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- Dahshur (1070 bytes)
1: ...'Dahshur''' (Arabic دهشور ''Dahšūr'' [often incorrectly render... - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
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]]...
22: ...60 feet (18 meters) across. It is not simply its vast scale (136.57 meters from from the floor of the c...
89: ... XII]], as well as the altar of [[Sebastian|St Sebastian]]. Even further up is the '''Chapel of the Ble...
91: ...e entrance (not an original detail). Along the pilasters are niches housing 39 statues of saints who fo... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
73: *[[Hendrick Avercamp]] ([[1585]]-[[1634]])
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]]) - Meditation (26064 bytes)
3: ... the more popular systems of meditation are of [[Eastern]] origin, though there exists also various for...
43: However, in at least some forms of vipassana, notably the Burmese Ther...
53: ...itation. The meditation of the Christian [[hesychast]]s is a silent form of meditation centered on the...
70: ...am have also done clinical studies at Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayan Mountains.
103: ...ern culture, or a Western mindset. The import of eastern contemplative concepts into popular Western cu... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair o...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
43: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[26 April]]</small>
50: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[23 November]]</small>
57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 October]]</small> - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
4: ...re's literary achievement is not confined to his mastery of the poetic and dramatic form; his ability t...
14: ... to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is also the [[Feast Day]] of [[Saint George]], [[patron saint]] of En...
21: ...to the marriage. There appears to have been some haste in arranging the ceremony: Anne was three months...
23: ...th, were baptized soon after on [[February 2]], [[1585]].
25: ...layers hyde'', supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...an''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]], [[astronomer]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heres...
7: ...a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint Domenico near [[Naples]]. In [[1572...
15: ...uno's feats of memory were apparently based, at least in part, on an elaborate system of mnemonics, but...
21: ...rts to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spy master, have been found in surviving records of Walsin...
23: In [[1585]] he returned to Paris. However, his 120 theses a... - Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
20: ...d mayor of Bordeaux; he returned and served until 1585, again moderating between Catholics and Protestan...
33: ...nally involved, his disdain for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from ... - Ramadan (3064 bytes)
2: ...rd of the [[Five Pillars of Islam]] and involves fasting during Ramadan.
8: ... that the start of the month can be determined by astronomical calculations.)
16: ...hat is, to help control passions and temper. The fast is also meant to provide time for meditation and ...
18: At the termination of the great fast of Ramadan, [[Eid ul-Fitr]] is celebrated. Muslim...
21: ...wn for the community to come and end their day's fasting as a whole. It is also common for such meals ... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
15: ...Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]] were added in [[1585]] and of the [[Balkan]]s and [[Greece]] in [[1588... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...he [[Persian Gulf]] ([[Southwest Asia]]/[[Middle East]], [[Asia]]). [[Saudi Arabia]] is to the west and...
4: ...1604;كة البحرين<br>Mamlakat al Bahrayn'''</big></b...
16: ...[National motto]]: [[Bahrainona]] بحريننا''</small>
65: A strategic position between East and West, fertile lands, fresh water, and pearl d...
67: ...e bigger region of Ahsa, Qatif (both are now the eastern province of Saudi Arabia) as well as Awal (now... - African American (19830 bytes)
10: ...6 percent of African Americans lived in the Northeast and 18.7 percent in the Midwest, while only 8.9 p...
58: In the last decade, a growing movement has developed, spearhe...
157: ...1603;يون أفارقة]] - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
9: ...he captain for whom he was sailing, becoming the master of his own bark. At age 23 Drake took his first...
12: ...ke took an immediate dislike to the Spanish, at least in part due to his mistrust of non-Spaniards and ...
16: ...wo of the ships had to be abandoned on the east coast of South America. During the course of the voyage...
22: ...e final ship sailed northward along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports like [[...
28: Drake's voyage to the west coast of [[North America]] is important for a number of... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...type|stereotypical]] pirate with [[cutlass]] and masted [[sailing ship]], today most pirates get about ...
4: ...ted by pirates, the advent of the United States Coast Guard has nearly eradicated piracy in American wa...
14: ...corsair]]s''', which in modern Arabic is قرصان from the Turkish '''''Korsa...
46: ... when not in battlestations, the ship's [[quartermaster]] usually had the real authority.
50: Pirates readily accepted outcasts from traditional societies, perhaps easily recog... - Rail transport (15539 bytes)
15: ...nt in their progress toward profitability. The [[East Japan Railway Company]] has taken an innovative a...
22: ...ystem on which to run. This system includes [[infrastructure]] such as tracks, [[railroad switch]]es, [...
28: ...motive|diesel]] or [[electric locomotive]]s. The last of these options, the most energy efficient, requ...
34: ...ry low labor cost. An example is that goods from east Asia that are bound for Europe will often be ship...
38: ==Safety and railway disasters== - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
110: *[[Mary Astell]], (1666-1731){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
128: *[[Gaston Bachelard]], (1884-1962){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}...
155: *[[Sebastiano Basso]], (16th century) - Islam (36809 bytes)
36: ...ws: Say "He is God, the one, the Self-Sufficient master. He never begot, nor was begotten. There is non...
50: *"Ramadhan": Fasting from dawn to dusk in the month of [[Ramadan]] ...
74: ... transliteration of the Arabic original (قرآن); it means “recitation”...
82: ...logical order, and among Muslim commentators at least there is a rough consensus as to which suras were...
90: ...ing the Qur'an. Old Qur'ans are not destroyed as wastepaper, but deposited in Qur'an graveyards. The Qu... - Quran (41479 bytes)
2: ...ng-ar|أَلْقُرآن}} ''al-qur'ān''; its literal ...
50: ... with legal verses being particularly long. Contrast the Makkan verses above with a verse such as [[al...
123: ... as it projects current Sunni orthodoxy onto the past -- much as if [[New Testament]] scholars were ded...
125: ... tumultuous early centuries of Islam, with their vast conquests and bloody squabbles between rivals for...
155: ...tion in Islam, a Muslim is required to learn at least some [[sura]]s of the Qur'an (typically starting ... - Libya (12985 bytes)
1: ...een [[Egypt]] on the east, [[Sudan]] on the southeast, [[Chad]] and [[Niger]] on the south and [[Algeri...
3: ...m "Lebu", referring to [[Berber]] peoples living east of the [[Nile]], and adopted into [[Greek languag...
6: ...1610;ة الإشتراكية<br>al-Jamāh...
69: ... following the [[Pan Am Flight 103]] Lockerbie disaster. The sanctions were lifted on [[September 12]],...
78: ...[[2004]], the [[White House]] confirmed that the last of Libya's [[weapons of mass destruction|nuclear ... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
1: ...mbining elements of [[chemistry]], [[physics]], [[astrology]], [[art]], [[semiotics]], [[metallurgy]], ...
8: ...lour "black" (Egypt was the "Black land", by contrast with the "Red land", the surrounding desert), so ...
15: ...tertwining of chemical, spiritual and [[astrology|astrological]] themes that was characteristic of medi...
23: ...the new gold atoms, being unstable [[isotope]]s, lasted for under five seconds before they broke apart....
25: ...The Tao of Physics]]'' and ''[[The Dancing Wu Li Masters]]''.
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