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49176 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bending (disambiguation) | Bending can refer to the following:
Bending - the behavior of a structural element subjected to a lateral load
Bending (metalworking) - a sheet metalworking process used in manufacture
Elemental Bending - the mental manipulation of the four classical elements - Water, Earth, Fire, Air as seen in Avatar: The Last Ai... |
49180 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion | Torsion | The word means twisted.
In biology, usually refers to the spiral shape of Gastropod body and shells, seen easily in the garden snail.
In mathematics, the term torsion has several meanings, mostly unrelated to each other.
Torsion of curves
Torsion of connection
Torsion tensor
Torsion (abstract algebra)
Torsion (mo... |
49182 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion%20%28mechanics%29 | Torsion (mechanics) | In solid mechanics, torsion is the twisting of an object that is result of an applied torque. In circular sections, the resultant shearing stress is perpendicular to the radius.
The shear stress at a point on a shaft is:
T is the applied torque, r is the distance from the center of rotation, and J is the polar moment... |
49183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft | Shaft | Shaft can refer to
Axle, a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear
An architectural column's long cylindrical section
the height of a boot
Elevator shaft
Shaft (1971 movie) or the 1971 novel on which it was based
Shaft (album), the soundtrack for the movie of the same name, recorded by Isaac Hayes
Shaft (2000 m... |
49185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20moment%20of%20inertia | Polar moment of inertia | Note: Different disciplines use the term moment of inertia to refer to different moments. In physics, moment of inertia is strictly the second moment of mass with respect to distance from an axis, which characterizes an object's angular acceleration due to an applied torque. In engineering (especially mechanical and ... |
49189 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial | Burial | Burial is the act of placing an object or dead body into the ground, specifically a grave.
Human bodies are usually buried in a cemetery. It is common practice in many places to put bodies into a coffin and place the coffin into the grave. The grave is then usually marked with a headstone so that people know who has d... |
49191 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gila%20monster | Gila monster | The Gila monster () is a venomous desert lizard. The Gila monster’s name comes from the Gila River in Arizona, USA.
The Gila monster is heavy and slow for a lizard. It can grow up to 2 feet(60 cm) long. Its skin looks like beads and is black, pink, orange, and yellow. It looks a lot like the Mexican beaded lizard, ... |
49192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Smart | Elizabeth Smart | Elizabeth Ann Smart (born November 3, 1987) is an American woman who was kidnapped when she was 14 from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 5, 2002. She was found alive on March 12, 2003 about 20 miles from her home. She was found with two homeless adults, Brian David Michell and Wanda Barzee. Barzee was Mitchell'... |
49199 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury | Bury | Bury is a town in the north of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England.
Bury is between Rochdale and Salford; the town is a dormitory town in a northern suburb of Manchester. It is just west of the M66 motorway, and is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury. It has a po... |
49203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salma%20Hayek | Salma Hayek | Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican actress, Emmy-winning director, movie producer and television producer. She is the most successful Latin-American actress in Hollywood since Carmen Miranda. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty movies and worked as an actress outside ... |
49208 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra | Pellagra | Pellagra is a disease caused by a lack of niacin (vitamin B3). Niacin is found in most foods. A person can die from pellagra if it is not treated. The main results of pellagra can be remembered as "the four D's": diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death.Some symptoms of pellagra according to a few sources are abdomina... |
49209 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatitis | Dermatitis | Dermatitis means "inflammation of the skin." It looks like a red rash in most cases. It most often refers to eczema.
Diseases
Skin |
49220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet%20Culver | Chet Culver | Chester John "Chet" Culver (born January 25, 1966) is the former Governor of Iowa.
Culver was born in Washington, D.C.. His father, John Culver, was a United States Senator. Before entering politics, Culver was a teacher.
In 1998, Culver won election to be the Iowa Secretary of State. He was reelected in 2002. Af... |
49221 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel | Duel | A duel is a fight between two people who have similar deadly weapons and have agreed to a set of rules before the fight takes place. The fight is usually about a matter of honor. The goal of a duel is not usually to kill the opponent but to restore the honor of the man who declared the duel. Duels are not official laws... |
49227 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Castle%20%28movie%29 | The Castle (movie) | The Castle is a 1997 Australian movie which was popular in Australia. Some people outside Australia did not understand some of the humour. The Castle starred Michael Caton and Anne Tenney and was filmed in Melbourne, Australia.
