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22 hours ago · Website. www .gchq .gov .uk. Footnotes. Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. [2] Primarily based at "The Doughnut" in the suburbs of Cheltenham ...
22 hours ago · The Armenian alphabet ( Armenian: Հայոց գրեր, Hayocʼ grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayocʼ aybuben) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages. It was developed around AD 405 by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and ...
22 hours ago · Roger Bacon OFM ( / ˈbeɪkən /; [3] Latin: Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Frater Rogerus; c. 1219/20 – c. 1292 ), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism.
22 hours ago · Al-Ghazali was born in c. 1058 in Tus, then part of the Seljuk Empire. [49] He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. [50] [51] He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran ), [49] not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.
22 hours ago · Istanbul. / 41.01361°N 28.95500°E / 41.01361; 28.95500. Istanbul, [a] is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital. The city has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of ...
22 hours ago · Timur, [b] also known as Tamerlane [c] (8 April 1336 [7] – 17–18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and ...
