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51092 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrewdriver | Skrewdriver | Skrewdriver was a punk rock band formed in Blackpool, England in 1976 by Ian Stuart Donaldson. They later became a skinhead/Oi! band, and became controversial by having racist views. They became one of the first white power punk bands and played a leading role in the Rock Against Communism movement.
Members
Ian Stuar... |
51093 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaros%C5%82aw%20Kaczy%C5%84ski | Jarosław Kaczyński | Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński (born 18 June 1949) is a Polish politician. He was born in Warsaw.
As a child, he and his brother Lech Kaczyński starred in the 1962 Polish movie The Two Who Stole The Moon (O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc), based on a popular Polish children's story by Kornel Makuszyński.
He was Prim... |
51095 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpc | Sierpc | Sierpc is a city in Poland in the Masovian Voivodeship. About 18,872 people live there. The area is 18,6 km².
The football club there is called Kasztelan Sierpc.
Other websites
Official town webpage
Map via mapa.szukacz.pl
Open air museum in Sierpc - photo
Cities in Poland |
51102 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20failure | Heart failure | Heart failure is when the heart cannot pump blood well. Heart failure is different from cardiac arrest, because the heart is still working. Heart failure can be sudden ("acute"), like after a heart attack, or can come on slowly.
Someone with heart failure can have shortness of breath (which may be worse when they lie... |
51109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bernard%20Shaw | George Bernard Shaw | George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
His best known works are his plays, some of which were made into movies. He wrote many plays about political problems, and those plays sometimes gave him enemies. For example, he wrote a play about p... |
51114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash | Kalash | The Kalash (Nuristani: Kasivo) or Kalasha, are an ethnic group of the Hindu Kush mountain range. They live in the Chitral district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalash language, a member of the Dardic language family of Indo-Aryan.
There are only about 3000 Kalash polytheists and 30... |
51115 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg%20people | Tuareg people | The Tuareg (, sometimes spelled Touareg in French, or Twareg in English) are a Berber ethnic group. The Tuareg today lives mostly in West Africa, but they were once nomads that moved throughout the Sahara. They used their own writing known as the tifinaɤ.
Today most Tuaregs are Muslims. Their most important leader was... |
51142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinahmi | Kinahmi | In Finnish mythology, Kinahmi is a great whirl in sea. Kinahmi is a way to Tuonela, the land of dead people. Souls of evil people must swim through Kinahmi to enter Tuonela. Swords, axes and needles moves with water and hurts souls of evil people.
There is also a different story about water between land of dead and la... |
51147 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Boccaccio | Giovanni Boccaccio | Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet. He wrote several famous works, such as On Famous Women and the Decameron. Boccaccio was the first poet, who used ottava rima in longer poems.
Thus he started long tradition of employing this form in epic poems.
Some of Geoffrey ... |
51149 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank | Frank | The term Frank has many meanings:
Franks, a Germanic people active during the Middle Ages
The people who live in Franconia (Franken) today are calls Franks
A hot dog
Frank (Amy Winehouse album)
People
Anne Frank (1929-1945) wrote a diary during the Second World War
Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), American singer who is... |
51159 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20sink | Kitchen sink | The kitchen sink is part of the phrase "everything but the kitchen sink", implying too much.
It may also refer to:
A sink (or basin) in the kitchen, which may be used for washing
Kitchen Sink (publisher), an independent comic book publisher
Kitchen Sink (album), a 2002 album by singer Reina Collins
Kitchen Sink (mag... |
51160 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopwood | Hopwood | Hopwood can be the name of different places:
Hopwood, Worcestershire, a small settlement in England.
Hopwood, Pennsylvania, a community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. |
51161 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopwood%2C%20Worcestershire | Hopwood, Worcestershire | Hopwood is the name of a small settlement in Worcestershire, England, south of Birmingham.
