U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Saudi Arabian Relations PEOPLESaudi Arabia's 2007 population…
The word for the longest measurement of time is kalpa, Hindi for 432 billion years. A year is the time it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun once. A calendar…
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Date of Information: 108/08/2022 Pres. Abdul Hamid Prime Min. Sheikh Hasina Min. of Agriculture…
Lights! Camera! Learning! History lesson: Real heroes on film by Beth Rowen Patton George C. Scott as Old Blood and Guts This unforgettable biopic explores the hot-headed military genius…
singerBorn: 10/13/1948Birthplace: Lyallpur, Punjab Province, Pakistan Called “Shahen-Shah-e-Qawwali” (The Brightest Star in Qawwali), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a world music superstar and the…
Afghan KingDied: July 20, 2007 (Kabul, Afghanistan) Best Known as: former King of Afghanistan Former king of Afghanistan, who earned the title âfather of the…
(Encyclopedia) Farid ad-Din AttarFarid ad-Din Attarfärēdˈ äd-dēn ät-tärˈ [key], 1142?–1220?, b. Nishapur, Persia, one of the greatest Sufi mystic poets of Islam. His masterpiece is the Mantiq ut-Tair…
(Encyclopedia) HudHudh&oomacr;d [key], a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. The Qur'an mentions that their…
(Encyclopedia) KanemKanemkänēmˈ [key], former empire in Africa in the areas near Lake Chad that are now part of Chad and N Nigeria. The empire began in the 9th cent., when the Sefawa migrated to the…
