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50678 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide | Slide | In photography, a slide is a thin translucent photograph bound in paper, plastic or similar frame and often used for projection with use of a slide projector for a slideshow. The terms reversal film and transparency are also used.
One can it from negative and print.
Related pages
Slide projector
Slide copier
Ot... |
50680 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide%20%28disambiguation%29 | Slide (disambiguation) | Slide could be related to any of these.
Photographic slide - a thin translucent photograph bound in paper, plastic or similar frame and often used for projection with use of a slide projector for a slideshow.
Slide (website) - a website that offers groups the ability to discover, share, and talk about photos together.... |
50681 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection | Projection | Projection can be any of:
The display of an image by devices such as:
Movie projector
Video projector
Overhead projector
Slide projector
Map projection, in cartography
Graphical projection, the production of a two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional object
Isometric projection
Oblique projection
Orthographic p... |
50682 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide%20projector | Slide projector | A slide projector is a device that is used to view photographic slides by using optical and mechanical
methods. It contains an electric light bulb. focusing lenses.
reflector and condensing lenses. a holder that holds the slide.
A flat piece of heat absorbing glass is often placed between the condensing lens and the... |
50684 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20projector | Video projector | A video projector takes a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a screen using a lens system. All video projectors use a very bright light to project the image, and most modern ones can correct any curves, blurriness, and other inconsistencies through manual settings. Video projectors are widely used for... |
50699 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut | Peanut | A peanut is a plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is native to South America, Central America and Mexico. Peanuts are annual herbaceous plants growing 30 to 50 cm (1 to 1.5 ft) tall.
Overview
The peanut plant flowers above ground, then develops its pods underground. Because of this, peanuts are often called grou... |
50700 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Asian%20Railway | Trans-Asian Railway | The Trans-Asian Railway (TAR) is a project to build a freight railway across Europe and Asia. The TAR is a project of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
The project was started in the 1950s. The idea then was to have 8750 miles (14,000km) of rail link between Singapor... |
50701 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%20Street%20Crash%20of%201929 | Wall Street Crash of 1929 | The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the greatest stock market crash in the history of the United States.
It happened in the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday October 29, 1929, now known as Black Tuesday. Bank failures followed, resulting in businesses closing. This caused worldwide panic, which started the Great Depr... |
50703 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20London | Greater London | Greater London is an administrative district. It covers London, England. About 7.5 million people live there.
It is also one of the regions of England used by the Government for various purposes, including administration and statistics.
Greater London is a conurbation, a city made from merging many smaller villages,... |
50710 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20Weapons%20Convention | Chemical Weapons Convention | The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is an arms control agreement which prohibits chemical weapons and chemical warfare. It is forbidden to make, store or use the weapons. Every country can become a part of it and most countries (188 in 2010) are. The full name is the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, ... |
50716 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi%20Strauss | Levi Strauss | Levi Strauss (February 26, 1829–September 26, 1902) was a German-born American maker of clothing.
Born as Löb Strauss into a Jewish family in Buttenheim in Franconia, Bavaria, now a part of Germany. In 1847, Strauss, his mother and two sisters moved to New York City to join his brothers Jonas and Louis Löb in their d... |
50725 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Peach | Princess Peach | Princess Peach Toadstool (sometimes called Peach) is a character in the Mario video game series. In most of the games she appears in, she is kidnapped by the reptile monster King Bowser and his son, Bowser Jr. She is the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, which is the main setting of most of the Mario games.
Appearance... |
50727 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Daisy | Princess Daisy | Princess Daisy (sometimes called Daisy) is a character from the Mario video games series. She is the Princess of Sarasaland. Princess Daisy is the second major female of the Mario series next to Princess Peach.
Characteristics
Is tomboyish and cheerful.
Has bouncy orange-colored hair.
Has blue eyes.
Likes the color... |
50728 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed%20Dose%20Procedure | Fixed Dose Procedure | The fixed-dose procedure (FDP) was proposed in 1984 to test a substance's acute oral toxicity using fewer animals with less suffering than the older LD50 test which was developed in 1927.
