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71001 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf | Werewolf | The werewolves are mythical creatures that can hide their ears and tail. It is a human but also a wolf, and most people fear them because of how they look. There are characteristics that make werewolves special, and that allow a person to tell them apart from real wolves, such as the eyes, shape, and tail. When in hu... |
71011 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paneuropean%20Picnic | Paneuropean Picnic | The Paneuropean Picnic (also spelled Pan-European Picnic) was an event that took place on the border between Austria and Hungary near Sopron, Hungary. The event took place on August 19, 1989.
The event
The event was planned to be a peaceful demonstration. Both countries agreed to open a gate in the border fence, betw... |
71013 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Diego%20Wild%20Animal%20Park | San Diego Wild Animal Park | The San Diego Wild Animal Park is a zoo in the San Pasqual Valley area of San Diego, California. Different kinds of wild animals including species from the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Australia are kept in the Park.
The park is 1800 acres (7 km2) and is visited by two million peopl... |
71018 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip | Tulip | Tulip (Tulipa) is a potflower plant. There is many cultivars and species of tulips. Cultivars are used as ornamental plants.
It grows in southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the east to northeast of China and Japan, Indo Asia. It is the national flower of Afghanistan.
The Tulip is most as... |
71025 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium | Penicillium | Penicillium is a genus of ascomycetous fungi of major importance in the natural environment as well as food and drug production.
Members of the genus produce penicillin, a molecule that is used as an antibiotic, which kills or stops the growth of certain kinds of bacteria inside the body. This widespread genus contai... |
71037 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverhampton | Wolverhampton | Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of the West Midlands in England. It used to be part of Staffordshire. The 2011 census revealed that 249,470 people live in the city.
It is northwest of Birmingham. It is the second-largest place in the West Midlands county.
Wolverhampton originally grew a... |
71049 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubia | Nubia | Nubia was an ancient African Kingdom. It dates back to around 6000 BC. It was in northeastern Africa.
They were a valuable culture because of their trading abilities. They were on the coast of the Red Sea. That gave them many ports from which they were able to trade. This culture, though, had many hardships. It decli... |
71071 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Batista | Dave Batista | David Michael Bautista (born January 18, 1969), better known as Dave Batista or by the ring name Batista, is an American retired professional wrestler, actor, mixed martial artist, and bodybuilder. Batista is currently signed to the WWE under the Legends program.
Batista has held the World Heavyweight Championship fou... |
71073 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk%20%28game%29 | Risk (game) | Risk is a board game which is played with two to six players each with different coloured army men.
Aim
The main aim of the game is to complete the mission the player gets in the beginning of the game. These missions can differ from conquering or dominating parts of the world, to kill an other player or to hold a num... |
71075 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth | Growth | Growth means an increase in some quantity over time.
The quantity can be physical (e.g., growth in height, growth in an amount of money) or abstract (e.g., a system becoming more complex, an organism becoming more mature). It can also refer to the mode of growth, i.e. numeric models for describing how much a particul... |
71084 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20growth | Cell growth | Cell growth (or interphase) is shorthand for the idea of "growth in cell populations" by means of cell reproduction.
It is the stage which cells are preparing for the next division, biochemical activities and reactions are taking place, however no obvious changes can be seen at this stage. Until cell division, a paren... |
71093 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20replication | DNA replication | DNA replication is the process of copying a double-stranded DNA molecule. Both strands serve as templates for the reproduction of the opposite strand. The process is sometimes called "semi-conservative replication" because the new DNA from the original strand contains half of the original and half of the newly synthesi... |
71104 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing%20Daisies | Pushing Daisies | Pushing Daisies is an American television series that originally aired on the ABC network in October 2007.
The show is about Ned, a pie maker, who finds that he has the power to bring dead people back to life by touching them. But if he touches the person a second time, they die forever.
Ned has a double life, as the... |
71105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman%20%28TV%20series%29 | Journeyman (TV series) | Journeyman was an American science-fiction television series on the NBC network. It started in September 2007.
Plot
The series is about a reporter, Dan Vasser, who finds that he can travel through time with no warning. He can change things in his own past, so he has to be careful not to change too much.
Other websi... |
71107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20%28TV%20series%29 | Chuck (TV series) | Chuck is an American television series that started on the NBC network on September 24, 2007 and ended on January 27, 2012.
