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46747 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs%20%28TV%20series%29 | Scrubs (TV series) | Scrubs is an American sitcom. It is about doctors and nurses in a hospital, and the title Scrubs comes from the name of the clothes they wear to keep themselves from getting dirty.
The series, which ran for nine seasons, was well known for its creative flashbacks and fantasies.
Season One
The first season introduces ... |
46748 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback | Flashback | A flashback is a technique used by writers which is often used in movies, television and literature. It involves a character remembering something that happened to him in the past. Scrubs is a television show that uses flashbacks often.
The term is also used colloquially, to describe lingering effects of a drug (such... |
46752 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widescreen | Widescreen | Widescreen is a video format often used in movies. It is also becoming very popular for television and other things like Computer monitors.
Widescreen is often used as it let more of an image to be seen on the screen.
Widescreen is often used as a nickname for the 16:9 aspect ratio of television screens. This means th... |
46756 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing | Marketing | Marketing is activity that connects producers with customers.
Marketing has 2 types, which are B2B (business to business) marketing and B2C (business to consumer).
Definitions
Exchange value and building strong relationship with customer.
Marketing-" To create, grow, develop, maintain, defend, and own markets".
... |
46757 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkkonummi | Kirkkonummi | Kirkkonummi () is a municipality in Uusimaa, Finland. As of January 2014, almost 38,000 people lived in Kirkkonummi. It has an area of .
Most people speak Finnish, almost 80%.
Kirkkonummi is close to the capital city, Helsinki. Other neighbouring municipalies are Espoo, Vihti and Siuntio.
Kirkkonummi was establishe... |
46766 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage | Storage | Storage means the act of keeping things and the place where you keep them.
That may be:
Furniture designed to hold small objects:
Bookcase, Cabinet (furniture), Chest (furniture), Cupboard, Desk, Sideboard (hutch), Refrigerator, etc.
Small, mobile containers designed to hold food or other goods:
boxes, bottles, ... |
46768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishing | Publishing | Publishing is making information available for public view. A publisher makes and sells literature or information. Publishers can pay their authors, or authors who want to be published can pay the publisher. Sometimes authors are their own publishers.
Traditionally, publishing means the creation and distribution of p... |
46775 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song%20Dynasty | Song Dynasty | The Song Dynasty ruled in China from 960–1279. It was started by Emperor Taizu of Song who forced the state of Later Zhou out of power before reuniting China. This ended the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
There are two periods of Song dynasty history: Northern Song and Southern Song. Northern Song lasted f... |
46785 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Red%20Spot | Great Red Spot | The Great Red Spot is a hurricane on the surface of the planet Jupiter. It is so big that two or three Earths could fit inside it. It has been going on for at least 340 years.
Other websites
Jupiter simulations
Jupiter |
46787 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy | Sodomy | Sodomy is anal or oral sex. The word sodomy is derived from Sodom and Gomorrah in the Book of Genesis. Some countries have passed laws making sodomy a crime. Some of these sodomy laws have been overturned in the western world. In some places, they are not routinely enforced.
Sexual acts
Law |
46790 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar%20disorder | Bipolar disorder | Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is a mental illness where a person will have repeated, long-lasting feelings (episodes) of high (mania) and low mood (depression). It may occur with or without cycles of normal mood, called euthymia. A mixed episode occurs when both mania and depression are present at t... |
46810 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Left%20Party.PDS | The Left Party.PDS | The Left Party.PDS (in German: Die Linkspartei or Linkspartei.PDS) was a left-winged political party in Germany. After joining with another political party, it became "Die Linke", or "The Left" in 2007.
History
After the end of the GDR in 1990, the former Socialist Unity Party of Germany Sozialistische Einheitspartei... |
46816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop | Laptop | A laptop is a computer which is easy to carry around. A modern laptop is self-contained, with a screen, keyboard and pointing device (like a touchpad), plus usually, speakers, a microphone and a camera. This is all powered by a built-in rechargeable battery, however, the user can also plug the laptop in, to use it and ... |
46817 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notebook | Notebook | This article is talking about the notebook made of paper. If you are looking for the hand-carry computer, see Laptop.
A notebook is a collection of sheets of paper, bound as a book or leaflet. It can be used to make notes and to draw things. Some notebooks also have a printed calendar.
