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40992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20transit | Rapid transit | Rapid transit is the name for a type of railway which has trains that run very often and carry many passengers at one time. It is usually in a city or urban area and takes people in and out of it. Trains go between places very quickly because they do not mix with other traffic. Most rapid transit railways do not have l... |
40994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipality | Municipality | A municipality is a word used for a city, a town or a village, or a small group of them. It has a clearly defined territory, and all the people living on that territory share one common local government.
In most countries, a municipality is the smallest administrative subdivision to have its own democratically elected... |
40995 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem | Problem | A problem is a situation preventing something from being achieved. The word comes from a Greek word meaning an "obstacle" (something that is in your way). Someone who has a problem must find a way of solving it. The means of solving a problem is called a "solution".
Examples
"John has locked his car keys inside his c... |
40996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order | Order | Order has many meanings (like a dictionary):
Religious
Holy orders are the rites or sacraments in which priests are ordained
Religious order, a group of people that live together, and share some ideals
Honors
Order (decoration), an award or medal
Legal and military
Court order, made by a judge
Executive order, ... |
40998 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrichshafen | Friedrichshafen | Friedrichshafen is a city in Germany. It is at the north shore of the Lake of Constance. It is the second largest city at the lakeside, after Konstanz. About 58.000 people live there. The city is famous for having one of the first Zeppelins.
References
Other websites
Cities in Baden-Württemberg |
40999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin | Zeppelin | For the English rock group, see Led Zeppelin.
A Zeppelin is a type of airship. It is a dirigible, which means it is rigid airship, but can be directed. It was developed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, in the early 20th century. The name Zeppelin is now used as a common name for all airships. Zeppelins were used in th... |
41002 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/666 | 666 | 666 was a year in the western calendar, as counted Anno Domini.
Events
Wighard became Archbishop of Canterbury.
Chertsey Abbey was built in England.
Barking Abbey was built in England.
References |
41010 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanza | Stanza | A stanza is a related group of lines or verses in a poem. A stanza also can be a verse in paragraph form. They can keep on going without punctuation. It may also be a line in a poem.
Two most important features of a stanza is the number of lines and the rhyme scheme. There are many kinds of stanza.
Two-line stanza ... |
41013 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanga%20Parbat | Nanga Parbat | Nanga Parbat, located in Gilgit-Baltistan, is the ninth highest mountain in the world. It is 8,126 metres (26,660 ft) above sea level. It is in Gilgit Baltistan, between Chilas and Astore. Nanga Parbat means "Naked Mountain". In 1953, an Austrian German named Hermann Buhl was the first to climb it.
Nanga Parbat is in ... |
41014 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheema | Cheema | Cheema (Shahmukhi: چیمہ, : ਚੀਮਾ) (also spelled Chima) is a typical group of people of the Jaat cast found in India and bordering Pakistan (In the world any family of Cheema they must be connected to the Sialkot sub-city Sahowala, Balochak Because this is the beginning place of Jutt Cheemas) who are also known as warrio... |
41016 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2 | K2 | K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at . It is also known as Mount Godwin-Austen or Chhogori. K2 is part of the Karakoram range. It is located in Pakistan.The name K2 came from the first survey of Karakoram. At that time, the surveyors gave each mountain a simple label of "K" followed by a number.
K2 is kn... |
41024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiration | Respiration | Respiration is the process in which nutrients are converted into useful energy in a cell. During respiration, energy is released in a form that can be used by cells. All living things respire. Both plant and animal cells use the process of respiration to release energy from glucose.
There are two types of respiration.... |
41028 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley%20Amis | Kingsley Amis | Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He was the father of the British novelist Martin Amis.
... |
41048 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/69 | 69 | 69 is a year in the 1st century.
Events
The Year of the Four Emperors: After Nero's death, Galba, Otho and Vitellius all serve as emperor for a short time each before Vespasian takes over.
January 15 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, and survives three months before committing suicide.
Fir... |
41051 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/410s | 410s |
Events
Sack of Rome by the Visigoths under Alaric
Britain lost from the Roman Empire |
41053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/340s | 340s | The 340s decade ran from January 1, 340, to December 31, 349.
