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56523 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20protein | Membrane protein | A membrane protein is a protein molecule that is attached to, or associated with the membrane of a cell or an organelle.
20–30% of all genes in genomes code for membrane proteins. They are targets of over 50% of all modern medicinal drugs.
Function
Membrane proteins perform a variety of functions vital to the surviva... |
56549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa%20Bay%20Buccaneers | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are an American Football team in the National Football League (NFL). They are a part of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference. The Buccaneers are from Tampa, Florida. The team was founded in 1976, and are the champions from Super Bowl XXXVII in 2002. The current head coach i... |
56551 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelus | Obelus | An obelus (plural, obeli) is a symbol of a line with dots above and below, , and is used to represent the division operation in mathematics. Because of that, this symbol is also known as a division sign.
The word "obelus" comes from the Greek word for a sharpened stick, spit, or pointed pillar. This is the same root ... |
56553 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinculum%20%28symbol%29 | Vinculum (symbol) | A vinculum is a horizontal line put over a mathematical expression. It shows that it belongs together as a group. (Vinculum is Latin for "chain".)
Examples are:
1. groups of digits repeating forever, for example,
2. fractions
3. radicals (in the following example the quantity is the radicand, and thus has a vincul... |
56555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon%20%28punctuation%29 | Colon (punctuation) | The colon (":") is a punctuation mark, simply consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical (up/down) line.
Punctuation
Use in prose
A colon is a more significant pause than a semicolon. It is usually used to contrast two parts of a sentence:
It's official: McClaren makes the worst start by an E... |
56556 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon%20%28disambiguation%29 | Colon (disambiguation) | Colon could mean:
Colon (anatomy)
Colon (punctuation)
Colon (rhetoric)
Colon classification, a library classification system
Colon, Michigan, a village within Colon Township
Colon Township, Michigan
Carlitos Colón, professional wrestler
Carly "Carlito" Colón, his son, also a wrestler
Eddie Colón, his son, also a wrest... |
56559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow%20Never%20Knows | Tomorrow Never Knows | Tomorrow Never Knows is a song from The Beatles's Revolver album, from 1966.
John Lennon wrote the song based on his readings of The Psychedelic Experience, which adapted the Tibetan Book of the Dead for use as an LSD "user's manual", intending to give users a kind of religious experience. The song's title came from h... |
56560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone%20with%20the%20Wind%20%28movie%29 | Gone with the Wind (movie) | Gone with the Wind is the 1939 American movie based on Margaret Mitchell's book of the same name. It premiered in Atlanta, Georgia. It stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland. The movie tells the story of the American Civil War from the perspective (view point) of a young southern woman ... |
56561 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic%20%28disambiguation%29 | Titanic (disambiguation) | Titanic can refer to
RMS Titanic, the ship which sank on its first voyage in 1912
Titanic (1997 movie) a movie about that voyage
Titanic (TV series), a ITV network show |
56576 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santino%20Marella | Santino Marella | Anthony Carelli (born March 14, 1974) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He currently works for the TNA . He appears under the ring name Santino Marella. During his wrestling career, he was a two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, one-time WWE United States Champion, and one-time WWE Tag Team Champion with V... |
56579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco | Fresco | Fresco is a way of painting pictures. A fresco is a kind of mural, a painting that is done on a wall. A wall painting is sometimes called a fresco by mistake. A true fresco is painted onto plaster that is fresh. The plaster has been laid on the wall that day and is still damp. The word fresco comes from the Italian for... |
56580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Count%20of%20Monte%20Cristo | The Count of Monte Cristo | The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. The story is about revenge and forgiveness. The main character of the book, Edmond Dantès, is wrongly sent to prison. There, he meets an old priest named Faria, who tells Dantès of a treasure. He escapes and finds the large treasure. He uses it to carry ou... |
56581 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallandale%20Beach%2C%20Florida | Hallandale Beach, Florida | Hallandale Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city is named after Luther Halland, a worker for Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad. The population was 37,282 at the 2000 census. Sometimes the city is called the "southernmost Canadian city". This is because Hallandale Beach has been a... |
56587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%20Party | Nazi Party | The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), also known as the Nazi Party, was a German political party. It was started in 1920 from the German Workers' Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP), which would later be renamed the NSDAP. On the day i... |
56589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Nielsen | Carl Nielsen | Carl Nielsen (born in Sortelung, near Nørre Lyndelse on Funen, June 9, 1865; died in Copenhagen, October 3, 1931) was a Danish composer. He is the most famous composer from Denmark and one of the most important composers of symphonies from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Life
Carl Nielsen was the seventh in a... |
56612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%20and%20Child | Madonna and Child | The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means "My Lady" in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the world including Italy, Spain, Port... |
56614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ppingen | Göppingen | Göppingen (Swabian: Gebbenga, Gebbeng, or Geppenge) is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In 2005, there were 57,771 people living in Göppingen. It is at the bottom of the high "Kaiserberg", or "Emperors' Mountain".
