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- Silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of various species of moths, in particular, Bombyx mori, the domesticated silkmoth, whose silk cocoons can be used in the production of silk. ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 23:22, 7 October 2022
- Mecca (Makkah al-Mukarramah, مكة المكرمة ) is a holy Islamic city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in the historic Hejaz region. It sits in a valley surrounded ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 03:48, 9 November 2022
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the 16th-most-populous metropolitan area in the world, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 15.2 ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- Salamander is the common term for any member of the order Caudata (also called Urodela) of the class Amphibia. Although lizard-like in external appearance, salamanders can be ...12 KB (1,655 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī (variant: Al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī 'Abd al-Awal al-Ṣabāḥ, Abū 'Alī ( ar| الحسن بن هانئ بن عبد الأول ...28 KB (4,086 words) - 06:54, 14 June 2023
- A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort (industry, occupation) by humans to catch and/or process, normally for sale, fish, shellfish, or other aquatic organisms. ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ʻ arb) is a peninsula in Southwest ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- Pope Saint Marcellus I was pope from May 308 to 309. He succeeded Marcellinus, after a considerable interval, in May or June 308. Marcellus is credited with having reorganized ...10 KB (1,623 words) - 04:04, 26 November 2022
- The Libyan Desert, also known as Great Sand Sea or Western Desert, is an African desert that is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and occupies southwestern ...13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, full name Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic): ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for short: الغزالى ) (born 1058 ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- In genetics, an allele (pronounced al-eel or al-e-ul) is any one of a number of viable DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) codings occupying a given locus (position) on a chromosome. ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 18:27, 21 July 2023
- Foraminifera, abbreviated as forams, are single-celled amoeboid protists comprising the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera of supergroup Rhizaria), characterized by reticulating ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a pre-colonial West African trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is now central Mali ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- Cellular differentiation is an embryological process by which an unspecialized cell becomes specialized into one of the many cell types that make up the body. Cell differentiation ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 01:40, 13 January 2023
- Guava is the common name for any of the various tropical shrubs and small trees comprising the New World genus Psidium of the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), characterized by tough ...15 KB (2,292 words) - 20:04, 20 June 2024
- Frances Coralie "Fannie" Perkins (April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the first ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- The Seljuqs (also Seljuk or Seljuq Turks) were a Muslim dynasty of originally Oghuz Turkic descent that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the eleventh to fourteenth ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat Hasela) is an Islamic shrine and a ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
- A suicide attack is an attack on a military or civilian target, in which an attacker intends to kill others, and knows that he or she will most likely die in the process. The ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- 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 general and warrior from Tikrit ...16 KB (2,458 words) - 00:59, 23 December 2022
