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5165 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1542 | 1542 |
Events
December 14 – Accession of Mary, Queen of Scots
Births
June 6 – Richard Grenville, Elizabethan sailor (died 1591)
June 24 – St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591)
October 15 – Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, ruler of the Mughal Empire (died 1605)
December 8 – Mary, Queen of Sco... |
5166 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2013 | February 13 |
Events
Up to 1900
1322 - The central tower of Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, falls.
1462 - The Treaty of Westminster is finalized between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
1503 - Disfida di Barletta: A tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights takes place near Barletta... |
5167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%2031 | January 31 |
Events
Up to 1900
314 - Silvester I becomes Pope.
1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
1542 - Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first European to reach Iguazu Falls on the present-day border between Argentina and Brazil.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and... |
5168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981 | 1981 | 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was .
Events
January 20 – Hostages from the Iran hostage crisis are released at the same time when Ronald Reagan is inaugurated for the first time as President of the United States.
January 21 – The first DeLorean automotive is released in Northern Ireland.
January 27 – The Indonesian passenger shi... |
5169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney%20Spears | Britney Spears | Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist, singer-songwriter, dancer, entertainer and actress. She has recorded several albums and has received several entertainment industry awards.
Early life
Britney Jean Spears was born on December 2, 1981. Her parents are Lynne Irene (née Bridges)... |
5171 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Matrix | The Matrix | The Matrix is a science fiction action movie that was made in 1999. It was written and directed by the Wachowski Sisters. The main actors in the movie are Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving. The Matrix was followed by three sequels: The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The M... |
5176 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/September%2011%20attacks | September 11 attacks | The September 11 attacks (also called 9/11) were four terrorist attacks against the United States of America. They all happened on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed almost 3,000 people, including the 19 attackers, making it the deadliest recent terrorist attack. They caused more than $10 bi... |
5179 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff | Cardiff | Cardiff is the capital and biggest city of Wales. It is also the 11th biggest city in the United Kingdom. Its name in the Welsh language is Caerdydd. A 2011 census says that around 346,100 people live in Cardiff. It is the most important city in Wales for tourism, culture, government, sport, transport, nightlife and bu... |
5185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valladolid | Valladolid | is a city in Spain, with a population of 316,564. It is the capital of Castile and León, and one of the historical capitals of the Spanish Kingdom.
On 19 October, 1469, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile married secretely in the Palacio de los Vivero. Also, Christopher Columbus died in the city on 20 May... |
5194 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Gaskell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865) was an English writer.
She was born in Chelsea, London. After her mother died, she lived with her aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire. She married William Gaskell, a priest, in 1832. They lived in Manchester, where several of her books are set. She died of a he... |
5198 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice | Venice | Venice is a city in Italy. It is the capital of the Veneto region, which is in the north-east of the country. The population of the 'Comune di Venezia', which is Venice, its lagoon and its mainland is 271,367. Area is 412 km². The population of Venice itself keeps on shrinking at an alarming rate and is now under 55000... |
5199 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples | Naples | Naples is a southern Italian city with a port. It faces the Mediterranean Sea and is near Mount Vesuvius. Its name in Italian is Napoli which came from its Greek name Neapolis, meaning new city. It has a population of about 1 million. About 3 million live in the area around Naples (including Naples itself).
There is... |
5200 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence | Florence | Florence () is the capital city of the region of Tuscany (Toscana), in Italy. From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Florence is on the Arno River. The city has a population of around 370,000 people, and a suburban population of over 2,000,000 people. The greater area has around 956,00... |
5201 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan | Milan | Milan (Italian: Milano; ancient Medhelan Mediolanum (City in the middle of the lands)) is a city in northern Italy. Milan is the capital of the Milano Provence and of the Lombardy Region. It is populated by 1,308,735 inhabitants.
It is the most populated province in Italy, and it is the second biggest city in Italy (af... |
5226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamorgan | Glamorgan | Glamorgan, also known as Glamorganshire is a county in Wales in the west of Great Britain. Glamorgan was a medieval kingdom. Its capital is Cardiff.
