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59518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20sun | Midnight sun | Midnight sun is a phenomenon that exists north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle. It means that the sun, on parts of the year, is visible the whole night long. The sun above the horizon at midnight in the arctic or Antarctic summer.
There are no people living permanently south of the Antarctic Cir... |
59524 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight%20Below | Eight Below | Eight Below is a 2006 Walt Disney Pictures movie. It was directed by Frank Marshall and written by David DiGilio. The movie was released on February 17, 2006 in the United States.
Other websites
Disney movies
American adventure movies
2006 movies
Movies about animals
2000s adventure movies
American drama movies |
59528 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susilo%20Bambang%20Yudhoyono | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 9 September 1949), is an Indonesian retired military general and politician. He was the sixth President of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014. Yudhoyono is the first president to be elected directly by voters. Yudhoyono won the presidency on 20 September 2004. He defeated President Mega... |
59530 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20the%20Garter | Order of the Garter | The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an English order of chivalry. It was started in 1348, by King Edward III of England. The Order is the highest level of knighthood that can be given by the English monarch. It is the world's oldest national order of knighthood. Membership in the Order is limited to those people who ... |
59534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20DVD | HD DVD | HD DVD, also known as High-Definition DVD, is an optical disc that is able to store large amounts of data, such as high-definition videos. It was considered to be the successor of the DVD. It used to compete against the Blu-ray Disc, a similar version of an optical disc that is designed to hold large amounts of media, ... |
59555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges | Bruges | Bruges (Dutch: Brugge) is a city in the northwest of Belgium.
It is the capital and largest city of West Flanders. In 2007, 116,982 people lived there.
Bruges is at 51° 12 North, 03° 13 East.
It is a centre of tourism because of its historic medieval city centre. The centre was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO... |
59558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality | Immortality | Immortality or eternal life is the idea of something which is alive that will stay alive forever. The opposite of immortality is mortality, which means a living thing can die. Right now, only a small number of living things are known to be immortal. These are mainly simple, lower forms of life like bacteria. Stories a... |
59559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Union%20budget | European Union budget | The European Union (EU) has an independent parliament and civil service which is distinct from those of the 27 member states. It has to pay for expenditure on common policies throughout the EU. Therefore, the EU has an agreed budget of €862 billion for the period 2007-2013. By comparison, the UK expenditure for 2004 al... |
59564 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittingen | Wittingen | Wittingen is a small town in the north of the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany. It has 12.268 inhabitants (2005). Wittingen is located at 52° 43′ N, 10° 44′ E and its postal codes are 29378 and 29379.
Around Wittingen, there are 26 villages:
History
Wittingen was first mentioned in a document of 781
Refer... |
59575 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Gloves | Golden Gloves | The Golden Gloves is the name given to competitions held every year for amateur boxing in the United States. The Golden Gloves is often the term used to refer to the National Golden Gloves competition, but it can also mean a few other amateur tournaments, including regional golden gloves tournaments and other notable t... |
59576 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny%20Liston | Sonny Liston | Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (May 8, 1932 – December 30, 1970) was an American boxer. He held the world heavyweight championship from 1962 to 1964. He was a boxer who was disliked by much of the public because of his criminal history and rumored association with organized crime characters. Liston served prison sentences f... |
59577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckwheat | Buckwheat | Buckwheat (or common buckwheat) is a plant whose seeds may be used as a cereal. Buckwheat is not a true grass. It is not related to wheat, because wheat is a true grass, and buckwheat is not.
Buckwheat seeds look like small beech tree seeds. Both seeds have three sides. Beech is also called buck, which is how buckwhe... |
59580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinston%20Indians | Kinston Indians | The Kinston Indians were a Minor league baseball team in Kinston, North Carolina. The team played in the Carolina League from (1956–1957, 1962–1974 and 1978–2011). Professional baseball in Kinston started in 1908, and there have been many teams since then. 2007 was the twenty-first season the Kinston team had been kno... |
59584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20University | Columbia University | Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a research university in the United States. It is an Ivy League university and often considered one of the best in the world. It is the fifth oldest college in the United States.
It was ranked 2nd best college in the United States by Times... |
59588 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian%20Exchange | Columbian Exchange | The Columbian Exchange, sometimes called the Grand Exchange was the exchange of goods and ideas from Europe, Africa, and Asia and goods and ideas from the Americas. It also spread different diseases. It started in 1492 when Christopher Columbus arrived in the West Indies (North America).
