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40551 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/980s | 980s |
Events
983 pagan West Slavs revolt, temporarily ending attempts at conversion and forcing abandonment of German sees and monasteries east of the Elbe
Kievan Rus' accepts Eastern Orthodox Christianity |
40559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suhl | Suhl | Suhl is a town in Thuringia, Germany. Its population in 2003 was 43,610.
According to a local joke, "Suhl is so close to the edge of the world you can see Zella-Mehlis".
References
Urban Districts of Thuringia |
40560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenach | Eisenach | Eisenach is a German city in the west of Thuringia. Next bigger Cities are Erfurt and Kassel. Its population is about 43,000.
References
Urban Districts of Thuringia |
40565 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameFAQs | GameFAQs | GameFAQs is a website with help and information for video games. It was started in November 1995 by Jeff "CJayC" Veasey. It has an active message board community.
Sources
Other websites
GameFAQs
Video game websites |
40573 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Mann | Thomas Mann | Paul Thomas Mann (born 6 June 1875 in Lübeck; died 12 August 1955 in Zürich) was a German author.
Mann was born in 1875 in Lübeck as son of a salesman and senator of the city of Lübeck, into a rich and conservative family. In 1891 his father died. In 1894 Mann left school. He went to Munich, were his mother and his br... |
40575 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Heisenberg | Werner Heisenberg | Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 1 February 1976) was a German physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of quantum mechanics. He discovered the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which shows there is a limit on how well position and velocity of a particle can be measured.
Early life
Heise... |
40577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia | Islamophobia | Islamophobia is the dislike, fear, pre judgment, hostility or hate against Muslims (people following the religion Islam) or the religion itself.
Sometimes people use it to attack the ideological positions taken by Muslims, but more often than not they state the religion itself as the actual problem.
Muslim women are... |
40583 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Erhard | Ludwig Erhard | Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (4 February 1897 in Fürth - 5 May 1977 in Bonn) was a German politician.
Life
Erhard was born as the son of a salesman. After his middle school exam, he started training to become a salesman himself. He was wounded as soldier in World War I. After World War I, he started to study micro economy a... |
40586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Georg%20Kiesinger | Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Kurt Georg Kiesinger (6 April 1904 in Ebingen, now Baden-Württemberg - 9 March 1988 in Tübingen-Bebenhausen) was a German politician.
Kiesinger was born in Southern Germany. He studied history and philosophy in Tübingen and later law in Berlin.
He joined the Nazi party in 1933, and worked in the government. After the... |
40588 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20of%20Duty%203 | Call of Duty 3 | Call of Duty 3 is a first person shooter video game. It is available on many gaming systems such as the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and PC. It is a sequel to Call of Duty 2, and is part of the Call of Duty series.
Call of Duty 3 is set in France, during the time of World War II. The player is part of the allied forc... |
40591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Johnson | Brian Johnson | Brian Johnson (born 5 October 1947 in Dunston, Gateshead, England) is an English singer and songwriter. He is best known as the singer for Australian hard rock band AC/DC.
Biography
Johnson's father, Allan, was in the British Army's light infantry. His mother, Esther, came from Italy. Johnson has two children from hi... |
40596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede | Centipede | A centipede is a type of myriapod with many legs. Centipedes are predators. They hunt during the night; they are nocturnal. Some centipedes are venomous, but none can kill a person unless they are allergic. Centipedes are in the class Chilopoda, and related to millipedes, which are not poisonous. As the millipedes, th... |
40607 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomerania | Pomerania | Pomerania (Pommern in German, Pomorze in Polish) is a region on the Baltic Sea. It is now part of two countries, Germany and Poland.
Prehistoric tribes
20,000 years ago the territory of present-day Pomerania was covered with ice, which did not start to recede until the late period of the Old Stone Age or Paleolithic... |
40608 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/900s | 900s |
Events
Accession of Sergius III.
Destruction of Chang'an, the capital of Tang Dynasty and the largest city in the ancient world.
Founding of the Royal Mint in England.
Capture of Thessalonica by Saracens. |
40609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1034 | 1034 |
Events
April 11 – Empress Zoe of Byzantium marries her chamberlain and elevates him to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael IV.
