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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' was the r...
9: Mary, Queen of Scots, is sometimes confused with her first cousin once removed, ...
15: ...ut [[Duke of Albany]], a royal cousin, had lived yet some years ago and died 1536. Had he not died bef...
24: ...rd to the altar and put her gently in the throne set up there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep h...
28: ...child's head, where it rested on a circlet of velvet. The Cardinal steadied the crown and Lord Livings... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: ..._(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</sm...
7: ..., '''Gloriana''', or '''Good Queen Bess''', Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor...
9: ...I of England|Henry VIII]], she was a writer and poet. She granted [[Royal Charter]]s to several famous...
11: ...ouncil|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
13: ...r of the [[United States]], was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen". - Narcissi (1567 bytes)
15: ...sian]] word of this plant, نرگس (''Nargis'').
19: Narcissi are sometimes called jonquils in [[North America]], but str...
21: [[Daffodil]]s are the large trumpeted varieties of narcissi. - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...pic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city...
19: ...in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that the city would prosper, pa...
21: ...with exact knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frighten...
23: ...e five native villages scattered along the strip between Lake Mareotis and the sea, according to a his...
25: ...ion, Alexander left Egypt for the East and never returned to his city. His general, Ptolemy (later [[P... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
1: ...oastline with the [[South China Sea]], it is completely surrounded by [[East Malaysia]].
5: ...1606;ي دارالسلام<br>Negara Brunei Darussalam...
13: ...gn="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Brunei|In Detail]])
28: ...by area|Ranked 163rd]] <br /> 5,765 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br /> 8.6%
47: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.bn]] - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...1618;لَةْ اِسْرَائِي...
6: ...sra'el")<br>دولة اسرائيل<br>("Dawlat I...
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68: ...zantine]]s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under th... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ...;nistān افغانستان) is a country in [[Central ...
3: Between the fall of the [[Taliban]] after the [[U.S. ...
5: ...1605;ی افغانستان'''<br>'''Da Afghanistan Isl...
13: ...enter" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Afghanistan|In Detail]])
28: ...s by area|Ranked 40th]] <br>647,500 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br>0% - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...e [[Red Sea]] to the northeast, [[Eritrea]] and [[Ethiopia]] to the east, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]] to ...
8: ...1607;ورية السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-S...
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66: ...ic stagnation, and ethnic dissidence. Much of the ethnic conflict is born of the North (Arab, Muslim) ... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
8: ...1578;وان مليسيا'''</big></big>
37: ... by area|Ranked 64th]] <br> 329,750 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 0.3%
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69: ...ers.JPG|thumb|300px|Kuala Lumpur's landmark, the Petronas Twin Towers, one of the tallest buildings in...
80: ...the attacks only stopped in [[1641]], when the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] (allied to the Sultanate of Johor... - Aswan (1042 bytes)
1: ...:Spices.jpg|thumb|right|Spices at the outdoor market in Aswan. Photo courtesy of [http://classroomclip...
6: ...ile]] at the first [[cataract]] and is a busy market and tourist center.
8: ...he last rain here was 6 years ago. In [[Nubia]]n settlements they generally do not bother to roof all ...
10: ...puted the [[Flat Earth]] theory and attempted to determine the circumference of the Earth. - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
1: ...irinal Hill]], north of the [[Roman Forum]]. Completed in 113, the freestanding column is most famous ...
3: ..., with a diameter of 3.7 meters (11 ft). The 190 meter (625 ft) frieze winds around the shaft 23 times...
5: ... [[Pope Sixtus V]] with a bronze figure of [[St. Peter]], which remains to this day.
11: ...pays little attention to perspective. Often a variety of different perspectives are used in the same s...
13: ...rts, ships, weapons etc.). The relief shows such details as a [[ballista]] or catapult for example. Th... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: '''Politics''' is the process and method of making decisions for groups. Although it is...
6: ...[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
11: ...ay to illustrate the rationale for creating [[societies]] (polities).
14: ...writing. All of which require densely populated settlements - cities.
