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36010 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascoli%20Piceno | Ascoli Piceno | Ascoli Piceno () is a comune and city in the Marche region, in central Italy. Ascoli Piceno is the capital of the province of the same name.
The central historical part of the city is built in marble called travertino, a grey-hued stone extracted from the surrounding mountains. Its central Renaissance square, Piazza d... |
36024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Beckenbauer | Franz Beckenbauer | Franz Beckenbauer (born 11 September 1945), called "The Kaiser", is a German retired football player. He played as defender for Bayern Munich, Hamburger SV and Cosmos New York. After the end of his active career he was the coach of the Germany national team and Bayern Munich. Beckenbauer is regarded as one of the great... |
36028 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog | Groundhog | The groundhog (also known as the chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk, or siffleux) is a rodent. It belongs to the group of ground squirrels. Those squirrels are also known as marmots. The animal may also be called woodchuck, or whistlepi... |
36032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel | Squirrel | Squirrels are a large family of small to medium rodents. It includes tree squirrels, which are described on this page.
The other squirrels are: ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots (including groundhogs), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs.
Squirrels are native to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and have been int... |
36036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestation | Gestation | Gestation is the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside a female viviparous animal, until its birth. Mammals can have more than one embryo or fetus at the same time.
The time between fertilization of an ovum and the birth of the young is called the gestation period. Humans have a gestation period of around 37 weeks or ... |
36042 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrew | Shrew | Shrews are small mammals which look rather like mice. They were classified in the old Insectivora, but that is no longer used. Now they are classified in the family Soricidae, suborder Soricomorpha.
True shrews are not to be confused with West Indies shrews, treeshrews, otter shrews, or elephant shrews, which belong t... |
36045 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground%20squirrel | Ground squirrel | Ground squirrels are marmots. These are small rodents, squirrels which live on and in the ground.
Most of them live in the mountains, like the Sierra Nevada, or the Alps. Marmots make holes in the ground. They live in burrows, underground. They hibernate, that is they sleep through the winter. Marmots are very social ... |
36051 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Be-In | Human Be-In | The 'Human Be-In' was an event during the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967. It was held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The Human Be-In caused the Summer of Love, which introduced hippie life and the word psychedelic to everyday Americans, and made the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco famous because... |
36053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suva | Suva | Suva is the capital city of Fiji. It is on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu. Suva became the capital of Fiji in 1877. It was changed from the settlement of Kaivalagi on the island of Ovalau because that settlement had no space left to grow. Kaivalangi had been established by the Europeans. In 1996, 77,366... |
36054 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honiara | Honiara | Honiara is the capital city of the Solomon Islands and of Guadalcanal Province. It has a population 84,520 (2017).
The town is on the island of Guadalcanal. It was built to replace the former capital of Tulagi at the end of World War II. Honiara became the capital of the Solomon Islands in 1952. The town is on the Kuk... |
36055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Vila | Port Vila | Port Vila (population 29,356, coordinates 17°45′S 168°18′E) is the capital city of Vanuatu. Located on the south coast of the island of Efate, it has the country's most important dock and airport, Bauerfield International, making it the nation's economic and commercial center.
During World War II, Port Vila was an Ame... |
36056 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainan | Tainan | Tainan City () is a city in Southern Taiwan. It is the fifth largest city after Taipei, Kaohsiung, New Taipei City and Taichung City. Tainan was the capital of Taiwan in 1661 when Koxinga took the island from Dutch colonial rule. In 1684, the Qing Dynasty conquered Taiwan and created "Taiwan Fu" (the first local govern... |
36058 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiayi%20City | Chiayi City | Chiayi City (; Taiwanese: Ka-gī chhī) is a provincial city of southwestern Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Formerly called Kagi during the Japanese era, its historical name in Chinese (諸羅山) is borrowed from the Taiwanese aboriginal word Tirosen.
Districts
East District (東區)
West District (西區)
Related pages
... |
36059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example | Example | An example (Latin exemplum, the shorthand e.g. stands for exempli gratia, which means for example) is a short story, or an anecdote. This story is told to illustrate something else, like an idea or a concept.
In the Middle Ages, preachers and priests used examples in their sermons. They did this to explain things from... |
36060 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsinchu | Hsinchu | Hsinchu City (Chinese:新竹; POJ: Sin-tek) is a provincial city of Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Hsinchu is popularly nicknamed "The Windy City" (Fengcheng 風城) for its windy climate.