Hopwood was established due to the Worcestershire and Birmingham Canal, which runs through the area. Due to this canal the settlement developed around the "Hopwood Inn", which would be a stopping point for anyone using the cana... |
51162 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral | Integral | In calculus, an integral is the space under a graph of an equation (sometimes said as "the area under a curve"). An integral is the reverse of a derivative, and integral calculus is the opposite of differential calculus. A derivative is the steepness (or "slope"), as the rate of change, of a curve. The word "integral" ... |
51163 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurysm | Aneurysm | An aneurysm (or aneurism) is a blood-filled bulge of a blood vessel. It is usually caused by disease or by the walls of the blood vessel becoming weak. Aneurysms usually happen in arteries at the base of the brain and in the aorta (the main artery coming out of the heart) - this is an aortic aneurysm. This bulge in a b... |
51173 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon | Digimon | Digimon is a Japanese media franchise made by Bandai. It features the group of eponymous digital creatures, which humans befriend each partners and protect both worlds from enemies. The series has movies, manga, anime, toys, video games and card games.
Anime
1999 anime television series |
51183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Juan | San Juan | San Juan is Spanish for "Saint John". It might mean:
San Juan, Puerto Rico, the capital of Puerto Rico
San Juan Province, Argentina
San Juan Province (Dominican Republic)
San Juan de la Maguana, a city in the province
San Juan Creek, a small river in Orange County, California
San Juan, Metro Manila
Related pages
Sain... |
51185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Ballmer | Steve Ballmer | Steven A. "Steve" Ballmer was the CEO of Microsoft Corporation from January 2000 to May 2014. As of 2014, he is the owner of the NBA team the Los Angeles Clippers after Donald Sterling was fired. He is the second recorded person to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a... |
51192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears | Tears | Tears are clear liquid made by the body to clean and lubricate the eyes.
There are three different types of tears that the body makes:
Basal tears: In a normal, healthy mammal, tears are regularly made to clean the cornea (front part of the eye) and to keep it clean from dust.
Reflex tears: This type of tear is ma... |
51210 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1313 | 1313 |
Events
November 9 – Louis the Bavarian beats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
Siege of Rostock ends.
Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia starts the Banjska monastery.
Births
June 16 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (died 1375)
July 20 – John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot, (died 136... |
51211 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1292 | 1292 |
Events
Europe
November 17 – (Julian calendar) John Balliol is selected as King of Scotland from among 13 candidates by King Edward I of England; Edward then treats John as a puppet ruler and Scotland as a vassal state, eventually leading to the Wars of Scottish Independence beginning from 1296.
Asia
The Lanna k... |
51212 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1203 | 1203 | 1203 (MCCIII) was .
Events
April 16 – Philip II of France enters Rouen, leading to the eventual unification of Normandy and France.
April 8 – Congress in Bilino Polje, where Ban Kulin officially declared his allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church and denounced the heresy.
June 23 – Fleet of the Fourth Crusade ent... |
51213 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1208 | 1208 | 1208 (MCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13th century.
Events
January 31 – Inferior Swedish forces defeats the invading danes in Battle of Lena.
June 21 – Philip of Swabia King of Germany and rival Holy Roman Emperor to Otto IV, assassinated in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach because Ph... |
51214 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1211 | 1211 | 1211 (MCCXI) was .
Events
The oldest extant double entry bookkeeping record dates from 1211
Canons regular of the Order of the Holy Cross founded September 14 1211
Troops led by Estonian resistance fighter Lembitu of Lehola destroy a garrison of missionaries in the historical Estonian region of Sakala and raid the... |
51215 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1213 | 1213 | 1213 (MCCXIII) was .
Events
May 30 – Battle of Damme; English fleet under William Longsword destroyes a French fleet off the Belgian port in the first major victory for the fledgling Royal Navy.
September 12 – Battle of Muret; The Toulousain and Aragonese forces of Raymond VI of Toulouse and Peter II of Aragon defe... |
51216 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/15 | 15 | 15 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Flaccus.
Events
Valerius Gratus is appointed Prefect of Iudaea.
The town of Emona is founded. It is now called Ljubljana.
Legio XXI Rapax is stationed... |
51217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/16 | 16 | 16 is a year in the 1st century. It was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Taurus and Libo
Events
A Roman army of 90,000 men commanded by Germanicus gains a victory at Idistaviso. They defeat the German war chief Arminius and capturin... |
51218 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/17 | 17 | 17 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Rufus
Events
Roman Empire
Germanicus leads military campaigns in the East.
