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47039 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty | Penalty | A penalty is most often a punishment, and may also mean:
in law:
Sentence (law), for example the death penalty
Sanctions (law), a punishment for violating rules of procedure, or for abusing the judicial process.
in sports:
getting a Penalty (American football) gets a punishment for your team's rule infraction
getting a... |
47041 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visoko | Visoko | Visoko is historic town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has 17000 residents. Visoko lies on river Bosna and Fojnica.
Visoko was capital town of medieval Bosnia in early years of country. From this time, most important objects are old town Visoki on Visočica hill, trade center Podvisoki, Mile - place where the kings we... |
47042 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation | Speculation | Speculation has a special meaning when talking about money. The person who speculates is called a speculator. A speculator does not buy goods to own them, but to sell them later. The reason is that he wants to make a profit from the change in price.
One tries to buy the goods when they are cheap and to sell them when... |
47045 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterback | Quarterback | A quarterback (QB) is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offense, or attacking team. They line up directly behind the center, in the middle of the offensive team's line. A quarterback is usually the leader, and starts most plays. In addition, the quarterback gives commands to ... |
47046 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest | Arrest | An arrest is when a person's liberty is removed by taking them into detention (custody). This is usually done after an investigation of a crime or in stopping a crime from taking place. The term comes from Anglo-Norman. It is related to the French word arrêt, which means "stop".
Police and some other organisations are... |
47048 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oehlen | Oehlen | People with the name Oehlen:
Jos Oehlen, sculptor
Albert Oehlen, painting artist
Markus Oehlen, German artist
Mischa Oehlen, movie director |
47050 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%20Oehlen | Jos Oehlen | Jos Oehlen (born March 12, 1953 in Tegelen) is a Dutch sculptor.
Jos Oehlen studied at the Academy of Tilburg and the "Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten te Amsterdam." Most of his sculptures are done in bronze but he has also created some sculptures in granite and marble. His most recent large sculpture is "The Pel... |
47053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Tobin | James Tobin | James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist. Outside academia, Tobin became widely known for his suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange transactions, now known as the "Tobin tax". This was designed to reduce speculation on currency markets, which he saw as unproductive. He also suggested tha... |
47055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton%20Woods%20system | Bretton Woods system | The Bretton Woods system was the first system used to control the value of money between different countries. It meant that each country had to have a monetary policy that kept the exchange rate of its currency within a fixed value—plus or minus one percent—in terms of gold.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was c... |
47056 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflowers%20Interactive%20Entertainment%20Software | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software | Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software is a German company that develops and publishes video games. It is in Heusenstamm, Germany. It was founded in 1993 by Adi Boiko and Wilhelm Hamrozi. Boiko is now president of the company and Hamrozi is chief executive officer (CEO). The company is known for the Anno series ... |
47057 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion | Conversion | In general, conversion is the transformation of one thing into another. Articles on particular kinds of conversion are:
Conversion (construction)
Conversion (law)
Criminal conversion
Conversion (linguistics)
Conversion (marketing)
Conversion syndrome (psychology)
Conversion (options) (an option-trading strategy... |
47058 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiglobalization | Antiglobalization | Anti-globalization is used for people and groups who oppose certain aspects of globalization in its present form.
“Anti-globalization” is considered by many to be a social movement, while others consider it to be several separate social movements. In either case, participants are united in opposition to the political ... |
47059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Peyton%20Jones | Simon Peyton Jones | Simon Peyton Jones (1958-) born in South Africa and is a British computer scientist. He does research on (lazy) functional programming languages, such as Haskell. He works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. He is married to Dorothy, a priest in the Church of England. They have six children.
Simon Peyton Jone... |
47061 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambezi%20River | Zambezi River | The Zambezi River is the fourth largest river in Africa. It is also the largest river that enters the Indian Ocean. It starts in Zambia, flows successively through Angola, Zambia again, borders Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, through Mozambique where it enters the ocean. Much more water flows during the rainy season, O... |
47067 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth%20value | Truth value | In logic, the truth value of a logical statement says how much it is true. Usually, the truth value can only be "true" or "false". For example, "The car is red" is true when the car is red, and false when it is not. The "true" truth value is often written as , T or 1, and the "false" truth value as , F or 0. The truth ... |
47068 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable%20organization | Charitable organization | A charitable organization is an organization that supports a cause by fundraising or through donations and charity. The organisations arrange for all the distribution of any money to each cause.