The series is about Chuck Bartowski, a normal guy who fixes computers at the Buy More store in Burbank, California, as part of the "Nerd Herd". His old friend Bryce turns out to be a rogue spy. J... |
71109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic%20Woman%20%282007%20TV%20series%29 | Bionic Woman (2007 TV series) | Bionic Woman is a science fiction television series which started on the NBC network on September 26, 2007. The series is a modern version of the 1976 The Bionic Woman series.
The series is about Jaime Sommers, a bartender who is hurt in a car accident. Her boyfriend, Will Anthros, brings her to a secret laboratory. J... |
71119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%20Winter%20Olympics | 1972 Winter Olympics | The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XI Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympics to be held outside Western Europe and the United States, and only the third Games (Summer or Winter) held outside these regions, after Tokyo and Melbourne. The city won the ri... |
71120 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%20Summer%20Olympics | 1956 Summer Olympics | The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were held at Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.
Melbourne was chosen as the host city over instead of Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Montreal and six American cities on 28 April 1949 at the 43rd IOC session.
The equestrian events were not held i... |
71123 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904%20Summer%20Olympics | 1904 Summer Olympics | The 1904 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
The games were part of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World's Fair). The sports events were not well planned; and the games were not thought to be a success.
Participating nation... |
71134 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepanakert | Stepanakert | Stepanakert () or Khankendi () )is a city in Nagorno-Karabakh, legally in Azerbaijan, but militarily controlled by Armenians as the capital city of the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh. The city has about 40,000 Armenians. The entire Azerbaijani population left the city during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Notable natives... |
71135 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Drummond%20Ellis | Charles Drummond Ellis | Sir Charles Drummond Ellis (b.Hampstead, 11 August 1895; died Cookham 10 January 1980) was a physicist and scientific administrator. His work helped scientists to understand nuclear structure better.
Education and internment
Ellis's father was a general manager of the Metropolitan Railway in London. He went to Harro... |
71139 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Southern%20Hemisphere%20cyclone%20seasons | List of Southern Hemisphere cyclone seasons | The following is a list of Southern Hemisphere cyclone seasons.
1900s
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98
1998–99
1999–00
2000s
2000–01
2001–02
2002–03
2003–04
2004–05
2005–06
2006–07
2007–08
Post-2008
Related pages
Parent topics
Tropical cyclone
List of notable tropical cyclones
Lists of tropical cyclone names
Other tropic... |
71140 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Chadwick | James Chadwick | Sir James Chadwick CH FRS, (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel Prize winner who is best known for discovering the neutron.
Biography
James Chadwick was born in Bollington, Cheshire, England. He went to Manchester High School, and studied at the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge.
... |
71175 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francombat | Francombat | Francombat is a French martial art similar to jiu-jitsu. It was created in the year 1988 by Alain Basset and Dominique Dumolin.
Francombat is practiced especially in the south of France. There are schools of francombat in Paris, Bordeaux, Montpellier, and in other localities.
This martial art is based on the strategy... |
71178 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20race | Classic race | The classic cycle races are the most important one-day professional cycling road races in the international calendar (list of races)
All of the races are run in western Europe. Most of the events have been on the professional calendar for decades and the oldest ones date back to the 19th Century. They are normally hel... |
71182 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criterium | Criterium | A criterium, or crit, is a type of bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km), often run on closed-off city centre streets.
Race length can be either a time or a number of laps. Often a criterium lasts about one hour, which is shorter than that of a traditional road race – which can last many hours, ... |
71185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence%20electron | Valence electron | In chemistry, valence electrons are the electrons in the outside or valence electron shell of an atom. They determine the valency of the atom which is important in how a chemical element reacts with other elements. Elements which have eight valence electrons (noble gases) are inert and they do not tend to create chemic... |
71186 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo | Flamingo | Flamingos () are types of birds. They are noisy birds and they live in big groups called flocks. Flamingos are wading birds. This means they live by water, such as lakes.
