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50148 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathay%20Pacific | Cathay Pacific | Cathay Pacific Limited is an airline based in Hong Kong. It transports passengers and cargo to over 120 cities world-wide. Its main base and hub is at Hong Kong International Airport. It is one of the six airlines in the world to get a five star rating from Skytrax. It won "Airline of the Year" award from Skytrax in 20... |
50151 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent%20%28measurement%29 | Talent (measurement) | A talent (Latin: talentum, from Ancient Greek: "scale, balance") is an ancient unit of mass. It corresponded generally to the mass of water in the volume of an amphora, i.e. a one-foot cube.
The Babylonians and Sumerians had a system in which there were 60 shekels in a mina and 60 minas in a talent (in Ancient Greece... |
50160 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede | Bede | Bede ( ; , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (), was a monk and an early historian of the church in England. He was a member of the sister Northumbrian monasteries of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow. He spent a great deal of time at Jarrow with its large library. Both were... |
50168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phototroph | Phototroph | Phototrophs (photo = light, troph = nutrition) or photoautotrophs are organisms which carry out photosynthesis.
With their plastids and the help of energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water are converted into sugar by photosynthesis. Sugar is then converted into other organic molecules which can be used in cellu... |
50179 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS | NTFS | NTFS is a file system developed by Microsoft. NTFS stands for New Technology File System. A file system is a way of storing computer files. Microsoft introduced it with the Windows NT operating system.
It was made to replace the old file-system used by earlier versions of Windows, like Windows 95, Windows 98, and Win... |
50183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20system | File system | A File system (or filesystem) is a way of storing all data on a data storage device. The data is usually organized in computer files in directories. Below the file system there is usually a physical device where the files are stored. This might be a hard disk, USB flash drive, compact disc, or DVD. The file system mig... |
50187 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20II%20of%20Scotland | David II of Scotland | David II (5 March 1324 – 22 February 1371) King of Scots, son of King Robert the Bruce by his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh (d. 1327), was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fife.
He was married on 17 July 1328, aged only four, to Joan of the Tower (d. 1362), daughter of Edward II of England and Isabella of France. Joan wa... |
50192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lied | Lied | Lied (pronounced “leed”) is the German word for “song” (the plural is Lieder – pronounced “leader”).
The word Lied is used in music to describe the songs that were written by German-speaking composers of classical music. Songs composed by classical composers are sometimes called “art songs”.
Lieder are normally so... |
50194 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora | Aurora | An aurora, also called polar light, northern light or southern light, is a natural light display in the sky. They are usually seen in the high latitudes (Arctic and Antarctic) regions. Auroras are produced when the Earth's magnetosphere is disturbed by the solar wind.
An aurora around the North Pole is called the A... |
50198 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic%20countries | Nordic countries | Nordic countries are a group of countries in Northern Europe. These countries include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and the territories of Svalbard, the Aland Islands and the Faroe Islands. Though often confused as such, Scandinavia is not equivalent to the Nordic countries. Scandinavia is a peninsula whil... |
50199 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going%20Underground | Going Underground | "Going Underground" was The Jam's first number one song on the UK charts. The song is arguably The Jam's finest moment in their career. Although it did not appear on any of their studio albums, it did appear on several 'best of' Jam albums.
1980 songs |
50200 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paasselk%C3%A4%20devil | Paasselkä devil | Paasselkä devils (Finnish "Päässelän pirut") are stories about balls of light at lake Paasselkä, Finland. Local people say that bright balls sometimes move above lake Paasselkä or near the lake in the forest. This kinds of lights are said to appear around the world. They are sometimes called ghost lights or will o' the... |
50203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%20%28mythology%29 | Aurora (mythology) | The phenomena that can be seen in the atmosphere is at Aurora
Aurora was the ancient Roman equivalent of Eos. Eos was the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn. Aurora is the Latin word for dawn.
Aurora renews herself every morning at dawn and flies across the sky. She announces the morning's arrival. She has a brother a... |
50204 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukko | Ukko | Ukko was the most important god in Finnish paganism, a religion that was in Finland before Christianity. Ukko was god of sky and thunder. Ukko was an old man and he lived on the sky. He had a weapon - hammer or axe called Ukonvasara. Lightning is from this weapon.
