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4465 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20penis | Human penis | The human penis is a male body part found on the outside of the body. It is used for urination and for sexual reproduction. The main sexual function of the penis is to be inserted into a female's vagina and deliver semen which may cause pregnancy. This activity is called sexual intercourse.
There are many slang words ... |
4466 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara | Sahara | The Sahara, in North Africa, is the largest desert in the world except for Antarctica. The Sahara is the largest hot desert.
It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlas Mountains, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Sahel region. It runs through many countries including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egy... |
4467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris | Paris | Paris (nicknamed the "City of light") is the capital city of France, and the largest city in France. The area is , and around 2.15 million people live there. If suburbs are counted, the population of the Paris area rises to 10.7 million people. It is the most densely populated city in the European Union, with 20.653 p... |
4469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Holocaust | The Holocaust | The Holocaust, sometimes called The Shoah (), was a genocide in which Nazi Germany systematically killed people during World War II. About six million Jews were killed, as well as five million others that the Nazis claimed were inferior (mostly Slavs, communists, Romani/Roma people, people with disabilities, homosexual... |
4470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto | Kyoto | Kyoto () is a city in Japan. This city was the capital of Japan from 794 until 1868.
Kyoto is a major city in the Kansai region of Japan. Its population is 1.5 million people. The city of Kyoto is the capital city of the prefecture of Kyoto. Kyoto is one of the cultural, educational, and technology centers of Japan. I... |
4471 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy | Anarchy | Anarchy (From Greek αναρχια meaning "without a leader") is a word that has more than one meaning. Some of its meanings are:
When there is no leader, or when nobody has power over everyone (used just in the anarchist movement).
When there is no political order, and there is confusion (used often from mass media)
When... |
4472 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA | DNA | DNA, short for deoxyribonucleic acid, is the molecule that contains the genetic code of organisms. This includes animals, plants, protists, archaea and bacteria.
DNA is in each cell in the organism and tells cells what proteins to make. Mostly, these proteins are enzymes. DNA is inherited by children from their parent... |
4473 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Marx | Karl Marx | Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 in Trier – 14 March 1883 in London) was a German political thinker who wrote about economics and politics. Marx thought that if a place that works together runs on wage-labor, then there would always be class struggle. Marx thought that this class struggle would result in workers taking p... |
4475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread | Bread | Bread is a type of baked food. It is mainly made from dough, which is made mainly from flour and water. Usually, salt and yeast are added. Bread is often baked in an oven. It can be bought all over the world.
Bread can be toasted or used to make sandwiches. Pizza is a food-based on bread. There are many different kin... |
4480 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto | Shinto | Shinto () is a form of Japanese animism. It has many kami, translated as gods or nature spirits. Some "kami" are just spirits of certain places, and some are the overall "kami" (like "Amaterasu", the Sun goddess). The word "Shinto" comes from the Japanese words "", shin—the word for spirit or god, and "", tō—the word f... |
4483 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano | Volcano | A volcano is a mountain that has lava (hot, liquid rock) coming out from a magma chamber under the ground, or did have in the past. Volcanoes are formed by the movement of tectonic plates.
The Earth's crust has 17 major, rigid tectonic plates. These float on a hotter, softer layer in its mantle. Volcanoes are often fo... |
4484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Bang | Big Bang | The Big Bang is a scientific theory about how the universe started, and then made the stars and galaxies we see today. The Big Bang is the name that scientists use for the most common theory of the universe, from the very early stages to the present day.
The universe began as a very hot, small, and dense superforce (t... |
4489 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail | Gmail | Gmail is a free e-mail service that is run by Google. It can be accessed on the web, by POP3, or by IMAP. Some of the competitors to Gmail are Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail/Windows Live Mail, and Inbox.Com. The space given to any Gmail member is increased a small amount every second, and as of July 26, 2012, Google provides eac... |
4491 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer | Astronomer | An astronomer is a scientist who studies astronomy. Observational astronomers work in observatories with telescopes to collect information from things in outer space such as planets, stars, or galaxies. Theoretical astronomers study the collected information, and use it to help us understand how the universe behaves.
... |
4492 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis | Analysis | Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.
The word comes fr... |
4493 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolishness | Foolishness | Foolishness is when someone acts without wisdom or sense. A foolish decision is one made without careful reasoning or judgement. An act of foolishness is called folly. A person who shows foolishness may be called a fool. It is different to stupidity, which is the lack of intelligence.