Events
Ulfilas missionary to the Goths
Significant people
Constans, Roman Emperor
Constantius II, Roman Emperor
Flavius Philippus, praetorian prefect of the East, consul
Hypatia of Alexandria |
41078 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20II%20of%20Aragon | Ferdinand II of Aragon | Ferdinand II the Catholic (, 10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516) was king of Aragon (1479–1516), Castile, Sicily (1468–1516), Naples (1504–1516), Valencia, Sardinia and Navarre and Count of Barcelona. His marriage to Isabella of Castile unified most of the Iberian Peninsula as Spain and started its move to become a great ... |
41085 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%202.0 | Web 2.0 | Web 2.0 () is what people call new ways of showing or using things on the Internet.
Web 2.0 is considered beneficial because it is easy for people to publish their work, connect with other people, and share and exchange information.
To people who use the Internet, wikis and blogs are Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is mostly about... |
41090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Broons | The Broons | The Broons is a comic strip in the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post. It is about a Scottish family with 11 members.
The strip is written in Scots.
Family Members
Maw
Paw
Granpaw
Hen
Joe
Daphne
Maggie
Horace
The Twins
The Bairn
Comic strips
1936 establishments in Europe
Fictional families
20th-century establishmen... |
41095 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Republic | Roman Republic | The Roman Republic was a phase in history of the Ancient Roman civilization. According to legend, the city of Rome was founded by Romulus in . It was a kingdom until 510 BC, when the last King, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was overthrown. This began the Roman Republic.
The Roman Republic was a civilization ahead of its... |
41096 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Triumvirate | First Triumvirate | The First Triumvirate is the name most historians give to the political alliance between Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey). They made it in 60 BC to give each other power. Each person helped the others to be more powerful.
Caesar was able to gain money from Crassus to fi... |
41098 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Triumvirate | Second Triumvirate | The Second Triumvirate was an alliance between Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus. It was formed to punish the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar.
The Triumvirate lasted from 43 BC to 33 BC. It ended the effort by Marcus Tullius Cicero to make the Senate once again the top body of the Republic. From then on R... |
41100 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s%20razor | Occam's razor | Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose an event has two possible explanations. The explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation. Occam's razor applies espec... |
41105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%20Grande%20do%20Sul | Rio Grande do Sul | Rio Grande do Sul is a Brazilian state. It is in Southern Brazil. It has common borders with Uruguay to the south, and Argentina to the west. It has a very high standard of living. Its capital city is Porto Alegre. About 10 million people live in the state. The surface area of Rio Grande do Sul is about 282,000 square ... |
41107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofolk | Turbofolk | Turbofolk or Pop-folk is a style of music from the Balkans that was invented in the early 1990s. It mostly comes from Greece, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, but it is also popular in other nearby countries. It sounds like a mix of Arabic-style singing (in the Serbian language) with electronic music an... |
41108 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9rurier%20Noir | Bérurier Noir | Bérurier Noir are a French punk band which formed in Paris in 1983. It is made up of Loran (guitar), François (vocals) and Dede (drum machine). In 1985 Masto joined, playing the saxophone. They sing about French politics and anarchism. They are one of the most famous French punk bands.
Discography
1983: Macadam massa... |
41112 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Britain | Roman Britain | Roman Britain (Britannia) was the part of Great Britain in the Roman Empire from AD 43 to 409 or 410.
History
The first invasion was led by Julius Caesar, in the days of the Roman Republic. He defeated the dominant Catuvellauni tribe in 54 BC near Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire.
Their capital was taken over by the... |
41113 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/990 | 990 | 990 is a year in the 10th century.
Events
January 1 – Kievan Rus' adopts the Julian calendar.
Construction of the Al-Hakim Mosque begins in Cairo.
The Pax Ecclesiae, an edict by the church in southern France attempting to outlaw acts of war against non-combatants and the clergy, is promulgated.
Births
Conrad II... |
41114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1073 | 1073 |
Events
April 22 – Pope Gregory VII (Cardinal Hildebrand) succeeds Pope Alexander II as the 155th pope.
Emperor Shirakawa ascends the throne of Japan
Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi finishes writing the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.