Finnish pagans had an image of this weapon made from m... |
50205 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%A4m%C3%B6inen | Väinämöinen | Väinämöinen is an important person in Finnish mythology. He was a wise man and he knew magic. He was a hero and had many adventures.
Väinämöinen was also a god. As such, he was worshipped.
Magic of Väinämöinen was in his songs. When he sings hills shake and water moves. He sings his enemy, Joukahainen, to sink in swa... |
50207 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen is an important person in Finnish mythology. He is a very good smith who made the sky. He also made the Sampo, a magical machine that makes salt, gold and food. He tried to create a new moon and a sun, but failed. Ilmarinen married one of Louhi´s daughters.
Finnish mythology |
50209 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20paganism | Finnish paganism | Finnish paganism was a pagan religion in Finland and Karelia before the Finnish people were Christian. Finnish paganism is close to Scandinavian paganism and Baltic paganism. The Finns believed that there were many gods.
Finnish paganism was animistic. This means that people believed nature was full of small and big ... |
50210 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback | Feedback | Feedback is a connection, a loop, between the cause and effect of a process.
Electronic
Sometimes, output from an electronic source affects future input. This can form what is called a "feedback loop". In some cases the output reinforces the input, making it stronger; this is called "self-reinforcing", "positive", ... |
50298 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate | Phosphate | A phosphate is a salt of phosphoric acid. Phosphates are important in biochemistry.
Phosphates have the formula PO43- and a molar mass of 94.973 g/mol. An example of a phosphate is sodium phosphate. Three different types of phosphates are known. They are orthophosphate, PO43-; metaphosphate, PO32-; and pyrophosphate, ... |
50307 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrum | Cerebrum | The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain. It is in the front part of the brain. It contains about 15 billion cells, and is the latest brain structure to have evolved.
Function
The cerebrum takes in data from sight and other sense organs, and 'makes sense' of it (interprets it). It controls consciousness and acti... |
50310 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia | Karelia | Karelia is an area in eastern Fennoscandia. It is to the east from where Finnish people live. There are many opinions about what places exactly belong to Karelia.
Most of Karelia belongs to Russia today. Small parts of Karelia belong to Finland. On the Russian side of Karelia is the Republic of Karelia. On the Finnish... |
50312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala | Kalevala | Kalevala is the Finnish national epic. This means it is a book that is very important to Finnish people.
Kalevala has many stories and folklores in it. The stories of Kalevala are poems that are very old. Long ago, people sang these poems. The poems have a unique metre that is not known outside Finnic languages. There... |
50323 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edred%20of%20England | Edred of England | King Edred or Eadred (c. 923 – November 23 955) was King of England from 946 until his death. He was a son of King Edward the Elder and Edgiva of Kent. He was king after his brother, King Edmund I. Like both his older brothers, Edred was successful against the Vikings. Edred was a very religious man, but had very poor ... |
50333 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20pathology | Plant pathology | Plant pathology, or phytopathology, is the study of plant diseases. Like animals, plants can get infected and damaged by viruses, bacteria and fungi.
It includes not only the harm done by pathogens (infectious organisms), but also harm done by environmental conditions.
Organisms which cause infectious disease include... |
50345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chytridiomycota | Chytridiomycota | Chytridiomycota is a phylum of the Fungi kingdom. The name comes from chytridium (from the Greek chytridion, meaning "little pot"): the structure containing unreleased spores.
The chytrids are the most primitive of the fungi. Many chytrids are found in fresh water. There are approximately 1,000 chytrid species, in 127... |
50346 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20states%20by%20traditional%20abbreviation | List of U.S. states by traditional abbreviation | This is a list of traditional abbreviations for U.S. states and territories These abbreviations (short names) were used in mailing addresses before the introduction of two-letter U.S. postal abbreviations. The traditional abbreviations are still commonly used in other ways besides mailing addresses. For example, they c... |
50347 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saprophyte | Saprophyte | A saprophyte or saprotroph is an organism which gets its energy from dead and decaying organic matter. This may be decaying pieces of plants or animals. This means that saprophytes are heterotrophs. They are consumers in the food chain.
