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51422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Dunkirk | Battle of Dunkirk | The Battle of Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) (Also known as Operation Dynamo) was a major battle during World War II. It lasted from the 26 May until 4 June 1940. The Allied forces were split in two by a German armoured advance to the Channel coast at Calais. The British and French commanders had been taken by... |
51427 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971%20Bangladesh%20atrocities | 1971 Bangladesh atrocities | The 1971 Bangladesh atrocities refer to the murder of many people in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by the Pakistan National Army (PNA) during the Bangladesh Liberation War that began on March 26, 1971 with Operation Searchlight.
History
In 1947, the United Kingdom split British India into two countries: India and Pa... |
51431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwao%20Takamoto | Iwao Takamoto | Iwao Takamoto (29 April 1925 - 8 January 2007) was a Japanese-American animator, television producer, and film director. He was a production designer for Hanna-Barbera Productions and the artist/character designer of Scooby-Doo.
Biography
Iwao Takamoto's father moved from Hiroshima to the United States for his health... |
51447 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussel | Mussel | Mussels are several families of bivalve molluscs. Mussels live in lakes, rivers, and creeks. They sometimes also live in intertidal areas along coastlines worldwide. The freshwater mussels (several allied families, the largest being the Unionidae) and saltwater mussels (family Mytilidae) are not closely related, despi... |
51449 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastropoda | Gastropoda | Gastropods, or univalves, are the largest and most successful class of molluscs. 60,000–75,000 known living species belong to it. Most of are marine, but many live in freshwater or on land. Their fossil record goes back to the later Cambrian.
Slugs and snails, abalones, limpets, cowries, conches, top shells, whelks, a... |
51453 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limpet | Limpet | The name Limpet is used for many marine and freshwater gastropod species which have a simple conical shell. The phrase "true limpets" is used only for marine limpets in the ancient clade Patellogastropoda. This article is mainly about the true limpets.
True limpets are small marine gastropod molluscs with flattened, c... |
51455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abalone | Abalone | Abalone (from Spanish Abulón) are shellfish, a genus of gastropods.
Abalone are known by their colorful "pearlescent" inside shell. This is also called ear-shell, ormer in Guernsey, abalone in South Africa, and pāua in New Zealand.
The meat of this shellfish is thought to be delicious in some parts of Latin America (... |
51461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellfish | Shellfish | Shellfish is a culinary term for some aquatic invertebrates used as food: molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. It is not a scientific term, and its use may vary from place to place.
Both saltwater and freshwater invertebrates are considered shellfish. Molluscs commonly used as food include the clam, mussel, oyster,... |
51465 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alban%20Berg | Alban Berg | Alban Berg (born Vienna, 9 February 1885; died Vienna 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer. Alban Berg and Anton Webern were both pupils of Arnold Schoenberg. All three composers in their own way changed the style of musical composition in the early 20th century. They grew up at a time when most composers were st... |
51466 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herefordshire | Herefordshire | Herefordshire (known as County of Herefordshire) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders the English counties of Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south east and the Welsh counties of Gwent to the south west and Powys to the west. It is not to be confuse... |
51467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch | Conch | A conch is a sea-dwelling mollusc. It is a marine gastropod. The ch at the end of 'conch' may be pronounced hard or soft.
Many other gastropods have common names with conch in them. They are however not true conches, in the family
Strombidae. One such example is the Horse Conch (Pleuroploca gigantea). The genus Stro... |
51470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. The county includes part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.
The county town is Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, Cirencester, and Tewk... |
51471 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowry | Cowry | Cowry shells (or cowrie), are marine snails of the family Cypraeidae.
They are found chiefly in tropical regions. There are about 200 different species of cowry.
Shell
The shell itself is almost always very smooth and shiny. They have with a long, narrow, slit-like opening. All varieties have a porcelain-like shine ... |
51474 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltshire | Wiltshire | Wiltshire (short: Wilts) is an English county. It borders the counties of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and contains the unitary authority of Swindon. The county town is Trowbridge, in the west of the county at . The county covers 858,931 acres (3476 km²)
Settlements
Notable ... |
51476 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Midlands%20%28county%29 | West Midlands (county) | The County of West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of around 2,600,000 people. The county contains three major cities, these being Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton. Other large settlements in the county include Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, and the Black Country towns ... |
51478 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conurbation | Conurbation | A conurbation is an urban area that includes a number of cities, towns and villages which, through population growth and expansion, have physically merged to form one continuous built up area. It is a sort of agglomeration.