A fool's errand is a useless piec... |
4494 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle | Aristotle | Aristotle (Stagira, Macedonia, 384 BC – Chalicis, Euboea, Greece, 7 March 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher. He was one of the most important philosophers in the history of Western civilization. Aristotle probably wrote many books, but very few of those books survive. Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great when Alexander... |
4496 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Sagan | Carl Sagan | Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer. He was very interested in what life on other planets would be like, which is known as SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence).
Sagan was a science communicator, which meant he taught people about science. He felt like the gen... |
4524 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo%20Basho | Matsuo Basho | Matsuo Munefusa, known as Matsuo Bashō (, 1644 - November 28, 1694) was a Japanese poet. He is known as the greatest maker of haiku, a kind of poetry with 17 syllables. The Japanese written language was difficult to master, but haiku was easy for him to write. Matsuo's haikus included characteristics of nature and the ... |
4527 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization | Colonization | Colonization is the act of one country settling another place, in order to become the new rulers of the new country, and to live in the new country. An early example is the settlers who went from the cities of Ancient Greece to start new cities.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in The Americas. This is how the Eu... |
4529 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choreography | Choreography | Choreography (dance-writing) is the art of making dances. It tells dancers how they should dance and move. The word has been used since the late 18th century to mean the art of composing dance.
A person who does choreography is called a choreographer. A choreographer makes a dance based on music or a synopsis (a writi... |
4534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20cell | Electrical cell | An electrical cell is a device used to generate electricity, or to make chemical reactions by applying electricity. A battery is one or more cells, connected. This cell is also known as electrochemical cell.
Cells producing electricity
The simple electrical cells were first developed in 1800s. They are also called g... |
4535 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry%20cell | Dry cell | Dry cells are a type of chemical cells. Dry cells are commonly used today in the form of batteries. Dry cells are used in many electrical appliances.
Types of dry cells
Primary cells
Zinc-carbon cells, also known as Leclanche cells
Alkaline cells
Lithium cells
Mercury cells
Silver oxide cell
Secondary cells
Nickel-cad... |
4536 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam%20War | Vietnam War | The Vietnam War (also known as Second Indochina War or American War in Vietnam) lasted from 1 November 1955–30 April 1975, (19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks, and 1 day). It was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China and North Korea, while South Vietnam was sup... |
4538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahel | Sahel | The Sahel is a narrow belt of land in North Africa. It is a strip of land about 5500 kilometers long and 450 kilometres wide. It lies at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert
The Sahel has a tropical semi-arid climate. It is between the dry desert land to the north and the forest areas to the south. The temperature ... |
4541 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20change | Chemical change | A chemical change (chemical reaction) is a change of materials into other materials with different properties.
Chemical changes occur when a substance combines with another to form a new substance, or, chemical decomposition into two or more different substances. These processes are called chemical reactions.
Burnin... |
4542 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20change | Physical change | A physical change is a type of change in which the form of matter is altered but one substance is not transformed into another. The size or shape of matter may be changed, but no chemical reaction occurs.
All physical changes are reversible and their mass does not change. Some examples are changes of shape, changes of... |
4546 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Reagan | Ronald Reagan | Ronald Wilson Reagan (; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American actor and politician who was the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Reagan was the 9th and 13th president of the Screen Actors Guild, from 1947 to 1952 and again from 19... |
4549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations | United Nations | The United Nations (UN) is an organization between countries established on 24 October 1945 to promote international cooperation. It was founded to replace the League of Nations following World War II and to prevent another conflict. When it was founded, the UN had 51 members, but there are now 193. Most nations are me... |
4550 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global | Global | Global is a prefix which means that it applies to the entire world rather than any special place or people.
It is used to mean "universal".
Geography
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4554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20historians | List of historians | This is a list of historians.
The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialised.
Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.
Ancient histo... |
4555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese | Japanese | Japanese might mean:
Anything related to Japan
Japanese language
Japanese people
Japanese cuisine |
4558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Polo | Marco Polo | Marco Polo was born in 1254 and died on January 8,1324. He was an Italian trader and explorer. He was one of the first Europeans to explore Central Asia and East Asia. Many other explorers, including Christopher Columbus, looked up to him. He could speak four languages.
Marco Polo was known for the book, Travels of Ma... |
4561 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes%20zoster | Herpes zoster | Herpes zoster (also known as shingles or zona) is a disease in humans. The same virus that causes chickenpox also causes shingles. The symptoms are pain and a rash with blisters. The shingles vaccine reduces the risk of shingles. Antivirus medicine can reduce the seriousness and duration of shingles if started within ... |
4570 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Brief%20History%20of%20Time | A Brief History of Time | A Brief History of Time (1988) is a book written by the scientist and mathematician Stephen Hawking. The subject of the book is cosmology, the story of the universe.