This exchange of plants and an... |
59606 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragusa | Ragusa | Ragusa is also the Italian name for the city of Dubrovnik
Ragusa is the capital of the Province of Ragusa in Italy, with 72,808 inhabitants in the city and more than 310,000 in the province area.
Other websites
ItalianVisits.com
Pictures of Ragusa
Ragusa. All about the town of Ragusa
Ragusa on lne
Capital ci... |
59607 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20Carter | Elliott Carter | Elliott Carter (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American composer. He is one of the most important composers of classical music of his time. He experimented with new ideas of composition. He lived to be 103 years old and continued composing all his life. He recently composed a piece called Interventions fo... |
59608 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik | Dubrovnik | Dubrovnik is a city in Croatia on the Dalmatian coast. More than 500 years ago it was called "Ragusa". The Italian name of the city is still "Ragusa"; this sometimes leads to confusion because there is already a city named Ragusa on Sicily. It is on the Adriatic Sea. About 50,000 people lived there in 2001. Because of ... |
59609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan%20pepper | Sichuan pepper | Sichuan pepper (or Szechuan pepper) is plant fruit which is used as a spice. The outer pods of some species in the genus Zanthoxylum are used to make the spice. Many people in Asia grow them for the spice. Although the plants are called peppers, they are not related to either black pepper or Chili pepper.
Sichuan pep... |
59612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiparticle | Antiparticle | There is an antiparticle corresponding to most kinds of particle. It has the same mass and opposite electric charge.
Even electrically neutral particles, such as the neutron, are not identical to their antiparticle. In the example of the neutron, the 'ordinary' particle is made out of quarks and the antiparticle out o... |
59616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamo%20Beknazarian | Hamo Beknazarian | Hamo Beknazarian, also known as Hamo Bek Nazarov (born May 19, 1891 in Yerevan, died April 27, 1965 in Moscow) was an Armenian movie director. His career in cinema started in 1914, when a friend offered him a part in a movie. Between 1914 and 1918, he played about 70 parts, becoming a popular actor in pre-Revolutionary... |
59619 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik%20Malyan | Henrik Malyan | Henrik Malyan (Armenian language:Հենրիկ Մալյան; September 30, 1925 in Telavi, Georgia – March 14, 1988 in Yerevan, Armenia) was an Armenian movie director.
His 1977 movie Life Triumphs (Nahapet) is considered to be one of the most important Armenian movies to deal with the Armenian Genocide. It was exhibited in the 19... |
59622 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint | Septuagint | The original Septuagint (often referred to LXX) was a translation of the Torah, the five books of Moses from the Hebrew Bible into the Greek language. It was done between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC in Alexandria. It was the first translations of the Hebrew Bible. After 350 years, the Church translated all the books o... |
59627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine%20McPhee | Katharine McPhee | Katharine Hope McPhee (born March 25, 1984) is an American Pop/R&B singer. She was the runner-up to Taylor Hicks on the fifth season of the television show American Idol in 2006. Her first album, named Katharine McPhee, was released January 30, 2007.
Other websites
Official Website
Katharine McPhee on American Idol... |
59632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Heavyweight%20Championship%20%28WWE%29 | World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) | The World Heavyweight Championship was one of the top wrestling championships in the WWE along with the WWE Championship. It was created on RAW to match SmackDown's WWE Championship in August 2002. Some of the past champions include Edge, Triple H, The Undertaker, Booker T, Batista, and Kurt Angle.
The World Heavyweig... |
59641 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20calendar | Islamic calendar | The Islamic calendar or Hijri calendar () is a calendar. It is used to determine Islamic holidays in most of Islam. It is a lunar calendar: it uses the phases of the Moon (rather the Earth's orbit of the Sun) to count the passing of time. Its year has 12 months of 29 or 30 days, and lasts a total of 354 or 355 days. Th... |
59642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town%20privileges | Town privileges | Town privileges were important things. They were special treaties or royal charters used in the Middle Ages. In such a charter, a sovereign, a monarch granted the town or city special rights. These usually included
The right to have a market, to form guilds
Some freedoms, like to determine the government of the town or... |
59661 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon | Afternoon | Afternoon is the time period from noon to evening. It is generally agreed upon that afternoon starts at 12:00 pm, but there is no exact definition of when it ends.
