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  • Asa "Al Jolson" Yoelson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 ...
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  • Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ...
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  • Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, full name Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic): ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for ...
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  • Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his ...
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  • Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known ...
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  • Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December ...
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  • Al Capp (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l Abner. He also ...
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  • Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...
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  • Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an American gangster ...
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  • statements by Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders. ... when it broadcast video statements by al-Qaeda leaders. ...
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  • Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright ...
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  • who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011, until ... A close associate of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, al-Zawahiri ...
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  • Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh ...
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  • Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most ...
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  • Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was ...
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  • Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was ...
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  • Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (in accurate transliteration, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; Arabic: جعفر الصادق, in full, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn ...
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  • Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר ‎ August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al ...
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  • Umar ibn al-Khattab (in Arabic, عمر بن الخطاب) (c. 581 - November, 644), sometimes referred to as Umar Farooq or just as Omar or Umar ...
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  • baghdadi-islamic-state-caliph-many-names-al-qaeda.html The many names of Abu ... Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), also known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) ...
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  • ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his ... and is believed responsible for dispatching numerous Al-Qaeda suicide ...
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  • Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command" ...
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  • ( محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي ) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm ...
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  • Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ...
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  • #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī ...
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  • Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed ...
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  • 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda movement, best known for masterminding the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. ...
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  • Sri Lanka, Palestinian terrorist groups, Al-Qaeda, and by 2005 to dozens of ... cost-benefit analysis, as expressed by al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ...
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  • statements by Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders. ... when it broadcast video statements by al-Qaeda leaders. ...
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  • On June 13, 2007, suspected al-Qaeda insurgents attacked the mosque again and destroyed the two minarets that flanked the dome's ruins. ...
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  • in doing so he had hoped to become Al-Qaeda's number two. ... have had influence on jihadists such as al-Qaeda with the third stage of ...
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  • 9171,1205478,00.html The Untold Story of al-Qaeda's Plot to Attack the Subway] Time. Retrieved February 22, 2008. ==See also== ...
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  • ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his ... and is believed responsible for dispatching numerous Al-Qaeda suicide ...
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  • who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011, until ... A close associate of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, al-Zawahiri ...
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  • On November 5, 2002, newspapers reported that Al-Qaeda operatives in a car traveling through Yemen had been killed by a missile launched from ...
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  • for organizations deemed a threat, such as al-Qaeda. Treason has always ... for videos in which he spoke supportively of al-Qaeda. ==Famous people ...
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  • now home to the recently vacated headquarters of al-Qaeda, and find that the land has not really changed much since Biblical times. ... Burroughs and ...
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  • baghdadi-islamic-state-caliph-many-names-al-qaeda.html The many names of Abu ... Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), also known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) ...
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  • Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known ...
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  • The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah , plural "Surahs" ar|سور ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter ...
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  • for who and what may have inspired Al-Qaeda discovered Qutb and found ... and later a mentor of Osama bin Laden and a leading member of al-Qaeda. ...
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  • Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was ...
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  • lessons as preparation, or were selected by Al-Qaeda based partly on flying skills. In one case the official pilot hijacked the plane: In October, 1998 ...
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  • category:image wanted Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق Mīšīl `Aflāq) (1910 – June 23, 1989) was the ideological founder of Ba’athism ...
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  • Ibn Hazm (November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064 456 AH) in full Abū Muhammad ‘Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Sa’īd ibn Hazm (Arabic :أبو محمد ...
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  • Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: ‏‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎أحمد بن حنبل‏‎‎‎‏‎‎‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ Ahmad bin Hanbal ...
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  • Newts (also called efts when terrestrial) are an informal grouping of salamanders within the Salamandridae family that may have rough-textured ...
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  • Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most ...
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  • Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (in accurate transliteration, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; Arabic: جعفر الصادق, in full, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn ...
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  • Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December ...
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  • In Islamic eschatology the Mahdi ( ar|مهدي Mahdī , also Mehdi; "Guided One") is the prophesied redeemer of Islam. The advent of ...
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  • Category:Public Mu'tazilah (Arabic المعتزلة al-mu`tazilah) is a theological school of thought within Islam originating in the eighth ...
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  • Hassan-i Sabbāh, or Hassan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (c. 1034 - 1124), was a Persian Nizārī Ismā'īlī missionary who converted a community in ...
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  • The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters) as part of a Prohibition Era ...
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  • The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajar-ul-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence, said by some to date back to the ...
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  • Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to al-Qaeda. New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2004. ISBN 978-1590170984. == External links == ...
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  • Recombinant DNA is a form of genetically engineered DNA that is created by taking DNA strands from one organism and combining or inserting these ...
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  • A centriole is a small, barrel-shaped, sub-cellular structure typically consisting of nine triplet microtubules (nine groups of three fused microtubules ...