FDP uses 10-20 animals to find the dose that produces toxicity signs but not death, and from there predicts the lethal dose. LD50 (... |
50737 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle%20rape | Tentacle rape | Tentacle rape or shokushu goukan (触手強姦) is illustrated pornography involving the rape of (often quite young) women. This animation is different from other animation methods due to use of tentacles to portray the rape. This was done to get around Japanese censorship laws that made it illegal to portray male genitalia be... |
50742 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan | Neapolitan | Neapolitan means "from the city of Naples in Italy". It is an adjective.
Neapolitan can mean:
Someone who lives in Naples or comes from Naples
Neapolitan language, the language spoken in the former territory of Kingdom of two siclies"
Neapolitan ice cream, a mixture of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream ... |
50743 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%20canto | Bel canto | Bel canto is a way of singing in opera. It comes from the Italian, meaning "beautiful singing".
Bel canto singing means singing beautifully, flexibly and smoothly, delivering high and low notes in a similar style so that all the notes of a singer's range sound even from top to bottom. Bel canto singing started whe... |
50745 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner%20%28disambiguation%29 | Wagner (disambiguation) | Richard Wagner was a German opera composer
Wagner could also mean:
Anthony Wagner, the 20th century English officer
Robert Wagner, American actor |
50752 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori%20Days | Midori Days | Midori Days is an anime about a girl who falls in love so badly that when she wakes up she's somehow attached to her love interest's (seiji) right hand. This anime is about how these two adjust to their strange new relationship.
High school boy Seiji Sawamura is really quite a nice guy, but he's got a bad reputation a... |
50759 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter | Matter | Matter is the substance of which all material is made. That means objects which have mass. More specifically, they must have rest mass, which is a form of energy that matter has even when it is not moving (it has no kinetic energy), is extremely cold (it has no thermal energy), etc. Matter is a word that is sometimes u... |
50767 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence | Innocence | Innocence is the opposite of guilt.
The adjective is innocent (the opposite of 'guilty').
If someone is innocent of a crime it means that they did not do it.
If someone is accused of a crime, they have to go to court. The court will decide whether they are guilty or not guilty (innocent). People must be treated as inn... |
50768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt | Guilt | Guilt can mean several things:
Guilt (emotion), when a person feels that they have done something wrong
Guilt (law), when a court decides that someone has broken the law
Culpability, the extent to which a person can be held responsible for something |
50771 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonic%20poem | Symphonic poem | A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music which has a story attached to it or describes something such as poem or a painting or any idea which is not music. A symphonic poem is a kind of programme music (music for instruments which has an idea outside music).
Symphonic poems were mostly written in ... |
50774 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody | Melody | A melody in music is a group of notes of various pitches (how high or low a note sounds) which are played one after another. Together they make a tune in the same way that a group of words make a sentence. Some people like to sing melodies. Melodies have rhythm (the length of the notes).
In music, 'melody' contrast... |
50777 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Jobs | Steve Jobs | Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, investor and co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. He was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pixar Animation Studios until it was bought by The Walt Disney Company. He was the largest shareholder at Disney and a member of Disney's ... |
50778 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic%20Palace | Apostolic Palace | The Apostolic Palace, also called the Papal Palace or the Palace of the Vatican, is the official residence of the Pope in the Vatican City.
The palace is a complex of buildings, with the Papal Apartment, the Catholic Church's government offices, a handful of chapels, the Vatican Museum and the Vatican library. In all ... |
50780 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-string | G-string | A G-string or thong is a narrow piece of cloth or leather, or plastic that passes between the buttocks. It is attached to a band around the hips. It can be worn as a swimwear or underwear by both men and women. The difference between a G-string and a thong is that a G-string has less material between the legs. This m... |
50785 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple | Staple | Staple may mean:
Staple (fastener), a small piece of metal used to hold sheets of material or wires together
Staple food, a food that is the basic part of a diet. This meaning is often used to cover other areas besides food (A rollercoaster is a theme park staple).
Staple (textiles) is the raw material, or its lengt... |
50792 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental%20number | Transcendental number | A real or complex number is called a transcendental number if it cannot be found as a result of an algebraic equation with integer coefficients.