They are in the genus Phoenicopterus and family Phoenicopteridae. There are six species of flamingo. Two of species are found in Africa, Europe and... |
71190 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20oxide | Magnesium oxide | Magnesium oxide, or magnesia, is a white solid mineral, made of one part magnesium and one part oxygen. Its chemical formula is MgO. Magnesium oxide is used by libraries to make books last longer. It is also used as an insulator for some electrical wires, and to help crucibles resist high temperatures. Magnesium oxide ... |
71192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20studio | Movie studio | A movie studio, or film studio, is a place where movies are made. A movie studio can be an area where the movie is filmed; like an indoor (interior) stage or room, or an outdoor area in which only those making the movie are allowed to be.
The term movie studio also means a production company because these companies of... |
71197 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crit%C3%A9rium%20du%20Dauphin%C3%A9%20Lib%C3%A9r%C3%A9 | Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré | For the type of cycling race see Criterium
The Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré is an annual cycling road race, run over eight stages in the Dauphiné region in France during the first half of June. It is organised by the Le Dauphiné Libéré newspaper. Along with the Tour de Suisse, the Dauphiné Libéré is an important race ... |
71203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900%20Summer%20Olympics | 1900 Summer Olympics | The 1900 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were held in Paris, France.
The games were part of the 1900 Exposition Universelle (Paris World's Fair). The sports events were not well planned; and the games were not thought to be a success.
Participating nations
A total of 24 nations sent... |
71206 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%20Winter%20Olympics | 1998 Winter Olympics | The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Other possible host cities were Aosta, Italy; Jaca, Spain; Östersund, Sweden; and Salt Lake City, USA. The selection was held in Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1991.
Related pages
Sports in Japan
Other we... |
71209 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont%20Ventoux | Mont Ventoux | Mont Ventoux is a mountain in the Provence region of southern France, about 20 km north-east of Carpentras, Vaucluse.
It is the largest mountain in the region and has the nicknames "Giant of Provence" and "The Bald Mountain".
History
Jean Buridan climbed the mountain early in the fourteenth century; Petrarch repeate... |
71214 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated%20hitter | Designated hitter | In baseball, a designated hitter (DH) is a person who bats in place of the pitcher in the American League of Major League Baseball. In the National League, the pitchers have to bat for themselves. The designated hitter is usually one of the best hitters on the team but is not a good defensive player.
The reason for th... |
71215 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%20Winter%20Olympics | 1968 Winter Olympics | The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1968 in Grenoble, France and started on February 6. Thirty-seven countries took part. Norway won the most medals, the first time a country other than the USSR had done so since the USSR first entered the Winter Games in 1956.
Attent... |
71218 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%20Winter%20Olympics | 1964 Winter Olympics | The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, were held in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9 1964. The games included 1091 athletes from 36 nations, and the Olympic Torch was carried by Joseph Rieder,
a former alpine skier who had participated in the 1956 Winter Olympics.
... |
71239 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture | Counterculture | Counterculture is a term used in psychology and sociology. People use it to describe a set of views that are not of the mainstream. These values are in contrast to what the mainstream people believe. An example of a counterculture that was started in the 1960s is the culture of the hippies. This counterculture focused ... |
71242 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie | Hippie | A hippie (sometimes spelled as hippy) is a label for a person of a particular counterculture that started in the United States and spread to other countries in the 1960s.
Hippies have their own opinions on drugs, sexual liberation, and women's rights.
History
The first people to be called "hippies" were young adult... |
71244 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halakha | Halakha | Halakha is the Hebrew word for the Jewish code of laws.
History
A long time ago, these laws were oral (spoken, but not written down). Once they became written down they were called the Mishnah. The Mishnah was made by rabbis in the 1st and 2nd Century (CE).
Judaism
Law |
71255 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype | Stereotype | A stereotype is a mistaken idea or belief many people have about a thing or group that is based upon how they look on the outside, which may be untrue or only partly true. Stereotyping people is a type of prejudice because what is on the outside is a small part of who a person is. Like other untrue opinions, stereotype... |
71256 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Simpson | Tom Simpson | Thomas Simpson (30 November 1937 – 13 July 1967) was an English road racing cyclist who died of exhaustion on the slopes of Mont Ventoux riding the 13th stage of the Tour de France in 1967.
The post mortem found that he had taken amphetamines. Added to brandy, the hard climb up Mont Ventoux, the hot conditions, and a ... |
71267 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20cloud | Electron cloud | Electron cloud is an informal way to describe an atomic orbital.
