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54616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%20County%2C%20Georgia | Forsyth County, Georgia | Forsyth County is a county in the American state of Georgia. The county seat of Forsyth County is Cumming, Georgia. Forsyth County has one of the fastest growing populations of any county in the United States. The number of people has grown from 98,407 to 140,393 between 2000 and 2005. The county was made in 1832 and i... |
54617 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns%20Creek%2C%20Georgia | Johns Creek, Georgia | Johns Creek is a city in the American state of Georgia. It was only made a city on December 1, 2006. It is a suburb in the northeast of Atlanta. Johns Creek has about 75,000 people living in it. It is a part of Fulton County. Johns Creek is the 10th largest city in Georgia.
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54626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Parade | The Black Parade | The Black Parade is a 2006 album by the band My Chemical Romance. It is the third album from the band. The album is a concept album. The songs on this album follow the life of The Patient, a man dying of cancer. The album takes the listener into The Patient's mind, fears, regrets, and accomplishments.
Much like their... |
54629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas | Biogas | Biogas is a gas produced by the digestion in an oxygen free (anaerobic digestion) or fermentation of organic matter. The organic matter can be manure, sewage, municipal waste, compost, food waste or any other biodegradable raw material. Biogas is mainly methane and carbon dioxide. Depending on where it is produced, bio... |
54633 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy | Liturgy | A liturgy is a ceremony, according to the traditions of a particular group or event. In religion, it may mean an elaborate formal ritual (such as the Catholic Mass), or a daily activity such as the Muslim Salats. Anglican, Orthodox, Lutheran, or other groups, when using the words "the liturgy", normally mean a standard... |
54636 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20%28liturgy%29 | Mass (liturgy) | Mass is the term used to describe celebration of the Eucharist in the Western liturgical rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Old Catholic Churches, in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism, and in some largely High Church Lutheran regions: in Scandinavian and Baltic countries the Lutheran Eucharistic service is a... |
54640 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodpecker | Woodpecker | The woodpeckers and its near relatives the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers are the family Picidae. They are near-passerine birds. Members of the Picidae are found worldwide, except for the parts of old Gondwana which they did not get to: Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar and Antarctica. Most species live in forests ... |
54645 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri%20Reis | Piri Reis | Piri Reis (full name Hadji Muhiddin Piri Ibn Hadji Mehmed) (about 1465 – 1554 or 1555) was an Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer born between 1465 and 1470 in Gallipoli on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Today, people remember him because of the maps he made. He made the first Ottoman map to show parts of the America... |
54654 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Sutton | Walter Sutton | Walter Stanborough Sutton (5 April 1877 – 10 November 1916) was an American biologist and surgeon. Sutton was born in Utica, New York and raised in Russell, Kansas. He got Bachelors and Masters degres from the University of Kansas. Sutton then went to Columbia University and got his doctorate in medicine in 1907.
In 1... |
54668 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%3A%20The%20Clone%20Wars%20%28TV%20series%29 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American computer-animated television series created by George Lucas and by Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation set during Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones from Three Months after the Battle of Geonosis and before Revenge of the Sith when Anakin turns evil. The series became very... |
54673 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth%20Maul | Darth Maul | Darth Maul is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe. The character first appeared in the movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 1999. Darth Maul has also been in many books set in the time period just before the Clone Wars. Darth Maul was played by Ray Park in the movie.
Darth Maul is the first k... |
54674 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probe%20droid | Probe droid | Probe droids are robots in the Star Wars movies. They are used for spying and finding people. Darth Maul used probe droids to find Queen Amidala and the Jedi in The Phantom Menace. In The Empire Strikes Back, the Imperials use the probe droids to find the Rebel base.
Star Wars
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54676 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%20Dooku | Count Dooku | Count Dooku of Serenno (also known as Darth Tyranus) is a character from the Star Wars universe. Dooku is one of the major characters in Episode II: Attack of the Clones. He was played by late Christopher Lee.
He is the second known student of Darth Sidious. Dooku is also the leader of the Confederacy of Independent ... |
54677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone%20Wars | Clone Wars | The Clone Wars was a period in the Star Wars movies. It was first mentioned in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and was explored later in several films, books, and television series.