Proving that a certain number is transcendental can be very hard. Each transcendental number is also an irrational number. The first people to see that there were transcenden... |
50807 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong | Thong | Thong may refer to:
G-string, an item of underwear or swimwear
Thong sandal or "flip-flop", a type of sandal held to the foot by a thin strap
Thong, Kent, an English village
a Vietnamese name, Thông
a common Laotian surname, and the Laotian word for gold |
50809 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop | Flip-flop | In footwear and fashion, flip-flops are a kind of flat, backless sandal. They have a flat sole held on the foot by a u-shaped strap that passes between the first (big) and second toes and around either side of the foot, attached to the sole at three points, commonly known as the thong strap. They may have been develope... |
50812 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong%2C%20Kent | Thong, Kent | Thong is a village in Kent, England. It is south of Gravesend.
Villages in Kent |
50813 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet%20%28place%29 | Hamlet (place) | A hamlet is a small settlement, smaller than a village. Usually, all settlers in a hamlet are centered around a single economic activity. A hamlet may consist of a farm, a mill, a mine or a harbor. All the people living there would be workers on that farm, mill, mine or harbour. Hamlets, especially those with a medieva... |
50815 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording%20Industry%20Association%20of%20America | Recording Industry Association of America | The Recording Industry Association of America or RIAA is an organization that was created and paid for by large record companies. It is based in Washington, D.C. It symbolizes the entire recording industry of the United States of America. The RIAA also participates in the collection, management and distribution of musi... |
50818 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%20del%20Plata | Mar del Plata | Mar del Plata is a city of Argentina in the Buenos Aires Province. It is found on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 km south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata has a population of 541,733 people. It is the 7th biggest city in Argentina.
Other websites
Official Government website
Tourist Info (from the Offici... |
50820 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%20Boniface%20VIII | Pope Boniface VIII | Pope Boniface VIII (; c. 1230 – October 11, 1303), born Benedetto Caetani, was an Italian cleric of the Roman Catholic Church and the 194th Pope from 1294 to 1303.
Early life
Benedetto Caetani was born in 1235 at Anagni in Italy. Caetani studied at Todi and at Spoleto where he earned a degree in law. He came from a... |
50821 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal | Signal | Signal, signals or signalling may refer to:
Scientific concepts
Signal (electrical engineering), a varying quantity that can carry information over air or wires.
Signal processing, the field of techniques used to extract information from signals
Signal (computing), an event, message, or data structure transmitted ... |
50822 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20%28electrical%20engineering%29 | Signal (electrical engineering) | In the fields of communications, signal processing, and in electrical engineering more generally, a signal is any time-varying quantity.
The concept is broad, and hard to define precisely. Definitions specific to subfields are common. For example, in information theory, a signal is a codified message, i.e., the sequ... |
50825 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20August%20Schneider | Eddie August Schneider | Eddie August Schneider (October 20, 1911 – December 23, 1940) was an American aviator. He set the transcontinental airspeed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. When he received his pilot's license, he was the youngest licensed pilot in the United States.
Biography
Eddie Schneider was born in 1911 in... |
50844 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3rdoba%2C%20Argentina | Córdoba, Argentina | Córdoba is a city in the center of Argentina, about 700 km from Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. As of 2006 Córdoba has a population of over 1,300,000 inhabitants, making it Argentina's second largest city.
Cordoba, sometimes abbreviated Cba, is the capital of the same name province and from Buenos... |
50849 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20New%20Zealand | Air New Zealand | Air New Zealand is a big passenger airline from Auckland, New Zealand. It flies mainly in Australasia and South Pacific, but it also has services to Europe, North America and Asia. It is a Star Alliance member. It joined the alliance in 1999. Its main base or hub is Auckland International Airport.
History
In 1940, TE... |
50851 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Jamaica | Air Jamaica | Air Jamaica is the national airline of Jamaica from Kingston, Jamaica. It flies regular services from Kingston and Montego Bay to 23 airports in the Caribbean, the USA, Canada and United Kingdom. The airline's main bases are Norman Manley International Airport (KIN), Kingston and Sangster International Airport (MBJ), M... |
50855 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem%20valuation | Ecosystem valuation | Ecosystem valuation is a widely used tool to find out the impact of human activities on an environmental system. It is done by giving an economic value to an ecosystem or its ecosystem services.
Value of ecosystem services
The simplest form of ecosystem valuation is that one looks at an ecosystem as if its ecological ... |
50863 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist | Economist | An economist is someone who studies or works in the field of economics. Economics is the study of how people make choices to satisfy their wants.