A metropolitan area usually combines one or several conurbations.
Settlements |
51480 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk | Dunkirk | Dunkirk (, pronounced or ; ) is a harbour city in the northernmost part of France, 10 km (6 mi) from the Belgian border.
The population of the whole metropolitan area was of 265,974 at the 1999 census.
Until the middle of the 20th century the city was in the Dutch language area; today the local Dutch dialect still... |
51481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburg-Weilburg | Limburg-Weilburg | Limburg-Weilburg is a Landkreis (rural district) in the west of Hesse, Germany.
History
1867 the Oberlahnkreis with the capital Weilburg was created. In 1886 Limburg an der Lahn district was set up, with the capital Limburg. In 1974 both districts were joined together.
Geography
The district is located between the ... |
51484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elz%2C%20Hesse | Elz, Hesse | Elz is a municipality and a village in Hessen, Germany. It is part of the Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg. It is along the river Lahn. It has 8,088 inhabitants (2004).
Geography
The elevation is between 110m and 291m above sea level. Elz is in a valley called "Limburger Becken", which surrounds the town of Limburg. Elz is... |
51487 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod | Cephalopod | The Cephalopoda (Greek meaning "head-foot") is an important mollusc class. They have bilateral symmetry, a head, and arms or tentacles. Teuthology, a branch of malacology, is the study of cephalopods.
The class has two living subclasses. In the Coleoidea, the mollusc shell has become smaller, or is not there at all; t... |
51496 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlefish | Cuttlefish | Cuttlefish are marine Cephalopod molluscs. They belong to the same class as squid, octopodes and the nautilus.
Cuttlefish have an internal shell (called a cuttlebone), large eyes, and eight arms and two tentacles furnished with finely toothed suckers, with which they grab their prey.
Cuttlefish eat small molluscs, cr... |
51499 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus | Nautilus | Nautilus is the common name for cephalopods of the family Nautilidae. They are the only living members of the subclass Nautiloidea. In appearance, they have not changed much in millions of years. The term chambered nautilus is also used for any species of the Nautilidae.
Many biologists see them as 'living fossils', b... |
51508 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic%20spiral | Logarithmic spiral | A logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral or growth spiral is a special kind of spiral curve which often appears in nature. The logarithmic spiral was first described by Descartes and later extensively investigated by Jakob Bernoulli, who called it Spira mirabilis, "the marvelous spiral".
Definition
In polar coordinate... |
51511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20white | Small white | The small white (Pieris rapae) is a small to mid-sized butterfly of the 'yellows' & 'whites' Pieridae family. It is also commonly known as the small cabbage white or just the cabbage white.
Distribution
It is common across Europe, North Africa and Asia and has also been accidentally introduced to North America, Austra... |
51512 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonauta | Argonauta | Argonauta, the argonauts, is the only living genus in the Argonautidae family. They are a group of pelagic octopods.
They are also called paper nautiluses, because of the paper-thin eggcase that females make. This structure does not have the gas-filled chambers of nautilus shells, and is not a true cephalopod shell. I... |
51513 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection | Protection | Protection means when any group of people or things try to defend the people or things that they care about (so that they would not get hurt). Protection can also mean other things, for example:
Civil protection, or civil defense, protecting life, health, property and environment of citizens
Environmental protectio... |
51514 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor | Minor | Minor can mean:
Minor (law), a young person who has not yet reached the age of majority or some other legal age
Minor scale, a minor key in music |
51517 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage | Camouflage | Camouflage is a visual disguise. Without it, an animal would be recognised easily. If the natural colour of an animal makes it look like its surroundings, that is camouflage. A tiger's stripes in the long grass, and the battledress of a modern soldier are examples.
Camouflage is a form of deception. The word camouflag... |
51518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant | Extant | In biology, an extant group is one which has survived to the present day, and so it is a living group. This distinguishes it from an extinct group.
The term 'extant' can also be used to describe species or higher groups (such as genera or families) which are still in existence (living).
