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48847 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituency | Constituency | A constituent is a voting member of a community or organization and has the power to appoint or elect. A constituency is all of the constituents of a representative. Constituents also have the power to remove their representative from the position to which they have appointed him or her. All of the constituents who are... |
48848 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion | Cohesion | Cohesion may mean:
Cohesion (chemistry): the intermolecular attraction between like-molecules.
Cohesion (computer science): a measure of how well the lines of source code within a module work together to provide a specific piece of functionality.
Cohesion (geography): the part of shear strength that is independent ... |
48849 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20government | Local government | Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a state or province. The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or (where appropriate) federal government.
What a local government does changes depending on wh... |
48850 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Parliamentary%20constituencies%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | List of Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom | This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament, as at the United Kingdom 2005 general election. Each constituency is represented by a single Member of Parliament (MP).
England
East Midlands
Derbyshire
Amber Valley
Bolsover
Chesterfield
Der... |
48851 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stain | Stain | A stain is a spot that has another color than the material on which it is found. It can be occur without intention in the case of domestic stains on fabric, cloth, or other material, or it can be intentional. Stains are used intentionally in a variety of fields, including research (biochemical staining), technology (me... |
48852 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless%20steel | Stainless steel | Stainless steel, also known as inox steel, is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5 or 11% chromium content by mass.
Stainless steel does not stain, corrode, or rust as easily as ordinary steel, but it is not stain-proof.
The term 'corrosion resistant steel' is used when the alloy has less than the 12% minimum of ch... |
48854 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrous | Ferrous | Ferrous is an adjective coming from the Latin ferrum (iron). One uses this word to indicate the presence of iron, mostly in metallurgy or related industries.
There are also non-ferrous metals, which are metals that have no iron in them at all.
Ferrous can also refer to iron in its +2 oxidation state.
"Ferrous" is als... |
48855 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20steel | Carbon steel | Carbon steel or plain-carbon steel, is a metal alloy. It is a combination of two elements, iron and carbon. Other elements are present in quantities too small to affect its properties. The only other elements allowed in plain-carbon steel are: manganese (1.65% max), silicon (0.60% max), and copper (0.60% max). Steel wi... |
48856 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake | Yellowcake | Yellowcake is a type of uranium powder. Yellowcake is made from rocks and minerals with uranium inside, like uraninite, after they are changed in a factory. Yellowcake can be made into fuel for nuclear reactors, or it can be used in making atomic bombs.
Chemical elements
Nuclear energy |
48857 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ductility | Ductility | Ductility is when a solid material stretches under tensile strain. If ductile, a material may be stretched into a wire. Malleability, a similar property, is a material's ability to deform under pressure (compressive stress). If malleable, a material may be flattened by hammering or rolling.
Both of these properties ... |
48858 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI | MI | MI could mean:
Myocardial infarction, commonly called a "heart attack"
Michigan, a United States state
Mission: Impossible - 1996 movie
Mutual information |
48859 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defibrillation | Defibrillation | Defibrillation is the act of defibrillating the heart to treat the heart when it is not pushing blood because the heart muscle is not working in any pattern. Electricity causes a muscle to contract, this is how nerves cause muscles to work. The heart is a large muscle, and certain parts need to contract before other pa... |
48863 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defibrillator | Defibrillator | A defibrillator is a machine that can help when ventricular fibrillation happens in the heart of a human. A defibrillator is a life saving device.
Fibrillation happens when many different cells in the heart begin to act as pacemaker cells. This means that many thousands of cells tell the heart to beat, all at differen... |
48864 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse | Curse | A curse is a word which threatens the other person to have bad luck. Nobody knows if it really works or become true. Some people believe in them even so, that they become true by magic. For example, for fairy tales, the princes are cursed to become a beast or a frog (i.e. frog prince) by witches because of their bad be... |
48865 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular%20fibrillation | Ventricular fibrillation | Ventricular fibrillation (often shortened to VF or V-Fib) is a type of arrhythmia of the heart. "Arrhythmia" means the heart is not beating normally.
What is Ventricular Fibrillation?
