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Snooker is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets. First played by British Army officers stationed in India circa 1875, the game uses twenty-two balls (pictured) – a white cue ball, fifteen red balls, and six other balls collectively called "the colours".
The Arabic Wikipedia ( Arabic: ويكيبيديا العربية) is the Modern Standard Arabic version of Wikipedia. It started on 9 July 2003. As of August 2024, it has 1,238,772 articles, 2,609,129 registered users and 52,693 files and it is the 17th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 7th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
The contemporary Arab poet al-Nabigha said to her, "You are the finest poet of the jinn and the humans." (Arabic: إنك أشعر الجن والإنس ). [ 4 ] Similarly, another anecdote says that al-Nabigha told al-Khansāʾ, "If Abu Basir [ 5 ] had not already recited to me, I would have said that you are the greatest poet of the Arabs.
Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [ 20] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.
Most popular edition of Wikipedia by country. In greyed-out countries, the "national-language" edition is usually the most popular, but there are exceptions. Most viewed editions of Wikipedia over time Most edited editions of Wikipedia over time. Wikimedia Statistics gives the number of page views of each edition of Wikipedia by language. [22]
The Global Arabic Encyclopedia ( Arabic: الموسوعة العربية العالمية) is an encyclopedic reference work written in the Arabic language. It is in part a translation of the American World Book Encyclopedia, edited and expanded to reflect an Arab– Muslim perspective. Its composition and publication were funded by Sultan bin ...
In a modern etymology analysis of one medieval Arabic list of medicines, the names of the medicines —primarily plant names— were assessed to be 31% ancient Mesopotamian names, 23% Greek names, 18% Persian, 13% Indian (often via Persian), 5% uniquely Arabic, and 3% Egyptian, with the remaining 7% of unassessable origin.
The English Wikipedia is the primary [ a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.