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- Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...]] into the atmosphere, iron can be found in the crust only in combination with [[oxygen]] or [[sulfur...
11: ...ble form of iron is the [[body-centered cubic]] structure '''[[ferrite]]''' or '''α-iron''', a f...
13: ...rrite. Martensite has a very similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composi...
21: ...other hand [[sulfur]], [[nitrogen]], and [[phosphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly fou...
23: ...hen heat-treated to produce a desirable crystal structure, and often "cold worked" to produce the fina... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
41: *[[Russ Abbott|Abbott, Russ]], (born 1947), British comedian
44: *[[Abd-ar-rahman I]], (died 788), Muslim Spain ruler
47: *[[Abd-ar-rahman IV]], (circa 1017), Muslim Spain ruler
48: *[[Abd-ar-rahman V]], (1023-1024), Muslim Spain ruler - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...eth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed with impatience by ...
11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|...
18: ...l-being, particularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker be...
20: ...abeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. Luckily, she ...
27: ...d; by the end of that year, when Mary was falsely rumoured to be pregnant, Elizabeth was allowed to re... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
3: ...1585;اطية الشعبية'''<br>'''Al-Jumh$...
62: ...ts cause, the [[Shia]] [[Fatimid]]s overthrew the Rustamids, and conquered Egypt. They left Algeria a...
64: ...[[Khair ad Din|Khair ad-Din]] and his brother [[Aruj]], who established Algeria's modern boundaries i...
68: ...ndependence]]; after nearly a decade of urban and rural warfare, they succeeded in pushing the French ... - Jordan (20715 bytes)
3: ...1610;ّة الهاشميّة<br>(Al Mamlakah al U...
69: ...shing the semi-autonomous Emirate of Transjordan, ruled by the Hashemite Prince [[Abdullah I of Jordan...
75: ...ian role in Muslim and Christian holy places in Jerusalem. The U.S. Government considers the West Bank...
77: ...curity of the Hashemite state, and open fighting erupted in June 1970.
79: ...fedayeen'' actions in Jordan -- including the destruction of three international airliners hijacked an... - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
37: | From the United Kingdom<br>[[February 18]], [[1965]]
59: In [[1588]], the claimant to the [[List_of_Portuguese_monar...
61: ...ury and throughout the 18th, England and France struggled continuously for political and commercial su...
65: ...[1963]]. The Gambia achieved independence on [[February 18]], [[1965]], as a [[constitutional monarchy...
71: In July 1994, the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) seized power in a military co... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
66: ...economic development while under British colonial rule was focused in the North. Dissatisfaction culmi...
68: ...of the north-south civil war and a degree of self-rule. This led to a ten-year [[hiatus]] in the civil...
74: ... rebels reported that they remained in control of rural areas and others reports indicated that widesp...
83: ...dan)|National Congress Party]]. After 1997, the structure of regional administration was replaced by t...
85: ...ws remain in effect. Al-Turabi was arrested in February 2001, and charged with being a threat to natio... - Dahshur (1070 bytes)
1: '''Dahshur''' (Arabic دهشور ''Dahšūr'' [often inco...
3: ...er of [[Khufu (pharaoh)|Khufu]], while the mostly ruined [[Black Pyramid]] dates from the much later r...
5: ...ion, while the Red Pyramid is the world's first "true", or smooth-sided pyramid. - Pilgrims (4873 bytes)
10: ...s dealt with by the defeat of the [[Armada]] of [[1588]] but this was not the only nor last threat from ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
188: *[[P. Rostrup Bøyesen]] ([[1882]]-[[1952]])
210: *[[Rush Brown]] ([[1948]]-)
211: *[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] ([[1568]]-[[1625]])
212: *[[Jan Brueghel the Younger]] ([[1601]]-[[1678]]) - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ...of the leading spirits of the Early Renaissance. Brunelleschi's buildings and Donatello's monuments ar...
10: ...as executed in rivalry with Brunelleschi's ''The Crucifix'' at [[Basilica di Santa Maria Novella|Santa...
14: ...me time the heads are not impersonal, but almost cruelly realistic character portraits of actual peopl...
