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65588 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegucigalpa | Tegucigalpa | Tegucigalpa is the biggest and capital city of Honduras. As of 2006, the city has a total population of 1,200,000 residents.
References
National capitals in North America
Cities in Central America
Settlements in Honduras
1578 establishments
1570s establishments in North America |
65589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1062 | 1062 |
Events
Founding of Marrakech by the Almoravid dynasty
The Almoravids overrun Morocco and establish a kingdom from Spain to Senegal.
Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict founded in Affligem, Belgium.
Births
Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine statesman (d. 1137)
Deaths |
65593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zappanale | Zappanale | The Zappanale is a music festival held every year in honour of the musician and composer Frank Zappa. It happens in the beginning of August at the town of Bad Doberan, Germany.
Other websites
Zappanale homepage
Arf-Society
Music festivals
Festivals in Europe
Entertainment in Germany |
65608 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington%20Airpark | Burlington Airpark | Burlington Airpark is an airport in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. It has two runways. The airport is privately owned by Vince Rossi.
History
The airport was created by Victor and Gwen Kovachik in 1962. It is a very popular airport for Toronto-area pilots.
Runways
The airport's first runway is and is made of asphal... |
65609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratibha%20Patil | Pratibha Patil | Pratibha Patil (born 19 December 1934) is an Indian politician. She was the first woman to become the President of India serving from 2007 through 2012. Before becoming President, she was the Governor of Rajasthan and served as that from 2004 to 2007. One of her many achievements is Order of Aztec Eagle which she recei... |
65610 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily | Lily | The lily is a genus of flowering plant. There are many species of lilies, like trumpet lilies and tiger lilies. They are usually quite tall, and are perennials.
Most lilies grow from a bulb, which in some species develops into a rhizome, which carries small bulbs.
Lilies grow in Europe, North America, and Asia. Ther... |
65611 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Storm%20Zeta | Tropical Storm Zeta | Tropical Storm Zeta was the twenty-eighth and last storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed very late during the year on December 30, after the official end of the season, and was a very rare tropical cyclone to live during two calendar years.
Tropical Storm Zeta formed on December 30 in the central Atla... |
65612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Fogelberg | Dan Fogelberg | Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg (August 13, 1951 – December 16, 2007) was an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music. He was most popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Singers from Illinois
1951 births... |
65614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettuce | Lettuce | Lettuce is a vegetable. Both the stems and the leaves can be eaten.
Growing lettuce
Lettuce can be grown in many parts of the world, including Europe, Asia, and North America, in temperate climates. It will turn more bitter tasting in hot weather. You can grow lettuce during winter in a greenhouse.
Eating lettuce
In ... |
65615 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrosaurus | Hadrosaurus | Hadrosaurus (Hadrosaurus foulkii) was a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous period. Is the only species in its genus and is the official state dinosaur of New Jersey.
The name is dubious because no skull has been found to distinguish it from near relatives.
Hadrosauridae |
65626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Shatner | William Shatner | William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, director, producer, screenwriter, singer and space tourist. He became famous for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven more movies.
Shatner has written a series of book... |
65627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeardley%20Smith | Yeardley Smith | Martha Maria Yeardley Smith (born July 3, 1964) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, comedian and writer. She is known for being the voice of Lisa Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons.
Television
Video games
Other websites
The Daily Targum's interview with Yeardley Smith in 1997 (from The S... |
65628 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise%20Richards | Denise Richards | Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She came to fame in the late 1990s, after many movies that showed her beauty, including Starship Troopers, Wild Things and The World Is Not Enough.
Other websites
DealMemo.com interview (May 23, 2002)
Cinema Confide... |
65630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Judd | Ashley Judd | Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella on April 19, 1968) is an American actress. She is famous for her roles in a series of late 1990s and early 2000s thriller movies, including Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy and High Crimes.
References
Other websites
"YouthAids Ambassador Ashley Judd launches U.S.-funded Newst... |
65631 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Stanwyck | Barbara Stanwyck | Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress of movie, stage, and television.
In 1999, the American Film Institute named her among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 11.
She was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Other websites
Time article
... |
65632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke%20Shields | Brooke Shields | Brooke Christa Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel. She has been named one of People's most beautiful people in the world three times. Shields started being a model when she was 11 months old. Ford Models started their children's division for Shields.
