Nour ad-Din Mahmûd el Mâlik al Adil [1] (en arabe : نور الدين محمود الملك العادل) (vers 1117/1118 - 15 mai 1174), aussi appelé Nur al-Din, ou Nûreddîn en français : « lumière de la religion » [2], appelé aussi Noradin par les Francs, est une des principales figures de la contre-croisade du XII e siècle qui lutte contre la présence des croisés en Syrie ainsi ...

The word Baháʼí (بهائی) is used either as an adjective to refer to the Baháʼí Faith or as a term for a follower of Baháʼu'lláh.The proper name of the religion is the Baháʼí Faith, not Baháʼí or Baha'ism (the latter, once common among academics, is regarded as derogatory by the Baháʼís). It is derived from the Arabic Baháʼ (بهاء), a name Baháʼu'lláh chose for ...

Facebook's initial public offering came on May 17, 2012, at a share price of US$38 ($45.00 in 2021 dollars).The company was valued at $104 billion ($123 billion in 2021 dollars), the largest valuation to that date. The IPO raised $16 billion ($18.9 billion in 2021 dollars), the third-largest in U.S. history, after Visa Inc. in 2008 and AT&T Wireless in 2000.

The turkey is a large species of bird in the genus Meleagris, native to North America.There are two extant turkey species: the wild turkey (M. gallopavo) of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey (M. ocellata) of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. This photograph, taken at Deer Island Preserve in Novato, California, depicts a male Rio Grande wild turkey (M. g. …

Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (Arabic: ٱلْمَسِيحُ ٱلدَّجَّالُ, romanized: al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl, lit. 'Deceitful Messiah'), [2] otherwise referred to simply as the Dajjal , is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology similar to the Antichrist in Christianity , who will pretend to be the promised Messiah , appearing before the Day of Judgment according to the Islamic eschatological ...

The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic tribes against the Roman Empire.It took place c. 60–61 AD in the Roman province of Britain, and was led by Boudica, the Queen of the Iceni.The uprising was motivated by the Romans' failure to honour an agreement they had made with her husband, Prasutagus, regarding the succession of his kingdom upon his death, …

Flevoland ( uitspraak (info / uitleg)) is een provincie in het midden van Nederland.Het is de jongste en qua landoppervlakte de kleinste van de twaalf provincies en bestaat uit de Noordoostpolder en de Flevopolder, beide ontstaan door drooglegging van delen van de voormalige Zuiderzee, met daarbinnen de voormalige eilanden Urk en Schokland.

In 1922, Dalí moved into the Residencia de Estudiantes (Students' Residence) in Madrid and studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts). A lean 1.72 metres (5 ft 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) tall, Dalí already drew attention as an eccentric and dandy. He had long hair and sideburns, coat, stockings, and knee-breeches in the style of …

Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few', and ἄρχω (arkho) 'to rule or to command') is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, religious ...

Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language.Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (c. 801–873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers.Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in 1450 AD, where one must …