The Castle was made in 11 days for about AUD$750,000. Some people have said that The Castl... |
49232 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documenta | Documenta | documenta is one of the most important exhibitions of modern art in the world. Since 1955, it takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. More than 1.2 million people visited the last one, documenta 14, which was held in 2017. The next one, documenta 15, will be from June 18 to September 25, 2022.
Related pages
... |
49252 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Pacino | Al Pacino | Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. He has won an Academy Award for Best Actor an Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards. He is known for movie roles in Scarface and The Godfather. Pacino is the co-president, along with Ellen Burstyn and Harvey Keitel, of the Actors Studio.
Personal life
P... |
49265 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour%20Declaration%20of%201917 | Balfour Declaration of 1917 | The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was a policy by the government of the United Kingdom to discuss the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. The declaration also said that Britain supported plans for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The issuance of the Declaration had many long lasting consequences, and was... |
49272 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radius | Radius | In geometry, the radius of a circle or sphere, written as , is the shortest connection between the center and the boundary. It is either the distance from the center to the perimeter (in the case of a circle), or the distance from the center to the surface (in the case of a sphere). It is half of the diameter. That is,... |
49279 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality | Morality | Morality is the concept of doing the right thing. Morals are basic guidelines for living.
Many people have written about ways of choosing what the right thing is. Some believe that there is an objective (true even if you do not agree with it) morality, often thinking it was set by God or another similar being; others... |
49298 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saliva | Saliva | Saliva is the watery substance made in the mouths of humans and many animals. Saliva begins digesting food in the mouth, and moistens food to make swallowing easier. Saliva consists of 99.5% water.
The mouth is obviously the point of entry to the whole alimentary canal. It follows from this that saliva must both help... |
49301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villarosa | Villarosa | Villarosa is a town in the province of Enna, in the region of Sicily in southern Italy.
Sister cities
Morlanwelz, Belgium (2002)
Le Quesnoy, France (11/08/2006)
Other websites
Villarosani.it - The Community of Villarosa citizens
Towns in Italy
Settlements in Sicily |
49302 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Sharapova | Maria Sharapova | Maria Sharapova (born 19 April 1987) is a retired Russian tennis player. She was born in Nyagan, Western Siberia, RSFSR.
Early life
Her parents had moved from Belarus to protect themselves from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The Sharapov1 family moved again in 1989, when Maria became interested in tennis, when watch... |
49308 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20bug | True bug | The true bugs are an order of insects. Biologists call true bugs the Hemiptera. There are around 80,000 species of true bugs. The word bug by itself can have other meanings.
There are many different kinds of true bugs, some of which are aphids, cicadas, planthoppers, shield bugs, and others. All of these are true bugs... |
49312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug | Bug | Bug can mean many different things:
Biology
True bug, a group of insects
Bug, a slang word for a pathogen that makes organisms ill
Bug, a slang word for an insect, such as an ant or a beetle
Technology
Software bug, a problem with the code in a computer program
Bug, a device for telephone tapping
Bug, a nickname for ... |
49327 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton%2C%20Ohio | Dayton, Ohio | Dayton is a large city in the American state of Ohio. It is where Orville and Wilbur Wright grew up. The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, also near Dayton, gets part of its name from the Wright brothers. The National Museum of the United States Air Force is inside the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Dayton has a humi... |
49331 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20Esperanto%20speakers | Native Esperanto speakers | Native Esperanto speakers are people who learned Esperanto as one of their first languages. Esperanto is not spoken in any countries as an official language, so they must become bilingual, trilingual, or multilingual. Native Esperanto speakers can use this language completely and more fluently than non-native Esperanto... |
49335 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldering%20iron | Soldering iron | A soldering iron is a device used to attach pieces of metal together with solder, which is called soldering. Soldering irons are used mainly for attaching electronic components onto a circuit board with tin, but can also be used for other tasks such as fixing jewelry. There are several different kinds of soldering iron... |
49351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian%20Vizsla | Hungarian Vizsla | Hungarian Vizsla is a dog breed. Vizslas are known for being affectionate and not aggressive. They originated in Hungary and are an excellent hunting dogs.