Example: in the group of mollu... |
51523 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm | Echinoderm | Echinoderms are a successful phylum of marine animals. They include sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and their relatives.
Echinoderms have these features:
A skeleton of plates. These are formed from calcite, a mineral made of calcium carbonate. The plates are usually spiny, and the skeleton is co... |
51527 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonaut | Argonaut | The word Argonaut might refer to:
Argonauta, a genus of octopus
Jason and the Argonauts, a tale from Greek mythology
Argonaute (protein), a kind of protein
The Toronto Argonauts, a Canadian Football League team that plays in Toronto, Ontario |
51528 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das%20Rheingold | Das Rheingold | Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the first of the four operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
Das Rheingold is an opera in one act, divided into four scenes. It is a very long act, lasting 2 ½ hours, but it is normally played witho... |
51529 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20Walk%C3%BCre | Die Walküre | Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the second of the four operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). The story continues from the first opera which was called Das Rheingold. It is a very beautiful piece.
Die Walküre was first performed ... |
51532 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried%20%28opera%29 | Siegfried (opera) | Siegfried is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the third of the four operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). The story continues from the end of the second opera which was called Die Walküre.
The first performance of Siegfried took place when the whole Ring cycle (... |
51535 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung | Götterdämmerung | Götterdämmerung is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the fourth and last of the cycle of operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). The story continues from the end of the third opera which was called Siegfried. "Götterdämmerung" is the German name for "Ragnarök".
Gött... |
51536 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der%20Ring%20des%20Nibelungen | Der Ring des Nibelungen | Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung (Alberich)) is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.
Stories
The first opera in the cycle is Das Rheingold.
The second opera in the cycle is Die Walküre.
The third opera in the cycle is Siegfried.
The fourth opera in the cycle is Götterdämmerung.
The story of each... |
51537 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4ki | Väki | In Finnish mythology, Väki means races of Haltijas (Finnish elves) and their magical powers. Different things in nature had their own väki guarding them. For example, Väki of water lived in and protected water. Väki is the name of both the magical power and Haltijas. Väki could sometimes be seen. They looked like littl... |
51552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland | Sudetenland | The Sudetenland was a mountainous area of Czechoslovakia. The name comes from the Sudetes, a mountain range, but it was also used for other places in Bohemia in which mostly-German people lived. They wanted their homes to be part of Germany, not Czechoslovakia. Nazi Germany took Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in 1938,... |
51555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1375 | 1375 | 1375 was a year in the 14th century.
Events
The English, weakened by the plague, lose so much ground to the French that they agree to sign the Treaty of Bruges, leaving them with only the coastal towns of Calais, Bordeaux and Bayonne.
The Russian town of Kostroma is destroyed by the ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod.... |
51563 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral%20%28color%29 | Coral (color) | Coral is a reddish or orangeish shade of pink. The color is named after the sea animal also called corals.
The first written use of coral as a color name in English was in 1513.
Meaning of coral
Coral and coral blue color for painting a room to give a calm feeling of warmth.
In some sects of Hinduism, coral red... |
51570 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson | Crimson | Crimson is reddish magenta color between red and rose on the color wheel. You can make it by combining a strong, bright deep red with a little blue. It is originally the color of the dye produced from the dried bodies of a scale insect, Kermes vermilio.
The word crimson has been in written use in the English since ... |
51589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20%28color%29 | Rose (color) | Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the color wheel. It represents the color of the rose flower.
The first recorded use of rose as a color name in English was in 1382.
Meaning of rose
Saying that someone has rosy cheeks suggests that they are in good health.
Saying that someone is "seeing thro... |
51599 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon%20%28color%29 | Maroon (color) | Maroon is a dark red color.
The word maroon comes from the French word marron which means "chestnut".
The first recorded use of maroon as a color name in English was in 1789.
Meaning of maroon
Vajrayana Buddhist monks wear robes that are colored various shades of maroon.
Tones of maroon color comparison chart
Re... |
51605 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre | Ochre | Ochre or Ocher is a golden-yellow or light yellowish brown colour. The word is from the Greek ochros, meaning "yellow". Ochre is natural earth pigment containing hydrated iron oxide.