Writing media |
46836 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/InuYasha | InuYasha | This article is about the series InuYasha. For the character Inuyasha from the series see: List of InuYasha characters.
Inuyasha is a manga and anime series created by Rumiko Takahashi.
Plot
Fifty years ago, a priestess named Kikyo had a relationship with a half–demon named Inuyasha. When they oppose each other, Inu... |
46837 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Schumacher | Kurt Schumacher | Kurt Schumacher (born 13 October 1895 in Kulm, West Prussia (now Chełmno in Poland) - died 20 August 1952 in Bonn) was a German politician. He was leader of the SPD from 1946 to 1952 and speaker of the SPD in the Bundestag 1949-1952.
Schumacher was the son of a salesman. When World War I started, he left school to joi... |
46839 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Democratic%20Party%20%28Germany%29 | Free Democratic Party (Germany) | The Free Democratic Party or Freie Demokratische Partei, short FDP (from 1968 to 2001 F.D.P.) is a political party in Germany. The party advocates for a more free market economy. Although they agree to some aspects of the German welfare state, they want to see a reduction in government spending and a movement to privat... |
46840 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%2090/The%20Greens | Alliance 90/The Greens | Alliance 90/The Greens (), commonly referred to as (The) Greens, is a political party in Germany. It was formed in 1992 by the Western German party Die Grünen and the Eastern German Bündnis '90. Its main interests are ecology, civil rights, equality between men and women and the chances of immigrants in the German soci... |
46842 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Social%20Union%20of%20Bavaria | Christian Social Union of Bavaria | The Christian Social Union of Bavaria or Christlich Soziale Union (short CSU) is a conservative political party in the German state of Bavaria.
In the federal parliament of Germany (Bundestag) the CSU and the CDU join together in a political alliance to form the main centre-right group in Germany.
Its chief is Horst ... |
46843 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Democratic%20Union%20of%20Germany | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | The Christian Democratic Union of Germany or Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU) is one of the two main right of centre political parties in Germany. It describes itself as a Christian democratic, liberal and conservative party of the centre.
In November 2005 the Federal leader of the CDU Angela Merkel b... |
46846 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income | Income | Income is the money that someone gets for business activities. For individuals income usually means their wages or salary before any tax and other deductions have been made by their employer. Overall it is the amount you earn after all outstanding deductions have been made. Gross income is the income from all sources i... |
46847 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20computation | Theory of computation | The theory of computation is a branch of mathematics. Generally it is seen as belonging to computer science. The field of study of this subject is to see if a certain problem can be solved by a computer. If this is the case, then the question is to know if it can be solved in an efficient way.
There are two major bra... |
46848 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jermaine%20Jackson | Jermaine Jackson | Jermaine La Jaune Jackson (December 11, 1954) is an American singer, recording artist, dancer and bass guitarist. He is a former member of The Jackson 5 group, brother of Janet Jackson & brother of late American pop star Michael Jackson. In 1980 he was nominated for a Grammy Award. He was a housemate in Celebrity Big ... |
46849 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Hauff | Wilhelm Hauff | Wilhelm Hauff (29 November 1802 – 18 November 1827) was a German poet and novelist.
Some of his works are very popular in German speaking countries to this day, such as Der kleine Muck, Kalif Storch and Die Geschichte von dem Gespensterschiff — all set in the Orient and Der Zwerg Nase, Das kalte Herz and Das Wirtshaus... |
46853 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20%28unit%29 | Link (unit) | A link, also called a Gunter’s link, was a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems. Links were commonly used in measuring land in the English-speaking world before the twentieth century, but are never used. Link is abbreviated as ln. It was invented by Edmund Gunter, a professor of astronomy at Gresham ... |
46854 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20structure | Algebraic structure | In mathematics an algebraic structure is a set with one, two or more binary operations on it.
The basic algebraic structures with one binary operation are the following:
Magma (mathematics)
A set with a binary operation.
Semigroup
A set with an operation which is associative
Monoid
A semigroup with an identity el... |
46856 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20%28unit%29 | Rod (unit) | A rod, a perch or a pole is a unit of length in the imperial and US systems.