Cappadocia (in Asia Minor) becomes a Roman province.
Sejanus becomes... |
51219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/18 | 18 | 18 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar.
Events
Tiberius and Germanicus are Roman Consuls.
A vexillatio (sub-unit) of Legio III Augusta is destroyed by an ambush in Africa.
The... |
51220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/19 | 19 | 19 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Balbus.
Events
Roman Empire
Maroboduus, king of the Marcomanni, is deposed by Catualda. This ended the threat to the Romans from German tribes until... |
51221 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/20 | 20 | 20 is a year in the 1st century. It was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus and Cotta.
Events
Tiberias is built on the Sea of Galilee by Herod Antipas.
Galba is a Roman praetor.
Marcus Valerius Messalla... |
51222 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/21 | 21 | 21 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar.
Events
Revolt of the Aedui under Julius Florus and Julius Sacrovir, suppressed by Gaius Silius.
Tiberius is a Roman Consul for the fourt... |
51223 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/22 | 22 | 22 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Agrippa and Galba.
Events
Gaius Sulpicius Galba becomes consul.
Roman law replaces Celtic customs in Gaul.
Beginning of Later Han Dynasty in China.
Births ... |
51224 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/23 | 23 | 23 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pollio and Vetus.
Events
Roman Empire
Strabo publishes Geography. It covers the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus.
Aelius ... |
51229 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/26 | 26 | 26 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Sabinus.
Events
Pontius Pilate is appointed as Prefect of Judaea.
The Emperor Tiberius retires to Capri. He leaves the praetorian prefect Sejanus... |
51230 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/27 | 27 | 27 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Piso and Frugi.
Events
A fire in Rome.
A poorly-built stadium in Fidenae collapses, as 20,000 of the 50,000 spectators died.
Apricots are brought to Rome from... |
51231 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/28 | 28 | 28 is a year in the 1st century. It was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Nerva.
Events
King Daru of Baekje succeeded the throne of Baekje in the Korean peninsula.
The Frisians make a treaty with the Romans to avoid conque... |
51232 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/29 | 29 | 29 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Geminus and Geminus.
Events
Romans capture Sofia.
Agrippina the Elder is exiled to the island of Pandataria. Her sons (except Caligula) are imprisoned by Sejanu... |
51234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/31 | 31 | 31 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Seianus.
Events
Aelius Sejanus named co-Consul to the Emperor Tiberius. Tiberius has Sejanus arrested for treachery and executed.
April 6 - possib... |
51236 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/32 | 32 | 32 is a year in the 1st century. It was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ahenobarbus and Camillus.
Events
Saint Peter traditionally becomes first pope
Symbolic interpretation of the Old Testament by Philo
Births
Ban Chao, Chinese g... |
51237 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/33 | 33 | 33 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman world as the Year of the Consulship of Ocella and Sulla.
Events
Tiberius founds a credit bank in Rome
A financial crisis hits Rome. Many aristocratic families are ruined.
Tradi... |
51238 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/34 | 34 | 34 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Persicus and Vitellius.
Events
Roman start to build a three tier aqueduct. It began in Nîmes and ran for 269 miles.
Naevius Sutorius Macro gained prestige by pr... |
51239 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/36 | 36 | 36 is a year in the 1st century. It was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Allenius and Plautius.
Events
Pontius Pilate is called back to Rome. He had stopped a Samaritan uprising.
L. Vitellius defeated Artabanus of Parthia in support o... |
51240 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/38 | 38 | 38 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iulianus and Asprenas.
Events
Probable year of the marriage of Claudius and Messalina
Apion represents a group to complain to Caligula about the Jews in Alex... |
51241 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonar%20Law | Bonar Law | Andrew Bonar Law (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923), commonly called Bonar Law (), served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Law was elected to Parliament in 1900 as a member of the Conservative Party. He became leader of the Party in 1911. He was Lloyd George's Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the... |
51243 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/39 | 39 | 39 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Corbulo.
