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6046 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hume | David Hume | David Hume (7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a philosopher and historian from Scotland. When he was still alive, people thought of him as a historian. He wrote a series of large books called The History of England. But today, people think of Hume as an important philosopher.
Works
In his books on philosophy, Hume said... |
6050 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath | Bath | A bath (UK English) or bathtub (US English) is a basin large enough for people sit in when washing their body. The bath is usually in the bathroom. A less common name for a bath is a washtub.
Sometimes people will add scents, oils and salts to the bath for better experience.
A bath is also a place where people can ... |
6057 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush | Brush | A brush is a tool with bristles or wires or other filaments sticking out. There are many kinds. Most brushes have a long part at one end to hold (the handle), on the other end from the head that carries the bristles or filaments. We use brushes for cleaning, making hair look good, painting, and other purposes.
Brushes... |
6068 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch | Starch | Starch is a complex carbohydrate. It is made of many glucose units joined by chemical bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by most green plants as an energy store. It is the most common carbohydrate in human diets. Pasta, potatoes, bread, and other starchy foods are made out of carbohydrates.
Starch in every day act... |
6070 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Hobbes | Thomas Hobbes | Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was a philosopher from England. His most famous book is Leviathan (1651).
Writings
Hobbes mainly wrote about government and law—he was a political philosopher. He tried to show that the best kind of government has one in which society was organised under one authority. Al... |
6075 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevi | Trevi | Trevi (Latin: Trebiae), an old town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, 42°53N 12°45E, at 424 meters (1391 ft) above sea-level on the lower part of Mt. Serano above the wide plain of the Clitunno river. It is 10 km (6 mi) S.S.E. of Foligno and 20 km (12 mi) N. of Spoleto. The 2003 co... |
6077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachus | Nicomachus | Nicomachos or Nicomachus is a Greek name. It can mean:
Nicomachus of Gerasa, an ancient mathematician
Nicomachus, the father of Aristotle and court physician (doctor) to King Amyntas III of Macedon. Nicomachus died when Aristotle was about 10. Nicomachus wanted Aristotle to follow in his footsteps. But Aristotle did n... |
6078 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo | Logo | A logo is a picture or drawing that is used by a person, group, or company to mark who they are. A wordmark, or 'logotype', is a logo made entirely of a word or words. It is usually the name of a product or organisation.
A company or group can use a 'logo' on the things that they make, like on the things they sell, on... |
6079 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture | Picture | A picture, also called an image, is a group of coloured points on a flat surface that looks the same as something else. For example, a picture can look the same as an object or a person. Pictures can also be drawings, paintings or photographs. People who make such pictures are called artists, photographers or painters.... |
6081 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building | Building | Building may be a noun or a verb. Building is one of the most ancient human skills. It is part of how we have survived and it is the clearest symbol of every civilization. Although some other animals build simple structures, e.g. birds, ants and bees, humans have learned to build in a great many different ways to suit ... |
6082 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle | Candle | A candle is a stick made of wax with a string (a thin piece of rope) straight in the middle. If someone puts the string on fire, the flame burns slowly but for a long time.
Fire can burn string very fast. But in a candle, the string does not burn fast, because the fire melts the wax instead. The wax sometimes drips do... |
6085 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander | Salamander | Salamanders are amphibians. They are the order Caudata (or Urodela). There are about 500 different species.
Salamanders live in water and on land, and look rather like lizards, with four legs and a tail. They hatch as larvae from eggs in the water. At that stage, they have gills that stick out.
Most salamanders live ... |
6086 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt | Newt | Newts or efts are small amphibia. They are in a subfamily of the salamanders. They are found in North America, Europe, and North Asia.
Life cycle
Females lay eggs and leave them. Tadpoles are born from those eggs.
Newts have three life stages. First as a tiny aquatic larva, which gradually undergoes metamorphosis. T... |
6087 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison | Poison | Poisons are substances which cause death or injury when taken in by a living thing. It may be taken in as drink or food, or absorbed through the skin. The damage is usually done by a chemical reaction. The effect of the poison varies with the amount which is absorbed (taken in or inhaled). Substances which are poisonou... |
6088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder | Powder | Powder is very small, dry pieces or grains. When we press some dry solids very hard, or when we cut something up into lots of small pieces, we can sometimes make powder.