John IX bar Shushan ends term as Syrian Patriarch of Antioch
Beginning of Sviatos... |
41140 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixente%20Lizarazu | Bixente Lizarazu | Bixente Lizarazu (born 9 December 1969) is a former French football player. He is one of the most successful football players in the world. He won the FIFA World Cup in 1998 and the European Football Championship in 2000. He has also won the UEFA Champions League (2001) and was champion of the Bundesliga (both with Bay... |
41142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland | Shetland | Shetland (or the Shetland Islands) is an archipelago, the furthest out part of Scotland in the United Kingdom.
The islands are between the Faroe Islands and the Orkney Islands. They are about 50 miles to the northeast of the Orkney Islands. They are about 100 islands in the group. People live on 16 of them.
The isla... |
41143 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20evaporation%20pond | Salt evaporation pond | A Salt evaporation pond (or saltern pond) is a man-made shallow pond. Usually it is located near the sea. The ponds can be filled with salt water. The water is then left to evaporate. The salt is left behind, and can be harvested. Such ponds also provide a habitat for several kinds of animals. Most of these animals are... |
41147 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salinity | Salinity | Salinity is a scientific term. Scientists use it to tell how much salt there is in water. Salinity is measured by the amount of sodium chloride found in 1,000 grams of water, if there is 1 gram of sodium chloride in 1,000 grams of water solution it is 1 part per thousand. This is written as 1‰.
Fresh water contains l... |
41151 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20preservation | Food preservation | Food preservation is about the ways and means which help to preserve food. Food spoils from bacteria if it is not treated. For thousands of years, humans have used methods of preserving food, so that they can store food to eat later. The simplest methods of preserving food, such as drying strips of fish or meat in the... |
41152 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham%20Junction%20railway%20station | Clapham Junction railway station | Clapham Junction railway station is a train station in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is on St. John's Hill in the south west of Battersea.
The station
The services
All services to Waterloo and many services to Victoria and Croydon stations pass through the junction; these include South West Train... |
41153 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine%20triphosphate | Adenosine triphosphate | Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a chemical. All living things make ATP to store energy and to move it to the cells that need it. An ATP molecule is like an oil barrel that stores and transports fuel. Cells get all of their energy from ATP. They break ATP molecules apart to use the stored energy. The harder a cell works... |
41154 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp | Shrimp | Shrimp refers to small, decapod crustacea. Shrimp are mainly found in three groups: Caridea, Procarididea, and Dendrobranchiata. There are thousands of species, and usually there is a species adapted to any particular habitat. Any small crustacean which resembles a shrimp tends to be called one.
Adult shrimp are filte... |
41156 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prawn | Prawn | Dendrobranchiata is a suborder of decapod crustaceans, and contains shrimp and prawn.
Dendrobranchiata are commercially fished and are used for cooking. The difference between prawns and shrimp is usually that prawns are larger than shrimps. Prawns are crustaceans similar in appearance to shrimps, but they can be dist... |
41157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Redmond | Lee Redmond | Lee Redmond (born February 2, 1941) is a woman from the Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. She is famous for having the longest fingernails in the world.
She has not cut her fingernails since 1979. The combined length of her fingernails are 7 meters and 51 centimeters long (24 feet, 8 inches) . She has an active lif... |
41158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Amis | Martin Amis | Martin Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a Welsh novelist. His best known novels include Money (1984), London Fields (1989), Time's Arrow (1991) and The Information (1995).
Affected by several writers including his father Sir Kingsley Amis, Amis's style of writing has affected a generation of writers. His recent work has... |
41159 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%20Shun | Xi Shun | Xi Shun (Bao Xishun) (China, born in 1951) is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest living man. He is 2.36 meters (7 ft 9 in) tall. The last time he was measured was on January 15 of 2005. On August 7, 2007 Leonid Stadnyk was measuring and was found to be taller than him. In September of 2005 he ... |
41160 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab | Crab | Crabs are a form of decapods (having eight walking legs and two grasping claws), along with lobsters, crayfish and shrimps. Crabs form an order within the decapods, called the Brachyura. Their short body is covered by a thick exoskeleton.