23: ...ameral]] legislative system, which divided power between the [[patrician]] [[aristocracy]] and [[plebi... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...sometimes referred to as "the first [[theory|theoretical]] [[astrophysicist]]", although [[Carl Sagan]...
13: ...is entire life. At age six, he observed the [[Comet]] of [[1577]], writing that he "...was taken by [...
15: In [[1587]], Kepler began attending the [[University of T?n...
25: ..., [[1618]] Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion: distance cubed over time squared. He i...
33: ...of Planetary Motion|Kepler's laws]], in which planets move in ellipses, not circles. Using that knowle... - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
8: ...-[[Treaty of Tordesillas]] divides the New World between [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]]
21: ...h]] founds [[Roanoke Colony]], the first English settlement in the New World, in the [[Virginia]] terr... - Monsoon (5846 bytes)
5: ... [[Arabic language|Arabic]] word "موسم" (''mausem''), which means ''season''. It...
12: ...over the ocean. Since the temperature difference between the ocean and land is less than in summer, th...
18: As monsoons have come to be better understood, the definition has been broadened ...
23: ...ert plants are adapted to take advantage of this wet season in the usually-dry area. Because of the da...
26: ...tropical jet and the polar jet. The sub-tropical jet directs north-easterly winds to blow across south... - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...er]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heresy|heretic]], popularly regarded as a martyr to the cause ...
9: ...may have been disguised [[Hermes Trismegistus|Hermetic]] tracts. The writings attributed to [[Hermes T...
19: In [[1583]], he went to [[England]] with letters of recommendation from Henry III. He sought a...
21: ... whose reports to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spy master, have been found in surviving recor...
23: ...otle|Aristotelian]] natural science and his pamphlet against the [[Roman Catholic]] mathematician [[Fa... - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
9: ...a Frisius]] and [[Gaspar Myrica]]. They worked together from [[1535]] to [[1536]] to construct a terre...
12: ... where he opened a cartographic workshop. He completed a six-panel map of Europe ([[1554]]) and he tau...
14: ...|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 15...
15: ...rors). Maps of [[France]], [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]] were added in [[1585]] and of the [[Bal...
20: *''Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet'' by Nicholas Crane, ISBN 0805066241, Henry Holt ... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...-Salājiqa''; [[Persian language|Persian]]: سلجوقيان... - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
12: ...n="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Bahrain|In Detail]])
32: ...s by area|Ranked 175th]] <br /> 665 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br /> 0%
53: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.bh]]
63: ... the islands contain the two sources of water, sweet water springs and salty water in the surrounding ...
65: ...ed to Bahrain the "Life of Eternity", "Paradise", etc. Bahrain was also called the "Pearl of the Persi... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
10: *[[Antonio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1846]] – [[1928]])
11: *[[Georgio Abetti]] ([[Italy]], [[1882]] – [[1982]])
35: *[[Petrus Apianus]] ([[Germany]], [[1495]] – [[155...
76: *[[Adriaan Blaauw]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1914]] – )
80: *[[Bart Bok]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1906]] – [[1983]]) - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...system to follow nearly seventy-five years of Soviet rule. For instance, leading figures in the legisl...
4: ...ncessions from [[Moscow]]. Although the struggle between executive and legislative branches was partia...
8: ...ory and population. Ethnic Russians dominated Soviet politics and government; they also controlled loc...
10: ...nstitutions in the RSFSR. Certain policies of Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] (in office 1985-91) ...
12: ... an election and had himself appointed by the Soviet parliament. Despite Gorbachev's attempts to disco... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - State of Palestine (7675 bytes)
2: ...c]]: دولة فلسطين) was [[Declaration of Indep...
5: ...1>'''دولة فلسطين'''<br>'''Dawlat Filastin'''...
33: ...s the whole of [[Israel]], it is generally interpreted to have recognized Israel within its pre-1967 b...
39: The following are listed in alphabetical order by region.
