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70151 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courthouse | Courthouse | A courthouse is a building that holds a court. Some courthouses also have offices for the prosecutor and prosecutor's assistants. In small cities, some courthouses have other offices for local government officials.
Government buildings
Courts (law) |
70153 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20%28disambiguation%29 | State (disambiguation) | State may mean:
Political science
A state in politics, which is the same as a country or a nation.
A city-state in politics, which is a city that is an independent nation.
A nation state in politics, where the people living in a country have the same nationality.
A sovereign state in politics
A U.S. state, one of... |
70154 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor | Prosecutor | A prosecutor is a lawyer who argues in a court that the defendant should be found guilty of a crime. The prosecutor represents a client, which is sometimes the state (government). It is the prosecutor's job to do what he can to have criminals punished for their crimes.
Trials |
70162 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiza | Ibiza | Ibiza (in Catalan Eivissa) is an island which is part of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, which all belong to Spain. It is famed for its nightclubs and nightlife.
Other websites
Consell Insular d'Eivissa i Formentera (local government)
Official City Council Site
Balearic Islands
Phoenician colonies |
70168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave%20Mirbeau | Octave Mirbeau | Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) was a French writer. His most famous novels are Le Jardin des supplices (in English: The Torture Garden) (1899) and Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (in English: Diary of a Chambermaid) (1900). His best known comedy is Les affaires sont les affaires (in English: Business is business) (1903).... |
70175 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20Island%20%28disambiguation%29 | Christmas Island (disambiguation) | Christmas Island could mean:
Christmas Island, an Australian island territory in the Indian Ocean
Kiritimati, an island of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean
Christmas Island, Nova Scotia, Canada a community on Cape Breton Island
Christmas Island (album) a Christmas album by singer Jimmy Buffett |
70178 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumulus | Tumulus | A tumulus (one tumulus, several tumuli) is a certain type of grave. The word comes from Latin. This way of burying people was common in the Stone age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. There are different layouts. Sometimes sarcophaguses were used, at other times, urns were placed in the grave. There are layouts with one or wi... |
70183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapotec | Zapotec | Zapotec could mean:
The Zapotec people of Mexico
The Zapotec civilisation
The Zapotec language |
70184 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapotec%20civilisation | Zapotec civilisation | The Zapotec civilization was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization. It was mainly in the Valley of Oaxaca of southern Mesoamerica. Archaeologists think their culture goes back at least 2500 years. The Zapotec left traces at the ancient city of Monte Albán. There are buildings, ball courts, magnificent tombs and gr... |
70187 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec | Olmec | The Olmecs were a group of people who lived about 3000 years ago in what is today south-central Mexico. The Olmec were the first civilization in the ancient area known as Mesoamerica. Because they were the first civilization, many later Mesoamerican civilizations used and repeated Olmec features and characteristics.
... |
70189 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixe-Zoque%20languages | Mixe-Zoque languages | The Mixe-Zoque languages is a group of languages and dialects. They are currently all spoken in Mexico. There are about 350.000 people speaking one of the languages. Depending on who is asked, there are between 12 and 16 languages, with several dialects. Some languages that have become extinct are not counted in these.... |
70191 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step%20pyramid | Step pyramid | Step pyramids are a form of pyramid. They are usually large. Several civilisations developed them. Several step pyramids can be found in Egypt, what is now Mexico, and what is now Sudan.
Pyramids |
70192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen%20Itza | Chichen Itza | Chichen Itza was a large Mayan city by the Maya civilization. It is on the Yucatán Peninsula, about 120 km to the east of Mérida.
Some of the most famous parts of Chichen Itza include:
the temple of Kukultán, the Plumed Serpent (pictured). This is called El Castillo: in Spanish. It has four sides, and each side has ... |
70196 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20sense | Common sense | ''For the pamphlet by Thomas Paine see Common Sense (pamphlet)
Common sense means what people would agree about. It is a personal judgement based on the facts of a situation. Common sense is usually the simplest and most direct account of a situation. It is the knowledge and experience which most people have, or shoul... |
70203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20User%27s%20Club | Magic User's Club | Magic User’s Club is an anime created by Junichi Sato. There were two manga released for it. One is for girls and the other is for boys.