History
The first settlement at Göppingen was in the Hallstatt period, 800-480 BC. A Roman settlem... |
56616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Gallery%2C%20London | National Gallery, London | The National Gallery, London is an art gallery in London, England, which has one of the finest collections of European paintings in the world.
What makes this gallery so important is that, although there are bigger galleries, The National Gallery has many paintings of very high quality and also because it has painting... |
56617 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unperson | Unperson | In the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four, an Unperson is someone who has been vaporized. Vaporization is when a person is secretly murdered and erased from society, the present, the universe, and existence. Such a person would be taken out of books, photographs, and articles so that no trace of them is found in t... |
56624 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCren | Düren | Düren (Ripuarian: Düre, Low Franconian: Dürre or Dure) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is between Cologne and Aachen. About 90,000 people live there. Düren is at the river Rur.
References
Other websites
Düren Rural District |
56626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCtersloh | Gütersloh | Gütersloh (Westphalian: Gütsel, Low Franconian: Gütersloh) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 96,000 people live there.
References
Other websites
Gütersloh Rural District |
56628 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iserlohn | Iserlohn | Iserlohn (Westphalian Low German: Iserlaun, Iserliaun, or Iserlauhn; Middle Low German: Eisenwald) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 93,000 people live there; it is one of the largest cities in that region.
References
Other websites
Märkischer Rural District |
56629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velbert | Velbert | Velbert is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 87,000 people live there.
References
Other websites
Mettmann Rural District |
56631 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCnen | Lünen | Lünen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. 88,000 people live there. Lünen has got two important football clubs: Lüner SV and BV Brambauer. Lüner SV is playing in the "Bezirksliga (8. league), but in 1963 the club achieved his greatest aim. They got Champion of Westphalia.
References
Unna Rural District |
56632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marl | Marl | Marl is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 91,000 people live there.
Twin towns
Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Creil, France
Herzliya, Israel
Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
Pendle, United Kingdom
Kuşadası, Turkey
References
Other websites
Recklinghausen Rural District |
56636 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocholt | Bocholt | Bocholt (Low German: Bokelt) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 73,000 people live there.
References
Other websites
Cities in North Rhine-Westphalia
Borken Rural District |
56638 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Abramovich | Roman Abramovich | Roman Abramovich (born October 24, 1966 in Saratov, Russia) is a Russian-British businessman. Roman Abramovich was born in Saratov, in the former Soviet Union (FSU) on October 24, 1966. He was orphaned at the age of three and raised by his uncle in Ukhta, in the Komi Republic in northern Russia. When he was eight, Abra... |
56652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morena%20Baccarin | Morena Baccarin | Morena Baccarin (born June 2, 1979) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her role as Inara Serra in the sci-fi television series Firefly and the movie Serenity. Morena was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her father is of Italian descent. Her mother is Brazilian stage and television actress Vera Setta.
When sh... |
56660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Mourinho | José Mourinho | José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix, OIH, or simply José Mourinho (born January 26, 1963 in Setúbal) is a Portuguese football manager and former player who is the head coach of Serie A club Roma. He is commonly known as "The Special One". Mourinho is regarded by some players, coaches, and critics as one of the best fo... |
56664 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawmill | Sawmill | A sawmill is a place where lumber is cut into boards.
Sawmill process
Sawmills today work like sawmills from hundreds of years ago; a log enters on one end, and pieces of wood of a specific shape and size exit from the other end.
Trees are chosen to be harvested.
