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- Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...3;رية''', [[transliteration|transliterated]] '''al-ʼIskandariyyah''') is the ch...
3: ... founding of [[Cairo]] by Egypt's mediæval Islamic rulers its status as the country's capital wa...
23: ...e possible site, behind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile m...
34: ...an influence for more than a hundred years previously. [[Julius Caesar]] dallied with [[Cleopatra VII...
58: ...port, and a flourishing city arose on the Pharos island and the Heptastadion district, with outlying s... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
8: |+<big>'''الإمارات ال...
65: ...he federal system; all emirates have secular and Islamic law for civil, criminal, and high courts.
71: ... marvels such as [[Burj Al Arab]] and [[The Palm Islands]], and friendliness to the West have led many...
94: ...hbours. Religious beliefs are mostly [[Muslim]] (Islam is the state religion). However, there are siza...
99: ...ebsite|internet sites]] that are deemed to be un-Islamic or present information on the UAE, its cities... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
111: *[[Yoannis XIV of Alexandria]], ([[1573]]-[[1589]]), Coptic Pope
178: ...Young, Simon]], (fl. mid 19th century), Pitcairn Isl. politician
207: ...[Tohir Yuldashev|Yuldashev, Tohir]], leader of [[Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan]] [[terrorist]] group - List of painters (54090 bytes)
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
180: *[[Ambrosius Bosschaert]] ([[1573]]-[[1612]])
233: *[[Michelangelo Merisi|Caravaggio]] ([[1573]]-[[1610]])
302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]]) - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
10: ...te. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1573 at the age of 13, living for three years there wi...
14: ...reverence for [[Aristotle]] conflicted with his dislike of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed barre...
18: ...necessitated Bacon's return to England, and seriously influenced his fortunes. Sir Nicholas had laid u...
21: ...worked quietly at Gray's Inn giving himself seriously to the study of law, until admitted as an [[oute...
29: ...to employ him in crown affairs a few years previously, and he gradually acquired the standing of one o... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
30: ...ycho's late sister who died at 13) on October 12, 1573.
33: ... He published a small book, ''De Stella Nova'' ([[1573]]), thereby coining the term [[nova]] for a "new"...
43: ...nstruction of two observatories for Tycho on the island of [[Hven]] in [[Copenhagen]] Sound. These wer...
63: ...s study of [[astrology and astronomy]] simultaneously, and [[Uraniborg]] was constructed as both [[obs...
80: * John Robert Christianson: ''On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe, science, and culture in the sixt... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
9: ...ake made the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]] expeditions.
12: ...New World]] [[silver]]. Drake took an immediate dislike to the Spanish, at least in part due to his mi...
13: ...Drake returned to [[Plymouth]] on [[August 9]], [[1573]], a mere thirty Englishmen returned with him, bu...
16: ...eved previously, but an archipelago, or group of islands.
32: ...ew months later reached the Moluccas, a group of islands in the southwest pacific (east of today's Ind... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
42: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]] – [[1087]])
67: *[[Antonin Becvar]] ([[Slovakia]], [[1901]] – [[1965]])
104: *[[S. W. Burnham|Sherburne Wesley Burnham]] ([[1838]] – [[1921]])
133: *[[Andrew Ainslie Common]] ([[Britain]], [[1841]] – [[1903]...
162: *[[Henri-Alexandre Deslandres]] ([[France]], [[1853]] – [[1948]]) - Origami (9154 bytes)
9: ...], which started in [[Muromachi era]] ([[1392]]-[[1573]]). That of [[Europe]]an origami, represented by ...
23: ...In one version, Sadako wrote a [[haiku]] that translates into [[English language|English]] as: - Libya (12985 bytes)
6: ...1588;عبية الإشتراكية...
49: ...olonies; and were conquered by [[Arab]] [[Islam|Muslims]] in the [[7th century]]. By the [[19th centu...
69: ...unblocking property and property interests previously blocked under those regulations.
74: ...f the Arabic word "jumhuriya" (republic) that translates loosely as "people's state."
78: ...f mass destruction]] (WMD) program and simultaneously announced its intention to end it and dismantle ... - Corinthian order (9508 bytes)
6: ... illustration of the Corinthian order for his translation of [[Vitruvius]], published in Paris, 1684 (...
15: ... order|Ionic column]], though it may be made more slender, but it stands apart by its distinctive carv...
25: ... sturdiest and plainest (Doric) at the bottom, to slenderest and richest (Corinthian) at the top. The ...
30: ... ordini'' of [[Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola]] (1507-1573); the ''Quattro libri di Architettura'' of [[Andr... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
33: ...etween [[Egypt]], [[Greece]] and [[Rome]], the [[Islam]]ic world, and finally back to [[Europe]]. Chin...
54: ...h in turn have often survived only in Islamic translations.
56: ... through Greek and [[Arabic language|Arabic]] translations, is generally understood to form the basis ...
78: ===Alchemy in the Islamic world===
79: ...n through the years were preserved as Islamic translations. (Burckhardt p. 46) - September 23 (7397 bytes)
89: *[[1573]] - [[Azai Hisamasa]], Japanese warlord (b. [[152... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...igion]]s of [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], and [[Islam]].
4: ...istian]], [[Armenian (people)|Armenian]], and [[Muslim]].
24: ...rael]], which had fallen some twenty years previously. However, the city was overcome by the Babyloni...
41: ...c]] in the Jewish tradition, [[Ishmael]] in the Muslim one.) Note that the octagonal and gold-sheeted ...
43: Under the early centuries of Muslim rule, especially during the [[Umayyad Dynasty|U...
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