The county is home to over a million people, which is more than one third the total of Wales. It contains the cities of Cardiff, Swansea and most of the valleys that are ... |
5227 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall | Cornwall | Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in the far southwest of England in the United Kingdom. Truro is the capital of the Unitary Authority that has administered Cornwall since 2009. Truro is also the only city. It has the cathedral of the Diocese of Truro. Cornwall is home to the Cornish Language and the Cornish peopl... |
5229 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintagel%20Castle | Tintagel Castle | Tintagel Castle is in Cornwall, a county in England.
Reginald, Earl of Cornwall built the castle on Tintagel Head (a piece of land by the sea) in about 1150. In Cornish legend, this is the place where the old Kings of Cornwall lived. Reginald built the castle for propaganda, not for military use; he wanted people to t... |
5230 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwyneth%20Paltrow | Gwyneth Paltrow | Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 28, 1972) is an American actress and singer. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
Her father was movie director Bruce Paltrow. Her mother is actress Blythe Danner. Her brother is director Jake Paltrow. Her uncle is singer-actor Harry Danner. Her half-cousin is actress Katherin... |
5231 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Michelle%20Gellar | Sarah Michelle Gellar | Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. After several television acting roles during the 1990s, Gellar became famous for playing Buffy Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After Buffy, she started acting in movies. She has starred in the family movies Scooby-Doo (2002) ... |
5233 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Garner | Jennifer Garner | Jenny Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is a Golden Globe Award- and SAG Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American movie and television actress, and producer. She first became famous for her role as Sydney Bristow on Alias, a CIA agent. She was also in Juno, Pearl Harbor, and Dude, Where's My Car.
Garner joined ... |
5234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather%20Graham | Heather Graham | Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American actress.
Her father is a retired FBI agent. Her mother is a writer of books for children. Her sister, Aimee, is an actress and writer. Graham's parents are Catholics. They did not want their daughter to make any movies about sex. She d... |
5235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%20Ricci | Christina Ricci | Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. She was born in Santa Monica, California and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey.
Filmography
Film
Television
Other works
Music
2005: "Hell Yes" – Beck
Music videos
1990: "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" – Cher
1991: "Addams Groove" – MC H... |
5236 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Roberts | Julia Roberts | Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her roles in the movies Steel Magnolias (1989), Pretty Woman (1990), Runaway Bride (1998) and Erin Brockovich (2000). Roberts regularly plays characters of attractive powerful women. She has been among People Magazine... |
5237 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina%20Jolie | Angelina Jolie | Angelina Jolie (; née Voight, formerly Jolie Pitt, born June 4, 1975) is an American actress, movie producer, screenwriter, and author. She is the daughter of Jon Voight, who is also an actor and former actress/model Marcheline Bertrand. Her full name is Angelina Jolie Voight, but she decided to go by Angelina Jolie. S... |
5238 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Kudrow | Lisa Kudrow | {{Infobox actor
| name = Lisa Kudrow
| image = Lisa Kudrow 2.jpg
| caption = Lisa Kudrow in 2009
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Encino, Los Angeles, California
| awards = Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 1998 Friends
| kn... |
5239 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace%20Kelly | Grace Kelly | Grace Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress. She later married Prince Rainier III of Monaco and became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco. With Prince Rainier, she had 3 children:
Hereditary Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, born January 23, 1957, and now heiress presumptive... |
5240 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Taylor | Elizabeth Taylor | Dame Elizabeth "Liz" Rosemond Taylor DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress.
The movies she starred in were, National Velvet, Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly, Last Summer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8.... |
5242 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%20Swank | Hilary Swank | Hilary Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an Academy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress. The is the second woman in the world to win two Oscars before thirty (the first one was Jodie Foster). Swank's movies include Million Dollar Baby and Freedom Writers. She will play Gail Getty in the 2018 television series T... |
5243 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana%20Visitor | Nana Visitor | Nana Visitor (born July 26, 1957) is an American actress. Visitor was born in New York City. She is most famous for playing Kira Nerys in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Visitor married fellow Star Trek actor Alexander Siddig in 1997. They had a son in 1996. Visitor and Siddig divorced in 2001.