In medieval times English ploughmen used a wooden stick with a pointed tip to spur or guide their oxen. The rod was the length of this stick. In use from the 6th century, its modern value was standardized in the 12th century with Composito ... |
46857 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20%28unit%29 | Chain (unit) | A chain was a unit of length. It is part of the imperial and United States customary systems. It was used for measuring land. The short way of writing chains is ch.
There are a number of different definitions of the chain, from 50 to 100 feet long. In the imperial system, one chain is equal to 66 feet or 20.1168 metre... |
46858 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furlong | Furlong | A furlong is a unit for measuring distance. It is part of the imperial and US customary systems. It is equal to . There are eight furlongs in a mile.
History
The unit was first used in the ninth century at the latest. The word "furlong" comes from Old English words furh ("furrow") and lang ("long"). Originally it was ... |
46861 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Zweig | Stefan Zweig | Stefan Zweig (; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian writer of Jewish descent. He was born in Vienna. He volunteered to be a soldier in the First World War, and got the post as a military commentator. This made him an enemy of war. The Nazis gained power in Germany in 1933, and their influence could b... |
46862 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeward%20Islands%20%28Society%20Islands%29 | Leeward Islands (Society Islands) | The Leeward Islands are part of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.
Islands of French Polynesia |
46865 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20theory | Complexity theory | Complexity theory is a type of Computer science. It looks at how hard a problem is to do for a computer, and how good particular solutions (algorithms) to that problem are. Different algorithms that solve a problem may be better or worse in multiple ways. An algorithm may be faster than some other algorithm, but it ma... |
46881 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20operation | Binary operation | In mathematics, a binary operation, often denoted *, on a set is a way of combining a pair of elements in that set that results in another element of the set. For example, if we take a pair of natural numbers and let the operation * be addition, then their sum is also a natural number, and is the result of applying thi... |
46885 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu | Kubuntu | Kubuntu is a version of the free Linux distribution Ubuntu. It uses the desktop environment KDE instead of GNOME. Most of the software used in Kubuntu, is part of the KDE project, but all other software used in Ubuntu can also be used.
Because the only difference of Kubuntu and Ubuntu is the default software, an Ubunt... |
46886 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xubuntu | Xubuntu | Xubuntu is a free Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It uses the Xfce desktop environment.
Related pages
List of Linux distributions
Other websites
Xubuntu Official Website
Xubuntu Community Website (Unofficial)
Xubuntu at the Ubuntu Wiki
Xubuntu Tips & Tricks Blog
Sources
Ubuntu (operating system) derivat... |
46887 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edubuntu | Edubuntu | Edubuntu is the version of Linux distribution Ubuntu. It is used for education. It uses GNOME and is designed for use in classrooms.
Edubuntu has been created in collaboration with teachers and technologists in multiple nations. Edubuntu is built on top of the Ubuntu base, and incorporates education-specific applicati... |
46888 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative%20identity%20disorder | Dissociative identity disorder | Dissociative identity disorder (DID), is a mental disorder.
It was called multiple personality disorder (MPD). It is listed in the mental health diagnosis manual DSM IV.
This is one of the most controversial mental disorders because people disagree about what causes it. The main symptoms of DID are a person showing... |
46892 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini | Zucchini | Zucchini (British English: courgette) are a type of squash. Usually, they are served cooked. They can also be used as an ingredient in a sweet bread. They look similar to cucumbers.
Naming and Etymology
The plant has three names in English, all of them meaning 'small marrow': zucchini (an Italian loanword), courgette... |
46898 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20service | Civil service | A civil servant or public servant is an employee who works in the civilian career public sector for a government department or agency. Many consider the study of civil service to be a part of the field of public administration. Who is a civil servant and who is not is different in different countries.
Workers in non-d... |
46899 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee | Employee | An employee is a term for workers and managers working for a company, organization or community. These people are the staff of the organization. In general, any person hired by an employer to do a particular job in exchange for payment is an employee, but there are different kinds of employees. In some countries, em... |
46901 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employer | Employer | An employer is a person or institution that hires employees. Employers offer wages or a salary to the workers in exchange for the worker's work or labor.