They are an extremely successful group, found all over the world. They are basic... |
41163 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%20Colombia | Gran Colombia | Gran Colombia was a country formed after New Granada declared independence in 1819. The rebels, led by Simon Bolivar, defeated the Spanish Empire but then fought among themselves. In 1831 Venezuela and Ecuador, being the eastern and southern part of the country, declared independence from Gran Colombia. After that the ... |
41166 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail%20%28anatomy%29 | Nail (anatomy) | A nail is a hard part of the body at the tip of the fingers and toes, of which most people have ten. Toenails and fingernails are similar, except that toenails grow four times more slowly. Only certain mammals have nails: mostly, they are found in primates. They are made of the same kind of material (keratin) as the cl... |
41169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean | Crustacean | The Crustacea are a subphylum of arthropods with 67,000 described species. They are part of the phylum Arthropoda. Crustaceans include crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. They are relatives of insects. If the Arthropods are regarded as a superphylum, then the insects and crustacea would be phyla (se... |
41171 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motile | Motile | An organism is called motile if it can move on its own. Most organisms are motile. Organisms that cannot move themselves are called sessile.
Physiology |
41172 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Montessori | Maria Montessori | Maria Montessori was an Italian educator and doctor. She was born on 31 August 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy.
Maria Montessori created the first Montessori school. It was a method of education which respected the natural development of the child. Its main feature was to allow as much independence as possible to the indi... |
41176 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20de%20Gheyn%20III%20%28painting%29 | Jacob de Gheyn III (painting) | Jacob de Gheyn III is a famous painting.
It was painted by Rembrandt in 1632 and is the most stolen painting in the world. It has been stolen and recovered from galleries at least four times, making it the world's most stolen painting.
Every time the painting has been recovered anonymously and as a consequence nobod... |
41178 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fame | Fame | Fame or Famous may refer to:
The condition of being a celebrity
Fame (musical), a Broadway musical
The Fame, a Lady Gaga album
F.A.M.E. (album), an album by Chris Brown |
41179 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy%20Story | Toy Story | Toy Story is a 1995 American computer animated buddy fantasy comedy adventure movie. It was the first Disney/Pixar animated movie. Pixar made the movie while Disney packaged it and sold the reels of the movie to movie theaters. It was released on November 22, 1995. It was the first animated movie to be completely done ... |
41189 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa%20Capovilla | María Capovilla | María Esther de Capovilla (September 14, 1889 – August 27, 2006) was an Ecuadorian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person between May 29, 2004, aged 114 years 258 days, and her death from pneumonia on August 27, 2006, aged 116 years 347 days. At the time of her death she was verified as the sixth ol... |
41192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wart | Wart | Warts are growths on the skin. Very often they resemble solid blisters. Usually, applying pressure to a wart causes pain. Warts are caused by viruses in the HPV family. As there are many types of viruses in the HPV family, there are also many types of wart. In most cases, warts are not dangerous, but may cause a lot of... |
41195 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming%20Kipa | Ming Kipa | Ming Kipa is a Nepalese Sherpa girl who (as recorded in the 2009 Guinness Book of Records) was the youngest person to climb Mount Everest until 2010. She reached the summit on May 24, 2003 when she was 15 years old, with her brother Mingma Gyula and her sister Laphka. Nepalese law does not allow climbers under 16 to cl... |
41197 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Tzu%20%28mathematician%29 | Sun Tzu (mathematician) | This article is about the mathematician Sun Tzu. For the military strategist of the same name, see Sun Tzu.
Sun Tzu or Sun Zi was a Chinese mathematician of the third century CE.
His interests were in astronomy. He tried to develop a calendar and for this he investigated Diophantine equations. He is best known for a... |
41198 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Karjakin | Sergey Karjakin | Sergey Karjakin (born 12 January 1990 in Simferopol) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster.
He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for the youngest grandmaster in history, at the age of twelve years and seven months.
On 25 July 2009 Karjakin adopted Russian citizenship and afterwards played for ... |
41206 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf%20Islam | Yusuf Islam | Yusuf Islam (born July 21, 1948) is an English singer. He sang many of his early songs when he called himself Cat Stevens. He was born as Stephen Demetre Georgiou to a Swedish mother and Greek father. He became a Muslim in 1977. After 2 years, he took the name of Yusuf İslam. He has sold over 60 million albums around t... |
41209 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay%20language | Malay language | The Malay language, or Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as parts of Southern Thailand. A language of the Malays, it is spoken by 290 million people across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern... |
41211 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Dalton | Timothy Dalton | Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a British actor. He is famous for playing fictional spy James Bond in two movies in 1987 and 1989. He also voiced the hedgehog Mr. Pricklepants in Toy Story 3.