There are two other versions of this book: The Illustrated A Brief History of Time and A Briefer History of Time. The Illustrated A Brief History of Time... |
4579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Graham%20Bell | Alexander Graham Bell | Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born British-Canadian-American teacher, scientist, and inventor. He was the founder of the Bell Telephone Company. In 1876, Bell was the first inventor to patent the telephone, and he helped start the Bell Telephone Company with others in July 1877. ... |
4582 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Rudolf%20Hertz | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist. In 1888 he discovered the radio waves previously predicted by Maxwell's equations. He also proved that light is a kind of electromagnetic waves. The unit for frequency is named after him.
Hertz was born in Hamburg in 1857. He studied eng... |
4583 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1850 | 1850 |
Events
The speed of light in water was observed to be slower than that in air.
Books
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Births
January 21 – Paul Vinzenz Busch, ringmaster (d. 1927)
January 27 – Samuel Gompers, English-born labor leader (d. 1924)
January 27 – Edward J. Smith, Captain of the Titanic (d... |
4584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869 | 1869 |
Events
The Periodic table was developed.
Births
January 1 – Sigma Nu, First Anti-Hazing Honor/Social Fraternity
January 4 – Tommy Corcoran, baseball player
January 10 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic
January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect
February 11 – Helene Krol... |
4586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1621 | 1621 |
Events
February 9 – Gregory XV is elected pope.
February 17 – Miles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth Colony.
March 16 – Samoset, a Wampanoag, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
March 22 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a pe... |
4587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1619 | 1619 |
Event
Johannes Kepler proposes his three laws of planetary motion. |
4588 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1687 | 1687 | Year 1687 was a common year that started on a Wednesday when using the Gregorian calendar.
Events
March 19 – The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.
April 4 – King James II of England issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws ... |
4589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1822 | 1822 |
Events
André-Marie Ampère discovered the attraction between current-carrying wires.
The law of electric current and magnetic field was developed. |
4590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1824 | 1824 |
Events
Heat was discovered to be transferred from hot to cold objects.
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals founded.
Brauerei C & A Veltins brewery founded
Thomas Jefferson University founded |
4591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1826 | 1826 |
Events
The first photograph was taken.
John Adams second president, and third president Thomas Jefferson both died same day Independence Day.
Births
January 12 – William Chapman Rawlston, banker and financier
January 26 – Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879)
February 16 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German ... |
4592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1827 | 1827 |
Events
People see individual particles of water move.
Births
February 5 – Peter Lalor, leader of miners rebellion at Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Australia
Deaths
March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven
New Books
Book of Songs (poetry) – Heinrich Heine
Herzog Theodor von Gotland (play) – Christian Dietrich Grabbe
... |
4593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815 | 1815 |
Events
Fresnel developed the theory of light diffraction.
Napoleon loses the Battle of Waterloo and is sent to Saint Helena.
Births
January 10 – John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
February 15 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar (d. 1874)
April 1 – Otto von Bismarck, Ger... |
4594 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20house | Deep house | Deep house is a type of house music. It has influences from disco music and jazz music. The BPM of deep house is usually 100 - 128.
Music genres |
4596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine | Cytokine | Cytokines are a group of signalling molecules made by cells. They help to control the immune system and fight disease. They are similar to hormones and, as we learn more about each, distinctions between the two are fading.
Cytokines carry signals locally between cells, and these signals have an effect on other cells. ... |
4597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol | Bristol | Bristol is a city and ceremonial county in England. It is home to nearly 430,000 people. The River Avon runs through it to the Severn estuary.
Geography
It is between the counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset. In 1373, King Edward III ordered that it should be a county itself forever. However, it lost county statu... |
4598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20and%20towns%20in%20England | List of cities and towns in England | This is a link page for towns and cities in England. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a town is any settlement which has received a charter of incorporation, more commonly known as a town charter, approved by the monarch. Cities are indicated in bold.
A
Abingdon, Accrington, Acton, Adlington, Alcester, Aldebu... |
4599 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858 | 1858 |
Events
Charles Darwin proposes the natural selection of species.
A civil war between conservatists and liberals starts in Mexico.
The British Empire or rule, begins in India after the surrender and exile of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II
Births
January 7 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of... |
4600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899 | 1899 |
Events
January 1 – Queens and Staten Island join with New York City.