Parts of a day |
59668 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20music | Medieval music | Medieval music is music from the Middle Ages. The time we call the Middle Ages is a long period from about 400 AD to 1400 AD. We do not know a great deal about music of this time because it was such a long time ago and music was not often written down. Music was used for both entertainment and religious practice.
Trou... |
59670 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic | Neolithic | The Neolithic period is the last part of the Stone Age. After the Neolithic came the Bronze Age. During the Neolithic, people invented farming and started caring for animals, such as cows, sheep and pigs.
The Neolithic period started at different times in different places, since not everyone started farming at the sam... |
59675 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotchet | Crotchet | A crotchet or quarter note is a note played for one fourth of a whole note (or semibreve). Quarter notes are written as a filled-in oval (or round) note head and a straight, flagless stem (the line). The stem usually points up (like a d) if it is below the middle line of the stave or down (like a p) if it is on or abov... |
59677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/44%20BC | 44 BC | Year 44 BC was either a common year starting on Sunday or Monday or a leap year starting on Friday or Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Antony.
Events
March 15 Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators. This date i... |
59679 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burzum | Burzum | Burzum is a black metal/dark ambient one man band from Bergen, Norway. The band was formed in 1991 by Varg Vikernes. He is best known for serving a prison sentence for the murder of Mayhem guitarist Øystein Aarseth and arson of churches.
Discography
Albums
Burzum (1992)
Det som engang var (1993)
Hvis lyset tar o... |
59685 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Collins | John Collins | John Collins (born January 31, 1968 in Galashiels, Scotland) is a Scottish footballer. He is currently the manager of Charleroi. Collins played for Celtic in the early 1990s.
Other websites
John Collins career stats at Soccerbase.com
References
1968 births
Living people
Scottish footballers |
59695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayhem%20%28band%29 | Mayhem (band) | Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band. It was founded in 1984 by guitarist Øystein Aarseth (aka Euronymous), bass guitarist Jørn Stubberud (aka Necrobutcher), and drummer Kjetil Manheim (aka Manheim). The band name is taken from the Venom song, "Mayhem with Mercy."
During the early years, the band used either sessio... |
59703 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek%20%28movie%29 | Shrek (movie) | This page is about the movie Shrek. For the character Shrek, see Shrek (character)
Shrek is an animated movie based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book. The name Shrek likely comes from the Yiddish word שרעק (pronounced Shreck) or the German word Schreck. Both words mean "fear" or "terror". It was directed... |
59704 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom%20at%20Sixteen | Mom at Sixteen | Mom at Sixteen is a 2005 American made-for-TV movie. It is about a sixteen year old mother, Jacey Jeffries (Danielle Panabaker) in high school.
The story
Jeffries is hiding the fact that she is the mother of Charley, the baby. Charley is the teen's mother's responsibility. When Jeffries goes to swimming practice and... |
59705 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle%20Panabaker | Danielle Panabaker | Danielle Nicole Panabaker (born September 19, 1987) is an American actress. She is known for acting in many movies. These include Sky High and Mom at Sixteen. She has also acted on the television series including Shark. Panabaker is the older sister of child actress Kay. Both girls act in Disney Channel programs.
Othe... |
59707 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance%20music | Renaissance music | Renaissance music is European music written from about the year 1400 to 1600. This section of time is called the Renaissance, a word which means “rebirth”. The Renaissance comes between the Middle Ages and the Baroque times.
Putting music into time sections does not mean that there were quick changes of type. Music ch... |
59715 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Panabaker | Kay Panabaker | Stephanie Kay Panabaker (born May 2, 1990) is an American actress from Orange, Texas. Some of her best known roles are Emily on Life is Ruff and Debbie on Phil of the Future. Panabaker is the younger sister of actress Danielle. The two sisters starred together in the movie Read it and Weep for the Disney Channel. She h... |
59720 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haley%20Hudson | Haley Hudson | Haley Hudson (born June 14, 1986) is an American actress. Her best known roles were in Freaky Friday and Lizzie McGuire. Her image is a punky Gothic type person.
American movie actors
Actors from Chicago
1986 births
Living people |
59721 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enslaved%20%28band%29 | Enslaved (band) | Enslaved is a band from Haugesund, Norway; their music has been called black metal and viking metal. The band was formed in 1992.
