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- Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...placed on a massive scale. [[Earthquake]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteor...
6: ...ctually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[oceanogra...
10: ...e a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
12: ...g tsunamis, and occur where denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as ...
14: ...ying water column as sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Si... - Ramadan (3064 bytes)
1: {{Islam}}
2: ...n English) is the third of the [[Five Pillars of Islam]] and involves fasting during Ramadan.
6: ...t crescent of a new moon is sighted. Because the Islamic calendar has no correction for the fact that ...
8: ...no such requirement in the [[Qur'an]], and some Muslims allow that the start of the month can be deter...
12: ...l relationships are prohibited. During Ramadan, Muslims are also expected to refrain from indulging in... - Capacitor (29664 bytes)
132: ...el are called feed-through capacitors, and have a slightly different schematic symbol.
166: ...d off. Large capacitors tend to have much higher ESL than small ones. As a result, instrumentation ele...
216: [[fa:خازن]]
228: [[sl:Kondenzator]] - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...#1587;لجوقيان ''Saljūqiyān''; also '''Seldjuk''', ''...
3: ...[[Mongol]] invaders from the East, defending the Islamic world against [[Crusade|Crusaders]] from the ...
5: Under Alp Arslan's successor [[Malik Shah I]] and his [[vizier]]...
12: * [[Alp Arslan]] bin Chaghri [[1063]]-[[1072]]
26: * [[Arslan Shah]] [[1161]]-[[1176]] - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...'''''), is a [[borderless country|borderless]] [[island nation]] in the [[Persian Gulf]] ([[Southwest ...
4: ...1577; البحرين<br>Mamlakat al Bahrayn'''</big></big>
16: ...Bahrainona]] بحريننا''</small>
61: ...y the [[Arabs]], under whom the island became [[Muslim]]. Bahrain was in the ancient times known as [[...
63: ..., meaning "Two Seas" refers to the fact that the islands contain the two sources of water, sweet water... - African American (19830 bytes)
6: ...who arrived in the U.S. as [[slavery|slaves]]. In slightly broader usage, the term also includes black...
15: ...[abolitionism]], which opposed the institution of slavery, culminated in the [[1860]] election of Pres...
17: ...ell as a number of other civil rights they previously had been denied. However, when [[Reconstruction]...
21: ...Roy Wilkins]], Sr. At the same time, [[Nation of Islam]] spokesman [[Malcolm X]] and, later, [[Stokely...
31: ...een the cultural imprint of [[Africa]]. The first slaves to arrive in America brought African language... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
14: ...in modern Arabic is قرصان from the Turkish '''''Korsan''''', which seems t...
44: ...y, many pirates ate poorly, did not become fabulously wealthy, and died young.
50: ... spirits, and they were known to free slaves from slave ships and welcome them into the pirate fold.
56: ...sels. Modern pirates prey on cargo ships who must slow their speed to navigate narrow straits, making...
86: ...ked and destroyed the pirate stronghold nests on islands throughout the Mediterranean Sea. - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
3: ...pon cross-sectional beams (termed "[[Railroad_tie|sleeper]]s" or "[[railroad tie|tie]]s") of [[timber]...
9: ...[road]] transport. Furthermore, together with the sleepers, the rails distribute the weight of the tra...
57: ...ways, the first of which was operated at [[Coney Island]] from [[1892]].
77: For translations of the word 'railroad', see [[International...
130: [[fa:راه ‌آهن]] - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
162: *[[Monroe Beardsley]], (1915-1985)
490: *[[Miroslaw Dzielski]], (1941-1989)
652: *[[Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki]] (1530-1607)
705: *[[Eduard Hanslick]], (1825-1904){{fn|R}}
774: *[[Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld]], (1879-1918){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}} - Islam (36809 bytes)
1: {{Islam}}
2: '''Islam''' the submission to [[God]]" is a [[monotheist...
6: ...he word ''Muslim'' is also related to the word ''Islām'' and means one who "surrenders" or "submi...
10: ...immutable, and the final revelation of [[God]]. Muslims believe that parts of the Bible and the Torah...
12: ...ese are known as [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] , [[Shi'a Islam|Shi'ite]] and [[Kharijite]]. - Quran (41479 bytes)
1: {{Islam}}
2: ...s the [[Sacred text|holy book]] of [[Islam]]. [[Muslim]]s believe that the Qur'an is the literal word ...
6: ...ferent order, roughly by size, also believed by Muslims to be divinely inspired. After a short opening...
14: ...ey were created after Muhammad. Only five [[pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions]] survive.)
16: ... The [[Bedouin]] speech changed at a considerably slower rate, however, and early Arabic lexicographer... - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...] ideal, and [[bhajan]]s) as well as [[Sufi|Sufi Islam]].
4: ...uru Nanak]] is, "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim." [[Guru Gobind Singh]] reinforced these words...
18: Political pressure from surrounding Muslim nations forced the Sikhs to defend themselves a...
22: ...h;[[1518]]), a saint revered by both Hindus and Muslims. He made four distinct major journeys, which ...
26: ...irst time as the [[Holy Book]] of the Sikhs. In [[1606]], for refusing to make changes to the [[Guru Gra... - State of Palestine (7675 bytes)
2: ... by the [[Palestinian National Council]], the legislative body of the [[PLO]], in [[Algiers]], by a v...
5: ...1604;ة فلسطين'''<br>'''Dawlat Filastin'''</font>
31: ...Palestinian Authority]], established under the [[Oslo Accords]].
33: ...n 242|SC 242]]) it implicitly and perhaps ambiguously restricted its immediate claims to the [[Palesti...
67: ... 124 in favour, 4 against (Israel, USA, Marshall Islands, Micronesia) and 10 abstentions. - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
33: ...etween [[Egypt]], [[Greece]] and [[Rome]], the [[Islam]]ic world, and finally back to [[Europe]]. Chin...
54: ...h in turn have often survived only in Islamic translations.
56: ... through Greek and [[Arabic language|Arabic]] translations, is generally understood to form the basis ...
78: ===Alchemy in the Islamic world===
79: ...n through the years were preserved as Islamic translations. (Burckhardt p. 46) - Arsenic (12497 bytes)
161: ...[[Persian language|Persian]] word زرنيخ ''Zarnik'' meaning "yellow [[orpim... - Achaemenid dynasty (14622 bytes)
3: ...1582;امنشی''' - transliterated ''Hakamanshee'' in Modern [[Persian langu... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
4: '''Elam''' (تمدن عیلام in [[Persian...
78: ...view is widely accepted today, as experts unanimously recognize the Elamites to have "absorbed Iranian...
86: ... language may have survived as late as the early Islamic period. [[Ibn al-Nadim]] among other Arab [ht... - Palestine (region) (604 bytes)
1: ...Arabic]]: '''فلسطين''' '''Filasṭīn''') is the region betw... - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...igion]]s of [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], and [[Islam]].
4: ...istian]], [[Armenian (people)|Armenian]], and [[Muslim]].
24: ...rael]], which had fallen some twenty years previously. However, the city was overcome by the Babyloni...
41: ...c]] in the Jewish tradition, [[Ishmael]] in the Muslim one.) Note that the octagonal and gold-sheeted ...
43: Under the early centuries of Muslim rule, especially during the [[Umayyad Dynasty|U... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ... palace was the River [[Manzanares]], which the Muslims called '''al-Maǧrīṭ''' ([[Arab...
18: ...rolled Seville. Aside from a brief period, 1601 - 1606, when [[Philip III of Spain|Felipe III]] installe...
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