For example, people sometimes put face powder on their faces, when they want to look good. Sometimes sports players put powder on their hands, to m... |
6089 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larva | Larva | Many animals develop in separate stages. A larva (plural: larvae) develops from the egg in those animals. It is a separate life stage from the adult reproductive stage. A larva does not look like the adult animal, and changes shape (known as metamorphosis) as it grows up. There may be several larval stages before the a... |
6090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibian | Amphibian | Amphibians are members of the class Amphibia. The living ones are frogs (including toads), salamanders (including newts) and caecilians. They are four-legged vertebrates which are cold blooded.
Amphibians lay their eggs in water, usually in a foam nest. After hatching they are tadpoles, which live in the water and hav... |
6091 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father | Father | A father (also called dad or daddy) is a male parent. Most human beings are born from a mother and a father. The father of a person's husband or wife is their father-in-law. Fathers determine the gender of their child through a sperm cell which either contains an X chromosome (female), or Y chromosome (male).
Related ... |
6099 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill | Gill | Gills are what fish, amphibians, and some other animals use to breathe in water. They have feathery parts which cause water to move across the animal's body, which contains dissolved oxygen, after the animal has swallowed the water. The oxygen is absorbed into the animal's blood, causing carbon dioxide moves out of the... |
6100 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog | Frog | Frogs are amphibians and vertebrates of the order Anura. There is not much difference between frogs and toads, and they are not classified separately. This is because the toad lifestyle, with its dry, rough, skin, is an adaptation to living in drier habitats. The toad form has evolved a number of times independently, a... |
6101 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20compound | Chemical compound | A chemical compound is a chemical formed from atoms of different chemical elements. The different atoms are joined by chemical bonds. Each compound has a fixed ratio between the elements (crystal)
The elements stick together so strongly that the compound behaves like one substance. The chemical that is made depends up... |
6103 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood | Wood | Wood is the main substance in trees. It is mainly formed by the xylem vessels which carry water up the plant. The two main substances in wood are cellulose and lignin. Wood is used to make buildings and furniture, and also for art. Firewood is a fuel. Paper is made from wood fibres. Wood is a renewable resource althoug... |
6110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk | Chalk | Chalk is a type of limestone. It was made by calcareous (CaCO3) skeletons of tiny planktonic algae called coccoliths. They live in the sea in huge numbers. They make chalk (CO2) as a by-product of their photosynthesis. The chalk cliffs of Dover and elsewhere were made when England was below the equator in a tropical se... |
6114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism | Utilitarianism | Utilitarianism is the view that the right thing to do is whatever is most useful. It is a about ethics. The word "utilitarianism" comes from the word "utility", which means "usefulness". In most forms of utilitarianism, things that increase human well-being or happiness are called useful. This is not limited to the ha... |
6116 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village | Village | A village is a place where people live, normally in the countryside. It is usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town or city. In some places, it may be a kind of local government. The dwellings in a village are clustered fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape.
In the past, vi... |
6117 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmsford | Chelmsford | Chelmsford is the only city in the county of Essex, England. It is 32 miles northeast of London, about halfway to Colchester. It is nearly in the centre of the county and it is the county town of Essex, but it is not the biggest or the oldest town in the county. It is the centre of the borough of Chelmsford, which is a... |
6119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnihessou | Gangnihessou | Do-Aklin or Gangnihessou (Ganye Hessou) or Dogbari was the first of twelve kings of Dahomey in Africa. Gangnihessou might have been the king around the year 1620. One of his symbols was a bird called "gangnihessou" after his name. His other symbols were a drum, and sticks used for throwing or hunting. He had a younger ... |
6131 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract%20bridge | Contract bridge | Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game which is played by two pairs of players, one pair against the other pair. Partners sit opposite each other at a table.
Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home. It is one of the world's most popular ca... |
6135 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/No | No | No is an English word which has a negative meaning. It is the antonym (opposite) of the word Yes, which is a positive term.
No is used when someone is denying or turning away something. It can also be used in different figures of speech.