Events
Roman Empire
Tigellinus, minister and favorite of the later Roman emperor Nero, is banished for adultery with Caligula's sisters.... |
51246 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary%20artery | Pulmonary artery | The pulmonary artery is a blood vessel that connects the heart to the lungs. The pulmonary artery carries blood that does not have much oxygen. The blood from throughout the body is taken into the heart by the right atrium into the right ventricle. The blood is pumped into the pulmonary artery and into the lung capilla... |
51248 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artery | Artery | An artery is a blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart to other parts of the body. Almost all arteries carry blood with a lot of oxygen in it. The only arteries that do not carry oxygen-rich blood are the pulmonary artery, and (in a fetus) the umbilical artery.
Every artery has three layers. The outer la... |
51253 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6nk%C3%B6ping | Jönköping | Jönköping is a city in Sweden. About 90,000 people live there. It is in southern Sweden near the lake Vättern.
Jönköping was actually 3 towns that grew into one large town. The 3 towns were, Jönköping (55.000), Huskvarna (22.000) and Norrahammar (9.000).
Jönköping is the 9th biggest city in Sweden.
Sports
HV71, is... |
51259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwickshire | Warwickshire | Warwickshire (pronounced //, //, or //) is a county in central England. The county town is Warwick. The shape of the administrative area Warwickshire differs considerably from that of the historic county. Commonly used abbreviations for the county are Warks or Warwicks.
Warwickshire is perhaps best known for being the... |
51267 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler%20effect | Doppler effect | The Doppler effect is a change in frequency and wavelength of a wave. It is caused by the change in distance between the thing creating the wave (causer) and whatever is measuring seeing or hearing the wave (watcher or observer).
Another word for "causer" is "sender" or "source". Another word for "change in distance" ... |
51268 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monagas%20Sport%20Club | Monagas Sport Club | Monagas Sport Club is a club of football from Maturín, Venezuela.
Presidents
Rubén León (1988–1992)
Rumualdo Romero (1993–1995)
Jesús Salgado (1995–1996)
Rafael Castellín Osuna (1997)
Claudio González (2000–2001)
Roicis Pérez (2001–2003)
Antonio del Moral
Antonio Núñez
Manuel Villalba
Ramón Caballero (... |
51269 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4ttern | Vättern | Vättern is the second biggest lake in Sweden. The lake's total surface area is about . The deepest known point is . The average depth of the lake is .
Vättern is famous for the quality of its transparent water. Many of the people living in the area get their drinking water directly from Vättern. The lake water does n... |
51271 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppsala | Uppsala | Uppsala is a city in Sweden. It is the 4th biggest city in Sweden, and the center of the Church of Sweden.
The city is home to the well-known student residential area of Flogsta. It is the largest student residence in the city. It is also known for the 'Flogsta scream'. At 10 pm every evening, students scream their ... |
51273 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer%20of%20Love | Summer of Love | The Summer of Love is the name for the summer of 1967 in the United States, especially in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California. Thousands of young people from all over the world went to San Francisco to help create a hippie counterculture. The Summer of Love made the rest of America much more aware ... |
51274 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appenzell%20Innerrhoden | Appenzell Innerrhoden | Appenzell Innerrhoden is one of the twenty-six cantons of Switzerland. It is the smallest canton by population and the second smallest by area.
Districts
The 6 (districts) of Appenzell Innerrhoden are:
Appenzell, population 5587 (2002)
Gonten, population 1398 (2002)
Oberegg, population 1831 (2002)
Rüte, population 3... |
51275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataphile | Cataphile | A cataphile, also known as an urban explorer or "kata", is a person who illegally explores the catacombs underneath Paris, France. The catacombs go on for approximately 186 miles. The cataphiles carry maps, usually made by hand.
Paris |
51277 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire | Staffordshire | Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Stafford. Part of the National Forest is there. It is next to the counties of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire and Shropshire.
The largest city in ceremonial Staffo... |
51290 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20Cretaceous | Upper Cretaceous | The Upper Cretaceous is the last geological epoch in the Cretaceous. It began 100.5 million years ago, and ended 66 million years ago.