Plot
A huge spaceship called "the Bell" comes to Earth. People try to stop the Bell, but they are not able to. A group of high school students called the "Magic User’s Club" fight th... |
70204 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryck%20Whibley | Deryck Whibley | Deryck Whibley (born March 21, 1980) is a Canadian singer and musician from the band Sum 41. He was married to Avril Lavigne but on October 9, 2009, Lavigne filed for divorce.
References
1980 births
Living people
Canadian singers
Canadian guitarists
Sum 41
People from Ontario |
70205 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glam%20rock | Glam rock | Glam rock is a genre of rock music that was popular in the early 1970s. It was made famous by acts such as David Bowie, Elton John, T. Rex, Alice Cooper, Slade, Gary Glitter, Queen and Sweet. Glam fans (usually referred to as the "glitter people") and performers distinguished themselves from the denim-clad hippie-horde... |
70213 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20Aviation%20Museum | Polish Aviation Museum | The Polish Aviation Museum () is a big museum of old airplanes and airplane engines. It is in Kraków, Poland. It is in place of the no-longer used Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport.
Museum shows to people over 200 planes, and plane engines. Some of them one can see only there.
List of things shown in museum
Planes wit... |
70224 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy%20Merckx | Eddy Merckx | Baron Edouard Louis Joseph Merckx () (born June 17, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem, Vlaams Brabant, Belgium) is a former Belgian professional road racing cyclist. Merckx, regarded as the greatest and most successful cyclist of all time, established several world cycling records, some of which remain unbroken to this day.
Raci... |
70226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstera | Monstera | Monstera is a genus of flowering plants. There are about 60 species in the genus. The genus belongs to the family Araceae. Originally, the plants occur in the tropical regions of Central and South America.
The plants are herbs or evergreen vines. They climb other trees. They can grow to a height of about 20m. The pla... |
70229 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine | Vine | A vine is a climbing plant which use stems or runners. These runners trail on the ground, and will climb up when it is possible. It is a growth habit or life habit which makes use of trees to reach light in natural habitats.
In the United Kingdom, the term "vine" applies almost exclusively to the grapevine, whereas t... |
70231 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial%20root | Aerial root | An Aerial root is a root which is above the ground. Different plants have grown them. They can have different functions:
For support: Sometimes such roots are grown for support. Ivy plants have them to cling to structures, such as stone walls, or other trees. The Banyan tree (also known as strangler fig) grows them dow... |
70232 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20wave | Tropical wave | Tropical waves, or easterly waves, also known as African easterly waves in the Atlantic Ocean, are a type of atmospheric trough, an extended area of moderately low air pressure, leaning north to south, which move from east to west across the tropics creating areas of cloudiness and thunderstorms. West-moving waves can ... |
70233 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsville%2C%20Texas | Brownsville, Texas | Brownsville is a city in the southern tip of Texas. As of 2005, 167,493 people lived there.
References
Cities in Texas
County seats in Texas |
70234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar | Agar | Agar is a substance jelly-like jelly made from from red algae. It consists of agarose and a mixture of molecules known as agaropectin.
You can grow bacteria on agar plates: that is how bacteria are laid out for testing in hospital pathology departments. It is used as a place to grow bacteria in an microbiology laborat... |
70246 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Air%20Force%20Cadets | Australian Air Force Cadets | The Australian Air Force Cadets (AAFC) is a youth organisation in Australia. The goal of the organisation it to help prepare young people for adult life. It was first created on July 11, 1941 with the name Air Training Corps. It was created to give training to young men (ages 14 to 20) who were interested in the Royal ... |
70261 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable | Cable | A communication cable is made of many wires or optical fibers twisted together to make a larger wire. Each of these wires may be covered. Some cables contain both electrical wires and optical fibers. There are many kinds of cables, including coaxial cables which block out radio or magnetic interference from other wires... |
70285 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20jersey | Yellow jersey | The Yellow jersey (French: Maillot jaune [majo ʒoːn]) is the jersey worn by the leader of many multi-day (or stage) bicycle races, originally and most notably the Tour de France. It allows the rider who was in the overall lead at the end of the previous day to be easily identified.
Because the Tour de France was the f... |
70288 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20jersey | Green jersey | In road bicycle racing, and especially the three Grand Tour stage races Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana, the Green jersey is the name given to a cycling jersey worn by the leader in a subsidiary competition.
For example, while the overall race leader in the Tour de France will wear the yellow jersey,... |
70290 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20jersey | Rainbow jersey | The Rainbow jersey is a special jersey worn by world champion cyclists during races.