Career
She first acted in Al... |
65642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita%20scale | Fujita scale | The Fujita scale is a scale used for rating tornado strength, based on the damage tornadoes cause on human-built buildings and vegetation. The official Fujita scale category is determined by meteorologists (and engineers) after a ground and/or aerial damage inspection; also including analysis of available sources such ... |
65643 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticino | Ticino | Canton Ticino or Ticino ([]; French and German: Tessin [] and []) is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. The written language is Italian in almost the entire canton (except the Walser municipality of Bosco Gurin, where it is German). It surrounds the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia. Together with areas of the ... |
65644 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticino%20%28river%29 | Ticino (river) | The Ticino river is a river that originates in the Alps, near Nufenen. It then flows through the Swiss canton of Ticino and northern Italy. It flows into the Po River, near Pavia. It is 270 km long. It gave its name to the canton. In Switzerland, it is dammed to make electricity. In Italy, it is mainly used for irrigat... |
65645 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%20%28river%29 | Po (river) | The Po (Latin: Padus, , ancient "Eridanus") is a river that flows 652 kilometers (405 miles) eastward across northern Italy, from Monviso (in the Cottian Alps) to the Adriatic Sea near Venice. It has a drainage area of 71,000 km² and is the longest river in Italy.
It goes through many important Italian towns, includi... |
65655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano%20Ronaldo | Cristiano Ronaldo | Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (born 5 February 1985), better known as Cristiano Ronaldo, or by his nickname 'CR7', is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward. He plays for Premier League club Manchester United and is the captain of the Portuguese national team. He is considered to be one of th... |
65667 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxaca | Oaxaca | Oaxaca is a state in Mexico. The capital is Oaxaca de Juárez. Oaxaca is next to Guerrero, Puebla, Veracruz, and Chiapas. About 3.5 million people live there. The Zapotec and the Mixtec people live in the state. There are more speakers of indigenous languages in this state than in any other state of Mexico. This Mexica... |
65670 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20Law%20of%20the%20Federal%20Republic%20of%20Germany | Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany | The Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany is the name of Germany's constitution. It was written in 1949 when Germany was split into the countries of East Germany and West Germany. Many parts of the constitution are very different from the constitution of the Weimar Republic.
The writers decided not to call it t... |
65673 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaxaca%20de%20Ju%C3%A1rez | Oaxaca de Juárez | Oaxaca de Juárez is the capital city of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is called La'a in the Zapotec language. Ñuu Nunduva is its name in the Mixtec language. Since 1872, when Benito Juárez died there, the city is called de Juárez, in his honour. Currently, 258,000 people live in the city.
Capital cities in Mexico
Se... |
65689 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo | Armadillo | A armadillo is in the Cingulata, an order of New World placental mammals. The living ones have a leathery armored shell. The word armadillo is Spanish for "little armored one".
There are about 10 living genera and about 20 species of armadillo. Their average length is about 75 centimeters (30 in), including the tail. ... |
65692 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niacin | Niacin | Niacin is a vitamin. It is also known by the name nicotinic acid. It is Vitamin B3. It can be dissolved in water. It plays a very important role in the metabolism of living cells.
Other functions of niacin include removing toxic chemicals from the body, and helping with the production of steroid hormones made by the... |
65695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagon | Octagon | An octagon or 8-gon is a shape with 8 sides and 8 corners.
Regular octagon
All sides of a regular octagon are the same length. Each corner is 135°. All corners added together equal 1080°.
Area
The amount of space a regular octagon takes up is
a is the length of one of its sides.
Another way to write it is
Galler... |
65700 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration | Registration | Registration is a method of officially recording something. Usually something is registered to claim more rights, or to protect ownership, or because the law says it must be registered to be used legally.
A register was a large book. It was used like a diary to record business dealings or other events.
Reasons for re... |
65703 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschweiler | Eschweiler | Eschweiler is a German town in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is next to the river Inde, near the German-Belgian-Dutch frontier, and about 15 km east of Aachen and west of Cologne. It has about 55,000 inhabitants. Its area has about .