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  • hotels in Amman. The Islamist organization, al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility, and Jordanian terrorist leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has since been ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Organized crime or criminal organizations refer to centralized enterprises established in order ...
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  • Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ...
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  • The ability of a chemical to behave as both an acid and a base is called amphoterism, and this type of substance is known as an amphoteric substance. ...
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  • The Ayyubid or Ayyoubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish [http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Saladin.html Saladin]. The Columbia Encyclopedia ...
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  • Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسدين al-ʿAbbāsidīn ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two ...
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  • Odonata is an order of insects (class Insecta) encompassing dragonflies and damselflies, with members characterized by large, compound eyes, ...
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  • The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming silicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks. They share a common structure ...
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  • Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his ...
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  • ad-Dajjal sometimes spelled Dajal, (Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), also known as the false Messiah ...
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  • years in prison for providing material support to al-Qaeda, after an earlier plot to destroy the bridge by cutting through its support wires with blowtorches ...
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  • The Kaabah, Kaaba or Ka'bah (Arabic: الكعبة meaning: "Cube") is a building located inside Islam's holiest mosque (al ...
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  • by such organizations as Islamic Jihad and Al-Qaeda, use extra-constitutional means including terrorist activities, to pursue their agenda which ...
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  • Amphibole defines an important group of generally dark-colored, rock-forming silicate minerals. Some are constituents of igneous rocks, and others ...
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  • Lysosome is an organelle of eukaryotic cells that contains hydrolytic enzymes active under acidic conditions and involved in intracellular digestion ...
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  • the USS Cole, in Aden's harbor in 2000 by Al-Qaeda followers. == Economy == Development in a country where virtually no modern structures ...
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  • Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that make up as much as 60 percent of the Earth's crust. Feldspars crystallize ...
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  • Arabia began, believed to be conducted by al-Qaeda affiliates. This consisted ... Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia and al-Qaeda. The Movement for Islamic ...
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  • United States accused Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group of responsibility and launched cruise missile attacks (August 20) on the al-Shifa pharmaceutical ...
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  • The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated ...
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  • Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally large- or medium-sized insects with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism ...
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  • According to a July 2007 report by the BBC, Al-Qaeda have also condemned ... [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6289110.stm Al-Qaeda ...
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  • In Islam, the word Houri (Arabic: حورية,‎ also ḥūr or ḥūrīyah) refers to heavenly angels, splendid beings, Surah Al-Waqiah (56): ...
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  • Isma'il bin Jafar (Arabic: إسماعيل بن جعفر, c. 721 C.E./103 AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a ...
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  • In zoology, skipper or skipper butterfly is the common name for any of the butterflies comprising the family Hesperiidae, characterized by antennae ...
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  • Physiology (Greek Φυσιολογία, physis, meaning "nature") can refer either to the parts or functions (mechanical, physical ...
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  • and claimed by some to have been linked to al-Qaeda. Several of those convicted for their roles in the bombings escaped by tunneling out of their prison. ...
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  • Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in ...
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  • Jahannam ( جهنم ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside ...
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  • Khalil Gibran (born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (January 6, 1883 – ...
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  • The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i.e. "the monotheists" or "the Unitarians"), was a Berber ...
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  • Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is an Old World monkey (family Cercopithecidae), characterized by large size, long limbs, stubby upright tail, light ...
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  • Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sakhr ibn Harb, (Arabic: صخر بن حرب ) more commonly known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca ...
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  • Galliformes is an order of chicken-like birds, characterized by stocky built, small head, strong feet, and often short bills and wings, and adult ...
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  • Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a type of non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is a primary and permanent component of ribosomes, the small, cellular ...
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  • Once thought of as a single mineral species, lepidolite has been recently redefined as a series of minerals in the mica group. [http://www.mindat ...
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  • Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish), and in particular those comprising the families ...
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  • The Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch ...
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  • ( محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي ) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm ...
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  • Rook is the common name for members of the Old World bird species Corvus frugilegus of the crow family (Corvidae), characterized by black feathers ...
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  • Exocytosis is the process by which a cell packages materials in membrane-bound secretory vesicles inside the cell and directs these secretory ...
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  • Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Garnets are most often seen in red, but are ...
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  • Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ...
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  • Fatimah binte Muhammad or popularly Fatimah Zahra (Fatima the Gracious) (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء) (Born Friday twentieth of Jumada ...
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  • Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other ...
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  • Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey ...
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  • Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...
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  • Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom is ascribed authorship of ...
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  • Impala (plural impala or impalas) is the common name for a light-built, swift-running, powerful-jumping African antelope, Aepyceros melampus ...