One speaks of wages if the employee is paid by the hour and of salary if he is paid a set rate per pay period. Wages are paid for all hours worked, including overti... |
46902 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20sector | Public sector | The public sector is the part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by civil service and for the government, whether national, regional or local/municipal. Examples of public sector activity range from delivering social welfare, administering infrastructure and urban pla... |
46904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administration | Administration | Administration may refer to:
Business
Administration of business, the management of a business
Management, the act of directing people towards achieving a goal
Academic administration, a branch of a place of learning (e.g., a school) that maintains and supervises how it works
Central Administration, the highest ad... |
46905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20Hearts%20II | Kingdom Hearts II | Kingdom Hearts II is a video game from the Kingdom Hearts series for PlayStation 2. It has the characters of the Final Fantasy series and Walt Disney characters; for example Donald Duck, Goofy and Mickey Mouse. Kingdom Hearts II starts one year after the end of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and continues the story ... |
46906 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Fantasy%20VII%3A%20Advent%20Children | Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children | Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is a computer animated movie. It was released in 2005 by Square Enix.
Story
The movie is set two years after Final Fantasy VII . A mysterious illness has spread against humanity, Cloud Strife and the children are infected. He does not tell anyone he is infected. The villains included... |
46908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithril | Mithril | Mithril is a fictional metal from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe.
Mithril is the strongest metal known in Middle-earth. It looks similar to silver. It does not weigh much, and it is easy to make into things. Mithril is very rare and precious. It was only found in Khazad-dûm (Moria), where it was mined by th... |
46912 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw%20and%20Crompton | Shaw and Crompton | Shaw and Crompton is a town in the North West of England. It is to the north-east of Manchester. Shaw and Crompton was part of Lancashire until the 1970s, but is now part of Greater Manchester. Shaw and Crompton is near to Oldham.
Shaw and Crompton grew during the Industrial Revolution because of its large cotton fact... |
46913 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Manchester | Greater Manchester | Greater Manchester is a county in North West England. It has 2.7 million people living there. It was created on 1 April 1974. Its cities are Manchester and Salford and its large towns are Oldham, Bury, Rochdale, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Stockport, Wigan and Bolton. It also has smaller towns and villages, for example, Shaw an... |
46915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/League%20%28unit%29 | League (unit) | A league is an old unit of length. It was the distance a person could walk in about one hour. The Romans adopted the league and it became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe and Latin America.
In English-speaking countries the league was usually three statute miles (4.828032 kilometres) on land or t... |
46919 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill%20%28unit%29 | Gill (unit) | The gill (pronounced like the girl's name Jill) is a unit for measuring volume. It is equal to a quarter of a pint. People do not use it much now .
Old units of measurement
Units of volume |
46920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quart | Quart | A quart is a unit of measurement for volume. It is a quarter of a gallon or two pints. Because the imperial system and the American system use different gallons, their quarts are different.
Variants
In the American system, there are two different quarts. There is a wet quart and a dry quart. There is only one imperi... |
46925 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere | Ampere | The ampere or amp (Symbol: A) is the standard unit of electric current. An electric current of one amp is one coulomb per second. The amp is named after André-Marie Ampère who studied electromagnetism.
The ampere is defined so the elementary charge e is 1.602 176 634 × 10−19 C or A•s.
References
Other websites
The... |
46926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%20%28unit%29 | Newton (unit) | The newton (symbol: N) is the SI unit of force. It is named after Sir Isaac Newton because of his work on classical mechanics. A newton is how much force is required to make a mass of one kilogram accelerate at a rate of one metre per second squared.
1 N is the force of Earth's gravity on a mass of about 102 g.
On ... |
46929 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation | Corporation | A corporation is a union of natural persons that has its own legal status. This status is independent from the persons involved.
Because it is recognized by governments as a separate entity, the corporation must file tax returns and pay taxes and conform to state and federal law. This separation of persons and corpor... |
46930 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20person | Natural person | In jurisprudence, a natural person is a real human being in contrast to an artificial person, meaning an organization that the law treats for some purposes as if it were a person distinct from its members or owner.
For example, the right to vote is given to natural persons only. That is the case for most of the human ... |
46931 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence | Jurisprudence | Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal philosophers, hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions. As jurisprudence has developed, there are three main aspects with which scholarly writing engages:... |
46934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orascom | Orascom | Orascom is an Egyptian company that offers mobile telephone services in many countries.