March 26 - the first electric tram in Moscow.
Thomson measures the charge and mass of an electron.
August/early September-The 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane hits the Bahamas, Florida and North Carolina
Births
May 10 – Fred Astaire
May 24 – Kazi... |
4602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%20Eyes%20%28band%29 | Bright Eyes (band) | Bright Eyes is an American indie rock music band. The people in the band are Conor Oberst, a singer-songwriter; Mike Mogis, a musician and producer; and other friends and session musicians from Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Oberst's singing style and the words to the songs are called desperate or on the verge of tears. Many p... |
4603 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycomb | Honeycomb | A honeycomb is a container made by bees out of wax that they produce. The bees make a honeycomb as a place to keep their honey. Bees make honey from nectar that they collect from flowers. After bees collect nectar from flowers, and make it into honey, the bees then put the honey in the small six sided areas of the hone... |
4606 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20language | Greek language | The Greek language is an Indo-European language. It is the official language of Greece (Hellas) and Cyprus. It was first spoken in Greece and was also once spoken along the coast of Asia Minor (now a part of Turkey) and in southern Italy. It was also widely used in Western Asia and Northern Africa at one time. In Greek... |
4608 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamishibai | Kamishibai | Kami-shibai (Japanese: 紙芝居) is a storytelling performance with picture cards, and is a traditional Japanese entertainment for children. In Japanese "Kami" means paper and "shibai" means drama or enternainment. The performer tells a story and shows pictures from scene to scene. Kami-shibai is a bidirectional media which... |
4609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki%20Shikibu | Murasaki Shikibu | was a novelist, poet, and servant of the Imperial Court during the Heian period of Japan. She is well known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written around year 1003.
Murasaki Shikibu is a nickname; her real name is unknown.
Life
Murasaki was born in Kyoto. She was born into the Fujiwara family. Her father, Fujiw... |
4612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsin | Pepsin | Pepsin is an enzyme. It acts on proteins in the stomach, which has a low pH because of the Hydrochloric acid. It works best at a pH of about 1.5. It will not work at a pH above 6.
It was the first animal enzyme to be discovered. Theodor Schwann discovered it in 1836.
Pepsin is used to make cheese.
References
Metab... |
4613 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/PH | PH | pH is a scale of acidity from 0 to 14. It tells how acidic or alkaline a substance is.
More acidic solutions have lower pH. More alkaline solutions have higher pH. Substances that aren't acidic or alkaline (that is, neutral solutions) usually have a pH of 7.
Acids have a pH that is less than 7. Alkalis have a pH that ... |
4614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapeworm | Tapeworm | Tapeworms are the class Cestoda of segmented flatworms (Platyhelminthes).They are parasitic, which means that they need another larger creature as a host. Tapeworms live inside the intestines of vertebrate animals. This includes humans. When a vertebrate has a tapeworm, they may lose weight and become weaker.
Tapeworm... |
4616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore | Omnivore | An omnivore is an animal whose species gets its energy and nutrients from a diet made up foods that include plants, animals, algae, fungi and bacteria.
Many omnivores change their eating habits during their life cycle. They are sometimes called "life-history omnivores", because they are only omnivores if their whole l... |
4618 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore | Herbivore | Herbivores are animals that only eat plants. They are herbivorous animals.
Herbivores (such as deer, elephants, horses) have teeth that are adapted to grind vegetable tissue. Many animals that eat fruit and leaves sometimes eat other parts of plants, for example roots and seeds. Usually, such animals cannot digest mea... |
4624 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi | Hindi | Hindi is an Indo-Iranian language. It is the main language in India. About 800 million people speak Hindi in India. The Devanāgarī script is used to write Hindi. Previously Hindi was known as Hindui.
Hindi is widely written, spoken and understood in North India and some other places in India. In 1997, a survey found... |
4625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1870 | 1870 |
Events
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
Births
January 8 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
January 15 – Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
February 7 – Alfred Adler, psychologist
March 5 – Frank Norris, writer (d. 1902)
March 17 – Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (d. 1951)
March 20 – Paul E... |
4626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871 | 1871 |
Events
January 2 – Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
January 18 – Germany becomes a country when states of the North German Confederation unite. The King of Prussia becomes the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany.
January 10 – France surrenders (gives up) to end the Franco-Prussian War
March 22 – In Nort... |
4627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1882 | 1882 |
Events
May 20 – Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
March 29 – The Knights of Columbus are set up.
Edison builds first power station in the United States.