The city is surrounded by Hsinchu County to the north and east, Miaoli County to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the west. ... |
36088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo%20rat | Kangaroo rat | Kangaroo rats are small rodents from North and Central America. They got their name, because they look like small kangaroos, when standing upright. But they are not related to kangaroos, except that they are mammals. The genus of the kangaroo rats is called Dipodomys.
Currently, there are 22 species in that genus. The... |
36089 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation | Hibernation | Hibernation is a time of inactivity. Some endothermic (warm-blooded) animals hibernate, usually during the winter, when food is short. They fall into a sleep-like state. They regulate their metabolism to consume less energy. They lower their body temperature, slow their breathing, and slow other vital functions. During... |
36093 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack%20rat | Pack rat | The pack rat, also known as the wood rat or trade rat, is a rodent of one of several species in the genus Neotoma. Very often, people mean the bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea). Packrats are common in the deserts and highlands of the western United States and northern Mexico. They are smaller than a usual (Old Wor... |
36096 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20ElBaradei | Mohamed ElBaradei | Mohamed ElBaradei (born June 17, 1942) is an Egyptian scientist, administrator, politician, diplomat and 2005 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Early life
ElBaradei was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. He has a doctorate in International law.
Career
ElBaradei is best known as the former Director General of the ... |
36098 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandicoot | Bandicoot | A bandicoot is a kind of marsupial. There are about 20 species of bandicoots.
Bandicoots are omnivores. They eat bugs, earthworms, larvae, and spiders. They live in parts of Australia. They are nocturnal. Bandicoots are endangered species. For protection against foxes and wild cats, they retreat to their burrows for ... |
36099 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20bandicoot%20rat | Lesser bandicoot rat | The lesser bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis) is a rodent. It lives in south Asia. It can grow up to 40cm long. It is a rat, but is not in the genus Rattus. They may be a pest to cereal crops, and gardens in India and Sri Lanka. When attacking the rat grunts like a pig. Their fur is dark brown on the back and usuall... |
36102 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roquefort%20cheese | Roquefort cheese | For other uses, see Roquefort (disambiguation)
Roquefort cheese is a kind of blue cheese. It comes from the south of France. It is made from sheep's milk. French laws about AOC say that only cheese from the region of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon (close to Millau) may be called Roquefort cheese.
Overview
The cheese breaks ... |
36103 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20ATA | Serial ATA | Serial ATA (SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a standard that has been defined to connect storage devices or optical drives to a computer. The most common standard that was used beforehand was called ATA or IDE; it has been renamed PATA. The main difference between the two lies in the cables: SATA cable... |
36121 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legnica | Legnica | Legnica () is a city in Poland. The river Katzbach runs through Legnica. There live over 100,000 people. The city is in west part of Poland (near Germany and Czech border). Legnica is near a bigger city, Wrocław.
Legnica is in the middle of Silesia. The area used to be part of Prussia, and Legnica was the capital of o... |
36132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruzeiro%20Esporte%20Clube | Cruzeiro Esporte Clube | Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, usually called Cruzeiro EC or Cruzeiro, is a Brazilian football team from the city Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The team was founded on January 2, 1921. They are usually called the raposa, which means fox in Brazil. They are also called the celeste which means celestial because their logo and name r... |
36160 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Estonia | Flag of Estonia | The flag of Estonia has three colours and is made of three equal horizontal bands coloured blue (top), black, and white (bottom). Blue mirrors the sky, black the colour of the soil and national coat, and white the peoples' happiness and light. In Estonian language it is called the "sinimustvalge" (literally "blue-black... |
36161 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat%20of%20arms%20of%20Estonia | Coat of arms of Estonia | The coat of arms of Estonia is a golden shield which includes three slim, blue leopards (or lions passant guardant) in the middle, with oak branches along the side of the shield.
The coat of arms of Estonia has existed long before they were official recognized after the War of Independence between 1918 and 1920, when ... |
36165 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyology | Ichthyology | Ichthyology is the scientific study of fish.
The term Ichthyology which is derieved from following two Greek word 'Ichthyus' means fish and 'logos' means knowledge.