According to Frédéric Bastiat:
"There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good econo... |
50864 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative%20Party%20%28UK%29 | Conservative Party (UK) | The Conservative Party (informally as the Tory Party) is the main centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. Their policies usually promote conservatism. They are the largest party in the House of Commons after the 2019 United Kingdom general election, with 365 out of a possible 650 seats.
The party has gener... |
50866 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich | Sandwich | A sandwich is a food prepared by placing different kinds of foods between two pieces of bread. The pieces of bread in a sandwich are referred to as slices or sheets of bread. Between the slices of bread, people often add in vegetables, meat, or cheese. The sandwich is thought to have been made first for the Earl of San... |
50867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery | Artillery | Artillery is a word for the big guns used in an army, for example cannons and howitzers. Such guns are used to shoot targets far away. Artillery is often used to stop enemy troops using an area, to bombard trenches and buildings with enemies in it and to support friendly units. There are many different weapons that are... |
50869 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Lords | House of Lords | The House of Lords is one of the two Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom (UK). It is in London, the capital city of the UK. The other house is the House of Commons. Together the two houses form the government and parliament of the UK.
The House of Lords is not elected (voted for), except in the case of the hol... |
50870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acapulco | Acapulco | Acapulco is a town and sea port on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 300 km (190 miles) southwest from Mexico City. Acapulco is on a deep, semi-circular bay. It is a stop for shipping and cruising lines running between Panama, and San Francisco, California, USA. In 2005, about 722,499 people lived there.
Its name is a Nahu... |
50877 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche%20Bahn | Deutsche Bahn | Deutsche Bahn AG (short DB AG or often only DB) is Europe's largest railway company. It runs over 30,000 trains a day and owns more than 5,000 stations. The company headquarters are in Berlin, Germany.
It was founded on January 1, 1994 to replace the Deutsche Bundesbahn, which was the state railway of West Germany, an... |
50878 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna%20Convention%20on%20the%20Law%20of%20Treaties | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties | The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties is a contract of International law. It was signed in the 1960s. It codified earlier customs that were there. 105 states signed the convention.
Other websites
Full text of the treaty: html, pdf
Easy-to-read version of the text
Sources
Damrosch, Henkin, et al., Internation... |
50883 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lost%20World | The Lost World | The Lost World is a book written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the year 1912. In it, Professor Challenger and his companions travel to find a large plateau in South America where dinosaurs still live. After a long journey they find the plateau, and witness not only dinosaurs, but two tribes - an ancient Native American ... |
50884 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty%20International | Amnesty International | Amnesty International (also called AI or Amnesty) is an international organization founded in London in 1961. They promote human rights in accordance with Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law. This organization was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for its defense of hu... |
50885 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies | Teletubbies | Teletubbies is a British-American BBC children's television series for pre-school viewers.
It was a show made from 31 March 1997 to 16 February 2001. It was developed by Ragdoll Productions and created by director Anne Wood CBE and Andrew Davenport whom wrote all 365 episodes of the original series and all 120 episodes... |
50887 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC | FLAC | FLAC (which stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a way to code audio files. It makes those audio files smaller, without affecting the sound quality. It is unlike MP3, because when encoding audio using an MP3 encoder, information is lost and cannot be recovered. When a FLAC file is decoded, it will be identical to t... |
50896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling%20Act | Enabling Act | The Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz in German) was passed by Germany's parliament (the Reichstag) on 23 March 1933. It was the second major step after the Reichstag Fire Decree through which the Nazis obtained dictatorial powers using largely legal means. The Act enabled Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his cabinet to ena... |
50897 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary%20hypertension | Pulmonary hypertension | Pulmonary hypertension or PH is a condition where there is high blood pressure in the lungs. This condition makes it hard to breathe. Some people with the condition need extra oxygen. This condition can also make a person dizzy and become easily tired. Some people with the condition faint easily. The symptoms get worse... |
50905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Standard%20Time | Eastern Standard Time | There are three different time zones called Eastern Standard Time Zone:
Australian Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10
Brazilian Eastern Standard Time, UTC−2
Eastern Time Zone (North America), UTC−5 |
50906 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decameron | Decameron | The Decameron is a collection of 100 short stories. It was written by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio around 1350. In the book, ten friends, seven young women and three young men, leave the city of Florence because of the plague and stay in a large house in the countryside. Each day, they entertain each other by ... |
50909 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung%20transplant | Lung transplant | A lung transplant is a type of surgery. People who can not breathe without additional oxygen may need a lung transplant. In this surgery, the patient's ill lung or lungs are removed. A healthy lung or lungs are put into the patient. The healthy lungs may come from a dead or from a living person. When the person who gi... |
50950 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity | Commodity | Commodity is a term with distinct meanings in both business and in Marxian political economy. For the former, it is a product, that is traded solely on the basis of price. For Marxian political economy it means wares offered for exchange.