In both sentences and talking, the words "No" and the word "Not" can both be use... |
6145 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Trotsky | Leon Trotsky | (; also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij and Trotzky; October 26 (O.S.) = November 7 (N.S.), 1879 in Kropyvnytskyi (nowadays Ukraine) - August 21, 1940 in Coyoacán, Mexico) was the public name of Leib or Lev Davidovich Bronstein. He was a Russian revolutionary and political theoretician. He was of J... |
6146 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20International | Second International | The Second International (1889–1916) was an organization created on July 14, 1889, by socialist and labour parties who wanted to work together for international socialism. It continued the work of the First International, which stopped being an organization in 1886. However, it did not include the still-powerful anarch... |
6147 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon | Devon | Devon is a county in southwest England. Sometimes called by its historical name Devonshire. Devon is the fourth largest county in England by area, and has the longest road network of any county in England.
History
After the last ice age, Devon was one of the first places in England where people started to live. Archa... |
6148 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin%20script | Latin script | Latin or Roman script, is a writing system used to write many modern-day languages. It is the most used writing system in the world today. It is the official script for nearly all the languages of Western Europe and of some Eastern European languages. It is also used by some non-European languages such as Turkish, Viet... |
6149 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insectivore | Insectivore | An insectivore is an animal or insect that eats mostly insects for food. An Anteater is an animal that eats ants. Insectivorous plants also eat insects. The Venus fly-trap is one of them.
To eat insects for food is not very easy because insects are small. Large insect-eating animals must eat many of them. Anteaters ea... |
6150 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy | Copy | Copy means a thing that is made to look like another thing.
Copying, making a copy, the duplication of information
Photocopying, a process which makes paper copies of documents and other visual images
Fax, a telecommunications machine used to transfer copies of documents over the telephone network
Facsimile, a copy or... |
6152 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor | Vapor | Vapor (British English: vapour) is when small drops of liquid float in the air. Sometimes this happens because the liquid has been heated. Vapor is not the same as gas. It is a mixture of liquid and gas.
water |
6153 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle | Vehicle | A vehicle is a machine to move people and things. A vehicle is not alive. A horse can move people and things, but it is an animal, not a machine or a vehicle.
The word vehicle is borrowed from French and Latin. French véhicule, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin vehiculum "medium, agent of trans... |
6154 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20dance | Line dance | Line dancing is a form of group dancing that is done to either country or hip-hop music. The term line dance is derived from the idea that the group of people participating in the dance are all facing the same direction when conducting the series of moves in the line dance. A line dance can go from 32 beats upwards of ... |
6158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20Kingdoms%20of%20Korea | Three Kingdoms of Korea | The Three Kingdoms of Korea were Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. They existed between the 1st century BC and 7th century CE. There were some smaller kingdoms like Gaya, Dongye, Okjeo, Buyeo, Usan, Tamna, etc.
Baekje helped spread Chinese characters, Chinese culture, Han Buddhism, and other technology to Japan.
The Three ... |
6162 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckernf%C3%B6rde | Eckernförde | Eckernförde (Danish: Egernførde, sometimes also Egernfjord, Low German: Eckernför, sometimes also Eckernföör) is a German city in Schleswig-Holstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde at the Baltic Sea near Kiel. The population is about 23,000.
All 24 German submarines are stationed in Eckernförde.
Eckernförde is a well-kn... |
6166 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke%20Franz%20Ferdinand%20of%20Austria | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Josef of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este (Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Josef; ) (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was an Archduke (like a prince) of Austria and, from 1896 until his death, next in line to be the emperor of the former country called Austria-Hungary. He was ki... |
6168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Hand | Black Hand | Black Hand or Crna Ruka, officially Ujedinjenje ili Smrt ("Unification or Death") was a secret group of Serbian nationalists (Pan-Serbians). It was founded in 1911 in Serbia.
Their aim was to create a country from other countries where Serbs lived, including Bosnia-Herzegovina which was a part of Austria-Hungary sin... |
6169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton | Edmonton | Edmonton is the capital city of Alberta. In 2008, there were about 1,102,000 people in the Edmonton area.
Edmonton is just south of the middle of Alberta in the prairie part of the province. There are many farms close to Edmonton.