Within the Star Wars franchise, the Clone Wars are a set of battles that took place over three years. They were fought between th... |
54681 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokaryote | Prokaryote | Prokaryotes (or monera) are some of the simplest living things. They are unicellular organisms and they include two major divisions of simple living beings: bacteria, and archaea. They generally do not have a cell nucleus, nuclear membrane or cell organelles, however a small number of exceptions have been found. Pro... |
54687 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlebone | Cuttlebone | Cuttlebone is a hard brittle structure found inside cuttlefish. It is made mainly of calcium carbonate. The cuttlefish use it to control floating. Cuttlebones have been used to make polishing powder. This was then added to toothpaste. Today, cuttlebone is mainly used for caged birds and turtles in their habitats, so th... |
54690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapodiformes | Decapodiformes | Decapodiformes is a superorder of Cephalopoda. It includes cephalopods with ten feet. These are usually eight short arms and two long tentacles. Well-known members are cuttlefish, squid, and the extinct belemnites.
Cephalopods |
54704 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopodiformes | Octopodiformes | Octopodiformes is a group of cephalopods with eight arms and no skeletal structure. They include Octopods and the Vampire squid.
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54705 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopoda | Octopoda | Octopoda is one of the largest orders which contain the common octopus and some other types. Fossila are rare, but they do have a fossil record starting in the later Carboniferous.
Octopods are put into two suborders. One, the Incirrina, is composed of the well-known Octopus of rocky shores and coral reefs and its rel... |
54706 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampyromorphida | Vampyromorphida | Vampyromorphida is an order of cephalopods. There are one extant species (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) and several extinct taxa in it.
Classification
Order Vampyromorphida
?Suborder †Kelaenina
Family †Muensterellidae
Suborder †Prototeuthina
Family †Loligosepiidae
Family †Plesioteuthididae
Family †Geopeltididae
Fam... |
54708 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%20Burrell | Diana Burrell | Diana Burrell (born 25 October 1948) is an English composer. She was born in Norwich, Norfolk. She went to Norwich High School for Girls and then studied music at the University of Cambridge. She started her career as a viola player, but soon became well known for her compositions was able to be a full-time composer.
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54725 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20%28son%20of%20Zebedee%29 | James (son of Zebedee) | For people and places called Saint James, see the disambiguation page.
Saint James, son of Zebedee (death 44 AD) was one of the disciples (learners) of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome and brother of John the Evangelist. He is called Saint James the Greater to distinguish (mark as different) him from the ot... |
54726 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20James | Saint James | Saint James could mean any of the following:
People
Several men mentioned in the New Testament:
James, son of Zebedee, an apostle, brother of John the Apostle, venerated at Santiago de Compostela
James (son of Alphaeus), an apostle, brother of Matthew the Evangelist
James the Less, son of Clopas and Mary of Clopas, of... |
54743 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire%20squid | Vampire squid | The Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, 'vampire squid from hell') is a small, deep-sea cephalopod. It can be found throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world.
It has special filaments it can retract; because of this, it has been placed in its own order: Vampyromorphida (formerly Vampyromorpha). ... |
54746 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20Greece | Classical Greece | Classical Greece was the period in ancient Greece from about 500–323 BC. It had a civilisation and style which was considered by later observers to be outstanding. Politically, the classical period was dominated by Athens and the Delian League during the 5th century, or from the beginning of the Greco-Persian Wars to ... |
54774 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwinnett%20County%2C%20Georgia | Gwinnett County, Georgia | Gwinnett County is a county in the American state of Georgia. The county seat of Gwinnett County is Lawrenceville. The county was created on December 15, 1818. The Census bureau says there were 754,104 people living in Gwinnett County in 2006.
The county was named for Button Gwinnett, one of the people who signed the... |
54775 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Georgia | University of Georgia | The University of Georgia (UGA) is a university that is in and around Athens, Georgia. The university was created January 27, 1785 and was the first state university in the United States. However, it was not the first state university to hold classes or to graduate students. That honor belongs to the University of Nort... |
54779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Armauer%20Hansen | Gerhard Armauer Hansen | Gerhard Hendrik Armauer Hansen (July 29, 1841 - February 12, 1912) was a Norwegian doctor. He is famous for discovering the bacteria that causes leprosy in 1873. That disease is also called Hansen's disease in his honour.