It includes hagfish and lampreys (jawless fish), cartilagenous fish (such as sharks, skates and rays) (Chondrichthyes) and bony fishes (Osteichthyes).
A ... |
36167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indre%2C%20Loire-Atlantique | Indre, Loire-Atlantique | Indre is a city in France at the Atlantic Ocean. It is the south eastern end of the Brittany.
Indre has about 3,643 inhabitants.
St.Hermeland's Church
Cities in France
Communes in Loire-Atlantique |
36168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indre | Indre | Indre can mean different things:
Indre (department), a department of France
Indre River, a river in France
Indre, Loire-Atlantique, a city in France |
36175 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatosaurus | Apatosaurus | Apatosaurus is a sauropod dinosaur which lived in the Upper Jurassic period. It is in the same family as Diplodocus. Brontosaurus was once thought a later name for Apatosaurus, but is now proved to be a separate genus.
Apatosaurus grew as big as 21 meters long, 4.5 meters tall at the hip, and weighed up to 23 metric t... |
36176 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic%20League | Hanseatic League | The Hanseatic League (German: die Hanse, Dutch: de Hanze, Estonian: hansa, Latvian: Hanza Polish: Hanza, Swedish: Hansan) was an alliance of trading guilds. These guilds established and maintained a trade monopoly over the Baltic Sea and most of Northern Europe. This monopoly lasted for a time in the later Middle Ages ... |
36179 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20McClaren | Steve McClaren | Steve McClaren (born 3 May 1961) is a former English football player and manager.
References
1961 births
Living people
English footballers
English football managers
England national football team managers
People from York
Eredivisie managers |
36181 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom%2C%20Gers | Condom, Gers | Condom (), also called Condom-en-Armagnac or Condom-sur-Baïse, is a commune in southwestern France in the department of Gers, Occitanie region, of which it is a subprefecture.
Name of the city
The name Condom comes from the Gaulish (an ancient Celtic language spoken in parts of Europe) words condate-ó-magos which mean... |
36184 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20You%20See%20It... | Now You See It... | Now You See It... is a Disney Channel Original Movie starring Alyson "Aly" Michalka and Johnny Pacar. This movie first aired January 2005 on the American version of Disney Channel.
Plot
A young girl named Allyson Miller (Aly) is on the search for the world's next greatest young magician for a TV show where they allo... |
36185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan%20horse%20%28computing%29 | Trojan horse (computing) | For the original from Greek mythology, see Trojan Horse.
In computing, a Trojan horse (also written as trojan) is malicious software that misleads users of its true purpose. Sometimes a Trojan horse does exactly what it claims to do but it also does something else. This is because its real hidden purpose is to perform... |
36205 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognac | Cognac | Cognac is an alcoholic drink. It is made from grapes. It is a kind of brandy. This means there is 40 percent of alcohol or more in it. It is made around the city of Cognac. Only a few very special kinds of grapes may be used to produce the brandy.
The most important cognac importers are the United States, followed by... |
36209 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den%20Helder | Den Helder | is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is in the province of North Holland. Den Helder is at the northernmost point of the province, excluding the island Texel. About 60,000 people live there.
Port cities and towns of the North Sea
Cities in the Netherlands
Settlements in North Holland
Municipalities of N... |
36228 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20of%20Life | Art of Life | Art of Life was the fourth album by the Japanese band X Japan. It was released in 1993 and contained only a song of 29 minutes of the same name.
1993 albums |
36265 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue | Barbecue | Barbecue (or Barbeque, BBQ) is a special type of grill. It is also a way to prepare meat which is then cooked with a barbecue sauce. It is especially popular in Australia and in certain parts of the United States.
Barbecue cooking is often done very slowly. It is not as hot as grilling. Some meats must be cooked s... |
36272 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow%20Belles | Cow Belles | Cow Belles is an American produced Disney Channel original movie. It was shown on television on March 26, 2006. This movie stars Aly and AJ of Aly & AJ.
Plot
Two spoiled sisters (Aly & AJ) are rich, but their father and the family have many losses, forcing the girls to do dairy and farm work. Courtney (AJ) still saves... |
36292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy | Legacy | In law, a legacy is something that someone gets by inheritance, or by a will. In historical terms, a legacy is something that is handed down from one period of time to another period of time. Often it means something handed down from an ancestor or predecessor.