Visi... |
5244 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Siddig | Alexander Siddig | Alexander Siddig (November 21, 1965) is a Sudanese actor. Siddig is most famous for playing Dr Julian Bashir in the Star Trek television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Siddig married fellow Star Trek actor Nana Visitor in 1997. They had a son in 1996. Siddig and Visitor divorced in 2001.
Siddig is the nephew of... |
5246 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel%20Tower | Eiffel Tower | The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, [tuʁ ɛfɛl], IPA pronunciation: "EYE-full" English; "eh-FEHL" French) is a landmark in Paris. It was built between 1887 and 1889 for the Exposition Universelle (World Fair). The Tower was the Exposition's main attraction.
Background
The Eiffel Tower cost 7,799,401.31 French gol... |
5247 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre | Louvre | The Louvre is a museum in Paris. It has has millions of visitors every year because of its art collection. It is the most visited art museum in the world.
The most famous piece of art in the Louvre is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Other paintings include works of Rembrandt, Giambattista Pittoni, Caravaggio, Rube... |
5248 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20de%20Milo | Venus de Milo | The Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek statue. It is in the Louvre, a museum in Paris, France. The Venus de Milo represents Aphrodite, the goddess of love in Greek mythology. The statue is made of marble and is 203cm high. It is believed to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch. The Venus de Milo was found on 8 April 182... |
5249 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite | Aphrodite | Aphrodite (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη, Aphrodítē) is the Ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty. She was also the goddess of procreation. Aphrodite is one of the Twelve Olympians. The most beautiful and refined of the goddesses, Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, god of fire and metalworking. Aphrodite had numerous affai... |
5250 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20%28mythology%29 | Venus (mythology) | In Roman mythology, Venus is the goddess of love and beauty. She was the Roman version of the Greek Aphrodite and Etruscan Turan.
Her cult began in Ardea and Lavinium, Latium. On August 18, 293 BC, the first temple to her was built . August 18 was then a festival called the Vinalia Rustica. On April 1, the Veneralia... |
5251 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%20%28mythology%29 | Jupiter (mythology) | Jupiter (Latin: Iuppiter) is the king of the gods in Roman mythology. He was the god of the sky and thunder. His brother's name was Pluto and his sister was Ceres.
Life of Jupiter
Saturn, who was the previous king of the gods, began to swallow the children that he had with his wife,(Greek equivalent Rhea), when they ... |
5254 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva | Minerva | Minerva was the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. The Greeks called her Athena but the Romans didn't make her as warlike as Athena. As Minerva Medica she was goddess of medicine and doctors. Many coins showed her.
Related pages
Menrva - Etruscan mythology version of Minerva
Athena - Greek mythology version of Mine... |
5255 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena | Athena | Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare and handiwork
strategy. She is one of the Twelve Olympians. Athena's symbol is the owl, the wisest of the birds. She also had a shield called Aegis, which was a present given to her by Zeus. She is often shown with her helmet on and with her shield, the shield later h... |
5257 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20Lake%20City | Salt Lake City | Salt Lake City is a city in the United States of America. It is the capital and largest city of the state of Utah. It was founded by the Mormons and is the official headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is named after the Great Salt Lake, which it is near. The city's population was estimat... |
5258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagano%2C%20Nagano | Nagano, Nagano | Nagano () is a city in Japan. It is the capital of Nagano Prefecture (). Nagano has been recognized as a core city since 1999.
As of October 1, 2007, 2,182,190 people lived in Nagano.
History
In 1998, the Olympic Games were held in Nagano.