History
The breed was developed from dogs used by Hungarian tribes. Vizslas were owned by sporting nobility of Hungary who use to hunt with them. They were used t... |
49353 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing%20%28manufacturing%29 | Drawing (manufacturing) | Drawing is a manufacturing process for producing a wire, bar or tube by pulling on a material until it increases in length. This is typically accompanied by a thinning out of the material, usually through a reduction in the girth.
This technique has long been used to produce flexible metal wire by drawing the material... |
49357 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing | Manufacturing | Manufacturing is producing goods out of raw materials. It is a branch of industry. It includes making very big, complicated things that take a lot of steps to finish. Often machines are involved in manufacturing.
In the past products were made by handicraft workers using tools and manual labor. In modern times, most m... |
49358 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finished%20goods | Finished goods | Finished goods are goods that have completed required manufacturing process and are ready to be fitted/mixed/processed with final product. The final product itself could also be called finished goods.
Examples: cars, clothing, food, furniture etc.
Manufacturing
In manufacturing there are three different sorts of stuf... |
49359 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20%28economics%29 | Good (economics) | A good in economics is any object or product (factors of production) that is useful. A commodity is one kind of good.
A good that cannot be used by consumers directly, such as an office building or capital equipment, can be called a good because it can be useful if it is sold. A 'good' in economic usage does not nec... |
49363 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslana | Ruslana | Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko (May 24, 1973) is a popular Ukrainian pop singer, composer, producer, conductor and dancer. She was born in the city of Lviv in Ukraine. She won the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul in 2004. She is also a former Member of Parliament serving as deputy in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhov... |
49370 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard%20plant | Mustard plant | The word mustard is used to refer to several species of plants. These plants belong to the genera Brassica or Sinapis. They have tiny seeds. These seeds can be used as a condiment. When they are first ground, and then mixed with water, vinegar and other ingredients, a condiment called mustard can be made. The seeds can... |
49376 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard%20gas | Mustard gas | Mustard gas or sulfur mustard is a chemical compound which has been used as a chemical weapon. It was used in World War I by the German Army against British and Canadian soldiers near Ypres, Belgium, in 1917. Later it was also used against the French Second Army.
Most sulfur mustards are squishy liquids with no color ... |
49396 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia%20Earhart | Amelia Earhart | Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937, declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviator, one of the first women to fly a plane long distances. She was the first woman to fly a plane by herself across the Atlantic Ocean. She broke many records and showed how air travel had moved forwar... |
49408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation%20comedy | Situation comedy | A situation comedy, usually called a sitcom, is a type of comedy program. Sitcoms were first on radio, before television was invented, but are now on television and are a large part of the programs shown. Sitcoms usually have the same characters in the same places (for example; a home, a workplace, a bar, a city or tow... |
49414 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Sinatra | Frank Sinatra | Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, musician, actor and filmmaker. His singing career was 60 years long, and more than 250 million records of his have been sold worldwide. Extremely regarded as one of the best and most admired popular singers in history of America... |
49415 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%20Crosby | Bing Crosby | Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. His singing career was around fifty years long and more than 1 billion records of his have been sold worldwide. Crosby is known for creating the style of music that Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin , Elvis Presley, ... |
49416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felt | Felt | Felt is a type of cloth or textile. It is a complex network of threads or yarns. They are pressed together usually when wet. This is matting wool fibers, with water and soap. It may also be made by poking the fibers with barbed needles. Felt can be made by hand, or by machine.
People have been making felt longer than ... |
49417 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Martin | Dean Martin | Dean Martin (born Dino Crocetti June 7, 1917 - December 25, 1995) was an American singer and actor.
Early life
Martin was born in Steubenville, Ohio. His mother was Italian American; his father was Italian.
Career
Martin's career as a singer really began when he met comedian Jerry Lewis at a club and they decided to ... |
49419 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial%20segregation | Racial segregation | Racial segregation means separating people because of their races. Segregation was legal and normal in many countries across the world, for many years. For example, until 1964, it was still legal to separate white and African-American people in some states. In South Africa, from the 1940s until the 1990s, a system call... |
49423 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance%2C%20California | Torrance, California | Torrance is a city in southwest Los Angeles, California. Jared Torrance founded it in 1911. In 2003, there were 142,621 people living in Torrance. It is the sixth biggest city in Los Angeles county.
