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55047 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder | Polder | Empoldering is a method of reclaiming land from the sea, and a way to control floods. Empoldering involves the use of a polder, a piece of land in a low-lying area that has been reclaimed from a body of water by building dikes and drainage canals.
Although empoldering is usually carried out in low-lying coastal areas... |
55051 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor | Resistor | A resistor limits the electric current that flows through a circuit. Resistance is the restriction of current. In a resistor the energy of the electrons that pass through the resistor are changed to heat and/or light. For example, in a light bulb, the tungsten filament acts as a resistor that heats up because of the cu... |
55056 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20Star | Death Star | The Death Star is a fictional moon-sized space station and superweapon. It was invented for the Star Wars movies. It was a huge spherical space station which fired a ray of energy which could destroy a planet.
Origin and design
The details of the Death Star changed between different models during production of Star Wa... |
55059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20of%20Philosophy | Doctor of Philosophy | The Doctor of Philosophy, (PhD, Ph.D., DPhil or D.Phil.) is a degree a person gets from a university by finishing a doctorate program. In many areas of study, the PhD/DPhil is the highest degree that a person can earn (this is called the "terminal degree"). There are PhD/DPhil degrees for many different fields, such as... |
55070 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20200 | Global 200 | The Global 200 is the list of ecoregions identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as priorities for conservation. According to the WWF, an ecoregion is defined as a "relatively large unit of land or water containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their species, dyna... |
55071 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoregion | Ecoregion | An ecoregion (ecological region), sometimes called a bioregion, is the next smallest ecologically and geographically defined area beneath "realm" or "ecozone". Ecoregions cover relatively large area of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct natural communities and species. When defined by th... |
55073 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetland | Wetland | In physical geography, a wetland is an environment that combines the properties of land and water. Wetlands are a distinct kind of ecosystem.
The combination of wet and dry areas means that many more different kinds of plants, animals and insects may live in a wetland than compared to other types of habitat. Because o... |
55074 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh | Marsh | In geography, a marsh is a type of wetland. It has grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water. A marsh is different from a swamp, which has a greater proportion of open water surface, which is generally deeper than a marsh.... |
55083 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan-Ude | Ulan-Ude | Ulan-Ude (Russian:Ула́н-Удэ́; Buryat: Улаан-Үдэ), formerly Verkhneudinsk (), the capital city of the Buryat Republic, Russia. The city is located about 100 km south-east of Lake Baikal. It sits at the foot of the Khamar-Daban and Khrebet Ulan-Burgasy mountain ranges, next to the confluence of the Selenga River and its ... |
55087 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagic%20zone | Pelagic zone | The pelagic zone is the open sea or ocean that is not near the coast. The name comes from the Greek πέλαγος (pélagos), which might be translated as "open sea".
To make this clear, seas around continents have continental crust beneath them. They are shallow. Seas away from continents can be very deep, and do not have c... |
55088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20A | Vitamin A | Vitamin A is a vitamin, a group of organic chemicals including retinal and several carotenoids. The human body does not make these chemicals, and must take them from food. Egg yolks and liver are both rich in vitamin A. Many parts of the body need vitamin A. For example, vitamin A helps sight and is good for the immune... |
55090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20D | Vitamin D | Vitamin D is a hormone. It is a steroid which is made in the body under the right conditions. Its making by the body needs sunlight, which acts on the lower layers of the skin.
However, if the body does not make enough, it can be found from food sources in tiny amounts. In fact, many countries add it automatically t... |
55091 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biome | Biome | In ecology, a biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal
communities best adapted to the region's physical natural environment,
latitude, elevation, and terrain.
A biome is made up of ecoregions or settlements at stable steady state and all associated transitional, disturbed, or degraded, vegetati... |
55093 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20E | Vitamin E | Vitamin E (which is also called Tocopherol or Tocotrienol, E307, E308,E309) is a vitamin. There are eight forms of it, E1 to E8. It can be found in vegetable oils. Very often it is also added to lotions and creams for the skin. It is supposed to help the healing of the skin, after burns and injuries, and lower the risk... |
55094 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20K | Vitamin K | Vitamin K is a vitamin which is soluble in fat. It is probably best known for its role in the coagulation (clotting) of blood. However, it also serves other important functions in the body.