The electron cloud is not really a thing. An electron cloud model is different from the older Bohr atomic model by Niels Bohr. Bohr talked about electrons orbiting the nucleus. Explaining the behavior of these electron "orbits" was a key issue in the d... |
71274 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1 | 9-1-1 | 9-1-1 or 911 (a lot of times said as "nine-one-one" or "nine-eleven") is the emergency telephone number for the United States, Canada, Argentina, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands. This number can only be used for real emergencies. In other words, you use it when you are in serious troub... |
71275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/911 | 911 |
Year 911 (CMXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Africa
Rebellion of the Kutama Berbers against the Fatimid Caliphate. The Kutama tribesmen have previously been the main supporters of the new Shi'ite regime.
Europe
July 11 – The ... |
71276 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency | Emergency | An emergency is a situation in which a risk to health, life, property or environment is about to happen. Most emergencies need quick attention to prevent it from becoming worse. Even though some emergencies are easy to see, like a natural disaster, many smaller incidents need the opinion of someone who is watching in o... |
71278 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Jews | German Jews | German Jews are Jews of German descent, or Jews living in Germany.
Holocaust
170,000 German Jews were killed in the camps during the Holocaust.The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait - Page 281
by Ruth "Gay
References
Other websites
German Jews during the Holocaust, 1939-1945
List of German Jews at English Wi... |
71323 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sexual%20Revolution | The Sexual Revolution | The term Sexual revolution was coined by Wilhelm Reich in his book The Sexual Revolution. That book was first published in 1936 in German, translated into English. The English edition was 1945.
Reich wrote in the book what he saw as wrong, namely the double standard regarding morals in the society of his time. These d... |
71329 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Martyr%20d%27Anghiera | Peter Martyr d'Anghiera | Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (2 February 1457 – October 1526) was an Italian-born historian of Spain and of the discoveries and explorations in the Americas.
The international form of his name is Pietro Martire d'Anghiera. In different languages, his name is written:
English - Anghiera, Peter Martyr d'
French - Martyr d'... |
71330 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm%20Reich | Wilhelm Reich | Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. In the 1920s he was a pupil of Sigmund Freud in Vienna and made important contributions to psychoanalysis (Charakteranalyse 1933; engl. 1945ff). His work was rediscovered by the activists of the sexual revolution ... |
71362 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%20Massenet | Jules Massenet | Jules Massenet (born Montaud nr. Saint-Étienne, 12 May 1842; died Paris, 13 August 1912) was a French composer. He is most famous for his operas, although he wrote a large amount of other music as well.
His life
Early years
Jules’ father had a business making agricultural tools. His mother gave him his first piano ... |
71380 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo%20Game%20Show | Tokyo Game Show | The Tokyo Game Show is one of the biggest conferences for video games in the world. held in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
Other websites
Tokyo Game Show
Video game events
Tokyo
Chiba Prefecture |
71390 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choline | Choline | Choline is an organic compound. It is the precursor molecule (~building block) for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is involved in many functions including memory and muscle control.
Some animals cannot produce choline, but must have it in their diet to stay healthy. Humans make a small amount of chol... |
71391 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Borinque%C3%B1a | La Borinqueña | La Borinqueña is the national anthem of Puerto Rico. The current official music and words were made up in 1903 and have been taught in schools and accepted by the public. The music was officially made the national anthem by the government in 1952, and the words in 1977. The title refers to the Taíno (Native American) n... |
71401 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%20%28album%29 | Boy (album) | Boy was Irish rock group U2's first album, from the year 1980.
History
Before this album came a single, a song that is played on its own, called "I Will Follow". It became popular and was played on college radio stations and made people know who U2 were. "I Will Follow" was thought of as a Christian song. This was bec... |
71417 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergastic%20substance | Ergastic substance | An ergastic substance is a non-protoplasm material that one can find in cells. These are usually products of metabolism.
Ergastic substances include crystals, oil drops, gums, tannins, resins and other compounds. Some of these substances help the organism function, keep up cell structure, or are just stored food mate... |
71418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine | Adenine | Adenine is one of the nucleobase or basic molecules which form DNA and RNA. They are usually called Nitrogenous bases in genetics.