The tree is chopped so that it falls over; this is kn... |
56670 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazrat%20Babajan | Hazrat Babajan | Hazrat Babajan (1806–1931), birthname Gool Rukh ("like a rose"), was born as a Pathan lady in a noble Muslim family of Balochistan in northern British India Empire (now Pakistan). At the age of 18 she fled her arranged marriage and sought God instead. She journeyed to the northeast, first to Peshawar and then to Rawalp... |
56677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept%20album | Concept album | A concept album is a kind of album in which all the songs are about the same thing. Most of the time, they tell a story.
Examples
Examples of concept albums are:
Lemonade by Beyoncé
American Idiot by Green Day
All of Coheed and Cambria's studio albums
Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull
Most of Pink Floyd's albums
Clockw... |
56678 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convenience%20food | Convenience food | Convenience food is a type of food. This kind of food has been made so it can save the consumers time to prepare it. Usually such foods just need to be heated. They are made for a long shelf life, so that they can stay in the store for a long time. One thing to remember is that you may have to pay for the convenience, ... |
56679 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippo | Zippo | A Zippo lighter is a refillable metal lighter made by Zippo Manufacturing Company since 1933. Many different styles have been made since 1933, such as the pipe Zippo, for lighting pipes. Many people collect Zippos. Some Zippos are worth a lot of money.
Zippo lighters are wind-proof, which means that the wind can not ... |
56718 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1367 | 1367 |
Events
Pedro of Castile becomes King of Castile (now in Spain) again after defeating his half-brother, Henry II, at the Battle of Nájera (Navarette). Pedro was helped in the battle by the English and Henry by the French.
Ferdinand I becomes King of Portugal after the death of his father, Peter I.
Charles V create... |
56726 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20heating | Water heating | Water heating is a thermodynamic process using an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature. Typical domestic uses of hot water are for cooking, cleaning and bathing, and space heating. In industry both hot water and water heated to steam have many uses.
The most common energy sources for heating water... |
56738 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou%C3%ABron | Couëron | Couëron is a city in France on the Atlantic Ocean near Nantes. About 18.000 people live in the city.
Communes in Loire-Atlantique |
56740 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room%20temperature | Room temperature | Room temperature does not have an exact scientific definition. It means a temperature that is normal in rooms used by human beings.
Human comfort and health
A comfortable room temperature depends on individual needs and other factors. According to the West Midlands Public Health Observatory (UK), is the recommended ... |
56741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk is a electronic band from Germany that became famous in the late 1970s and 1980s for making electronic music. They used synthesizers and sequencers to make the rhythms and melodies in the song.
Kraftwerk made electronic music many years before other bands knew it would be popular. They paved the way for the ... |
56743 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket%20ball | Cricket ball | A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. In men's cricket the ball must weigh between 5.5 and 5.75 ounces (137.5 and 143.8 g) and measure between and 9 inches (220 and 225 millimetres) in circumference.
A cricket ball is usually red, white or pink depending upon the game and has a seam over it.
Re... |
56746 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist | Baptist | Baptist is a word describing a tradition within Christianity and may also refer to individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination. The tradition takes its name from the belief that followers of Jesus Christ should be placed in water to show their faith. Baptists do not practice infant baptism.
In ... |
56748 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno | Techno | Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became popular in Frankfurt, Germany during the early 1980s. It was influenced by synthpop, house music, funk, post-disco and futuristic fiction ideas that were important during the end of the Cold War in the United States at that time. Juan Atkins is generally thought to... |
56750 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20sled | Dog sled | A dog sled is a sled that is pulled by sled dogs and can go over ice and snow. Dog sleds were first made by First Nations people in Canada before the English and French got there, because they had no horses so they used dogs to travel. They were also made by people in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia because it was a... |
56751 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiset | Multiset | The bags that can be used for shopping are at bag.