Things to See
Del Amo Fashion center is one of the biggest malls in the United States.
Madrona Marsh is a nature cen... |
49425 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Berry | Chuck Berry | Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is one of the original musicians who helped to create rock and roll.
Career
In 1955 Berry met Muddy Waters who told him of a record company that would release his first song. In 1957 he joined... |
49429 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagamaki | Nagamaki | Nagamaki is a Japanese pole weapon with a large and heavy blade. It is very much like a glaive. It was introduced and used primarily during the Kamakura (1192 - 1333), Nanbokucho (1334 - 1392) and early Muromachi (1392 – 1573) periods. It was a long sword with 2–4 foot blade and a handle with 2–3 foot length. The blade... |
49431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naginata | Naginata | Naginata is a Japanese bladed weapon with a long shaft (wooden handle). The weapon looks like a pole and is often mistaken with one. The word "naginata" means "mowing down sword" or "reaping sword". The length of the blade can be anywhere from 1 to 3 feet. The blade's shape looks like 'leaf' being more curved to the po... |
49442 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu%20language | Ainu language | The Ainu language is the language of the Ainu people in northern Japan. It was not written until the 19th century. Since then, it has been written in katakana or the Latin alphabet.
In the 19th century, Ainu was spoken in Ezo (including Hokkaidō Island and the southern part of Chishima Islands), the southern part of K... |
49453 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious%20D | Tenacious D | Tenacious D is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1994. The members of the band are actor Jack Black and his best friend Kyle Gass. Their songs have lots of profanity. Including Tribute, Beezleboss and many others.
Albums
Tenacious D (2001)
The Pick of Destiny (2006)
Rize of the Fenix (2012... |
49455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurischia | Saurischia | Saurischia is one of the two orders of dinosaurs. In 1888, Harry Seeley classified dinosaurs into two main orders. Their hip structure was why they were put into these orders. Saurischians ('lizard-hipped') and the ornithischians ('bird-hipped') have differences in the ways bones in the hip are put together.
All carni... |
49459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stethoscope | Stethoscope | A stethoscope is a instrument used by doctors and other medical people. It is used to measure peoples heartbeat and their breathing. It is placed on the area where the heart is or on the back.
The modern stethoscope is made up of a Y-shaped flexible plastic tube. An earpiece is attached to each end of the Y and a s... |
49461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouda%20%28cheese%29 | Gouda (cheese) | Gouda is a kind of soft cheese made from cows' milk. The cheese is named after the city of Gouda, which is famous for it. The name Gouda is not protected, so Gouda is made all over the world. There is also a protected designation of origin Noord-Hollandse Gouda (Gouda from North Holland). This may seem inaccurate, beca... |
49463 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion%20bearer | Passion bearer | In Russian Orthodox Christianity, a passion bearer is someone who faces their death in a Christian or Christ-like way. They were not killed because of their religion, unlike martyrs, but they love God and show good virtues.
Christian saints |
49470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tile | Tile | A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, porcelain, metal or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, and walls. They have been made for thousands of years.
Tiles can be simple square tiles or arranged in complex mosaics. Tiles are most often made from c... |
49472 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellini | Bellini | Bellini can mean several people or things, including
Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) Venetian painter
Vincenzo Bellini, 19th century Italian composer
Bellini (cocktail), a popular drink invented in Venice |
49475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouda | Gouda | Gouda can mean:
Gouda, Netherlands, a city in the Netherlands
Gouda (cheese)
Gouda (pottery)
Gouda (slang)
Gouda, South Africa, a town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
Gouda was astate in India. It joined with Banga state when India became independent in 1947 to form the state of West Bengal.
Empe... |
49478 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcelain | Porcelain | Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating clay-type materials to high temperatures. It includes clay in the form of kaolinite.
Porcelain can be of different types: hard-paste porcelain, soft-paste porcelain and bone china. There is a distinction between hard-paste porcelain, fired at 1400 degrees Celsius, and so... |
49480 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln | Kiln | A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber or oven in which a controlled temperature regime is produced.
Other websites
Young International Woodfirer Association, an international association of people building and using woodfired kilns
Northern Hardwood Initiative: Drying Hardwoods
Pottery |
49485 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChuChu | ChuChu | ChuChu is a comic magazine that is written for teenage girls. It is published by Syougakukan（Japan).