This is the typical life-style of fungi. Some fungi are parasites on living organ... |
50348 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo%20Puccini | Giacomo Puccini | Giacomo Puccini (23 December 1858 - 29 November 1924) was the most famous Italian opera composer after Verdi. He wrote 16 operas, most of which are performed very often today. Many of his operatic songs are known by many people, especially the aria Nessun dorma from Turandot which was sung by Luciano Pavarotti for the ... |
50350 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh%20Hound | Pharaoh Hound | The Pharaoh Hound is a breed of dog. Pharaoh Hounds always have a bright orange colour coat. They may have a small white spot on the front of their body. They need lots of physical exercise, and they are fast runners and can jump high. They need little brushing because their fur is very short. In the past, people used ... |
50351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium | Mycelium | The mycelium is the part of a fungus that is usually underground (or inside some another substance). It is composed of hyphae, which look like threads, or rootlets. The mat of hyphae may be very thickly woven. The fungus uses it to extract nutritients. The hyphae are usually syncytic, that is, they do not have complete... |
50357 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv | Lviv | Lviv () is the capital city of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. 860,000 people live in Lviv. 88% of the people living there are Ukrainian, 8% are Russian, and 1% are Polish. An extra 200,000 people commute to Lviv every day for work.
During the city's history, it was ruled by many countries. When part of Poland it was called L... |
50360 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra%20pit | Orchestra pit | An orchestra pit is the space where an orchestra plays in a theatre or opera house. The actors or singers are on the stage, and the orchestra pit is normally lower than the stage so that the audience can watch the play or opera. Depending on where they sit, the audience may just be able to see the heads of the musici... |
50363 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20o%27%20the%20wisp | Will o' the wisp | A will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus (Medieval Latin: "foolish fire") is a ghostly light. It is seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.
Usually will o' the wisp looks like a ball of light or a small flame. UFOs and some ghost lights are different, they are usually in the sky while will o'... |
50387 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20light | Ghost light | Ghost lights are lights in the air that are not well understood by scientists. There are few reports of ghost light sightings. Ghost lights can be close to ground or in the sky. Ghost lights close to ground are commonly called "will o' the wisp" while ghost lights in the sky are often called UFOs. There are very differ... |
50388 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Giertych | Roman Giertych | Roman Jacek Giertych is a former Minister of Education in Poland. He was born February 27, 1971 in Śrem.
Biography
Roman Giertych comes from a family of Polish politicians, being a son of Maciej Giertych and a grandson of Jędrzej Giertych.
His brother (holding a Ph.D. himself) said he was a young bookworm who made ... |
50406 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothie | Smoothie | Smoothies are a type of cold drink made from a liquid (either milk, fruit juice, or water), crushed ice or ice cubes, different fruits (such as banana, strawberries, or pineapple). Sometimes other foods are added to smoothies, such as yogurt, honey, maple syrup or ice cream. Smoothies are blended with an electric blend... |
50408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove | Groove | Groove could mean:
Groove (engineering), a slot cut into hard material
Groove (joinery), a slot cut parallel to the grain
Groove (music)
Groove (film)
Microsoft Office Groove
Groove metal, a subgenre of heavy metal music
The Groove, a US radio station.
The Groove (band), an Australian rock/pop band of the 1960s... |
50409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheave%20%28mechanical%29 | Sheave (mechanical) | A sheave (pronounced "shiv") is a wheel or roller with a groove along its edge for holding a belt, rope or cable. When hung between two supports with a belt, rope or cable, one or more sheaves make up a pulley. The words sheave and pulley are sometimes used interchangeably.
Tools |
50410 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified%20flying%20object | Unidentified flying object | A UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) is any object flying in the sky which cannot be identified by the person who sees it. Sometimes the object is investigated. If people can still not figure out what the object is after an investigation, it is called a UFO. If they figure out what the object is, it can no longer be call... |
50412 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20War%20of%20Scottish%20Independence | Second War of Scottish Independence | The Second War of Scottish Independence began in 1333 when Edward III of England did not accept the 1328 Treaty of Northampton any more, under which England recognised the legitimacy of the dynasty established by Robert Bruce. Edward was determined to support the claim of Edward Balliol, the son of the former king, Jo... |
50415 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20postal%20abbreviations | U.S. postal abbreviations | This is a list of postal code abbreviations used by the United States Postal Service. They are used to help the postal service process mail. In other contexts, such as newspaper articles, the traditional abbreviations for the states are used.