Business usage
In the world of business, a commodity is a product, good or servi... |
50951 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity%20market | Commodity market | Commodity markets are markets where raw or primary products are exchanged. These raw commodities are traded on regulated commodities exchanges, in which they are bought and sold in standardized contracts.
This article focuses on the history and current debates regarding global commodity markets. It covers physical pr... |
50952 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20economy | Political economy | Political economy was the original term for the study of production, the acts of buying and selling, and their relationships to laws, customs and government.
Early history
It developed in the 17th century as the study of the economies of states which placed the theory of property in the theory of government.
Some pol... |
50958 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Lai%20Massacre | My Lai Massacre | The My Lai Massacre (pronounced IPA: [mi.˧˩˥'lɐːj˧˧], Thảm sát Mỹ Lai, Thảm sát Sơn Mỹ) was the killing of hundreds of civilians by United States troops at the village of My Lai, Vietnam on March 16, 1968. A memorial in My Lai lists the names of 504 victims.
Before the massacre, U.S. troops were told that all of the "... |
50970 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20II%20of%20England | Henry II of England | Henry II of England, also known as Henry II Curtmantle (Le Mans, France, 5 March 1133 – Chinon, France, 6 July 1189) was also Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western Fra... |
50974 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus | Damascus | Damascus (sometimes called the city of Jasmin) is the capital city of Syria. IIn Arabic, its name is Dimashq (دِمَشْق). It is the largest city in Syria with about 4.8 million people living there. Damascus is thought to be one of oldest cities in the world that still has people living in it. It is believed that people ... |
50983 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart-lung%20transplant | Heart-lung transplant | A heart-lung transplant is a type of surgery to help people who have very sick hearts and lungs. In this surgery, the patient's own heart and lungs are taken out and replaced by healthy organs. During the surgery, a machine called a heart-lung machine pumps blood for the patient and breathes for him or her. Not many he... |
51012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie%20Barker | Ronnie Barker | Ronald William George Barker (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005), popularly known as Ronnie Barker and (as a writer) Gerald Wiley, was an English comic actor, comedian and writer. He was born in Bedford and moved to Oxford when he was four. He is best known for being on the very popular television variety show The Two... |
51017 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guant%C3%A1namo%20Bay | Guantánamo Bay | Guantánamo Bay () is a bay in Guantánamo province, Cuba. It is at the southeastern end of Cuba (). It is the largest harbour on the south side of the island. It is surrounded by steep hills creating an enclave cut off from its immediate hinterland.
History
The bay was originally named Guantánamo by the Taíno. Christo... |
51018 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Guantanamo (disambiguation) | Guantánamo is a city in Cuba.
Guantánamo or Guantanamo might also mean:
Guantánamo Province, a province of Cuba that contains the city
Guantánamo Bay, a bay in the south of Cuba
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, a naval base used by the United States, located in that bay |
51022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guant%C3%A1namo%20Province | Guantánamo Province | This article is about the province in Cuba. For other titular locales and uses, see Guantanamo (disambiguation).
Guantánamo is the easternmost province of Cuba. Its capital is also called Guantánamo. Other towns include Baracoa. The province surrounds the important U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay.
Guantánamo's archi... |
51026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana%20Province | Havana Province | Havana Province, (Spanish - Provincia de la Habana), Cuba, is a former provinces of Cuba. On January 1, 2011 it was split into two new provinces - Artemisa Province and Mayabeque Province.