Free County becomes subject to the Holy Roman Empire.
Births
September 3 – Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (d. 1073)
Deaths
November – King Malcolm II of Scotland, Scottish r... |
40610 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronllys | Bronllys | Bronllys is a village in the Powys region of Wales. A Norman castle was built there in the 11th century.
Other websites
CastleWales on Bronllys Castle
Villages in Powys |
40613 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20language%20processing | Natural language processing | Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field in Artificial Intelligence, and is also related to linguistics. On a high level, the goal of NLP is to program computers to automatically understand human languages, and also to automatically write/speak in human languages. We say "Natural Language" to mean human language, a... |
40614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg | Würzburg | Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the German state of Bavaria. It has about 124,000 inhabitants and a university.
Würzburg is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop.
In about 1000 BC there was a Celtic settlement in that place. In 698 AD Würzburg became Christianised. The first mention was in 704 AD. In 742 Wü... |
40617 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear%20Window | Rear Window | Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie was based on a story, It Had To Be Murder, by Cornell Woolrich and turned into a movie script by John Michael Hayes. The movie was nominated for four Academy Awards. It stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma R... |
40619 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious%20objector | Conscientious objector | A conscientious objector (CO) is a person who decides not to be a combatant in military forces.
There are many reasons for this decision such as nonviolent or religious beliefs, ethical and moral beliefs to not kill human beings or pacifism.
Countries treat COs in various ways. They have also been treated differently... |
40625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anus%20language | Anus language | The Anus language is a tribal language spoken in the Irian Jaya province of Indonesia. It is an Austronesian language.
As of 2005, there are almost 70 speakers of the language all of whom are members of a tribal group living on an island in the Sarmi-Jayapura Bay in West Papua.
References
Austronesian languages |
40626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule%20of%20law | Rule of law | Rule of law is a legal maxim that suggests that no one is above the law and governmental decisions must be made only by applying known legal and moral principles. The Rule of Law limits the powers of Government by judicial defense of laws and the Constitution which is based on recognized basic legal values, established... |
40627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electorate | Electorate | The Electorate are the people or citizens of a state who elect representatives to represent them in a democracy. They're also known as voters. Voters are people who normally votes in an election and they vote for their favorite person that if he/she wins, he/she will lead the people to a more favourable country Voting
... |
40630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Pictures | Paramount Pictures | Paramount Pictures is a production and distribution company. It is the oldest movie studio in the United States. It has been in existence since 1912. Paramount is owned by media conglomerate ViacomCBS. Paramount is one of the Big Five movie studios.
History
Paramount Pictures Inc. can trace its beginnings to the crea... |
40631 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord | Chord | A chord in music is when two or more notes are played together (some text books say that it is when three or more notes are played).
A chord which is built up of the 1st, 3rd and 5th notes of a scale is called a "tonic triad". If it is made from a major scale, it is a major chord. If it is made from a minor scale it i... |
40641 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20dance | Irish dance | Irish dancing is an ancient art of dancing from Ireland. There are two main forms of dancing, the social dances where everyone can join in, and the dances performed for an audience. There are five main types of steps in Irish dancing. These are reels, jigs, slip jigs, hornpipes, and treble jigs. Irish dancing is a fun ... |
40643 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill%20%28cooking%29 | Grill (cooking) | A grill is an object used for cooking food. With a grill, food is usually roasted. Some grills use charcoal or wood, and other grills use propane gas to cook the food.
Using wood or charcoal makes smoke and changes the flavor of the food. Using gas does not. Some people only like one type, and some people like both ... |
40646 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20operations | Order of operations | The order of operations is a mathematical and algebraic set of rules. It is used to evaluate (solve) and simplify expressions and equations. The order of operations is the order that different mathematical operations are done. The standard mathematical operations are addition (+), subtraction (−), multiplication (* or ... |
40649 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal | Crystal | A crystal is a solid whose atoms (or molecules) are arranged in a repeating pattern.
Crystals are made from fluids by Crystallization, which is a kind of phase change. Usually the fluid is a liquid, but crystals can form from a gas too. For example, snow is water crystals (ice) formed from air that contains water vap... |
40650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect%20democracy | Indirect democracy | Indirect democracy, or representative democracy, is when citizens elect representatives to make laws for them. This is what most modern countries have today.