States
In alphabetical order by postal abbreviation (not by state):
Elai... |
50420 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booing | Booing | Booing means shouting "BOO!" If people shout "boo" after a performance (for example, a concert, play or opera) they are showing that they did not like it. It is the opposite of applause (clapping to show that the performance was good).
Booing and hissing used to be very common, especially at the opera. In the early da... |
50426 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applause | Applause | Applause is the sound made by an audience who are clapping their hands (applauding) to thank someone for a performance. People at a concert usually applaud when the performers come onto the stage. This is a way of welcoming them. At the end of a performance people applaud again to thank the performers.
People may a... |
50460 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle%20Busch | Kyle Busch | Kyle Thomas Busch (born May 2, 1985) is a NASCAR race car driver. Busch races in the Monster Energy Cup, Xfinity Series and the Camping World Truck Series. Kyle's brother, Kurt Busch also races in the Sprint Cup series.
Busch won his 100th NASCAR race on July 17, 2011. He is only the third driver in NASCAR history to ... |
50488 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/498a | 498a | Section 498-A is an offence under the Indian Penal Code, 1860. It was brought into the IPC in 1983 to stop cruelty to married women because of dowry. This often led to their deaths. It makes it a crime to be cruel to your wife or to your relative's wife. The law explains that "cruelty" means anything that is done on pu... |
50492 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%20cipher | Caesar cipher | In cryptography, a Caesar cipher is an ancient form of substitution cipher. It is named in the honor of Roman emperor, Julius Caesar
Method
To encrypt a message with a Caesar cipher, each letter in the message is changed using a simple rule: shift by three. Each letter is replaced by the letter three letters ahead in... |
50493 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20engineering%20%28security%29 | Social engineering (security) | Social Engineering (also known as „Social Manipulation“) is a type of confidence trick to influence people with the goal to illegally obtain sensitive data (i.e. passwords, credit card information). Social Engineers observe the personal environment of their victims and use fake identities to gain secret information or ... |
50497 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics | Hydroponics | Hydroponics or Hydro-culture is the method of growing plants in the nutrients that they need instead of soil. The plant foods are simply put into water instead and it makes a solution for the plants to live in. Vegetables, flowers and herbs can all be grown in water.
It is quite an old idea. The earliest published wor... |
50498 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop%20rotation | Crop rotation | Crop rotation is a practice used in farming. It involves the planting of different seeds on the same land in different years or seasons, using a set pattern. This technique helps replace the nutrients in the soil for the plants. It also reduces plant-specific pests on the land.
References
Agriculture |
50500 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Hard%20Day%27s%20Night | A Hard Day's Night | A Hard Day’s Night was a 1964 album by The Beatles, released on 10 July of that year. It was the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, starring the Beatles and directed by Richard Lester. It was their third album. It is said that the title was accidentally said by Ringo Starr during the filming of the movie.
The m... |
50502 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling | Changeling | In stories (folklore), a changeling is the child of a troll, elf, or fairy that has been left in the place of a human child. The stolen human child then lives with the troll family. A changeling is like a human baby but ugly, always hungry, and with a bad temper. Sometimes the changelings are much wiser than a human ba... |
50504 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb | Bomb | A bomb is an explosive object that makes and lets out its energy very quickly. This detonation makes a big shock wave. Bombs have been used for centuries. Some bombs also throw out dangerous metal fragments, and some are firebombs.
Most bombs do not contain more energy than ordinary fuel, except in the case of a nucl... |
50507 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter%20Bohlen | Dieter Bohlen | Dieter Gunther Bohlen is a German musician, born on 7 February 1954. He was born in Berne, Lower Saxony. He was a member of Modern Talking, but now appears in the TV programme "Germany Searches for a Superstar" , which is the German version of Pop Idol and American Idol.
Other websites
1954 births
Living people
En... |
50515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT%20Analysis | SWOT Analysis | SWOT Analysis is a tool to find out the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that are to be expected in a project or in a business venture or in something similar. It means that the situation (internal and external to the organization or individual) is looked at. It is one of the best tools to conduct the ... |
50518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project | Project | A project is a temporary undertaken to create a unique product or service.
