The following timeline lists terrorist attacks against the United States and Americans living either in the U.S. or abroad.
1920 Sept. 16, New York City: TNT bomb planted in unattended horse-…
(Encyclopedia) UthmanUthman&oomacr;thˈmän [key] or OthmanUthmanōthˈ [key], c.574–656, 3d caliph (644–56), also known as Uthman ibn al-Affan; son-in-law of Muhammad. He belonged to the great…
(Encyclopedia) Wace, Alan John Bayard, 1879–1957, English archaeologist. From 1914 to 1923 he was director of the British School at Athens. He served as professor of classical archaeology at…
(Encyclopedia) Ségou or SeguSégouboth: sāg&oomacr;ˈ [key], town (1993 est. pop. 85,000), SW Mali, a port on the Niger River. It is the administrative and commercial center for an area where…
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(Encyclopedia) WafdWafdwŏft [key], in modern Egyptian history, a political party. It arose out of the delegation [Arabic wafd=delegation] headed by Zaghlul Pasha that was to have visited Great…
(Encyclopedia) Al KufahAl Kufahäl k&oomacr;ˈfä [key], town, S central Iraq. Founded (638) by Caliph Umar I, it was one of the two Muslim centers (the other was Basra) of the early Ummayad caliphs.
Baybars I, Mamluk sultan (1260–77) of Egypt and SyriaMuhammad Ali, pasha of Egypt after 1805Ismail Pasha, ruler of Egypt (1863–79)Tewfik Pasha (Muhammad Tewfik), khedive of Egypt (1879–92)Abbas II…
