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- Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...ic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city ...
3: ...diæval Islamic rulers its status as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long dec...
19: ...[[Deinocrates of Rhodes]]. Ancient accounts are extremely numerous and varied, and much influenced by ...
23: ...nd the sea, according to a history of Alexander attributed to the author known as [[Alexander Romance|...
25: ...t became a famous tourist destination for ancient travellers. - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
2: ...ial Oman''', in reference of a nineteenth-century truce between the British and some Arab [[sheikh]]s....
8: |+<big>'''الإمارات ال...
29: | '''[[List of countries by area|Area]]'''
32: | '''[[List of countries by population|Population]]'''<br> - Total...
33: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 139th]]<br> 3,480,000<br>... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall o...
64: *[[Trisha Yearwood|Yearwood, Trisha]] (born 1964), musician
68: ...egorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...sei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut
74: *[[Philip Yeo|Yeo, Philip]], industrial and systems engineer - List of painters (54090 bytes)
14: ...[1912]]-[[1956]]), US [[Abstract expressionism|abstract expressionist]] [[painter]]
180: *[[Ambrosius Bosschaert]] ([[1573]]-[[1612]])
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
206: *[[Bertram Brooker]] ([[1888]]-[[1955]])
219: *[[William Partridge Burpee]] ([[1846]]-[[1940]]) - Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
4: ...is time, such methods were connected with occult trends of [[hermeticism]] and [[alchemy]].
6: Francis Bacon was born at York House, Strand [[London]].
10: ...te. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1573 at the age of 13, living for three years there wi...
16: ...ce|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction.
21: ... his thoughts on philosophical reform in the lost tract, ''Temporis Partus Maximus'', but he failed to... - Tycho Brahe (17516 bytes)
3: ...[[nobleman]], well known as an [[astronomer]]/[[astrologer]] (the two were not yet distinct) and [[alc...
8: ...was born at his family's ancestral seat of [[Knudstrup]] [[Castle]], [[Denmark]] to [[Otte Brahe]] and...
10: ...and aunt, J? Brahe and [[Inger Oxe]], in the [[Tostrup Castle]] until he was six years old. Around 155...
12: ...descriptio totius orbis and [[Regiomontanus]]' De triangulis omnimodis.
14: ...t as many measurements and methods as there are astronomers and all of them disagree. What's needed is... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
7: ...as [[1535]]. The [[1540]] date is taken from a portrait painted quite late in his life. Francis was th...
9: ...de the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]] expeditions.
12: ...rces executed a surprise attack in violation of a truce agreed to a few days before, nearly costing Dr...
13: ...cially acknowledge Drake's accomplishment. Such intrigues were typical during Drake's era.
16: ...go]], the land seen to the south of the Magellan Strait, was not part of a southern continent as had b... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
33: *[[Anders Ůgstr? ([[Sweden]], [[1814]] – [[1874]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[1557...
72: *[[Wilhelm von Biela]] ([[Austria]], [[1782]] – [[1856]])
82: *[[John Gatenby Bolton]] ([[England]], [[Australia]], [[1922]] – [[1993]]) - Origami (9154 bytes)
5: ...o era]] ([[1603]]-[[1867]]), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the...
9: ...], which started in [[Muromachi era]] ([[1392]]-[[1573]]). That of [[Europe]]an origami, represented by ...
11: ...rather as an integrated part of their culture and tradition.
15: ...attracted a worldwide following, with ever more intricate designs and new techniques such as 'wet-fold...
17: ...e model. The model, contrary to common theory of traditional origami, involved cutting and gluing. - Libya (12985 bytes)
1: ... The three traditional parts of the country are [[Tripolitania]], the [[Fezzan]] and [[Cyrenaica]].
6: ...1588;عبية الإشتراكية...
22: | '''[[Capital]]''' || [[Tripoli]]
30: ... area|Ranked 16th]] <br> 1,759,540 [[square kilometre|km²]]
32: ...- [[Population density|Density]] || [[List of countries by population|Ranked 103rd]]<br> 5,499,074<br>... - Corinthian order (9508 bytes)
4: ...Order, illustrated in [[Claude Perrault]]'s ''[[Vitruvius]]'', 1684]]
6: ...is, 1684 (''illustration, left''). Perrault demonstrates in his engraving how the proportions of the c...
8: ...rinthianCapitalDrawing.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Greco-Bactrian]] Corinthian capital, found at [[Ai-Khanoum]],...
9: ...apital has no neck beneath it, just a ring-like astragal molding or a banding that forms the base of t...
18: ...left''). At the Capitol the proportions of architrave to frieze are exactly 1:1. Above that, the pro... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ... for. The most renowned goal of alchemy is the [[transmutation]] of any metal into either [[gold]] or...
2: ...d as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation of the [[scientific met...
4: ...[Image:Chemistry_flask.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
8: ...he Egyptians, which treat of the ''khēmia'' [transmutation] of gold and silver". The Arabic there...
11: ...ying instead on [[rule of thumb|rules of thumb]], traditions, basic observations, and mysticism to fil... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
11: ...merica]]n soldiers exposing [[Benedict Arnold]]'s treason
15: ...onomer [[John Couch Adams]]; verified by German astronomer [[Johann Gottfried Galle]]
20: *[[1922]] - [[Gdynia]] Seaport Construction Act passed by the [[Poland|Polish]] parlia...
25: *[[1969]] - The [[Chicago 8]] trial opens in [[Chicago]]
56: *[[1926]] - [[John Coltrane]], saxophonist, composer (d. [[1967]]) - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
6: ...ment and otherwise functions as capital. Many countries do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over some...
12: ..."Heritage of Salem" or "Heritage of Peace" - a contraction of "heritage" (''yerusha'') and Salem (''Sh...
18: ...Jebusites in war and captured the city without destroying it. David then expanded the city to the sou...
20: ...nd of the reign of King Solomon, the northern ten tribes split off to form the [[Kingdom of Israel]] w...
24: ...]], prompting the city's repeated conquest and destruction by [[Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon|Nebuchadn...
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