References
Cities in Japan
Olympic cities
Settlements in Nagano Prefecture |
5259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona | Barcelona | Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, which is a region of Spain. Barcelona is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. The city is between the rivers of Llobregat and Besòs, and south of the Pyrenees mountains. It has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the Köppen climate classification).
In 1992, Ba... |
5260 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise%20Lewis | Denise Lewis | Denise Lewis (born 27 August 1972) is a British retired athlete from West Bromwich. She won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
In late 2004, she was a contestant in the second series of Strictly Come Dancing.
References... |
5267 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Johnson | Michael Johnson | Michael Duane Johnson (born in September 13, 1967), Dallas, Texas is an American retired sprinter. He is widely considered the greatest long sprinter of all time. During his time on the track, he established world records for the 400 m (43.18 Seville, Spain), indoor 400 m, indoor 300 m, 200 m, and 4 × 400 m relay. Due ... |
5268 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic | Icelandic | Icelandic might mean:
Anything related to Iceland
Icelandic language |
5285 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze%20Age | Bronze Age | The Bronze Age is the time period when people made tools from an alloy (a mixture of metals) called bronze. Bronze is a mixture of mainly copper and tin: usually nine parts copper to one part tin. Materials like wood and stone were also used for tools, but bronze was better for cutting and chopping, and was easy to sha... |
5289 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20XIV | Louis XIV | Louis XIV, also popularly known as the Sun King (5 September 1638–1 September 1715) was the King of France and King of Navarre from 14 May 1643 until his death. He was a king for 72 years. This was the longest recorded rule of any European monarch. He is often seen as the typical example of absolutism. He was the older... |
5290 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic%20Games | Olympic Games | The Olympic Games () is an important international event featuring summer and winter sports. Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games are held every four years. Originally, the ancient Olympic Games were held in Ancient Greece at Olympia. The first games were in 776 BC. They were held every four years until the 6t... |
5291 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Age | Iron Age | The Iron Age is the period after the Bronze Age. Iron production took place in Anatolia at least as early as 12,000 BC, with some evidence pointing to even earlier dates.
In the Mesopotamian states of Sumer, Akkad and Assyria, the use of iron reaches far back, to perhaps 30,000 BC. One of the earliest smelted iron ar... |
5300 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment | Entertainment | Entertainment is something that gives pleasure, or distracts a person from daily life, like a sport or game that excites people and keeps their attention. Some entertainment, like horror movies, can also make people feel sad or scared. Other entertainment, like comedy shows, are funny.
Entertainment can help reduce st... |
5301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Site | Open Site | Open Site is a free internet encyclopedia created by many editors. Anyone can apply to become an editor or donate content.
Categories
At Open Site all the content is separated into categories. There are eleven main categories which each have many subcategories. These are the main categories:
Arts - has information ... |
5310 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola, is a carbonated, sweetened soft drink and is the world's best-selling drink. A popular nickname for Coca-Cola is Coke. The Coca-Cola Company claims that the beverage is sold in more than 200 countries. The company's headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia. Coca-Cola's main rival is Pepsi because of the similar ... |
5311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur | Sulfur | Sulfur (or sulphur) is a chemical element. The symbol for sulfur is S, and its atomic number is 16.
Properties
Sulfur is a yellow solid that is a nonmetal. It is fragile (easily broken) and crystalline. It burns easily, releasing toxic fumes of sulfur dioxide. It has a very faint odor. If it is melted and cooled very ... |
5313 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium | Aluminium | Aluminium (in American and Canadian English also: aluminum) is a chemical element. The symbol for aluminium is Al, and its atomic number is 13. Aluminium is the most abundant metal. It is a mononuclidic element.
History
People have tried to produce aluminium since 1760. The first successful attempt, finished in 1824 b... |
5316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing | Drawing | Drawing is a way of making a picture. Drawings are created by making lines on a surface. Long lines make up the shapes and small lines make the textures. Drawings can be images of real-life or abstract images showing ideas that cannot be seen in the real world.