National identity
His father was English and his mother was an American of Italian and Irish descent.
Personal ... |
41220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euzebiusz%20Smolarek | Euzebiusz Smolarek | Euzebiusz Smolarek (born 9 January 1981) is a Polish football player. He plays for ADO Den Haag and Poland national team.
In 2004, he came to Dortmund with Bert van Maarwijk, who is his trainer. Before that, he played for Borussia Dortmund and under van Maarwijk with Feyenoord Rotterdam. He is also in the Poland natio... |
41221 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido%20%28rapper%29 | Bushido (rapper) | Bushido is a German rapper. He was born in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, 28 September 1978 and raised in Berlin. His real name is Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi. Bushido left the record company Aggro Berlin in 2001. Now he has his own record label ersguterjunge and insults his old label, for example in the song Sonnenb... |
41228 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Party%20of%20Australia | National Party of Australia | The National Party of Australia is the third biggest political party in Australia. It was first called the Country Party when it started in 1920 and then became the National Country Party in 1975. In 1982 it became the National Party.
The National Party represents the interests of people who live in rural areas, that ... |
41244 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil%20well | Oil well | An oil well is a well to get petroleum from the ground. People in the petroleum industry look for a place that might have oil. They drill a hole deep in the ground and, if the oil is there, then pump it up from the hole. Most oil is very deep underground.
Oil wells can be classified by purpose:
Production wells p... |
41245 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie | Prairie | A prairie is a type of habitat with mostly grasses, but also flowering plants and occasional shrubs or isolated trees. This type of habitat can be found around the world, but it goes by different names, such as steppes in Asia. What tourist attract is the golden grass in Prairie grassland. The word prairie generally ... |
41246 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall | Mall | A mall or shopping centre is a large building that is full of many smaller shops and stores. It is different from earlier markets or bazaars because most of the shops are not little booths or stalls in one big open area. Each store has its own space with walls. Most of their entrances face a central walking area inside... |
41247 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20skating | Ice skating | Ice skating is skating on ice as a sport, entertainment or pastime. Ice skates, a special type of boot with metal blades on the bottom, are worn to skate on ice. Figure skating and speed skating are the sport forms of ice skating. Hockey is also played on ice, with players wearing ice skates. The International Skating ... |
41250 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rink | Rink | Rinks are places for sports. There are several types of rinks:
"Ice rinks" are also called ice skating rinks. Ice rinks have ice on the floor if they are inside, and on the ground if they are outside. Ice rinks are places for people to play ice hockey and to go ice skating.
"Curling rinks" also have ice on the floo... |
41252 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading%20post | Trading post | A trading post is a place where trade takes place. The path to a trading post, or between trading posts, is known as a trade route.
Trading posts were common places in Canada and the United States when they were both new countries. People used trading posts to trade fur and other things.
Trading posts are also used... |
41253 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp | Wasp | Wasps are members of the order Hymenoptera, which also includes ants, bees and sawflies.
The common or garden wasps, Vespula vulgaris, and hornets (Vespa) are members of the eusocial family Vespidae. This has about 5000 species.
By far the greater number of wasp species (over 100,000) are the parasitic wasps. Most o... |
41256 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20papillomavirus | Human papillomavirus | The Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a virus that can infect the skin or mucous membranes (like the genitals, or inside the mouth) of humans. They cause warts. Some of them may cause cancer. There are over 100 different virus types in this group. About 40 virus types can be transmitted sexually. About 12-15 can cause canc... |
41258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylic%20acid | Salicylic acid | Salicylic acid is a chemical substance. It is an acid. It is the base ingredient for a drug called aspirin. It is also used as a food preservative, and to treat diseases of the skin, like acne or warts. It is also used in shampoos to treat dandruff (flaking skin on the head).
Acids |
41260 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shampoo | Shampoo | Shampoo is a beauty care product. It is used to remove natural oils from hair. It is like liquid soap, but it is made to wash hair. It is sold in stores, and many people use it to make their hair clean. After people use shampoo, they might use a conditioner, which makes the hair soft. Together they have a good effect ... |
41264 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri%20Shostakovich | Dmitri Shostakovich | Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (born St Petersburg, September 25 1906; died Moscow August 9 1975) was a Russian-Soviet composer.