Vitamin K was discovered by a Danish chemist named Henrik Dam. He won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discove... |
55098 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%20vitamins | B vitamins | The B vitamin complex (also called B vitamins) are a group of 8 vitamins. They have an important job in the metabolism of cells. Each B vitamin is a cofactor (a coenzyme) for some key metabolic processes or it is a precursor needed to make one.
Originally, people thought they were just different forms of one vitamin (... |
55100 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subarctic%20climate | Subarctic climate | Places with a subarctic climate (also called boreal climate) have long, usually very cold winters, and short, warm summers. It is found on large landmasses, away from oceans, usually at latitudes from 50° to 70°N. Because there are no large landmasses at such latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, it is only found at hi... |
55102 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONS%20coding%20system | ONS coding system | The ONS coding system is a system used in the United Kingdom for dealing with census and other statistical data. It is used by the Office for National Statistics as a way to label each area of England and Wales. It is also used for parts of Northern Ireland. The system uses a code for the larger census areas, counties... |
55103 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Tippett | Michael Tippett | Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer. He is one of the greatest and most original composers of the 20th century. His work was published for the first time when he was 30 years old, and only become famous when he was about 40. The rhythms in his music and the tonal... |
55105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claw | Claw | A claw is a sharp object. It is found at the end of a toe or finger in many mammals, birds, and some reptiles. The word "claw" is also used in reference to an invertebrate. For example, the chelae of crabs and lobsters are often called claws or pincers.
A claw is made of hard protein called keratin. They are used by ... |
55106 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20and%20Moritz | Max and Moritz | Max and Moritz (German: Max und Moritz) are two naughty little boys in a story by Wilhelm Busch. The stories were written in 1865 and are still extremely popular in Germany.
Wilhelm Busch was an artist as well as a writer. He wrote a lot of stories in rhyme and made drawings to go with them. Max and Moritz are stor... |
55119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstinence | Abstinence | Abstinence is a voluntary restraint from following a desire or appetite for certain bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure. Most frequently, the term refers to abstention from sexual intercourse, alcohol or food. Abstinence can be due to personal preferences, religious practices of practical c... |
55122 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20abstinence | Sexual abstinence | Sexual abstinence is the practice of not having sex. It is a choice that some people make. As well as sex itself, they may also choose to abstain from other sexual activities. Sexual abstinence has been debated since ancient history, both in terms of same-sex and opposite-sex relationships. Some people take anaphrodisi... |
55128 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Jerusalem | Council of Jerusalem | The Council of Jerusalem or apostolic council is a common name for a meeting of early Christian leaders reported in the Acts of the Apostles chapter . The meeting must have happened about the year 50, at the latest some time before the death of James the Just in 62.
The issues
A common interpretation is that the co... |
55129 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironing | Ironing | Ironing means getting the creases out of clothes after they have been washed and dried. Ironing is done with a tool called an "iron". It is called an iron because in past centuries it was made of iron, a type of metal. The iron is heated before it is used. This used to be done by putting the iron on a fire. Nowaday... |
55132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20European%20Time | Central European Time | Central European Time is a time zone. It is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (what used to be called Greenwich Mean Time). Most countries in the central part of Europe and some countries in Africa follow it.
In Europe, the countries of Ireland, Great Britain, Iceland and Portugal use Western European Time... |
55134 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20European%20Summer%20Time | Central European Summer Time | Central European Summer Time is the name for a time zone. Some of the countries that have Central European Time shift their clocks forward one hour, during the summer months. And shift it one hour backwards during winter months.
Time zones |
55135 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20the%20Just | James the Just | James the Just, also called James Adelphotheos, James, 1st Bishop of Jerusalem, or James, the Brother of the Lord and sometimes identified with James the Less, (died AD 62) was an important figure in Early Christianity.
According to tradition, he was the first formal leader or bishop of Jerusalem, the author of the Ja... |
55138 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciple%20%28Christianity%29 | Disciple (Christianity) | In Christianity, the disciples were the students of Jesus during his ministry, which sometimes means only the Twelve Apostles, but the gospels speaks of different numbers of disciples. In the Book of Acts, the Apostles themselves have disciples. The word disciple is used today as a way of self-identification for those... |
55141 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20Jibril | Ahmed Jibril | Ahmed Jibril (1938 – died July 7, 2021) was the founder and co-leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). He founded it in 1968. His son Jihad Ahmed Jibril was to take over, but was killed by a car bomb in Beirut in 2002.
