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- Dahshur (1070 bytes)
1: ...'Dahshur''' (Arabic دهشور ''Dahšūr'' [often incorrectly render... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
8: ...e of the [[Circus of Nero]] in the first century. After [[Constantine I of the Roman Empire|Emperor Co...
10: ...tart adding to the old church. This was abandoned after a short while. In the late [[15th century]] [[...
12: ...ed Michelangelo to design the rest of the church. After Michelangelo's death his student [[Giacomo del...
17: ...[obelisk]] was moved to its present location in [[1585]] by order of [[Pope Sixtus V]]. The obelisk date...
20: ... on which domes sit. The dome was vaulted between 1585 and 1590 by the architect [[Giacomo della Porta]]... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Ita...
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]])
394: *[[Mikhail Evstafiev]] ([[1963]]-)
487: *[[Anton Graff]] ([[1736]]-[[1813]])
502: *[[Olaf Gulbransson]] ([[1873]]-[[1958]]) - Meditation (26064 bytes)
65: ...972]], [[transcendental meditation]] was shown to affect the human [[metabolism]] by lowering the bioc...
70: ...nson of the Mind-Body Medical Institute, which is affiliated with [[Harvard]] and several [[Boston, Ma...
87: ...ly, but the complicated prefrontal cortex is more affected than the comparatively simple and robust am...
89: ...on (thinking about thinking), and with ''positive affect'' (good feelings). There are similar studies ...
161: ...'': Volume 11(7) [[15 May]] [[2000]] p 1581–1585 [[PubMed]] abstract PMID 10841380 - List of popes (77758 bytes)
119: | <small>[[North Africa|Northern Africa]]</small>
255: | <small>Africa</small>
696: ...Vatican's official list of popes. Died three days after his election, prior to his consecration as bis...
1683: | <small>Giovanni Pietro Carafa</small>
1701: | <small>[[13 May]] [[1572]] to [[10 April]] [[1585]]</small> - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
21: ...ing the ceremony: Anne was three months pregnant. After his marriage, William Shakespeare left few tra...
23: ...th, were baptized soon after on [[February 2]], [[1585]].
33: ...mberlain]]. The group became popular enough that after the death of [[Elizabeth I]] and the coronatio...
37: Various documents recording legal affairs and commercial transactions show that Shakes...
43: ...it was Quiney's; she and the child both died soon after. Quiney was disgraced, and Shakespeare revised... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
21: ...u). John Bossy's ''Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair'' (Yale UP, 2002), makes a case that Bruno is...
23: In [[1585]] he returned to Paris. However, his 120 theses a...
27: ... he concluded, erroneously, that it might now be safe to return to Italy.
37: ... Prohibitorum]]'' in [[1603]]. Four hundred years after his execution, official expression of "profoun...
43: ....]], or like [[Blaise Pascal]]'s nearly a century after Bruno, had its center everywhere and its circu... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
8: ...hool in Bordeaux, the [[Coll觥 de Guyenne]], and afterwards he studied law in [[Toulouse]] and entere...
20: ...d mayor of Bordeaux; he returned and served until 1585, again moderating between Catholics and Protestan...
28: ...branch of the [[University of Bordeaux]] is named after him: ''Universit頍ichel de Montaigne Bordeaux... - Ramadan (3064 bytes)
2: ... '''Ramadhan''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: '''رمضان''' ) is the ninth mo...
21: ...l sponsor [[iftar]] (literally: break fast) meals after sundown for the community to come and end thei... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
7: ... remembered for the [[Mercator projection]] named after him.
14: ...right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 1595)]]
15: ...[[1588]], further maps were published in [[1595]] after his death by his son [[Rumold Mercator]]. - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
4: ...1604;كة البحرين<br>Mamlakat al Bahrayn'''</big></b...
16: ...[National motto]]: [[Bahrainona]] بحريننا''</small>
73: After [[World War II]], increasing anti-British feel...
