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• Encyclopaedia Biblica
  .... xiii. and xiv.; and Ezekiel's three wise men were "Enoch, Jerahmeel, and Arab." This list might be continued indefinitely.<ref name="JewishEncyclopediaOn ...Egypt (the usual interpretation). The vast majority of names of places and people in the bible are connected by Cheyne to Jerahmeel, or one of these.
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...erious "[[Brethren of Purity]]" (Arabic: ''Ikhwan al-Safa''), a group of [[Arab]] scholars placed in [[Basra]], [[Iraq]] sometime around 10th century [[Com ...uth'') and the Master of the Age (''Sahib al-Zaman'') and the Imam for the people as long as he lives, If he fulfills his mission and accomplishes his allott
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• Sugar
  Originally, people chewed sugarcane raw to extract its sweetness. Sugarcane was a native of tr ...[[Berber people|Berbers]] spread the cultivation of sugar throughout the [[Arab Empire]] and across much of the [[Old World]], including [[Western Europe]]
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• Gunpowder
  ...the English monk [[Roger Bacon]], or by the [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] people (according to [[folklore]] a [[friar]] [[Berthold Schwarz]]), with literary ...earned about fireworks ("Chinese flowers") and rockets ("Chinese arrows"). Arab warriors had acquired fire lances before 1280 AD. Around that same year, a
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• History of clothing and textiles
  ...inually evolved, and the choices of textiles available have influenced how people carried their possessions, [[clothing|clothed]] themselves, and decorated t ...and their use spread to the [[Mediterranean]] countries. In the 1st cent. Arab traders brought fine [[Muslin]] and [[Calico]] to Italy and Spain. The [[Mo
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• Air safety
  ...mmercial airline crashes, a further 16 in 1928, and 51 in 1929 (killing 61 people), which remains the worst year on record at an accident rate of about 1 for ...been no more than 1 for every 2,000,000,000 person-miles flown (e.g., 100 people flying a plane for {{convert|1000|mi|km}} counts as 100,000 person-miles, m
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• List of phobias
  * [[Anthropophobia]] – fear of people or being in a company, a form of [[social anxiety disorder|social phobia]]. * [[Social phobia|Sociophobia]] – fear of people or social situations.
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• List of colleges and universities named after people
  ...institution. This is a list of [[higher education]] institutions named for people. ==Institutions named for people associated with the institution==
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• List of atlases
  * [[:commons:Atlas of the People's Republic of China|Atlas of the People's Republic of China]] ...commons:Atlas of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic|Atlas of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic]]
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• Tylenol
  ...adryl and St. Joseph's Aspirin, involving lots in the Americas, the United Arab Emirates and [[Fiji]].<ref name="reuters.com">[http://www.reuters.com/artic ...tates that Tylenol Rapid Release can help rid aches and pains; the various people are then showed enjoying their everyday lives, and are seen as “back to n
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• Religious and spiritual use of cannabis
  ...nnabis traces. Lacking any "suitable evidence that the ancient, indigenous people utilized ''Cannabis'' for food, oil, or fiber", they concluded "the decease
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• History of general anesthesia
  ...advanced the practice of [[Medicine in medieval Islam|medicine]] in the [[Arab World]] during the middle ages, while alchemists like [[Paracelsus]] made s ...of cannabis for anesthesia.<ref name=Sushruta/> By the eighth century AD, Arab traders had brought opium to India<ref>Dwarakanath, S. C. (1965)Bull. Narc.
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• List of terrorist incidents, 1980
  ...[George H. W. Bush]] in [[New York City]]. Seven people in Chicago and ten people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before the FALN mem ...|Israel}} April 7: five Palestinian terrorists from the [[Iraq]]i-backed [[Arab Liberation Front]] penetrated kibbutz [[Misgav Am]] in Israel during night
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• Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
  ...y-six hours later. [[Sirhan Sirhan]], a twenty-four year old [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] [[Immigration|immigrant]], was convicted of Kennedy's murder ...ef> During the campaign, Kennedy had welcomed contact with the public, and people had often tried to touch him in their excitement.<ref>Witcover 1969, pp. 11
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• Radical chic
  ...sdate=2009-04-05}}</ref> and the wearing of [[keffiyeh]]s outside of the [[Arab World]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Hernandez |first=Daniel |title='Terrorist Chic [[Category:Pejorative terms for people]]
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• Counter-terrorism
  ...sk of subjecting to torture during the transfer, return and extradition of people between or within countries; and the adoption of security measures that res * Hundreds of people suspected of connections with the [[Taliban]] or al Qa'eda remain in long-t
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• Tablighi Jamaat and allegations of terrorism
  ...y 11th Mumbai commuter rail bombings]], which resulted in the death of 209 people and wounded over 700. In their defense Taibur Rahman, the leader of Tabligh ...sts who attacked Ahmadi community's religious centers killing more than 80 people in May 2010, resided in Tablighi Jammat's headquarters at Raiwind and the I
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• Definitions of terrorism
  ...nated with Russian radicals in the 1870s. [[Sergey Nechayev]], who founded People's Retribution (Народная расправа) in 1869, described himsel ...rces from most of the South by the Hizbollah in 2000 made Lebanon the only Arab country to actually defeat the Israeli army. The repercussion of the curren
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• History of terrorism
  [[Image:Reignofterror.jpg|thumb|"[[Enemy of the people|Enemies of the people]]" headed for the [[guillotine]] during the [[Reign of Terror]].]] ...lya]]''' (''Народная Воля'' in [[Russian language|Russian]]; ''People's Will'' in English) was a revolutionary anarchist group inspired by [[Serg
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• Hostage
  ...f the British occupation of India, and by France in her relations with the Arab tribes in North Africa. The position of a hostage was that of a [[prisoner ...[Franco-Prussian War]] of 1870, the Germans took as hostages the prominent people or officials from towns or districts when making requisitions and also when
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