A drawing is the art created this way. Examples of things... |
5324 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas | Texas | Texas (, ), officially the State of Texas, is a state in the South Central Region of the United States. It is the second largest US state by total area (after Alaska) with 268,596 sq mi (695,662 km2) and population (after California) with nearly 29 million people as of 2019. Its largest cities are Houston, Dallas, Fort... |
5354 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia | Prussia | Prussia (; , , Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a series of countries. Originally it was a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525. Mostly, the name is used for the Kingdom of Prussia, which was in northern Europe. It was part of Germany for a while, and it included land in Poland, France, and Li... |
5361 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha | Apocrypha | The Apocrypha are religious texts that are in some versions of the Catholic Bible. Other versions omit them. The word comes from Ancient Greek (apokrypha). Apocrypha means those that were hidden. Generally, the term is applied to writings that were not part of the canon. There are several reasons why these texts were ... |
5392 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium | Sodium | Sodium (symbol Na, from the Latin name natrium) is the chemical element number 11 in the periodic table of elements. It follows that its nucleus includes 11 protons, and 11 electrons orbit around it (according to the simplified model known as "Niels Bohr atom"). Even if many isotopes can be artificially made, all decay... |
5395 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice | Dice | Dice are objects used in games when something random needs to be done, such as moving a game piece a random number of places on a board. Most dice are cubes that have the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 on the faces. Dice are sometimes made in other polyhedral shapes than cubes, but the six-sided die (die is the singular o... |
5398 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20%28mathematics%29 | Matrix (mathematics) | In mathematics, a matrix (plural: matrices) is a rectangle of numbers, arranged in rows and columns. The rows are each left-to-right (horizontal) lines, and the columns go top-to-bottom (vertical). The top-left cell is at row 1, column 1 (see diagram at right).
Matrices are often represented by capital roman letters s... |
5400 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian | Hawaiian | Hawaiian can be:
The Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian language
Native Hawaiians, the Polynesian Hawaiian people (a kanaka ‘oiwi or kanaka māoli)
having to do with the U.S. state of Hawaii |
5401 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Isles | British Isles | The British Isles are an archipelago (a group of islands) in north-western Europe. They have a long geographical and geological history. The first people were in Britain by 800,000 years ago (Happisburgh footprints).
The biggest islands are called Great Britain and Ireland, followed by the Isle of Man. Great Britain... |
5403 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin%20Chinese | Mandarin Chinese | Mandarin Chinese or simply Mandarin (; ) is the language of government and education of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, with the notable exceptions of Hong Kong and Macau where a local dialect of Chinese called Cantonese is more often used.
Mandarin is one of five major regional languages of China. It spreads wider t... |
5404 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria | Algeria | Algeria ( or ), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a former French colony and the largest country in Africa. It is part of the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa. Algiers is the capital. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea in the north, Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in t... |
5406 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth | Plymouth | Plymouth is a city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is on the south coast. It has a large port at Devonport used by the Royal Navy. Nearly 250,000 people live in Plymouth and it is the largest place in Devon. West of Plymouth is the mouth of the River Tamar which is called the Hamoaze. Plymouth me... |
5409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth%20%28disambiguation%29 | Plymouth (disambiguation) | Plymouth is the name of various places:
Plymouth, Devon, an English city and the first to bear the name
Places in the United States named after Plymouth, England.
Plymouth, Connecticut
Plymouth, Illinois
Plymouth, Indiana
Plymouth, Iowa
Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first city in New England
Plymouth, Michi... |
5410 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Washington | George Washington | George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Before he became president, he was the commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Early life
Washington... |
5411 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2022 | February 22 |
Events
Up to 1900
1281 – Martin IV becomes Pope.
1288 – Nicholas IV becomes Pope.
1371 - Robert II of Scotland becomes King, starting the Stuart Dynasty.