Studio albums
Vikingligr Veldi (1994)
Frost (1994)
Eld (1997)
Blodhemn (1998)
Mardraum – Beyond the Within (2000)
Monumension (2001)
Below the Lights (2003)
Isa (2004)
Ruun (2006)... |
59722 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking%20metal | Viking metal | Viking metal is a heavy metal music subgenre inspired by Norse mythology. Swedish metal band Bathory's fourth album, released in 1988 and called Blood Fire Death, was the first Viking metal album.
Viking metal bands
Bathory
Enslaved
Amon Amarth
Graveland
Darkthrone
References
Heavy metal subgenres |
59743 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica%20ficta | Musica ficta | Musica ficta is a term used in medieval and Renaissance music. It means that when musicians play or sing music they put in accidentals (sharps and flats) which are not written in the music.
In those days (near the end of the 16th century) music used modes instead of the modern system of major and minor keys. Sometimes... |
59747 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Studios%20Japan | Universal Studios Japan | Universal Studios Japan is one of four Universal Studios theme parks. It is in Osaka, Japan. The park opened on March 31, 2001.
Attractions
Ride attractions
Space Fantasy
Hollywood Dream
New The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
Jurassic Park
Jaws
Back to the Future
Lego Ninjago
Show attractions
Magical Starlight Para... |
59750 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap%20year | Gap year | A gap year is time taken between completing secondary school and going to a university or college or also between college and graduate school or a profession. It is generally a practice of young people from Australia, Poland, Scandinavia, United Kingdom and United States. The time between the two events is often, but n... |
59756 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20bridge | Beam bridge | A beam bridge is a strong, horizontal structure that rests on two end supports, and carries traffic by acting as a beam.
Beam bridges are often used for heavy cars and trains to pass, and some are also built for people to walk on. Beam bridges used to be made from wood and were called log bridges. Modern ones are mos... |
59764 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Simmons | Gene Simmons | Gene Simmons (born August 25, 1949 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli-American hard rock bass guitarist and singer for the hard rock band Kiss.
Early life
Born with the name of Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel, Gene emigrated at age 8 with his family to Queens, New York. His mother, Flora Klein, was born in Jand, Hungary. Hi... |
59766 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam | Beam | Beam could mean:
Beam theory, a way to find the load-carrying and deflection characteristics of beams
Beam (nautical), the most extreme width (or breadth) of a nautical vessel, or a point alongside the ship at the midpoint of its length
Beam (structure), a construction element
Beam bridge, a bridge that uses beams
A na... |
59769 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20News | Fox News | The Fox News Channel (commonly known as Fox News) is an American 24-hour cable and satellite television news network. It was made by Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes. It is owned by Fox Broadcasting Company. the channel was officially launched in 1996.
Shows
The channel plays up to 15 hours of live shows every day. 6 ho... |
59782 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omsk | Omsk | Omsk is a city in Russia in the Siberia region, capital of Omsk oblast. As of the census in 2010, Omsk had been declared one of the cities in Russia with over 1 million people. Omsk is close to the border of Kazakhstan.
Omsk is the only one city in the world which has Metro with only one station.
Related pages
List ... |
59787 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayhem | Mayhem | Mayhem could mean:
Mayhem, a type of crime
Mayhem, an influential black metal band
Mayhem, an album by English rock group Toyah
Mayhem, a Marvel Comics character
Mayhem, a professional wrestler
Mayhem in Monsterland, a Commodore 64 video game
TV Mayhem, a television show that aired for six weeks beginning in September ... |
59795 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question%20mark | Question mark | The question mark is a punctuation mark that is used at the end of a sentence when asking a question.
The symbol is thought to come from the Latin quæstio, meaning "question", which was shortened to Qo. The uppercase Q was written above the lowercase o, and this mark was turned into the symbol that we use today.
Anot... |
59840 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Federline | Kevin Federline | Kevin Earl Federline (born March 21, 1978) is an American entertainer, who dances, raps and models as his job. He is famous for being the former husband of pop singer Britney Spears. Federline has 4 kids, 2 with actress Shar Jackson and 2 with Spears.
1978 births
Living people
American dancers
Rap musicians from Calif... |
59841 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercyful%20Fate | Mercyful Fate | Mercyful Fate are a heavy metal band from Denmark. The band was formed in Copenhagen in 1980.