A multiset (sometimes called a bag) is a concept from mathematics. In many ways, multisets are like sets. Certain items are either elements of that multiset, or they are not. However, multisets are different from sets: The same type of item can be in the multiset more ... |
56753 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Brokaw | Tom Brokaw | Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist and is the former anchorman (host) of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. His last appearance as anchorman was on December 1, 2004. In the later part of hosting NBC Nightly News, the program became the most-wat... |
56755 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple | Tuple | In mathematics, a tuple is a finite sequence of objects. Sometimes, the finite sequence is also called an ordered list. This means that the order of the objects matter. In a tuple, the objects are either enclosed within parentheses (such as ), or within angle brackets (such as ). Each of the objects in the list has a ... |
56756 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manure | Manure | Manure is organic matter used as fertilizer in agriculture. Manures improve the fertility of the soil by adding organic matter and lots of nutrients, such as nitrogen that is trapped by bacteria in the soil. Higher organisms then feed on the fungi and bacteria in a chain of life.
The term "manure" was used for inorgan... |
56759 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient | Nutrient | A nutrient is either a chemical element or compound used in an organism's metabolism or physiology. A nutrient is essential to an organism if it cannot be produced by the organism and must be obtained from a food source.
This article deals with nutrition in animals, especially humans. Nutrition in plants, fungi, bact... |
56760 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram | Histogram | A histogram is a concept from statistics. It is a graphical display that tells us about the distribution of the samples involved. They are commonly a picture made from a table with many categories. The table tells how many samples there are in each category.
The word histogram is derived from histos and gramma in Greek... |
56761 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20manure | Green manure | Typically, a green manure crop is grown for a specific period, and then plowed under and incorporated into the soil. Green manures usually perform several functions, that include soil improvement and soil protection:
Leguminous green manures such as clover contain nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria in root nodules th... |
56762 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20distribution | Normal distribution | The normal distribution is a probability distribution. It is also called Gaussian distribution because it was first discovered by Carl Friedrich Gauss. The normal distribution is a continuous probability distribution that is very important in many fields of science.
Normal distributions are a family of distributions ... |
56763 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass | Biomass | Biomass is a basic term in ecology, and in the energy production industry.
Organic waste such as dead plant and animal material, animal dung and kitchen waste can be converted into gaseous fuel called biogas. The organic waste is decomposed by bacteria in biogas digesters to emit biogas which is essentially a mixture o... |
56768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance | Variance | In probability theory and statistics, the variance is a way to measure how far a set of numbers is spread out.
Variance describes how much a random variable differs from its expected value. The variance is defined as the average of the squares of the differences between the individual (observed) and the expected value.... |
56769 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan%27s%20Treehouse | Tarzan's Treehouse | Tarzan's Treehouse is a walk-through attraction in Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It was originally called the Swiss Family Treehouse. The treehouse explores the past of the Disney character Tarzan. The tree is fake, but is considered by Disney imagineers a real species or Disneyodendron eximus which translates to ... |
56770 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Ma%C5%82ysz | Adam Małysz | Adam Henryk Małysz (born 3 December 1977 in Wisła, Poland) is a Polish former ski jumper. He has four Olympic medals (3 silver, 1 bronze). His longest jump was 230,5 meters. Since 2011 he is a rally driver.
1st places
Skiers
Polish sportspeople
1977 births
Living people |
56776 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome | Salome | Salome or Salomé (Hebrew: שלומית Shlomit) (c AD 14 between 62 and 71), is the name of a character in the New Testament. Her name is not actually given there, but she was an entirely historical person. She was the daughter of Herod Antipas and Herodias. Her name is pronounced with a short 'o', and the 'e' at the end i... |
56787 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester%20College | Winchester College | Winchester College is a well-known boys' school. It is an example of a British public school. The school is located in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England. Its official name is Collegium Sanctae Mariae prope Wintoniam (or Collegium Beatae Mariae Wintoniensis prope Winton), or St Mary's College near Winchester.... |
56788 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy%20the%20Vampire%20Slayer%20%28movie%29 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie) | Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action/comedy fantasy movie about a cheerleader (Kristy Swanson) chosen by fate to fight and kill vampires. The movie is a light parody. It goes against the clichés of horror movies. The movie led to a darker and much more popular TV series of the same name. The television se... |
56789 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%20Rubel%20Kuzui | Fran Rubel Kuzui | Fran Rubel Kuzui is an American movie director and producer. She is best known as the director of the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, which was made into the television series of the same name.