Famous works
Sakura zensen（Miyuki Ohbayashi）
ALMIGHTY×10(Aqua Mizuto)
NG boy×Paradise(Yukino Miyawaki)
Hitohira no koi ga furu(Yuu Yabuuchi)
Manga writers who write for ChuChu
Aqua Mizuto
Chitose Yagami
Hisa Kyoumachi... |
49489 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett%C4%81 | Mettā | Metta is a Buddhist term translated as loving kindness or friendliness.
Metta is wanting others to be happy.
The opposite is wanting others to be unhappy: anger, hatred.
Related pages
Meditation
Other websites
The Path of Unlimited Friendliness - a translation of the Karaniya Metta Sutta by Dharmachari Ratnapr... |
49490 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxide | Oxide | An oxide is a chemical compound containing at least one oxygen atom and at least one atom of one other element. Most of the Earth's crust consists of oxides (mainly silica). Oxides can be made when elements are oxidized by air (when oxygen in the air reacts with the element).
Some common oxides are:
Water (hydrogen ox... |
49499 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mew | Mew | Mew can be:
Mew (band), a band from Denmark
Mew (Pokémon), a Pokémon |
49502 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposal | Proposal | A Proposal is when people suggest an idea. It is usually used when someone suggests an idea of marriage, when they ask the person they like to marry them.
Social sciences
Marriage |
49504 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles%2C%20Yvelines | Versailles, Yvelines | Versailles is a French city. It is in the western suburbs of Paris, 17.1 km. (10.6 miles) from the center of Paris. It is the capital of the Yvelines département. This city is very important for the History of France because it was formerly the capital of the kingdom of France.
Its name comes from the Latin word verte... |
49509 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major | Major | Major is a rank that is given for a mid-level command officer (higher than the rank of Captain and lower than the rank of Lieutenant Colonel). In Canada, it is shown by a thick bar followed by a thin bar and again by a thick bar. In Great Britain it is represented by a single crown. In the United States, it is shown by... |
49510 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibling | Sibling | The siblings are the sisters and brothers of a person.
Types of siblings
There are several different types of siblings.
Full-Siblings (Full Brothers/Full Sisters or Brothers/Sisters): These types of siblings have both the same father and mother and are the most common type of siblings found.
Twins: There are two ty... |
49515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicate | Silicate | In chemistry, a silicate is a chemical compound consisting of one or more central silicon atoms that are surrounded by electronegative anions.
The most common silicate species consist of silicon with oxygen as the anion. Silicate anions, with a negative net electrical charge, must have that charge balanced by other ca... |
49520 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%20metre | Newton metre | The Newton metre is the unit of moment in the SI system Standard International. It is abbreviated N·m, and sometimes written with hyphen newton-metre. It is a compound unit of torque corresponding to the torque from a force of one newton applied over a distance arm of one metre.
A newton metre is dimensionally equiv... |
49521 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20ray | Gamma ray | Gamma rays (γ-rays) are electromagnetic waves with the smallest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. They were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard, and named in 1903 by Ernest Rutherford.
Gamma rays are like x-rays, but the waves are smaller in wavelength. Both gamma rays and x-rays are photons with very high e... |
49528 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism | Cynicism | Cynicism is a philosophy started by the Cynics, Ancient Greek philosophers. It was started by Antisthenes in the 5th century BC. The main points the cynics wanted to make was that man had no needs. At the same time, they were against possessing material goods. They also were against prejudices such as being ashamed of ... |
49544 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20the%20Hedgehog%20%28TV%20series%29 | Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series) | Sonic the Hedgehog is the name of a cartoon series, starring Sonic the Hedgehog. It is more popularly known as "SatAM Sonic", especially to distinguish itself from other similarly-named animated shows that also star Sonic.
This series was made by DiC Entertainment, and originally ran on ABC from September 18, 1993 to ... |
49545 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Servile%20Wars | Roman Servile Wars | The Servile Wars were a series of three slave revolts in the late Roman Republic. See:
First Servile War: 135 BC-132 BC on Sicily, led by Eunus, a former slave claiming be a prophet, and Cleon (Cilician).
Second Servile War: 104 BC-103 BC on Sicily, led by Athenion and Tryphon.