When a person is in ventricular fibrillation, the heart does not beat in any kind of pattern. Instead, it quivers and twitches very ... |
48866 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal | Seal | Seal or SEAL may refer to articles connected to a variety of meanings:
A marine mammal
a pinniped, a large ocean mammal. There are three main groups:
Earless seals (or true seals)
Eared seals (or walking seals)
Walrus
Seal hunting, both personal and commercial hunting of seals
Seal brown is a rich dark brown color RGB... |
48867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachycardia | Tachycardia | Tachycardia is the fast beating of the heart. In adults, it refers to heart rates higher than 100 beats per minute. Tachycardia may be a normal physiological response to stress, but depending on the cause and how healthy the patient is, tachycardia could be harmful and need medical treatment. In some cases, tachycardia... |
48872 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material%20fracture | Material fracture | A fracture is the separation of a body into more than one piece under the action of stress.
The word fracture is often applied to bones of living creatures or to crystals or crystalline materials, such as gemstones or metal. Sometimes, fractures can happen without the object actually separating into two or more pieces... |
48881 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear%20stress | Shear stress | Shear stress is a stress state where the stress is parallel to the surface of the material, as opposed to normal stress when the stress is perpendicular to the surface.
Shear stress is relevant to the motion of fluids upon surfaces, which result in the generation of shear stress.
Also constructions in soil can fail d... |
48883 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension | Tension | Tension may mean:
Tension (mechanics), in physics, a force related to the stretching of an object
High-tension line, sometimes used to refer to electrical voltage
Stress (biology), physiological or mental stress
Tension (music), the perceived need for relaxation or release created by a listener's expectations
Susp... |
48884 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension%20%28mechanics%29 | Tension (mechanics) | Tension is a reaction force applied by a stretched string (rope or a similar object) on the objects which stretch it. The direction of the force of tension is parallel to the string, towards the string.
Tension exists also inside the string itself: if the string is made up of two parts, tension is the force which the ... |
48885 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear | Shear | Shear as a noun could mean:
Bias (textile), in clothing design, fabric may be cut on the shear
Cosmic shear, an effect of distortion of image of distant galaxies due to deflection of light by matter, as predicted by general relativity (see also weak lensing and gravitational lens)
Geological shear, a form of fault
Guil... |
48888 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow | Flow | Flow may mean:
Flow, another name for "flux" in physics, which is the rate at which something travels through a given cross section
In fluid mechanics, the word flow is often used to mean a complete description of the motion of a fluid. See also volumetric flow rate
In circulatory physiology, the word flow (e.g. of b... |
48890 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.O.U. | I.O.U. | I.O.U. means "I Owe You" or "I Owe Unto". It is a note between two people that is used to say that one person owes something to the other. It is usually used for money. I.O.U.'s are most often only used between people that know each other very well, for example, friends.
Money |
48891 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformation | Deformation | In engineering mechanics, deformation is a change in shape that is result of a force that influences the object.
It can be a result of tensile (pulling) forces, compressive (pushing) forces, shear, bending or torsion (twisting).
Types of deformation
Depending on the type of material, size and shape of the object,... |
48893 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic | Ceramic | Ceramic is the name for some materials that are formed by the use of heat. The word ceramic comes from the Greek word (). Chemically, it is an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms held together by chemical bonds.
Up to the 1950s or so, the most important were the traditional clays, made into po... |
48894 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic%20compound | Inorganic compound | An inorganic compound is a chemical compound that does not have carbon–hydrogen bonds that is, it is not an organic compound. That means it is not a carbon-based compound.
Types of inorganic compounds
The division between the two types of compound is not absolute. Some carbon-containing compounds are traditionally co... |
48896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20mechanics | Applied mechanics | Applied mechanics, also known as theoretical and applied mechanics, is a branch of the physical sciences and the practical application of mechanics. Applied mechanics examines the response of bodies (solids and fluids) to external forces. Some examples of mechanical systems include the flow of a liquid under pressure... |
48899 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanics | Mechanics | Mechanics is a branch of physics which looks at objects that are moved by forces (including other bodies, or forces of nature).