Function
In DNA, adenine sticks to thymine with two hydrogen bonds to help in making the nucleic acid structures stronger. In RNA, which is used in the cytoplasm for protein synthesis, ade... |
71419 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/888 | 888 | Year 888 (DCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
Odo of France becomes King of the Franks.
Deaths
Charles the Fat dies. |
71421 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial%20and%20error | Trial and error | Trial and error is a primitive method of solving problems. It is characterised by repeated, varied attempts which are continued until success, or until the agent stops trying. It is an unsystematic method, which does not employ insight, theory or organised methodology.
According to W.H. Thorpe, the term was devised by... |
71424 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris%20Scarfe | Harris Scarfe | Harris Scarfe is an Australian department store. It sells items including clothing, pots and pans, cutlery. The store went bankrupt in 2001, but has since bounced back.
In 2004, Harris Scarfe bought the Allens group of seven department and five homewares stores. They continued to trade under the Allens name in New ... |
71451 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing%2C%20Queens | Flushing, Queens | Flushing is a neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City. Flushing is the largest urban center in New York. New York's second-biggest Chinatown is there.
Queens (New York City)
Neighborhoods of New York City |
71466 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas | Atlas | An atlas is a collection of maps or manifolds, traditionally bound into book form, but also found in multimedia formats.
It may show geographic features and political boundaries, but often social, religious and economic statistics as well.
History
The earliest atlases were not called by that name at the time of the... |
71473 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile%20Team | T-Mobile Team | T-Mobile Team (UCI Team Code: TMO) is a professional cycling team competing in international road bicycle races.
It is named after its chief sponsor - the T-Mobile company. The team takes part in many editions of the annual Grand Tours of cycling, such as the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. Since 2005, the team ... |
71474 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile | T-Mobile | T-Mobile is a mobile (cell phone) network operator headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It was founded in 1990 and is a part of Deutsche Telekom and belongs to the FreeMove alliance.
T-Mobile is a group of mobile phone companies (all owned by Deutsche Telekom) that operate GSM and UMTS networks in Europe and the United Sta... |
71480 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified%20English | Simplified English | Simplified English is a set of approved words and writing rules. Its makers made it to help engineers write manuals (instruction books) so that people all over the world can read them.
Some people think that:
It can decrease doubt.
It can make reading faster.
It can help understanding for people whose first (nativ... |
71484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymine | Thymine | Thymine, or 5-methyluracil, is a pyrimidine base found in the nucleic acid DNA.
In RNA thymine is swapped for uracil to represent the same genetic information. In DNA, thymine (T) connects to adenine (A) by two hydrogen bonds. These pair bonds hold the two strands of the DNA double helix structure together.
Other we... |
71489 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability%20distribution | Probability distribution | Probability distribution is a term from mathematics. Suppose there are many events with random outcomes. A probability distribution is the theoretical counterpart to the frequency distribution. A frequency distribution simply shows how many times a certain event occurred. A probability distribution says how many times ... |
71490 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20distribution | Exponential distribution | The exponential distribution with rate , written , is a probability distribution defined only on the positive real numbers. It is the continuous analogue of geometric distribution. Exponential distribution is used in reliability applications, and its main use is to assess the duration of random time intervals. Examples... |
71492 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial%20distribution | Binomial distribution | In probability and statistics, the binomial distribution is a probability distribution which models the probabilities of having a certain number of successes among n identical trials (each having p as the probability of success). It is also written as . The variables n and p are thus the two parameters of a binomial di... |
71496 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20distribution | Poisson distribution | In probability and statistics, Poisson distribution is a probability distribution. It is named after Siméon Denis Poisson. It measures the probability that a certain number of events occur within a certain period of time. The events need to be unrelated to each other. They also need to occur with a known average rate, ... |
71499 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saman%C3%A1%20Province | Samaná Province | Samaná is a Dominican province. It is in the northeastern part of the country. It takes up the whole Samaná Peninsula. Its capital city is Santa Bárbara de Samaná, usually called just "Samaná". It is one of the main tourist regions of the country with several important resorts.
Name
The word Samaná, written as Xamaná ... |
71502 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter%20%28computing%29 | Interpreter (computing) | In computer science, an interpreter is a computer program that performs commands written in a computer programming language. Interpreters are one of the two most important ways a program can be run, the other being compilation.