20: ...ere awestruck with what he had done with it. In truth, he had altered nothing, simply adjusting the p...
23: ...ionate in its wonderful rhythmic movement the forerunner of the singing tribune for Florence cathedral... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
6: Shakespeare wrote his works between [[1588]] and [[1616]], although the exact dates and [[Ch...
23: ...aughter, Judith, were baptized soon after on [[February 2]], [[1585]].
67: ...9]], and [[Edmund Malone|Edmund Malone's]] ''Variorum Edition'' (published posthumously in [[1821]]) i...
188: ...onfusion. Modern editors have the task of reconstructing Shakespeare's original words and expurgating...
190: ... In others the text may have become manifestly corrupt or unreliable (''[[Pericles Prince of Tyre|Peri... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
1: [[Image:Giordano_Bruno.jpg|thumb|Giordano Bruno]]
3: ... 17]] [[1600]]), a.k.a. '''Bruno Nolano''' or '''Bruno the Nolan''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philoso...
7: ...n [[Nola]], in [[Campania]], the son of Giovanni Bruno, a soldier. In [[1565]] he took the name Giord...
9: ....D. and to be associated with [[Neoplatonism]]. Bruno embraced a sort of [[pantheism|pantheistic]] [[...
10: ...ft|200px|Woodcut illustration of one of Giordano Bruno's mnemonic devices: in the spandrels are the fo... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
2: '''Michel Eyquem de Montaigne''' ([[February 28]], [[1533]] – [[September 13]], [[159...
22: ...and oversee the publication of his ''Essays''. In 1588 he met the writer [[Marie de Gournay]] who admire...
33: ... to solve problems and mediate conflicts without truly getting emotionally involved, his disdain for m...
35: ...e, his belief that humans are not able to attain true certainty ([[skepticism]]), and even alludes to ...
37: ...ngs of [[romantic love]] as being detrimental to true freedom. In education, he favored concrete examp... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ... copper engraving of maps. He wrote the first instruction book of italic script to be published in nor...
14: [[Image:Mercator World Map.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his fath...
15: ...ublished in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]. - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
2: ... fleet which defeated the [[Spanish Armada]] in [[1588]].
7: ...eportedly named after his [[godfather]] [[Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford]]. As with many of Drak...
12: ...ces executed a surprise attack in violation of a truce agreed to a few days before, nearly costing Dra...
13: ...and encouraged Drake's raids, signed a temporary truce with King [[Philip II of Spain]], and so was un...
47: ...mada]] that was attempting to invade England in [[1588]]. As the English fleet pursued the Armada up th... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
12: ...braham]] (USA, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]])
22: *[[Abu Arrayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni]] (Uzbekistan, [[973]] - [[1048]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]])
33: *[[Petrus Apianus]] (Germany, [[1495]] - [[1552]])
62: ...igory Barenblatt|Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt]] (Russia, USA, [[1927]] - ) - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
4: '''Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [...
10: ...y]], [[Wiltshire]], [[England]] on [[April 5]], [[1588]]. His father, the [[vicar]] of [[Charlton (Wilts...
20: ... be regulated if Men were not to fall back into "brutishness and misery". Thus he proposed to unite th...
22: ...1637, to a country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philoso...
32: ... [[1647]], Hobbes was engaged as mathematical instructor to the young [[Charles II of England|Charles,... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
120: *[[Averroes]] (or ''Ibn Rushd''), (1126-1198){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
158: *[[Bruno Bauer]], (1809-1882){{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
231: *[[Rudjer Boscovich]], (1711-1787){{fn|C}}
257: *[[Constantin Brunner]], (1862-1937)
258: *[[Emil Brunner]], (1889-1966){{fn|R}} - Quran (41479 bytes)
10: ...rters. A different structure is provided by the [[ruku'at]], semantical units resembling paragraphs an...
16: ... was then the “civilized” world. Arab rulers had millions of foreign subjects, with whom t...
62: Belief in the Qur'an's direct, uncorrupted divine origin is considered fundamental to Is...
66: ...d all that ye say, ..." (4:43), a prohibition of drunkenness but not alcohol. Later verses expanded pr...
72: ... that the Christian and Jewish texts have been corrupted, and that only the Qur'an
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