In many representative democracies (USA, Canada, India, etc.) representatives are chosen in elections. Elections may be won by plurality or majority or some oth... |
40651 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20democracy | Direct democracy | Direct democracy, which is also called pure democracy is a democracy in which the decisions are not taken by representatives. All decisions are voted on by the people.
When a budget or law needs to be passed, then the idea goes to the people. Large governments rarely make decisions this way.
Costs and benefits of dire... |
40652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution | Revolution | A revolution is a very sharp change made to something. The word comes from Latin, and is related to the word revolutio (which means a turn around).
Revolutions are usually political in their nature. Some people feel unhappy with their lives, some are not happy with whole systems. They might join together, share their... |
40653 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Digital | Western Digital | Western Digital is an American technology company. It is based in the U.S. state of California. The company make hard drives. Hard drives are used by computers to store data.
References
American computer hardware manufacturers
Companies based in California
Orange County, California
1970 establishments in the United... |
40654 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech | Speech | For 'speech', meaning a talk, see Public speaking
Speech is when spoken language is used to communicate. Only humans have language. Animals do not have speech, but some can communicate with each other by using sounds and gestures.
Speech is made by sounds vibrating the vocal folds. Sounds through the voice box is sh... |
40655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage | Stage | A stage can mean one of the following:
Stage (theatre), a platform on which actors in a theatre perform
Stage (geology), a period of time, shorter than an epoch
Stagecoach, a vehicle pulled by horses
A step of development, or one particular event in a chain of events, or one particular step in a number of steps |
40656 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage%20%28theatre%29 | Stage (theatre) | The stage in a theatre is the area where the actors perform. In classical theatres, this used to be separated from where the audience is sitting.
Related pages
Upstaging
Theater |
40658 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth%20Vader | Darth Vader | Darth Vader is a fictional main protagonist character from the Star Wars universe. He appears are The Ed Sullivan Show, Sam and Friends, Play School, Saturday Night Live, Star Wars and Metro Mayor League. Vader is the main character of the Dark Side of the Star Wars series. He appears as a 2 meter-tall man dressed in b... |
40661 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture | Gesture | A gesture is a form of nonverbal communication. Unlike verbal communication, which uses words, gestures use movements of the body.
Gestures are deliberate acts with a purpose, not just any movements. They are handled in the human brain by the same centres which handle language. In the neocortex, Broca's and Wernicke'... |
40662 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palpatine | Palpatine | Darth Sidious (born as Sheev Palpatine and also known as the Emperor) is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe. He is the main villain of the Star Wars movies. His most famous power, seen only once, is force lightning seen in the last episode Return of the Jedi which is forked to spread the damage even furt... |
40665 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%20Skywalker | Luke Skywalker | Luke Skywalker is a character from the Star Wars universe. He is the main hero of the Star Wars movies and book series. Luke was in three Star Wars movies, Episode IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He was also in most of the books that took place after these movies. ... |
40666 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft | Witchcraft | Witchcraft is the use of magical powers. This might be for healing, seeing into the future, causing harm, or for religion. A person practicing witchcraft is called a witch, although a man practicing witchcraft is often mistakenly called a wizard (a word from Northern Europe), a warlock (a word from 14th century England... |
40667 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym | Heteronym | A Heteronym is a word, or rather several words, with different meanings. However the words are spelt the same way. Usually they are pronounced differently.
Grammar |
40668 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20permanganate | Potassium permanganate | Potassium permanganate is an inorganic chemical compound. Its chemical formula is KMnO4. It contains potassium and permanganate ions. The manganese is in the +7 oxidation state. It is also known as permanganate of potash and Condy's crystals. Potassium permanganate is a strong oxidizing agent, which means it has a tend... |
40678 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/840s | 840s |
Events
After the death of Louis the Pious, his sons Charles the Bald, Louis the German and Lothair II of Lotharingia fight about the division of the empire until the treaty of Verdun (843).
Viking raid of Western Francia (France) (845).
