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- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( أبومصعب الزرقاوي , ’Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his death in June 2006 ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Punch.jpg|thumb|250 px|right| Punch magazine cover, 1867]] Punch was a British weekly magazine of humor ...8 KB (1,281 words) - 23:46, 2 December 2022
- Dugong is the common name for a large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine mammal, Dugong dugon, characterized by gray-colored, nearly hairless skin, paddle-like forelimbs, no hind ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- Hussein bin Ali (1852 – 1931) (حسین بن علی, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif of Mecca, and Emir of Mecca from 1908 until 1917, when he proclaimed himself king of ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna or Lepcis Magna, (also Lpqy or Neapolis), located on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what is now Libya, was originally a Phoenician ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- Coral snake, or coralsnake, is the common name for often colorful venomous snakes belonging to several genera of the Elapidae family. Traditionally, six genera have been known ...24 KB (3,201 words) - 19:02, 14 January 2023
- Ali ibn Abi (or Abu) Talib ( علي بن أبي طالب ) (ca. 21 March 598 – 661) was an early Islamic leader. He is seen by the Sunni Muslims as the fourth and last of the ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- Ricin ( ˈraɪsɨn ) is a protein derived from the seed of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) that is highly toxic to humans, as well as to other animals, including insects ...25 KB (3,716 words) - 18:51, 11 August 2022
- Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (also spelled Hafiz) (خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی in Persian) was a Persian mystic and poet who ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni Islam is also referred to as Sunnism or as Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h (Arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Intifada (also Intefadah or Intifadah; from Arabic for "shaking off") is an Arabic term for "uprising." The word was first widely used to describe the popular ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός , hadros, meaning "thick") is a subatomic particle formed by the binding together of quarks and gluons ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that are unique among cnidarians in that they do not do not have a medusa stage in their development. These ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 01:56, 9 January 2023
- Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 18:54, 21 May 2024
- The Battle of the Pyramids was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte and local Mamluk forces. It was the first of many battles ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated in southern Sudan, the civil war ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular land plants of the division Marchantiophyta, characterized by a gametophyte-dominant life cycle and single ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Resembling in shape a figurehead on a ship's prow, the Sultanate of Oman juts sharply from the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula into the Arabian Sea. It is the world ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- Mohammed Anwar Al Sadat (Arabic: محمد أنورالسادات Muḥammad 'Anwar as-Sādāt) (December 25, 1918 – October 6, 1981) was an Egyptian statesman who served ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Category:Image wanted Etiology (alternately aetiology, aitiology) is the study of causation. Derived from the Greek grc|αιτιολογία, "giving a reason for" (grc ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