References
1938 births
2021 deaths
Muslim terrorists... |
55144 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad%20Ahmed%20Jibril | Jihad Ahmed Jibril | Mohammed Jihad Ahmed Jibril (March 3, 1961 in Damascus - May 20, 2002 in Beirut) was the son of Ahmed Jibril, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). He was killed by a car bomb. He was assassinated on May 20, 2002.
Jihad Ahmed Jibril was the leader of the military wing... |
55145 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topkap%C4%B1%20Palace | Topkapı Palace | The Topkapı Palace is a palace in Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey. Topkapı Sarayı in Turkish means the "Cannongate Palace". It was built in 1465. The palace was the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire. It was turned into a museum at the request of Turkey's first President, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1924. It wa... |
55146 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts%20of%20the%20Apostles | Acts of the Apostles | The Acts of the Apostles (Greek Praxeis Apostolon) is a book of the Bible, which now is the fifth in the New Testament. It is often simply called Acts.
Acts tells the story of the Early Christian church, with particular interest for the ministry of the Twelve Apostles and of Paul of Tarsus. The early chapters in Jerus... |
55154 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebreak | Firebreak | A Firebreak is a way to fight fires. In a firebreak, there is no vegetation, or other material that can burn. This makes it hard for a fire to jump across the break. Therefore, the spread of a possible fire is delayed.
Firefighting |
55155 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum | Slum | A slum is a part of a city or a town where many poor people live. It is a place where people may not have basic needs. Some of these people may also have social disadvantages. There are slums in most of the big cities of the world. They may not be called slum, however; see shanty town.
Victorian London
Charles Dickens... |
55161 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauban | Montauban | Montauban () is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France. It is the préfecture (capital) of the department.
The town, built mainly with reddish bricks, is on the right bank of the Tarn river at its confluence with the Tescou. It was one of the first bastides in history... |
55162 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layyah | Layyah | Layyah is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan and is the capital of Layyah District. Layyah gets its name from the wild short shrub commonly known as Layyan. Layyah is located between the rivers Indus and Chenab in central Pakistan.
Other websites
Map of Layyah
Cities in Pakistan |
55181 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20III | Leo III | Leo III (or the Greek form Leon III) refers to:
Leo III the Isaurian (c. 680), Byzantine emperor (717 - June 18, 741).
Pope Leo III, 795-816
King Leo III of Armenia
Leo III or Leo A a type IBm V irregular galaxy in the constellation Leo |
55182 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%20Leo%20III | Pope Leo III | Leo III (died June 12, 816) was Pope from 795 to 816. He is famous for the coronation of Charlemagne as emperor in 800.
Early life
Leo was born in Rome.
Pope
Leo reported his election to Charlemagne, sent him the keys of Saint Peter's tomb and the banner of Rome. Charlemagne replied that it was his function to defend... |
55186 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanda | Khanda | Khanda is a symbol of Sikhism. It is in the shape of three weapons and a circle.
Sikhism
Religious symbols |
55189 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi%20Dench | Judi Dench | Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English movie, stage and television actress.
Judi Dench has appeared in James Bond movies since 1995 as the character M. She has also appeared in other large budget movies such as Mrs. Henderson Presents and Ladies in Lavender.
Personal life
Dench was born in Hew... |
55190 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arendal | Arendal | Arendal is a city and municipality in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway. It is the administrative center of Aust-Agder county, and belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The municipality is bordered in the southwest by Grimstad, in the northwest by Froland, and in the northeast by Tvedestrand municipalities.
... |
55193 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.S.%20Lazio | S.S. Lazio | S.S. Lazio is an Italian football club based in Formello (Via di Santa Cornelia 1000, 00060 Formello).
