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The term “9/11” is shorthand for the events of 11 September 2001. On that date, four U.S. planes were

City in Nordrhein-Westfalia, Germany. It was the birthplace and residence of Charlemagne, ruler of the Frankish Kingdom, and remained associated

Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) is situated to the north of the Eifel massif. Its hot springs were known to the Romans, who

(town, palace) West central German town, known for its hot springs. Aachen’s significance is linked to *Charlemagne, who created

(b. 5 February 1934),

baseball player, baseball executive, civil rights advocate, and businessman. Henry

(᾽Ααρώνιος, ᾽Ααρών), Byz. noble family descended from the last Bulgarian tsar, John Vladislav, whose wife Maria was granted the

the situation of the sails of a square-rigged ship when the yards are trimmed to bring the wind to bear

the third and last khedive of Egypt, ruled the country from 1892 to 1914. ʿAbbas was the seventh ruler

As the result of a revolution that culminated In 750ce in the defeat of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan

The Muslim Arab dynasty of the Abbasids ruled a large part of the Islamic lands in the East from 749

(sometimes called compendia), found in inscriptions, papyri, and MSS, were frequently substituted for words, syllables, or the ending of words

covering Burma, Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines (with the north-western part of Australia included from 24 January

Algerian emir and anticolonialist leader, was born on 6 September 1808 near Mascara in the west of Algeria. His full

Egyptian Muslim theologian, modernist, and reformer, was born in the Gharbiya Province of Lower Egypt, the son of ʿAbduh ibn

city of the Decapolis, located about 15 km (9 mi.) north-northeast of Irbid in northern Jordan. Abila has an occupational

Nigerian entrepreneur, philanthropist, politician, and publisher, was born on 24 August 1937 in the southwestern town of Egba, Abeokuta, in

Abolitionism is the principle of outlawing the slave trade and the institution of slavery. In the eighteenth century, the intellectual

[This entry contains three subentries dealing with abolitionism from the late seventeenth century through the ratification of the Thirteenth