42: ...e Congo]], [[Djibouti]], [[Equatorial Guinea]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Gabon]], [[Gambia]], [[Ghana]], [[Guin... - Hyksos (23575 bytes)
2: ...an language|Egyptian]] ''heka khasewet'') were an ethnically mixed group of Western Asiatic people who...
6: ...uments, scarabs and other small objects, and [[Manetho]]'s history of Egypt, written during the time o...
9: ...es, but they are specifically called Hyksos by Manetho. It is generally agreed that these six Hyksos ...
13: ...t, there is no certainty that the names belong together as the two names of a single person. This per...
15: ...urposes; there is no close or obvious connection between the bulk of these names — Salitis, Beon... - Holy Land (2739 bytes)
1: ...ited to, the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]], [[Bethlehem]], the [[Western Wall]], and the [[Dome of ...
3: The [[Crusades]] were started on the pretext of recovering the Holy Land. More recently, th...
5: The term is sometimes used when a speaker wishes to use neither "Is...
11: ...]'s favour unto you, how He placed among you prophets, and He made you kings, and gave you that (which...
13: ...sh-Sham)" and by [[Maad ibn Jabal]] as "the area between [[al-Arish]] and the [[Euphrates]]", and by [... - Potato (22889 bytes)
16: ...ide. Growers cultivate thousands of different varieties of potato.
18: ...s]] where sweet potatoes grow commonly, people sometimes refer to the "Irish potato" to distinguish th...
24: ...ly came from the [[Andes]]. [[Pre-Columbian]] societies of this region (pre-cursors of the [[Inca]] ci...
26: ...s had attempted to set up a colony. The pioneers returned to England with Drake, along with the potato...
28: ...toes appearing in North America comes from Irish settlers in [[Londonderry, New Hampshire]] during [[1... - Palestine (region) (604 bytes)
1: ...606;''' '''Filasṭīn''') is the region between the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and the banks of th... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
10: ...rted_in_China How Christmas Started in China - LoveToKnow Christmas<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>...
14: ...phenomenon, and, sometimes, as part of retail marketing campaigns.
20: ...uch as gift-giving, sending Christmas cards, and setting up decorated trees in their homes; children, ...
29: ...n'' (the big day). Commercialization and open markets are however bringing more secular Christmas cele...
34: ... especially prevalent in [[Bethlehem]] and [[Nazareth]]. - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
2: ...nguage|Arabic]]: '''القدس''' '''al-Quds'''; see also [[names of Jerusalem]...
4: ...opulation/new_2004/tab_3.pdf]), it is a richly [[heterogeneous]] city, representing a wide range of na...
6: ...1949 Armistice Agreements|1949 cease-fire line]] between [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]], also known as the ...
12: ...'' ("city of Salem"). Some consider a connection between the name and ''Shalim'' the personification o...
20: ...vercoming other ritual centers such as Shilo and Bethel. Near the end of the reign of King Solomon, t... - List of fruits (14101 bytes)
1: ...[[fruit|true fruits]]'' are considered to be [[vegetable]]s in the [[food|culinary]] sense (for exampl...
28: * [[Cherry]], sweet, sour, and wild species (''Prunus avium'', ''P. c...
30: * [[Peach]] (of the normal and white variety) and its variant the [[nectarine]] (''Prunus per...
64: * [[Crowberry]] (''Empetrum'' spp.; [[Empetraceae]])
81: * [[False-mastic]] (''Mastichodendron foetidissimum''; [[Sapotaceae]]) - Pistachio (3237 bytes)
17: ...chio''' (''Pistacia vera'', [[Anacardiaceae]]; sometimes placed in Pistaciaceae) is a small [[tree]] t...
19: ...te male and female trees. The [[flower]]s are [[apetalous]] and unisexual, and borne in [[panicle]]s. ...
25: Pistachio nuts have been a part of the human diet at least since the late [[paleolithic]]. The kern...
27: ...ybe a cognate to the Modern Persian word پسته ''Pesteh''.
29: ...istachio is naturally a beige color, but it is sometimes [[dye]]d red in commercial pistachios. Origin...
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