They play in light blue shirts, white shorts and socks. The name Lazio was chosen as the original founders wanted to name the club after something which was greater and encompassed more than just the city that they ... |
55199 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire | Satire | [[Image:Punch.jpg|thumb|right|300px|1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch]]
Satire is a form in art or writing which ridicules either a person, government, or an institution, often through the use of humour. Satire can either be in paintings, plays, books, songs, TV or movies. It also is used to stereotype peop... |
55203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Cross | Iron Cross | The Iron Cross was a medal given to German soldiers for bravery during wartime. The award was created by King Frederick William III of Prussia. It was first given out on 10 March 1813. The Iron Cross was awarded during the Napoleonic Wars, the Franco-Prussian War, the First World War, and the Second World War. This med... |
55210 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manowar | Manowar | Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York, which formed in 1980.
Members
Eric Adams - vocal
Joey DeMaio - bass guitar / guitar / keyboard / classical guitar
Karl Logan - guitar / keyboard / classical guitar
Scott Columbus - drums and percussion
Albums
Battle Hymns (1982)
Into Glory Ride (1... |
55217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20series | Power series | In mathematics, a power series (in one variable) is an infinite series of the form
where an represents the coefficient of the nth term, c is a constant, and x varies around c (for this reason one sometimes speaks of the series as being centered at c). This series usually appears as the Taylor series of some known func... |
55220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20guitar | Classical guitar | A classical guitar, also called a Spanish guitar, is a musical instrument from the family of musical instruments called chordophones. This instrument is most commonly used by classical guitarists playing classical music, but it is also used in other music genres. It was first recognized 4 - 5 thousand years ago.
Guit... |
55223 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A5lerenga%20Fotball | Vålerenga Fotball | Vålerenga Fotball is a Norwegian football club from Oslo. It was founded in 1913. They are named after the neighbourhood of Vålerenga. They finished as runners-up in the 2010 Norwegian Premier League, the last time they won was in 2005. Vålerenga's home ground is Ullevaal Stadion, the national stadium for Norway. Their... |
55225 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga | Volga | The Volga is the longest river in Europe. In Russian it is called Волга, in the Tatar language its name is İdel.
Many people see it as the national river of Russia. It flows through the western part of the country. It is Europe's longest river, with a length of 3,530 kilometres, and forms the core of the largest rive... |
55232 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oi%21 | Oi! | Oi! is a type of punk rock that was started in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The people that started it wanted to connect punk with a working class street-level following. Oi! is a mixing of the styles of early punk bands, such as The Clash, Sex Pistols and the Ramones. It is also influenced by early British ro... |
55235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers%20Grimm | Brothers Grimm | The Brothers Grimm (German: Die Brüder Grimm, also Gebrüder Grimm) were the brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. They were German academics and most famous for their collections of folktales and fairy tales, and for their work in linguistics.
The Grimm brothers both became linguists. They are the inventors of German phil... |
55236 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy%20metal | Heavy metal | Heavy metal may mean:
Heavy metals, chemical elements within a particular range of atomic weights
Heavy metal music, a style of music
Heavy Metal (magazine), an American fantasy magazine based on the French magazine Métal Hurlant
Heavy Metal (movie), a 1981 animated movie based on the magazine, or its sequel Heavy Meta... |
55237 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryozoa | Bryozoa | Bryozoans, also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or moss animals, are a phylum of small aquatic animals living in colonies. The colonies usually have a skeleton of calcium carbonate. Bryozoans have a long fossil history, starting in the Ordovician. In their life-style they resemble the polyps which form coral. They gen... |
55250 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo | Placebo | A placebo is a treatment for a disease or condition which is deliberately ineffective. The motive usually is that if a person believes that a medicine, diet, or other treatment is good for them, then it is good for them.
Sometimes sick people who receive a placebo feel like they are getting better, and sometimes their... |
55257 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20%28mathematics%29 | Identity (mathematics) | For other senses of this word, see identity.
In mathematics, the term identity has several important uses:
An identity is an equality that remains true even if you change all the variables that are used in that equality.
An equality in mathematical sense is only true under more particular conditions. For this, the s... |
55258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality | Equality | Equality can mean several things:
In sciences:
Equality (mathematics)
Equality (objects)
In humanities:
Egalitarianism, the belief that all/some people ought to be treated equally
Equality of opportunity
Discrimination
Racial equality
Sexual equality
Social equality
People and places:
Equality, Illinois
R... |
55259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity | Identity | Identity could mean:
Philosophy
Identity (philosophy) is the sameness of two things.
Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the brain
Personal identity
Mathematics
An identity is an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables.
An identity object ... |
55260 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality%20%28mathematics%29 | Equality (mathematics) | In mathematics, two things are equal if and only if they are exactly the same in every way. That is, they have the same (mathematical) value and the same mathematical properties. Mathematicians use the equals sign (=) to say this. This defines a binary relation, equality. The statement "x = y" means that x and y are eq... |
55265 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry | Ministry | The term ministry could mean:
Ministry (government department), a department of a government
Ministry (collective executive) (often the Ministry), the complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a prime minister
The Ministry, also known as the Aireacht, the cabine... |
55266 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious%20ministry | Religious ministry | Ministry, in Christianity, is the activity that is done by members of the church to serve the purposes of the church.
It can mean this activity as a whole, or specific activities, or organizations in a church that perform specific activities.
Age-specific Ministry
As churches attempt to meet the needs of their cong... |
55267 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20%28government%20department%29 | Ministry (government department) | For other meanings of the term ministry, see Ministry.
A ministry is a department of a government, led by a political minister.
Ministries are usually subordinate to the cabinet, and prime minister, president or chancellor. A government will usually have several ministries, each with a specialised field of service. ... |
55269 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerius | Galerius | Galerius (Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, ~250 – 5 May 311), was Roman Emperor from 305 to 311.
Galerius served as a soldier with distinction. When the Tetrarchy was introduced by Diocletian in 293 Galerius and Constantius Chlorus were given the rank of Caesar. Galerius married Diocletian's daughter Valeria, and t... |
55272 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Placebo (disambiguation) | Placebo may mean:
Placebo, a treatment without intrinsic therapeutic value, but administered as if it were a therapy
Placebo (band), an alternative rock band
Placebo (album), the band's self-titled debut album
Placebo (at funeral) (obsolete usage), someone who falsely claims a connection to the deceased to get a sh... |
55273 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo%20effect%20%28disambiguation%29 | Placebo effect (disambiguation) | Placebo effect may refer to:
The placebo effect, the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work.
Placebo Effect, an original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction te... |
55275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20foot%20gardening | Square foot gardening | Square foot gardening is a method of gardening made popular by Mel Bartholemew in 1981. It is based on the idea that wide rows, used in traditional gardening, waste time, work, water, seeds and soil. It shows that quality vegetables can be grown in less space with less work. In this method, the garden space is divided ... |
55311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender | Blender | This article is about the kitchen appliance. For the 3D computer graphics program, see Blender (program)
A blender is an electric kitchen appliance used for making drinks, mixing liquids, and puréeing (chopping up into small bits) fruits and vegetables for sauces and soups.
Parts of a blender
A blender consists of a ... |
55313 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking%20straw | Drinking straw | A drinking straw (or "straw") is a utensil used to consume cold drinks such as milk shakes, smoothies, cola, and fruit juice. Drinking straws are usually made from plastic that is formed into a tube. To use a drinking straw, a person places the straw in a glass that contains a liquid and then sucks the straw with their... |
55315 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-tone%20scale | Whole-tone scale | In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from the next one by an interval of a whole tone. There is always one note (a semitone) in between each neighbouring pair of notes of the whole-tone scale. Whatever note is started on, the whole tone scale will contain one of the following sets of... |
55319 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic%20scale | Pentatonic scale | In music, a pentatonic scale is a scale with five notes in each octave. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found in folk music from all over the world.
Any scale using five notes is "pentatonic" ("penta" is Greek for "five"). However, the pentatonic scale which is used in most Western music uses notes which do ... |
55320 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20scale | Major scale | In music theory, the major scale or Ionian scale is one of the diatonic scales. It is made up of seven separate notes, plus an eighth which is the same as the first an octave higher. In solfege these notes correspond to the syllables "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti/Si, Do". The simplest major scale to write or play on the... |
55321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor%20scale | Minor scale | A minor scale in music theory is any scale that has at least three scale degrees: the tonic, the minor third above the tonic, and the perfect fifth above the tonic. Together they make the minor triad. This includes many scales and modes such as Dorian mode and the Phrygian mode.