Other websites
American movie directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
56790 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne%20Barr | Roseanne Barr | Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, writer, and comedian. She has also been known as Roseanne Arnold and Roseanne Thomas. For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, she was known simply as Roseanne but, by 2005, had resumed referring to herself by her maide... |
56797 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/BI-LO%20%28Australia%29 | BI-LO (Australia) | Bi-Lo was a supermarket with 214 shops all over Australia. It used to have shops in Western Australia called Newmart. It changed the names of all its stores to Coles Supermarkets in 2006 and 2007.
John Weekes started Bi-Lo towards the end of the 1970s in the city of Adelaide in South Australia with three shops. It was... |
56807 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose | Sucrose | Sucrose (common name: table sugar, also called saccharose) is a disaccharide (glucose + fructose) with the molecular formula C12H22O11. Its systematic name is α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-β-D-fructofuranose. It is best known for its role in human nutrition and is formed by plants but not by higher organisms.
Physical and... |
56808 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaccharide | Disaccharide | A disaccharide is a sugar (a carbohydrate) composed of two monosaccharides, such as glucose and fructose that make up the disaccharide sucrose. It is formed when two sugars are joined together and a molecule of water is removed. Due to this, disaccharides cannot hydrolyse, meaning their molecules are unable to be broke... |
56811 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20hazard | Biological hazard | A biological hazard, or biohazard, is anything coming from living organisms (i.e. pollen, fungi, animals, insects, bacteria and viruses) that could be a threat to someone's health. It is represented by ☣, the biohazard symbol, which is used everywhere in the world. When people see this sign they know to take precautio... |
56812 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri%20dish | Petri dish | A petri dish is a small dish shaped like a cylinder. Scientists use it to grow cells from animals, fungus, and diseases so they can study them. They are usually made of glass or plastic. The glass ones can be used again if they are heated at 160°F. Sometimes people fill them with agar, which helps cells grow. These are... |
56815 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGA%20Australia | IGA Australia | Independent Grocers of Australia or (IGA) for short, is the largest independent supermarket group in Australia. It is part of the Independent Grocers Association which has shops all over the world. Each IGA shop is run by the local shopkeeper unlike big companies such as Woolworths and Coles which runs all of their sho... |
56816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Chelmsford | City of Chelmsford | Chelmsford is a borough in the county of Essex in the East of England. It has the same name as it main settlement of Chelmsford, the county town of Essex. About 170,000 people live in the borough. It was formed on 1 April 1974.
1974 establishments in England
Essex boroughs |
56821 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20studies | Communication studies | Communication Studies is a college or university area of study involving the study of communication. Students learn about speech and different types of media.
Communication
Social sciences
Media
Schools |
56822 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belote | Belote | Belote is a French 32 card trick-taking game. This game requires four players divided into two teams. There are many kinds of belote : "belote," "belote coinchée," and "belote avec annonce". All of them come from a Dutch game, played since 1600.
Rules
Dealing
The dealer may choose to shuffle the deck. The previous de... |
56827 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosaccharide | Monosaccharide | Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates. They consist of one sugar and are usually colorless, water-soluble, crystalline solids. Some monosaccharides have a sweet taste.
Examples of monosaccharides include glucose (dextrose), fructose, galactose, and ribose. Monosaccharides are the building blocks of... |
56830 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose | Lactose | Lactose is a disaccharide that is made up of galactose and glucose molecules. Lactose makes up around 2-8% of the solids in milk. The name comes from the Latin word for milk, plus the -ose ending used to name sugars. Lactose is found in some milk products.
Digestion of lactose
Infant mammals are fed on by milk from t... |
56831 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen | Glycogen | Glycogen is a polysaccharide that is the principal storage form of glucose in animal cells.
Glycogen is found in the form of granules in the cytosol in many cell types, and plays an important role in the glucose cycle. Glycogen forms an energy reserve that can be quickly mobilized to meet a sudden need for glucose, b... |
56838 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollutant | Pollutant | Pollutants are compounds which are dangerous to the environment.
They can also be harmful to humans in the long-term range. They come from mineral and fossil sources or are produced by humans themselves.
