The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (Chinese: 五代十國), from 907 to 979, was an era of political upheaval and division in 10th-century Imperial China.Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen concurrent dynastic states were established elsewhere, mainly in South China.It was a prolonged period of multiple …

ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Arabic: عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; c. 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam.The issue of his succession caused a major rift between Muslims and divided them into Shia and Sunni groups. Ali was assassinated in the Grand Mosque ...

Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations) is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of an insured person (often the policyholder). Depending on the contract, other events such as terminal illness or critical illness …

While the Tibetan plateau has been inhabited since pre-historic times, most of Tibet's history went unrecorded until the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism around the 6th century. Tibetan texts refer to the kingdom of Zhangzhung (c. 500 BCE – 625 CE) as the precursor of later Tibetan kingdoms and the originators of the Bon religion. While mythical accounts of early rulers of the Yarlung ...

テトロドトキシン (tetrodotoxin, TTX) は化学式 C 11 H 17 N 3 O 8 で表され、ビブリオ属やシュードモナス属などの一部の細菌によって生産されるアルカロイドである。 一般にフグの毒として知られるが、他にアカハライモリ、ツムギハゼ、ヒョウモンダコ、スベスベマンジュウガニなど幾つかの生物も ...

The 10th century was the period from 901 through 1000 in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the last century of the 1st millennium.. In China the Song dynasty was established. The Muslim World experienced a cultural zenith, especially in al-Andalus under the Caliphate of Córdoba and in the Samanid Empire under Ismail Samani.Additionally, there was a cultural …

Biography. Al-Suyuti was born on 3 October 1445 AD (1 Rajab 849 AH) in Cairo, Egypt. He hailed from a Persian family on his paternal side. His mother was Circassian. According to al-Suyuti his ancestors came from al-Khudayriyya in Baghdad. His family moved to Asyut in Mamluk Egypt, hence the nisba "Al-Suyuti". His father taught Shafi'i law at the Mosque and Khanqah …

中國朝代指中國歷史上某一世系君主統治之政權及其相對應的歷史時期 [與來源不符] 。 「朝代」亦是以政權界定一個歷史時期之名詞，此等王朝之政權更替，構成中國朝代輪替 [需要引文] [與來源不符] 。 。「朝」指以正統自居之當政政權，而「朝代」指「朝」政權執政之時代。

Il Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) è stato un partito politico italiano socialista, attivo dal 1892 al 1994.. A parte la breve esperienza del Partito Socialista Rivoluzionario Italiano, che tenne il suo primo Congresso Nazionale a Forlì nel 1884, è il più antico partito politico in senso moderno e la prima formazione organizzata della sinistra in Italia, oltre ad aver rappresentato anche ...

Arsacid dynasty (247 BC – 228 AD) King, Karen, Autocrator: Arsaces I: Tiridates I or Arsaces ? Son of Phriapites descendant of Arsaces son of Phriapatius who was probably son of Artaxerxes II: ... 923–963 31 March 963 Killed by Abu’l-'Abbas and a Turkic Ghilman: Emir: Khalaf ibn Ahmad: Abu Ahmad November 937 Son of Ahmad ibn Muhammad: 963 ...