It is mainly white with five horizontal bands in the UCI colours around the chest. From the bottom up the colours are: green, yellow, black, red and blue, the same colours that appear in the rings on the olympic flag. There are differ... |
70301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derny%20race | Derny race | A derny race is a race in which the cyclists are paced by someone riding a derny.
A Derny is a motorised bicycle designed and built for motor-paced cycling events (e.g.: motor-paced races in six-day and Keirin racing) or motor-paced road races.
The first Dernys were built by "Roger Derny et Fils" of Paris, France in... |
70311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escopetarra | Escopetarra | An escopetarra is a guitar made from a rifle; it is used as a symbol of peace. The name is a combination of the Spanish words escopeta (meaning shotgun/rifle) and guitarra (meaning guitar).
Escopetarras were invented in 2003 by a Colombian peace activist named César López. At a gathering after the El Nogal Club bomb... |
70317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv%C3%A8re%20Maes | Sylvère Maes | Sylvère Maes (born August 27, 1909 in Zevekote – died December 5, 1966 in Ostend) was a Belgian cyclist, who is most famous for winning the Tour de France in 1936 and 1939.
References
Profile
1909 births
1966 deaths
Belgian cyclists
People from West Flanders
Tour de France winners |
70318 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Garin | Maurice Garin | Maurice Garin (March 3 1871 - February 19 1957) was a road bicycle racer. He is best known for winning the 1903 Tour de France - the very first running of the race.
Garin was born in Arvier in the Aosta Valley in north-west Italy. He became a naturalized French citizen only in December 1901, when he was already a ch... |
70319 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiracle | Spiracle | Insects have small holes in their bodies that allow them to breathe. These holes are called spiracles. Air comes in the spiracles and goes to invertebrate trachea, or tubes.
These tubes take the oxygen to other parts of the insect body. Because insects have no lungs, air comes in and goes out of the spiracles passive... |
70321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Cornet | Henri Cornet | Henri Cornet (born Henri Jardry 4 August 1884 - 18 March 1941) was a French cyclist who won the second Tour de France in 1904.
Born in Desvres, Pas-de-Calais, France, he was 18 years old when he raced in the Tour de France. The race was spoiled by many problems including irate spectators throwing nails on the road in... |
70328 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris-Roubaix | Paris-Roubaix | Paris-Roubaix is a famous single-day professional bicycle road race held in northern France starting in Compiègne and finishing in Roubaix, near the Belgian frontier. It was one of the ten UCI Road World Cup races and became part of the UCI ProTour. It is one of the 'Classic cycle races' has the nickname The Hell of t... |
70339 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexuality | Asexuality | Asexuality is a sexual orientation. Asexual people usually do not have sexual attraction towards anyone, no matter what gender they are. Asexuality has nothing to do with a person's romantic/aesthetic/sensual attraction. The opposite of an asexual is an allosexual. Allosexuality means that you feel sexual desires.
Mea... |
70348 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose | Mongoose | A mongoose (plural mongooses, alternatively mongeese) is a member of the family Herpestidae, a family of small cat-like carnivores. Mongooses are widely distributed in Asia, Africa the Caribbean, and southern Europe.
In popular culture
A well-known mongoose written in fiction is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, who has a short stor... |
70356 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian%20language | Macedonian language | Macedonian (македонски јазик, makedonski jazik) is a Slavic language spoken mainly in North Macedonia. Macedonian is a part of the Balkan linguistic union, which also includes Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian, Albanian and Torlakian dialect of the Serbian language. Macedonian is very similar to Bulgarian and some linguists s... |
70357 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patina | Patina | A patina is a coating of various chemical compounds such as oxides or carbonates formed on the surface of metal or other material. Often this is due to exposure to weather. The word "patina" comes from the Latin word meaning "shallow dish". For many works of art the patina adds to its value. In many cases, the artist w... |
70363 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crux | Crux | Crux (IPA: /ˈkrʊks/), commonly known as the Southern Cross, is a constellation of stars that can be seen by people in the Southern Hemisphere. Its four brightest stars are in the shape of a cross. The name Crux is the Latin word for a cross. It is a small constellation, but the four main stars are bright, so the cross ... |
70391 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond%2C%20Victoria | Richmond, Victoria | Richmond is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is only 3 km (2 miles) south-east of Melbourne's business district. Richmond's population was 26,121 in the 2011 census.
