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- Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
37: ... later used by [[Mussolini]] as a form of propaganda during [[World War II]]. The blockbuster film [[...
40: ...onal theater]] , although it is still performed today. Traveling teams of players would set up an outd...
47: ... causing us to judge Roman buildings by Greek standard. One of the most famous types of [[Roman archit...
49: ...k; what is recognised as Palladian architecture today is an evolution of Palladio's original concepts....
60: ...the north [1][http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/MIE/Part2_chapter08.html]. - Venice (22017 bytes)
10: ...jor power-broker in the [[Near East]]. By the standards of the time, Venice's stewardship of its mainl...
14: ...] systems, but the social order was entirely [[feudal]]. Church and various private properties were ti...
29: ...e city itself or from its possessions, especially Dalmatia. Those from the city were chosen by lot fro...
33: ...ecruited from the lagoon, plus feudal levies from Dalmatia and Istria. In times of emergency, all male...
92: ...ill intact after centuries of submersion. The foundations rest on the piles, and buildings of [[brick]... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...''; [[Persian language|Persian]]: سلجوقيان ''Saljūq...
3: ... [[Azerbaijan]]. The Seljuk Turks and their descendants, the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turks]], played ...
5: ...d himself Sultan and established a capital in Baghdad. [[Ahmed Sanjar]] was captured and held captive ...
13: * Jalal ad-Dawlah [[Malik Shah I]] [[1072]]-[[1092]]
20: * [[Dawud of Great Seljuk|Dawud]] (David) [[1131]]-[[1132]] - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
1: ...sDrake.jpg|framed|Sir Francis Drake, c. [[1540]]–[[1596]].]]
2: ...he English fleet which defeated the [[Spanish Armada]] in [[1588]].
7: ...n and could be as early as [[1535]]. The [[1540]] date is taken from a portrait painted quite late in ...
12: ...se attack in violation of a truce agreed to a few days before, nearly costing Drake his life. From the...
13: ..., Drake raided the waters around [[Dari鮬 Panama|Darien]] (in modern [[Panama]]) and tracked the Silv... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
53: [[Phillip Darrel Duppa|Darrel Duppa]] recommended the name ''Phoenix'', mem...
74: ... the precious water supply. It functions to this day as the major agency for controlled use of irriga...
76: ...heodore Roosevelt Dam]], then the largest masonry dam in the world, began operation. It created [[Roo...
97: ...le, Arizona|Scottsdale]], [[Glendale, Arizona|Glendale]], [[Tempe, Arizona|Tempe]], [[Chandler, Arizon...
99: ...creational lake, called [[Tempe Town Lake]]. The dams are deflated to allow the river to flow unimped... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
14: *[[John Couch Adams]] (United Kingdom, [[1819]] - [[1892]])
25: *[[Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov]] (Russia, [[1912]] - [[1999]...
66: *[[David Bates (physicist)|David Bates]]
75: *[[Daniel Bernoulli]] (Switzerland, [[1700]] - [[1782]]...
88: *[[Danilo Blanusa]], ([[Croatia]], [[1903]] - [[1987]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
8: ...arc Aaronson]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1950]] – [[1987]])
9: ... Ogden Abell]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1927]] – [[1983]])
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
12: ...reeley Abbot]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1872]] – [[1973]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn...
19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}}
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}} - Libya (12985 bytes)
1: ...Sea]], located between [[Egypt]] on the east, [[Sudan]] on the southeast, [[Chad]] and [[Niger]] on th...
6: |+<big>'''الجماهيرية...
24: ...'Leader of the Revolution''''' || [[Muammar al-Qaddafi]]
61: ...[Iran]] in its [[1980]]-[[1988]] war against [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Iraq]] (''see [[Iran-Iraq War]]'')...
67: ...tims of the April 14 bombing raid was the adopted daughter of Qadhafi. - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
11: ...ticism]] and [[magic (paranormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and beliefs have...
17: ...latanism, and in the end providing some of the fundamental [[empirical knowledge]] of the fields of ch...
23: ...ans of [[electrolysis]] or [[sonic cavitation]] — were the pivot of the [[cold fusion]] controve...
25: ...ks such as ''[[The Tao of Physics]]'' and ''[[The Dancing Wu Li Masters]]''.
27: ... As the obscure — ''hermetic'', of course — language of the alchemists is gradually being ... - Tobacco (28162 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
18: ...[smoking ban]]s in an effort to minimize possible damage to [[public health]] due to [[tobacco smoking...
28: ...first wife died, and he married [[Pocahontas]], a daughter of Chief [[Powhatan]]. Although most of the...
30: ...e, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking f...
39: ...h branches to protect the young plants from frost damage. These plants were left to grow until around ... - Elamite Empire (23098 bytes)
13: ...stages of the language are attested; the earliest date back to the third milennium BCE, the latest to ...
19: ...an only really trace Elamite history from records dating to beginning of the [[Akkadian Empire]], ca. ...
24: *Proto-Elamite: ca. 3200 BC – 2700 BC (Proto-Elamite script in Susa)
25: *Old Elamite period: ca. 2700 BC – 1600 BC (earliest documents until the Eprati ...
26: *Middle Elamite period: 1500 BC – 1100 BC (Anzanite dynasty until the Babylonian... - Linnaean classification (11503 bytes)
1: ... to improve consistency with the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] principle of [[common descent]]. [[Molec...
9: ...the Swiss professor, [[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565). Gesner's work was a critical compilation...
11: ...]] (1637–1680), and [[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1702).
13: [[John Ray]] (1627–1705) was an English naturalist who published i...
17: ...fter John Ray's death [[Carolus Linnaeus]] (1707–1778) was born. His great work, the ''[[Systema... - Vernier scale (1907 bytes)
1: ...ance|French]] mathematician [[Pierre Vernier]] ([[1580]]-[[1637]]). In some languages, this device is ca...
5: ...en will usually be between two of the smallest gradations on this scale. The indicating scale ("vern...
8: ...g to the best-aligned pair of indicator & data gradations yields the value of the finer additional pre...
11: ...n the data scale. Note that the vernier's 10th gradation is omitted.
13: ...ute gradations (spanning 29 of the half-degree gradations). - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...ity of key importance to the [[religion]]s of [[Judaism]], [[Christianity]], and [[Islam]].
6: ...ity. Since Israel's victory in the [[1967]] [[Six-Day War]], it has controlled the entire city and cla...
16: ...|[[Archaeology|Archaeological]] ruins from [[King David]]'s time]]
18: ...war and captured the city without destroying it. David then expanded the city to the south, and decla...
20: ...pital of the southern kingdom, the [[Kingdom of Judah]]. - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ...rabic language|Arabic]] '''المجريط''') meaning "source of wate...
24: ...hing related to [[ETA]], this incident is still today a matter of controversy; while some think that i...
28: ...n the 1980s, the capital city of Spain has consolidated its position as the leading economic, cultural...
34: ...ed in Madrid and a history of centralism that pre-dated Franco by centuries has resulted in the succes...
59: ... active centers of the so-called '[[Movida|La Movida]]', largely due to its new-found status as a popu... - Giza (1132 bytes)
3: ...a''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]], الجيزة, [[Transliteration|translit...
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