Khartoum or Khartum (/ k ɑːr ˈ t uː m / kar-TOOM; Arabic: الخرطوم, romanized: Al-Khurṭūm, Dinka: Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan.With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile, flowing west from Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

Al-Malik al-Rahim (1048–1055) Minor rulers. It was not uncommon for younger sons to found collateral lines, or for individual Buyid members to take control of a province and begin ruling there. The following list is incomplete. Buyids in Basra. Diya' al-Dawla (980s) Buyids in Hamadan. Mu'ayyad al-Dawla (976–983) Shams al-Dawla (997–1021)

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American wide-body jet airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.After dropping its uncoventional Sonic Cruiser project, Boeing announced the conventional 7E7 on January 29, 2003, which focused largely on efficiency. The program was launched on April 26, 2004, with an order for 50 aircraft from All Nippon Airways …

Willem I (Falaise, ca. 1028 — Rouen, 9 september 1087), ook bekend als Willem de Veroveraar (William the Conqueror), was de eerste Normandische koning van Engeland van 25 december 1066 tot zijn dood. Hij was ook hertog van Normandië van 1035 tot zijn dood, onder de naam Willem II.Vóór zijn verovering van Engeland, stond hij bekend als Willem de Bastaard omdat hij …

Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, refers to a reduction of the total body mass, by a mean loss of fluid, body fat (adipose tissue), or lean mass (namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon, and other connective tissue).Weight loss can either occur unintentionally because of malnourishment or an underlying disease, or from a conscious effort …

The British thermal unit (BTU or Btu) is a unit of heat; it is defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit.It is also part of the United States customary units. The modern SI unit for heat energy is the joule (J); one BTU equals about 1055 J (varying within the range 1054–1060 J depending on the specific …

A computer is a digital electronic machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically.Modern computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs.These programs enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. A computer system is a "complete" computer that includes the …

O 6-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase (also known as AGT, MGMT or AGAT) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the O 6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene. O 6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase is crucial for genome stability.It repairs the naturally occurring mutagenic DNA lesion O 6-methylguanine back to guanine and prevents mismatch …

An ion (/ ˈ aɪ. ɒ n,-ən /) is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.. The charge of an electron is considered to be negative by convention and this charge is equal and opposite to the charge of a proton, which is considered to be positive by convention.The net charge of an ion is not zero because its total number of electrons is unequal to its total number of protons.

Character reference overview. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and uses the format: &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh;. where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form. The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any number of digits and may include …