Origin
The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from projicere, "to throw something forwards" which in turn comes from pro-, which denotes something that precedes the action of the next part of the word in time (paralleling the Gr... |
50525 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsdale | Scottsdale | The place name Scottsdale can refer to:
Scottsdale, Tasmania, in Australia
Scottsdale, Arizona, in the United States |
50536 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Time%20Zone | Central Time Zone | The Central Time Zone subtracts six hours from UTC during standard time (UTC−6) and five hours during daylight saving time (UTC−5).
This time zone is called Central Standard Time (CST) during standard time (Winter). It is called Central Daylight Time (CDT) during daylight saving time (Summer). In the United States and... |
50538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino%20Rossini | Gioachino Rossini | Gioachino Rossini (born Pesaro 29 February 1792; died Passy 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer. He was the most famous composer of operas in his time. His operas had lots of new ideas. Italian operas had become rather unimaginative, with composers such as Cimarosa and Paisiello writing the same sort of thing eac... |
50542 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salerno | Salerno | Salerno is a southern Italian city. It has a port. It faces the Mediterranean Sea. It is capital of the province of Salerno.
Cities in Campania
Capital cities in Italy |
50543 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%20house | Opera house | An opera house is a building where operas and ballets are performed. It is similar to a theatre.
The first opera houses were built in the 1630s in Italy, about thirty years after the first operas were written. Traditionally they have a stage where the action takes place and a proscenium archway with a curtain that can... |
50546 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullervo | Kullervo | Kullervo is a person in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. He is a good looking man with golden hair. Bad things happen to him; his destiny is tragic.
In folk stories Kullervo is the son of the giant Kaleva. In the Kalevala however Kullervo is the son of a man called Kalervo.
In the Kalevala Kullervo's family is kil... |
50549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephra%C3%AFm%20Inoni | Ephraïm Inoni | Ephraïm Inoni (born 16 August, 1947) is the former Prime Minister of Cameroon, a country in central west Africa. H.E. Ephraim Inoni comes from the South West province in Cameroon, which is part of the Anglophone provinces in Cameroon. Ephraim Inoni is a member of the ruling party and a strong supporter of President Pau... |
50554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%20scattering | Compton scattering | In physics, Compton scattering, or the Compton effect, is the name used for what happens to the energy (or frequency or wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray photon when it interacts with matter; the wavelength increases (or energy/frequency decreases) as it scatters off electrons. This scattering is one of the main thi... |
50562 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsdale%2C%20Arizona | Scottsdale, Arizona | Scottsdale (; ) is a city in the southwestern part of the state of Arizona in the United States. In 2000 there were 202,705 people living in Scottsdale which made it the 83rd largest city in the United States. In 2005 the Census Bureau said that more people were living in Scottsdale, about 226,000 people, this makes it... |
50570 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/REO%20Speedwagon | REO Speedwagon | REO Speedwagon is an American rock band. They formed in Illinois in the late 1960s. The band continues to record and tour to this day. They were most popular in the 1980s, when they had a #1 album and two #1 singles.
Discography
Studio albums
REO Speedwagon (1971)
R.E.O./T.W.O. (1972)
Ridin' the Storm Out (1973)
... |
50576 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will | Will | Will could mean:
Will (modal verb)
Shall and will, comparison of the two verbs
Will (law), a legal document that explains the last wishes of someone after they die, such as what they want to happen to their money and their things.
Living will, a legal document that explains the desires of the author with regard to ... |
50577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle | Carlisle | Carlisle is a city in the north of England near the border with Scotland. It is in the county of Cumbria. Carlisle has a population of 71,773 people.
Carlisle's football team is called Carlisle United and they play at Brunton Park.
Carlisle is famous for Carr's Table Water Biscuits. They are only made in Carlisle an... |
50579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas%20Konarski | Stanislas Konarski | Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. (actual name: Hieronim Konarski; 30 September 1700 – 3 August 1773) was a Polish teacher and writer. He wrote political books, poems, and plays. He was a monk - member of the order of Piarists; he brought the Enlightenment in Poland.