The capital city of Havana is a separate province, surrounded by the province of Havana. It had 711 066 people in the 2002 census.... |
51032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20de%20Cuba%20Province | Santiago de Cuba Province | Santiago de Cuba Province is the second most populated province in the island of Cuba. It has a population of about 1.2 million people. The largest city Santiago de Cuba (554,000) is its main administrative center. Other large cities include Palma Soriano (125,000), Contramaestre (88,000), Mayarí Arriba (80,000), San L... |
51033 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granma%20Province | Granma Province | Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is Bayamo. Other towns on it include Manzanillo (a port on the Gulf of Guacanayabo) and Pilón.
History
The province was named after the yacht Granma, used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to land in Cuba with 82 guerrillas in 1956. The American who sold them the seco... |
51036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vail%2C%20Colorado | Vail, Colorado | Vail is a town in the American state of Colorado. It is best known for being one of the best places to ski in North America. The Vail Ski Resort is the largest ski resort with only one mountain in North American. In 2006, it was believed that 4,859 people lived in Vail.
Notes
Cities in Colorado |
51037 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holgu%C3%ADn%20Province | Holguín Province | Holguín is one of the provinces of Cuba, the second most populous after Ciudad de la Habana. It lies in the southeast of the country. Its major cities include Holguín (the capital), Banes, Antilla, Mayarí, and Moa.
The province has a population of slightly over one million people. Its territory extends over more than ... |
51038 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las%20Tunas%20Province | Las Tunas Province | Las Tunas is one of the provinces of Cuba. Major towns include Puerto Padre and Amancio, as well as the capital, Victoria de Las Tunas (sometimes known as Las Tunas, or even just Tuna).
The Las Tunas province was established in 1978, when it was split from the Oriente region.
The southern coast, which opens onto the ... |
51039 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hartley | Paul Hartley | Paul James Hartley (born October 19, 1976) is a Scottish football player. He currently plays for Celtic and the Scottish national team.
Hartley used to play for Hamilton Academical, Millwall, Raith Rovers, Hibernian, Greenock Morton, St Johnstone and Hearts.
Scottish footballers
1976 births
Living people |
51040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camag%C3%BCey%20Province | Camagüey Province | Camagüey is the largest of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is Camagüey. Other towns include Florida and Nuevitas.
Camagüey is mostly low lying, with no major hills or mountain ranges passing through the province. Numerous large cays (including what used to be one of Fidel Castro's favourite fishing spots; the Archi... |
51041 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciego%20de%20%C3%81vila%20Province | Ciego de Ávila Province | Ciego de Ávila is one of the provinces of Cuba, and was previously part of Camagüey Province. Its capital is Ciego de Ávila, which lies on the Carretera Central (central highway), and the second city is Morón, farther north.
Off the north coast of the province are a string of cayos (cays) - these islands are being dev... |
51042 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancti%20Sp%C3%ADritus%20Province | Sancti Spíritus Province | Sancti Spíritus is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is the identically named Sancti Spíritus. Another major city is Trinidad.
The southern coast of the province is flat, but the western portion of Sancti Spíritus province is mountainous. The southeast has numerous mangroves and swamps.
The largest man made r... |
51043 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Clara%20Province | Villa Clara Province | Villa Clara is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its main cities are Santa Clara (the capital), Sagua La Grande, Placetas, Camajuaní, Remedios and Caibarién.
The coast of Villa Clara is dotted with numerous cays, and there are many coral reefs and sandy beaches, too.
Around Santa Clara, the land rises into the Alturas de... |
51044 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cienfuegos%20Province | Cienfuegos Province | Cienfuegos (Spanish for "one hundred fires") is one of the provinces of Cuba. The capital city of the province is also called Cienfuegos and was founded by French settlers in 1819.
Cienfuegos is the smallest province in Cuba. Growing and processing sugar is very important to its economy. There are many sugar mills and... |
51045 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanzas%20Province | Matanzas Province | Matanzas is one of the provinces of Cuba.
Location
Major towns
Major towns in the province include Cárdenas, Jovellanos and the capital of the same name, Matanzas. The resort town of Varadero is also located in this province.
Geographical location and appearance
The second largest in Cuba, Matanzas province is lar... |
51046 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinar%20del%20R%C3%ADo%20Province | Pinar del Río Province | Pinar del Río is one of the provinces of Cuba. It is at the western end of the island of Cuba.
