Search results for "Al-Qaeda" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Amphibole defines an important group of generally dark-colored, rock-forming silicate minerals. Some are constituents of igneous rocks, and others ...6 KB (934 words) - 17:24, 26 July 2023
- Lysosome is an organelle of eukaryotic cells that contains hydrolytic enzymes active under acidic conditions and involved in intracellular digestion ...11 KB (1,480 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- the USS Cole, in Aden's harbor in 2000 by Al-Qaeda followers. == Economy == Development in a country where virtually no modern structures ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- 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 ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- United States accused Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group of responsibility and launched cruise missile attacks (August 20) on the al-Shifa pharmaceutical ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 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 ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally large- or medium-sized insects with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism ...13 KB (1,770 words) - 10:49, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
- In Islam, the word Houri (Arabic: حورية, also ḥūr or ḥūrīyah) refers to heavenly angels, splendid beings, Surah Al-Waqiah (56): ...18 KB (2,560 words) - 21:26, 7 January 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- In zoology, skipper or skipper butterfly is the common name for any of the butterflies comprising the family Hesperiidae, characterized by antennae ...12 KB (1,517 words) - 22:59, 23 April 2023
- Physiology (Greek Φυσιολογία, physis, meaning "nature") can refer either to the parts or functions (mechanical, physical ...6 KB (856 words) - 05:11, 24 November 2022
- 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. ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- Jahannam ( جهنم ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- Khalil Gibran (born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (January 6, 1883 – ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i.e. "the monotheists" or "the Unitarians"), was a Berber ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is an Old World monkey (family Cercopithecidae), characterized by large size, long limbs, stubby upright tail, light ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 06:44, 5 November 2022
- Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 06:56, 14 June 2023
- Galliformes is an order of chicken-like birds, characterized by stocky built, small head, strong feet, and often short bills and wings, and adult ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a type of non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is a primary and permanent component of ribosomes, the small, cellular ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...4 KB (543 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish), and in particular those comprising the families ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- The Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch ...5 KB (710 words) - 13:04, 10 March 2023
- ( محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي ) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Rook is the common name for members of the Old World bird species Corvus frugilegus of the crow family (Corvidae), characterized by black feathers ...10 KB (1,526 words) - 21:41, 16 April 2023
- Exocytosis is the process by which a cell packages materials in membrane-bound secretory vesicles inside the cell and directs these secretory ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 04:40, 7 April 2021
- 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 ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Fatimah binte Muhammad or popularly Fatimah Zahra (Fatima the Gracious) (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء) (Born Friday twentieth of Jumada ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom is ascribed authorship of ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- Impala (plural impala or impalas) is the common name for a light-built, swift-running, powerful-jumping African antelope, Aepyceros melampus ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:37, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...7 KB (1,053 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- The tourmaline mineral group is chemically one of the most complicated groups of silicate minerals. It is a complex silicate of aluminum and ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Piranha, or piraña, is the common name for various South American, freshwater, tropical fish of the order Charciformes known for their pointed ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- 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 ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
- Yak is the common name for a stocky, ox-like bovine, Bos grunniens , of high altitude areas in Central Asia, characterized by long, upcurved ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:03, 22 May 2023