1841 births
1912 deaths
Norwegian physicians |
54781 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20station | Fire station | A fire station (also known as a firehouse or fire hall) is a building for storing fire engines and other firefighting equipment.
Some fire stations are staffed by full-time firefighters. These fire stations have offices and living areas for them. There will also be beds, for when they are on duty at night. They wait a... |
54783 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outhouse | Outhouse | An outhouse is a small building that covers a toilet. The toilet inside is often either a pit latrine or a bucket toilet, but other forms of dry (non-flushing) toilets may be found.
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54784 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence | Fence | A fence is something built like a low wall, often made of metal or wood, to keep something in or to keep something out. It differs from a wall, which has a foundation. Fences are usually supported by fenceposts. Fences can be large or small. Many are used in gardens but some are used in different places.
Related p... |
54785 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uga | Uga | Uga or UGA can mean:
Université Grenoble-Alpes
University of Georgia |
54786 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton%20University | Princeton University | Princeton University is a private university in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States. It opened in 1746 with the name "The College of New Jersey". It was eventually named "Princeton University" in 1896. In conversation, it is simply called, "Princeton".
Princeton is one of the 8 Ivy League colleges. It was the f... |
54789 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dill | Dill | Dill (Anethum graveolens) is a short-lived annual herb that is often used as a spice, to make food taste better by adding a unique, slightly tangy flavor that goes well with savory foods.
Uses
Fresh and dried dill leaves (sometimes called "dill weed" to distinguish it from dill seed) are used as herbs.
Like caraway,... |
54790 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turk | Turk | Turk or Turks most often refers to:
Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups that speak Turkic languages
Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group that lives in what is now Turkey |
54794 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummification | Mummification | Mummification is a process in which the skin and flesh of a corpse can be preserved. The process can occur either naturally, or it can be intentional. If it occurs naturally, it is the result of cold (as can be found in a glacier), acid (as can be found in a bog) or dryness. The Egyptians wrapped bandages around the co... |
54795 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandage | Bandage | A bandage is strip of cloth or other material that is used to stop and absorb blood from wounds.
In common speech, the word "bandage" is often used to mean a dressing, though technically the two are different things.
How to apply a bandage
See these links:
How to apply a bandage in a figure of 8 around an ankle. (Y... |
54797 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia | Xenophobia | Xenophobia is the fear or dislike of strangers or unknown things. Xenophobia can also mean the fear of trying new things, but it is usually the fear of differences between people. Xenophobia may be about foreign things or people, or just the attitudes of a group towards other groups. It may increase because of immigrat... |
54803 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederacy%20of%20Independent%20Systems | Confederacy of Independent Systems | The Confederacy of Independent Systems (also known as the CIS or Separatists) was an organization that appeared in the Star Wars movies. The CIS was led by the fallen Jedi Count Dooku. The armies of the Separatists had thousands of battle droids. The CIS launched attacks against the Galactic Republic. The Separatists s... |
54825 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedone | Hedone | Hedone in Greek mythology (which the Romans called Voluptas) was the daughter of Eros and Psyche. She was seen as the personification of lust.
Other websites
Ode to Voluptas (Information about Voluptas, Daughter of Eros & Psyche)
Greek gods and goddesses |
54827 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche%20%28psychology%29 | Psyche (psychology) | The psyche is the human mind, conscious and unconscious. The word has a long history, going back to the ancient Greek philosophers such as Heraclitus and Plato.
It was used in older psychology and philosophy as meaning the source or cause of human nature. It is not a scientific term, but the word "psychology" is deriv... |
54842 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamellibrachia | Lamellibrachia | Lamellibrachia is a genus of cold seep tube worms. These are related to giant tube worms. They live on the floor of the oceans, near cold seeps. There crude oil and methane leak out of the ocean floor.