Shostakovich's life
Early years
Shostakovich's parents came from Siberia. His father was a biologist and engineer, and his mother was a pianist. They lived comfortably, although this was... |
41268 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency | Transparency | In optics, transparency is the property of allowing light to pass through something.
An object that is transparent can be seen through. That is, what is on the other side of the object can be seen through it. The image you can see through a transparent object is similar to the image you can see without it. It may... |
41271 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab%20region | Punjab region | Punjab is a region in South Asia. It is divided by the Radcliffe Line: Some parts of it are in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and others are in the Republic of India. It is in a plain, with the River Indus flowing through the western part, which is in Pakistan. The soil is very fertile. It lives from agriculture. Ma... |
41273 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis | Hepatitis | Hepatitis is a disease of the liver. In hepatitis, the liver is inflamed. There can be several reasons why the liver is inflamed. For this reason there are several kinds of hepatitis. The most common forms are Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Most cases of Hepatitis are caused by viruses. Some forms are caused... |
41275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodeo | Rodeo | A rodeo is a North American sport. It is a collection of several similar activities that came from the history of the day-to-day lives of Mexican vaqueros (cowboys) and American cowboys. It has events that came from the handling of cattle, and the riding and training of horses. Rodeos started as a competition between t... |
41277 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey%20Decimal%20System | Dewey Decimal System | The Dewey Decimal System is a way to put books in order by subject. It is often used in public libraries and schools in the United States and other countries. It places the books on the shelf by subject using numbers from 000 to 999. It is called "decimal" because it uses numbers to the right of the decimal point for m... |
41280 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombus | Rhombus | A rhombus is a parallelogram with all sides equal in length. A rhombus with all angles equal is called a square. The word rhombus comes from the Greek word rhombos, meaning "spinning top". A rhombus is sometimes called a diamond, but not all rhombi are diamond shaped.
To find the perimeter of a rhombus, just add up al... |
41281 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change%20%28money%29 | Change (money) | Change is the money returned after paying for something with more money than it costs. For example, if someone buys a 25-pence sweet bar with 1 pound (100 pence), they will get 75 pence back.
Change can also mean any kind of money in coin form. To have exact change means to have the exact cost of the item. In the Unit... |
41293 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homework | Homework | Homework, or a homework assignment, is a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed outside the classroom. Common homework assignments may include required reading, a writing or typing project, mathematical exercises to be completed, information to be read before a test, or other skills to be p... |
41294 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic | Garlic | Garlic (species Allium sativum) is a type of plant that people eat for food. Garlic is related to onions, shallots, and leeks. It has a very strong flavor and smell. Most of the time, people use it as a flavoring so that it helps make food taste better.
Garlic is used as herbal medicine in the treatment of cold and fl... |
41297 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaze | Glaze | Glaze is a layer or coating used on pottery or ceramics. It may be called vitreous enamel or porcelain enamel. Powdered glass is fused onto ceramics by firing to between 750 and 850 °C (1,380 and 1,560 °F). The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, lasting vitreous coating on metal, or on glass or ceramics... |
41303 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear | Nuclear | Nuclear means relating to a nucleus. It may be about:
Atomic nucleus
Radioactive decay
Naval reactors
Nuclear engineering
Nuclear fallout
Nuclear fuel
Nuclear fuel cycle
Nuclear navy
Nuclear reaction
Nuclear physics
Nuclear power
Nuclear power plant
Nuclear reactor
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear weapon
Mutual... |
41309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20University | Stanford University | The Leland Stanford Junior University, often called Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university next to Palo Alto in California, in the middle of Silicon Valley,
about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and about 20 miles northwest of San José, in Santa Clara County. Leland and Ja... |
41316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20%28disambiguation%29 | Beta (disambiguation) | Beta can mean one of the following:
Beta (letter), the second letter of the Greek alphabet
Beta version, a version of software given to users for testing
Beta particle, a subatomic particle
Beta, a brand of recording tape that used to be used in electronic videocassette recorders (VCRs) |
41318 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium | Palladium | Palladium is a chemical element. It has the chemical symbol Pd. It has the atomic number 46. It is a metal. It is silver white. In chemistry it is placed in a group of metal elements named the transition metals. It is also part of the platinum group.