In Eschweiler, there are many castles. Eschweiler is a big carnival town. ... |
65704 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Storm%20Arlene%20%282005%29 | Tropical Storm Arlene (2005) | Tropical Storm Arlene was the first named storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Arlene was a large storm that formed early in the year. It had maximum wind speeds of 70 mph (110 km/h). It also caused one death and created $11.8 million (2005 USD) in damage.
The storm formed near Honduras on June 8 and moved nor... |
65705 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirenia | Sirenia | For information about the Gothic metal band, see Sirenia (band)
Sirenia is an order of herbivorous mammals. In this order are the dugong and three species of manatee.
Taxonomy
Order Sirenia
Family Dugongidae
Dugong, Dugong dugon
†Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamlis gigas
Family Trichechidae
West Indian manatee, Tri... |
65717 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keihan%20Main%20Line | Keihan Main Line | The Keihan Main Line (京阪本線, -honsen?) is a railway line of Keihan Electric Railway. The line starts from Sanjo Station in Kyoto, and ends at Yodoyabashi Station in Osaka, and travels a distance of about 51 km. The line is not "the Main Line" but "the Keihan Main Line". Trains go direct to the Oto Line.
Stations
●: st... |
65718 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjo%20Station%20%28Kyoto%29 | Sanjo Station (Kyoto) | is the main Keihan Electric Railway station in Kyoto. It connects with Sanjo Keihan Station on the Kyoto Subway Tozai Line. It was opened for service on October 27, 1915, and has been in service ever since. Sanjo Station is in the Higashiyama Ward, in Kyoto City. The station offers quick access to the Gion district a... |
65719 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Parker | Tony Parker | William Anthony "Tony" Parker (born ) is a retired French basketball player that played for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA. He was drafted by them in 2001.
Parker retired from the French national team after the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Early Life
Parker was born in Bruges, Belgium, and raised in France. His father, To... |
65722 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaramachi%20Station | Kawaramachi Station | Kawaramachi Station (河原町駅, Kawaramachi eki?) is the terminal station of the Hankyu Kyoto Line of Hankyu Railway in Kyoto, Japan. The Kawaramachi and Shijo streets cross over the underground station. Keihan Shijo Station is beyond the Kamo River.
The area around the station is one of the commercial centers of Kyoto. T... |
65734 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriend%20%28Avril%20Lavigne%20song%29 | Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne song) | "Girlfriend" is a song by Avril Lavigne. It was the lead single from her third album, The Best Damn Thing (2007). It was produced by Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald. "Girlfriend" became Lavigne's biggest hit in the United States, where it reached number one on the U.S. Hot 100, in Australia, where it topped the chart, and i... |
65736 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%970 | M×0 | M×0 (エム×ゼロ, Emu x Zero) is a Japanese comedy manga series by Japanese author Yasuhiro Kanō (author of Pretty Face). It is about a school that teaches students how to do magic and the crazy adventures of a normal boy who was admitted to the school under special circumstances. It was first serialized in Weekly Shonen Jum... |
65738 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip%20Douglas | Chip Douglas | Douglas Farthing Hatlelid, better known as Chip Douglas (b. 27 August 1942), is an American musician and songwriter. He became a producer when he worked with The Monkees on their music. He also worked with The Turtles, first as bass guitarist and arranger, then later as producer.
References
Other websites
American ... |
65740 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Wood | Henry Wood | Sir Henry Wood (3 March 1869 - 19 August 1944) was an English conductor. He is famous for having been the conductor of the Proms. He conducted the Proms for 50 years. They became known as the "Henry Wood Promenade Concerts". Today they are called the "BBC Proms".
His life
Henry Wood was born in London. His father was... |
65749 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine%20grace | Divine grace | In Christianity Divine Grace means a favour of God for humankind. God favours every person, without looking at what they did or how much they are worth. This grace of God to humans may happen in the gifts that God gives him, such as creation or salvation.
Types of Grace
Common Grace
Common grace refers to blessings w... |
65750 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy%20server | Proxy server | In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (computer) which clients (people or computers) use to access other computers. A proxy server that passes information to its clients without changing it is usually called a gateway or sometimes called tunneling proxy.
Proxy servers get their name because they act like a ... |
65751 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client | Client | In net jargon (words people use about the Internet) a client is a computer used by a user to connect to a network and make requests to servers. For example, a web browser is a client software.