Meaning of ochre
The use of ochre is particularly intensive: it is not unusual to find a layer of the cave floor impregnated with a ... |
51627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal%20%28color%29 | Teal (color) | Teal is a deep blue-green color; a dark cyan.
Teal gets its name from the colored area around the eyes of the common teal, a member of the duck family.
The first written use of Teal as a color name in English was in 1917.
Comparison of green, teal, blue and ultramarine
Tones of teal color comparison chart
Tones ... |
51641 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy%20blue | Navy blue | or navy is a dark shade of the color blue. Some people mistake navy blue for black because some navies (such as the United States Navy) use a shade of navy blue that is so dark it is practically black.
Meaning of navy blue
Navy blue represents sailors and also represents the navy of a nation. Navy blue also represe... |
51650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime%20%28color%29 | Lime (color) | Lime is a yellowish green color. It is the color that is half way between the color chartreuse green and yellow on the color wheel. The color lime is named after the fruit, lime.
The official web color named lime actually corresponds to pure green on an RGB display. Lime green is the color of the outer skin of a li... |
51670 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochen%20Rindt | Jochen Rindt | Karl Jochen Rindt (born April 18 1942 in Mainz, Germany – died September 5 1970 in Monza) was a German racing driver who represented Austria during his career. In 1970, he won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, but died in a crash in Monza. He was the only driver to win the championship after he died.
In 19... |
51677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio%20Arrau | Claudio Arrau | Claudio Arrau León (; February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean classical pianist.
Arrau started to play the piano as a boy and was giving concerts at the age of 5. The Chilean government heard of the child prodigy and quickly organized to have him sent to Germany to study with the best music teachers. At the age... |
51678 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotism | Patriotism | Patriotism means loyalty of a person to his/her own nation or the leaders of the nation. A patriot is a person who is on the side of his/her own nation or its leaders. Patriotism is different from nationalism.
Also, contrary to a nationalist, patriots do not favor imperialism, while nationalists tend to... |
51683 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny | Misogyny | Misogyny (similar to Misandry) is a type of discrimination that refers to the discrimination of female people (women). Misandry, a similar term, refers to discrimination of men.
A misogynist is a person who hates women. Misogynists hate women because they believe there is something wrong with them, such as being stupi... |
51685 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmeneich | Malmeneich | Malmeneich is a village in Hesse, Germany. It belongs to the municipality of Elz. The postal code for Malmeneich is 65604 and its dialing code is 06433. 345 people live in the village.
Geography and Climate
Malmeneich is in the Westerwald. The average elevation is 250m above sea level. The highest point is in the fore... |
51698 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon | Maroon | The word Maroon can have the following meanings:
Maroon (colour), a dark red
Maroon (people), runaway slaves in the Caribbean
Marooning, the act of leaving someone on a deserted island
Maroon (rocket), a loud rocket used for signaling
Chicago Maroon, an independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago
C... |
51703 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Parcel%20Service | United Parcel Service | United Parcel Service (UPS) is an American company that transports packages. It is the largest package delivery company in the world. UPS delivers more than 14 million packages a day to more than 200 countries. It is based in Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA. The company started in 1936 when several smaller companies merged... |
51706 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B3mez%20Pereira | Gómez Pereira | Gómez Pereira (1500 – 1567) was a Spanish philosopher, doctor, and humanist from Medina del Campo. He was most famous for his work in medicine, but he did many different things such as business, engineering, and especially philosophy. As a doctor, he was in favor of using the empirical method, instead of more medieval ... |
51708 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore%20%28video%20game%29 | Spore (video game) | Spore is a computer game made by Will Wright. He also made The Sims and SimCity. It consists of five phases of gameplay, the cell, creature, tribal, civilization and space phases. It is a game in which the player is able to create and evolve a species from a germ into a galactic superpower. It was released on September... |
51715 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia | Tilia | Tilia is a genus of between 30 and 45 species of trees in the Northern Hemisphere, in Asia (where the greatest species diversity is found), Europe and eastern North America; it is absent from western North America.