Vikings conquer Frisia, the present Netherlands and the German North Sea coas... |
40679 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/880s | 880s |
Events
885: Vikings lay siege to Paris
886: Alfred the Great of Wessex captures London
Important people
Charles the Fat
Alfred the Great
Basil I |
40687 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1415 | 1415 |
Births
Han Myung-hoi (died 1487), Korean politician
Deaths
Jan Hus (born c. 1369), Bohemian religious thinker and reformer |
40689 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1382 | 1382 |
Events
Khan Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde, overruns Moscow as punishment for Grand Prince Dmitri Donskoi's resistance to Khan Mamai of the Blue Horde in the 1370s. Dmitri Donskoi pledges his loyalty to Tokhtamysh and is allowed to remain as ruler of Moscow & Vladimir.
John Wyclif's teachings are condemned by the ... |
40696 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkworm | Silkworm | The silkworm is the larva( the active immature form of an insect)or caterpillar of the Bombyx mori moth. Silk has been made for at least 5000 years in China. The moth is important because it makes silk. It is entirely dependent on humans, and it no longer lives in the wild. Silkworms eat mulberry leaves, and are native... |
40697 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20Valley | Death Valley | Death Valley is a National Park in the U.S. state of California. It is the hottest, driest, and lowest place in North America. It is a desert southeast of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Death Valley is a part of the Mojave Desert. It is the most important part of Death Valley National Park. It is an endorheic basin,... |
40699 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry | Mulberry | Mulberry (Morus) is a genus of 10–16 species of trees. They are native to warm regions of Asia, Africa and the Americas, with most of the species native to Asia.
Mulberries are fast-growing when young, but soon become slow-growing and rarely grow over 10-15 meters tall. The leaves are simple, often lobed, and ridged. ... |
40703 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procaine | Procaine | Procaine is a analgesic drug. It is used primarily to reduce the pain of getting certain shots, and is also used by dentists. The drug is usually sold under the name Novocaine, or Novacaine.
Procaine was first made in 1905, and was the first man-made pain-killer that could be taken as a shot. It was created by the Ger... |
40709 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leizu | Leizu | Leizu was a legendary Chinese queen. According to tradition, she discovered silk and invented the silk loom in the 28th century BC.
Leizu discovered silkworms while on a walk near the king's mulberry trees. However, there are different stories of exactly how she discovered that silkworms make silk.
One story says tha... |
40714 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforesting | Reforesting | Reforesting is the process of replacing plants in an area where they have been cut down or destroyed. It usually refers to trees, but could include other types of plant life.
Reforestation is often needed after deforestation, when trees are cut down to make lumber.
Reforestation also regains back the homes of anima... |
40715 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth | Moth | Moths are insects of the order Lepidoptera. They are closely related to butterflies, which evolved from them. They also have wings, just like butterflies. Most species of moths are active only at night. They can be told apart from butterflies in several ways. Moth antenna look like little feathers, and their wings are... |
40716 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoon | Cocoon | A cocoon is a shell made of silk by most kinds of moth caterpillars and other insect larvae. Some butterfly larvae (in the family Hesperiidae and subfamilies Parnassiinae and Satyrinae) do spin cocoons. However, most butterfly pupae are called chrysalids. Some caterpillars attach small twigs or pieces of vegetation to ... |
40727 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctor%20Silex | Proctor Silex | Proctor Silex Co. was created in 1960 with the merger of Proctor Electric and Silex Corporation. The company made household appliances such as toasters, irons, and coffee makers. In 1990 Proctor Silex merged with Hamilton Beach.
Other websites
History of Proctor-Silex, 1788 to 1972
Companies based in Virginia
196... |
40743 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine%20High%20School%20massacre | Columbine High School massacre | The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting and attempted bombing at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, near Denver, that happened on April 20, 1999. Eighteen-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold carried out the massacre and were both students at the school. They murdered 12 studen... |
40746 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose%20Rizal | Jose Rizal | José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda is a hero of the Philippines. He was a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement which advocated for changes in the colony under the Spanish occupation. He was born on June 19, 1861 in the town of Calamba, Laguna.
Family and early life
He was the seventh... |
40755 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot | Idiot | Idiot is a word used to describe someone who is not very smart.