Internet |
65753 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20%28computing%29 | Cache (computing) | Caching is a term used in computer science. The idea behind a cache (pronounced "cash" ) is very simple: Very often, obtaining a result for a calculation is very time-consuming, so storing the result is generally a good idea. Two kinds of storage media are used: One is usually quite big, but accessing it is "slow";... |
65754 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ | DMOZ | The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz, is an online directory that lists good web sites based on their subject. Web sites are listed in categories on this project. Each category is linked to relevant categories; the categories have a tree-like structure too.
Other websites
dmoz website
Internet |
65755 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20directory | Web directory | A Web directory is a website. It is like a directory, or a phone book. It lists other websites, that are put into different categories.
Related pages
Open Directory Project
internet |
65756 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20sharing | File sharing | File sharing is the practice of making files available for other users to download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on personal computers of the users. In this model, most people who are sharing files are also downloading files... |
65759 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium%20sulfide | Ammonium sulfide | Ammonium sulfide, also known as the "stink bomb" is made up of a solution of ammonium sulfide in water, sealed inside a glass ampoule (a small bottle-like container used to store a liquid securely). When the ampoule is broken, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide gases are released from the solution. These chemicals have a ver... |
65761 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre%20per%20second | Metre per second | Metre per second is an SI unit of measurement of both speed and velocity. It is defined by the distance in metres divided by the time in seconds. Its abbreviation is m/s or m·s-1. In astronomy, the unit is sometimes used in kilometres per second (equivalent to 1000 metres per second).
Conversions
1 metre per second i... |
65765 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxide | Hydroxide | Hydroxide in chemistry is a name given to the diatomic anion OH−, made up of oxygen and hydrogen atoms. Most chemical compounds that contain hydroxides are bases.
An Arrhenius base is a substance that when dissolved in an aqueous solution, it produces hydroxide ions. Therefore, hydroxide ions are heavily involved in a... |
65766 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone | Cyclone | In meteorology, a cyclone refers to any low pressure area with winds spiralling inwards. Cyclones rotate clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. Cyclone is the general term for a variety of low pressure system types, such as tropical cyclones, extra tropical cyclones and torn... |
65767 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20%28cyclone%29 | Eye (cyclone) | The eye is an area of calm weather in the center of strong tropical cyclones. The cyclone's lowest barometric pressure occurs in the eye. It is usually circular and ranges between 30 and 65 km (20 to 40 mi) in diameter, though smaller and larger eyes can occur.
In case of a cyclone it is the place where all the winds... |
65769 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow%20Coma%20Scale | Glasgow Coma Scale | Glasgow Coma Scale or GCS is a scale that is used to measure the consciousness of a person. It was invented in 1974 by Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett, professors of neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow.
GCS is used in evaluation of patients, especially in ICUs. This scale consists of three tests, which are ... |
65789 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Habsburg | House of Habsburg | Habsburg was a family of dukes, kings, and monarchs. They were very important in European history. They first ruled parts of Switzerland in the 13th century. They ruled Austria, later Austria-Hungary for more than 600 years, and also sometimes owned Spain and the Netherlands. They ruled the Holy Roman Empire from a... |
65790 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia | Rhodesia | Rhodesia (, ), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was a republic in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It was the region that is now called Zimbabwe. The country replaced the British colony of Southern Rhodesia.
Nomenclature
The official name of the country under British law was "Southern Rhodesia", but... |
65791 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster | Westminster | Westminster is the central part of the City of Westminster, in London. It is on the north side of the River Thames. It contains the Houses of Parliament, Whitehall, Downing Street and Westminster Abbey.
Westminster is the official seat of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
References |
65797 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akita | Akita | Akita may mean:
the city Akita
Akita Prefecture in Japan
the dog breed Akita Inu |
65798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostara | Ostara | Ostara is one of the eight festivals held by Wiccans every year. It is normally held at the time of the vernal equinox; that is, around 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere and 21 September in the Southern Hemisphere. At Ostara Wiccans celebrate the return of Spring.
Religious festivals |
65809 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalosaurus | Megalosaurus | Megalosaurus was a large meat-eating theropod dinosaur of the Middle Jurassic of Europe. It was found in 1824, and was the earliest dinosaur named. In 1827, Gideon Mantell included Megalosaurus in his geological survey of southeastern England. He gave the species its name, Megalosaurus bucklandii.