The city started as a trading post on the North Saskatchewan River. Edmonton turned into... |
6170 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarky | Autarky | Autarky is an economy that does no trade with the outside world. It is called a self-sufficient economy or a closed economy too. It does not need any other countries or regions helping.
Autarky is rare in the modern world. An example of a currently run autarky is North Korea, but even it makes a small amount trade be... |
6172 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai | Bonsai | is the Japanese art of growing small trees in pots. This is done by growing the tree in a small pot or tray and pruning (cutting) the branches and roots to keep the tree small over time. Bonsai trees are trained to grow into a shape that is pleasing to look at. The best bonsai trees appear to be old, and to have a shap... |
6174 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity%20belt | Chastity belt | A chastity belt is a device locked around the wearer's genitals to prevent sexual intercourse. Chastity belts for women were introduced into Europe from Italy, and saw some limited degree of use during the Renaissance period.
They were not used until the 16th century, and then only rather rarely. They first became wid... |
6184 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Arafat | Mount Arafat | Mount Arafat or Mount Arafah ( transliterated Jabal ‘Arafāt) is a granite hill east of Mecca in the plain of Arafat. Arafat is a plain about southeast of Mecca. Mount Arafat reaches about in height and is also known as the Mount of Mercy (Jabal ar-Rahmah). According to Islamic tradition, the hill is the place where t... |
6186 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%20Sharon | Ariel Sharon | Ariel Sharon (February 26, 1928 – January 11, 2014) was an Israeli politician of Likud and later Kadima. Sharon was Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006.
Early life
Sharon was born on February 27, 1928 in Kfar Malal, British-Palestine. Sharon was in the Israel Army for many years. He fought in numerous battles, ... |
6189 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameson | Jameson | Jameson is a famous brand of Irish whiskey. It is amber in color and has quite a strong smell. It is an alcoholic beverage.
In Ireland, people refer to it as Jemmie.
Whisky |
6193 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria | Syria | Syria is a country in the Middle East, the west part of Asia. It borders (from south to north) on Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey. Its western part faces the Mediterranean Sea. Its eastern and northern parts are mountainous.
The current president and head of state is Bashar al-Assad. Syria's national capital... |
6204 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology | Psychology | Psychology is the study of the mind. The study also covers thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It also falls under the academic domain; some parts of psychology follow the way of doing science: explains the mind, how it works, and what it shows through our actions.
When doing psychology, it has to deal with humans most... |
6207 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana | Louisiana | Louisiana () is a state in the Southern United States of America. It had a population of about 4,533,372 people in 2010. The state has a total area of about . Louisiana is the 25th largest state by population and the 31st largest state by area. Louisiana is also known by its nickname, The Pelican State. The land that w... |
6208 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym | Synonym | A synonym is a word (or a phrase) which means the same thing as another word or phrase.
Examples:
car and automobile
baby and infant
child and kid
make and create.
student and pupil
sick and ill
scared and frightened
rich and wealthy
Synonyms can be nouns, verbs, adverbs or adjectives, but both words must be of the s... |
6212 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosa%20Buson | Yosa Buson | was a Japanese Haiku poet and painter, usually referred to simply as "Buson". He is one of the greatest poets of the Edo period, comparable with Matsuo Basho and Kobayashi Issa.
He was born in Osaka, his real family name was Taniguchi (). From 1758, he began to live in Kyoto, and he stayed there for rest of his life. ... |
6216 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox | Sandbox | Sandbox could mean:
Litter box, an indoor box for pet animals to relieve themselves
Sandpit or sandbox, a wide, wide playground of sand that is made of wood or plastic
Sandbox (railways), a super-large container that holds sand for use in improving rail adhesion in slippery conditions
The Sandbox (play), a 1960 one... |
6221 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks | Chopsticks | Chopsticks are sticks used in pairs as cutlery. Chopsticks are the traditional eating utensils of some countries including China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Vietnam. They can be made of wood, gold, silver, ivory, bamboo, or plastic. Gold and silver chopsticks are considerably heavier than normal wooden chopsticks and... |
6222 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone | Telephone | A telephone, also known as a phone, is a communication tool. Originally, it was an electric tool sending analogue speech through wires. Now it is an electronic tool sending digital signals on wires or radio transmission. Using a telephone, two people who are in different places can talk to each other. Early telephones ... |
6226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers | Checkers | Checkers or draughts is the name of several different board games. All of these games are similar. In every kind of checkers, the other player's pieces can be taken by being "jumped" over.