Members
Current members
King Diamond - vocals, keyboard (1981–1985, 1992–present)
Hank Shermann - guitar (1981–1985, 1992–present)
Mike Wead - guitar (1996–present)
Bjarne T. Holm - drums (1994–present)
Sharlee D'Angelo... |
59846 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic | Basic | Basic may be:
BASIC (programming language)
Basic (chemistry), the opposite to acidic, reacting with acids to form salts
Basic access authentication in HTTP
Basic (cigarette), owned by the Altria Group (Philip Morris Company)
Basic (dance move), the name of the basic dance step in many dances
Lindy Basic (dance move), i... |
59857 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20circuit | Electrical circuit | A circuit is a closed path that consists of circuit components in which electrons from a voltage or current source can flow. If the circuit consists of electric components like a resistor, a capacitor, an inductor etc. then it will be called an Electrical circuit and if the circuit consists of any of the electronic ci... |
59869 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiz | Quiz | A quiz is a type of game in which players (as individuals or in teams) try to answer questions correctly. Quizzes are also used in education and similar fields to improve the growth of someone's knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.
Quizzes are usually scored in points. Many quizzes are designed for people to determ... |
59881 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hancock | John Hancock | John Hancock (January 12, 1737 – October 8, 1793) was an early American patriot, a leader in the American Revolutionary War, and an American statesman. He was the first man to sign America's Declaration of Independence. In modern America, "John Hancock" is a synonym for signature.
Hancock's ancestors arrived in the E... |
59883 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrych%20Zwingli | Huldrych Zwingli | Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli or Ulricus Zuinglius (January 1, 1484 – October 11, 1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed churches. Separately from Martin Luther, Zwingli arrived with similar final beliefs. He did this by studying the Bible from the point of v... |
59895 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century%20classical%20music | 20th-century classical music | 20th-century classical music is classical music written during the last century. During earlier periods of music history composers from different countries wrote in styles which were often quite similar. For example, composers in the Classical music period (about 1740-1820) had fairly similar ideas about what forms to ... |
59896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuxhaven | Cuxhaven | Cuxhaven is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. About 55,000 people live there. It is on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River. Cuxhaven is the capital of the Cuxhaven district. It is a popular vacation spot on the North Sea.
In 1896, when the town was an exclave of Hamburg, the railway line from Brem... |
59913 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa%20Wehbe | Haifa Wehbe | Haifa Wehbe (, born March 10, 1972) is a female Lebanese singer, actress, model, and jewelry designer who is known in the Arab world. Wehbe was born in a rural town in South Lebanon and currently lives in Beirut. She started her music career with her debut album Huwa az-Zaman (, It is Time).
Early life and career
Bef... |
59919 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics%20%28music%29 | Dynamics (music) | In music, the dynamics in the piece is the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.
In written music the dynamics are shown by letters which stand for Italian words for the dynamic levels. They are listed in the table below. Notice that “piano”, as a dynamic level, is pronounced the Italian way (“pi-AH-no”).
... |
59921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco%20Botticini | Francesco Botticini | Francesco Botticini (real name Francesco di Giovanni, 1446 – 16 January 1498) was an Italian painter. He lived in the early part of the Renaissance period. He was born in Florence about 1446 and is best known for his painting called "Assumption of the Virgin".
He died in 1497 or 1498. After he had been an assistant to... |
59929 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grana%20Padano | Grana Padano | Grana Padano is a type of hard cheese. It is similar to parmesan cheese. The name comes from the noun grana (‘grain’), which refers to the distinctively grainy texture of the cheese, and the adjective Padano, which refers to the river Po.
Grana Padano was created by the Cistercian monks of Chiaravalle. They used ripen... |
59933 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Free%20Trade%20Agreement | North American Free Trade Agreement | The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a trade agreement between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The agreement was signed by U.S. President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and Mexican President Carlos Salinas on December 17, 1992 in San Antonio, Texas, and took effect on Ja... |
59935 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20revival | Language revival | Language revival is people trying to make a language spoken often again when it is not spoken or is spoken very little. Language death happens when a language is not used by the people who used to speak it.
Language revival tries to save a language that is dead or endangered. Hebrew was once a language that was not sp... |
59937 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Travolta | John Travolta | John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, dancer and singer.
Biography
The youngest of six children, he was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. His father, Salvatore Travolta (November 1912 – May 1995), was a semi-professional American football player of Italian descent. His mother, He... |
59939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian | Ukrainian | Ukrainian might mean:
Something related to the country Ukraine
Something related to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which existed from 1922 to 1991
Ukrainians, the people of Ukraine
Ukrainian language |
59944 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity%20%28science%29 | Objectivity (science) | Objectivity in science means that scientific ideas and measurements are tested. That means they are independent from the individual scientist (the subject) who proposes them. In other words, if scientist A claims something, scientist B must be able to check whether A is right.