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Between 1725 and 1727 Konarski learned at the Collegium... |
50580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano%20Donizetti | Gaetano Donizetti | Gaetano Donizetti (born Bergamo 29 November 1797; died Bergamo 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer. He was the most famous composer of operas in Italy in the years between the death of Bellini (1835) and the time when Verdi was becoming well-known. Bellini and Donizetti wrote operas in the bel canto style: music with... |
50581 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Catherine | St. Catherine | There are nine St. Catherines:
Saint Caterina Volpicelli (1839-1894)
Saint Catherine of Alexandria (4th century)
Saint Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463)
Saint Catherine of Genoa (circa 1447–1510)
Saint Catherine Laboure (1806–1876)
Saint Catherine of Ricci, O.P. (1522–1590)
Saint Catherine of Siena, O.P. (Doctor of th... |
50583 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde | Blonde | Blond or blonde is a light color of hair or a person with this color hair. The spelling blonde means a female with this hair colour, and the spelling blond can mean a male with the same hair color. The color itself can have either spelling (blonde or blond), according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.
Some people are b... |
50586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Macmillan | Harold Macmillan | Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a Conservative statesman. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
Macmillan served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. After the war he joined his family publishing company, then ent... |
50588 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion | Crucifixion | Crucifixion is a way to execute (kill) someone, usually because they have committed a crime. It was used as a capital punishment by the government of Rome. A prisoner was beaten with whips, and made to carry their own cross. They were either tied or nailed to the cross. The Romans used different types of crosses: T-sha... |
50590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeple | Steeple | A steeple is the tower at the top of a church, which is a building or temple of the Christian religion. It often has a cross at the top, in memory of Jesus' crucifixion.
Related pages
List of church architecture terms
Church architecture |
50591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20paganism | Baltic paganism | Baltic Paganism are different religions and mythologies that people had in Baltic countries before Christianity and that some people still have. All of those religions have their own features but also between these religions many things are similar. Baltic pagans just like Scandinavian and Finnish pagans believes that ... |
50609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleva | Kaleva | Kaleva or Kalevi and his sons are people or creatures in Finnish, Karelian and Estonian stories. However many things about them are forgotten.
History
Estonian history
The name of Estonian national Epos Kalevipoeg means "Sons of Kalevi" and the name of Finnish national epos Kalevala means "Land of Kaleva".
In Eston... |
50617 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone%20National%20Park | Yellowstone National Park | Yellowstone National Park is a national park in the United States. It was the world's first national park. United States President Ulysses S. Grant signed a law to create it. The name was taken from the Yellowstone River, which flows through the park. Yellowstone was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978.
Yellowst... |
50618 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20park | National park | A national park is a park or an area of land officially recognized and protected by a nation's government. National parks are often made to protect the animals that live inside them or the land itself. There are many National Parks in the world.
The first one established (in 1872) was the United States Yellowstone Na... |
50630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Ewart%20Gladstone | William Ewart Gladstone | William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Victorian politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the Liberal Party in four terms between 1868 and 1894.
His career lasted more than 60 years. He served as Liberal Prime Minister four times. This was more than any other p... |
50631 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony%20Eden | Anthony Eden | Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon KG MC PC (12 June 1897 — 14 January 1977) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was better known throughout his time in office as Sir Anthony Eden. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
Eden was one of the best-known politicians of his generation. He wa... |
50632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Baldwin | Stanley Baldwin | Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times. He presided over the economic crisis of the 1930s and abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom.
1867 births
1947 deaths
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Chancellors of... |
50633 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec%20Douglas-Home | Alec Douglas-Home | Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, (; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. He was better known as Alec Douglas-Home.
Home was a Member of Parliament and a junior official (a Parliamentary Private Secretary) when Neville Chamberlain went to ... |
50634 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), born Benjamin D'Israeli, was a British politician. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1852, from 1858–1859 and from 1866–1868. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and from 1874–1880. His main opponent was William Ewart Gl... |
50635 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Pitt%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Chatham | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a prime minister of Great Britain. He was appointed by King George III.
His London house, in St. James's Square, is now the home of the international affairs think tank called Chatham House.