There are many well-known charities all over the world. Two of the most well-known charities are UNICEF and the Red Cross.
... |
47082 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest | Southwest | Southwest is the direction halfway between south and west. It is the opposite of northeast.
Compass directions |
47084 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Yeltsin | Boris Yeltsin | Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (; ; February 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007) was the first President of Russia and the country's first elected leader. He served from 1991 to 1999.
Early life
Yeltsin was born in a small village near the Ural Mountains on February 1, 1931. As a boy, he lost two fingers from his left hand after he... |
47097 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasurer | Treasurer | A treasurer is someone who looks after the money in a club, company, organization, association, or government.
The treasurer of a government manages the Annual Budget of a state or country. The budget is used to give money to government departments and to pay for the debts or promises the government makes. This post ... |
47098 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS | SAS | SAS may refer to:
S.A.S., Special Air Service in the UK military
Serial Attached SCSI
Société par actions simplifiée |
47104 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire | Yorkshire | Yorkshire is a historic county in Northern England. It covers a large area of the Pennines and its east coast borders the North Sea. The River Humber separates Yorkshire from Lincolnshire and the River Ouse flows into it.
Main places
The main towns and cities in Yorkshire are Leeds, York, Sheffield, Bradford, Middlesb... |
47105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel | Pixel | A pixel (short for picture element) is a single point in a picture. On the monitor of a computer, a pixel is usually a square. Every pixel has a color and all the pixels together are the picture. The color of a pixel can be stored by using a combination of red, green and blue (RGB) but other combinations are also possi... |
47107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olomouc | Olomouc | Olomouc is the sixth largest city in the Czech Republic. It is in the center of the historical region Moravia. In the past, Olomouc was a capital city of Moravia. The city has about 102,000 residents. Its larger urban zone has a population of about 480,000 people.
There are many churches and historical buildings. Ther... |
47109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical%20clock | Astronomical clock | An astronomical clock is a clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information. It shows the relative positions of the sun, moon, zodiacal constellations, and sometimes major planets. Some examples are large public clocks, but others are instruments for use inside buildings. Astronomical watches... |
47111 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma | Theobroma | Theobroma is a genus. There are about 20 species in it. They are small trees, native to the forests of Central and South America. The name translates to food of the gods.
Their family is given as Sterculiaceae or sometimes as Malvaceae.
Some of these trees have edible seeds. Best known are perhaps the Cacao tree, th... |
47112 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupua%C3%A7u | Cupuaçu | Cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum), also spelled Cupuassu and Copoasu, is a tropical rainforest tree related to Cacao. Common throughout the Amazon basin, it is widely cultivated in the north of Brazil. The largest production occurs in Pará, followed by Amazonas, Rondônia and Acre.
Cupuaçu trees usually are between 5 ... |
47119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20search | Linear search | Linear search or sequential search is a method to find an item in a list. It is a search algorithm.
Algorithm
Start out with a list, L which may have the item that we want to look for.
If the list L is empty, then the list has nothing. The list does not have the item that we are looking for, so we stop here.
If the... |
47120 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ros%C3%A9%20wine | Rosé wine | Rosé wine is a kind of wine. It is made from red grapes by letting the juice have only very short skin contact. All colour and tannins come from the skin of the grape.
Wine |
47122 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array%20data%20structure | Array data structure | In programming languages, an array is a way of storing several items (such as integers).
These items must have the same type (only integers, only strings, …) because an array can not store different kinds of items.
Every item in an array has a number so the programmer can get the item by using that number.
This number ... |
47123 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierce%20de%20Picardie | Tierce de Picardie | In music a Tierce de Picardie (meaning Picardy third) is a major chord at the end of a piece of music in a minor key.