Affiliates
Orascom operates these companies:
Mobinil in Egypt
Djezzy in Algeria
Iraqna in Iraq
Mobilink in Pakistan
Banglalink in Bangladesh
Telecel Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe
History
In 1997, Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) was estab... |
46939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal%20entity | Legal entity | A legal entity is a legal construct through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if they were a single person for certain purposes. The most common purposes are lawsuits, property ownership, and contracts.
A legal entity is not always something else than the natural persons of which it is compose... |
46940 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership | Ownership | Ownership means total possession or control of property, which may be a business, an object, land or real estate, intellectual property or some other kind of property.
The rights of ownership are:
Making decisions about what is owned, and
Benefiting from the economic returns of what is owned.
Ownership can be di... |
46941 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession | Possession | Possession usually means to have some sort of ownership over something else. A person may be in possession of some property, which is legal ownership, under property law.
There are some other related uses of the term. When English explorer, Captain James Cook, claimed the country of Australia as a British country, he ... |
46944 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer%20of%20arms | Officer of arms | An officer of arms is someone who is chosen by a sovereign or state to do some important jobs relating to:
heraldry and coats of arms
arranging and conducting ceremonies of state
keeping and interpreting heraldic and genealogical records.
In Scotland the officers of arms maintain the old job of a herald - passing o... |
46949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20property | Personal property | Personal property means property that consists of object that can be moved from one place to another.
In the common law systems personal property may also be called chattels. There it is distinguished from real property, or real estate.
In the civil law systems personal property is often called movable property or ... |
46952 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory%20law | Statutory law | Statutory law is written law (as opposed to oral or customary law) set down by a legislature or other governing authority such as the executive branch of government in response to a need to clarify the functioning of government, improve civil order, answer a public need, to codify existing law, or for an individual or ... |
46953 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral%20law | Oral law | An oral law are rules of human behavior in use in a given culture, religion or other group, which is transmitted by oral tradition and respected. Oral law is spoken, as opposed to statutory law, which is written down. Like customary law, oral laws depend not on legislation passed by a government, but rather tradition, ... |
46954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral%20tradition | Oral tradition | An oral tradition or oral culture is a way of transmitting history, literature or law from one generation to the next, without a writing system, by voice. People tell stories. Often the stories are made into poems and songs to make remembering easy. For example, the Homeric poetry of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined ... |
46955 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Canadian%20Air%20Cadets | Royal Canadian Air Cadets | The Royal Canadian Air Cadets is a program for Canadian youth. It is supported by sponsors in the community and Canada's Canadian Armed Forces funded by the Department of National Defence. There are about 450 Air Cadet squadrons, located in every province and territory in Canada. The two other cadet programs for youth ... |
46957 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal%20case | Legal case | A legal case is a dispute between two parties that is resolved by a court or other legal process. A legal case may be either civil or criminal. The decision of a court is usually published in one form or another for later reference. In countries like the United States which have a common law system, decisions by a high... |
46958 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal%20hair | Nasal hair | Nasal hair are small hair-like cells in the nose. Most of them can be found near the nostrils. The purpose of these hairs is to act as a filter, keeping dust and dirt out of the nasal passages. They also draw liquid mucus up from the epithelium by capillary action. In that way, they help to maintain humidity in the ai... |
46959 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/929 | 929 |
Events
January 16 - Emir Abd-ar-rahman III of Cordoba creates the Caliphate of Cordoba and assumes power
Pope Stephen VII succeeds Pope Leo VI
Deaths
Pope John X
Al-Batani, Arab astronomer |
46960 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis%20Tower | Willis Tower | The Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, is a 108-story, skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. The tower has 108 stories, though the building's owners count the main roof as 109 and the mechanical penthouse roof as 110. When it finished costruction in 1973, it beat the World Trade Center in New York City to bec... |
46965 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle | Beetle | Beetles, the order Coleoptera, are the largest group of insects. There are 350,000 different species of beetles which have been named: about 40% of all known insects. There are an estimated 800,000 to a million living species. Beetles live almost everywhere, though not in the ocean or in places that are very cold, such... |
46966 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%20John%20IX | Pope John IX | John IX () was Pope from 898 to 900.
Early life
Although his exact birth day is unknown, he was a native of Tivoli, which is near Rome.
Monk
He was a Benedictine monk.
