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49626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whorl | Whorl | Whorl is a type of spiral pattern.
Other meanings of whorl include:
Whorl (mollusc), a single, complete 360° turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell
Body whorl, in a mollusc shell the most recently formed whorl of a spiral shell, terminating in the aperture
A whorl of sepals or petals or leaves on plants, in w... |
49629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel | Flywheel | A flywheel is a heavy disk or wheel that is attached to a rotating shaft. Flywheels are used for storage of kinetic energy. The momentum of the flywheel causes it to not change its rotational speed easily. Because of this, flywheels help to keep the shaft rotating at the same speed. This helps when the torque applied t... |
49630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter%27s%20wheel | Potter's wheel | The potter's wheel, also known as the potter's lathe, is a machine used in the shaping of round ceramic wares.
However, the name potter's lathe is also used for the machine used for another shaping process, turning, which is similar to that used for the shaping of metal and wood articles. The wheel may also be used d... |
49631 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Rubinstein | Nikolai Rubinstein | Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (born Moscow, 2 June 1835; died Paris, 23 March 1881) was a Russian pianist and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
The Rubinstein family were middle-class Jewish people. Like his brother Anton, Nikolai soon showed gre... |
49633 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawan%20language | Okinawan language | The Okinawan language (沖縄口, Uchināguchi) is a Ryukyuan language that is spoken in the Okinawa Islands of Japan.
Most linguists say that it branched off from Proto-Japonic, which is the ancestor of Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. The Japanese government says Okinawan is a dialect of Japanese because of politics.
... |
49637 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc | Imbolc | Imbolc is a festival belonging to Brigid, the Celtic goddess who, in later times, became famous as a Christian saint. At first, her festival on February 1 was known as "Imbolc" or "Oimelc", two Gaelic names which refer to the lactation of the ewes. Lactation is the flow of milk that happens when the baby lambs are born... |
49643 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball%20%28ball%29 | Baseball (ball) | A baseball is a ball used in the sport of the same name, baseball. It is between 9 inches (22.9 cm) and 9¼ inches (23.5 cm) in circumference (around). The ball weighs 8 ounces. Different size balls may be used in children's leagues.
The balls can be made in many different, but similar ways. The center of most balls i... |
49644 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher%20%28disambiguation%29 | Pitcher (disambiguation) | Pitcher can mean several things.
Pitcher, a position in the game of baseball
Pitcher (container), a container used to hold liquids
Pitcher plant, a plant with a section shaped like a pitcher (container) |
49651 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Worcester | Battle of Worcester | The Battle of Worcester was the final battle of the English Civil War. Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentarians defeated the Royalist, mainly Scottish, forces of King Charles II on September 3, 1651 at Worcester, England. The 16,000 Royalist forces were defeated by the 28,000 strong "New Model Army" of Cromwell.
Other... |
49659 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Marsters | James Marsters | James Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American guitarist, singer, and actor. His is best known for playing the part of Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Other websites
James Marsters Official Site
1962 births
Living people
American rock guitarists
American rock singers
American television actors
Whedonver... |
49660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Caulfield | Emma Caulfield | Emma Caulfield (born Emma Chukker in San Diego, California on April 8, 1973) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as ex-demon Anya on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Selected filmography
In her mother's footsteps (2006) (Television movie)
Bandwagon (2004)
I Want To Marry Ryan Banks ... |
49661 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Trachtenberg | Michelle Trachtenberg | Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is an American television and movie actress. She is best known for her role as Dawn Summers from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Trachtenberg was born in New York City, New York. She is of Russian Jewish descent on her mother's side of the family.
... |
49662 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer%20Glau | Summer Glau | Summer Glau (born July 24, 1981 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American dancer and actress. She is best known for playing as River Tam in the science fiction television series Firefly and movie Serenity.
Career
Glau has appeared in several other series and movies including:
Television
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chro... |
49668 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20%28anthropology%29 | Band (anthropology) | In anthropology, bands are the tiniest societies, consisting typically of 5-80 people, most or all of them close relatives by birth or by marriage. In effect, a band is an extended family or several related extended families. Today, autonomous bands are almost confined to the most remote parts of New Guinea and Amazoni... |
49669 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infertility | Infertility | Infertile means not able to have children or other offspring. Humans can be infertile, but animals and plants can too. When a human couple is infertile, they sometimes have fertility treatment to have children. This can be insemination or IVF. They also sometimes adopt a child.