In simple terms, a minor scale is a ser... |
55322 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast | Yeast | Yeast are microorganisms. They are single-celled fungi. There are about 1,500 different species of yeast. Most reproduce asexually, by budding. Some use binary fission to reproduce asexually.
A particular species of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been used for thousands of years. It is used for baking bread bec... |
55323 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budding | Budding | Budding is a method of asexual reproduction. With budding, a new organism grows on another one. It stays attached, while it grows. Only when it is fully grown does it detach from the parent organism. Since the reproduction is asexual, the newly created organism is a clone and is genetically identical to the parent orga... |
55325 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20fission | Binary fission | Binary fission ("division in half") is a kind of asexual reproduction. It is the most common form of reproduction in prokaryotes such as bacteria. It occurs in some single-celled Eukaryotes like the Amoeba and the Paramoecium. In binary fission DNA replication and segregation occur simultaneously.
In binary fission, ... |
55327 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charisma%20Carpenter | Charisma Carpenter | Charisma Lee Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
Personal life
Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. At 15, her family moved to Rosarito B.C., Mexico. Later, they ... |
55345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Watzlawick | Paul Watzlawick | Paul Watzlawick PhD (July 25, 1921 – March 31, 2007) was a theoretician in communication theory. He also commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. He lived and worked in California until his death in 2007 in Palo Alto.
He formulated five axioms. They are:
It is not possible to not communica... |
55347 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotransmitter | Neurotransmitter | Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers. They send information between neurons by crossing a synapse. Electrical signals are not able to cross the gap between most neurons. They are changed into chemical signals to cross the gap. Neurotransmitters act mostly on chemical synapses. Once they reach the next neuron they ... |
55348 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20rock | Hard rock | Hard rock is a variation of rock music with roots in early 1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock. The term "hard rock" may be used several genres such as punk rock and grunge in order to distinguish them from the more radio-friendly pop rock genre.
Notable Artists
The Beatles (such as Helter Skelter, I Want You (Sh... |
55349 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Beamish | Sally Beamish | Sally Beamish (born London, 26 August 1956) is an English composer. She has written music for orchestra, chamber music, vocal and choral music.
Sally studied the viola at the Royal Northern College of Music. Later she also studied in Germany and Italy.
Sally started her career playing the viola in a chamber group ... |
55350 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhodka | Nakhodka | Nakhodka (Russian Находка) is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is one of the most eastern cities in Russia. Nakhodka is a port on the Japan Sea. It is located around Nakhodka Bay. Nakhodka means "Lucky find" in Russian.
The village Amerikanka was the first permanent settlement at the location of the current c... |
55351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra | Sumatra | Sumatra, known also as Sumatera, is the sixth largest island in the world. It is in western Indonesia. It is to the west of the Sunda Islands, and is bordered by the Indian Ocean. Sumatra contains the provinces of Daerah Istimewa Aceh, Riau, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung Islands, Jambi, Bengkulu, Lampung, North Sumatra... |
55352 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whigs | Whigs | The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and 1850s, they contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The British prime minister was usually from one of the two parties.
The Whigs played a central ro... |
55353 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage | Espionage | Espionage or spying is a practice of getting information about an organization, society, or country that is meant to be secret or confidential, without permission. Espionage usually involves having access to where the needed information is stored or to the people that know the information. In wartime, espionage is a wa... |
55358 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison%20Birtwistle | Harrison Birtwistle | Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH, (born Accrington, July 15, 1934) is one of Britain's most important composers today.
Early life
In 1952, Birtwistle entered the Royal Manchester College of Music in Manchester on a clarinet scholarship. While there he met other young composers like Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Go... |
55365 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch%20and%20Judy%20%28disambiguation%29 | Punch and Judy (disambiguation) | Punch and Judy could mean:
Punch and Judy, a traditional children's puppet show
Punch and Judy, characters in Big Shot
Punch and Judy, an opera by Harrison Birtwistle.