The trees are generally called linden in North America, and lime in Britain. Both names are from the Ger... |
51720 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian%20coordinate%20system | Cartesian coordinate system | In mathematics and geometry, the Cartesian coordinate system is a coordinate system used to give the location of points on a plane by using two numbers for each point. It is also called the rectangular coordinate system. The numbers are usually called the coordinate and the coordinate. To find the coordinates of a po... |
51722 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar%20coordinate%20system | Polar coordinate system | In mathematics, the polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a reference point and an angle from a reference direction.
The polar coordinate system is especially useful in situations where the relationship between two points is most ... |
51738 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%20%28color%29 | Gold (color) | Gold or golden is a yellowish orange color, or orange-tan color that is a bit like the color of the metal gold. The actual color of the metal, used for example in gilding, is called Metallic gold. Gold paint can be made by mixing brown, yellow paint and orange paint.
The web color gold is sometimes referred to as gold... |
51741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces%20of%20Cuba | Provinces of Cuba | Cuba is divided into fourteen provinces and one special municipality.
List of provinces
From west to east, Cuba's provinces are:
Isla de la Juventud
Pinar del Río
Artemisa
City of Havana (Ciudad de La Habana)
Mayabeque
Matanzas
Cienfuegos
Villa Clara
Sancti Spíritus
Ciego de Ávila
Camagüey
Las Tunas
Gra... |
51746 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing | Singing | Singing means making music with the voice. Singing is probably the way that music started many thousands of years ago. When people sing they make their voices go high or low. If they do this in a way that uses notes of a scale then they make tunes, called songs. A song, very broadly, is a musical piece, produced b... |
51748 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish | Amish | The Amish are a group of people who live according to the Anabaptist tradition. They have a common history with other Baptist movements, such as the Mennonites.
The Amish are known for simple lifestyle, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology. The history of the Amish church began w... |
51749 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah | Jeddah | Jeddah (also spelled Jedda, Jiddah, Jidda, or Juddah; جدّة Ǧiddah) is a Saudi Arabian city. It is on the coast of the Red Sea (21.50° N 39.1667° E). It is the major urban center in western Saudi Arabia. Jeddah is the largest city in the Western Province, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital cit... |
51758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio%20Nelson | Horatio Nelson | Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English sea captain in the Royal Navy. He was born at the rectory of the village of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.
Nelson commanded the British fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, fighting the French and Spanish. Nelson was blind in one eye, after being... |
51759 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise%20%28color%29 | Turquoise (color) | Turquoise is the colour of the gem turquoise. It is a slightly greenish shade of cyan. Turquoise is sometimes described as a mixture of pale blue and green. The name comes from the French word for Turkish.
Meaning of turquoise
People who practise holistic medicine say that turquoise has a calming effect on patie... |
51764 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber%20%28color%29 | Amber (color) | The color Amber is a yellow color. It got its name from the material known as amber. The amber color is halfway between yellow and orange on the color wheel.
The first recorded use of amber as a color name in English was in 1500.
Meaning of amber
Amber is used in traffic lights and turn signals.
Amber is a symbol... |
51765 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20captain | Sea captain | A sea captain, also known as a skipper, is the leader on a ship. They are responsible for the safety of everyone on board. If the ship is in trouble, most captains will not leave unless everyone is safe.
Related pages
Captain
occupations
Ships |
51771 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20stem | Brain stem | The brainstem is the rear part of the brain. It has two sections: the hindbrain, which includes the pons and medula, and the midbrain.
Though the brainstem is small, it is extremely important. The motor (movement) and sensory connections from the main part of the brain to the rest of the body pass through the brain st... |
51772 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology | Ideology | An ideology is a collection of ideas or beliefs shared by a group of people. It may be a connected set of ideas, or a style of thought, or a world-view. It was coined by a French philosopher, Destutt de Tracy in 1801/5.
There are two main types of ideologies: political ideologies, and epistemological ideologies. Poli... |
51776 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauve | Mauve | This is an article about the colour mauve. For information on the Flemish painter, see Anton Mauve.
Mauve (pronounce to rhyme with "Jove" and "stove") is a pale purple colour. It is similar to lavender and lilac. The name comes from French form of malva meaning the "mallow" flower.
Another name for this color is m... |
51778 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq%20War | Iran–Iraq War | The Iran–Iraq War was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988. It was commonly called the Persian Gulf War until Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. The Iraq-Kuwait war, which the United States entered, later was called the Persian Gulf War or the Gulf War.