The Pinar del Río province has one of Cuba's three main mountain ranges, the Cordillera de Guaniguanico. The mountains are divided into the easterly Sierra del Rosario and the westerly Sierra de los Organos. These form a lan... |
51047 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla%20de%20la%20Juventud | Isla de la Juventud | The Isle of Youth () is the largest Cuban island after Cuba itself. It is the sixth-largest island in the West Indies. The island has an area of and is southwest of mainland Cuba. It is across the Gulf of Batabanó. The island is almost directly south of Havana and Pinar del Río. Because of its superficial extension, ... |
51053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herg%C3%A9 | Hergé | Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), also known as Hergé, was a Belgian cartoonist. Hergé was born in Etterbeek, Brussels from a group of people in Belgium called Walloons. He's best known for his 23 completed comics, The Adventures of Tintin. Hergé first made Tintin in Le Petit Vingtième in 1929.
"This f... |
51059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville%2C%20Kentucky | Louisville, Kentucky | Louisville is the largest city in the state of Kentucky in the USA. The settlement that became the City of Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark. It is named after King Louis XVI of France. It was an important riverport in the 19th century. Many people come to the city in May for the Kentucky Derby hors... |
51060 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Rushmore | Mount Rushmore | Mount Rushmore is a famous mountain and memorial near Keystone, South Dakota in the United States. It has the heads of four of America's presidents carved on it: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. The Mount Rushmore Memorial is a part of the United States Presidential Memorial... |
51061 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20in%20movies | 2006 in movies | The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing movies, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of movies released and notable deaths.
Highest-grossing movies
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest became the third movie in cinema history to gross over $1 billion and is the 24th high... |
51063 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Side%20Story | West Side Story | West Side Story is a musical. It is based on Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. The book was written by Arthur Laurents. The music was composed by Leonard Bernstein, and the lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim. It starred Carol Lawrence as Maria.
West Side Story opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre ... |
51064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorscheid | Lorscheid | Lorscheid is a village and a part of the Ruwer (municipality) near Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Lorscheid is on an old Roman road. Many archaeological settlements are nearby. The village is first mentioned in the inventory of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier for the year 1211.
References
Other websites
... |
51066 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrash%20metal | Thrash metal | Thrash metal is a type of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal types of music, that is characterised by its high speed and aggression.
Origins
The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of bands began incorporating the sound of the New Wave of British Heav... |
51070 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax%20%28US%20band%29 | Anthrax (US band) | Anthrax is a thrash metal band from New York City, USA. Anthrax released their first album in 1984. Anthrax was one of the most popular bands of the 1980s thrash metal scene. They have sold about 15 million albums as of 2012.
Career
Beginning
Anthrax was formed by guitar players Scott Ian and Danny Lilker in 1981. S... |
51075 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Himmler | Heinrich Himmler | Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and leader of the SS.
Himmler and the Holocaust
Himmler's SS (theTotenkopfverbände) organized and administered Germany’s regime of concentration camps and, after 1941, the Holocaust in Poland. The SS, through its Security Service ... |
51082 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone%2C%20Perth%20and%20Kinross | Scone, Perth and Kinross | Scone (Modern Gaelic: Sgàin; Medieval: Scoine []) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
The medieval town of Scone, which grew up around the monastery and royal residence, ended in the early nineteenth century when Scone Palace was built on the site. The modern town of New Scone nowadays is simply called Scone. I... |
51085 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation | Coronation | A coronation is a ceremony that gives a monarch regal or royal power. The power is symbolized by putting a crown upon his or her head. We say that the king or queen is "crowned" at the coronation.
The ritual may have a religious meaning. Coronations are not as common now as in the past, although in some countries suc... |
51086 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth%20and%20Kinross | Perth and Kinross | Perth and Kinross (Peairt agus Ceann Rois in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, City of Dundee, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling, Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas. Perth is the administrative centre. It corresponds broadly, but not exactly, with... |
51089 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylon | Cylon | The Cylons are fictional robots on the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica.
The Story So Far
The people from the Twelve Colonies of Kobol created the Cylon robots. They told them to work for them and fight for them. The Cylons stood up to the people from the Colonies and fought against them. The Cy... |
51091 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo | Gestapo | The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany.
Hermann Göring, the Minister-President of Prussia, formed the unit in 1933. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of SS national leader Heinrich Himmler, who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei) by Hi... |
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