Later, it was taken across the sea to East Africa and may have been taken inland at the time of the Great Zimbabwe civilization.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

The King's Library, on the ground floor of the East Wing, was handed over in 1827, and was described as one of the finest rooms in London although it was not fully open to the general public until 1857, however, special openings were arranged during The Great Exhibition of 1851.

Viking activity in Britain increased in 865 when the Great Heathen Army, probably a part of the forces which had been active in Francia, landed in East Anglia.

The following year, having obtained tribute from the East Anglian King Edmund, the Great Army moved north, seizing York, chief city of the Northumbrians.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

The two monks later canonized as Saints Cyril and Methodius, the brothers from Thessaloniki, were sent to Great Moravia in 862 by the Byzantine emperor at the request of Knyaz ( Duke ) Rastislav, who wanted to weaken the dependence of his country on East Frankish priests.

The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trench, approximately in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa.

The Great Rift Valley as originally described was thought to extend from Lebanon in the north to Mozambique in the south, and constitutes one of two distinct physiographic provinces of the East African mountains.

By late 1944, the United States, Canada, France, and Great Britain were closing in on Germany in the West, while the Soviets were closing from the East.

On the international front, France came repeatedly to the brink of war with the other imperial powers, such as the 1898 Fashoda Incident with Great Britain over East Africa.

The instrument is also played in Great Britain ( Wales, East Anglia, Northumbria ) and the U. S., where its traditional use in folk music saw a notable revival in the late 20th Century.

Around 1000 BCE, Bantu migrants had reached the Great Lakes of East Africa.

Kenya is a multi-ethnic state in the southern Great Lakes region of East Africa.

" Nearly all railroads were using Krupp rails, the New York Central, Illinois Central, Delaware and Hudson, Maine Central, Lake Shore and Michigin Southern, Bangor and Aarostook, Great Northern, Boston and Albany, Florida and East Coast, Texas and Pacific, Southern pacific, and Mexican National.

The main campus was situated on the Great East Road, while the medical campus was located at Ridgeway near the University Teaching Hospital.

Great Britain and the Dutch East Indies government did likewise.

* 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.

One interesting result Eysenck noted in his 1956 work was that in the United States and Great Britain, most of the political variance was subsumed by the left / right axis, while in France, the T-axis was larger, and in the Middle East, the only dimension to be found was the T-axis: " Among mid-Eastern Arabs it has been found that while the tough-minded / tender-minded dimension is still clearly expressed in the relationships observed between different attitudes, there is nothing that corresponds to the radical-conservative continuum.

The reigns of Vladimir the Great ( 980 – 1015 ) and his son Yaroslav the Wise ( 1019 – 1054 ) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium and the creation of the first East Slavic written legal code, the Russkaya Pravda.

In the South East corner of Kew Gardens stands the Great Pagoda ( by Sir William Chambers ), erected in 1762, from a design in imitation of the Chinese Ta.

The Swahili people had various extensive trading ports dotting the coast of medieval East Africa and Great Zimbabwe had extensive trading contacts with Central Africa, and likely also imported goods brought to Africa through the Southeast African shore trade of Kilwa in modern-day Tanzania.

The Great Rift runs from the Mediterranean along both sides of the Red Sea south through Ethiopia and the lake country of East Africa, gradually disappearing in the area of Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) considered as the oldest place of worship in the Western Islamic World, it is located in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

Later, in modern history ( 18th and 19th centuries ), many Islamic regions fell under the influence of European Great powers.

He introduced the Islamic Legion in 1972, a Libyan-sponsored pan-Arab paramilitary force by means of which Gaddafi aspired to establish a " Great Islamic State of the Sahel ".

The Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, was built in 670 and is the most prestigious mosque in the western Islamic world.

Built soon after the conquest of northwest Africa, the first mosque built in this region is the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ) founded by the Umayyad general Uqba Ibn Nafi during the second half of the 7th century and considered as the oldest place of worship in the western Islamic world.

The Great Mosque of Kairouan, which is one of the most significant and best preserved examples of early Islamic mosques, served due to its architectural characteristics as a model to many later mosques especially in north Africa and Al-Andalus.

The Islamic arabesque is a development of the Late Antique and Byzantine types of scrolling vegetal decoration that were inherited by Islam, and used with relatively little change in early Islamic art, for example in the famous 8th century mosaics of the Great Mosque of Damascus.

Many Islamist groups have been called " right wing " including the Great Union Party, and the Combatant Clergy Association / Association of Militant Clergy and the Islamic Society of Engineers of Iran.

Example of Islamic architecture in the 7th-9th century period: the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan, founded in 670 by the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi, dates in its present state from the 9th century ; it is the architectural ancestor of all the mosques in the western Islamic world and represents one of the best preserved and most significant examples of early great mosques.

* The title padishah ( Great King ) was also adopted from the Iranians by the Ottomans, and by various other Islamic monarchs claiming imperial rank, such as the Indian Mughals.

In the 1980s, an influx of affluent Iranian Jews who left their country following the 1979 Islamic Revolution settled in Great Neck.

Decoration in Islamic medieval art: upper part of the mihrab ( prayer niche ) decorated with lusterware tiles and painted intertwined vegetal motifs in the Mosque of Uqba also known as the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia.

During the late 14th century, Islamic warlord of Turco-Mongol descent Timur the Great conquered much of western and central Asia. He subjugated Multan and Dipalpur in modern day Pakistan and in modern day India left Delhi in such ruin that it is said for two months " not a bird moved wing in the city ".

Tower in Islamic architecture: old minaret ( 8th – 9th century ) of the Mosque of Uqba also known as the Great Mosque of Kairouan, city of Kairouan, Tunisia

A specimen of Islamic sacred art: in the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan also called the Mosque of Uqba ( in Tunisia ), the upper part of the mihrab ( prayer niche ) is decorated with 9th century lusterware tiles and painted intertwined vegetal motifs.

The Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ), considered as the ancestor of all the mosques in the western Islamic world, is one of the best preserved and most significant examples of early great mosques.

Construction of the Great Mosque at Córdoba ( now a cathedral known as the Mezquita ) beginning in 785 CE marks the beginning of Islamic architecture in the Iberian peninsula and North Africa ( see Moors ).

Considered one of the most important and most prestigious monuments of Islamic civilization, the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan is located in the World Heritage city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

Instead of wall-paintings, Islamic art used painted tiles, from as early as 862-3 ( at the Great Mosque of Kairouan in modern Tunisia ), which also spread to Europe.

" Five years later the Shah angered pious Iranian Muslims by changing the first year of the Iranian solar calendar from the Islamic hijri to the ascension to the throne by Cyrus the Great.

The Great Eastern Islamic Raiders ' Front ( İslami Büyükdoğu Akıncılar Cephesi in Turkish, abbreviated IBDA-C ) is an Islamic militant organization which follows the Büyük Doğu (" Great East ") ideology of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek ( 1905 – 1983 ), a well-known Turkish author, poet and Islamist ideologue.