75: ...cipated in a marathon race. The Kingdom was badly affected by sporadic violence during the mid-1990s i...
131: Traditional craftwork continues in several places around Bahrain: ... - African American (19830 bytes)
1: ...st Africa|West]] and [[sub-Saharan Africa]]. Many African Americans also have [[Europe]]an and/or [[Na...
6: ...de [[whites]], [[Asian|Asians]] or [[Semites]] of African origin.
10: ...n metropolitan areas in 2000. With over 2 million African American residents, [[New York City]] had th...
12: ==African-American history==
13: ''Main article: [[African-American history]]'' - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
7: ... was [[Richard Mylwaye]]. He was reportedly named after his [[godfather]] [[Francis Russell, 2nd Earl ...
9: ...cult waters of the [[North Sea]], and eventually, after the death of the captain for whom he was saili...
13: ...y [[France|French]] privateers and [[Cimaroons]] (African slaves who had escaped the Spanish), Drake r...
16: ...elican'', with four other ships and over 150 men. After crossing the Atlantic two of the ships had to ...
20: ...n Hind'' in honour of Sir [[Christopher Hatton]] (after his [[heraldry|coat of arms]]). - Pirate (23151 bytes)
12: ...[[Straits of Malacca]]. Originally a culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with pi...
14: ...corsair]]s''', which in modern Arabic is قرصان from the Turkish '''''Korsa...
48: ... of the prize. Pirates injured in battle might be afforded special compensation. Often all of these te...
60: ...gings of the crew and the contents of the ship's safe, which might contain large amounts of cash neede...
62: ...wer cruising speeds to allow for navigation and traffic control making them prime targets for piracy. - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
11: Rail transport is also one of the safest modes of transport, and also makes a highly ef...
30: ... build, but can only handle a limited amount of traffic and are consequently only used on [[branch lin...
32: ... direction) are used to handle large amounts of traffic.
38: ==Safety and railway disasters==
42: The most important safety measure is [[railway signalling]]. [[Train whi... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
28: *[[Sediq Afghan]]
29: *[[Jamal al-Din al-Afghani]], (1839-1897){{fn|R}}
172: *[[Paul Benacerraf]]
324: *[[Rafe Champion]] - Islam (36809 bytes)
12: ...cal disagreement over the succession of authority after Muhammad's death; these are known as [[Sunni I...
29: ...that Good and Evil are from God, and Resurrection after death be Truth.
74: ... transliteration of the Arabic original (قرآن); it means “recitation”...
78: ...iled in writing by the third Caliph, [[Uthman ibn Affan]], sometime between [[650]] and [[656]]. He se...
80: ...ction, privately treasured by Muhammad's widow [[Hafsa bint Umar]], was used by Uthman and is the basi... - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...ng-ar|أَلْقُرآن}} ''al-qur'ān''; its literal ...
6: ...also believed by Muslims to be divinely inspired. After a short opening, the Qur'an proceeds to the lo...
14: ...Islamic Arabic; others say that they were created after Muhammad. Only five [[pre-Islamic Arabic insc...
16: ... case and obscure vocabulary. Several generations after the prophet's death, many words used in the Qu...
34: : Wash-shaf`i wal-watr(i) - Libya (12985 bytes)
1: Libya is a country in [[North Africa]], bordering the [[Mediterranean Sea]], locat...
3: ... sometimes referring to the entire continent of [[Africa]].
6: ...1610;ة الإشتراكية<br>al-Jamāh...
24: ...Leader 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 t... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
27: ...an society]] and other mystic societies, [[witchcraft]], and of course the evolution of [[science]] an...
54: ...cletian]] ordered the burning of alchemical books after suppressing a revolt in Alexandria ([[292]]), ...
56: ...Hermes's symbol was the [[caduceus]] or serpent-staff, which became one of many of alchemy's principal...
58: ...In other words, the human body (the microcosm) is affected by the exterior world (the macrocosm), whic...
79: After the fall of the Roman Empire, the focus of alc...
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