In the 16th to 17th centuries this was a very common way to end a piece in a minor key. This is because music in the minor sounds melancholy or disturbed in comparison to the major because the third n... |
47128 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%20Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a famous French-speaking philosopher. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland and always described himself as being Genevan.
Early life
Rousseau lived in the 18th century during the Age of Enlightenment. His political ideology influenced the French Revolution and aid... |
47132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20series | Harmonic series | Harmonic series may refer to:
Harmonic series (mathematics)
Harmonic series (music) |
47133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoric%20the%20Great | Theodoric the Great | Theodoric the Great (454–August 30, 526), known to the Romans as Flavius Theodoricus, was king of the Ostrogoths (488–526), ruler of Italy (493–526), and regent of the Visigoths (511–526). He united several German tribes and encouraged Arianism.
Other websites
Theodoric the Great at MiddleAges.net
New Advent
454 b... |
47135 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin%20Studios | Pumpkin Studios | Pumpkin Studios was a company that made computer and video games. It was founded in 1996. It was in Bath, England. They made one game: Warzone 2100. It was a real-time strategy game for PC and PlayStation. It used a few new ideas such as machines that use radio waves to find other objects (radar technology) and machine... |
47136 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lublin | Lublin | Lublin - city in eastern Poland. It's in the Lublin Voivodeship. It has an area of 147.5 km2. About 354,000 people live in Lublin.
Characteristic for Lublin are: high schools (incl. Catholic University of Lublin, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin University of Technology, Medical University of Lublin), Majdane... |
47138 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time%20strategy | Real-time strategy | Real-time strategy (RTS) is a genre of computer and video games. In real-time strategy games, every player has an army to attack the other player(s). Every player has a military base and people or vehicles (these are called units). The player also has money to create new units or to build new buildings. These buildings... |
47140 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw%20material | Raw material | Raw materials are materials that have not been processed. They are in the form in which they are found in nature without any thing done to them. Raw materials are made into other things.
Raw materials usually come from:
A plant or tree
An animal
A mine
Examples of raw materials:
Grains such as wheat and rice
... |
47141 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta | Pasta | Pasta is a food made from starch and water. It is usually cooked in hot water before being eaten. Pasta has been very popular in Italy and has also been eaten in many parts of Asia for a long time. It is also the national dish of Italy, invented in 1986
Pasta is often noodles. It is usually eaten in sauce, fried or in... |
47142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour | Flour | Flour is grains that have been dried and ground into powder. It is usually made of wheat, but can also be made from many other grains, nuts and other substances. Flour is used to make many foods.
Flour is an important part of bread, pasta, cookies, cakes, tortillas. Flour is made in a flour mill where the grain is put... |
47143 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Tea%20Party | Boston Tea Party | The Boston Tea Party was a protest by American colonists (These people were known as patriots) against King George III's rule in America. It happened on December 16, 1773.
The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest against the British for the Tea Act, one of several new attempts to tax colonists. The Americans had no ... |
47144 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie | Cookie | A cookie is a sweet dessert made from flour. Cookies are made in an oven. They are also called biscuits in many English-speaking countries. In the United States and Canada, many varieties of biscuit are called cookies as well.
Description
Most cookies are flat and round like a disc. Cookies often have flavors added... |
47145 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate%20chip | Chocolate chip | Chocolate chips are small pieces of chocolate. They are used to make desserts, usually in baking. Chocolate chips are most common in cookies. Chocolate chips are also used in some cakes and other desserts.
Origin
Chocolate chips were invented in 1937 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn added cut-up chu... |
47146 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalopathy | Encephalopathy | Encephalopathy means problem of the brain. Most of the time, it is used by medical doctors, to speak about changed brains and thus changed thinking or changed behavior.
Related pages
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
Diseases and disorders of the brain |
47153 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru%20Nanak%20Dev | Guru Nanak Dev | Sri Guru Nanak Ji (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539) was the creator of Sikhism, and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His father's name is "Mehta kalu" and mother's name is "Mata tripta" .The last Guru said that there would be no more Gurus after him and Sikhs would be taught by the Sikh holy book, which is called Gur... |
47163 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan%20civilization | Etruscan civilization | The Etruscan civilization lasted from about 900 BC to 27 BC and was a culture in ancient Italy. The Romans called the people Etrusci or Tusci. The Ancient Greeks called them Tyrrhenoi or Tyrrsenoi. The Etruscans called themselves Rasenna.