The discipline has its roots in ancient Greece where Aristotle studied the way bodies behaved when they were thrown through the air (e.g. a stone). However it was Galileo, Kepler and especial... |
48900 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%20%28disambiguation%29 | Newton (disambiguation) | Newton may refer to many things:
Physics
Newton (unit), the SI unit of force (named in honour of Isaac Newton)
Newton scale, a temperature scale devised by Isaac Newton
Newtonian mechanics
People
Newton was the name of some famous people:
Bert Newton, Australian television personality
Bridgett Newton, actre... |
48902 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleobiology | Paleobiology | Paleobiology is a branch of science which studies animals, plants and microbes buried in rock. These stoney items are called fossils. Paleobiology combines biology with the study of these fossils. There are several branches of paleobiology:
Paleobotany – Study of ancient plants
Paleozoology
Micropaleobiology
Pa... |
48908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20venous%20catheter | Central venous catheter | A central venous catheter (CVC) or "central line" is a catheter put in a large vein in the neck, chest, or groin when a patient needs close cardiovascular monitoring, for assessment of fluid status, and so that intravenous drugs and fluids can be given to the patient more effectively. The veins most commonly used are ... |
48909 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20line%20%28disambiguation%29 | Central line (disambiguation) | Central line or Central Line may refer to:
Railway lines
Central Line (Cape Town), a commuter rail service in Cape Town, South Africa
Central line (London Underground), a line northwest/west to northeast through central London, England
Central line (Mumbai Suburban Railway), a public transit system serving Mumbai,... |
48913 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroscopic | Macroscopic | Macroscopic means physical objects that are measurable and can be seen by the naked eye.
When one uses macroscopic for abstract objects, one thinks of the world as we see it without any help. Lengths scales are called macroscopic if they fall in the range of more or less than 1 mm or up to 1 km.
One may use the term ... |
48914 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked%20eye | Naked eye | If something can be seen with the naked eye, it means that it can be seen without using a microscope, binoculars, glasses or a telescope. In astronomy, a naked-eye object is something, such as a star, that the general public can see without using these tools.
Other websites
Naked Eye Observing in Astronomy
Naked-Ey... |
48915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20magnitude | Order of magnitude | An order of magnitude is an approximation of the logarithm of a value relative to some contextually understood reference value, usually ten, interpreted as the base of the logarithm and the representative of values of magnitude one. Logarithmic distributions are common in nature and
considering the order of magnitude o... |
48917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage | N-Gage | The Nokia N-Gage is a mobile phone and handheld game console. It was first sold on October 7, 2003.
Other websites
Nokia's official N-Gage site
Project NeXt – Portal with N-Gage Next Generation information (inoff.)
Handheld video games |
48919 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodside | Woodside | Woodside is the name of several places.
Australia
Woodside, South Australia is a town
Woodside, Victoria is another town
Woodside Petroleum is an Australian company
Canada
Woodside is a neighborhood in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
New Zealand
Woodside, New Zealand is a locality near Greytown in the Wairarapa
Unit... |
48920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld%20game%20console | Handheld game console | A handheld game console is a light, portable electronic machine for playing video games.
Related pages
Video game console
Game Boy
Game Boy Advance
N-Gage
Nintendo DS
Sony PSP |
48921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhead%20Gunpowder | Pinhead Gunpowder | Pinhead Gunpowder is a punk rock band from California, United States. Its members are Billie Joe Armstrong (singer and guitarist of Green Day), Aaron Cometbus, Bill Schneider and Jason White. White and Schneider also participate in Green Day.
The name of the band means the brand of a "high octane" green tea which Come... |
48926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Connick%20Jr. | Harry Connick Jr. | Harry Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, piano player and actor. He plays jazz music mostly, but also pop music. In 2014, he became a judge on American Idol.
His father is former New Orleans district attorney Harry Connick Sr..
Albums
2007 Oh, My NOLA
2007 Chanson du Vieux Carre
2006 H... |
48927 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism | Pantheism | Pantheism is the belief that God and the universe are equivalent (the same thing). A pantheist believes that everything that exists is a part of God or that God is a part of everything that exists. The name pantheism comes from the Greek words theism (belief in God) and pan (all).
Any doctrine or philosophy that beli... |
48929 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism | Panentheism | Panentheism is the belief that the universe is part of God. Followers believe that one or more gods are both part of the universe and greater than it. To some people, this is a very confusing concept (idea) and was first created by philosophers in the early centuries AD.
