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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
2: ...[Image:stuart.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
7: ...''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July...
9: ...ith her first cousin once removed, [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), who lived at approximately t...
12: ...[[December 8]], [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]]. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ...Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
7: ...uring a period of great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ... misalliances. Like her father [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She gr...
11: ...y Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...in the line of succession after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succ... - Narcissi (1567 bytes)
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4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Liliopsida]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_end_placement}} - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...city of [[Canopus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ...it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
5: ...the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
19: ...cks of birds to eat it. In any case, the story explains Alexandria's role as the shipping-point for Eg...
21: ...n, but are thwarted when Alexander descends in a glass box, and armed with exact knowledge of their ap... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
1: ...na Sea]], it is completely surrounded by [[East Malaysia]].
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5: ...587;لام<br>Negara Brunei Darussalam'''</big></big>
10: ...th="140px" | [[Image:Brunei_flag_large.png|125px|Flag of Brunei]]
13: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Brunei|In Detail]]) - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ... the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] (also known as Gulf of [[Eilat]]), and the [[Dead Sea]].
6: ...#1587;رائيل<br>("Dawlat Israil") |
8: image_flag = Israel_flag_large.png |
13: official_languages = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Arabic]] |
15: latd=31|latm=47|latNS=N|longd=35|longm=13|longEW=E| - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...;nistān افغانستان) is a country in [[Central ...
3: ... now officially named the '''[[Islamic republic|Islamic Republic]] of Afghanistan'''.
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5: ...'Da Afghanistan Islami Dawlat'''<br>'''Dawlat-e Eslami-e Afghanestan'''</big>
10: ..."center" width="140px" | [[Image:Afghanistan flag large.png|125px]] - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...increasingly been dropped in common usage) is the largest country in [[Africa]], situated in the north...
8: ...1607;ورية السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-S...
10: image_flag = Sudan flag large.png |
12: national_motto = Al-Nasr Lana ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: Victory is Ours) |
14: ...nd Al-watan]] ("We Are the Army of God and of Our Land") | - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
1: The '''Federation of Malaysia''' is a country in [[Southeast Asia]]. It con...
3: ... the second-link bridge]] on the south with the island of [[Singapore]];
5: *[[East Malaysia]], the northern part of the island of [[Borneo]], is bordered to the south by [[In...
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8: ...1578;وان مليسيا'''</big></big> - Aswan (1042 bytes)
1: .... Photo courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
6: ...'Aswān'') ({{coor dm|24|05|N|32|56|E|}}, population 200,000) is a city in the south of [[Egypt]],...
8: ...abited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain here was 6 years ago. In [[Nubia]]n settle...
10: ...a basis on which [[Eratosthenes]] disputed the [[Flat Earth]] theory and attempted to determine the ci...
12: ...' [[Aswan Dam]], [[Elephantine]], [[Kitchener's Island]], [[Nag Hammadi]] - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
3: ...rcase of 185 stairs provides access to a viewing platform at the top. The capital block of Trajan's Co...
5: ...disappeared in the [[Middle Ages]]. On December 4 1587, the top was crowned by [[Pope Sixtus V]] with a ...
11: ...ctoria (mythology)|Victory]] writing on a shield flanked on either side by Trophies. Otherwise, the sc...
17: ... a spiral stair of 185 steps gives access to the platform above, having offered the visitor in antiqui...
23: ... spiral of relief sculpture was erected in the [[Place Vendôme]] in [[Paris]] to commemorate his vict... - Politics (7193 bytes)
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, ...
14: ...n, and writing. All of which require densely populated settlements - cities.
16: ...re politics. Politics is most often studied in relation to the administration governments.
18: ... was tribal organization. Rule by elders was supplanted by monarchy, and a system of [[Feudalism]] as...
21: ...owever, this democracy was limited to free, male, landholders. - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...although [[Carl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
11: ...as well as an abiding religious conviction, for solace.
13: ... that he "...was taken by [his] mother to a high place to look at it." At age nine, he observed anot...
15: In [[1587]], Kepler began attending the [[University of T?n...
23: ...n a physical cause for this. The question of snowflakes was not resolved until the [[20th century]]. - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
7: ...pher Columbus]] lands on one of the [[Bahamas]] Islands, "discovering" the [[New World]] (for [[15th c...
8: *[[1494]]-[[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divides the New World between [[Spain]] and [[...
9: ...North American mainland, which he claims for [[England]]
14: *[[1513]]-[[Juan Ponce de Le claims [[Florida]] for Spain
15: *[[1519]]-[[HernᮠCort鳝] defeats [[Tlaxcala]], a small state neighboring the [[Aztec]] empire - Monsoon (5846 bytes)
2: ...] and southern [[Asia]]. The word is also used to label the [[season]] in which this wind blows from t...
5: ... [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word "موسم" (''mausem''), which means ''season''. It...
10: ...mperature than the ocean. Air thus rises over the land. This causes an area of [[Low (atmospheric)|low...
12: ... the temperature difference between the ocean and land is less than in summer, this wind is not as con...
14: ...ore similar to [[sea breeze]]s, but they are much larger in scale, stronger, affect a wider area, and ... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause of [[freedom...
7: He was born named Filippo in [[Nola]], in [[Campania]], the son of Giovanni Bruno, a ...
9: ...bout [[300]] A.D. and to be associated with [[Neoplatonism]]. Bruno embraced a sort of [[pantheism|pa...
10: ...nemonic devices: in the spandrels are the four [[classical element]]s: earth, air fire, water]]
11: ... [[Duns Scotus]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], and [[Nicholas of Cusa]]. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ...1512]] – [[December 2]], [[1594]]) was a [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[cartographer]] of German descent...
9: ...another map of the world ([[1538]]) and a map of Flanders ([[1540]]). During this period he learned [[...
14: ...|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 15...
15: .... Maps of [[France]], [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]] were added in [[1585]] and of the [[Balkan]]...
17: The Mercatormuseum in [[Sint-Niklaas]], [[Belgium]] features exhibits about Mercator... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...-Salājiqa''; [[Persian language|Persian]]: سلجوقيان...
3: ...[Mongol]] invaders from the East, defending the Islamic world against [[Crusade|Crusaders]] from the W...
5: ...e and [[Mahmud II of Great Seljuk|Mahmud II]] proclaimed himself Sultan and established a capital in B...
7: ...led the [[Anatolian beyliks]], which in turn were later conquered by the Ottomans.
12: * [[Alp Arslan]] bin Chaghri [[1063]]-[[1072]] - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...[Qatar-Bahrain Friendship Bridge]], currently in planning, will link Bahrain to Qatar as the longest f...
3: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
4: ...;لبحرين<br>Mamlakat al Bahrayn'''</big></big>
9: ...h="140px" | [[image:Bahrain_flag_large.png|125px|Flag of Bahrain]]
12: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Bahrain|In Detail]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
19: *[[George Biddell Airy]], ([[England]], [[1801]] – [[1892]])
23: *[[V. Albitskij|Vladimir Aleksandrovich Al'bitskij]] ([[Russia]])
28: *[[Lawrence Aller]]
38: *[[Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander]] ([[Germany]], [[1799]] – [[1875]])
56: *[[Benjamin Baillaud]] ([[France]], [[1848]] – [[1934]])
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