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  • Nerve cord is a term that can refer to either (1) the single, hollow, fluid-filled, dorsal tract of nervous tissue that is one of the defining ...
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  • Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. Typically, its crystals are wine or straw-yellow ...
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  • The tourmaline mineral group is chemically one of the most complicated groups of silicate minerals. It is a complex silicate of aluminum and ...
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  • Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located ...
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  • Allosaurus was a large (up to 9.7 m long) bipedal (moving on two legs), carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period, 155 ...
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  • Piranha, or piraña, is the common name for various South American, freshwater, tropical fish of the order Charciformes known for their pointed ...
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  • Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae, and includes the four, well-known living species of the lion (Panthera ...
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  • Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ...
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  • Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation ...
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  • The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate ...
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  • Yak is the common name for a stocky, ox-like bovine, Bos grunniens , of high altitude areas in Central Asia, characterized by long, upcurved ...
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  • Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh ...
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  • Asa "Al Jolson" Yoelson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 ...
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  • A Mamluk (Arabic: مملوك (singular), مماليك (plural), "owned"; also transliterated mameluk, mameluke, or mamluke) was a slave ...
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  • Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed ...
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  • Category:Public Abu Bakr (alternative spellings, Abubakar, Abi Bakr, Abu Bakar) (c. 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs ...
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  • Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) or simply Rabiʿa al-Basri (717–801 C.E.) was a female ...
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  • Mecca (Makkah al-Mukarramah, مكة المكرمة ) is a holy Islamic city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in the historic Hejaz region ...
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  • Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the 16th-most-populous metropolitan area in the world, with a metropolitan area ...
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  • Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī (variant: Al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī 'Abd al-Awal al-Ṣabāḥ, Abū 'Alī ( ar| الحسن ...
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  • Saladin, Salah ad-Din, or Salahuddin al Ayyubi (so-lah-hood-din al-aye-yu-be) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), was a twelfth century Kurdish Muslim ...
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  • Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: شیعه) is the second largest school within Islam. Shi'a Muslims ...
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  • Eliot P. Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Georges Poulet (1902 - 1991) was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Growing out of Russian Formalism ...
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  • Frank Robinson (born August 31, 1935), is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball player. He was an outfielder, most notably with the Cincinnati ...
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  • Jack "J.L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born John Leonard Warner in London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish–Jewish ...
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  • Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are 236 described species of Melaleuca, all of which occur in ...
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  • Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an American gangster ...
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  • Rubella, commonly known as German measles and also called three-day measles, is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the rubella virus ...
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  • Flight is the process by which an object achieves sustained movement through the air, as in the case of aircraft, or beyond Earth's atmosphere ...
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  • DEET is a chemical, N, N-Diethyl-m-toluamide, that acts as an insect repellent to prevent bites from mosquitoes, fleas, biting flies, and other ...
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  • Ibis is the common name for any of the long-legged wading birds of diverse genera comprising the subfamily Threskiornithinae of the family Threskiornithidae ...
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  • Khadijah (between 555-570 C.E. – about 630 C.E.) was the first wife of the Muslim prophet, Muhammad. Khadijah al-Kubra, the daughter of Khuwaylid ...
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  • Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are one of two major classes of cells in neural tissues, the other being neurons, for ...
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  • Trachoma, also known as granular conjunctivitis, is an infectious eye disease caused by the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis and characterized ...
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  • Estrogens (also oestrogens) are a group of steroid (type of lipid) compounds that function as the primary female sex hormone. Estrogens are named ...
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  • An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things, so that an inference (reasoning from premise to conclusion) is drawn on the ...
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  • Western Sahara, located in northwestern Africa, is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands. ...
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  • Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between ...
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  • The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; דרוזים , Druzim; also transliterated Druz or Druse) are a Middle ...
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  • Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha ...
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  • The Battle of Bassorah, Battle of the Camel, or Battle of Jamal was a battle that took place at Basra, Iraq in 655 C.E. between forces allied ...
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  • Vicuña is the common name for a rare, wild, gregarious South American camelid, Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes ...
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  • Nemertea is a phylum of largely aquatic invertebrate animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms and characterized by long, thin, unsegmented ...
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  • Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (1120 - c. 1229), much better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn ( فریدالدین ) and ‘Attār ( ...
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  • Cobra is the common name for a number of Asian and African snakes in several genera of the family Elapidae, characterized by smooth scales, large ...
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  • An antiproton (symbol Antiproton , pronounced p-bar) is the antiparticle of the proton. An antiproton is relatively stable, but it is typically ...
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  • of the influence exercised by bin Laden and Al-Qaeda on the Taliban has since been revealed. [https://www.dawn.com/news/215984 Osama’s fingerprints ...
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