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- Libya (12985 bytes)
1: ...hree traditional parts of the country are [[Tripolitania]], the [[Fezzan]] and [[Cyrenaica]].
6: ...1593;بية الإشتراكية<br>al-...
22: | '''[[Capital]]''' || [[Tripoli]]
32: ...Total (Year) <br> - [[Population density|Density]] || [[List of countries by population|Ranked 10...
49: ...toman]] province; and came under the control of [[Italy]] in [[1912]]. - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
1: .... It also caused some Westerners to confuse Iran with Iraq; so in 1959 Pahlavi announced that both Per...
4: ...he international community to call the country by its native name, [[Iran]], which means Land of the [...
13: ...n [[state]]. The Persians gradually conquered territory from the native kingdom of [[Elam]], including...
15: ...ised not to terrorize Babylon nor destroy its institutions and culture. Cyrus was killed during a batt...
17: ...]] to the Persian Empire. The empire then reached its greatest extent under [[Darius I of Persia|Dariu... - Dervish (2938 bytes)
1: ...ties]], known for their extreme poverty and austerity, similar to [[mendicant order|mendicant]] [[fria...
3: ...' for an ascetic temperament); that is, for an attitude that is indifferent to material possesions and...
5: ...ce of wisdom, medicine, poetry, enlightment, and witticisms. For example, [[Nasrudin|Mollah Nasr-ad-Di...
8: ...thers work in common professions; Egyptian [[Qadirites]], for example, are fishermen.
10: ...s, superficially similar to Christian monk fraternities. Various orders and suborders have appeared an... - Jackal (3358 bytes)
17: ...he name ''jackal'' is borrowed from [[Persian]] شغال ''shoghal''.) Jackals fill ...
19: ... their parents until they establish their own territory. Jackals may occasionally assemble in small pa...
21: ...ther three 'true jackals' are believed to have split from each other 6 [[MYA]]. The [[Golden Jackal]] ...
23: ...d dying, '''[[Anubis]]''', was depicted as a man with a jackal's head. The presence of jackals around ...
32: ...mals ''edited by'' David Macdonald, Oxford University Press, [[2001]]; ISBN 0-19-850823-9 - Achaemenid dynasty (14622 bytes)
3: ...r, the Achaemenid rulers of Persia ruled over territories roughly encompassing some parts of today's [...
11: ...53;ān]] after seizing that city from the Elamites. Inscriptions indicate that when Teispes died, ...
13: ... still-living Arsames as King of Persia, thus reuniting the two realms. Cyrus II is considered to be t...
15: ... Egypt, but died in July 522 BC as the result of either accident or suicide, during a revolt led by a ...
17: ...n order, particularly since ''they'' were in a position to choose him. Darius I was chosen monarch fro... - Potato (22889 bytes)
16: ...olanaceae]], or [[nightshade]], family, grown for its [[starch]]y [[tuber]]. Potatoes form the world's...
18: ...ip with the [[sweet potato]]. In areas of the [[United States]] where sweet potatoes grow commonly, pe...
21: ...kers call the potato ''pomme de terre'', meaning literally "apple of earth". ([[Dutch language|Dutch]]...
24: ...nca]] civilization) cultivated it originally, and it spread over time to other [[Native American]] gro...
26: ...e pioneers returned to England with Drake, along with the potatoes. - Robert Abbot (2381 bytes)
2: ...[[puritan]] doctrines. He should not be confused with Robert Abbot, the [[Bishop of Salisbury]]. He is...
4: ...ion at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]], and later at
5: ...Abbot appears to vanish from record, and his activities are unknown.
7: ...f his time by their terseness and variety. In addition to those mentioned above he wrote ''Triall of ...
9: ...m. ii. 218, which confuses him most oddly of all with one of the ejected ministers of 1662.
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