Births
January 6 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965)
January 18 – A. A. Milne, British writer (d. 1956)
Ja... |
4628 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941 | 1941 |
Events
January 6 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
January 10 – Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States Congress.
January 19 – British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
January 21 – World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk,... |
4629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945 | 1945 | It is well known as the end of World War II and the founding of UNO and UNESCO.
Events
January 27 - The Red Army liberates Auschwitz concentration camp.
April 30 - Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
May 9 - Victory Day
July 17 - Start of the Potsdam Conference.
August 6 and 9 - U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and N... |
4633 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20van%20Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 in Bonn – 26 March 1827 in Vienna; pronounced LUD-vig vahn BAY-TOH-ven) was a German composer. He wrote classical music for the piano, orchestras and different groups of instruments. His best-known works are his third (Eroica), fifth, sixth (Pastorale) and ninth (Choral) ... |
4634 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald%20Amundsen | Roald Amundsen | Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer who focused on the poles. He led the first expedition to reach the South Pole and the first that could prove it made it to the North Pole. Amundsen was also the first man known to travel the Northwest Passage.
Life
When Amundsen was young, he decided he would use his life to exp... |
4635 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Columbus | Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) was a Genoese trader, explorer, and navigator. He was born in Genoa, Italy, in the year 1451. "Christopher Columbus" is the English version of Columbus's name. His real name in Italian was 'Cristoforo Colombo.
In 1492 Columbus landed on an island of the Bahamas, the first European to... |
4639 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20General%20Public%20License | GNU General Public License | The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a computer software copyleft license. This license lets the user of the software use a program in many of the same ways as if it were public domain. They can use it, change it, and copy it. They can also sell or give away copies of the program with or without any changes they mad... |
4641 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle%20%28disambiguation%29 | Triangle (disambiguation) | In geometry, a triangle is the flat shape formed by joining three points (not in a straight line) with straight line segments. A triangle is a three sided polygon.
In music, a triangle is a musical instrument that is made from a metal tube. It is in the shape of a triangle. It is open at one corner, and when it is hit... |
4642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square | Square | A square is a shape with four equal sides and four corners that are all right angles (90 degrees). The diagonals of a square also cross at right angles. The angle between any diagonal and a side of a square is 45 degrees. A square has rotational symmetry of four. It has four lines of regular symmetry. A square with ver... |
4645 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20hardware | Computer hardware | Computer hardware or hardware means the physical parts that make up a computer.
Some examples are:
Central processing unit (CPU)
Random-access memory (RAM)
Power supply unit (PSU)
Motherboard
Graphics processing unit (GPU)
Network card
Peripheral equipment
Modem
USB flash drive
Hard drive
Computer monitor
... |
4646 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat | Meat | Meat is animal tissue used as food. Most often is used to describe skeletal muscle and fat that is found with it. Types of meat include beef and veal from cattle, pork, ham and bacon from pigs, mutton from sheep, venison from deer, fish, insects, and poultry from chickens, ducks and turkeys. The word meat is also used ... |
4647 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders%20Celsius | Anders Celsius | Anders Celsius (27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744) was a Swedish astronomer. Celsius was born in Uppsala in Sweden. Much of his work was in what was later called Geodesy.
He is more famous for developing the Celsius temperature scale when he worked on meteorology (a science about weather conditions). It later became ... |
4648 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu | Tuvalu | Tuvalu is a small island country in the Pacific Ocean. In the past, it was the Ellice Islands. It was part of Gilbert and Ellice Islands. It is a monarchy.
Tuvalu is getting smaller. If the sea level keeps rising at the same rate, this country will be covered by water in about 50 years.
The most important language sp... |
4649 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java | Java | Java () is one of the islands of Indonesia.
Geography
The area is 132,000 square km. It is the world's 13th largest island. Around 140 million people live there, which is half the people in Indonesia and more than on any other island in the world. Most of them speak the Javanese language and many also speak other lan... |
4651 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Watt | James Watt | James Watt (19 January 1736 19 August 1819) was a Scottish mathematician and engineer. He did not invent the first steam engine, but he did modify it to work better. There were other patented steam engines (such as the Savery and Newcomen steam engines) in use by the time Watt started his work on them. His major contr... |
4652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1267 | 1267 |
Events
By topic
War and politics
February 16 – King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile sign the Badajoz Convention, figuring out the border between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Leon, and ensuring Portuguese sovereignty over Algarve.
May 27 – Treaty of Viterbo: Emperor Baldwin II o... |
4653 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo | Michelangelo | Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Along with Leonardo da Vinci, he is often called a "Renaissance Man" which means that he had great talent in many areas.