The evidence can (in principle) be shown ... |
59961 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundhay%20Garden%20Scene | Roundhay Garden Scene | Roundhay Garden Scene is a short movie made on October 14, 1888 in the garden of Oakwood Grange, Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was made by a French man named Louis Le Prince. It was silent. The movie had Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley, and Harriet Hartley walking in the garden of Oakwoo... |
59963 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpetology | Herpetology | Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians. It is about cold-blooded animals like salamanders, frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, turtles, tuataras and crocodilians.
Herp
"Herp" is a vernacular term for reptiles and amphibians. It is derived from the old term "herpetile". Linnaeus grouped... |
59965 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%20Barbossa | Hector Barbossa | Captain Hector Barbossa is a fictional character and a recurring antagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. He appeared in the first five movies of the series.
At first he was the main antagonist as an undead pirate in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). The character dies at the end of the movie, however... |
59971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Kappa%20Alpha | Alpha Kappa Alpha | Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first sorority founded by African-American women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University. The sorority has more than 300,000 women in over one thousand chapters. They are in the United States, the Caribbean, Germany, Korea and Japan.
Other websites
Official websit... |
59977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity | Objectivity | Objectivity can mean:
Objectivity (philosophy)
Objectivity (journalism)
Objectivity (science)
Objectivity in historiography
Related pages
New Objectivity, German art movement |
59986 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud | Fraud | Fraud (or defrauding or scamming) is a crime in which someone tricks somebody else to get unfair or unlawful gain. Frauds are almost always about money, either directly or indirectly.
A fraudster or a fraud is the person who commits the fraud. Fraudulence is the adjective, as in He tried to pass a fraudulent cheque.... |
59990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump | Pump | A pump is a machine which moves a liquid from one place to another, often upwards.
Pumps need some kind of power, often kinetic energy, to make them work. Sometimes the power comes from a person. Sometimes the power comes from a motor.
Types of pumps
There are many different kinds of pumps. Some types of pumps are:... |
59998 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20%28disambiguation%29 | Alpha (disambiguation) | Alpha may mean:
The Greek letter alpha
Alpha, a letter in the Greek alphabet. α may be used as the symbol for:
Angle of attack in aerodynamics
Common-base current gain of a transistor in electronics
In physics:
Fine-structure constant, a fundamental physical constant
Alpha particle, form of particle radiation
H-alpha,... |
60003 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan%20P.%20Culianu | Ioan P. Culianu | Ioan Petru Culianu (January 5, 1950–May 21, 1991) was a Romanian historian of religion, culture, ideas, philosopher, political essayist, poet, mystic and short story writer.
He was 41 when he was shot in the head in the men's room in his University, Divine School where he was teaching on May 21 1991. At times he preac... |
60008 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20%28music%29 | Single (music) | In popular music marketing, a single is a record release with only one or two songs. The first song (usually the one given the most promotion, and heard more often in the media) is called an A-side, while any other song on the single is called a B-side.
The pairing of recordings on a single comes from the days of and... |
60022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20America | Captain America | Captain America is a fictional superhero from the Marvel Comics. He made his first appearance in the comic book Captain America Comics #1 in 1941. He wears a suit that has a white star on his chest with 2 stripes (still white) on each side next to the star. His suit is blue. He also has an indestructible shield with a ... |
60023 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity%20%28journalism%29 | Objectivity (journalism) | Objectivity is a significant principle of journalistic professionalism. It involves presenting information that can be relied upon.
Objectivity may have several meanings in the eye of the public. "Fairness" involves making sure that multiple sides of an issue are presented. "Disinterestedness" means that the presenter... |
60024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis%20Nomad | Genesis Nomad | The Genesis Nomad is a portable video game console released by the Sega Corporation. It has a colour screen and can play most games designed for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
It cannot be used with the Sega CD and Sega 32X unless special modifications are made. But such special modifications may not be safe.
Fewer tha... |
60030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlasee%20Solar%20Park | Erlasee Solar Park | The Erlasee Solar Park is in one of the sunniest regions of Germany. On the former wine-producing Erlasee estate near Arnstein in Bavaria, in southern Germany, SOLON has constructed what is currently the largest tracking photovoltaic solar power station in the world with an output of 12 MW. Just under 1,500 "SOLON-Mov... |
60032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khula | Khula | Khula is the right of a woman to ask her husband for a divorce and to offer him a compensation in case he does so. Following the Sharia the husband has no right to ask for a compensation of a higher value than that what he gave his wife when they married.