Function
The interpreter is a language processor which converts a HLL(High-Level Programmi... |
71508 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20the%20United%20Arab%20Emirates | Flag of the United Arab Emirates | The flag of the United Arab Emirates () is used to represent, or show, the United Arab Emirates. It contains the Pan-Arab colors, which are red, green, white, and black, to show Arab unity. The Flag was designed by a Young Emirati boy named as Abdullah Mohammed Al Maainah in 1971.
Red
Red represents hardiness, brave... |
71509 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Donna%20Reed%20Show | The Donna Reed Show | The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom television series. It aired on ABC from 1958 to 1966. The show stars Donna Reed as Donna Stone, a housewife, Carl Betz as Alex Stone, a pediatrician (baby doctor), Shelley Fabares as their teenage daughter Mary, and Paul Petersen as their son Jeff. Mary left for college in the ... |
71510 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%3A%20Resurrection | Alien: Resurrection | Alien: Resurrection is a 1997 American science fiction-horror-thriller movie. It was written by Joss Whedon and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It opened on November 26, 1997. The movie is the fourth in the Alien series of movies. It was the first in the series that was not made in England. The music was composed by Jo... |
71515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Castellaneta | Dan Castellaneta | Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born October 29, 1957) is an Emmy award winning American Actor, Voice actor, Comedian and Screenwriter best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the long-running FOX animated series The Simpsons. As well as being a voice actor for The Simpsons, Dan Castellane... |
71529 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20Milram | Team Milram | Team Milram is an Italian-registered UCI ProTeam established in 2006. The team is often called a German team because its main sponsor is Milram, part of the Nordmilch company from the German state of Bremen.
Milram took over the ProTeam licence of Domina Vacanze. Erik Zabel and Alessandro Petacchi are the team’s top ... |
71530 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrierbambus | Perrierbambus | A Perrierbambus is a kind of bamboo that grows in Madagascar.
Bamboo |
71548 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-square%20distribution | Chi-square distribution | In probability theory and statistics, the chi-square distribution (also chi-squared or distribution) is one of the most widely used theoretical probability distributions. Chi-square distribution with degrees of freedom is written as . It is a special case of gamma distribution.
Chi-square distribution is primarily ... |
71551 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20hypothesis | Null hypothesis | In statistics, a null hypothesis, often written as , is a statement assumed to be true unless it can be shown to be incorrect beyond a reasonable doubt. The idea is that the null hypothesis generally assumes that there is nothing new or surprising in the population. The most common null hypothesis is the "no-change" or... |
71559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Leary | Timothy Leary | Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer and psychologist from Springfield, Massachusetts. He is seen as a modern pioneer. He was in favor of research on psychedelic drugs and their use. He was one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. As an icon of the cou... |
71560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Metzner | Ralph Metzner | Ralph Metzner (May 18, 1936 – March 14, 2019) was an American psychologist, and writer. He was born in 1936, in Germany. With Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert he was involved in a series of tests done at Harvard University, in the 1960s. These tests involved psychedelic drugs.
In the 1960s, professors Timothy Leary, R... |
71561 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20band | Rock band | A rock band is a group (a band) of musicians who play rock music. The standard line up for a rock band is four musicians playing lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums. One or more of the band can sing. This was the line up used by the Beatles.
Related pages
Rock and roll
Other websites
Rock Hall of Fame
... |
71562 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20the%20Dead | Book of the Dead | The Book of the Dead is a name for an Egyptian text. It is also known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day, or as the papyrus of Ani. It contains a number of texts, and spells. These allow the dead person to safely get to the place of the afterlife.
The book of the dead was most commonly written on a papyrus... |
71567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team%20Gerolsteiner | Team Gerolsteiner | Team Gerolsteiner (UCI Team Code: GST) is a German road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. It is sponsored by the drinks company Gerolsteiner Brunnen and the bike company "Specialized".
The team was founded in 1998 with manager Hans-Michael Holczer and sports directors Rolf Gölz and Christian Henn. The contract... |
71576 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006-2007%20UCI%20Oceania%20Tour | 2006-2007 UCI Oceania Tour | The 2006-2007 UCI Oceania Tour is the third season of the UCI Oceania Tour of professional road bicycle racing held in various countries throughout the Oceania region. The season begins with the Jayco Herald Sun Tour stage race in October 2006 and runs until September 2007.