In loose terms, it is sometimes said that a countries or... |
36313 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu%20%28singer%29 | Lulu (singer) | Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie (born 3 November 1948), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish pop singer and actress. Her most famous hit is the song "Shout". Lulu's first hit was the song "To Sir with Love", which was the title song of the 1967 movie To Sir, with Love, which was also her movie debut. She s... |
36316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catanzaro | Catanzaro | Catanzaro () is an Italian city in Calabria. It has 95,099 people.
Regional capitals in Italy
Cities in Calabria |
36317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibo%20Valentia | Vibo Valentia | Vibo Valentia () is an Italian city in Calabria. It has 33,957 people.
Other websites
News and photos about Vibo Valentia
Cities in Calabria
Capital cities in Italy |
36318 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggio%20Calabria | Reggio Calabria | Reggio di Calabria (, ; ) is a city in southern Italy, capital of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, and the twenty-first most populous city in Italy after Modena. Reggio was the capital of Magna Graecia. It was the first city to take the name of Italy, founder of the ononymous name, formerly populated by Ital... |
36319 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotone | Crotone | Crotone () is an Italian city in Calabria. It has 60,517 people.
Cities in Calabria
Capital cities in Italy |
36320 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosenza | Cosenza | Cosenza is an Italian city in Calabria. 72,998 people live there.
Cities in Calabria
Capital cities in Italy |
36323 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Era | Common Era | Common Era (CE; ) is a method used to identify a year. It means "a year in our time" (rather than a year a very long time ago). It is the system for recording dates used almost everywhere around the world today: it is in common use.
CE is an alternative to the AD, system used by Christians but the numbers are the sa... |
36351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheet%20music | Sheet music | Sheet music is a type of printed music. The music that musicians have in front of them when they play is printed music. The sheet or sheets of paper that contain(s) the written notation of what the musician are to play is called printed music. Sheet music usually refers to a "single sheet" of music; that is, one song... |
36352 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score | Score | Score or scorer may refer to:
Test score, the result of an exam or test
Business
Score Digital, now part of Bauer Radio
Score Entertainment, a former American trading card design and manufacturing company
Score Media, a former Canadian media company
Mathematics
Score (statistics), a quantity in statistics
Score, ... |
36372 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radian | Radian | A radian is a unit of measuring angles. It is shown by the symbol "rad" or, less often, c (for circular measure). The radian was once an SI supplementary unit, but was changed to a derived unit in 1995.
Usage
Most people who do mathematics or physics use radians, rather than degrees, because some kinds of calculations... |
36380 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoyuan%20City | Taoyuan City | Taoyuan City () is a special municipality of Taiwan, Republic of China, in the northwestern part of the island, next to New Taipei City. Taoyuan District is in this municipality and serves as the seat of Taoyuan City.
"Taoyuan" means "peach garden," since the area used to have many peach blossoms. Taoyuan is the nativ... |
36381 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainan%20County | Tainan County | Tainan County (Chinese:台南縣; Taiwanese: Tâi-lâm-koān) is a county in Southern Taiwan . The name "Tainan" means simply "Southern Taiwan".
Townships
Related pages
List of counties of Republic of China
Other websites
Government website | (English)
Counties of Taiwan |
36382 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsinchu%20County | Hsinchu County | Hsinchu County (Chinese:新竹縣; POJ: Sin-tek-kōan) is a county in northwestern Taiwan. The population is mainly Hakka; there is a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county.
Management
Hsinchu County controls one township-level city (縣轄市), three city-townships (鎮), and nine rural townships (鄉).... |
36383 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xindian%20City | Xindian City | Xindian City (Chinese: 新店市; POJ: Sin-tiàm-chhī) is a city in the southern part of Taipei County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. It has been historically spelt as Sindian (Tongyong Pinyin) or Hsintien (Wade-Giles) and Xindian (Hanyu Pinyin) on road signs in Taipei City. Sindian is the Tongyong Pinyin spelling... |
36385 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apia | Apia | Apia, is the capital of Samoa. In 2001, it had 380,800 people. It is part of the Tuamasaga district. The city is on the northern coast of Upolu Island. It is the nation's major port and only city. Fish and copra are the country's major exports, and cotton goods, motor vehicles, meats, and sugar are the major imports.
