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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...[[1567]]. She is perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of he...
14: ...ng the reign of [[Robert II of Scotland]], the Scottish Crown had been confirmed to be inherited by ma...
17: ...ith a lass!" The Stewart family had gained the Scottish throne through Marjory (daughter of [[Robert I...
31: ...e. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treaty at the end o...
33: ...n Mary. This consisted of a series of raids on Scottish territory and other such actions. It lasted un... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
18: ...h's household before [[Anne Boleyn]]'s death. [[Matthew Parker]], her mother's favourite priest, took ...
27: ...cism|Catholic]] Mary persecuted Protestants. She attempted to convert Elizabeth, who pretended to be R...
33: ...e. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accept...
35: ... Burghley|Sir William Cecil]] for advice on the matter. The [[Act of Uniformity 1559]] required the us...
41: ...s all of the estates and incomes Elizabeth inheiretted from her father [[Henry VIII]] were only hers u... - Narcissi (1567 bytes)
15: ...sian]] word of this plant, نرگس (''Nargis''). - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...abic language|Arabic]], '''الإسكندرية''', [[...
3: ... late [[Ottoman]] period had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
23: ...and the sea, according to a history of Alexander attributed to the author known as [[Alexander Romance...
36: ... seems to have been carried out even beyond the letter, for a general massacre was the result.
51: The attempt proved successful. The caliph, perceiving his... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
5: ...1606;ي دارالسلام<br>Negara Brunei Darussalam...
17: ... align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]] (translation): Always in service with God's gu...
122: * [http://www.brunei.gov.bn Official Website of the Gove...
124: * [http://www.bruneiair.com/ Official Website of the Roy... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...1618;لَةْ اِسْرَائِي...
6: ...sra'el")<br>دولة اسرائيل<br>("Dawlat I...
10: national_motto = n/a |
60: ...Judah|Jewish kingdoms and states]] existed intermittently in the region for over a millennium until th...
66: === Caliphate, Crusades, and the Ottoman Empire === - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...;nistān افغانستان) is a country in [[Central ...
5: ...1605;ی افغانستان'''<br>'''Da Afghanistan Isl...
17: ... align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: None''</small>
55: ...tive name for the [[Pashtuns]]: ''[[Afghan]]'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_name_ety...
74: ...ion following the [[September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks]] forced the group's downfall. In late 2001, ... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
8: ...1607;ورية السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-S...
12: national_motto = Al-Nasr Lana ([[Arabic language|Arab...
62: ...]], the self-proclaimed [[Mahdi]] ([[Messiah]]), attempted to unify the tribes of western and central ...
72: ...ties, access to basic health care services, and little prospects for productive employment in the smal...
74: ...[[Darfur]], during which time the government committed terrible atrocities. In February [[2004]], the ... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
8: ...1578;وان مليسيا'''</big></big>
20: ...al-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu<br>([[Malay language...
80: ...hor, and the [[Aceh|Sultanate of Aceh]]; and the attacks only stopped in [[1641]], when the [[Netherla...
82: ...h East India Company]] seat of government in Calcutta until [[1867]] when their administration was tra...
84: ...tion that favoured the merchants of the Straits Settlements. Finally, the [[Pangkor Treaty of 1874]] p... - Aswan (1042 bytes)
1: ... the outdoor market in Aswan. Photo courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
6: '''Aswan''' (أسوان ''Aswān'') ({{coor dm|...
8: ...e last rain here was 6 years ago. In [[Nubia]]n settlements they generally do not bother to roof all o...
10: ...sthenes]] disputed the [[Flat Earth]] theory and attempted to determine the circumference of the Earth... - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
5: ...disappeared in the [[Middle Ages]]. On December 4 1587, the top was crowned by [[Pope Sixtus V]] with a ...
11: ...ery is not realistic as the sculptor pays little attention to perspective. Often a variety of differen...
13: ...y in military activities such as setting out to battle and engaging the Dacians, as well as constructi...
19: ...ment|Roman feet]]; beginning slightly above the bottom of the base, the helical staircase inside measu...
23: ...]] in [[Paris]] to commemorate his victory at [[Battle of Austerlitz|Austerlitz]]. - Politics (7193 bytes)
14: ...riting. All of which require densely populated settlements - cities.
30: *'''[[Legitimacy]]''' is an attribute of government gained through the applicatio...
64: [[ar:سياسة]]
78: [[fa:سیاست]] - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
9: ...erman state of [[Baden-W?berg]], 30 km west of Stuttgart's city center). His grandfather had been Lor...
15: In [[1587]], Kepler began attending the [[University of T?n]], where he proved ...
27: ...ths. She was released in October [[1621]] after attempts to convict her failed. Even though she was ...
52: To his disappointment, Kepler's attempts to fix the orbits of the planets within a se...
54: ...e did not discover [[gravity]], he seems to have attempted to invoke the first empirical example of a ... - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
21: ...]] founds [[Roanoke Colony]], the first English settlement in the New World, in the [[Virginia]] terri... - Monsoon (5846 bytes)
5: ... [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word "موسم" (''mausem''), which means ''season''. It...
18: As monsoons have come to be better understood, the definition has been broadened t... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
9: ...mes Trismegistus|Hermetic]] tracts. The writings attributed to [[Hermes Trismegistus]] were, in Bruno'...
13: In [[1576]] he left Naples to avoid the attention of the [[Inquisition]]. He left [[Rome]] fo...
15: ...ut many of his contemporaries found it easier to attribute them to magical powers.
19: In [[1583]], he went to [[England]] with letters of recommendation from Henry III. He sought a ...
25: ...the [[Martin Luther|Luther]]ans, continuing the pattern of Bruno's gaining favor from lay authorities ... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
14: ...|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 15...
26: * [http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/guide/gmillatl.html L...
27: * [http://www.walkingtree.com/ Mercators Atlas] - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...-Salājiqa''; [[Persian language|Persian]]: سلجوقيان...
3: ...urks and their descendants, the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turks]], played a major role in medieval hist...
7: ...iks]], which in turn were later conquered by the Ottomans.
96: *[[Ottoman Empire]]
100: *[http://www.allaboutturkey.com/selcuk.htm All About Turkey: The Seljuks... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
16: ... align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: [[Bahrainona]] بحري&#...
63: ...le south of the Persian Gulf, have attracted the attention of many invaders in history. Bahrain, meani...
65: ...pearl diving made Bahrain a centre of [[urban]] settlement throughout history. Some 2300 years BC, Bah...
69: ...nd. Eventually Iran and Britain agreed that the matter of Dominion of Bahrain would be put to internat...
73: ...emirate. The oil boom of the 1980s greatly benefitted Bahrain, but its downturn was not as badly felt... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
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10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
136: *[[Pablo Cottenot]] ([[France]])
150: *[[William Rutter Dawes]] ([[Britain]], [[1799]] – [[1868]]...
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