Modern usage
Today "idiot" is often used to show that someone has done something which was not very clever:
"You idiot, look at what you just did!" (using the word as a noun)
"I think that idea is perfectly idiotic." (using the word as an adjective)
E... |
40770 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20psychology | Developmental psychology | Developmental psychology, also called human development, is the emotional study of how a person changes psychologically (mind and behavior) as they get older. Developmental psychologists first studied infants and children, and later they also studied teenagers (or adolescents) and adults. Developmental psychology studi... |
40777 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo | Kosovo | Kosovo (/ˈkɒsəvoʊ, ˈkoʊ-/; Albanian: Kosova or Kosovë, pronounced [kɔˈsɔva] or [kɔˈsɔvə]; Serbian Cyrillic: Косово, pronounced [kôsoʋo]), officially the Republic of Kosovo (Albanian: Republika e Kosovës; / Republika Kosovo), is a partially-recognised state and disputed territory in Southeastern Europe. On 17 February ... |
40778 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip | Lip | The lips are a body part around the mouth. There is a (usually larger) lower lip, and a smaller upper lip. They help us to eat, touch and speak.
Lips also show emotions.
There are diseases that can affect the lips, for example herpes simplex. Someone can get this disease by kissing or having oral sex.
Basic English ... |
40779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy | Allergy | An allergy is something which triggers an allergic reaction. This is the immune system defending the body against attack by bacteria and viruses.
Sometimes the system goes wrong, and is triggered by some quite normal food, or flares up when the family pet comes into the room. This is what the ordinary person calls a... |
40780 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Dreyfus | Alfred Dreyfus | Alfred Dreyfus (1859 - 1935) was a French officer of Jewish descent.
He was wrongly accused of treason against the French military. This scandal was known as the Dreyfus affair.
He was imprisoned on Devil's Island in French Guiana.
His highest rank was lieutenant colonel.
Dreyfus was born in Mulhouse and died in Pa... |
40784 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic%20acid | Nucleic acid | Nucleic acids are large molecules where genetic information is stored. There are two types of nucleic acids: deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA and ribonucleic acid, better known as RNA.
The nucleic acids are made of nucleotides. A nucleotide is made of a nitrogenous base, sugar with five carbon atoms and a p... |
40786 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Elliot | Adam Elliot | Adam Elliot (born January 2, 1972) is an Australian animator. He is from Melbourne, Australia. His short movie called Harvey Krumpet won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He uses claymation and has won five Australian Film Institute Awards because of his work.
Early life
Elliot was brought up on a p... |
40787 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylketonuria | Phenylketonuria | Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a genetic disorder (a disease a person is born with) where a person's body cannot break down an amino acid called phenylalanine. Amino acids are necessary to make proteins, an important part of the human body. Phenylalanine only comes from the food we eat; our bodies do not make any by themselv... |
40799 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20home | Group home | A group home is a private house that serves as a home for people who are not in the same family but have a common characteristic. In the United States, this would mean a home for people who need social assistance or who are not able to live alone or without proper care for safety reasons. Before the 1970s, these peopl... |
40800 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfield | Anfield | Anfield is a football stadium in Liverpool, England. The Football team Liverpool FC plays there. The stadium has just seen an expansion of the Main Stand increasing the capacity to 54,167.
Anfield is famous for the sign that is in the players' tunnel, which reads: "This is Anfield". One of their most famous rivals are... |
40804 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20pressure | Blood pressure | Blood pressure is a measurement used in medicine. In the body, the arteries carry blood away from the heart. As blood travels through the arteries, it presses against the walls of the arteries. Blood pressure measures how hard the blood is pushing against the walls of the arteries.
Usually, "blood pressure" measu... |
40805 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford%2C%20Texas | Crawford, Texas | Crawford is a town in Texas, in the United States. It is former President George W. Bush's hometown. George W. Bush and the First Lady Laura Bush own a 1600-acre ranch in Crawford. They bought the ranch in 1999. The first family's presence in Crawford, Texas, has helped the small town's economy to grow. The once near... |
40810 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Navy | Royal Navy | The Royal Navy is the navy of the United Kingdom. It is the oldest part of the British fighting forces. Because it is the oldest, it is called the "Senior Service". From the 18th century until World War II, it was the largest and strongest navy in the world. The Royal Navy was very important in making Britain the super... |
40814 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia | Mafia | The Mafia is a crime group working in many parts of the world that was created in Italy more than 200 years ago. The mafia makes money from crime. They make billions of dollars a year from such crimes as making and selling illegal drugs, money laundering, from stealing, gambling and prostitution.