Third Servile War: 73 BC-71 BC in Ita... |
49546 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch | Plutarch | Mestrius Plutarchus (; c. AD 46 – after AD 119), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, and writer of biographies and essays.
Plutarch was born into a well-known family in Chaeronea, Boeotia Greece, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His works are Parallel Lives and Moralia.
Other websites... |
49547 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassus | Crassus | Marcus Licinius Crassus (c. 115 BC – 53 BC) was a Roman general and politician.
He commanded the left wing of Sulla's army at the Battle of the Colline Gate. It was he who finally suppressed the slave revolt led by Spartacus. The Third Servile War began with three defeats of Roman armies against Spartacus and his fol... |
49548 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey | Pompey | Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), otherwise known as Pompey () or Pompey the Great, was an important military and political leader of the late Roman Republic.
Coming from an Italian provincial background, he secured a place for himself in the ranks of Roman nobility, and was given the... |
49553 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia%20%28Roman%20province%29 | Italia (Roman province) | Italia, under the Roman Republic and later Empire, was the name of the Italian peninsula.
Italia was the home of the capital of the Roman Empire - Rome itself.
Other websites
A poem by Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, at The Latin Library, describing the decadence of Italia and Rome around 410.
Places of Ancient Rome |
49557 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramp | Ramp | Ramp could mean:
Inclined plane, a physical structure that is a simple machine
Vert ramp, a half-pipe structure used in gravity extreme sports
Mini ramp, a half-pipe structure used in gravity extreme sports
Airport ramp, the area around an airport terminal where aircraft are loaded and unloaded
Slip road, a connec... |
49558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift | Shift | Shift may mean:
a movement
the shift key on a keyboard
gearshift, the metal rod used to change gears in a car (see also transmission [gearbox])
the actual components of a gearbox
in computing, the analogue for literal strings, for example barrel shifter (bit shift)
in computing, the bit shift is a bitwise operator
th... |
49559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift%20key | Shift key | The shift key is a key on a computer keyboard. It is used to type capital letters (like this: "ABC") instead of lowercase ("abc").
The shift key is also used to type with keys that have more than one symbol on them, such as the number keys and those for punctuation marks. In this case it is used to type the "upper" ch... |
49560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20United%20States%20Census | 2000 United States Census | The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 was a count of the population of the United States. It was done by the Census Bureau. It found that the population of the United States on April 1, 2000 was 281,421,906. This was an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 people counted during the 1990 Census.... |
49562 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police%20procedural | Police procedural | A police procedural is a type of crime story. In a police procedural, the main characters are police officers. The story usually shows how they solve crimes with teamwork, using their specialised knowledge of criminals and the city or other area where they are.
Police procedurals have always been popular on television... |
49563 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20states%20by%20population%20density | List of U.S. states by population density |
Population density - showing population and land area per square miles
Related pages
List of U.S. states by population
Other websites
States by population -- JULY 2005 . United States Census Bureau. September 29, 2006.
GCT-PH1-R. Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2000 . United States Census Bureau. ... |
49565 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girth | Girth | Girth is the circumference of a cylindrical object, such as a tree trunk.
Girth is sometimes used by postal services and delivery companies as basis for pricing. For example, (for at least one delivery company), if one has a box to ship, it has three sides: length (the longest side) and height and width. The girth in ... |
49566 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumference | Circumference | In geometry, circumference is the distance around a closed curve; for example, a circle. It is a special kind of perimeter. The length of the circumference of a circle is often written as , with:
where d is the diameter of the circle.
Related pages
Radius
Pi
References
Other websites
Numericana - Circumferen... |
49567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girth%20%28tack%29 | Girth (tack) | A girth is a piece of equipment for riding a horse, used to keep the saddle in place.
Horse riding
ru:Конская упряжь |
49568 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusatian%20Neisse | Lusatian Neisse | The Lusatian Neisse is a river in the Czech Republic (Lužická Nisa), Germany (Lausitzer Neiße) and Poland (Nysa Łużycka). It is part of the Oder-Neisse line.
Other websites
Geography of Brandenburg
Geography of Saxony
Rivers of the Czech Republic
Rivers of Germany
Rivers of Poland |
49573 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Rubinstein | Anton Rubinstein | Anton Rubinstein (born Vikhvatinets 28 November 1829; died Petershof 20 November 1894) was a Russian pianist and composer. Rubinstein and Franz Liszt were thought to be the greatest pianists of the 19th century. He was very important as a teacher and influenced many Russian musicians. He composed lots of music, alth... |
49577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20InuYasha%20characters | List of InuYasha characters | This is a list of characters for Rumiko Takahashi's manga and anime series, InuYasha.