Many pollutants have a poisonous effect on the body. Carbon monoxide is an example of a substance which is damagin... |
56839 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20monoxide | Carbon monoxide | Carbon monoxide, with the chemical formula CO, is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. It consists of one carbon atom covalently bonded to one oxygen atom. It is made when carbon compounds burn and there is not enough oxygen. It is a good fuel and burns in air with a blue flame, making carbon dioxide. It is very t... |
56844 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweinfurt | Schweinfurt | Schweinfurt is a city in Franconia. The population is about 50,000. Larger, nearby cities are Würzburg and Bamberg.
References |
56845 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falco | Falco | Falco (born February 19, 1957 in Vienna, Austria as Johann (Hans) Hölzel, and died on February 6, 1998 in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic) was an Austrian pop singer. His breakthrough was "Der Kommissar", which beat top positions in international charts. This song and his first two albums were produced by Robert Ponge... |
56849 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Pascal | Gabriel Pascal | Gabriel Pascal (4 June 1894 – 6 July 1954) was a Hungarian movie producer and director.
Gabriel Pascal was born in Transylvania (which is now part of Romania) in 1894. Pascal is best known for having turned some of the best plays by the famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw into successful movies. His most famou... |
56858 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren | McLaren | McLaren Racing Limited is a Formula 1 racing team. McLaren was started by Bruce McLaren in 1963. McLaren's current drivers are Carlos Sainz Jr. and Lando Norris.
McLaren also makes road cars at its Woking factory.
Formula One World Championship results
References
Formula One constructors
Formula One current |
56870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haylie%20Duff | Haylie Duff | {{Infobox person
| name = Haylie Duff
| image = Haylie Duff by David Shankbone.jpg
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| birth_place = Houston, Texas, United States
| birth_name = Haylie Katherine Duff
| death_date =
| death_place =
| partner = Matt Rosenberg (2012-present)
| children = Daughters
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56872 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th%20Century%20Studios | 20th Century Studios | 20th Century Studios, Inc. (formerly known from 1914 to 1931 as Fox Film, 1933 to 1935 as 20th Century Pictures 1935 to 1985 and 1985 to 2020 (and informally) as Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation or Twentieth Century Fox or 20th Century Fox Film Corporation) is a large American company that makes movies ("motion p... |
56873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquette%2C%20Michigan | Marquette, Michigan | Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Close to 20,000 people live there. Marquette is in the Upper Peninsula, on Lake Superior and is an important port on that lake. Much of the iron ore that was taken from mines in the Upper Peninsula was loaded onto ships in Marquette. Marquette is in the United States o... |
56879 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Taverner | John Taverner | John Taverner should not be confused with the 20th-21st century British composer Sir John Tavener.
John Taverner (born about 1490 – died 18 October, 1545) was the most important English composer of his time. He was also an organist.
We cannot be sure exactly when Taverner was born. Some people think that he was a bo... |
56880 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tavener | John Tavener | Sir John Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer.
Life
John Tavener was born in Wembley, Middlesex. He went to Highgate School in North London. Another pupil there at the time was John Rutter. At school he studied piano, organ and composition and wrote music for the school orchestra. He al... |
56893 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape%20velocity | Escape velocity | Escape velocity is the initial speed that something would need to completely escape the gravity of a large body, like a star or a planet (such as the Earth), by mere inertia.
If a ball is thrown upwards while standing on the ground, the ball will reach a certain height (the faster thrown - the higher) and fall back do... |
56899 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor | Razor | A razor is a tool, with one or more blades, most commonly used by men for shaving the hair from their face, and by women for shaving hair from their legs and underarms. The earliest razors known are from the Bronze Age. They were made of bronze and had an oval shape. There are different kinds of razors today, including... |
56909 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood%20stabilizer | Mood stabilizer | A mood stabilizer is a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders characterized by fast and unstable mood changes. Among the disorders commonly treated are bipolar disorder and Borderline personality disorder. With these conditions, the mood can change rapidly, between mania and depression. Many mood stabiliz... |
56910 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Baccalaureate | International Baccalaureate | The International Baccalaureate, or IB, is a well-known advanced school program. It is taught in English, French and Spanish in more than 140 countries.
Students earn an IB Diploma after passing exams and completing the program requirements. They have to take classes in 6 subject areas. This is more than most countrie... |
56914 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Sch%C3%BCssel | Wolfgang Schüssel | Wolfgang Schüssel (born June 7, 1945) was the Chancellor of Austria from February 4, 2000 until January 11, 2007. From January 2006 until June 2006 he was the president of the European Union.