Etymology
The first ... |
40821 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalocalypse | Metalocalypse | Metalocalypse is an animated comedy television series directed by Jon Schnepp. It is a part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. It is about a heavy metal group called Dethklok, who are the most famous and richest band in the world. The band is a very dangerous force to the people who like it and to world governments. Even... |
40823 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Lucia%20Day | St. Lucia Day | St. Lucia Day is a holiday that is held on December 13 in several countries in Europe. Those countries include Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. The holiday is in honor of Saint Lucy. On this day, young girls (mostly the oldest daughter of the house) dress like Saint Lucia in a white robe and a crown of candles. Th... |
40837 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride | Pride | Pride means having a feeling of being good and worthy. The adjective is proud.
The word pride can be used in a good sense as well as in a bad sense.
In a good sense it means having a feeling of self-respect. People can be satisfied with their achievements. They can be proud of something good that they have done. They... |
40839 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry | Symmetry | Reflectional Symmetry is a property of certain geometrical objects that appears the same when mirrored or reflected along an axis. This axis has to cross the shape through the middle of that object dividing into equal halves.
In rotational symmetry, the object is identical when it is rotated by a certain amount.
Th... |
40842 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Ruapehu | Mount Ruapehu | Mount Ruapehu is an active volcano on North Island, New Zealand. It is located in Taupo, New Zealand. It last erupted in September 2007.
History
In 1948, an airplane crashed into the volcano. All the people in the airplane died.
References
Volcanoes of Oceania
Mountains of New Zealand |
40853 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klang | Klang | Klang (also known as Kelang) is the royal capital of Selangor, Malaysia. A popular harbour called Port Klang is located there. It is one of the busiest ports in the world.
History
1867 - 1874 Klang War
1880 - 1889 Klang became the capital of Selangor.
1945 - Klang Town Authority formed.
1954 - Klang Town Council f... |
40858 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%20Metro | Moscow Metro | The Moscow Metro is a metro system which reaches nearly every part of the city of Moscow in Russia. It is one of the most heavily used metro systems in the world. It is also famous for its stations, which are heavily decorated with paintings.
In total the metro is 314 kilometres long and has 214 stations (including 1 ... |
40870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage | Anchorage | Anchorage is where a ship lies at anchor.
It can also mean:
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Kentucky |
40892 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Simpson | Jessica Simpson | Jessica Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American singer and actress. She is known for her reality television show, Nick and Jessica: Newlyweds. In the late 2000s, she was married to Nick Lachey. In 2008, she filed for divorce and she married Eric Johnson. She is the daughter of Tina and Joe Simpson and older sister ... |
40902 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty%20Python%20and%20the%20Holy%20Grail | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the second movie made by Monty Python. It was made in 1974 and was very successful. It is still very popular. It was also made into a musical called Spamalot.
Story
This is a comedy about King Arthur's search for the Holy Grail. He gathers a group of knights around him. They do not r... |
40905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yen | Yen | The Japanese yen or en is the currency used in Japan. It is usually written with the romanised symbol ¥, but in Japanese it is written with the kanji 円. The coins are very light and range from ¥1 up to ¥500. The highest paper note value is ¥10000. The Japanese currency is the third most traded currency in the world.
C... |
40909 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Forsyth%20High%20School | West Forsyth High School | West Forsyth High School is a high school in North Carolina. It has 1611 students. It is the third largest school in Forsyth County and the 53rd largest school in North Carolina. Its principal is Kurt Telford. It is under the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools' district.
Buildings and structures in North Carolina
Sc... |
40926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%20and%20only%20if | If and only if | In logic and mathematics, if and only if (sometimes abbreviated as iff) is a logical operator denoting a logical biconditional (often symbolized by or). It is often used to conjoin two statements which are logically equivalent.