After divorce the former husband is responsible for education,... |
60035 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashemi%20Rafsanjani | Hashemi Rafsanjani | Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی Akbar Hāshemī Rafanjānī), Hashemi Bahramani (هاشمی بهرمانی) (August 25, 1934 – January 8, 2017) was an influential Iranian politician. He has been the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran from 1989 until his death in 2017.
Forbes magazine lis... |
60055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evander%20Holyfield | Evander Holyfield | Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is an American boxer. He held both the world heavyweight championship and the world cruiserweight championship. He also won a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Holyfield was born in Atmore, Alabama. He became a professional boxer in 1984 and won the cruiserweight champ... |
60063 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porthmadog%20F.C. | Porthmadog F.C. | Porthmadog Football Club is a football team, playing in the League of Wales. The club was started in 1884.
Current squad
Other websites
Official website
Welsh football clubs
1884 establishments in the United Kingdom
1880s establishments in Wales |
60077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia | Sharia | Sharia, Sharia law or Islamic law is a set of religious principles which form part of the Islamic culture. The Arabic word sharīʿah () refers to the revealed law of God and originally meant "way" or "path".
Classical sharia deals with many aspects of public and private life, including religious rituals, family life, b... |
60081 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadowice | Wadowice | Wadowice () is a town in Poland in Lesser Poland Voivodeship in the mountainous range known as Zakopane region, southeast of Krakow - (former Polish capital).
Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) was born there on May 18 1920. He also attended elementary and high school there, graduating with honors in 1938.
The town ... |
60083 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20duet | Piano duet | A piano duet is a piece of music written for two people to play at one piano. It is often called Piano 4 hands.
To play piano duets the two players sit with one person on the right (playing the high notes) and the other person on the left (playing the low notes). The person on the right is called “Primo” (“First”) and... |
60086 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano%20six%20hands | Piano six hands | Music described as piano six hands is for three pianists at one piano, as distinct from piano duet which is music for two pianists at one piano, and from piano trio which is music for piano, violin and cello. Not much music has been written for this combination, although there are several arrangements of music origina... |
60087 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal | Pedal | A pedal is something that is made to work by someone's foot. The word "pedal" comes from the Latin word for "foot". Many things can be made to work by pedals. These include:
a car (automobile) which has a brake pedal, an accelerator pedal and sometimes a clutch;
a musical instrument such as piano, harp or organ (se... |
60088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%20wine | Rice wine | Rice wine is a word some people use to talk about alcoholic drinks. However, it is not a true wine, despite the name. True wine is made by fermenting grapes, and perhaps other fruit. In rice wine, the starch in the rice is first changed into sugar. This sugar is then fermented. This process is more like the fermentatio... |
60092 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcopop | Alcopop | Alcopops are alcoholic drinks. They are also known as Ready-to-drink (RTD), Flavored Alcoholic Beverage (FAB) or Flavored Malt Beverage (FMB). They are usually available in bottles or cans. They contain about the same amount of alcohol as a beer. Usually, they are very sweet, so that the alcohol can not be tasted.
Th... |
60096 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal%20%28music%29 | Pedal (music) | Pedals on musical instruments are used to control parts of the instrument, or provide extra notes.
There are several musical instruments which have pedals for various reasons.
Piano
The piano has at least two pedals; large concert grand pianos always have three. The pedal on the right (operated by the player's righ... |
60099 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism | Alcoholism | Alcoholism is addiction to alcohol. People who have alcoholism are called alcoholics.
Alcoholism is a disease. It often gets worse over time, and can kill a person. However, alcoholism can be treated.
Alcohol is the most commonly used drug in the world. Around the world, there are at least 208 million people with a... |
60114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprain | Sprain | A sprain is a type of injury in which a person hurts the part really bad, but it is not broken. It has common side affects of a broken bone, but it is less serious.
Degrees
The first degree is only a minor tear or stretch of a ligament.
The second degree is a tear of a ligament, which is usually followed by pain or... |
60119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Sino-Japanese%20War | Second Sino-Japanese War | The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 to September 9, 1945) was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, besides Northern part of Burma. It is a part of World War II that started years before the other parts. The war ended when Japan surrendered unconditionally after two nuclear ... |
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