Other websites
Official page about Dr. Schüssel, at the site of the Austrian parliament (in German)
References
1945 births
... |
56915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaduz | Vaduz | Vaduz (German: [faˈdʊt͡s] or [faˈduːt͡s]; Regional dialect: [faˈdot͡s]) is the capital city of the country of Liechtenstein. It has a population of about 7,500 people.
National capitals in Europe
Cities in Liechtenstein
Municipalities of Liechtenstein |
56919 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgish%20language | Luxembourgish language | Luxembourgish is a West Germanic language. A lot of people in Luxembourg speak the language. It is quite similar to German and French. Outside Luxembourg, not many people speak it, and inside Luxembourg many people speak other languages, too.
Other websites
West Germanic languages
Languages of Europe |
56921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre%20Cassel | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Jean-Pierre Cassel (real name Jean-Pierre Crochon, October 27,1932 - April 19, 2007) was a French actor. He was the father of Vincent Cassel. He became known because of the roles he had in movies in the 1950s and 1960s. He died of cancer.
Selected filmography
La Famille Anodin (1956)
Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe si... |
56923 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20cucumber | Sea cucumber | Sea cucumbers are a class of echinoderms, the Holothuroidea. They have a longish body, and leathery skin. Sea cucumbers live on the floor of the ocean. Most sea cucumbers are scavengers. There are about 1500 species of sea cucumbers. Sea cucumbers have a unique respiratory system, and effective defences against predato... |
56925 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochanan%20Vollach | Yochanan Vollach | Yochanan Vollach (), also transliterated Jochanan Wallach or Yohanan Wallach, born 14 May 1945) is a former Israeli football player who played at: Hapoel Haifa, Maccabi Haifa, HKFC.
He was a member of the Israeli national team that competed at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
At 1979 he retired and volunteered as general mana... |
56926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabi%20Haifa | Maccabi Haifa | Maccabi Haifa is the biggest sports club in Israel, founded in 1913, and part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa such as football, basketball, weightlifting, swimming, tennis, table tennis, volleyball, team handball, water polo, ice hockey, artistic gymnastics, chess, boxing, fe... |
56927 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapoel%20Haifa | Hapoel Haifa | Hapoel Haifa F. C. is a professional football (soccer) club in Israel, founded in 1924.
Famous players of the club
Dudu Aouate
Yochanan Vollach
Giovanni Rosso
Israeli football clubs
Haifa
1924 establishments
1920s establishments in Israel |
56936 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swalwell%2C%20Alberta | Swalwell, Alberta | Swalwell is a small village in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada. It is about from Calgary, the largest city in the Province of Alberta.
Swalwell is at . It has a population of 338 people. The postal code in Swalwell is T0M 1Y0.
Settlements in Alberta
Villages in North America |
56949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysaccharide | Polysaccharide | A polysaccharide is a complex carbohydrate. Polysaccharides are polymers made up of many monosaccharides. They are very large, often branched, molecules. They tend to be amorphous, insoluble in water, and have no sweet taste.
When all the constituent monosaccharides are of the same type they are termed homopolysacchar... |
56950 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Gusenbauer | Alfred Gusenbauer | Alfred Gusenbauer (born February 8, 1960, in St. Pölten, Austria) was the chancellor of Austria from January 2007 to December 2008. His party won the elections of 2008, and he was succeeded as Chancellor the new party leader, Werner Faymann, on 2 December 2008. He was the leader of the political party SPÖ.
Other webs... |
56961 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchilla | Chinchilla | Chinchillas are either of two types of species (Chinchilla chinchilla and Chinchilla lanigera) of crepuscular rodents. They are slightly larger and active than ground squirrels, and are found in the Andes mountains in South America. They live in colonies called "herds" at high elevations of up to . Historically, chinch... |
56966 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solubility | Solubility | Solubility is the ability of a substance (the solute), to mix into a liquid (the solvent).
It measures the highest amount of substance mixed into a liquid solvent while they are both at equal amounts.
When the two mix together it is called a saturated solution. Certain substances can mix into any amount of a liquid ... |
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