Main characters
Inuyasha
The title character of the series. He is a half-demon ("han'yō" in Japanese). His father was a great demon general and the ruler of the western lands, and his mother was a human princess who opposed social s... |
49580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20%28tool%29 | Plane (tool) | A plane is a tool for shaping wood. Planes are used to flatten, reduce the thickness of, and impart a smooth surface to a rough piece of lumber. As the name implies, the tool turns the worked surface into a smooth plane, a level, even surface.
Hand planes are generally the combination of a cutting edge, such as a shar... |
49582 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber | Lumber | Lumber (or timber) is wood that has been cut for use in building.
Dimensional lumber
Dimensional lumber is a term used in North America for lumber that is finished/planed and cut to standardized width and depth specified in inches.
Softwoods
Examples of common sizes are 2×4 (also two-by-four and other variants), 2×6... |
49587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Puerto%20de%20Santa%20Mar%C3%ADa | El Puerto de Santa María | El Puerto de Santa María (commonly called El Puerto) is a city on the banks of the Guadalete River in the province of Cádiz, Spain. As of the 2005 census, the city has 82,306 people. 50,000 of these people live in the urban center. The others live in the area around the urban center.
The city of El Puerto de Santa Mar... |
49589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearing%20%28mechanical%29 | Bearing (mechanical) | A bearing is a device to permit fixed direction motion between two parts, typically rotation or linear movement. Bearings may be broadly grouped by the way they work. The most common of the many types are plain bearings and rolling-element bearings.
The two main types of rolling-element bearings are ball bearings and... |
49590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush%20%28mechanical%29 | Bush (mechanical) | A bush is a mechanical fixing between two, possibly moving, parts, or a strengthened fixing point where one mechanical assembly is attached to another.
In a car or other vehicle's suspension, bushes are used to connect the various moving arms and shaft points to the chassis and other parts of the suspension. In machin... |
49591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension%20%28vehicle%29 | Suspension (vehicle) | Suspension is the term given to the system of springs, shock absorbers and linkages. The suspension acts as an intermediate between the car and the road and solves several problems:
Transfer to the frame or body of forces and moments arising from the interaction of wheels with the road surface;
Link wheels with... |
49595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki%20method | Suzuki method | The Suzuki method, (or Talent Education, or the Mother Tongue method, or the Suzuki movement) is a way of teaching. It teaches people to be morally better through a caring environment. It normally uses a musical instrument such as the violin or piano to do this. It can also use other musical instruments like the flute... |
49617 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%A1 | Pará | Pará is one of the states of Brazil. It is in the northern part of the country.
The capital city is Belém. Other cities include:
Santarém
Óbidos
Anapu
References
States of Brazil |
49621 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent%20%28linguistics%29 | Constituent (linguistics) | In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that functions as one unit within a hierarchical structure.
Phrases (noun phrases, verbal phrases, etc.) are usually constituents of a clause, but clauses may also be combined into a bigger structure. For example, in the phrase "I didn't hear what you... |
49622 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle | Spindle | Spindle could mean:
Spindle (textiles), a device to spin fibres into thread. It is the root from which other usages derive
A spindle is a measure of spun cotton equal to 18 hanks
Spindle, a poisonous shrub or small tree of the genus Euonymus
Spindle (stationery), a device for holding paper documents
A spindle, also ca... |
49623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle%20%28textiles%29 | Spindle (textiles) | A spindle (sometimes called a drop spindle) is a wooden spike (or shaft) that has at one end a weight, mostly a circular whorl.
Sometimes it has a hook at either end of the spike. It is used for spinning wool and other fibres into thread. Spindles or parts of them have been found in very, very old archaeological sites... |
49625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike | Spike | Spike could mean:
Nail, especially one more than 100mm (4 inches) long
Rail spikes used to secure railroad rails to the wooden ties
Spiked shoes worn by athletes, which provide more traction (similar to cleats)
An adolescent male deer or male elk
The Spike is a widely used nickname for the Spire of Dublin, a massi... |
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