The worm forms a symbiosis with certain bacteria which can oxidise sulphides. The worm provides the bacteria with hy... |
54845 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20tube%20worm | Giant tube worm | The giant tube worm (Riftia pachyptila) is an annelid. They live on the floor of the oceans (mainly Pacific Ocean), usually near black smokers, a type of hydrothermal vent. They can tolerate extremely high temperatures and levels of sulfur. They live in symbiosis with certain bacteria. The bacteria enter the mouth of a... |
54849 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian%20railway | Trans-Siberian railway | The Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad is a set of railways that goes from Moscow and European Russia to the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan.
Because Russia is such a big country, travel from one end and the other is an important problem. In the 1890s, the Russians began... |
54857 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20reaction | Nuclear reaction | A nuclear reaction is a process involving an atomic nucleus or more than one nucleus. The most common kinds are
Nuclear fusion, a reaction in which two or more particles collide. The results are new particles which are different from the first ones.
Nuclear fission, a nucleus breaking into pieces.
Radioactive decay, ... |
54860 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Paul%27s%20Cathedral | St Paul's Cathedral | St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican church in the City of London. The original version was built by Mellitus in 604 AD. He was Bishop of the East Saxons.
In 962 and 1087, the cathedral burnt down and was built again. Before today's version of the cathedral, there were four others. The earlier ones burnt down.
Today'... |
54879 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse | Greenhouse | A greenhouse, or green house (also called a glass-house or hothouse) is a building where plants such as flowers and vegetables are grown. It usually has a glass or translucent plastic roof. Many greenhouses also have glass or plastic walls. Greenhouses warm up during the day via penetration of the sun's rays which heat... |
54880 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship is a system of training people who are learning how to do a job which needs special skill. Someone who is learning in this way is called an "apprentice". An apprentice will learn by working with someone who is already skilled at a job. They are like a teacher and pupil.
Development
The system of app... |
54887 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20droid | Battle droid | In the Star Wars fictional universe, battle droids are robots that are made for fighting. They are seen in the prequel trilogy of the Star Wars movies. Battle droids are used by the Confederacy of Independent Systems to fight the Galactic Republic.Clones of the Republic could easily overcome these droids.The battle dro... |
54889 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20long-beaked%20echidna | Western long-beaked echidna | The western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijni) is one of the echidnas which live in New Guinea. Fossils of this species have also been found in Australia. It is one of the four living echidnas, three of which are species of Zaglossus.
This echidna lives from 1300m to 4000m above sea level. It lives in alpine mead... |
54893 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-beaked%20echidna | Short-beaked echidna | The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is the only member of its genus, and one of four living species of echidna.
The short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus, is the spiny anteater because they eat ants and termites. It is covered in fur and spines. It has a special nose (snout) and a special tongue that lets t... |
54894 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia | Columbia | For the country in South America, see Colombia.
Columbia is the original name for the United States and inspired the names of many things. For the original Columbia, see Historical Columbia.
Places in North America
Columbia River
Upper Columbia United Tribes, certain Native American peoples near the Columbia River... |
54896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20long-beaked%20echidna | Eastern long-beaked echidna | The eastern long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bartoni), also known as Barton's long-beaked echidna, is one of three species from the genus Zaglossus. All of them occur in New Guinea. It is found mainly in Papua New Guinea between 2000 and 3000 meters above sea level.
It can be distinguished from other members of the gen... |
54899 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-beaked%20echidna | Long-beaked echidna | The long-beaked echidnas make up one of the two genera (Genus Zaglossus) of echidna. Echidna is a spiny monotreme that lives in New Guinea. There are three living species, and two extinct ones.
Echidnas are one of the two types of mammals that lay eggs.
Species
Zaglossus attenboroughi
Habitat: regions of New Guinea... |
54903 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20David%27s%20long-beaked%20echidna | Sir David's long-beaked echidna | Sir David's long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), also known as the cyclops long-beaked echidna, is one of three species of the genus Zaglossus. All of them are found in New Guinea. It is named after Sir David Attenborough. It lives in the Cyclops mountains in Papua province of Indonesia near the cities of Se... |
54913 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence | Bioluminescence | Bioluminescence is the capacity of living things to produce light. Often this is done by symbiosis. In this, the larger organism contains, often in a special organ, microorganisms which make the light. Eukaryote protists have special organelles, and some bacteria also produce light. Bioluminescence is the result of che... |
54921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier%2C%20Alaska | Whittier, Alaska | Whittier is a small town in Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula. Whittier has 182 people always living in it. The Whittier Glacier near Whittier was named for the American poet John Greenleaf Whittier in the year 1915.