Related pages
Fertility
Sexual reproduct... |
49676 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal%20%28disambiguation%29 | Betrayal (disambiguation) | Betrayal can mean:
Betrayal, a form of deception
Betrayal, a Star Wars novel
Betrayal, a Dragonlance novel by Jean Rabe.
Betrayal (play), a play written by Harold Pinter in 1978
Western betrayal, a popular term in several Central European nations
The Great Betrayal, an autobiography written by Ian Smith
Betray... |
49677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal | Betrayal | Betrayal is when a person breaks the trust and faith of others that trust them.
In an article made by Rodger L. Jackson, it says that "there is not much definition for this word". In psychology, they say betrayal is the breaking of a social (friendship) related things. But for some people, for example, philosophers c... |
49681 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction | Destruction | Destruction could mean:
The act of destroying something.
Slighting, the act of damaging an important building
Destruction (band), a German thrash metal band
Destruction (DC Comics), one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman
Destruction Bay, Yukon, Canada
a magic art in the computer role-pl... |
49685 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane%20%28machine%29 | Crane (machine) | A crane is a lifting machine that has hoists, wire ropes and sheaves on it. It can be used both to raise and lower things or to move them left and right. Cranes are often used in the construction industry (building houses or buildings) and in creating or moving heavy things.
Other websites
Knots, hitches and bends
... |
49697 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20mining | Data mining | Data mining is a term from computer science. Sometimes it is also called knowledge discovery in databases (KDD). Data mining is about finding new information in a lot of data. The information obtained from data mining is hopefully both new and useful.
In many cases, data is stored so it can be used later. The data is... |
49706 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20sword-making | Japanese sword-making | Japanese schools of sword making can be divided into two categories: by the provinces where they were developed and by the masters who created a specific tradition of sword making.
History
The late Kamakura period is often referred to as the greatest period of sword making in Japanese history. The Soshu tradition was... |
49718 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornamental%20plant | Ornamental plant | An ornamental plant is decorative: it is grown for how it looks, and not for other values. The term is often shortened to ornamental, used as a noun
Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decoration. They are on display in gardens, landscapes and inside houses. They can be used indoors as cut flowers or potte... |
49719 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20garden%20plants | List of garden plants | This is a partial list of garden plants, plants that can be cultivated in the garden, listed alphabetically by genus.
See also:
List of plants by common name
A
Abelia
Abeliophyllum (white forsythia)
Abelmoschus (okra)
Abies (fir)
Abromeitiella (obsolete)
Abronia (sand verbena)
Abutilon
Acacia (wattle)
... |
49720 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plants%20by%20common%20name | List of plants by common name | The common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using binomials, or "Latin" names. Common names are also referred to as "country names" or "farmer's names". These names develop over time according to use, appearance, and lore.
Most plants have several ... |
49725 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts | Celts | The Celts were a large group of Caucasian tribes in Europe. They first appeared in the early Iron Age, around 1200 B.C. in Austria. The name 'Celt' comes from the Greeks. The Romans called them "Gauls". They came from the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures. Their culture and genes spread through much of Europe, and by t... |
49727 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20good | Free good | In economics free good means a good that is available without production, and therefore not scarce. It is available in as much quantity as desired, with zero opportunity cost to society.
A good that is made available at zero price is not necessarily a free good. For example, a shop might give away its stock in its p... |
49748 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist | Hoist | A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium. The load is attached to the hoist by means of a lifting hook.
A "hois... |
49756 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Onegin%20%28opera%29 | Eugene Onegin (opera) | Eugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин in Russian) is an opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It is usually thought to be his greatest opera and one of the best of all Russian operas. Tchaikovsky finished composing it in 1878 and it was first performed in Moscow in 1879.
The story of Eugene Onegin was written by Alexander Pushkin. He w... |
49764 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basingstoke | Basingstoke | Basingstoke is a large town in Hampshire, England. It is southwest of London, northeast of Southampton, southwest of Reading and northeast of Winchester. In 2008 it had an estimated population of 82,913. It is part of the borough of Basingstoke and Deane. Basingstoke is often nicknamed "Doughnut City" or "Roundabou... |
49768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flerovium | Flerovium | Flerovium is a synthetic chemical element also known as eka-lead. It has the symbol Fl and has the atomic number 114. It is a radioactive superheavy element.