The points leader, based on the cumulative r... |
71578 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20selection | Natural selection | Natural selection is a central concept of evolution. It was proposed independently by the English biologists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the middle of the 19th century (1858). It is sometimes called the survival of the fittest. Darwin chose the name as an analogy with artificial selection (selective bre... |
71579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari | Devanagari | Devanāgarī (देवनागरी) is an abugida and brahmic script used to write many North Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri, Nepal Bhasa and Nepali from Nepal and sometimes Kashmiri. About a hundred smaller languages also use Devanāgarī.
Other websites
Unicode
Indo... |
71580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20circuits | Continental circuits | The UCI ProTour is the series of races for the top cycling teams. The Continental circuits are for teams that are not so good.
Some teams, such as Team Milram, have one team on the ProTour, a team of younger riders on the continental circuit as well as being linked with U23 teams. In this way teams can spot talented... |
71585 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac%20Efron | Zac Efron | Zachary David Alexander "Zac" Efron (18 October 1987) is an American actor and singer. He is most famous for his role in the High School Musical series. Other movies including 17 Again and Charlie St. Cloud.
Personal life
His mother, Starla Baskett, is a former secretary and his father, David is engineer. He is the o... |
71591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddle | Fiddle | The word fiddle refers to a violin when used in folk music. Many people also use it simply as a fun word for "violin". Someone who plays the fiddle is a "fiddler". The bow is sometimes called a "fiddling stick". Fiddle playing, or fiddling, is a style of folk music.
The word fiddle is also used for instruments of seve... |
71592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger%20fiddle | Hardanger fiddle | A Hardanger fiddle or hardingfele in Norwegian, is a traditional string instrument used mainly in the south west of Norway. It is similar to the violin, but it has eight or nine strings and the wood is thinner. Four of the strings are strung and played like a violin, while the other strings are sympathetic strings (t... |
71593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste%20Rodin | Auguste Rodin | Auguste Rodin (born François-Auguste-René Rodin; 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor. Rodin was born in Paris. He made solid objects from stone or clay. His most famous works are 'The Thinker' and 'The Kiss'.
Although Rodin is generally considered the start of modern sculpture, he did not set ou... |
71598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Cole | Joe Cole | Joseph John "Joe" Cole (born 8 November 1981) is an English professional football player. Cole plays as a midfielder for
Coventry City. At his peak he played for
Chelsea and Liverpool in the Premier League and for the England national team.
Cole was born in Paddington. He was adopted. He was raised in Somers Town, Lo... |
71600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebec | Rebec | The rebec is a bowed string musical instrument that was played many hundreds of years ago. It was either held under the chin, like a violin, or held against the arm. The name “rebec” was spelt in a variety of ways.
Origins
The rebec dates back to the Middle Ages and was particularly popular in the 15th and 16th centu... |
71614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonator | Resonator | A resonator is something that resonates. This may make a particular frequency of a sound or other vibration become bigger.
Electromagnetics
In electromagnetics a cavity resonator is a resonator composed of a space that is usually surrounded by a dielectric or metal which allows standing wave patterns at particular f... |
71623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20Bell | Joshua Bell | Joshua David Bell (born 9 December 1967) is an American violinist. He is considered one of the greatest violinists of today.
Childhood
Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. His father was a psychologist and therapist. He began violin lessons at the age of four after his mother found that her son ha... |
71627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20modulus | Elastic modulus | An elastic modulus, or modulus of elasticity, is the mathematical description of an object or substance's tendency to be deformed elastically (i.e. non-permanently) when a force is applied to it.
The elastic modulus of an object is defined as the slope of its stress-strain curve in the elastic deformation region:
w... |
71629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%203166-1 | ISO 3166-1 | ISO 3166-1, is part of the ISO 3166 standard. It gives a code for the names of countries and dependent territories, and is published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Count... |
71632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20%28disambiguation%29 | Atlas (disambiguation) | Atlas, most commonly means a collection of maps, traditionally bound into book form.
Atlas can mean:
Greek mythology
Atlas (Titan), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a great sphere on his back or shoulders
Atlas, the first king of Atlantis
Science
In a... |
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