Because a complete ... |
65815 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Parliament of the United Kingdom | The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the highest legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. It alone has parliamentary sovereignty over all other political bodies. The parliament has an upper house, the House of Lords, and a lower house, the House o... |
65835 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20dioxide | Silicon dioxide | Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is a chemical compound, the oxide of silicon. Its chemical symbol is SiO2. It is known for its hardness since the 16th century. It is an important compound used in most types of glass and other hard substances such as concrete, porcelain and stoneware. It is made up of 2 oxygen at... |
65838 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic%20hydrogen | Metallic hydrogen | Metallic hydrogen is an alkali metal made from hydrogen gas. This is formed when the hydrogen gas is under compression and results with the gas changing phase. It is an example of degenerate matter. The matter has a crystal structure of proton atoms, with spacing that is extremely small, smaller than a Bohr radius (whi... |
65839 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Domenico%20Cassini | Giovanni Domenico Cassini | Giovanni Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini, (June 8, 1625 – September 14, 1712) was an Italian-French astronomer, engineer and astrologer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo in the Republic of Genoa (part of Italy).
Discoveries
Cassini, along with Robert Hooke discovered the Great Red Spot on Jupiter ... |
65840 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan%20Huygens | Christiaan Huygens | Christiaan Huygens () (April 14, 1629–July 8, 1695) was a Dutch physicist, mathematician and astronomer, born in The Hague. He was noted for his arguments that light was in the form of waves. He discovered Saturn's largest moon Titan in 1655. He also did detailed studies on Saturn's rings, and in 1656, he discovered th... |
65841 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion%20%28moon%29 | Hyperion (moon) | Hyperion is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered on September 16, 1848 by William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond and William Lassell. It is irregular in shape, and has a sponge-like appearance. It is the second largest irregular (i.e. not spherical) moon in the Solar System, the largest being Proteus. Its rotation is... |
65842 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus%20%28moon%29 | Iapetus (moon) | Iapetus is a large moon of Saturn. It was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1671.
Iapetus is unusual: one side is very bright and the other side is very dark. This is because one half of the moon is covered in ice and the other side is coated in black, dusty carbon deposits. When Cassini observed the moon, ... |
65843 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda%20Mandelstam | Nadezhda Mandelstam | Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam, born as Nadezhda Yakovlevna Hazin, (31 October 1899 in Saratov - 9 December 1980 in Moscow) was a Russian writer and the wife of poet Osip Mandelstam.
She grew up in Kiev, after she studied art.
She married Osip Mandelstam in 1921, and lived in Ukraine, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Ge... |
65845 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman. He ran U.S. Steel, a major steel making corporation. When he retired, he was one of the richest men in America. He used his large amounts of money to fund charities. These charities gave money to universities. He had a hall built... |
65849 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Bundesrat | German Bundesrat | The German Bundesrat (commonly referred to as Bundesrat) is part of the parliament of Germany.
The cabinets of the 16 states of Germany appoint the delegations that represent them in the Bundesrat. They can remove them at any time. Normally, a state delegation is headed by the head of government. The delegation is mad... |
65850 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister-President | Minister-President | A minister-president (German: Ministerpräsident) is the head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments, who presides over the council of ministers. The title is similar to Prime Minister, First Minister, and President of the Council.
The German word means "president of the ministers"; ... |
65860 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Rendell | Edward Rendell | Edward Gene "Ed" Rendell (born January 5, 1944) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He became governor of Pennsylvania in 2002. He was governor from January 21, 2003 until January 18, 2011.
Early life and education
Rendell was born in New York City to Jewish American parents Jesse T. Ren... |
65867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20de%20Morgan | Jacques de Morgan | Jacques de Morgan (1857-1924) was a French civil engineer, geologist and archaeologist. He was the head of Antiquities in Egypt in the 19th century. He excavated in Memphis and Dashur, providing many drawings of many Egyptian pyramids.
Related pages
Ancient Armenia
Other websites
Jacques de Morgan at Iranica
Jacque... |
65869 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struthiomimus | Struthiomimus | Struthiomimus was a long-legged, ostrich-like dinosaur of the ornithomimid family. It lived in what is now Alberta, Canada, during the Upper Cretaceous, about 75 to 65 million years ago.