The Cretaceous is traditionally divided into Lower Cretaceous (early), and Upper Cretaceous (late), because of the different rocks. The rocks reflect the conditions in which they were ... |
51291 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai%20language | Thai language | The Thai language is the national and official language of Thailand. It is the first language of the Thai people, Thailand's main ethnic group. Thai is closely related to the Lao language. In fact, some dialects of Thai and Lao are mutually intelligible, meaning that speakers of one language can talk with and understan... |
51293 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20England%20Patriots | New England Patriots | The New England Patriots is an American football team in the National Football League or the NFL. They are in the American Football Conference or the AFC. Their starting quarterback is Mac Jones. Cody Kessler plays the second string quarterback. The Patriots play in Gillette Stadium on Foxborough, midway between Boston... |
51294 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digenea | Digenea | Digenea are a type of flatworms. They are parasites. They have two suckers, usually. One of them is ventral (on the belly), and the other is oral (where the mouth is).
Flatworms |
51295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidogastrea | Aspidogastrea | The Aspidogastrea (gr. aspid - shield, gaster - stomach/pouch) is a small group of flukes. There are about 80 species.
The group is a subclass of the Trematoda, and sister group to the Digenea. Species are between approximately one mm to several cm long. They are parasites of freshwater and marine molluscs and verteb... |
51297 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theropod | Theropod | Theropods ('beast foot') are a group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs.
Although they were primarily carnivorous, a number of theropod groups evolved herbivory, omnivory and insectivory.
Today, they are represented by 10,000 living species of birds, which evolved in the Upper Jurassic from small feathered coelurosauri... |
51299 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwasawa%20theory | Iwasawa theory | In number theory, Iwasawa theory is a Galois module theory of ideal class groups, started by Kenkichi Iwasawa, in the 1950s, as part of the theory of cyclotomic fields. In the early 1970s, Barry Mazur thought about generalizations of Iwasawa theory to Abelian Varieties. Later, in the early 90s, Ralph Greenberg has sugg... |
51302 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20%28mathematics%29 | Ring (mathematics) | In mathematics, a ring is an algebraic structure consisting of a set together with two operations: addition (+) and multiplication (•). These two operations must follow special rules to work together in a ring.
Mathematicians use the word "ring" this way because a mathematician named David Hilbert used the German wor... |
51314 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1294 | 1294 |
Events
July 5 – Pope Celestine V succeeds Nicholas IV as the 192nd pope.
December 24 – Pope Boniface VIII succeeds Pope Celestine V as the 193rd pope after Celestine V abdicates the papacy on December 13, only five months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on July 5, wishing to return to his life as... |
51315 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/989 | 989 | 989 is a year in the 10th century.
Events
September – Halley's Comet is at perihelion
Sankore University founded in Timbuktu
Births
Adémar de Chabannes (died 1034), monk and historian
Gisela of Swabia (died 1043), Holy Roman Empress
Deaths
6 September – Sharaf al-Daula, emir of Kerman and Fars |
51316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/988 | 988 | 988 is a year in the 10th century.
Events
Al-Azhar University is founded in Cairo, Egypt. It is the 2nd oldest university in the world.
Vladimir I, Prince of Kiev marries Anna, sister of Byzantine emperor Basil II and converts to Christianity. Baptism of Kievan Rus'.
Abbo becomes abbot at Fleury
Baile Átha Cliath... |
51317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/987 | 987 | 987 is a year in the 10th century.
Events
Hugh Capet, Count of Paris, crowned King of France
Kukulcan conquers Chichen Itza
Births
Earl Godwin of Wessex, Anglo Saxon nobleman (died 1053)
Liu Yong, Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty
Deaths
May 21 King Louis V of France |
51318 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/986 | 986 | 986 was a year in the 10th century.
Events
March 2 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks
End of the reign of Emperor Kazan, emperor of Japan
Emperor Ichijō ascends to the throne of Japan
Explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America
Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Den... |
51345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Neruda | Pablo Neruda | Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was a Chilean poet. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971. He wrote in Spanish. Most of his works have been translated into many other languages.