During World War II the United States Army built a port and railroad near the glacier and named the port W... |
54923 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Winslet | Kate Winslet | Kate Elizabeth Winslet, (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She made her movie debut as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). She is best known for her starring role in the American movie, Titanic. Winslet is the second of four children, her sisters are the actresses Anna and Beth Winsle... |
54924 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20DiMaggio | Joe DiMaggio | Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 - March 8, 1999) was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his whole career for the New York Yankees. His nicknames were Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper. He played from 1936 to 1942 and then joined the army in 1943 because of World War II. He came back ... |
54936 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol%20Empire | Mongol Empire | The Mongol Empire, an area ruled by the great Mongol Khans in the 13th and 14th centuries, was one of the largest land empires in history.
The original homeland of the Mongols, was bounded by the Khingan Mountains on the east, the Altai and Tian mountains on the west, the Shilka River and the mountain ranges by Lake B... |
54938 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthia | Parthia | Parthia is an ancient country of Asia, now Iran and regions of Armenia, Iraq, Georgia, eastern Turkey, eastern Syria,Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and UAE.
Parthians were excellent horsemen and archers. In battle, mounted Pa... |
54939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/238%20BC | 238 BC |
Events
In the Battle of Utica, the loyal Carthaginian troops of Hamilcar Barca defeat rebels.
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus attacks Carthaginian rebels on the island of Sardinia, and he makes it into a Roman province.
The Parthian kingdom breaks away to become independent of the Seleucid Empire.
230s BC |
54940 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1312 | 1312 | 1312 CE (or A.D.) is a common year in the 14th century.
Births
November 13 – Edward III of England |
54941 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1422 | 1422 | 1422 (MCDXXII) was .
Deaths
August 31 – Henry V of England |
54951 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolysis | Hydrolysis | Hydrolysis is a chemical reaction or process where a chemical compound reacts with water. This is the type of reaction that is used to break down polymers into many smaller units. In this reaction, water is always added to the chemical compound.
Hydrolysis of metal salts
Hydrolysis of metal salts is more commonly kn... |
54953 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20%28molecule%29 | Water (molecule) | Water (H2O, HOH) covers 70-75% of the Earth's surface in its liquid and solid (ice) states, and is present in the atmosphere as a vapor. It is the most abundant molecule on the Earth's surface.
At room temperature, it is a nearly colorless, flavorless, and odorless liquid. Many substances dissolve in water and it is c... |
54954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphatic%20system | Lymphatic system | In mammals, the lymphatic system is a network of thin vessels that branch, like blood vessels, into tissues throughout the body. It is part of the immune system. It is a one-way system which carries cells and fluid back to the blood system.
Lymphatic vessels carry lymph, a colorless, watery fluid and white blood cell... |
54955 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity | Chastity | Chastity is the sexual behavior of a man or woman which is right and proper according to the moral rules of a culture or religion. It has recently begun to mean sexual abstinence (not having sex at all), especially before marriage. However, it can also be used for all kinds of people (even married people) with more mea... |
54960 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic%20bond | Metallic bond | A metallic bond is the sharing of many detached electrons between many positive ions, where the electrons act as a "glue" giving the substance a definite structure. It is unlike covalent or ionic bonding.
Metals have low ionization energy. Therefore, the valence electrons can be delocalized throughout the metals. Del... |
54964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20conduction | Heat conduction | Heat conduction (or thermal conduction) is the movement of heat from one object to another one that has different temperature when they are touching each other. For example, we can warm our hands by touching hot-water bottles. When the cold hands touch the hot-water bottle, heat flows from the hotter object (hot-water... |
54965 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Weir | Judith Weir | Judith Weir (born 11 May 1954) is a British composer. She is well known for her theatre works, choral music, orchestral music and chamber music.