Description
Struthiomimus had a typical build and skeletal structure for an ornithomimid. It only differed from Ornithomimus in prop... |
65870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric%20Armenia | Prehistoric Armenia | The prehistory of Armenia means the first people in the land of Armenia.
The first in Armenia, were by Russian in 1876, brought to light a burial-ground near Dilijan in which were prehistoric (before history) graves. Jacques de Morgan in 1887-89 dug up 576 graves around Alaverdi and Akhatala, on the Tiflis-Alexandro... |
65876 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Albert%20Hall | Royal Albert Hall | The Albert Hall (official name: Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences), is a large building in the City of Westminster, London. It was opened in 1871, by Queen Victoria. The hall is dedicated to her husband, Albert, Prince Consort, who had died ten years earlier. It is an auditorium where events are held.
The Albert ... |
65880 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20run | Home run | A home run, abbreviated HR, is a term in baseball for when the batter hits the ball and touches all the bases without an error being made by the team on defense. The most common way for a batter to hit a home run is to hit the ball over the outfield fence in fair territory. If the ball goes over the outfield fence but ... |
65885 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-state | City-state | A city-state is a city that has its own sovereignty, meaning that it is its own country. There were many important city-states in ancient Greece. Nowadays, cities may have differing degrees of self-governance. In order to be considered a city-state, a city must govern itself independently, by regulating its own taxes, ... |
65888 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior%20Eurovision%20Song%20Contest | Junior Eurovision Song Contest | The Junior Eurovision Song Contest is a song contest run by the European Broadcasting Union that started in 2003. Different child singers representing countries in Europe compete every year.
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 continued despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Only a small audience were present.
Junior win... |
65891 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Open | U.S. Open | U.S. Open usually means:
US Open (tennis)
U.S. Open (golf)
Other uses include:
U.S. Open Badminton Championships
U.S. Open Beer championship
U.S. Open (bowling)
U.S. Open Chess Championship
U.S. Open (crosswords)
U.S. Open (cycling)
US Open (darts)
U.S. Open (go), boardgame tournament
U.S. Women's Open, golf ... |
65893 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Cup | World Cup | World Cup could mean one of these sporting events
FIFA World Cup
FIFA Women's World Cup
FIFA Club World Cup
FIFA U-20 World Cup
FIFA U-17 World Cup
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
FIFA Futsal World Cup
Baseball World Cup
Cricket World Cup
Rugby World Cup
Rugby League World Cup
WGC-World Cup
Spee... |
65903 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styracosaurus | Styracosaurus | Styracosaurus was a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous, about 76.5 to 75 million years ago.
Ceratopsids |
65904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20colors | School colors | School colors are the colors representing the school of which one goes to.
Color Sets
School colors are often found in pairs and rarely no more than trios, though some professional teams use up to four colors in a set. The choice of colors usually follows the rule of tincture from heraldry, but exceptions to this rul... |
65907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya | Maya | Maya might mean:
Maya civilization, an ancient civilization in Central America
Maya people
Maya languages
Maya (software)
Maya the Bee
Given name
Maya Angelou
Maya Lin
Maya Rudolph
Maya Yoshida
Given names |
65909 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew%20calendar | Hebrew calendar | The Hebrew calendar or Jewish calendar is the calendar used in Judaism. It is used to set the dates of the Jewish holidays and the weekly public reading of the Torah. It is used to set the date for a Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah, the day a young person is considered an adult in Judaism. It sets the Yahrzeit, the annivers... |
65911 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavia | Moldavia | Moldavia (Romanian: Moldova) is a region in Eastern Europe. It existed from the 14th century to 1859, when it became one with Wallachia as the basis of the modern Romanian state; at various times, it included the regions of Bessarabia (with the Budjak) and much of Bukovina. The bigger part of Bessarabia is currently th... |
65914 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smothers%20Brothers | Smothers Brothers | The Smothers Brothers are an American folk music comedy duo, made up of real-life brothers Tom ("Tommy") and Dick Smothers. They were at their most popular during the 1960s and 1970s. Tom plays acoustic guitar and Dick plays upright bass, and both men sing. They pretend to get into arguments about the songs, and this f... |
65915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%20Music | Lorenzo Music | Lorenzo "Jerry" Music was an American actor, voice actor, writer, producer and musician. He was born Gerald David Music on May 2, 1937, in Duluth, Minnesota. He died in 2001.