In 1758, during the Seven Years' War, he came up with t... |
50636 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Asquith | Herbert Asquith | Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith KG PC KC (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Until 5 January 1988, he had been the longest continuously serving Prime Minister in the 20th century. He was not, however, in favour of the... |
50639 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce | Commerce | Commerce is another word for trade or business, and can mean simply the buying and selling of goods and services. Some commerce involves high finance and big companies and organisations. Commercial real estate is a place for commerce, a place to do business. Interstate commerce is the movement of goods, money or transp... |
50640 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation | Plantation | A plantation is a large farm which is specialized on farming one type of crop. Plantations grow cash crops, mostly for export, and less for local use. Crops grown on plantations include banana, sugarcane, coffee, tea, cotton and tobacco.
Some of the problems with plantations come from the fact that they are monocult... |
50641 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine | Pine | Pines are a large and important genus of conifers in the family Pinaceae. The Plant List of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden lists 126 species of pines, plus a lot of synonyms.
Pines live in almost the entire Northern Hemisphere. In North America, they live in the southern part of Arctic to... |
50642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20II%20of%20France | Philip II of France | Philip II of France (August 21, 1165 – July 14, 1223), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
Kings and Queens of France
1165 births
1223 deaths |
50645 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohjola | Pohjola | Pohjola is an evil country in Finnish and Karelian ancient stories. Pohjola is at north and it is very cold place. Ruler of Pohjola is Louhi, an evil witch woman. We think that Pohjola does not really exist, but long ago when people thought about Pohjola they thought about Lapland and a region of Pohjanmaa.
There was ... |
50652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%20of%20Finland | Gulf of Finland | The Gulf of Finland is a body of water that points east from the Baltic Sea with Finland on its north side and Estonia on its south side. Both Finnish capital Helsinki and Estonian capital Tallinn are at shore of Gulf of Finland. At the bottom of the gulf of Finland is Russia and its most important coast city St. Peter... |
50660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20II%20of%20England | Edmund II of England | Edmund Ironside or Edmund II (; c. 989 – 30 November 1016) was the son of Æthelred the Unready. When his father died he was king of England from 23 April to 18 October 1016 and of Wessex from 23 April to 30 November 1016.
989 births
1016 deaths
House of Wessex |
50661 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Balfour | Arthur Balfour | Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG OM PC (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 until 1905.
He was minister of Foreign Affairs from 1916 to 1919. In this capacity he wrote the so-called Balfour Declaration in 1917.
1848 births
... |
50662 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Pelham | Henry Pelham | Henry Pelham (25 September 1694–6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman. He was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 to his death about ten years later.
1694 births
1754 deaths
People from Sussex
Whig party (UK) politicians
Prime Ministers of Great Britain |
50663 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20states%20by%20elevation | List of U.S. states by elevation | This is a list of United States states by alphabetical state. Elevation means the height of something above sea level. The highest point in the U.S. is Denali at 20,320 feet (6,194 m) above sea level. The lowest point on land in the U.S. is Badwater in Death Valley at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level.
List
Images
Re... |
50666 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household%20income%20in%20the%20United%20States | Household income in the United States | The Household income in the United States is a measure of current private income commonly used by the United States government and private institutions. To measure the income of a household, the pre-tax money receipts of all residents over the age of 15 are combined. Most of these receipts are in the form of wages and ... |
50669 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicology | Toxicology | Toxicology is the study of how chemicals hurt living things. Toxicologists use biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine. Measuring toxicity of a substance (relation between does and effect), is a major part of the work.
Many chemicals that we call poisons are only toxic when made into different chemicals by the... |
50672 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Carlo | Monte Carlo | Monte Carlo is the largest city in Monaco. Its area is 5 square km, and around four hundred people live there.
Monte Carlo is also the centre of gambling, politics, fireworks and culture. Monte Carlo has a lot of casinos, hotels and historical buildings.
Monte Carlo is one of Europe's leading tourist resorts. Within... |
50673 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickery | Trickery | Trickery is the act of misdirection (leading into the wrong way of thinking) or an illusion (seeing things that are not true).
For example, magic tricks are when someone makes the person seeing it think that the magic they are doing is true, but it actually is not. But magic tricks can also be pleasant entertainment ... |
50677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slideshow | Slideshow | Slideshow means a show of slides. It is a display of several slides for information or for artistic purposes.
Slideshows are conducted by a presenter using an apparatus, such as a slide projector, an overhead projector or in more recent years, a computer running presentation software. The word comes from the use o... |
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