Biography
Neruda was born in the City of Parral in Chile on July 12, 1904 born under the name Ricardo Neftali Rey... |
51346 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Truth%20about%20Nanjing | The Truth about Nanjing | The Truth about Nanjing is a Japanese movie from 2007. It is thought to be made by fundamental Japanese nationalists. In this movie they want to deny the fact of the Nanjing Massacre.
Other websites
'Nanking No Shinjitsu' official website (Japanese language only)
'Nanking No Shinjitsu' Supporting Website ( Automati... |
51347 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing%20Massacre | Nanjing Massacre | The Nanjing Massacre was a massacre (an unjust killing of many people) that happened in Nanjing, China, in December of 1937 and January of 1938. It was part of the Second Sino-Japanese War, which was the part of World War II between China and Japan. At the time, Japan was trying to take over China and Nanjing was the C... |
51362 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism | Neoliberalism | Neoliberalism is a term for different social and economic ideas. Originally the term was used by a group of liberals who helped shape social market economy in the mid 20th century. Classic liberalism characterized by free market trade, deregulation of financial markets, mercantilism and the shift away from state welfar... |
51364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel | Cartel | In economics, a cartel is a group of formerly independent companies who overtly agree to work together. The objectives of cartels are to increase their profits or to stabilize market sales. They do this by fixing the price of goods, by limiting market supply or by other means. Monopolies are not cartels, because in a m... |
51367 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly | Oligopoly | In economics, an oligopoly is a market form in which the market or industry is controlled by a small number of sellers. Usually, the market has high barriers to entry, which prevents new firms from entering the market or even be able to have a significant market share.
As there are only a few sellers in the market, e... |
51371 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market%20forms | Market forms | In economics, market structure (also known as market form) describes the state of a market with respect to competition.
Most market forms given below talk about a homogeneous product. This simply means that they all make the same . They simply want to get the cheapest one, since all kinds of sugars (or soaps) look th... |
51373 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20competition | Perfect competition | In economics, perfect competition is a type of market form in which there are many companies that sell the same product or service and no one has enough market power to be able to set prices on the product or service without losing business. As the conditions for perfect competition are strict, there are only a few mar... |
51374 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopolistic%20competition | Monopolistic competition | Monopolistic competition is a market form. Like with Perfect competition, there are many buyers and sellers. But the market is not perfect. This is because the products are not homogeneous, or because the buyers have explicit or implicit preferences.
This market form is quite common. As an example, take a bakery. Ther... |
51377 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply%20and%20demand | Supply and demand | Supply and demand is a model of microeconomics. It describes how a price is formed in a market economy. There are two determining factors on such a market, the number of things made available, called supply, and the number of things consumers want, called demand. Supply and demand shows how producers and consumers inte... |
51379 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity%20%28economics%29 | Elasticity (economics) | In economics, people talk about elasticity of an economic variable, usually supply or demand, in relation to another economic variable such as income or price. The elasticity of a variable is a measure of how much the variable changes in response to a change in a second variable.
If the price for a good with a price-e... |
51388 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire | Worcestershire | Worcestershire (ˈwʊs.təˌʃə; abbreviated Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands region of central England. From 1974 to 1998 it was part of Hereford and Worcester.
The county borders Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, Warwickshire, and Gloucestershire.
Physical geography
Worcestershire is a fai... |
51389 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zl%C3%ADn | Zlín | Zlín (from 1949 to 1990 Gottwaldov) is a town in the Czech Republic. It is on the Dřevnice River. The Bata Shoes company has developed this city. It is now famous for urbanism.
Towns in the Czech Republic |
51390 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis | Metamorphosis | Metamorphosis in biology means the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages. Good examples are insects and amphibians. Life for most insects begins as a larva or nymph then progresses to the pupa stage and ends as an adult.
Animals that metamormetamorphosize inclu... |
51392 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resilience | Resilience | Resilience generally means the ability to recover from some shock or disturbance.