"Checkers" is the American name. In British English, and in various other English-speaking nations, these games are called "draugh... |
6229 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe%2C%20Hy%C5%8Dgo | Kobe, Hyōgo | For the basketball player, see Kobe Bryant.
Kobe (Japanese: 神戸市; -shi) is a city in the Kansai region of Japan on the island of Honshu. It is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture.
Kobe is an important port city in the Kansai district of Western Japan. It is between the country's financial capital Osaka and Kyoto. It'... |
6231 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradea | Oradea | Oradea (pronunciation in Romanian: , Hungarian: Nagyvárad, colloquially also Várad, German: Großwardein, former , ) is the capital city of Bihor County, in Crişana, Romania. There are 206,527 people in the city according to the 2002 census. Oradea is one of Romania's richest cities. Oradea is near the Hungarian border... |
6235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Ford | Henry Ford | Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American engineer and businessman. He started making cars in 1896 and founded the Ford Motor Company.
He developed the idea of a system in which each worker has the duty to do one small part of the process of making something. His idea made it possible to produce cars ... |
6236 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Orwell | George Orwell | George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English dia during the British Empire's rule of India. He is best known for two novels that he wrote in the late 1940s, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. In those works, he said that totalitarianism, especially Stalinism, was very bad.
Orwell fought in the Span... |
6237 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis%20Khan | Genghis Khan | Genghis Khan (c. 1167 – August 18, 1227) was a Mongolian ruler who became one of the world's most powerful military leaders, who joined with the Mongol tribes and started the Mongol Empire. He was a Mongol Emperor who was very successful in battles, conquering many other peoples such as the Jin Dynasty. He was a very s... |
6238 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Stalin | Joseph Stalin | Joseph Stalin (born as Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian politician who became leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953 from a cerebral haemorrhage. He replaced Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union. His ideas and policies turned the Soviet Un... |
6239 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua%20and%20Barbuda | Antigua and Barbuda | Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Antigua and Barbuda are part of the Lesser Antilles archipelago. In 2011, about 81,800 people lived there. The capital and largest port and city is St. John's, on Antigua. The country used to be a part of th... |
6240 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Marino | San Marino | San Marino is one of the smallest countries in the world. It is found in southern Europe and is fully surrounded by Italy (this is called an enclave, and only the Vatican City, Lesotho and San Marino are like this). Fewer than 30,000 people live there. Its total area is 61 km2. Its capital is the City of San Marino.
... |
6250 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%27s | Philippe's | Philippe's is a sit-down restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. It is at 1001 North Alameda Street, near Olvera Street. Phillippe's is famous for inventing the French dip sandwich (though another restaurant called Cole's claims to have invented it, too). It has been in business since 1908, and is the o... |
6251 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit | Orbit | Orbit is also a word for an eye socket.
An orbit is the path that an object takes in space when it goes around a star, a planet, or a moon. It can also be used as a verb. For instance: “The earth orbits around the Sun.” The word ‘revolves’ has the same meaning, but 'rotates' is the spin of the object.
Many years ago,... |
6253 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral | Funeral | A funeral is a ceremony that is held because someone has died. A funeral is a gathering of friends and family of the dead person. They will mourn the dead person, meaning that they will feel and show sadness that the person has died, and also say thanks for the life the person had. A funeral is usually held with the de... |
6254 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian%20Uprising%20of%20Texel | Georgian Uprising of Texel | The Georgian Uprising of Texel (5 April 1945 – 20 May 1945) was an insurrection (a rebellion, or mutiny, when soldiers disobey their orders) by Soviet Georgian soldiers on the island of Texel. The uprising was against the Germans army who had taken over the Dutch island during the Second World War. The event is someti... |
6255 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino | Neutrino | Neutrinos are a type of elementary particle that exist all across the universe. The word neutrino means a small neutral particle. Physicists study these particles, but they are hard to find because they have a very small chance of interacting with regular matter. (For example, they usually pass through the whole earth ... |
6257 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play%20%28theatre%29 | Play (theatre) | A play is a piece of writing (literature) which can be seen at a theatre or on television, or heard on the radio. Plays often show conversations between people. A play is usually watched, rather than being read.