A famous philosopher who used the term was Baruc... |
48935 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium | Deuterium | Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen, the first element. Deuterium has one proton and one neutron. Hydrogen does not have a neutron, only a proton. Another isotope of hydrogen, tritium, has two neutrons. The chemical symbol for Deuterium is 2H but D is also used often.
Two deuterium atoms combined with an oxygen atom ... |
48943 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer | Boer | Boer (IPA: /bur/) is the Dutch word for farmer which is used to call the descendants of the Dutch farmers of Southern Africa during the 1700s, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 1800s to live in the Orange Free State, Transvaal and Natal. They did this to escape the British rule, and the wars between ... |
48947 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%20Ali | Muhammad Ali | Not to be mistaken for the Muhammad Ali who became Muhammad Ali Pasha, Wali of Egypt and Sudan
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American boxer. He became one of the most famous boxers in the world with his "rope-a-dope" technique. He was also well known for his cle... |
48949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanician | Mechanician | A mechanician is an engineer or a scientist working in the field of mechanics, or in engineering, applied mechanics and similar fields. Sometimes mechanicians are also called mechaniker and mechanicist.
People who made lasting contributions to mechanics more than 100 years ago
Guillaume Amontons: laws of friction
Gal... |
48950 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressive%20stress | Compressive stress | Compressive stress is the stress on materials that leads to a smaller volume.
By compressive stress the material is under compression. Compressive stress to bars, columns, etc. leads to shortening.
One can increase the compressive stress until compressive strength is reached. Then materials will react with ductile ... |
48963 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambuslang%20railway%20station | Cambuslang railway station | Cambuslang railway station is a train station for the Scottish town of Cambuslang, in South Lanarkshire (near Glasgow.) The station is owned and managed by First ScotRail. There is a train every ten minutes. Trains come more often at busy times of the day. The station has a ticket office at the top, with a bridge acros... |
48970 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation | Rotation | Rotation is the movement of an object in a circular motion.
A two-dimensional object rotates around a center (or point) of rotation. A three-dimensional object rotates around a line called an axis. If the axis of rotation is within the body, the body is said to rotate upon itself, or spin– which implies relative spe... |
48972 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment%20%28physics%29 | Moment (physics) | In physics, moment of force (often just moment) is a measure of a force's tendency to cause a body to rotate about a specific point or axis.
In this concept the moment arm, the distance from the axis of rotation, plays an important role. The lever, pulley, gear, and most other simple machines create mechanical advanta... |
48973 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensile%20strength | Tensile strength | Tensile strength is a measurement of the force required to pull something such as rope, wire, or a structural beam to the point where it breaks.
The tensile strength of a material is the maximum amount of tensile stress that it can take before failure, for example breaking.
There are three typical definitions of ten... |
48977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosconian | Bosconian | Bosconian is a video arcade game made by Namco in 1981. The player moves a spaceship and tries to destroy "space stations". There are also other things in space that the player has to destroy to get to the space stations. The game was later used on many of the early personal computers.
Reception
Bosconian won the 1982... |
48978 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sunday%20Night%20Project | The Sunday Night Project | The Sunday Night Project is a British comedy television programme. It was broadcast on Channel 4 from 2005-2009. The show was presented by Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr with a different guest host each week.
Other websites
2005 British television series debuts
2009 British television series endings
2000s British... |
48982 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Duchess%20Anastasia%20Nikolaevna%20of%20Russia | Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia | Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (, , – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna. Anastasia was murdered with her family on 17 July 1918 by the Bolshevik secret police. She was a sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duches... |
48986 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Anderson | Anna Anderson | Anna Anderson (December 16, 1896 – February 12, 1984) was a woman who claimed she was Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. The real Anastasia had been murdered in Ekaterinburg with the rest of her immediate family on July 17,1918. Her remains have been found and extensively tested using DNA samples from Anasta... |
48988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic%20F.C. | Celtic F.C. | Celtic Football Club is a professional football club based in Glasgow, Scotland. They play in the Scottish Premiership and are one of the most successful Scottish teams.