The Etruscan civilization began in pre-history. They lived in an area which incl... |
47164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20of%20Japan | Sea of Japan | The Sea of Japan is a sea in the western Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Korea to the west, Russia to the north and Japan to the east and south.
South Korea calls it the East Sea, while North Korea calls it the East Sea of Korea.
Geography
The Sea of Japan is a sea in the north-western edge of the Pacific Ocean. It ... |
47179 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20environment | Natural environment | Natural environment means all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning not because of humans. The universe is natural, but often the term "natural environment" only means nature on Earth.
Two aspects are usually included::
Ecological units which are natural systems without much human interference.... |
47182 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20capital | Natural capital | Natural capital is a metaphor for the mineral, plant, and animal formations of the Earth's biosphere when viewed as a means of production of oxygen, water filter, erosion preventer, or provider of other ecosystem services.
In a traditional economic analysis of the factors of production, natural capital would usually... |
47185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkhead | Parkhead | Parkhead () is a suburb in the east end of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the home of the Glasgow Celtic football club.
References
Glasgow |
47186 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldtwistle | Oswaldtwistle | Oswaldtwistle is a town in Lancashire county near Accrington in North West England.
Many years ago, Oswaldtwistle had a running textile mill, and today you can explore it because it is now a craft fair with an presentation on life in the mill 100 years ago.
Other websites
Life and Times of Oswaldtwistle
Rhyddings B... |
47188 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention%20%28disambiguation%29 | Prevention (disambiguation) | Prevention could mean:
Preventative medicine
Prevention (magazine), a magazine about health in the United States
Crime prevention |
47189 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn | Lawn | A lawn is an area of land planted with grass, and sometimes clover and other plants. Lawns are cut to a low, even height using a lawnmower. Lawns are used for aesthetic (for their beauty) and recreational purposes. Other words used to describe them are turf, pitch, field or green may be used, depending on the sport and... |
47190 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod | Sod | Sod is turf and the part of the soil beneath it held together by the roots, or a piece of this material. Some sod is grown agriculturally, and is sold to landscapers who use it to quickly get a lawn. Sod was used for building of fortifications in former times.
Construction |
47192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turf | Turf | Turf could mean:
Lawn, an area of grass maintained for decorative or recreational use
Sod, the surface layer of ground consisting of a matt of grass and grass roots, sometimes used as a construction material.
AstroTurf, or any variety of artificial turf made to resemble grass.
A colloquialism for the world of hors... |
47196 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Curie | Marie Curie | Maria Salomea Skłodowska–Curie (Marie Curie) (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish physicist, chemist and feminist. She did research on radioactivity. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was the first woman professor at the University of Paris. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes... |
47202 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyover | Flyover | A flyover is something people do with airplanes or helicopters. It means flying over people who are watching. Sometimes the airplanes fly very low to make it more exciting. The Blue Angels are a special group of pilots that do a lot of flyovers at events.
Sometimes military aircraft fly over the enemy to try to sca... |
47203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Angels | Blue Angels | The Blue Angels are a group of special pilots who work for the US Navy. They fly F/A-18 fighter jet airplanes that are painted to look different from regular Navy planes. They are very famous. Almost every American has heard of them. The pilots of the Blue Angels are very good at what they do. They are able to fly... |
47206 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt%20performer | Stunt performer | A stunt performer, also called a stuntman or stuntwoman, is a person who performs dangerous acts usually within the television or movie production industry. In this line of work the stuntman (or woman) is paid to do those actions that are deemed too dangerous for the regular actor to perform, these include jumping from... |
47214 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means%20of%20production | Means of production | Means of production (abbreviated MoP; German: Produktionsmittel), also called means of labour are the materials, tools and other instruments used by workers to make products. This includes: machines, tools materials, plant and equipment, land, raw materials, money, energy, and anything else labor needs to make things.