... |
36386 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funafuti | Funafuti | Funafuti is the capital of the small island nation of Tuvalu. It has a population of 4,492 (2002), making it the most populated atoll in this country. It is a narrow sweep of land between 20 and 400 meters wide. There is an airstrip, hotel (Vaiaku Langi Hotel), and administrative buildings, as well as homes, constructe... |
36400 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese%20language | Cantonese language | Cantonese is an East Asian language which comes from Canton, southern China. Often, people use the word 'Cantonese' to refer to the Guangzhou dialect, Hong Kong dialect, Xiguan dialect, Wuzhou dialect and Tanka dialect of Yue. However, linguists prefer to keep the name 'Cantonese' for the Yue dialect of Guangzhou (Cant... |
36431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirt | Skirt | A skirt is a piece of clothing that hangs downwards from the waist.
Different skirts have been worn in many different cultures at different times. There are skirts that are clothing for women, for men, or for both.
In modern Western / European culture skirts are usually worn by women. An exception is the kilt and the ... |
36448 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaohsiung%20County | Kaohsiung County | Kaohsiung County (Chinese:高雄縣; POJ: Ko-hiông-kōan) is a county in southern Taiwan administered as part of Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. It contains Kaohsiung City.
District
City
Township
Related pages
List of counties of Republic of China
Other websites
Government website | (English)
Cities in Ta... |
36457 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20blood%20cell | Red blood cell | Red blood cells (also known as RBCs, red blood corpuscles or erythrocytes) are cells in the blood which transport oxygen. In women, there are about 4.8 million red blood cells per microliter of blood. In men, there are 5.4 million red blood cells per microliter of blood. Red blood cells are red because they have hemogl... |
36459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u | Chișinău | Chișinău (IPA /ki.ʃi.'nəu/), formerly known as Kishinev, is the capital city and industrial and commercial center of the Moldova. It is also largest city of Moldova. It is in the center of the country, on the river Bîc.
Geography
The city is in the middle of the central area of Moldova. It is divided into five admin... |
36487 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6ns%20Jakob%20Berzelius | Jöns Jakob Berzelius | Jöns Jakob Berzelius (20 August 1779 – 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. He invented the modern chemical notation. Berzelius, John Dalton and Antoine Lavoisier are said to be the fathers of modern chemistry.
Berzelius was born in Linköping in Östergötland in Sweden. He graduated from Uppsala University as a physic... |
36488 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody | Antibody | Antibodies (also called immunoglobulins) are large Y-shaped proteins that can stick to the surface of bacteria and viruses. They are found in the blood or other body fluids of vertebrates. Antibodies are the key element in the adaptive immune system.
The antibody recognizes a unique part of the foreign target called a... |
36512 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anura | Anura | The order Anura includes the frogs and toads. They are the most successful living amphibia, judged by number of species. There are about 7400 different species of amphibians, and about 6500 are in the Anura.
There is no fundamental difference between frogs and toads. Frogs have a short body, webbed digits (fingers or ... |
36527 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel%20Edmonds | Noel Edmonds | Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English television presenter. He is best known for hosting the television programmes Noel's House Party and Deal or No Deal. Edmonds is host of a game show called Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old (the British version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?).
He was a... |
36529 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quizmania | Quizmania | Quizmania was a quiz television show on ITV Play. Viewers at home phoned in to guess answers to questions to win money.
Quizmania was on ITV from 2005-2007. It has been online since 2008.
Presenters
Debbie King
Greg Scott
Lee Baldry
Nigel Mitchell
Chuck Thomas
Lottie Mayor
Tim Lichfield
Stuart Headlam
Kirsty Duffy
Le... |
36532 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davina%20McCall | Davina McCall | Davina Lucy Pascale McCall (born 16 October 1967) is an English television presenter. She was born in London to a French mother and British father. She is best known for having presented the UK version of Big Brother through its time on Channel 4 (2000–2010). She is the presenter of quiz show ''The Million Pound Drop L... |
36577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artiodactyl | Artiodactyl | The Artiodactyla are even-toed ungulates, an order of mammals. They have an even number of toes: two or four. For example, camelids or animals of the Giraffidae family have two toes, but hippopotami have four toes.
Whales are ocean creatures without toes, but are classified in the related super-order Cetartiodactyla b... |
36582 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd-toed%20ungulate | Odd-toed ungulate | Odd-toed ungulates are the Perissodactyla, an order of mammals.