Flerovium does not exist in nature. It is made from a nuclear reaction between plutonium and calcium. The reaction that happens is a fusion reaction.
Uses
It ... |
49769 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus | Brontosaurus | Brontosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur.
Brontosaurus was originally named by its discoverer Othniel Charles Marsh in 1879. Brontosaurus had long been considered a junior synonym of Apatosaurus. Its only species was reclassified as A. excelsus in 1903.
However, an extensive study published in 2015 concluded t... |
49771 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate | Fate | Fate or destiny is the idea that the future is already planned even if people do not know what their fate is (what is going to happen to them). Humans in nearly all cultures have had ideas about their fate being “predetermined” (fixed in advance).
People who live unhappy lives may believe that their misery is because... |
49775 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmann%20von%20Fallersleben | Hoffmann von Fallersleben | August Heinrich Hoffmann (April 2, 1798 - January 19, 1874), who used Hoffmann von Fallersleben as his pen name, was a German poet. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", which is now the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular children's songs.
Fallersleben, Heinrich Hoffman von
1798 birt... |
49784 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Peipus | Lake Peipus | Lake Peipus (Estonian: Peipsi-Pihkva järv, German: Peipussee, Russian: Чудско-Псковское озеро) is a large fresh water lake. It is between Estonia and Russia in Northern Europe. Lake Peipus is the fourth largest lake in Europe. The lake covers 3,500 square kilometres. It has an average depth of 7m. At its deepest point,... |
49796 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanto | Tanto | The Tantō is a Japanese short sword or dagger.
The tantō's traditional overall length was 11.93 in (1 shaku, about 30 cm). The blade's length was about 5in to 12in (12 1/2 cm to 30 cm). Blades that were bigger (13 to 14 inches) were called ko-wakizashi, meaning "small short sword." The tantōs which varied from the tra... |
49799 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint%20Dempsey | Clint Dempsey | Clint Dempsey (born March 9, 1983) is an American footballer from Texas. He plays for Sounders F.C.and is number 2 and, has also played for Fulham F.C. and was number 8. He played for the New England Revolution in the United States before Fulham gave them money (a transfer fee) to get him to play for them, but then was... |
49808 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway%20Brain | Runaway Brain | Runaway Brain is an animated short movie released on September 22, 1934 by MGM/United Artists. It was produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burton Gillett. The movie is 7 minutes long. It has Peter Penguin, Polly Penguin, Gosalyn Mallard, Honker Muddlefoot, Bubba the Caveduck, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Magica De Spell... |
49824 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese%20language | Maltese language | Maltese is the language of Malta, and a language of the European Union. Maltese sounds similar to the Phoenician language that was spoken in areas around the ancient Mediterranean. It is written in the Latin alphabet like English. The language has borrowed many words from Sicilian, Italian, and English. Around 393,... |
49845 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasion | Persuasion | Persuasion is a form of influence. It is the way to get people to agree with an idea, attitude, or action by rational and emotional means. It is a problem-solving strategy and relies on "appeals" rather than force.
Dissuasion is the process of convincing someone not to believe or act on something.
Methods of persua... |
49846 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96gedei%20Khan | Ögedei Khan | Ögedei (1186-1241) was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, after his father. He continued to make his father's empire bigger. Like all of Genghis' sons, he helped to conquer Western China and Central Asia. Ögedei was thought to be his father's favorite son, ever since his childhood... |
49848 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heligoland | Heligoland | Heligoland (; ) is a small German group of islands in the North Sea..
It has been controlled by Denmark and between 1807 and 1890 by the British. The islands have a population of 1,650. They are the only German islands not nearby to the mainland and are about two hours' sailing time from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the ... |
49850 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation | Cooperation | Cooperation is when people work together to make their lives better, even though they are free to not work together, and receive little if any money for working together. Organizations made for cooperation are known as cooperatives.
Sociology |
49856 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20F.%20Kennedy | Robert F. Kennedy | Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was a brother of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. He ran for president in 1968, but was killed in California during the presidential primaries.
References
Other websites
PBS video on RFK, with long quotes by historians
The Coa... |
49860 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical%20cord | Umbilical cord | The umbilical cord is the tube that connects the unborn child and the mother together. It allows the baby to get what it needs, for example, blood, oxygen and glucose.