... |
47215 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem%20services | Ecosystem services | Ecosystem services are processes by which the natural environment produces resources useful to people, as to economic services. They include:
Provision of clean water and air
Flood control
Pollination of crops
Mitigation of environmental hazards
Pest and disease control
Carbon sequestration
Aesthetic, cultural ... |
47217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year%202000%20problem | Year 2000 problem | The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, Y2K Bug, and Y2K) was a computer problem that affected lots of computer systems. It happened because of the way in which some early computer programs were made to handle only years containing two digits (for example '92 instead of 1992). This mea... |
47219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity | Biodiversity |
The term
The term biological diversity was used first by wildlife scientist and conservationist Raymond F. Dasmann in 1968, where he advocated conservation. It was widely adopted only in the 1980s.
The term biodiversity first appeared in a publication in 1988 when entomologist E. O. Wilson used it as a title. Since... |
47222 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen%2C%20Washington | Aberdeen, Washington | Aberdeen is a city in the American state of Washington. Aberdeen was founded by Samuel Benn in 1884. In 2000, 16,461 people lived in Aberdeen. Aberdeen is sometimes called the "Gateway to the Olympic Peninsula". It is also called the "Birthplace of Grunge" because musician Kurt Cobain is from Aberdeen. Other notable mu... |
47225 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juli%C3%A1n%20Padr%C3%B3n | Julián Padrón | Julián Padrón (September 8, 1910 - August 2, 1954) was a Venezuelan writer. He wrote for books, newspapers and magazines.
Story about Julián Padrón
Julián Padrón was born on September 8, 1910. He was from San Antonio, a small town from Monagas, Venezuela. When he was a little boy, he went to private schools in Cuman... |
47228 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Ham | Peter Ham | Peter William Ham (27 April 1947 – 24 April 1975) was a Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the prominent songwriter and singer of the 1970s group Badfinger.
Ham was born in Swansea, South Wales. He formed a local rock group called The Panthers in 1961. This group became The Iveys in 1965. The band w... |
47233 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism | Egalitarianism | Egalitarianism is the belief that people should be equal to one another. The word is named for the French word égal, meaning equal or level.
There are many possible kinds of egalitarianism. For example, legal egalitarianism is the belief that groups of people should be equal in law even if they are of different race o... |
47242 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Wikipedia | English Wikipedia | The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. English is the first language in which Wikipedia was written. It was started on 15 January 2001. It is the largest encyclopedia in the world, and the largest version of Wikipedia since April 2019. It has more than 6,085,700 arti... |
47246 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction | Jurisdiction | In law, jurisdiction is the authority given to a judge to take decisions in matters concerning the law. The word comes from the Latin jus, juris meaning "law" and dicere meaning "to speak": and literally means: telling the law. Jurisdiction may be legally restricted to a certain period of time called a statute of limit... |
47251 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacheron%20Constantin | Vacheron Constantin | Vacheron Constantin is a Swiss watch manufacture. It is a part of the Richemont group since 1996. The brand's watch factory is based in Geneva. Vacheron Constantin opened 15 boutiques and 500 shops in 80 countries of the world. Vacheron Constantin is one of the oldest watchmakers.
History
18th century
Jean-Marc Vache... |
47256 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoplastic | Thermoplastic | A thermoplastic is a material, usually a plastic polymer, which becomes more soft when heated and hard when cooled. Thermoplastic materials can be cooled and heated several times without any change in their chemical or mechanical properties. When thermoplastics are heated to their melting point, they melt to a liquid. ... |
47257 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Doherty | Pete Doherty | Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland. He is in the popular rock band The Libertines. He is also in a band called Babyshambles.
He receives a lot of media coverage for his drug and legal problems and the relationship he had with fashion supermodel Kate Moss. D... |
47259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarbonate | Polycarbonate | Polycarbonate is a transparent (something which can be seen through) thermoplastic. This material is tough and stable. It can resist a high temperature of 138°C (280°F) and a low temperature of -40°C (-40°F). It is stain resistant and non-toxic. The weight of polycarbonate is one sixth of glass.