The war began whe... |
51779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ | Germ | Germ may refer to:
Microorganism, especially a pathogen
Germ theory of disease
Germ cell, an ovum or sperm, or one of its progenitors |
51781 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender%20%28color%29 | Lavender (color) | Lavender, a popular color, is a light tone of violet.
The name comes from the flower of the lavender plant. Originally, the name lavender only meant the color of this flower. The color of the flower is still the standard for lavender but there are many other tones of light or medium violet now called lavender also.
... |
51782 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilac%20%28colour%29 | Lilac (colour) | Lilac is a light violet colour. It is named after the colour of the lilac flower. The actual colour of the flowers of the plant may range from the colour of the lilac flowers shown at left to a richer or deeper colour. These colours, such as rich lilac and deep lilac, are shown in the colour chart below.
The first w... |
51788 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS | UPS | UPS may means:
Uninterruptible power supply, an emergency electricity source
United Parcel Service, an American shipping company |
51789 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajkumar | Rajkumar | Dr. Rajkumar (Real Name: Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju April 24, 1929—April 12,2006) was the most popular actor in Kannada's movie industry. He was seen as a role model to millions of Kannadigas.
"Dr. Raj" or "Natasarvabhouma" or "Annavru" (Big Brother) to millions of his fans, he was also called the John Wayne... |
51793 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas | Nicholas | Nicholas is a male first name.
The name is derived from the Greek name “Nikólaos” and is developed out nikáo “triumphs” and laós “people”. After the Greek word use the name can mean both “winner of the people” and “winner over the people”.
People named Nicholas
Saints with the name
Nicholas of Myra, bishop of Myra, ... |
51797 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20fighter | Freedom fighter | A freedom fighter is a person who thinks their native ethnic group is not free, and is working to have freedom for their group. Most often this means that a freedom fighter wants their people to have own nation and independence and/or get rid of oppressors. People who think like this are said to think in a nationalist ... |
51800 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain%20%28disambiguation%29 | Grain (disambiguation) | A "cereal" grain is the seed of a grass, a simple dry fruit technically called a caryopsis. Grain may also refer to:
Grain (measure), a mass of 64.79891 milligrams, 1/7,000th of an avoirdupois pound
Film grain, the fineness of image resolution for photographic film
Grain size, for particles of rock in geology
Grain in... |
51802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%20grain | Wood grain | Wood grain describes the , and appearance of the wood . This is often important in its effect on woodworking techniques (e.g. against the grain).
In describing the alignment of the wood in the tree a distinction may be made. Basic grain descriptions and types include:
straight - grain which runs in a single directio... |
51805 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove%20%28joinery%29 | Groove (joinery) | In joinery, a groove is a slot or trench cut into a member which runs parallel to the grain. A groove is something else than a dado, which runs across the grain.
Grooves are used for several purposes in cabinet making and other woodworking fields. Typically, a groove is used to house the panels in frame and panel co... |
51806 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joinery | Joinery | Joinery could mean:
Woodworking joints or other types of mechanical joints (mainly in North American English)
The work of the joiner, the fabrication and installation of wooden fittings in buildings (mainly in British English).
In Australia, a joinery is also the generic term for a business which undertakes the tas... |
51809 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepultura | Sepultura | Sepultura is a thrash metal/death metal/groove metal band from Brazil that has sold over 15 million albums worldwide. The brothers Max and Igor Cavalera started it in Belo Horizonte in 1984. The two brothers have left the band since, Max in 1996, and Igor in 2006, with American singer Derrick Green and drummer Jean Dol... |
51810 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai%20Lama | Dalai Lama | The Dalai Lama is a religious figure in Tibetan Buddhism. He is its highest spiritual teacher of the Gelugpa school. A new Dalai Lama is said to be the reborn old Dalai Lama. This line goes back to 1391. The 14th and current Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso.
Between the 17th century and 1959, the Dalai Lama was the head o... |
51811 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity%20%28movie%29 | Serenity (movie) | Serenity is a 2005 science fiction space western movie. It was written and directed by Joss Whedon. The movie takes place in the fictional universe of the cancelled FOX science fiction television series Firefly. It takes place about two months after the final episode, Objects in Space. That is 500 years in the future.