Pope
He was made Pope because of the support of Emperor Lambert of Spoleto. Lambert was of the Formosian party. Pope Sergius III who had been electe... |
46971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%20Steward%20Chamberlain | Houston Steward Chamberlain | Houston Steward Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 – January 9, 1927) was a writer of books. He wrote many popular scientific books, about Richard Wagner, Immanuel Kant, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe amongst others. He was born in Portsmouth, but later emigrated to Germany. In later life he became a German citizen. He was... |
46972 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20de%20Gobineau | Arthur de Gobineau | Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (July 14, 1816 — October 13, 1882) was a French aristocrat. He was well educated, and wrote many things. He became famous for developing the racialist theory of the Aryan Master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853-1855).
1816 births
1882 deaths
French wr... |
46976 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff%20%28music%29 | Staff (music) | A staff (or stave) is the name given to the five horizontal lines on which we can write music. Musical notes can be placed either on a line (i.e. with a line going through the middle of the note head) or in a space. There are four inside spaces as well as the two outer spaces at the top or bottom.
The higher the pitc... |
46980 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%20potato%20beetle | Colorado potato beetle | The Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, is a beetle. It is sometimes just called the Colorado beetle. It is one of the worst potato pests in the world.
The beetle is notable for its ability to resist pesticides. Over the last 50 years it has become resistant to 52 chemical compounds used in insecticid... |
46981 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones | Opiliones | Harvestmen are eight-legged arachnids. Even though they belong to the arachnid family, harvestmen are not spiders. They are in the order Opiliones or Phalangids.
More than 6,400 species of harvestmen have been discovered, although the real number of extant species may be more than 10,000. Well-preserved fossils have b... |
46982 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy%20Longlegs | Daddy Longlegs | Daddy Longlegs could mean:
Crane fly
Opiliones (Harvestman)
Daddy long-legs spider (Cellar spider) |
46987 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikon%20no%20Tama | Shikon no Tama | The Shikon no Tama (English:The Jewel of Four Souls) is the fictional magic jewel in Rumiko Takahashi's manga and anime series InuYasha. It contains four types of souls, Courage, Friendship, Wisdom and Love. The souls can make a person powerful. Before Midoriko sacrificed herself, she joined four souls within her heart... |
46988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy%20long-legs%20spider | Daddy long-legs spider | The Daddy-Long-Legs Spider (Pholcus phalangioides) is a spider of the family Pholcidae. Its legs are about 5 or 6 times the length of its body. It is often confused with the daddy long-legs, a member of the Opiliones, which are not true (real) spiders. P. phalangioides has the habit of shaking the web violently when d... |
46990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane%20fly | Crane fly | Crane flies are flies in the family Tipulidae. They are insects. Crane flies look similar to large mosquitoes but, unlike mosquitoes, crane flies do not bite people or animals. Crane flies occasionally eat nectar.
They are also known as daddy longlegs around the world. The term 'daddy-long-legs' is also given to arach... |
46993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville%20Chamberlain | Neville Chamberlain | Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British politician, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940.
Early life
Who cares?
Member of Parliament and Government
In 1916, the prime minister, Lloyd George asked Chamberl... |
47005 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20equation | Quadratic equation | A quadratic equation is an equation in the form of , where a is not equal to 0. It makes a parabola (a "U" shape) when graphed on a coordinate plane.
When people work with quadratic equations, one of the most common things they do is to solve it. This means to find the points on a coordinate grid where the graphed equ... |
47011 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attac%20%28organization%29 | Attac (organization) | The Association pour la Taxation des Transactions pour l'Aide aux Citoyens (Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens, ATTAC) is an organization that promotes a tax on foreign exchange transactions, the so-called Tobin tax.
Background
At first Attac demanded only the introduction ... |
47012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat | Threat | A threat is basically a declaration of intent to inflict punishment or harm or loss on another. However, in many cases the threat is not believed, or may even be a joke. Like other communications a threat has a context, and the context decides its meaning.
A child who says "I'll tell my dad" may learn from the reply... |
47013 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion | Promotion | Promotion means spreading information about an product, service or issue
Promotion as part of marketing means spreading information about a product, product line, brand, or company.
Promotion includes:
Publicity and public relations
Advertising
Promotion for marketing includes additionally:
Personal selling
Non-p... |
47014 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue | Issue | Issue may have one of the following special meanings:
The subject or question of a debate
A single instance of a serial publication, such as a journal, magazine or a newspaper.