Early life
Weir was born in Cambridge, England to Scottish parents. While she was still at school she trained with the composer John Tavener. She played the oboe in the Nati... |
54968 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorus | Chorus | Chorus can mean several things:
Greek chorus, a feature of ancient Greek theatre
Choir, a group of singers
Refrain, the part of a song that is repeated
Bridge (music), The verse before the refrain |
54977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal | Vassal | A vassal during the feudalism of medieval Europe, was someone who had shared duties with a lord. Usually the vassal provided soldiers to the lord. The lord used his army of soldiers from all of his vassals to protect those vassals. The lord also gave him the piece of land that he held as a fief. By analogy the term va... |
54979 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration%20period | Migration period | The migration period, or barbarian invasions or Völkerwanderung, happened in AD 300–700 in Europe, at the end of ancient history and during the Early Middle Ages.
The migrations included the Goths, Vandals, Franks, and other Germanic, Bulgar, and Slavic tribes. They may have been influenced by attacks of the Huns in t... |
54984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20Bay%20Area | San Francisco Bay Area | The San Francisco Bay Area, also known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan area that goes around the San Francisco Bay in Northern California. It includes the cities of San Francisco, San José, and Oakland, and their many suburbs. It also includes the smaller urban and rural areas of the North Bay. Over seven million pe... |
54987 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20Bay | San Francisco Bay | San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining about forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains and Central Valley, enters the Pacific Ocean. Technically, both rivers flow into Suisun Bay, which help flows through the C... |
54988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20Yassin | Ahmed Yassin | Ahmed Yassin (January 1, 1937 – March 22, 2004) was a spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Yassin's birth date is in dispute. He claimed he was born 1/1/1938, however, his passport indicated 1/1/1937. To some he was a hero, to some he was a notorious member of a terrorist organization. He was also ... |
54989 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20strength | Field strength | In physics, the field strength of a field is the magnitude (size) of its (vector) value. This means that the force exerted by the field on a given object is proportional to the field strength.
In differential geometry, the field strength is another name for the curvature form. For the electromagnetic field, the curva... |
54992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20%28physics%29 | Field (physics) | In physics, a field means that a physical quantity is assigned to every point in space (or, more generally, spacetime). A field is seen as extending throughout a large region of space so that it influences everything. The strength of a field usually varies over a region. Michael Faraday became the first to coin the ter... |
54993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient | Gradient | In vector calculus, the gradient of a multivariate function measures how steep a curve is. On a graph of the function, it is the slope of the tangent of that curve. More generally, it is a vector that points in the direction in which the function grows the fastest. Its coordinates are partial derivatives of that functi... |
54995 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric%20function | Trigonometric function | In mathematics, the trigonometric functions are a set of functions which relate angles to the sides of a right triangle. There are many trigonometric functions, the 3 most common being sine, cosine, tangent, followed by cotangent, secant and cosecant. The last three are called reciprocal trigonometric functions, becaus... |
54996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gradient (disambiguation) | Gradient could mean:
Gradient of a function, in vector calculus
Slope or grade, referring to the inclination of a road or other geographic features
Image gradient, a gradual change or blending of color
In biology
Concentration gradient, the ratio of solute concentration between two regions next to each other
El... |
54999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer | Archer | An archer is someone who practices archery (shooting with bows and arrows).
Archer can also mean:
Fictional characters
Sean Archer, character portrayed by John Travolta/Nicolas Cage in the movie Face/Off
Danny Archer, character portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie Blood Diamond
Other
Jeffrey Archer, Baron... |
55000 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archery | Archery | Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. Archery has historically been used in hunting and combat and has become a precision sport. A person practicing archery is called an archer, and one who enjoys or is an expert at archery is sometimes called an toxophilite.
History
The earliest evidence of archery... |
55015 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cena | John Cena | John Felix Anthony Cena Jr. (born April 23, 1975) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He currently works for the WWE. Cena has won the WWE Championship/WWE World Heavyweight Championship thirteen times, the World Heavyweight Championship thrice, the United States Championship five times and the World Tag T... |
55023 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20transduction | Signal transduction | A signal transduction in biology is a cellular mechanism. It converts a stimulus into a response in the cell. There are two stages in this process:
A signalling molecule attaches to a receptor protein on the cell membrane.