... |
51814 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodworking%20joints | Woodworking joints | Joinery often refers to the part of woodworking that involves the joining together of parts of wood.
Traditional wood joinery techniques use
the distinctive material properties of wood, often without mechanical fasteners. There are different types of joinery for different structures, for example the joinery used
to bu... |
51825 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Grenville | George Grenville | George Grenville (14 October 1712–13 November 1770) was Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was a member of the Whig Party. He was one of the few prime ministers who never was given a title of nobility.
Grenville was the second son of Richard Grenville and Hester Temple. His older brother was Richard Grenville-Temple.... |
51826 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald%20Hardrada | Harald Hardrada | Harald Sigurdsson was also known as Harald of Norway (; – 25 September 1066). He was also called Hardrada (, modern Norwegian: ("stern counsel" or "hard ruler") in the sagas).
Harald was King of Norway (as Harald III) from 1046 to 1066. Also, he unsuccessfully claimed the Danish throne until 1064 and the English th... |
51835 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans | Normans | The Normans were Vikings who settled in northern France. There they made a kingdom called Normandy.
In 1066 the Normans attacked England and took over. The battle was called The Battle Of Hastings. They ruled England for about 300 years. There they built the Tower of London, Windsor Castle and many other stone castles... |
51838 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain | Captain | Captain is a military rank.
Captains are officers in an army. In a navy, captains command an entire ship. A Navy Captain is equal to the army rank of colonel. Another type of captain is a commander of a ship who is not in the military.
There are also captains in other uniformed organisations, including the police... |
51843 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20rope | Wire rope | Wire rope consists of several strands laid (or 'twisted') together like a helix. Each strand is likewise made of metal wires laid together like a helix. Initially wrought iron wires were used, but today steel is the main material used for wire ropes.
History & materials
Modern wire rope was invented by the German mini... |
51845 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liekki%C3%B6 | Liekkiö | Liekkiö ("flamey") or Ihtiriekko is a ghost of a bastard child in Finnish mythology.
Stories tells that a woman had sex with someone else than her husband. Maybe she did not even have a husband. She then get pregnant and gave birth to a baby. This way to make a baby was not accepted by church and society - that kind o... |
51848 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard | Bastard | A bastard is a person who was born of parents who are not married to one another. It is considered by some cultures and individuals as a nasty or insulting word today, or sometimes even profanity, with the term illegitimate being a little more polite. Some cultures see illegitimate children as dirty or bad, and only ac... |
51851 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%20number | Gödel number | In formal number theory a Gödel numbering is a function which assigns to each symbol and formula of some formal language a unique natural number called a Gödel number (GN). The concept was first used by Kurt Gödel for the proof of his incompleteness theorem.
A Gödel numbering can be interpreted as an encoding where a... |
51852 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20language | Formal language | In mathematics, computer science and linguistics, a formal language is one that has a particular set of symbols, and whose expressions are made according to a particular set of rules. The symbol is often used as a variable for formal languages in logic.
Unlike natural languages, the symbols and formulas in formal lan... |
51853 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet%20%28computer%20science%29 | Alphabet (computer science) | In computer science, an alphabet is a finite non-empty set. The elements of an alphabet are called the letters or symbols of the alphabet.
An example of an alphabet is which may be used for Morse code or {begin, if, else, for, while} which may be the keywords of a Programming language.
The set of natural numbers is ... |
51855 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty%20string | Empty string | The empty string is the unique string of no characters over some alphabet Σ. It is written as ε or λ. The length of this empty string is 0.
In simple words, given some characters of an alphabet, the empty string is the word that can be made if no letters are used. There is of course only one such word.
Under concate... |
51858 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Possum%27s%20Book%20of%20Practical%20Cats | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a book of poems about cats. The cats in these poems act like humans. It is by T. S. Eliot. It was first sold in 1939. Andrew Lloyd Webber used most of the poems in his musical Cats.
Contents of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot:
The Naming of Cats
The Old Gumbi... |
51859 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation | Concatenation | Concatenation is a simple concept from computer science. It is a way of making a new word (or String), by putting together two other Strings. Given the words foo and bar, the two new words foobar and barfoo can be made that way.
Computer science |
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