1494 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
... |
5414 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician. He was the 16th president of the United States. He was president from 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War. Just five days after most of the Confederate forces had surrendered and the war was ending, John Wilkes Booth assassinated ... |
5415 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2012 | February 12 |
Events
Up to 1900
881 - Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1354 – Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
1502 - Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon on his second voyage to India.
1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by ... |
5416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%2015 | April 15 |
Events
Up to 1900
1071 - Norman forces under Robert Guiscard conquer Bari, present-day Italy.
1191 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
1450 – Battle of Formigny; Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly destroy English forces, ending English domination in northern France.
16... |
5420 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Coolidge | Calvin Coolidge | Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States between 1923 and 1929. He was a conservative who supported business and lower taxes.
Family life
He was the only president of the United States to be born on July 4. He was married to Grace Cool... |
5422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20S.%20Truman | Harry S. Truman | Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, from 1945 to 1953. He became president when President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office.
As president, Truman made important foreign policy decisions, such as using atomic weapons on Japan to end World War II; repairing E... |
5423 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Adams | John Adams | John Adams, Jr. (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was the second president of the United States (1797–1801), and father of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams. He was also the first vice president of the United States (1789–1797).
Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. He was the son of Lt. Col. John Adams, Sr... |
5424 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Clinton | Bill Clinton | William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician and humanitarian activist. He was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Before he was president, Clinton was the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, as well as the at... |
5429 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield | Yield | In economics, the yield is how much money somebody is paid each year for leaving his or her money invested somewhere. Unlike a corporate dividend, a yield is fairly certain, unless there is a bankruptcy. This means that somebody usually knows how much money they are going to make from their yield ahead of time.
Yield... |
5430 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral%20purchasing | Moral purchasing | Moral purchasing is when a person uses moral reasoning to decide what to buy. For example, when a person chooses to buy local goods instead of those from other countries, helps neighbours and processes that one can point to quickly.
Other page
Fair trade
Ethics |
5431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20network | Social network | A social network is a set of people who interact. This includes group organizations. The social relationships may include friendship/affect, communication, economic transactions, interactions, kinship, authority/hierarchy, trust, social support, diffusion, contagion, and so on.
Calling social relationships a network ... |
5432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal | Cabal | A cabal is a group of people who try to control things in a secret way. Cabals are often an important part of a conspiracy theory.
Sometimes people say "There Is No Cabal", or use the abbreviation TINC to mean "There Is No Cabal". The joke is that since a cabal is necessarily secret, only those who are in the cabal ca... |
5433 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creating | Creating | Creating is making new things that have not existed before, usually by combining two or three things that existed. Art is almost always called creative, but so are other activities like music, mathematics, technology, business, craft, building, gardening and forestry, if they combine things to get new things.
When sev... |
5434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20science | Human science | Human science is the science of humans: what makes them different from animals, and their limits, which tend to be the same as those of other animals. Because human bodies are animal bodies, human science is part of biology which leads to Life Science. However human behaviour includes the use of words, measures, num... |
5435 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaying | Flaying | Flaying is a form of torture, mutilation, and execution. It is the act of stripping the skin and flesh from the bones. Flaying an enemy while alive is an ancient practice. Accounts attribute the practice to the ancient Assyrians, who were said to flay the skin from a captured enemy or rebellious ruler and nail it to... |
5437 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice | Rice | Rice (Oryza sativa) is a type of cereal and food. In origin, it is a swamp grass. It is eaten as staple food in many parts of Asia. It is grown in warm parts of the world, mainly Asia, Africa, northern Italy, and the west coast of North America.
Rice accounts for 80% of the calories eaten in Asia, or one-fifth of the ... |
5444 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga | Yoga | Yoga is an old discipline of Hindu philosophy from India. It is both spiritual and physical. Yoga uses breathing techniques, exercise and meditation. It helps to improve health and happiness. Yoga is the Sanskrit word for union. Patanjali was a pioneer of classical yoga. He defined yoga as "the cessation of the modific... |
5445 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20development%20theory | Human development theory | Even though economics is all about choice on the basis of what is available rather than what should be available, the big question relates to who decides how resources should be distributed and how economics can embrace a trade-off between different groups which each seek to make the most of their allocation of resourc... |
5450 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle | Cattle | Cattle is a word for certain mammals that belong to the genus Bos. Cattle may be cows, bulls, oxen, or calves. Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated hoofed animals. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae.
