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- Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
1: ...ll]] clubs. It can also be tasted in Italy's magnificent food.
27: ...ation]] in [[1861]] until the [[1970s]], when the first trickle of [[North African immigrants]] began ...
36: ...the Lumi貥 brothers had discovered it. The first film was a few seconds was Pope Leo XIII giving a bl...
37: ...opaganda during [[World War II]]. The blockbuster film [[The Passion of the Christ]] was recently mad...
49: ... designed and built, he followed the principles defined by the Roman architect [[Vitruvius]] and his 1... - Venice (22017 bytes)
6: ... other three being [[Genoa]], [[Pisa]], and [[Amalfi]]). Its strategic position at head of the Adriati...
10: ...r west as the [[Adda River]], were known as "Terrafirma", and were acquired partly as a buffer against...
12: ...]], symbol of Venice. Only Venetian ships could efficiently transport the men, supplies, and (especial...
16: ... [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] peers to resign the office and retire into [[monastery|monastic]] seclusio...
24: ...that Venice became perhaps the most elegant and refined city in [[Europe]], greatly influencing [[art]... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ... Seljuks migrated from the north into [[Persia]], fighting and conquering various tribes on their way ...
5: ...[[1118]], the third son [[Ahmed Sanjar]], unsatisfied by his portion of the inheritance, took over th...
7: ...of [[Khwarezmid Empire|Khwarezm]], and the Seljuk finally collapsed. Of the former Great Seljuk Empire... - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
2: ...on|circumnavigate]] the globe, from [[1577]] to [[1580]] and was knighted on his return by Queen [[Eliza...
9: ...n Hawkins]]. Together, Hawkins and Drake made the first English [[Atlantic slave trade|slave-trading]]...
11: == First adventures ==
12: Around [[1563]] Drake first sailed west to the [[Spanish Main]], drawn by ...
13: ...ng [[Philip II of Spain]], and so was unable to officially acknowledge Drake's accomplishment. Such in... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
5: ...[[2004]] US Census estimation, Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Penns...
13: ...anguage spoken in Arizona & [[New Mexico]]) and ''Fiinigis'' in [[Western Apache]] (a language spoken ...
46: ...ho lived there as early as 300 BC. They were the first to farm there, building an elaborate canal sys...
55: ...d an election precinct there. The Phoenix post office was established [[June 15]], [[1868]], with Jac...
59: ...held in [[1871]], when Tom Barnum was elected the first sheriff of Maricopa County. - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]])
256: *[[Thomas Fincke]] (Denmark, [[1561]] - [[1656]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
29: *[['Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi]], ([[Persia]], [[903]] – [[986]])
205: *[[Erwin Findlay-Freundlich]] ([[1885]] – [[1964]])
375: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]])
446: *[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]] ([[Britain]], c. [[1697]] – [[1764]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]]
387: *[[Lady Anne Finch Conway]], (1631-1679){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
430: *[[Bruno de Finetti]], (1906-1985){{fn|O}} - Libya (12985 bytes)
6: |+<big>'''الجماهيرية...
20: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Arabic language|Arabic]]
24: ...eader of the Revolution''''' || [[Muammar al-Qaddafi]]
51: ...Libya has been ruled by Colonel [[Moammar al-Qadhafi]], who came to power in a [[coup]] and deposed th...
53: Qadhafi rejected both [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Communism... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...hemistry prior to the formulation of the [[scientific method]].
11: ... traditions, basic observations, and mysticism to fill in the gaps.
17: ...of the fundamental [[empirical knowledge]] of the fields of chemistry and modern [[medicine]].
21: ...s research did not enter the mainstream of scientific discussion.
23: ...ms, being unstable [[isotope]]s, lasted for under five seconds before they broke apart. More recently... - Tobacco (28162 bytes)
14: ...]] word "tabago," for a Y-shaped pipe used in sniffing tobacco powder.
16: ...released into the smoke, and most clinically significant cases of [[Nicotine Poisoning|nicotine poison...
26: ...desire to increase tobacco production, caused the first colonial conflicts with [[Native Americans]], ...
28: ...0. Tobacco led to the importation of the colony's first black slaves as well as women from England in ...
32: ... of the Virginia Colony. Large tobacco warehouses filled the areas near the wharfs of new thriving tow... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: ...;م in [[Persian language|Persian]]) was the first [[civilization]] based in [[Iran]], the [[Ilam...
10: The high country of Elam was increasingly identified by its low-lying later capital, [[Susa]], and g...
19: ... with the establishment of the Awan dynasty. The first attestation of the name of the kingdom is in a...
72: ...run and little beyond. Among the nations that benefitted from the decline of the Assyrians were the [[...
76: ...tyles; the use of Elamite as the first of three official languages of the empire used in thousands of... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... is likely to continue to do so. Scientific classification belongs to the science of [[taxonomy]] or [...
5: ...om the Greek philosopher [[Aristotle]], who classified animals based on their means of transportation ...
9: ...next major advance in developing scientific classification was made by the Swiss professor, [[Conrad v...
11: ...tion due to the work of [[entomologist]]s and the first microscopists is due to the research of people...
13: ...nceived, either/or type system, and instead classified plants according to similarities and difference... - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...ance|French]] mathematician [[Pierre Vernier]] ([[1580]]-[[1637]]). In some languages, this device is ca...
5: ...rnier" in the diagram) is used to provide an even finer additional level of precision without resortin...
8: ...dicator & data gradations yields the value of the finer additional precision. - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
6: ...puted. The [[1949 Armistice Agreements|1949 cease-fire line]] between [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]], also ...
12: ...ection between the name and ''Shalim'' the personification of dusk in [[Ugarit|Ugaritic]] myth. See al...
20: ...according to the Bible, the [[Temple in Jerusalem|First Jewish Temple]] was built in Jerusalem by [[Ki...
22: ...ah become historically identifiable, and the significance the Temple had in Jewish religious life is c...
34: ..., the Jews continued to live in Jerusalem in significant numbers, and were allowed to practice their r... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ...granary). In 1329 the [[Cortes Generales|Cortes]] first assembled in Madrid to advise [[Ferdinand IV o...
16: ...uilt the city and established himself safely fortified outside its walls in El Pardo. The grand entry...
18: ...e Court to Madrid in 1561. Although he made no official declaration, the seat of the Court was the ''...
22: ...sion that would lead to yet another revolt, the [[First Spanish Republic]], the comeback of the monarc...
28: Befitting from the prosperity it gained in the 1980s, ... - Giza (1132 bytes)
3: ...a''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]], الجيزة, [[Transliteration|translit...
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