Palladium has similar chemistry to platinum. It is extracted from (m... |
41321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20care | Personal care | Personal care items are toiletry items. These are products used by people to look after their bodies, and to improve their appearance. They are usually sold in chemist shops and supermarkets. Many celebrities use beauty products.
Products
Personal care includes products as diverse as cleansing pads, bandages, cologn... |
41324 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Republican%20Army | Irish Republican Army | The Irish Republican Army or IRA originated from the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and fought against the British Army to get freedom for Ireland in the Irish War of Independence. The British army had invaded Ireland earlier in the plantation of Ulster and then invaded Dublin, after some time when the IRA had fought th... |
41336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm%20and%20blues | Rhythm and blues | Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American artists. It is now performed worldwide by people of many cultures and ethnic groups.
Contemporary R&B
During the 1980s, James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone had used... |
41340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten | Tungsten | Tungsten (sometimes named wolfram) is a chemical element on the periodic table. It has the chemical symbol W and it has the atomic number 74. It is a steel-gray to white colored metal. In chemistry, it is placed in a group of metal elements named the transition metals. Tungsten is found in several ores, including wolfr... |
41342 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc | Arc | An arc is a part of a circle. An arc is a curved line. The curve of an arc is constant and does not change (that is, an arc has constant curvature). It sometimes is portrayed as a dotted line.
In a circle, the arc from point A to point B is written as . We call the length of an arc an arc length. For an arc on a circl... |
41343 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particulate | Particulate | Particulates are very tiny pieces of a solid or liquid that are carried floating in a gas. When the tiny pieces are solid, it is called a smoke. When the tiny pieces are liquid, it is called an aerosol. Aerosols can be naturally found in clouds and geysers. There are also artificial aerosols such as haze and some air... |
41344 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand | Shorthand | Shorthand or stenography is a way of writing. Shorthand systems allow people to write much faster. Shorthand systems have been in use since antiquity. Now, they are not used as much, because there are dictation machines to record voices.
Other websites
Shorthand Untangled - A site dealing with the skills of shortha... |
41347 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine%20wave | Sine wave | A sine wave is a curve, a continuous function with this shape:
This is a picture of a sine wave.
All waves can be made by adding up sine waves. The sine wave has a pattern that repeats. The length of this repeating piece of the sine wave is called the wavelength. The wavelength can be found by measuring the length o... |
41355 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingwood%20Football%20Club | Collingwood Football Club | Collingwood Football Club, the Magpies, is a club which plays Australian Rules Football in the AFL. It comes from Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria. In the AFL/VFL, it has won 15 premierships.
History
The Collingwood Football Club was formed in February 1892. Collingwood played its first game in the Vi... |
41360 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration | Vibration | Vibration means quickly moving back and forth (or up and down) about a point of equilibrium. The vibration may be periodic (having a pattern) or random. Something that is vibrating may shake at the same time. If it vibrates in a regular way, it may produce a musical note because it can make the air vibrate. This vibra... |
41361 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenum | Molybdenum | Molybdenum is a chemical element. It has the chemical symbol Mo. It has the atomic number 42. It has 35 isotopes. The name Molybdenum is from the Greek meaning "leadlike". The color of pure molybdenum is silvery-white. It does not occur naturally, and is made from molybdenite.
Uses
It is used in alloys with other met... |
41362 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution | Solution | In chemistry, a solution is a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances. The substances that are dissolved are called solutes. The substance the solutes are dissolved in is called the solvent. An example from everyday experience is a solid like salt or sugar (which are crystalline solids), dissolved in a liquid (... |
41363 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance | Insurance | Insurance is a term in law and economics. It is something people buy to protect themselves from losing money. People who buy insurance pay a "premium" (often paid every month) and promise to be careful (a "duty of care"). In exchange for this, if something bad happens to the person or thing that is insured, the compan... |
41364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen%20burner | Bunsen burner | A Bunsen burner is a common piece of laboratory equipment. It is commonly used for heating chemical substances, sterilization, and combustion. It works by burning flammable gas. It is named after Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, a German chemist. He made important improvements on an earlier burner invented by Michael Faraday.
... |
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