The older suburb has been rebuilt with more expensive houses and stores. This removal of run-down areas started in the early 1990s. Richmon... |
70394 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Commonwealth%20Games | 2006 Commonwealth Games | The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Australia between 15 and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, since the 1956 Summer Olympics.
The site for the opening and closing ceremonies was the Melbourne Cricket Ground which was also used during Melbourne's 1956 Olympic G... |
70399 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland%20Tour | Deutschland Tour | The Deutschland Tour (English: Tour of Germany and sometimes Deutschland-Rundfahrt in German) is the most important stage race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June. Since 2005, it has been part of the UCI ProTour and has been moved to August.
History
Already in 1911, a "national" cycling race of over 1... |
70416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage%20race | Stage race | A bicycle stage race is a race held over several days. Each day's race is called a stage. Many countries have a racing tour of their country, for example the Deutschland Tour and the Tour of Britain. The oldest and most famous stage race is the Tour de France.
A stage race does not have to be tour of a country. Th... |
70421 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eneco%20Tour%20of%20Benelux | Eneco Tour of Benelux | The Eneco Tour of Benelux is a UCI ProTour bicycle stage race. Its name refers to its main sponsor, the energy company Eneco Energie. The first Eneco Tour of Benelux took place from August 3 to August 10 2005
History
The Tour of the Netherlands began on 6 May 1948, but only became an annual event in 1975. From about ... |
70428 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maki | Maki | Maki can mean:
Maki Fumihiko, an architect and Pritzker Prize winner
Maki Goto, a Japanese pop singer
Maki Horikita, a Japanese actress
Maki Ichinose, a fictional character in the anime and manga series BLEACH
Maki Kagura, a video game character from the King of Fighters series
Maki Seiichiro, a Japanese soccer ... |
70429 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%20Cranach%20the%20Elder | Lucas Cranach the Elder | Lucas Cranach the Elder ( ; – 16 October 1553) was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was born Lucas Sunder at Kronach in upper Franconia.
Career
Early jobs
Early on, Lucas Cranach tried jobs that had something to do with painting.
He decorated houses, but mostly made portraits and altar... |
70431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards%20v.%20Aguillard | Edwards v. Aguillard | Edwards v. Aguillard was a 1987 United States Supreme Court case that said that creationism was not science. The Supreme Court said that it was religion, and could not be taught in American schools, because the United States Constitution (the set of rules that all American government must follow) does not allow the gov... |
70437 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%BDdlant | Frýdlant | Frýdlant (-Czech, German: Friedland) is a town in the Czech Republic. About 7,600 people live there. It is located in the north of the historical region Bohemia.
References
Cities in the Czech Republic |
70438 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller%2C%20et%20al.%20v.%20Dover%20Area%20School%20District%2C%20et%20al. | Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al. | Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al. is the full name of a 2005 American trial. It is also called the Dover trial, because it happened in Dover, Pennsylvania. It said that intelligent design was not science, and could not be taught as science in schools.
About
Intelligent design is the idea that ... |
70439 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics | Psychometrics | Psychometrics is a science that tries to measure educational and psychological levels of people and groups of people. Areas that are studied in people include intelligence, skills, and personality traits. The science is mainly a part of the science of psychology.
Psychology |
70452 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolevania | Consolevania | Consolevania is an internet television program that is about video games. It also has funny stories, although not all of these are about games. It is made by Rab Florence and Ryan Mcleod in Glasgow, Scotland. Consolevania must be downloaded from the internet rather than watching it on a television set. Consolevania is... |
70454 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag%20%28physics%29 | Drag (physics) | In fluid dynamics, drag (sometimes called resistance) is a force which tends to slow the movement of an object through a liquid or gas.
As a moving object pushes the liquid or gas out of its way, the fluid pushes back on the object. This drag force is always opposite to the object's motion, and unlike friction between ... |
70457 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee | Manatee | Manatees are large, fully-aquatic marine mammals of the order Sirenia. They are sometimes known as sea cows. The manatees form the genus Trichechus. There are three manatee species.
The name comes from the Spanish manatí, which itself comes from a Carib word meaning "breast".
Early sightings
Christopher Columbus, wh... |
70459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20history | Natural history | Natural history is the study of plants and animals in the wild, and the environments they live in. This includes the geology of the places in which they live.
