...spels]]. The [[Gospel of John]] has a different chronology which has Christ's death at the time of the...
6: ...er" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from ''Pesach'' and are instead related to ancient na...
57: ...xcept formerly in a few states, all of which had dropped it by the [[1980s]].
61: ...hurches in western continental Europe used a late Roman method until the late [[8th century]] during t... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
2: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
5: * [[Alypius of Antioch]] (Roman Empire, fl. circa [[450]])
11: *[[Ibn Batuda]] (Moroco, [[1304]] - [[1369]])
25: * [[Artur Gavazzi]] (Croatia, Slovenia, [[1861]] - [[1944]])
38: * [[Peter Kropotkin]] - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
4: ...c groups. The section called the "Old City" is surrounded by walls and consists of four quarters: [[Je...
6: ...ctory in the [[1967]] [[Six-Day War]], it has controlled the entire city and claims sovereignty over i...
9: ...thumbnail|300px|Jerusalem and the Old City. View from the Mount of Olives]]
16: ...bnail|150px|[[Archaeology|Archaeological]] ruins from [[King David]]'s time]]
18: ...ebusites in war and captured the city without destroying it. David then expanded the city to the sout... - Industry (5421 bytes)
2: ...al (economics)|capital]] investment before any [[profit]] can be realized, also called "heavy industry...
4: ... third of the world's economic output is derived from manufacturing industries— more than [[agri...
6: ...mic activity involved with [[manufacturing]] and production.
8: ==List of industries and prominent companies==
15: [[Computer]] [[hardware]] and [[software]] production. Computer hardware and software is togethe...
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