"Punch and Judy", a song released by Marillion in 1984
The Punch and Judy Man, a 1962 British comedy film
"Punch and Judy", a song by The Stranglers f... |
55376 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorsch | Lorsch | Lorsch is a small town in southwest Germany ( south of Frankfurt am Main) in the Kreis Bergstraße district of the state of Hessen. More than 12,000 people live in the town.
It is the site of a Benedictine abbey, which used to be one of the greatest centers of Carolingian art. Several Carolingian kings of Germany were ... |
55382 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish | Scottish | Scottish usually refers to something from or related to Scotland, a country in northern Europe.
These may include:
Language
Scottish English, the accents and dialects of English spoken in Scotland
Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic language native to Scotland
Scots language, a Germanic language spoken in lowland Scotland
Peo... |
55393 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Monaghan | Dominic Monaghan | Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. He is well known for playing Merry Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He is also well known for playing Charlie Pace on the television series Lost.
Personal life
Monaghan was born in... |
55395 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Horse%20%28cabaret%29 | Crazy Horse (cabaret) | The article about the Sioux leader is at Crazy Horse
Le Crazy Horse Saloon or Le Crazy Horse Paris is a nightclub in Paris, founded in 1951. It is famous for its cabaret, which features nude female dancers. It was opened by Alain Bernardin, who also managed it until his suicide in 1994. Today the cabaret is run by Ber... |
55402 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnidaria | Cnidaria | Cnidaria is a phylum with about 11,000 species of animals. All of them are simple and aquatic, and most of them live in the sea. Some are colonial, composed of zooids which may be clones. Cnidarian zooids may take the form of polyps or medusae at different phases of their life.
Cnidaria take their name from special ce... |
55403 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path | Path | Path may refer to:
Physical paths:
Bicycle path
Bridle path
Footpath
Hiking path
Sidewalk
Trail
In mathematics and computing:
Path (computing), where to find a file on a computer
Path (graph theory), a sequence of vertices of a graph
Path (topology), a continuous function
Path, a name for the vectors in vec... |
55410 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism | Calvinism | Calvinism belongs to the Reformed tradition of Protestantism. This tradition goes back to John Calvin and other theologians.
Important Calvinists from Europe include: Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Huldrych Zwingli, and from England, reformers Thomas Cranmer and John Jewel. Because John C... |
55412 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Calvin | John Calvin | Jean Cauvin, also Jean Calvin (John Calvin in English) (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564), was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism or Reformed theology. In Geneva, he rejected Papal authority, established a new sc... |
55414 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet | Trebuchet | A Trebuchet was a device used in wars and sieges in the Middle Ages. It could be used to throw stones at ramparts, trying to break them down. It could also be used to throw things over the walls of a city. These could be corpses of animals or people that had died of the plague. Trebuchets were more accurate than other ... |
55416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarascon | Tarascon | Tarascon, sometimes called Tarascon-sur-Rhône, is a city in the south of France. The city is about 20 km from either Arles or Avignon. The city was founded by the Romans in the year 48. Some people know the city from the book Tartarin de Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet. There is also a castle near the city. About 14.000 pe... |
55419 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan | Kurdistan | Kurdistan is a mountainous area in the Middle East, that is mainly inhabited by Kurds.
The Kurdish population is estimated to be around 35-40 million people.
In Iranian Kurdistan, the cities of Piranshahr & Mahabad are the two main cities of Mokrian district.
Northern Kurdistan (Turkey)
Southern Kurdistan (Iraq)
... |
55422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigues-Mortes | Aigues-Mortes | Aigues-Mortes (French for "dead waters") is a city in the south of France. It is in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It was originally founded by the Romans in the year 102 BC. The first records mentioning it under its current name date from the 10th century. Louis IX of France rebuilt the port in the 13th century. It ... |
55426 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%20BC | 3 BC | Year 3 BC was a common year starting on Wednesday or Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Messalla.
Events
King Maroboduus of the Marcomanni made a confederation of Germanic tribes, with the Hermunduri, Lombards, Semnoni and Vandals.
Lucius Domitius... |
55427 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/6%20BC | 6 BC | Year 6 BC was a common year starting on Sunday or Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus.
Events
Caesar Augustus sends ferrets to the Balearic Islands to control rabbits
Tiberius is sent to Armenia. He then retires to Rhodes.
Deaths
Consort Ban, ... |
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