A second messenger transmits the signal into the cell, and a change takes place in the cell.
So,... |
55024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux | Flux | Flux is a term in physics and mathematics. It is broadly defined as "How much stuff goes through a thing" (or into an area). The word "flux" is similar to "flow".
For instance, imagine a butterfly net. The amount of air passing through the net is the flux.
Movement of substances
In the study of transport phenomena (... |
55027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20%28disambiguation%29 | Flux (disambiguation) | Flux comes from Latin and means flow; it may mean:
Flux, a scientific term describing the rate of flow of something through a surface
Flux (software), a free for non-commercial usage suite of VRML/X3D viewing/authoring software
Flux (metallurgy), a material that aids in smelting and soldering by assisting the flow o... |
55030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience | Neuroscience | Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system. It is the branch of biology which investigates every aspect of the brain and nervous system.
The nervous system is made of billions of neurons connected together and to other systems in the body. The central nervous system includes the brai... |
55032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation%20analysis | Conversation analysis | Conversation analysis (commonly abbreviated as CA) is the study of talk in social interaction. CA tries to describe the structure and patterns of interaction, whether this is institutional (in the school, doctor's surgery, courts or elsewhere) or casual conversation.
The term “conversation” to label this disciplinary... |
55033 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-Anthony%20Turnage | Mark-Anthony Turnage | Mark-Anthony Turnage (born Grays, Essex, 10 June 1960) is an English composer. He is one of the most original composers in his country today.
Turnage studied at the Royal College of Music and won all the major prizes. He became famous when he wrote an opera called Greek. It is typical of his musical style: quite ... |
55034 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal%20vent | Hydrothermal vent | A hydrothermal vent is an opening in the seabed of the Earth by which geothermal energy escapes. Sea water enters, becomes very hot, and rises. The hottest ones carry many black chemicals, and are called black smokers. Scientists have found fewer white smokers. Heat escapes from underground in many places. If they are ... |
55036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guava | Guava | Guavas are plants in the genus Psidium of the family Myrtaceae. There are about 100 species of tropical shrubs and small trees in the genus.
They are native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and the northern part of South America. Now they are found in all the tropical, and in some subtropical, regions because... |
55037 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resting%20potential | Resting potential | The resting potential of a cell is the membrane potential that would be maintained if there were no action potentials, synaptic potentials, or other active changes in the membrane potential. In most cells the resting potential has a negative value, which by convention means that there is excess negative charge inside c... |
55038 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust | Thrust | Thrust is a force or a push. When a system pushes or accelerates mass in one direction, there is a thrust (force) just as large in the opposite direction. In math and physics, this is described by Isaac Newton’s second and third laws. Thrust is used to describe how strongly an engine pushes. It can be used for many kin... |
55039 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust%20%28disambiguation%29 | Thrust (disambiguation) | Thrust is a reaction force described by Newton's Second and Third Law. For this meaning, see Thrust.
This word has other uses:
For the land-speed record breaking car, see ThrustSSC and Thrust2
For the computer game, see Thrust (computer game)
For the rapper, see Thrust (rapper)
For the Transformers characters, see... |
55040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20A.%20Heinlein | Robert A. Heinlein | Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American writer. He mostly wrote science fiction books. He won the Hugo Award four times. Probably his best-known novels are Starship Troopers (1959, Hugo Award, was made into a film), and Stranger in a Strange Land (1961, Hugo Award). Two other Hugo awards were... |
55043 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20video%20game%20genres | List of video game genres | There are many computer and video game genres. Here is a list of some of the common ones.
Role-playing game (RPG)
Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG)
Arcade
Adventure
First-person shooter
Platformer
Simulation
Real-time strategy
Survival
Survival horror
Battle Royale
Sandbox |
55045 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable | Fable | A fable is a type of story which shows something in life or has a meaning to a word. A fable teaches a lesson or suggests a moral from it. A fable starts in the middle of the story, that means, jumps into the main event without detailed introduction of characters. The characters of a fable may be animals, plants and le... |
55046 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage | Drainage | Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area. Many agricultural soils need drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies.
Early history
The earliest archaeological record of an advanced system of drainage comes from the Indus Valley Civilization from a... |
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