Pregnancy and childbirth |
49881 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Mengele | Josef Mengele | Josef Mengele (March 16, 1911 – February 7, 1979) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
During the first years of World War II Mengele served as a medical officer in the Waffen-SS. After being wounded and recovered in 1942, he went working at the Race and Resettlement Offic... |
49882 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20I%20of%20Austria | Francis I of Austria | Francis I, Emperor of Austria (February 12, 1768 – March 2, 1835) also was Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (in German language: Franz II, Heiliger Römischer Kaiser).
He was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until August 6, 1806, when the Empire was no longer a unit. He then became Francis I, first Emperor o... |
49883 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20I%20of%20Germany | Wilhelm I of Germany | Wilhelm I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Hohenzollern) of the Hohenzollern family was a king of Prussia (January 2, 1861 – 9 March 1888) and the first German Emperor (18 January 1871 – 9 March 1888). In English, his first name means "William", which is sometimes used instead.
Because his brother Frederick William IV of... |
49884 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amami%20Islands | Amami Islands | The is a group of islands in Kagoshima prefecture in the Kyūshū region of Japan. It is also known as the .
History
The name of the islands comes the mythological figure of Amamiko.
It was attacked by the Ryūkyū Kingdom in 1570, but was invaded by Satsuma Domain in 1609.
Amami was occupied by the United States from ... |
49885 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagoshima | Kagoshima | Kagoshima can mean a few things:
Kagoshima Prefecture - One of 47 prefectures in Japan. It is part of Kyushu.
Kagoshima, Kagoshima - the capital of Kagoshima Prefecture |
49886 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal | Formal | Formal is a word used to describe anything that has form or structure. So it is something which is used or done in accordance with rules or ceremonies.
Formal events have rules. 'Formal clothes' or 'formal attire' is a way of dressing to meet the rules for an event, such as a party or wedding. 'Formal attire' can be ... |
49887 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABsh%C5%AB | Kyūshū | is one of Japan's four main islands. It is the most southern of the main islands.
Kyūshū is the third largest island of Japan.
Regions
Kyūshū region is made up of the entire island.
The name Kyūshū literally means "nine countries" in Japanese. Kyūshū was made of nine old "countries" or provinces that are now pr... |
49896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation | Presentation | Presentation is the process of presenting the content of a topic to an audience. Presentation software, such as OpenOffice.org Impress, Beamer, Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint, is often used to generate the presentation content. As a form of communication, a presentation is usually 10-30 minutes long, but can tak... |
49898 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynote%20%28software%29 | Keynote (software) | Keynote is a presentation software application made by Apple for its Mac OS X operating system.
History
Keynote was a software program that Steve Jobs, the chief executive officer of Apple used for his own presentations only. It was later sold to everyone as Keynote 1.0, competing against other presentation software, ... |
49899 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claymore | Claymore | The claymore is a Scottish sword. It is double-edged. The word itself is of Gaelic origins and means “great sword”. The Claymore is indeed a big sword and was held only with two hands. In some sources the broad claymore sword is called “claidheamh da lamh”, which means “two-hand sword”. It was very popular in the 16th ... |
49900 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamahagane | Tamahagane | Tamahagane {tah-mah-ha-ga-nay} is a high quality metal (steel) made in the Japanese tradition. The word tama means "round and precious", like a gem or jewel. The word hagane means "steel". On the market, it costs 50 times more than ordinary steel. Tamahagane steel is used to make Japanese swords, knives, and other ki... |
49901 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton | Graviton | A graviton is a hypothetical particle that 'transfers' gravitation's force (particles like this are known as gauge bosons) from its field. Gravitons have never been observed, directly or indirectly, however, there have been several theories that use gravitons to explain certain phenomena. For example, a theory that des... |
49903 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation%20software | Presentation software | A presentation software is a computer software package used to show information, normally in the form of a slide show. It mostly includes three major functions: an editor that allows text to be inserted and formatted, a method for inserting and manipulating graphic images and a slide-show system to display the content.... |
49905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqueur | Liqueur | A liqueur is a sweet-tasting alcoholic drink. It is often flavored with fruits, herbs, spices, flowers, seeds, roots, plants, barks, and sometimes cream. The word liqueur comes from the Latin word liquifacere which means "to dissolve." This is because the flavors are dissolved to help make the liqueur. In some parts of... |
49907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarism | Militarism | Militarism or militarist ideology is a view on society.