Industries use polyca... |
47265 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20disaster | Natural disaster | A natural disaster is a major event caused by the natural processes of the Earth, consisting of floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis and other geologic processes. A natural disaster causes loss of life or property damage, and leaves some economic damage afterwards costing millions.
... |
47277 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibanez | Ibanez | Ibanez is company that makes guitars. The company is from Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. The company was started by Hoshino Gakki. The company is very big and sells many guitars to musicians.
Other websites
Ibanez
Ibanez guitars and bass museum - Ibanez instruments database, resources, user reviews, pictures
History of Hoshi... |
47292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landslide | Landslide | A landslide includes a wide range of ground movements, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows.
The biggest reason for a landslide is that there is a slope and material goes down the slope because of gravity.
But other things also contribute to landslides:
erosion by rivers, glaciers, or... |
47300 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2040s | 2040s | The 2040s decade will begin on January 1, 2040 and will end on December 31, 2049.
The decade as a whole
This decade will be called "the twenty-forties". The Roman number will be MMXL.
The first baby boomers will be 100 years old in 2046. |
47302 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium | Americium | Americium is a chemical element. It is a radioactive metal. It has the chemical symbol Am. It has the atomic number 95. In chemistry it is placed in a group of metal elements named the actinides. Americium is a transuranic element (Transuranic means after uranium. All the elements used after uranium are man-made). It i... |
47312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy%20Yankee | Daddy Yankee | Ramón "Raymond" Ayala, known as Daddy Yankee (born on ) in San Juan, Puerto Rico is a Puerto Rican reggaeton singer. Ayala is famous for making songs in both English and Spanish, but Spanish is used more than English.
Biography
During his childhood, Ramón grew up with the influence of his family musician, including ... |
47320 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20Suns | Phoenix Suns | The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team that plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The Suns play at Footprint Center, originally known as America West Arena and later as US Airways Center, Talking Stick Resort Arena, briefl... |
47321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debris | Debris | Debris in a general sense means man-made garbage. Debris is the scattered remains of something that is discarded or destroyed. There are many types of debris, depending on the context. When natural disasters happen, debris is the remains of destroyed buildings and land. In the context of geology, debris is the remains ... |
47322 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash | Trash | Trash could mean:
Waste, unwanted or undesired material left over after the completion of a process
A dustbin where such material is stored
Bagasse, the leftover waste of sugarcane after extraction of the juice
A slur describing a negative attitude toward a person or group of people, as in white trash
Trash (comp... |
47329 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste%20heat | Waste heat | Waste heat is the by-product heat of machines and technical processes for which no useful application is found.
A fraction of input energy is always converted to heat by friction between machine parts and other processes such as liquid friction (see: viscosity).
Mechanical drives can be designed to run smoothly, wi... |
47339 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingda%20Ka | Kingda Ka | Kingda Ka is a steel roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, USA. It was built by Stakotra, a subcontractor to Intamin. Built in 2005 to be the worlds tallest and fastest roller coaster Kingda Ka is one of only two strata coasters in the world. Kingda Ka held the record for the worlds fastes... |
47340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability | Vulnerability | Vulnerability means the extent to which changes can hurt or harm a person or a system.
In context with natural hazards and natural disasters, vulnerability is a concept that looks at the relationship that people have with their environment and at social aspects.
So it links environment to social forces and institutio... |
47341 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm | Harm | Harm is physical or psychological or emotional damage or injury to a person, animal or other legal entity.
It is generally believed that humans, in addition to other sentient animal species, possess an aversion to causing harm to others.
Many religions consider any harm to another person a sin.