Odd-toed ungulates have an uneven number of toes: Horses have only one toe, rhinoceros have three toes, and tapirs have four toes on the front feet and three toes on the hind feet.
Their digestive system is more basic than the even-toed ungulates. A key... |
36587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condor | Condor | Condor is the name for two species of New World vultures. Each is the only species in its genus. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. They are:
The Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus), which lives over the Andes.
The California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus), now found only on the western c... |
36589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion | Carrion | Carrion is the carcass of a dead animal. There are several kinds of animal that feed on such meat, such as vultures, hyenas, condors, or Tasmanian Devils. Carrion is an important source of food for several kinds of carnivores and omnivores.
The Carrion beetles also feed on it. Some plants fake the smell of carrion (t... |
36600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing | Chongqing | Chongqing (Simplified Chinese: 重庆, Traditional Chinese: 重慶; pinyin: Chóngqìng; Postal System Pinyin: Chungking) is a city and a district in Central China.
The Chongqing district is the most populated district of China and has 31,442,300 inhabitants (2005).
History
Chongqing is said to be the semi-mythical State of B... |
36602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna | Bologna | Bologna (Emilian and Romagnol: Bulåggna) is the capital and largest city of Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy. It has about 390,000 inhabitants.
History
Bologna was founded by the Etruscans with the name Felsina (c. 534 BC) and became a Roman colony in 189 BC.
In the 11th century Bologna began to grow again as a free ... |
36603 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oviedo | Oviedo | Oviedo () is a city in the North of Spain and capital of the Principality of Asturias. In 2020 it had 220,406 inhabitants.
History
Oviedo was founded about 761 A.D. by two monks Maximus and Fromestanus who built a monastery dedicated to Saint Vincent. King Fruela I (757-768) confirmed the foundation and also built a... |
36606 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1088 | 1088 |
Events
Succession of Pope Urban II (1088-1099)
Work begins on the third and largest church at Cluny
Rebellion of 1088 against William II of England lead by Odo of Bayeux.
Mansur ibn Nasir succeeds Nasir ibn Alnas as ruler of the Hammadid dynasty
University of Bologna was founded.
Deaths
January 6 – Berengar ... |
36611 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieve%20Ligure | Pieve Ligure | Pieve Ligure is an Italian town in the region of Liguria in the province of Genoa in Italy. The population in Pieve Ligure is 2,458.
Pieve has a sea and hill environment. There are no beaches on the coast, but only rocks which people swim and free divew forom. The wildlife there is very varied from young catfish to oc... |
36612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal%20Abdel%20Nasser | Gamal Abdel Nasser | Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death. Along with Mohamed Naguib, the first President, he led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 which overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan, and brought in a new period of change in Egypt. This chang... |
36622 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stork | Stork | Storks are a family of birds (Ciconiidae). They usually live near shallow bodies of water where they wade through the water, and catch small animals, like frogs, crabs, or small fish. Many species of stork are migratory, they spend the summer and the winter in different places. There are 19 different species of stork, ... |
36623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharf | Wharf | A wharf is a permanent structure at a lake, a river, or the sea. It is made so that ships can be loaded and unloaded more easily.
Water transport |
36625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20house | Public house | Public houses (better known as pubs) are businesses that serve alcoholic drinks such as beer, cider and ale, and usually also non-alcoholic drinks such as lemonade, cola, tea, and coffee to be consumed within the limits of the public house. They are subject to the licensing laws of the country. They may be closed down ... |
36627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring%20the%20circle | Squaring the circle | Squaring the circle is a problem of geometry. The problem is to construct a square that has the same area as the unit circle, only by using a compass and straightedge construction method. Some people also call this problem the quadrature of the circle.
This is not about a circle with corners like a square. It is a pr... |
36629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa%20Bay%20Lightning | Tampa Bay Lightning | The Tampa Bay Lightning is an ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL). They were formed in 1991, and began playing in 1992-93 NHL season.
The Lightning has won the Stanley Cup championship twice and won the Division title 4 times (2002-03, 2003-04, 2017-18, and 2018-19).
Before the Lightning's Stanley Cu... |
36635 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd%20Barrett | Syd Barrett | Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English musician. Barrett is most famous for founding the rock band Pink Floyd. He started the band in 1965 under several different names and wrote the band's first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. During this time he experimented with psychedelic (m... |
36646 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation | Occupation | Occupation could mean:
In business:
Employment, a person's job or work in service of an employer
Profession, an occupation that requires special education and training. For example, law, medicine, or theology.