It says society should be like the military.
This means that society should follow concepts that can be found in the culture, system and people of the military. People that say militarism is good are called militarists.
Most important to militarists is discipline... |
49951 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Queen%20of%20Spades%20%28opera%29 | The Queen of Spades (opera) | The Queen of Spades (, pronounced Pi-KO-va-ya DA-ma) is an opera by Tchaikovsky. It is based on a short story by Alexander Pushkin. Sometimes it is known by its German title Pique Dame.
When Tchaikovsky went to Paris in 1876, he saw Bizet’s opera Carmen. He liked the story's themes of love and bad fate. The idea... |
49954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth-share%20matrix | Growth-share matrix | The growth-share matrix (aka B.C.G. analysis, B.C.G.-matrix, Boston Consulting Group analysis) is a chart that had been created by Bruce Henderson for the Boston Consulting Group in 1970 to help corporations with analyzing their business units or product lines. This helps the company allocate resources and is used as a... |
49955 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20PowerPoint | Microsoft PowerPoint | Microsoft Office PowerPoint is a presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. Businesspeople, educators, and trainers use it often. It is a component of the Microsoft Office system.
Operation
In PowerPoint, as in most other presentation software, text, graphics, movi... |
49956 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi%20Xi | Qi Xi | Qi Xi, sometimes called Chinese Valentine's Day, Magpie Festival, or the Double Seventh Festival is a traditional romantic festival in China. It take places on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month and often goes into August on the Gregorian calendar.
The story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl
In late summer, two bright stars ... |
49957 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Nicole%20Smith | Anna Nicole Smith | Anna Nicole Smith (November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007) was an American model, actress and celebrity. She first became popular as Playboy magazine's 1993 Playmate of the Year.
Early life
She was born Vicki Lynn Hogan in Houston, Texas.
Death
On February 8, 2007, Smith was found in a hotel room in Hollywood, Florida.... |
49975 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciao%20%28magazine%29 | Ciao (magazine) | is a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Shogakukan for young girls (about 9-13 years old). It has been published since 1977.
Famous works
Slow step (Mitsuru Adachi)
Alpen Rose (Michiyo Akaishi)
Mizuiro jidai (Yuu Yabuuchi)
Dr.Rin ni kiitemite! (Kiyoko Arai)
Mirumo de pon! (Hiromu Shinozuka)
Kirarin revolution ... |
49978 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting%20algorithm | Sorting algorithm | A sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts the elements of a collection into a certain order. Most commonly, numbers are sorted by their value, and words are sorted by their lexicographic order (as they would appear in a dictionary or phone book). Efficient sorting is important for other things: finding an element i... |
49982 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciao | Ciao | The word "ciao" is a greeting in Italian. It is used for both "hello" and "goodbye". It is less formal than other greetings in Italian, such as buongiorno or salve.
The word originally comes from the Venetian language. It is also sometimes used by English speakers and speakers of other languages around the world. Othe... |
49991 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX | LaTeX | LaTeX is a computer program used for making articles, books and math formulas look good. LaTeX is well-suited for expressing mathematical formulas on electronic devices in a more human readable format, by showing them in a way similar to how they would be written by hand.
LaTeX is used for making mathematical formula... |
49992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20War%20of%20Scottish%20Independence | First War of Scottish Independence | The First War of Scottish Independence lasted from the outbreak of the war in 1296 until the 1328.
The Scots were defeated at Dunbar on 27 April 1296. John Balliol abdicated in Montrose castle on 10 July 1296. John was imprisoned in the Tower of London at first, but then released into the custody of Pope Boniface VIII... |
49994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20of%20Scotland | John of Scotland | |children=Edward Balliol.
John King of Scots (c. 1248 - 1314) is usually known as John Balliol or, correctly, John de Balliol. He was born in 1248.
After the death of Margaret of Scotland in 1290, John Balliol was one of three major competiters for the throne. King Edward concluded that he was going to pick Balliol ... |
50007 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul%20patch | Soul patch | A soul patch is a style of facial hair in which hair is only found below the lower lip and above the chin.