Michelangelo lived ... |
4654 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%20da%20Vinci | Leonardo da Vinci | Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian man who lived in the time of the Renaissance. He is famous for his paintings, but he was also a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and a writer.
Leonardo wanted to know everything about nature. ... |
4655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844 | 1844 |
Events
February 27 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
An American dentist named Wells invents chloroform.
New Books
The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Births
August 6 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
May 22 – Mary Cassatt
Deaths
June 27 – Joseph Smith, Jr, f... |
4656 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902 | 1902 | 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
July 11 – Arthur Balfour becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium
The Real Madrid football club starts in Spain
Statue of Boudica unveiled in Westminster, London
Births
February 4 –... |
4657 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1895 | 1895 |
Events
Roentgen discovers X-rays
Marconi invents the wireless telegraph
China and Japan sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki
Births
January 5 – Michel Velleman
September 30 - Lewis Milestone |
4658 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1796 | 1796 |
Events
An English doctor invents a vaccination against smallpox.
Births
January 7-Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales
July 26 - George Catlin, American painter
December 27 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu |
4659 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1879 | 1879 |
Events
Thomas Edison invents the light bulb.
Rutherford B. Hayes State of the Union Address.
Births
August 8 – Emiliano Zapata
November 7– Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian revolutionary and Marxist (d. 1940)
Albert Einstein, scientist.
Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer.
Simon Rodia, creator of the Watts Towers
Deaths ... |
4660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1769 | 1769 |
Events
James Watt invents an engine driven by steam
Births
August 15 – Napoleon |
4661 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1807 | 1807 | 1807 (MDCCCVII) was .
Events
Robert Fulton builds the steamship |
4662 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1885 | 1885 |
Events
Benz builds the first single-cylinder engine for car.
John K Starley creates the first genuine bicycle, the Rover.
John Boyd Dunlop invents the pneumatic tire.
W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado
The Times reports that "A lady well known in literary and scientific circles" has been cremated by th... |
4663 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837 | 1837 |
Events
Samuel Morse invents the electric telegraph.
Michigan becomes the 26th state. |
4665 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum | Platinum | Platinum is a soft, heavy, white metal. It is a precious metal. It usually costs more than gold.
In chemistry, platinum is element number 78, and its atoms have an atomic weight of 195 a.m.u.. The symbol for platinum is Pt, from Spanish platina meaning "little silver".
Platinum is very malleable and ductile, which mea... |
4666 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rock%20types | List of rock types |
List
Sorted by name; initial letter means Igneous, Sedimentary or Metamorphic rocks.
A
I Andesite – an intermediate volcanic rock
M Anthracite – a form of hard coal
B
S Banded iron formation – a fine grained chemical sedimentary rock composed of iron oxide minerals
S Bauxite – the main ore of aluminium. It is mo... |
4667 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minerals | List of minerals | This is a list of minerals.
A
Abelsonite
Abernathyite
Abenakiite-(Ce)
Abswurmbachite
Abhurite
Actinolite
Acuminite
Agate a variety of quartz
Alabaster a variety of gypsum or calcite-rich rock
Albite
Alexandrite a variety of chrysoberyl
Alforsite
Allingite a synonym of ambe
Altaite
Alum
Alunite
Alvanite
Amazonite a v... |
4668 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral | Mineral | Minerals are substances that are formed naturally in the Earth. Rocks are made of minerals.
Minerals are usually solid, inorganic, have a crystal structure, and form naturally by geological processes.
The study of minerals is called mineralogy.
A mineral can be made of single chemical element or more usually a compo... |
4669 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft | Craft | Craft or handicraft is about making things with one's own hands and skills. The different types of crafts can be put in groups according to the material being used. In the Middle Ages the most common materials were metal, wood or clay.
A craftsman is a person who has the knowledge and skills of a craft. When they hav... |
4678 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Jong-il | Kim Jong-il | Kim Jong-il, birth name Yuri Irsenovich Kim (according to the Soviet Union's records) (, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was the Supreme Leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) from the time of his father's death in 1994 until his own death in 2011. He was the son of Kim Il-Sŏng. Official Nor... |
4679 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver | Silver | Silver (symbol Ag) is a chemical element. In chemistry, silver is element 47, a transition metal. It has an atomic weight of 107.86 a.m.u. Its symbol is Ag, from the Latin word for silver, argentum.
Properties
Physical properties
Silver is a soft metal. It is also a precious metal. When it is used in money or in jewe... |
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