The people who appear in a play are actors; in a theatre they stand on a stage so the people watching (the ... |
6259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrasal%20verb | Phrasal verb | Phrasal verb is the name given to an English verb which is composed of two or three words. One verb is combined with a preposition (like on, in, under) or an adverb (like up, down, away). Sometimes a phrasal verb can have a meaning that is very different to the meaning of at least one of those two or three words separa... |
6276 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season | Season | A season is a part of a year. Many areas of the Earth have four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn (British English) or fall (US English), and winter.
In some areas, there are a different number of seasons. For example, the tropical parts of Australia (the northern parts of Queensland, Western Australia and t... |
6277 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carisbrooke%20Castle | Carisbrooke Castle | Carisbrooke Castle is the Isle of Wight's only remaining medieval castle. It was built on a Roman site. The castle earthworks were begun in 1070.
The shell keep was built on the site some 70 years later. None of the Norman domestic buildings now remain. The gatehouse with its drum towers dates from the 14th and 15th... |
6278 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis | Atlantis | Atlantis is a name for a fictional large island or small continent that was (in the legend) in the Atlantic Ocean many years before it sank into the depth of the sea .
The name Atlantis first appears in the writings of Herodotus - he describes the western ocean as "Sea of Atlantis." Then, one generation later, Atlanti... |
6281 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative | Comparative | Adjectives and Adverbs can be comparative in English and some other languages. When people are talking about two or more nouns, they can compare them (say the differences between them). The word which explains how they compare is called the comparative. They can also compare actions using adverbs.
Examples: (The compa... |
6292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos | Asbestos | Asbestos is a set of six silicate minerals which occur naturally. White asbestos makes up 95% of the asbestos found in buildings. It occurs in all parts of the world. It is fibrous, heat resistant and non flammable. These properties made it very attractive as a component in building materials and other products such as... |
6293 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable | Syllable | A syllable is a unit of pronunciation uttered without interruption, loosely, a single sound. All words are made from at least one syllable.
Monosyllables are words that have only one vowel sound; polysyllables have more than one. If a syllable ends with a consonant, it is called a closed syllable. If a syllable ends w... |
6294 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella | Umbrella | An umbrella is a hand tool that is used to stop rain from falling on a person. It is also used to make shade and protect people from sunlight. An umbrella made for protection from the sunlight is called a parasol. And a plastic umbrella is cheap but it is fragile.
Basic English 850 words
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6295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet | Usenet | Usenet () is a type of discussion system on computers. It was created from the Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis began the idea in 1979. The system was created in 1980. People read and post messages (called articles, postsor news) to one or more categories. These categori... |
6298 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonal | Diagonal | Diagonal is a kind of straight line. A diagonal line does not go straight up, down, or across. It is a line that connects two corners of a shape.
In mathematics, "diagonal" has different meanings. For example, in geometry a diagonal is any line that goes between the corners of a polygon. So a square has two diag... |
6300 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor | Kwashiorkor | Kwashiorkor is a health condition of poor nutrition from not having enough protein in the diet. If a person uses up energy from carbohydrates (starches) and lipids (fats), their body may begin to use protein for energy.
The body breaks down protein into energy that can be used. They then do not have enough protein f... |
6305 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl | Popocatépetl | Popocatépetl (also called El popo or Don Goyo) is an active volcano. The volcano is the second highest mountain in Mexico after Pico de Orizaba (5,610m). It is high .
History
Popocatépetl is the Aztec word for "Smoking Mountain". Popocatépetl was an Aztec warrior who loved Iztaccíhuatl. Iztaccíhuatl's father sent P... |
6308 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Sea | North Sea | The North Sea is a sea that is part of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Europe. The North Sea is between Norway and Denmark in the east, Scotland and England in the west, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in the south.
