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- Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''Caterina Maria Romola di ...
7: ...e in France. She was young, a foreigner, in a country that had little weight in the great world of pol...
11: ...ry being completely under the influence of his mistress, [[Diane de Poitiers]], Catherine had little a...
13: ...ions to as little as 43, 38, or even fewer centimetres (17, 15, or fewer inches).
15: ...d her influence for more than twenty years in the troubled period of the [[French Wars of Religion]]. ... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ... 31.21667). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html]
4: ...e of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local di...
6: ...attempts to invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ot...
11: ...y of Cairo, Egypt, seen as a large bright area centre left of the image, Credit-ESA 2004.]]
25: ... Cairo has the largest concentration of medi涡l structures in the world.]] - Egypt (18830 bytes)
2: ...1607;وريّة مصرالعربي...
34: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 29th]] <br /> [[1 E12 m2|1,001,...
37: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 15th]] <br /> 74,718,797 ...
54: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
56: ...gypt''', (in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: مصر, [[Romanization|romanized]] ''Miṣr'... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...[[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and the [[Central African Republic]] to the southwest, [[Chad]] t...
7: {{Infobox Country |
60: Although [[Christianity]] had been introduced into Sudan in the third or fourth centuries...
62: ..., attempted to unify the tribes of western and central Sudan in the 1880s. He led a nationalist revolt...
66: ...uth (African, Christian and animistic) and has a strong economic element in that economic development ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ''Note:'' Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several...
7: * 2 MYA: [[Origin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]] - 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 - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...has been referred to as the "father of modern [[astronomy]]," as the "father of modern [[physics]]," a...
7: ...lty teaching [[geometry]], [[mechanics]], and [[astronomy]] until [[1610]]. During this time he explor...
10: ... the pitch of a stretched string. Galileo also contributed to the rejection of blind allegiance to aut...
12: ...deductively, and the experiments were merely illustrative thought experiments.
16: ==Astronomy== - 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: ...g that time, as later, was delicate. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1573 at the age of ...
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... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
8: After his six years in the country, he was sent to study at a prestigious boarding ...
12: He started to write in 1569, first a translation of the Spanish monk [[Raymond Sebond]]'s...
18: ...lished much later, in [[1774]], under the title ''Travel Journal''.
22: ...nry III of France|Henry III]] was assassinated in 1589, and Montaigne then helped to keep Bordeaux loyal...
33: ...y to solve problems and mediate conflicts without truly getting emotionally involved, his disdain for ... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
4: ...n]] oceans, and specifically in the straits of [[Strait of Malacca|Malacca]] and [[Singapore]], used b...
12: ...Malaysians who form the nations bracketing the [[Straits of Malacca]]. Originally a culture of seafari...
14: ...]]s''', which in modern Arabic is قرصان from the Turkish '''''Korsan''''',...
24: ...epended on whether you were the commissioning country or the object of attack. Seven nations agreed t...
34: ...ne between [[Malaysia]] and [[Indonesia]] in the Straits. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
185: *[[Bernard of Chartres]], (d. 1130){{fn|C}}
187: *[[Bernard Silvestris]] (or ''Bernard of Tours''), (1147-1178){{fn|R}...
191: *[[Bhartrhari]], (5th century){{fn|R}} - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...he Glorious Qur'ān," also [[Transliteration|transliterated]] as '''Quran''', '''Koran''', and le...
10: ... turn subdivided into four quarters. A different structure is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical ...
18: ...idered mere glosses. The traditions governing the translation and publication of the Qur'an state that...
22: == Stylistic attributes ==
26: ...: Prostrate yourselves before Adam, they fell prostrate, all save Iblis"), and even stories (such as t... - Sidon (4751 bytes)
1: ... or '''Saida''', ([[Arabic language|Arabic]] '''صيدا''' '''Ṣaydā'''; ...
10: ...[[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. In 1260 it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]]. The remains of the origin...
21: ...er city of [[Tyre]]. It lay within the lot of the tribe of Asher, but was never subdued (Judges 1:31)....
24: ...e with the Sidonians, and thus their form of idolatrous worship found a place in the [[land of Israel]... - Easter (31700 bytes)
6: ...cated to the [[pagan]] [[fertility goddess]] [[Eostre]]. The [[Easter Bunny]] is often identified as a...
57: ...ay]] in most countries with a generally Christian tradition, but not as a rule in the [[United States]...
63: ...-based method of calculating Easter with direct astronomical observation; this would have side-stepped...
65: ...l on [[April 7]]. These suggestions have yet to attract significant support, and their adoption in the...
69: ...e [[computus]] for a discussion covering both the traditional tabular methods and more exclusively mat... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
1: ...sh language|English]] [[alphabet|alphabetical]] [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]s).
31: * [[Torsten H䧥rstrand]] (Sweden, ([[1916]]-[[2004]])
57: * [[Strabo]] (Roman Empire, Greece, [[63 BC|63 B.C.]]/[[6...
68: * [[Martin Zeiller]] (Germany, [[1589]] - [[1661]]) - 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... - Industry (5421 bytes)
2: ...profit]] can be realized, also called "heavy industry."
4: ...conomic output is derived from manufacturing industries— more than [[agriculture]]'s share, but ...
6: In [[economics]] and [[urban planning]], ''industrial'' is an intensive type of land use and economi...
8: ==List of industries and prominent companies==
10: The [[North American Industry Classification System]] and other national varia...
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