Issue (legal), a point disputed by parties to a lawsuit.
Issue (computers), a generalization of the term bug.
Social issue, an issue whic... |
47016 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly | Firefly | Fireflies are a family of beetles called the Lampyridae. These beetles are special in that most of them have bioluminescence, the ability to produce light. They are sometimes called 'lightning bugs' or 'forest stars'. There are about 2000 different species, most of which are nocturnal.
Adults use flashes of light to ... |
47019 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phengodidae | Phengodidae | Phengodidae is a family of glow-worm beetles. Their larvae are also glow-worms.
The family occurs only in the New World, and has about 30 genera. Both the females and larvae are bioluminescent: they have organs that can produce light. This family is different from the fireflies (family Lampyridae).
The larvae and the... |
47020 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnocampa | Arachnocampa | Arachnocampa is a family of flies. They are also called Fungus gnats. They occur in Australia and New Zealand. Their larvae are glowworms.
They were called Bolitphila (mushroom-lovers) until 1924. Then people found out that their larvae use silk threads to catch prey. Their current name means spider-grub.
Flies |
47024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumiko%20Takahashi | Rumiko Takahashi | is a Japanese author and manga artist.
She made popular manga books such as Ranma ½ and InuYasha. She is the richest woman in Japan and her manga is loved all over the world. She joined Gekiga Sonjuku college: a manga school run by Kazuo Koike, also a manga artist. With the school's help, she managed to make a "douj... |
47025 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate | Debate | Debate or debating is a method of argument. Disputes and conflicts may be settled by debate. It is a larger form of argument than logical argument, because in a debate, the debaters try to influence the feelings of the audience, in order to persuade them on a topic.
The subject or issue of the debate is the question o... |
47026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative | Alternative | In natural language and in cognitive decision-making, alternative is one of two things/(abstract or real objects)/actions which can be chosen. From a specific perspective/(point of view)/goal, alternatives are always equivalent.
In logic and mathematics, alternative is the element of logical disjunction.
In differe... |
47027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku%20Ando | Momofuku Ando | , born Wú Bǎifú (吳百福) in Taiwanese (March 5, 1910 - January 5, 2007) was the founder and chairman of Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd., and the inventor of the modern instant noodle, ramen.
Ando was born to Taiwanese parents in Kagi (currently Chiayi), Taiwan and grew up an orphan in Tainan City. In 1948, Momofuku Ando ... |
47029 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunction | Disjunction | Disjunction can refer to several things.
In logic, it can mean:
Inclusive disjunction (also known as logical or): at least one of the arguments is true
OR gate, the logic gate
Exclusive disjunction (also known as XOR): exactly one of the arguments is true
In biology, it can mean:
Meiosis, a type of cell division
Disj... |
47033 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon | Demon | A demon or daemon is a supernatural bad, powerful or malevolent being in many world religions. The word 'demon' has different meanings all over the world, but often there is the idea that they are spirits that lived in a place, or went with a person. The word is also used for a type of computer program that does usefu... |
47034 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Bank%20bombing | Central Bank bombing | The Central Bank bombing was one of the deadliest terrorist attacks of the civil war in Sri Lanka between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The attack happened on January 31, 1996, in Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. A truck with about 440 pounds (200 kg) of high explosives crashed throug... |
47035 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledger%20line | Ledger line | A ledger line is a short line used in musical notation to write notes which would otherwise be too high or too low to put on any of the five lines on the staff. A short line (slightly longer than the note) is drawn parallel to the lines on the staff, and the note head is placed on that line or in the space below or abo... |
47036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef | Clef | A clef is a sign at the beginning of a staff of music which makes it possible for the player to work out what the notes are. The word “clef” is a French word meaning “key”. The original Latin word is “clavis”. It is the “key” to understanding which notes should be played.
The staff (or “stave”) consists of five line... |
47037 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin%20tax | Tobin tax | A Tobin tax is a tax on all trade of currency across borders.
The first idea that it could be useful came from the economist James Tobin. The tax is meant to put a penalty on short-term speculation in currencies. The proposed tax rate would be low, between 0.1% to 0.25%.
On August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon told that ... |
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