Psychology |
47342 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20crystal%20display | Liquid crystal display | A liquid crystal display is a special thin flat panel that can let light go through it, or can block the light. (Unlike an LED it does not produce its own light). The panel is made up of several blocks, and each block can be in any shape. Each block is filled with liquid crystals that can be made clear or solid, by ch... |
47343 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20language | Body language | Body language is a form of non-verbal communication. Body language is about using behaviour to communicate. Both people and animals use this form of communication. Part of this behaviour is done subconsciously. It is therefore different from communicating using sign language, for example. Communication using sign langu... |
47344 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism | Plagiarism | Plagiarism is the act of copying another person's ideas, words or writing and pretending that they are one's own work. It can involve violating copyright laws. College students who are caught plagiarizing can be expelled from school. It can permanently damage a student's reputation. Writers who plagiarize commit seriou... |
47354 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickshaw | Rickshaw | A riksha or rickshaw is a kind of vehicle that has two wheels. They are usually pulled by a human but there are types that have been changed to be pulled by a bicycle or have their own motor, Rickshaws are popular vehicles in Bangal Pradesh (Bangladesh) and Japan.
Other websites
Rickshaw! A blog collecting the inscr... |
47355 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation | Saturation | Saturation or saturated generally means "thoroughly full", while unsaturated means less than full. These terms may be related to:
Dew point, which is a temperature that occurs when atmospheric humidity reaches 100% and the air can hold no more moisture
Market saturation, in economics, a situation in which a product ... |
47356 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20content | Water content | Water content means the amount of water present in a porous substance, such as soil. This term is used in hydrogeology, soil science and soil mechanics. In saturated groundwater aquifers, all available spaces are filled with water. Above a capillary fringe, pore spaces have air in them too.
Gaps between soil particles... |
47364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo%20Ventimiglia | Milo Ventimiglia | Milo Anthony Ventimiglia (born July 8, 1977) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the hero, Peter Petrelli, on the television series, Heroes. He played Jess Mariano on the television series Gilmore Girls. He was born in Anaheim, California.
American television actors
Actors from Anaheim, California
1977... |
47366 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20metal | Black metal | Black metal is an extreme style of Heavy metal that started in the early 1980s. Lyrics are often for religions such as Satanism. Various black metal bands have relations to satanism in their lyrics and even in outlook. Lyrics may also have subjects such as Paganism. The majority of black metal vocalists are male, altho... |
47372 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness | Darkness | Darkness is when there no light. In practice, out in the open air, there almost always is some light, however slight. The darkness of the night sky is estimated by a nine-point scale known as the Bortle scale.
Darkness is made by blocking light from the sun or some other source of light, which makes shadow. At night t... |
47378 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des%20O%27Connor | Des O'Connor | Desmond "Des" Bernard O'Connor (12 January 1932 – 14 November 2020) was an English television presenter and singer. He was born in Stepney, London. O'Connor presented the long running game show Countdown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, from January 2007 to December 2008.
O'Connor died on 14 November 2020 from prob... |
47398 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Romo | Tony Romo | Antonio "Tony" Ramiro Romo (born April 22, 1980 in San Diego, California) is an American football quarterback who plays for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played college football at Eastern Illinois. He is viewed by many as the top quarterback in the NFL.
Romo was signed by the Cowboys as an... |
47408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmelo%20Anthony | Carmelo Anthony | Carmelo Kyam Anthony (born May 29, 1984 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American professional basketball small forward. He is currently a free agent. Anthony also played for the Denver Nuggets and the New York Knicks from 2003-2011 to 2017 and the Houston Rockets from 2018 to 2019.
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Carmelo An... |
47412 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%20Mavericks | Dallas Mavericks | The Dallas Mavericks are an American basketball team from Dallas, Texas. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They were founded in 1980. They play their home games at the American Airlines Center. Their owner is Mark Cuban. Though they have had good teams for most of the 2000s, they only made the NBA... |
47413 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Payton | Walter Payton | Walter Payton (July 25, 1954 – November 1, 1999) was an American football player. He was born in Columbia, Mississippi. Payton played for the Chicago Bears from 1975 to 1987. The Bears won Super Bowl XX in 1985. Payton was made a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993. He died of cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct ... |
47433 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Benfey | Christopher Benfey | Christopher Benfey (born October 28, 1954) is an American writer. He is a Professor of English language at Mount Holyoke College. He has written several books that people liked a lot. He was born in Marion, Pennsylvania. He later moved to Richmond, Indiana where he grew up. He has attended many colleges including the P... |
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