Cattle are large grazing animals with two-toed or cloven hooves and a four-... |
5459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick | Quick | Quick may refer to:
Speed
Quick (restaurant chain), a French fast-food chain
Quick (automobile), an American-made car
Related pages
All articles with titles starting with "Quick" |
5460 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder | Thunder | For the aircraft, see P-47 Thunderbolt and A-10 Thunderbolt II.
Thunder is a very loud sound that is made sometimes during a very big rain storm.
Thunder is so loud, it can be heard from a very far distance.
It can sound like a boom, a crash, or a rumble.
Thunder is made when lightning strikes.
The energy from the li... |
5461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1 | 1 | The year 1 (I) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. The year started on a Monday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the 1st century and 1st millennium.
It is one of only seven years to use just one Roman numeral. The seven are 1 AD (I), 5 AD (V), 10 AD (X), 50 AD (L), 100 AD ... |
5462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2 | 2 | The year 2 (II) was a common year that started on Sunday, according to the Julian calendar. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Tuesday.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vinicius and Varus. It was the 2nd year of the 1st century.
Events
Roman Empire
Following the death of... |
5463 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/3 | 3 | The year 3 (III) was a common year which started on a Monday. according to the Julian calendar. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Wednesday. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lamia and Servilius. The year is called 3 since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calen... |
5464 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/4 | 4 | The year 4 (IV) was a leap year which started on a Tuesday, according to the Julian calendar. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Thursday. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Catus and Saturninus. It was called the fourth year since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domin... |
5465 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/5 | 5 | 5 (V) is a common year of the Julian calendar which started on a Thursday. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Saturday. It was known as the Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Cinna. It was the 5th year of the 1st century.
It is one of only seven years to use just one Roman numeral. The seven are... |
5466 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/6 | 6 | 6 (VI) is a common year of the Julian calendar which started on a Friday. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Sunday. It was the 6th year of the 1st century.
Events
Roman Empire
Herod Archelaus, the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea is deposed and banished to vienne in Gaul.
Iudaea and Moesia... |
5467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/7 | 7 | 7 (VII) is a common year of the Julian calendar which started on a Saturday. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Monday. It was the 7th year of the 1st century.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
The Illyrians revolt against Roman rule.
Pannonians revolt with Dalmatians and Illyrian tribes against Roman ... |
5468 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/8 | 8 | 8 (VIII) is a leap year of the Julian calendar which started on a Sunday. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Tuesday. It was the 8th year of the 1st century.
Events
Roman Empire
August 3 – Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
Vipsania Julia is exiled. Lucius Aemilius P... |
5469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/9 | 9 | 9 (IX) is a common year of the Julian calendar which started on a Tuesday. According to the Gregorian calendar, it started on a Thursday. It was the 9th year of the 1st century.
Events
Roman Empire
Illyria is turned into a province after a revolt has been defeated.
The Rhine River is established as the boundary betw... |
5470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/10 | 10 | 10 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, throughout the Roman Empire, it was known as the year of the consulship of Dolabella and Silanus
Events
Differentiation of localized Teutonic tribes of the Irminones.
The Greek dynasty in Bactria is ende... |
5471 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/11 | 11 | 11 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Taurus.
Events
Germania Inferior and the Rhine secured by Germanicus
Augustus ends his plan to create a defensive border at the Elbe. This is to r... |
5472 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/12 | 12 | 12 is a year in the 1st century. It was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Capito.
Events
Annius Rufus is appointed Prefect of Judea.
Germanicus and Gaius Fonteius Capito become Roman Consuls.
Quirinius returns from Judea to ... |
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