The work of naturalists is observation, interpretation, collecting and classification, rather than experiments. People who study natural history are called natu... |
70469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic%20evolution | Theistic evolution | Theistic evolution, or evolutionary creationism, is the belief that God, or another higher power, used evolution as a tool to create the different species of living creatures on Earth. It says that evolution does not deny the existence of God.
Evolution
Religion |
70475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer | Queer | The term queer is a word that describes any person who does not fit into what is considered normal by society when talking about their gender and/or sexuality.
It is a word which has been reappropriated by social and political LGBT rights activists, and is the word which a lot of academic studies use to describe non-... |
70482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus%20Salam | Abdus Salam | Mohammad Abdus Salam (29 January 1926; Santokdas, Sahiwal Punjab – 21 November 1996; Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics.
He was initially educated at the Government College Lahore and the University of the Punjab, Lahore. For a time also worked at t... |
70483 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermorium | Livermorium | Livermorium is a radioactive chemical element that has the chemical symbol Lv and the atomic number 116. Its longest half- life lasts only 47 milliseconds.
The element is named in honor of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
It was first discovered in 2000 by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russi... |
70491 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI%20ProTour | UCI ProTour | The UCI ProTour is a series of bicycle road races organised by the world governing body the International Cycling Federation (Union Cycliste Internationale - the UCI)
The ProTour is the top grade of races for the top 20 cycling teams.
The ProTour includes one day races, time trials, and stage races. It started in 200... |
70505 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohana | Ohana | Ohana is an idea in Hawaiian culture. The word ohana means family in the Hawaiian language, but in a much wider sense, to include not only one's closer relatives, but also one's cousins, in-laws, friends, race, and other neighbours. The idea is also that family and friends are bound together and everyone must work to... |
70507 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Tour%20%28cycling%29 | Grand Tour (cycling) | :For other uses see Grand Tour
There are three Grand Tour cycling races:-
In Italy, the Giro d'Italia
In France, the Tour de France
In Spain, the Vuelta Ciclista a España
This is the order they are raced in each year.
All three are in the "ProTour Calendar", that is they are part of the UCI ProTour.
They got the n... |
70511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth | Mammoth | Mammoths were hairy elephants of the genus Mammuthus. They lived in Europe until 4,500 years ago, and were adapted to cold climate. They were killed off by hunters and climate change.
They lived in the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. In the Pleistocene, northern Europe was covered with ice and tundra. There were a se... |
70512 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing%20politics | Right-wing politics | Right-wing politics is a kind of politics that supports social or economic conservatism.
Beliefs
Someone who is "right-wing" usually supports tradition and keeping things the way that they already are. The right-wing supports tradition and authority. The right-wing in some countries, like the United States, often sup... |
70515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polka%20dot%20jersey | Polka dot jersey | The polka dot jersey is the special cycling jersey given to the "King of the Mountains" in the Tour de France. The jersey is white with red spots, called polka dots. There is also space for the logo of the cycling team the winner belongs to.
The King of the Mountains is the rider who has collected the most points in t... |
70518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene | Pleistocene | "The Ice Age" redirects here. For other uses, see Ice Age (disambiguation).
The Pleistocene stage or epoch was a long period of time. It stretched from 2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years ago. The Pleistocene followed the Pliocene. It is the first epoch of the Quaternary period and the sixth in the Cainozoic, and i... |
70521 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20XV | Louis XV | Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774) was a French king, who ruled from 1715 until his death. He is the great-grandson of Louis XIV whom he succeeded at age of five. He was called "The Beloved" (French: le Bien-Aimé). His failure to provide strong leadership and badly needed reforms contributed to the crisis that b... |
70522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%20Dass | Ram Dass | Dr. Richard Alpert (April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was a spiritual teacher. He was the writer of Be Here Now, the bestseller book of 1971.
In the 1960s, professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert collaborated on a book titled The Psychedelic Experience, which adapted p... |
70524 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic | Psychedelic | The word psychedelic is a word invented in the 20th century by joining the Greek words for "mind," ψυχή (psyche), and "manifest," δήλος (delos).