Borders
The Skagerrak connects the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. In the south, the North Se... |
6309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter | Letter | In languages that use an alphabet, for example English, each symbol in the alphabet is a letter. Letters represent sounds when the language is spoken.
Some languages do not use letters for writing: Chinese, for example, uses "ideograms".
In English and many other languages, the smallest part of writing is the letter... |
6312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Frank | Anne Frank | Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main – February 1945 in Bergen-Belsen) is one of the most famous Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. Her diary is seen as a classic in war literature, and is one of the most widely read books today. Several plays and movies have been made about it.
Anne was born ... |
6314 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Peter%20Balkenende | Jan Peter Balkenende | Jan Peter Balkenende (born 7 May 1956) is a Dutch politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 until 2010. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal party.
In other countries, he is perhaps most famous because he looks like Harry Potter. This makes him popular with young children, but man... |
6315 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toleration | Toleration | Tolerance is not taking action against people who do things one does not like. The opposite of tolerance is intolerance. Intolerance is often found in dictatorships historically and often causes the hate crime and hate speech. Tolerance is often about religion (religious toleration), sex, or politic opinion, nation, ra... |
6316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20the%20Silent | William the Silent | William I of Orange-Nassau (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584) was an important leader of the Dutch rebellion against the Spanish in the Eighty Years' War. He was the first leader of the Netherlands. He held the title of Prince of Orange.
William of Orange is better known as William the Silent (in Dutch: Willem de Zwijger)... |
6319 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n%20Bol%C3%ADvar | Simón Bolívar | Simón Bolívar (1783 - 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He liberated many countries from Spain in South America. Those countries included Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. For a few years he was president of Gran Colombia, a country that no longer ex... |
6327 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean%20theorem | Pythagorean theorem | In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras's theorem is a statement about the sides of a right triangle.
One of the angles of a right triangle is always equal to 90 degrees. This angle is the right angle. The two sides next to the right angle are called the legs and the other side is called the hypotenuse... |
6329 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature | Temperature | Temperature is how hot or cold something is. Our bodies can feel the difference between something which is hot and something which is cold. To measure temperature more accurately, a thermometer can be used. Thermometers use a temperature scale to record how hot or cold something is. The scale used in most of the world... |
6330 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux | Tux | Tux is a mascot of the Linux operating system; a cartoon penguin made by Larry Ewing in 1996. Wherever he is seen, it means such a system can work with Linux. He is also a character in some Linux games, like Super Tux.
The name "Tux" comes from James Hughes, who named the Linux Mascot that as an shortened form of "Tor... |
6331 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein%20Kampf | Mein Kampf | Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was a book written by Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess. Rudolf Hess helped Hitler write the book, but he is not mentioned as an author. The book consists of two parts. The first part was written by Hitler while he was in jail in Landsberg am Lech. He was put in jail after a failed putsch, in 1923. ... |
6333 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20graphics | Computer graphics | Computer graphics are visual representations of data, made with the help of computer. Computer graphics can be a series of images (video or animation) or a single image.
Computer graphics are very useful. Computer-generated imagery is used for movie making, video games, computer program development, photo editing, sci... |
6338 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Bayern%20Munich | FC Bayern Munich | FC Bayern Munich, also known as FC Bayern München, () is a German football club. The club was founded in 1900 and has over 200,000 paying members. It has won the most titles in the Bundesliga and in the German Cup.
The football team is playing in the Allianz Arena. The team also has the most supporters in all of Germa... |
6339 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine | Marine | Marine might mean:
Marine biology
Marine (military), a type of soldier |
6340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20of%20Good%20Hope | Cape of Good Hope | The Cape of Good Hope is a place near the far south end of Africa, where the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean meet. It is a well known area for ships that pass in the sea between southern Africa and Antarctica. It is in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and forms part of the Table Mountain National Reserve. ... |
6341 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand%20washing | Hand washing | Hand washing is the process of cleaning hands with water and soap or other special liquids. It is done to take off dirt, germs, and poisons. Germs and poisons cause diseases and other health problems. Germs are bacteria, viruses, or fungi. Some diseases are not stopped by antibiotic drugs. Hand washing prevents lots... |
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