Players
First-team squad
Out on loan
Old Firm
Celtic is half of the Old Firm, alongside Rangers F.C.. This is a term that used to describe both R... |
48989 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Duchess%20Maria%20Nikolaevna%20of%20Russia%20%281899%E2%80%931918%29 | Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899–1918) | Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (Maria Nikolaevna Romanova; Russian: Великая Княжна Мария Николаевна, – July 17, 1918) was the third daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna (Alix of Hesse). After she was murdered in the Russian Revolution of 1917, she was canonized as a passion... |
48991 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Duchess%20Tatiana%20Nikolaevna%20of%20Russia | Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia | Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (b. June 10, 1897, Russia) was a daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna. She was a sister of Olga, Anastasia, Maria, and Tsarevich Alexei of Russia. Her friends said she was more beautiful than her sisters. She was a Red Cross nurse during Worl... |
48994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally-X | Rally-X | Rally-X is a arcade video game released by Namco in 1980. The player moves a car around a maze. The player tries to collect 10 "flags".
Players can lose a life by:
Running in to a red car
Running in to rocks
Running out of fuel
Flags
In Rally-X, there are two types of flags: regular flags and special flags. Special ... |
48996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Duchess%20Olga%20Nikolaevna%20of%20Russia | Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia | Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) (; , November 16 after 1900 – July 17, 1918) was the oldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna.
Olga's future marriage was the subject of much speculation inside Russia while... |
48998 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20compression | Physical compression | Physical compression means that a material under compressive stress reduces its volume.
There are different uses of compression in physics and engineering. By compression it is possible to measure mechanical properties of materials such as compressive strength or modulus of elasticity. Scientists do this with press ma... |
49000 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressive%20strength | Compressive strength | Compressive strength measures the pushing force that one needs to break a material.
When the limit of compressive strength is reached, materials are crushed. Concrete can be made to have high compressive strength e.g. many concrete floors have compressive strength of 3000 p.s.i..
Related pages
Tensile strength
Comp... |
49001 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength%20of%20materials | Strength of materials | The strength of materials is the ability of materials to resist force. That ability is an important topic in mechanical engineering. It describes the mechanical behaviors of materials in response to forces that act on objects (such as stress, deformation, strain and stress-strain relations). Usually, the strength of a ... |
49003 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression | Compression | Compression could mean:
Gas compression, raising the pressure and reducing the volume of gases
Physical compression, the result of the subjection of a material to compressive stress
Compression arch suspended-deck bridge, a compression arch rises above the deck
Compression, the part of a longitudinal wave where partic... |
49008 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral%20Blues | Funeral Blues | "Funeral Blues" is a poem written in 1936 by W. H. Auden.
Funeral Blues is a simple poem about death, isolation (loneliness), emptiness and longing. The death of a lover may or may not be a literal event (actually happened). The poem is also about the end of a romantic relationship with somebody other than the person'... |
49009 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20H.%20Auden | W. H. Auden | Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a Anglo-American poet. He was born in York and moved to Harborne, Birmingham in 1908, then to New York City in 1939. He wrote several famous poems such as Funeral Blues, and As I Walked Out One Evening. He signed his works W. H. Auden. He died in Vienna, Aust... |
49012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley | Parsley | Parsley is a fresh flavored bright green herb. It used on food as a garnish and as a seasoning in soups,sauces and salads. Some people eat parsley to get their breath to smell better. Parsley can be easily grown in gardens, as well as inside the home, wherever there is plenty of indirect sunlight. Parsley needs good, l... |
49017 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dith%20Piaf | Édith Piaf | Édith Piaf (aka. "La Môme Piaf") (December 19, 1915 – October 11, 1963) was one of France's most-loved singers. Her real name was Édith Giovanna Gassion. She became a national icon. Her music was an image of her tragic life. Piaf was known for singing ballads in a heartbreaking voice.
Life and career
As child at her g... |
49029 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed | Weed | A weed is a plant that people think is bad, because it is growing in the wrong place. Only smaller plants are often called weeds.
A person may grow a plant because it has beautiful flowers, but other people may think that this plant is a weed for some reason. This may be for one of these reasons:
It has pollen that ma... |
49030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternopil | Ternopil | Ternopil () is a city in western Ukraine. It is also the administrative centre of the Ternopil region. The city has about 245,000 inhabitants (2004) and lies on the Siret River.