There are different meanings for
resilience in psychology: the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune
resilience of a material: the physical property of material that can resume its shape after being s... |
51395 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Andrews | St Andrews | St Andrews is a town, that has its name from Saint Andrew the Apostle and is a former royal burgh on the east coast of Fife, Scotland, and an important home of golf. It has a population of about 18 000, and stands on the North Sea coast between Edinburgh and Dundee. It is home to Scotland's oldest university, the Univ... |
51396 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Andrews%20%28disambiguation%29 | St Andrews (disambiguation) | The element St Andrew, St. Andrews or St. Andrew's is found in the names of many places and institutions. All of them are named after Saint Andrew, a Christian saint and one of the New Testament Apostles.
Saint Andrew
Other saints who share this name include:
Saint Andrew Corsini (San Andrea Corsini)
Saint Andrew of ... |
51399 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911%20Encyclop%C3%A6dia%20Britannica | 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica | The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is one of the most famous editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time. The articles are still of value and interest to modern scholars as examples for the knowledge of the 19th and early 20th ... |
51403 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac | Pontiac | Pontiac was an automobile manufacturer, owned by General Motors. Pontiac was known for making affordable performance cars. It was established in 1926. In 2009 General Motors announced that it would shut down Pontiac.
Pontiac is named for Pontiac (Ottawa leader), an 18th-century war chief, and for the town of Pontiac, ... |
51404 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick | Buick | Buick is an automobile maker, owned by General Motors. It is known for making near-luxury cars with excellent performance and value. After the discontinuation of the Saturn brand GM announced Buick's styling would be based off the German Opel's.
Production models
Current
China
Enclave (2020–present)
Encore (2013–p... |
51405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac | Cadillac | Cadillac, officially the Cadillac Division of the General Motors Company, is a luxury car maker, owned by General Motors. During the 20th century, Cadillacs were so highly thought of that the phrase "the Cadillac of x" was coined, meaning that something of excellent quality and better than everything else in its catego... |
51406 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet | Chevrolet | Chevrolet, also known as Chevy, and formally the Chevrolet Division of the General Motors Company, is a car company owned by General Motors. Chevrolet is known for producing popular, affordable cars. Chevrolet produces the Corvette, one of the most famous sports cars in the world.
Chevrolet was created in 1911 by Loui... |
51407 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20car | Sports car | A sports car is a small, fast, quick-turning automobile. Most of them only have two seats or very small seats in the back.
Name
A sports car is different from an automobile for racing. The sports car is allowed to drive on a normal road, whereas race cars cannot.
History
Since the invention of automobiles, people hav... |
51408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile | Oldsmobile | Oldmobile was an automobile maker, owned by General Motors. Oldmobiles were known for being affordable cars with good performance and new technologies. The company was closed in 2004, due to the company being less popular. The cars are still a popular GM car thanks to resale.
Models
Aurora
Oldsmobile Bravada
Custo... |
51409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC | GMC | GMC is an automobile maker, owned by General Motors. GMC is known for building trucks. Some of them are small, while others, like those promoted as "Professional Grade", are big. In the past, GMC was part of the General Motors Diesel Division which also made buses, motorhomes, and vehicles for the military.
The compan... |
51411 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%20Corporation | Saturn Corporation | Saturn was an automobile maker. It was owned by General Motors. It was established on January 7, 1985. Saturns are sold in the United States and Canada, some even being sold in Japan. They are currently known for European styling, and no-haggle pricing. IN the past, their most notable feature was plastic body panels.... |
51412 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden | Holden | Holden was an Australian car maker, owned by General Motors. Holden was known for making rear-wheel drive cars with large, naturally-aspirated engines. The company closed down in 2020.
Vehicles
Current
Former
Original models
Holden Monaro
Holden Camira
Holden Torana
Holden Kingswood
Holden Brougham
Holden Special
H... |
51413 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummer | Hummer | Hummer is a type of Sport utility vehicle. Hummer was first made by AM General who also made vehicles used by the United States Army. The design of the Hummer H1 is based on the military High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV – Humvee).
Hummer used to be made by General Motors. General Motors wanted to se... |
51415 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall%20Motors | Vauxhall Motors | Vauxhall is a car manufacturer. The company was founded in London in 1903 and was named after the area of the city where it was created. The company is based in Luton, Bedfordshire. They have 2 factories, 1 in Luton for production of the Vivaro van and 1 in Ellsmere Port for production of the Astra family car. In March... |
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