Famous wearers
Living business personalities
Ted Yost
Adam McClellan
Living musicians, actors, and television personalities
Gregg Allmjan
Jack Black
Billy Ray Cyrus
Aamir Khan (Bollywood)
Geddy Lee
Howie ... |
50018 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars%20of%20Scottish%20Independence | Wars of Scottish Independence | The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between Scotland and England in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
The First War (1296–1328) began with the English invasion of Scotland in 1296, and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328. The Second War (... |
50025 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1314 | 1314 |
Deaths
John of Scotland – King of Scotland
Events
June 23 – June 24 – Battle of Bannockburn during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Gabra Masqal I becomes Emperor of Ethiopia |
50034 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotroph | Autotroph | An autotroph (from Greek autos = self and trophe = nutrition) is an organism that makes organic compounds from simple molecules.
Uses
Autotrophs are needed in every food chain in all ecosystems. They take energy from the environment (sun light or inorganic sources) and use it to make other organic molecules that are ... |
50037 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20France | Air France | Air France is one of the largest airlines in the world. It is based in France. It is owned by Air France-KLM. Before it merged with KLM, it employed 71,654 people. Its headquarters are at Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris.
History
The airline can be traced back to 1933, when four other French airline... |
50040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Dolomiti | Air Dolomiti | Air Dolomiti L.A.R.E. S.p.A is a regional airline from Verona in Italy. It is named after a section of the Alps known as The Dolomites. It is part of Lufthansa Regional connecting medium-size Italian airports to other European cities through Munich and Frankfurt am Main airports. The airline employs 550 people.
Airlin... |
50050 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampshire | Hampshire | Hampshire is a county in the south of the UK. The county has an area of 1,455 square miles (3,769 km²). At its widest points, the county is about 55 miles (90 km) east-west and 40 miles (65 km) north-south. The county town is Winchester. About 1.6 million people live in Hampshire.
Ceremonial counties of England |
50065 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Pereira%20da%20Silva | Manuel Pereira da Silva | Manuel Pereira da Silva (7 December 1920 – 2003) was a Portuguese sculptor. He was born in Oporto, Portugal.
The workmanship of Manuel Pereira da Silva has an abstract formal orientation inspired in the human figure, in particularly the man and the woman. In 2000, the Medal of Cultural Merit was attributed to Manuel ... |
50074 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti | Yeti | The Yeti (also called the abominable snowman) is an animal said to live in the Himalaya mountain range made of ice. People say they have seen it, but none have ever been caught. It is supposed to look like an ape that walks upright. Some body parts, said to be of a yeti, are kept in a few monasteries in the area. There... |
50075 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality%20test | Primality test | A primality test is a method (or algorithm) to find out if a certain number is a prime number. Cryptography uses prime numbers, and needs to test if a certain number is prime. The official proof of a prime is through its primality certificate.
Simple methods
Sieve of Eratosthenes: Determine if there is a number (betw... |
50076 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padding%20%28cryptography%29 | Padding (cryptography) | Padding is a term used in cryptography. Very often, messages (to be encrypted) start or end in a well-known way (Dear Bob, ..., Yours, Alice). This is a problem, because that knowledge could be used to break (or start to break) encryption. To prevent this, a number of random characters are added at the beginning or the... |
50079 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary%20attack | Dictionary attack | A dictionary attack is a method used in cryptography to find a key (or username, or password). A large number of words are tried. These words usually come from a special collection, called a "dictionary".
The attack is based on trying all the strings in a pre-arranged listing. The listing is usually derived from a li... |
50080 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%20Marciano | Rocky Marciano | Rocco Francis Marchegiano, better known as Rocky Marciano (September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969), was an American boxer. Marciano was the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 9/23/1952 until 11/30/1956. He had the shortest reach of any heavyweight champion at only 68 inches (173 cm). He was also short for a champion, ... |
50081 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation%20by%20squaring | Exponentiation by squaring | Exponentiating by squaring is an algorithm. It is used for quickly working out large integer powers of a number. It is also known as the square-and-multiply algorithm or binary exponentiation. It uses the binary expansion of the exponent. It is of quite general use, for example in modular arithmetic.
The algorithm is... |
50084 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20card | Smart card | A smart card is a card with a microchip in it. Such cards are used as a method of identification and authentication.