A person in a "psychedelic state" is supposed to be able to feel new ways of looking at his mind that were unknown to him before. This can be caused by taking psychedelic dru... |
70531 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20age%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ice age (disambiguation) | Ice age could mean:
Ice age, a period of lower temperatures, resulting in an expansion of ice sheets and glaciers
Pleistocene, the last ice age, from 1.81 million to 11,550 years before the present
Wisconsin glaciation, refers to the world's last glaciations of the last ice age, from about 72,000 to 11,550 years befor... |
70537 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby%20union | Rugby union | Rugby union is a ball sport. Two teams of 15 players play against each other. The ball used is oval in shape. The field is a rectangle shape. It is 100 metres long and 70 meters wide. At the ends of the field are two H-shaped goal-posts which you have to score next to or underneath.
The game is played for 80 minutes ... |
70538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Try | Try | A Try is one of the way of scoring points in rugby league and rugby union. A try is scored when a player grounds the ball in the opposition's in-goal area or behind the try line, or alternatively touching the base of the goalposts and ground at the same time. The scoring player must be holding on to the ball and shou... |
70562 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon%20Peninsula | Avalon Peninsula | The Avalon Peninsula is a large peninsula (9,270 km²) that makes up the southeast portion of the island of Newfoundland.
The peninsula is home to forty percent of Newfoundland's population, and is the location of the provincial capital, St. John's. It is connected to the main section of the island by the 5 km/3 mile w... |
70564 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Cod | Cape Cod | Cape Cod (or simply the Cape) is an arm-shaped peninsula in the eastern part of Massachusetts.
Geography of Massachusetts
Capes of the United States |
70565 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham%2C%20Massachusetts | Chatham, Massachusetts | Chatham is a New England town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The population was 6,625 at the 2000 census. Chatham is home to the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, located on Monomoy, and to Monomoy Theatre.
Other websites
Official website
Towns in Massachusetts
1665 establishments
1660s establishments in Massa... |
70566 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitbourne%2C%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador | Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador | Whitbourne is a town on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Whitbourne, Newfoundland’s first inland town, is named after Sir Richard Whitbourne, one of the most colorful early settlers of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador who wrote a book about Newfoundland that was published in 1620. Si... |
70567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20power%20in%20South%20Australia | Wind power in South Australia | Wind power in South Australia is a big energy source for the state and South Australia is well suited to wind farms as it is close to the Roaring forties winds.
As of June 2014, South Australia has 16 wind farms, with an installed capacity of 1,473 megawatts (MW). Wind power represented 27% of the state's energy produ... |
70570 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20power%20plants%20in%20the%20Mojave%20Desert | Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert | There are several Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert which supply power to the electricity grid. Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) is the name given to nine solar power plants in the Mojave Desert which were built in the 1980s. These plants have a combined capacity of 354 megawatts (MW) making them the larg... |
70575 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Channel%20Pro%20Cycling%20Team | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | The Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team was a professional racing team.
The US Postal Service stopped sponsoring their team in 2004. The Discovery Channel took over sponsorship in June 2004 in time for the new UCI ProTour
On February 10 2007 Discovery Channel decided not renew its sponsorship of the team at the end of... |
70578 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkane | Alkane | Alkanes are chemical compounds, made of carbon and hydrogen. The simplest alkane is methane, which is made of one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. Larger alkanes have two or more carbon atoms connected or bonded together in a chain. The carbon atoms of alkanes are joined together by single bonds, which is what make... |
70580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Gounod | Charles Gounod | Charles-François Gounod (born Paris 17 June 1818; died Saint-Cloud (France) 17 October 1893) was a French composer. Gounod (pronounce: “Goo – no”) wrote many different kinds of pieces, but he is best known today for his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette and, especially, for the very popular “Ave Maria” which is a melo... |
70584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n%20Puerto%20doping%20case | Operación Puerto doping case | The Operación Puerto doping case (meaning Operation Mountain pass) is a doping investigation in Spain. It started in May of 2006.
Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes is accused of giving banned doping drugs to 200 professional athletes.
Fuentes doped a lot of well known tennis and football stars but most attention was on the fairl... |
70585 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover%2C%20Pennsylvania | Dover, Pennsylvania | Dover is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,815 at the 2000 census. The United States Census Bureau says the borough has a total area of 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²). All of it is land. There are no lakes or rivers in Dover.