History
The city was part of the Austrian Habsburg Empire from 1772 until 1918, and it belonged to Poland before 1772. When the Austrain empi... |
49040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Lee%20Collins | Justin Lee Collins | Justin Lee Collins (born 28 July 1974) is an English television and radio presenter and former stand-up comedian from Bristol. Collins co-hosted The Friday Night Project on Channel 4 with Alan Carr.
Other websites
1974 births
Living people
Channel 4 presenters
Comedians from Bristol
English television presenters |
49041 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Carr | Alan Carr | Alan Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English television presenter and stand-up comedian. Carr was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and grew up in Northampton. He presented Channel 4's The Friday Night Project with Justin Lee Collins. Carr is openly gay. He hosts Alan Carr: Chatty Man.
References
Other websites
Official sit... |
49052 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation | Cremation | Cremation is the act of burning a body after it has died. Cremation is a popular option to dispose of (get rid of) a body instead of burying it. The place where cremations take place is called a crematorium or crematory.
Religions which approve cremation include Christianity, Jehovah's Witnesses, Buddhism, Hinduism, J... |
49058 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus | Spartacus | Spartacus (circa 120 BC – circa 70 BC, at the end of the Third Servile War), according to Roman historians, was a gladiator-slave who became the leader of an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
Related pages
Spartacus (movie)
References
Roman people
Slaves
120 BC births
70 BC deaths |
49059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Africanus | George Africanus | For the Roman general, see Scipio Africanus
George John Scipio Africanus (1763—1834) was a West African slave who became a successful businessman in Nottingham, England.
1763 births
1834 deaths
Africanus, George |
49060 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker%20T.%20Washington | Booker T. Washington | Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856, – November 14, 1915) was an American political leader, teacher and author. He was born into slavery, but was eventually freed. He was one of the most important people in African American history in the United States from 1890 to 1915.
Washington helped start the Tuskegee In... |
49080 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipio%20Africanus | Scipio Africanus | Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236–183 BC) was a general in the Second Punic War and a politician of the Roman Republic. He was best known for defeating Hannibal of Carthage.
Scipio won the battle of Zama in North Africa. He got the last name Africanus and became known as one of the best commanders in military h... |
49087 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessing | Blessing | A blessing is way to wish good luck for a person. Sometimes, in religious rituals, it is said the God blesses those who are good, or people can bless God. In Judaism, they bless God over wine. The priests can also bless religious objects in order to make them become holy.
The saying "bless you" is commonly used when s... |
49094 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20Svoboda | Karel Svoboda | Karel Svoboda (19 December 1938 – 28 January 2007) was a Czech composer of popular music. He wrote music for many TV series in the 1970s.
Works
Karel Svoboda was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Prague, Czech Republic) and began his career as a pop composer after stopping studying medicine in his third year of un... |
49098 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20Servile%20War | Third Servile War | The Third Servile War, also called the Gladiator War and The War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last of several slave rebellions against the Roman Republic.
These are called the Servile Wars. The Third Servile War was the only which was dangerous for Italia itself and was doubly alarming to the Roman people becaus... |
49099 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrating%20string | Vibrating string | A vibration in a string is a wave. A vibrating string mostly produces a sound with constant frequency. As frequency characterizes the pitch, the sound produced is a constant note.
Vibrating strings are the basis of any string instrument like guitar, cello, or piano.
Related pages
String instruments
Fretted instrume... |
49100 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20momentum | Angular momentum | The angular momentum or rotational momentum (L) of an object rotating about an axis is the product of its moment of inertia and its angular velocity:
where
is the moment of inertia (resistance to angular acceleration or deceleration, equal to the product of the mass and the square of its perpendicular distance from ... |
49102 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axle | Axle | An axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear. In some cases the axle may be fixed in position with a bearing or bushing sitting inside the hole in the wheel or gear to allow the wheel or gear to rotate around the axle. In other cases the wheel or gear may be fixed to the axle, with bearings or bushings provi... |
49103 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear | Gear | Gears are mechanical parts with cut teeth designed to fit with teeth on another part so as to transmit or receive force and motion. Gears are also sometimes called toothed wheels or cogged wheels or cogs. The cut teeth are also sometimes called cogs.
Numerous nonferrous alloys, cast irons, powder-metallurgy and even ... |
49104 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gear (disambiguation) | A gear is a toothed wheel designed to transmit force (torque) to another gear or toothed component.