Music was most famous as the voice of Carlton the Doorman in the television series Rhoda, and as the cartoon voice of Garfield the Cat.
Filmog... |
65952 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar%20Bergman | Ingmar Bergman | Ernst ( in Swedish, but usually in English) (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish stage and movie director. Ingmar Bergman found bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his indelible explorations of the human condition. He is regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema.
Many filmmakers wo... |
65976 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryonyx | Baryonyx | Baryonyx was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur discovered in clay pits just south of Dorking, England, and also in northern Spain. It has been dated to the Barremian stage of the Lower Cretaceous period, between 130 to 125 million years ago.
It was first discovered in 1983 by the amateur fossil hunter William Walker. A ... |
65979 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSU | CSU | CSU may mean:
A propeller's constant speed unit which regulates engine speed by automatically changing pitch
Any of the following universities or university systems
Colorado State University (US public land grant university in Fort Collins, Colorado in the United States
Cagayan State University system (Philippines)
... |
65982 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%20State%20University | Colorado State University | Colorado State University is a public land grant university in Fort Collins, Colorado in the United States. Colorado State University is the main university of Colorado State University System. The enrollment is approximately 33,877 students, including resident and non-resident instruction students. The university has... |
65983 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20capacity | Heat capacity | Heat capacity is a measure of how much materials can store up heat as they change temperature.
Materials with high heat capacities require a lot of heat to be stored up before a small change. Materials with low heat capacities require very little heat to be stored up before a large change.
The heat capacity of one g... |
65984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%20John%20I | Pope John I | Pope John I (; circa 469-18 May 526) was the leader, pope of the early Christian community.
Pope John the first, was born in Populonia, Tuscany Italy. He was the son of emperor Constantius.
He became the pope on Mary's Day, on 13 August 523.
It's not certain if he died directly from thirst and starvation but his impri... |
66000 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonite | Limonite | Limonite is a mineral, from which trace amounts of iron can be extracted.
Minerals |
66015 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaid%C5%8D | Hokkaidō | , also known as Ezo and Yezo, is a volcanic island in Japan. It is the northernmost of Japan's four main islands.
Hokkaidō Prefecture covers the entire island.
About 5,500,000 live on the island. It is north of Honshu. It is the second largest Japanese island. It has a humid continental climate (Dfa/Dfb in the Köpp... |
66019 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Godesberg | Bad Godesberg | Bad Godesberg is a district of the city of Bonn in southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From 1949 till 1999 Bonn was the capital of West Germany, and the majority of foreign embassies to Germany were in Bad Godesberg. Some buildings are still used as embassy branch offices or consulates.
History
722 First offic... |
66020 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consulate | Consulate | A consulate is a small diplomatic office of one country in another country. If the first country has an ambassador in the other country, the main diplomatic office, located in the capital city is called an Embassy and in this situation, any consulates would be located in other large towns and cities. However if there i... |
66021 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic%20immunity | Diplomatic immunity | Diplomatic immunity is a special law that covers people who work in embassies or consulates. The people are called diplomats. The diplomatic immunity means that although they live and work as a visitor inside a "host country", they are not ruled by the law of that country. They are only ruled by the law of their home c... |
66032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Illusionist | The Illusionist | The Illusionist is an Academy Award-nominated period drama written and directed by Neil Burger and featuring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, and Paul Giamatti. The Illusionist tells about the story of Eisenheim (Norton), a magician in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna.
Cast
Other websites
Official site
Official trailer... |
66036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kazakhstan | My Kazakhstan | "Meniń Qazaqstanym" (Kazakh for "My Kazakhstan") has been the national anthem of Kazakhstan since 7 January 2006.
History
This song was originally a patriotic song written in 1956 in response to the Soviet Union's Virgin Lands programme. The tune was composed by Shámshi Qaldaıaqov with lyrics (words) by Jumeken Nájime... |
66042 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/BI-LO | BI-LO | BI-LO is the name of several different supermarket chains around the world:
BI-LO (Australia)
BI-LO (United States)
Bilo is also
The brother of Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat.
The nickname of musician Pete Doherty.
The nickname of Evgeni Nabokov |
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