History
James Joner bought 203 acres of land in 1764. On this la... |
70586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby%20sevens | Rugby sevens | Rugby sevens is the shortened version of rugby union in which only seven players per side feature, instead of the full fifteen. The version of rugby union is very popular, with notable comptitions including the IRB Sevens World Series and the Rugby World Cup Sevens. It is also played at events such as the Commonwealth ... |
70591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby%20World%20Cup%20Sevens | Rugby World Cup Sevens | The Rugby World Cup Sevens was the world's premier international contest in the Sevens version of rugby union before the sport was added to the Olympics starting in 2016. The World Cup was first held for men's teams only in Scotland in 1993; a women's World Cup was added in 2009 when the event was held in Dubai. Throug... |
70595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Margaret%2C%20Countess%20of%20Snowdon | Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon | Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002), was the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
Early life
Margaret was born in Glamis Castle, Scotland.
During the 1950’s, she was in a relationship with Peter Townse... |
70598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romain%20Maes | Romain Maes | Romain Maes (10 August 1912 in Zerkegem– 22 February 1983 in Groot-Bijgaarden) was a Belgian cyclist. He won the 1935 Tour de France. Some claim that he also won the 1936 Paris-Roubaix race, and that Georges Speicher was credited as winning by mistake.
1912 births
1983 deaths
Belgian cyclists
People from West Flanders... |
70603 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heir%20apparent | Heir apparent | An heir (female: heiress) is a person who has inherited something after the original owner's death. Most often a child after his or her parent's death.
Heir apparent and heir presumptive usually refer to someone who will inherit a royal or noble title:
An heir apparent is someone who will inherit at the death of the ... |
70607 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia%20national%20football%20team | Armenia national football team | The Armenia national football team is the national football team of Armenia. After the split of the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Moldova on 12 October 1992.
Most appearances
Top scorers
References
European national football teams
Sport in Armenia |
70612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus | Nostradamus | Michel de Nostredame (14 or 21 December 1503 – 2 July 1566), also known as Nostradamus, was a French apothecary (or pharmacist) and allegedly a doctor. He was born in Provence. He is famous as a 'seer' who wrote collections of prophecies that have since become famous around the world. His best known book was called Les... |
70613 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trough%20%28meteorology%29 | Trough (meteorology) | A trough is an elongated area of comparatively low atmospheric pressure, usually in association with weather fronts.
Convective cells may form in the surrounding area of troughs and give birth to a tropical cyclone. Some tropical or subtropical areas, such as the Philippines or south China are greatly affected by conv... |
70614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuikSCAT | QuikSCAT | The QuikSCAT (Quick Scatterometer) is an earth-observing satellite that provides wind speed and direction information over oceans to NOAA. It is a "quick recovery" mission to fill the gap created by the loss of data from the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) that was lost in June 1997. It is in a sun-synchronous low-earth orb... |
70615 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakarid-Mxargrzeli | Zakarid-Mxargrzeli | The Zakarids (Armenian: Զաքարյաններ, Zakaryanner; Georgian: მხარგრძელები, Mkhargdzelebi) were a noble Armenian family in medieval Armenia and Georgia.
References
History of Armenia |
70616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda%20International%20Airport | Bermuda International Airport | Bermuda International Airport , also known as L.F. Wade International Airport, is an airport in Bermuda, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the north Atlantic Ocean. In 2006, L.F. Wade International Airport handled about 900,000 passengers, up 7% from 2005. It has one passenger terminal, one cargo terminal... |
70618 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikheil%20Saakashvili | Mikheil Saakashvili | Mikhail Saakashvili (; born December 21, 1967) is a Georgian politician and was the President of Georgia. As of 2020 he is head of National Reform Council of Ukraine.
In October 2021, Mikheil Saakashvili, was arrested after returning illegally to his country, after being in exile outside Georgia since 2013. A gesture... |
70627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltham%2C%20Massachusetts | Waltham, Massachusetts | Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census.
References
Other websites
Waltham official website
Cities in Massachusetts |
70628 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20surface%20temperature | Sea surface temperature | Sea surface temperature (SST) is the water temperature at the surface. In practical terms, the exact meaning of "surface" will vary according to the measurement method used. A satellite infrared radiometer indirectly measures the temperature of a very thin layer (about 10 micrometres thick) or skin of the ocean (leadin... |
70630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20language | National language | A national language is a language which is the national identity of a nation. A national language is used for political and legal discourse.
Related pages
Official language
Languages
Nationality |
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