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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...rneying covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, extending also to present-day [[India]...
4: ...ven to the names of scholars particularly in the Islamic East, meaning "the Sun of Religion". His full...
6: ...s. The title of this intial manuscript may be translated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wond...
8: ... account assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
11: ...75,000 miles over the length and breadth of the Muslim world, and beyond (about 44 modern countries). - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...United Kingdom|Parliament of England]] passed legislation allowing the Crown to pass to the House of [...
49: ...eat Britain obtained the Spanish territories of [[Gibraltar]] and [[Minorca]]. Various French colonies in Nor...
64: ...he arms of England and Scotland, which had previously been in different quarters, were "impaled," or p... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ...enees| Pyrenees mountains]] making their way to [[Gibraltar]] and eventually London. There, SOE trained her a...
11: ...he [[Brookwood Memorial]] in [[Surrey]]. Posthumously, Britain awarded her the "[[King's Commendation ... - Culture (23440 bytes)
31: ...lonial expansion]] and forced migration through [[slavery]] became prominent. As a result, many societ...
43: [[Julian Huxley]] gives a slightly different division, into inter-related "men...
116: *[[Culture of Gibraltar|Gibraltar]]
131: *[[Macedonian Culture (Slavic)|Macedonia]] - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
17: ...cted to the [[Atlantic Ocean]] by the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] on the west and to the [[Sea of Marmara]] and [...
23: Large [[island]]s in the Mediterranean include:
26: ...a]], [[Majorca]] and [[Minorca]] (the [[Balearic Islands]]) in the western Mediterranean
31: ...co]], [[Italy]], the island state of [[Malta]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]],...
32: ...from north to south): [[Turkey]], [[Syria]], the island state of [[Cyprus]], [[Lebanon]], [[Israel]], ... - Europe (23835 bytes)
11: ...ducted by [[Zeus]] in bull form and taken to the island of [[Crete]], where she gave birth to [[Minos]...
18: ...guarded and compiled knowledge accumulated previously. The [[Renaissance]] and the [[New Monarchs]] ma...
44: ...ern seaboard, beginning in the western [[British Isles]] and continuing along the mountainous, [[fjord...
46: ...the general trend. [[Iceland]] and the [[British Isles]] are special cases. The former is a land unto ...
59: ...rest. A narrow east-west tongue of Eurasian [[grassland]]—the [[steppe]]—extends eastwards... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...de Alhucemas|Alhucemas]], and the tiny [[Parsley Island]] ([[Disputed territories|disputed]]). Due to ...
48: ...sh Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, which are in the [[GMT]] time zone ( [[Coord...
72: === Muslim Spain ===
73: ...h centuries, the Iberian peninsula was ruled by Muslims who had crossed over from North Africa. Much o...
108: ...nd elected by the National Assembly following legislative elections. - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
6: ...ssion to Bordeaux, Nantes, Land's End, Plymouth, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Iceland, Britai...
8: ...rthage|Carthaginians]] had closed the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] to all ships from other nations. Some historian...
10: ...ed as referring to the [[British Isles]] as the "Isles of the Pretani."
12: ...an]] coast, the [[Shetland Islands]] and [[Faroe Islands]] have also been suggested by historians. Pyt...
14: ...said he was shown the place where the sun went to sleep, and he noted that the night in Thule was only... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hen mean solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunicati...
31: ...plies to the island of Great Britain, not to the island of [[Ireland]].
41: ...rial waters and the lands they border, including islands. About [[1950]], a letter suffix was added to...
51: ...C Monday it is already 00:30 Tuesday in the Line Islands (UTC + 14) while the time is 23:30 ...
68: *[[Cook Islands]] - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
13: ...ics of the British Virgin Islands|British Virgin Islands]] - [[Politics of Brunei|Brunei]] - [[Politic...
16: ...he Congo]] - [[Politics of the Cook Islands|Cook Islands]] - [[Politics of Costa Rica|Costa Rica]] - [...
25: [[Politics of the Faroe Islands|Faroe Islands]] - [[Politics of Fiji|Fiji]] - [[Politics of...