Vocation, an occupation pursued more for altruistic benefit than for income
Career, a person's occupational ... |
36672 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapir | Tapir | The tapirs or tapir deer are a family of odd-toed ungulate mammals. They form the family Tapiridae. The only living genus is Tapirus.
The first tapirids appeared in the Eocene epoch, and by the Oligocene they looked similar to the present-day species. For much of their history, tapirs were spread across the Northern H... |
36693 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovid | Bovid | Bovids are a family of even-toed ungulate mammals. The word "Bovidae" is comes from Latin bos, "ox". Even-toed ungulates are said to have "cloven hooves": that means their hooves are formed from two toes. They evolved early in the Miocene period.
There 143 living species in this family. They include cattle, goats, she... |
36700 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell%20current | Cromwell current | The Cromwell current is the name of a submarine river. It was discovered in 1952 by the scientist Townsend Cromwell. It is 250 miles (400 km) wide. It flows to the east. The current appears about 300 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the equator.
The Cromwell current carries a lot of oxygen and nutrients... |
36701 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subduction | Subduction | Subduction is when two tectonic plates meet. One of the plates is pushed under the other into the Earth's mantle. Subduction causes the most powerful earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes caused by subduction can lead to tsunamis.
Areas where subduction occurs are called subduction zones. Subduction zones are all aro... |
36702 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebreaker | Icebreaker | An icebreaker is a special type of ship. Its special features include extra powerful motors and a very strong hull designed to cut through thick sheets of ice floating on oceans and lakes.
Ship types |
36704 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo | Tattoo | A tattoo is a mark made by putting ink into the skin. Tattoos may be made on human or animal skin. Tattoos on humans are a type of body modification (a way of changing the body), but tattoos on animals are most often used for identification. People sometimes get tattoos to show that they belong to a gang or culture gro... |
36705 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed%20language | Constructed language | An artificial or constructed language (sometimes called a conlang) is a language that has been made by a person or small group, instead of being formed naturally as part of a culture. Some constructed languages are designed for use in human communication (like the common Esperanto). Others are created for use in fictio... |
36707 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Engel | Joel Engel | Joel S. Engel is an American scientist. He was the Head of Research at Bell Laboratories (Belltel) in 1973. He was born on February 4, 1936 in New York City, New York. In 1973, Martin Cooper made the first mobile phone call to him whilst walking the streets of New York City.
1936 births
Living people
Scientists from N... |
36716 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered%20languages | Engineered languages | An Engineered language is a constructed language used to help experiment in logic, philosophy, and linguistics.
There are three types of Engineered language:
Philosophical languages
Logical languages
Experimental languages
Constructed languages |
36721 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronghorn | Pronghorn | The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is an even-toed ungulate mammal, the only living member of the family Antilocapridae. It is a small ruminant mammal which looks a bit like an antelope. The pronghorn lives in North America. It lives in the prairies, but sometimes also in the desert and the Rocky Mountains.
The an... |
36726 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20user%20interfaces%20and%20consoles | Graphical user interfaces and consoles | Computers can display information and let the user give commands to it using two methods: a command line interface (CLI) or a graphical user interface (GUI).
In a command line interface, the user types commands using the keyboard to tell the computer to take an action. For example, the more command available in most o... |
36734 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20deer | Water deer | The water deer (Hydropotes inermis) is an even-toed ungulate mammal of the deer family. It is the only member of the subfamily Hydropotinae. There are two subspecies: the Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis inermis) and the Korean water deer (Hydropotes inermis argyropus).
Appearance
Water deer are small deer: the... |
36749 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration | Orchestration | Orchestration in music can have two meanings:
It can mean: the study of how to write music for an orchestra.
It can also mean the list of instruments that are used in a particular piece of music.
People who want to compose music for orchestras need to study orchestration. They can do this by reading books about or... |
36766 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusters | Blockbusters | Blockbusters was a game show that aired from 1980 to 1987.
How to play
One team of two people plays against a solo person to see if two heads are better than one. The team is represented by the color white while the solo player is represented by the color red. There is a game board with letters inside spaces shaped ... |
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