In general, given two statement A and B, the statement "A if and only if B" is true preci... |
40933 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appletalk | Appletalk | Appletalk is a suite of protocols for computer networking. It allowed Apple Macintosh computers to connect one another. It also allowed a computer to use a printer connected to the network. Apple has switched from Appletalk to TCP/IP.
Computer protocols
Computer networking
Apple Inc. |
40934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramax%20Films | Miramax Films | Miramax Films is an American motion picture distribution and production company. It was headquartered in New York, New York before being bought out by The Walt Disney Company.
It was created by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein in Buffalo, New York in 1979. The name comes from combining the first names of their pa... |
40946 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20States%20100 | Western States 100 | The Western States 100 is a 100 mile race that is held each July in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is the oldest regularly run ultramarathons. It is considered by some to be the most difficult. Some of the best runners ever to compete in the Western States 100 race are Scott Jurek and Tim Twietmeyer.
Runni... |
40947 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Jurek | Scott Jurek | Scott Jurek (b. October 26, 1973) is an famous runner who lives in Seattle, California. He is perhaps best known for running the difficult Western States 100 Mile Race seven years in a row. He has also won the Badwater Ultramarathon the past two years.
1973 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Minnesota
American t... |
40948 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badwater%20Ultramarathon | Badwater Ultramarathon | The Badwater Ultramarathon is a race run from the lowest point in North America to the trail head of Mt. Whitney. It is 135 miles in very high heat.
Running |
40951 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary | Austria-Hungary | Austria-Hungary or the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a state in Central Europe from 1867 to 1918. It was the countries of Austria and Hungary ruled by a single monarch. The full name of the empire was "The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen".
The dual monarch... |
40964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom | Wisdom | Wisdom is knowing things that help a person to live sensibly and make good decisions. Wisdom is defined differently by many cultures. Some say that wisdom is something a person learns as they grow older. Other cultures expect people to complete certain rituals in order to get wisdom.
If someone has wisdom, they are ca... |
40965 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skate%20%28fish%29 | Skate (fish) | For the act of skating, see skating.
Skates are cartilaginous fish. They are the family Rajidae in the order Rajiformes. They are chondrichthyes, and closely related to the rays. There are more than 200 species in 27 genera.
There are two subfamilies, the hardnose skates and the softnose skates.
Skates and stingray... |
40981 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Moore | Roger Moore | Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor and a UNICEF ambassador. He is probably the most well known for playing fictional spy James Bond in seven movies from 1973 to 1985. He played James Bond more times than any other actor. He was also well known for playing Simon Templar in the t... |
40982 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20Cup | Melbourne Cup | The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major horse race. It happens once a year. People say it is The race that stops a nation, it is for horses three-years-old and over, and it is 3200 metres long. The event has been held on the first Tuesday in November since 1861 (except on one year during the Second World War) by the Vi... |
40983 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Philip%27s%20War | King Philip's War | King Philip's War (Metacom's War) was a war between Native Americans and English colonists. King Philip's War was fought between 1675 and 1676 in the area of the United States that is now New England.
When the Pilgrims left England, they came to live in Massachusetts near the Indians. As more Puritans arrived, they ne... |
40988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip%20balm | Lip balm | Lip balm is a product which is put on lips so they will not dry when a person is outdoors in the sun and wind. Lip balm is usually made from petrolatum. Some types of lip balm also include sunscreen to protect the lips from sunburn. Lip balm comes in tubes and small pots with screw-on lids. Lip balm is often used durin... |
40989 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophagia | Coprophagia | Coprophagia is the eating of faeces. Many animals eat faeces, either their own or that of other animal groups. It is particularly common in dogs and puppies of about six months old, but little is known why; lack of stimulus and variety in the lifestyle or diet have been cited as potential reasons.
Adding pineapple to ... |
40990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenwald | Frankenwald | The Frankenwald (roughly translates to Franconian forest) is a mountain range. It is in the district of Oberfranken in Bavaria. It connects the Fichtelgebirge to the Thuringian forest. It is a long forested plateau. The hills in the plateau form a watershed between the Rhine and the Elbe rivers.
It was settled in the... |
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