Gear can also mean:
One of a series of pre-set rotation mechanisms for a manual transmission.
Gear (graphic novel), written by Doug Tennapel and later made into a TV show called Catscratch
Gear (comics), a DC comics... |
49105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gearshift | Gearshift | A gearshift (US English), gearstick, or gear lever (both UK English) is a metal rod connected with the manual transmission of an automobile that is used to choose the gear. In an automatic transmission, the same rod is usually called a gear selector.
Engineering
ja:シフトレバーの配置#シフトレバー |
49107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission | Transmission | In mechanics, a transmission or gearbox means gears working together. The most common transmission is the transmission in a car.
In a car, the engine makes the crankshaft spin. The crankshaft makes the transmission's gears spin, which spin some more parts, which make the wheels spin. But the wheels do not spin as fast... |
49108 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulics | Hydraulics | Hydraulics is a topic of science and engineering subject dealing with the mechanical properties of liquids. Many machines work on hydraulic power.
One of the founders of modern hydraulics was Benedetto Castelli, a student of Galileo Galilei.
Fluid mechanics provides the theoretical foundation for hydraulics, which fo... |
49111 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20states%20and%20territories%20by%20area | List of U.S. states and territories by area | This is a complete list of the U.S. states, federal district, and its major territories ordered by total area, land area, and water area.
References
Notes
Geography of the United States
Area, List of U.S. states and territories by |
49115 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Vilsack | Tom Vilsack | Thomas James Vilsack (born December 13, 1950) is an American politician. Vilsack is the 32nd and current United States Secretary of Agriculture since 2021 during the Joe Biden presidency. He was also the 30th Secretary of Agriculture from 2009 to 2017 during the Barack Obama presidency. He was the Governor of Iowa from... |
49119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinide | Actinide | The actinide series is the 15 chemical elements between actinium and lawrencium on the periodic table. They have the atomic numbers between 89 and 103. The actinide series is named after actinium. All of the elements are radioactive. Uranium is the most common natural actinide, and thorium second.
The term ‘actinide s... |
49122 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%20Software | Opera Software | Opera Software is a company in Oslo, Norway that makes Opera, a set of tools for using the Internet.
References
Other websites
1995 establishments in Europe |
49126 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20Grammy%20Award | Latin Grammy Award | The Latin Grammy Awards are awards given yearly by the Latin Recording Academy (an association of professionals who work in the Latin music industry) for outstanding work in the Latin music field. The award process is very similar to its American counterpart, the Grammy Awards. The Latin Grammy Awards was created becau... |
49151 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen%20Square | Tiananmen Square | Tian'anmen Square (Tian'anmen Guangchang) is a large plaza near the center of Beijing, China. It is named after the Tian'anmen (Gate of Heavenly Peace) which sits to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City (Zijincheng). Outside of China, the square is well known for the Tian'anmen Square protests of 1989.
The... |
49154 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20sauce | Hot sauce | Hot sauce, chili sauce, or pepper sauce are all spicy condiments made from chili peppers.
Condiments
Sauces |
49162 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Prishtina | University of Prishtina | The University of Prishtina is the name of two public universities in Kosovo, sharing the same history up to a point of separation, which took place in 1999. The university was founded in the city of Prishtina in 1970 and segregated as a result of ethnic-based polarisation. The two separate institutions are using the s... |
49165 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovska%20Mitrovica | Kosovska Mitrovica | Mitrovica can also refer to Sremska Mitrovica a city in the north of Serbia
Kosovska Mitrovica is a town in North Kosovo, Serbia. Over 71,601 people live in Kosovska Mitrovica, mostly in the south. The town used to be called Titova Mitrovica. Originally it was named after Saint Dimitrije.
There is the University o... |
49174 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure | Figure | Figure could mean:
A figure is a shape, drawing or representation.
A figure in writing is any text, table or graphic separate from the main text.
A figure is a synonym for a number.
Significant figures in a decimal number.
A person's figure.
Figure of speech, also called a rhetorical figure.
Figure skating.
Figure in ... |
49175 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending | Bending | This article is about the structural behavior. For other meanings see Bending (disambiguation).
In engineering and mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a structural element subjected to a lateral load (i.e. at right angles to its length).
A structural element subjected to bendin... |
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