28: ...litics of Ghana|Ghana]] - [[Politics of Gibraltar|Gibraltar]] - [[Politics of Greece|Greece]] - [[Politics of...
37: ...Politics of Japan|Japan]] - [[Politics of Jarvis Island]] - [[Politics of Johnston Atoll]] - [[Politic... - Flood (7770 bytes)
7: ...ficance to many early farming cultures, most famously to the ancient [[Egypt]]ians of the [[Nile]] riv...
16: ...h as [[Thera]] or [[Krakatau]]) and (''marine landslip on continental shelf'') may all engender a tida...
31: ...ent had closed the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] (variously placed at 8 million or 5.5 million years ago). - Ape (10931 bytes)
29: The great ape family was previously referred to as Pongidae, and humans (and fossil ...
40: ...[Barbary Ape]] of North Africa (introduced into [[Gibraltar]]), ''Macaca sylvanus'', and the Sulawesi black a...
43: ...r of Babel]] became apes as punishment, while [[Muslim]] lore says that the Jews of [[Elath]] became a... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
12: ...n a piece of oceanic sea floor like the Strait of Gibraltar.)
26: ...in the Pacific Ocean near the [[Northern Mariana Islands]]. It has a maximum depth of [[1 E4 m|10,923 ... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...n Edward Mansfield's expedition which seized the island of [[New Providence]] (Santa Catalina), and wh...
6: ...ing ten ships with 500 men, Morgan landed on the island and captured and sacked Puerto Principe, then ...
8: ...spent a few weeks at the Venezuelan settlement of Gibraltar on [[Lake Maracaibo]], torturing the wealthy resi...
10: ...ed on an expedition to Panama. He recaptured the island of Santa Catalina on [[December 15]], [[1670]]...
12: ... were complex, however, and despite having previously received royal support for his actions against S... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...e [[North Africa]]n coast across the [[Straits of Gibraltar]] from the Iberian peninsula. The Portuguese conq...
11: ...'s instigation Portuguese settlers colonized the islands.
13: ...ortuguese vessels encountered the [[Cape Verde]] islands in 1455.
17: - March 17 (9666 bytes)
15: ...S Utopia|SS ''Utopia'']] sinks off the coast of [[Gibraltar]], killing 574.
63: *[[1936]] - [[Ladislav Kupkovic]], composer
77: *[[1954]] - [[Lesley-Anne Down]], actress - March 20 (10075 bytes)
28: *[[1969]] – In [[Gibraltar]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] get married.
32: ...st woman to win the 1,135-mile [[Iditarod]] [[dog sled]] race.
52: *[[1856]] - [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]], inventor and efficiency expert (d. [[...
58: ...- [[Ruby Muhammad]], American matriarch of Black Islam
65: *[[1915]] - [[Sviatoslav Richter]], Ukrainian pianist (d. [[1997]]) - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...56;осси́я, transliteration: ''Rossiya'' or ''Rossija''), is a count...
13: ...e population from the [[8th century]] onwards and slowly assimilated both the Scandinavians as well as...
15: ...irst came to be applied to the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|...
17: ..., the [[Golden Horde]] of the pagan Mongols and Muslim Turkic-speaking nomads who pillaged the Russian...
37: ... Some of these groups have become increasingly [[Islamist]] over the course of the struggle. It is est... - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
11: ...hief mechanisms the Soviet government used to translate economic policies into programs. According to ...
101: ...reputation with ordinary Russians, who coined the slang word prikhvatizatsiya, a combination of the Ru...
103: ...t of the twenty-nine state enterprises originally slated to participate withdrew, and the banks that r...
144: ...rs, or "insiders," compared to the former [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Hungary]], and [[Poland]]. In this sen...
190: ...he government allowed the ruble to fall precipitously and stopped payment on $40 billion in ruble bond... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
109: |''[[Cayman Islands]]''||''[[Beloved Isles Cayman]]''
127: ...|[[Udzima wa ya Masiwa]] (The Union of the Great Islands)
133: |''[[Cook Islands]]''||''[[God Defend New Zealand]]''
159: |[[Dominica]]||[[Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour]]
192: ...oe Islands]]''||''[[T?agra land m�]] (O Faeroe Islands, My Dearest Treasure)''
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