Plastic cards that allow to take out money from a automated teller machine (ATM) often are smart cards nowadays (Some of them still have a magnetic stripe which holds the same information). Very often ... |
50085 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprime | Coprime | In mathematics, two integers (a and b) are co-prime (or relatively prime) if they share no common factors. This is sometimes written as . In other words, there is no number, other than 1, that divides both a and b evenly. In which case, the greatest common divisor (GCD, or highest common factor) of these numbers is 1.
... |
50088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s%20totient%20function | Euler's totient function | In number theory, the totient of a positive integer n is the number of positive integers smaller than n which are coprime to n (they share no factors except 1). It is often written as .
For example, , because there are four numbers (1, 3, 5 and 7) which do not share any factors with 8.
The function used here is the t... |
50090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20%28cryptography%29 | Key (cryptography) | In cryptography, a key (or cryptographic key) is a piece of information that allows control over the encryption or decryption process.
There are two basic types of cryptographic algorithms.
Symmetric algorithm: If there is just one key for encrypting and decrypting, the algorithm is called symmetric.
Asymmetric algori... |
50097 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%2C%20Florida | Hollywood, Florida | Hollywood is a city in Broward County in Florida in the United States. In 2005 there were 145,629 people living in Hollywood, based on United States Census Bureau figures. Joseph W. Young, Jr. first came to south Florida in 1920 from the state of Washington. He had also lived in California and liked what he had seen o... |
50098 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo | Echo | Echo could mean:
Echo, as a reflection of sound that can be heard a while after the first sound
Echo (mythology), a nymph from Greek mythology
One type of effect pedals, echo |
50099 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20stripe%20card | Magnetic stripe card | A Magnetic stripe card is a plastic card which has a magnetic stripe on it. Different kinds of information can be stored on the magnetic stripe. Such stripes are usually made of small particles of iron (or another metal). Information is stored by changing the magnetism of the particles, as with magnetic tape
Today such... |
50105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payphone | Payphone | A payphone is a telephone that lets the public make phone calls if they pay for them first. Many payphones accept coins, but some can accept credit cards, debit cards, and phone cards as well. In the 20th century they were very often used, especially in cities. When people used more mobile phones, payphones quickly be... |
50109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami%20people | Sami people | The Sami people, also spelled as Saami are an ethnic group of people living in Sápmi, an area in the far north of Europe. It is a part of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. There are 80,000 to 135,000 Sami people in the world. The Sami are sometimes called Lapps, but this is insulting and has a negative meaning. In E... |
50111 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1pmi | Sápmi | Sápmi (as its name is in Northern Sami languge), in English commonly known as Lapland (), is the most northern part of Fennoscandia. Fennoscandia is a peninsula in northern Europe.
The area of Lapland is shared between four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. In Norway, as far south ased Hedmark county, the... |
50119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah | Judah | The Kingdom of Judah was an ancient Jewish kingdom that existed in the southern part of the Levant. It was on the western shore of the Dead Sea. Its main cities were Jerusalem and Hebron. It existed from the 9th or 8th century BC, up until 586 BC.
After the death of Saul, Israel picked David to rule them. (1 Chronicle... |
50121 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt%20chart | Gantt chart | A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart. It is a tool of project management invented by the engineer Henry L. Gantt in the 1910s. The chart illustrates a project schedule.
Gantt charts show the start and finish dates of the elements of a project. Gantt charts show dependency between activities. It means that some activi... |
50122 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%20map | Mind map | A mind map is a drawing used to show words, ideas, tasks or other things. Everything is written around a word or idea in the middle. This word or idea is the main topic of the mind map, and the things linked to it are related to the main idea. It is used to store and order ideas, and is very useful for study, ordering ... |
50124 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia | Dia | Dia is open source software that is used to make diagrams. It lets people draw many different types of technical drawings, for example flow charts and circuit diagrams. Technical diagrams are needed when doing work in subjects such as electronics and resistant materials. A flow chart can also be used to show how to pla... |
50141 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent | Talent | A talent (or gift, or aptitude) is the skill that someone has to do something very well that people usually like and that is difficult. Someone who has talent is called talented. Talented people may have more than one talent. Talent is sometimes learned, but in some cases is natural born. People often value talents tha... |
50143 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gift (disambiguation) | The word gift can mean:
A gift or a present is something that is given to somebody.
A talent is a skill that somebody is born with.
UN.GIFT, the United Nations global initiative to fight human trafficking |
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