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6346 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%20D.%20Roosevelt | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He served 12 years as president, dying shortly after beginning his 4th term, the longest ever spent in office. After his death, the 22nd Amendment came into effect, limiting how l... |
6349 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela | Venezuela | Venezuela is a country in northern South America. Its official name is República Bolivariana de Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela). The official language is Spanish, and the capital is Caracas.
The country has a wide range of geography including islands in the Caribbean Sea, coastal areas, highlands, and pa... |
6350 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi%20Arabia | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , is a country in Western Asia including most of the Arabian Peninsula. The land area is approximately , so Saudi Arabia is geographically the 5th-largest state in Asia and 2nd-largest state in the Arab world after Algeria. Saudi Arabia is bordered by Jordan... |
6351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia | Colombia | Colombia (; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a tropical equatorial country in northern South America. It is in the northwest part of the continent, and it has an area of 1,141,748 km² (440,839 sq mi).
It is the only South American country with coasts on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
The countries... |
6354 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%20Tasman | Abel Tasman | Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603–1659) was a Dutch sea explorer. He found Tasmania and New Zealand while on voyages in 1642 and 1644, in the service of the VOC (Dutch East India Company). He also made the first historical sightings of large parts of Australia.
He was born in Groningen, Holland. He went to Batavia (now calle... |
6359 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20science | Hard science | Hard science is science that uses systematic observation, experiments and sometimes mathematics to get knowledge. In hard science, experiments have to be reproducible (if the experiment is done a second time, it will have to produce the same results as the first time). Also, in hard sciences there is usually good agree... |
6360 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20intelligence | Artificial intelligence | Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn. It is also a field of study which tries to make computers "smart". They work on their own without being encoded with commands. John McCarthy came up with the name "Artificial Intelligence" in 1955.
In general use, the te... |
6361 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer | Programmer | A computer programmer is a person who makes computer programs using a programming language. Programmers are also called software developers, coders, or hackers.
A programmer's main jobs are writing program source code, testing if it works, and debugging (fixing) the program if there are problems. Programmers often use... |
6362 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20language | Programming language | A programming language is a type of written language that tells computers what to do. Examples are: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, and C#. Programming languages are used to write all computer programs and computer software. A programming language is like a set of instructions that the computer follows to do so... |
6363 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Basic | Visual Basic | Visual Basic (VB) is a programming language developed by Microsoft for their operating system Windows. The BASIC language is said to be easier to read than other languages.
Visual Basic is a widely understood high-level programming language, written using simple English-like words and syntax. It is an interpreted lan... |
6364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting | Booting | Booting is what happens when a computer starts. This happens when the power is turned on. It is called "reboot" if it happens at other times. When you boot a computer, your processor looks for instructions in system ROM (the BIOS) and executes them. They normally 'wake up' peripheral equipment and search for the boot d... |
6365 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBS | DBS | DBS may stand for:
Direct broadcast satellite
Deep brain stimulation
Development Bank of Singapore
Douai Business School, an international business college in Douai, France
Diocesan Boys' School, Hong Kong
Den Beste Sykkel - a Norwegian bike manufacturer
Dibutyl sebacate - an organic compound used to make plasti... |
6367 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea | Tea | Tea is a drink that is made from the steeping the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. Tea can have other herbs, spices, or fruit flavors in it, like lemon. All teas are made from the Camellia sinensis plant.
Sometimes the word "tea" is used for other drinks that have been made by soaking fruit or herbs in hot water... |
6368 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua | Interlingua | Interlingua is a constructed language using words that are found in most West-European languages. It was made by IALA - a group of people (the most known was Alexander Gode) who worked on it for more than 20 years, and they finished and published the first dictionary in 1951. Interlingua was created on the base of lang... |
6369 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/World | World | When people say "the world" they usually mean Earth. Humans and all other known living things live in this world. Sometimes "world" means another planet.
Before people discovered that Earth is a planet, they often used "World" to mean "Universe". They still sometimes use it to mean all humans or all civilization. For... |
6370 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan (; officially called the Republic of Azerbaijan) is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. It is next to Russia in the north, Georgia, Armenia in the west, Iran in the south, and Caspian Sea on the east. Its capital city is Baku. Azerbaijan became independent from the Soviet Union when it collaps... |
6371 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor | Actor | An actor is a person who acts, or has a role (a part) in a movie, television show, play, or radio show. Actors may be professional or not. Sometimes actors only sing or dance, or sometimes they only work on radio. A woman actor is actress, but the word "actor" is used for both men and women when referring to a group. A... |
6373 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi | Al-Khwarizmi | Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (, ) was a Persian Muslim mathematician and astronomer. He was believed to have been born around 800 AD and died in 850 AD during the Abbasid Empire.
Al-Khwarizmi was known for the book he wrote about algebra, Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. He also wrote a b... |
6374 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy | Ptolemy | Claudius Ptolemy ( ; ; – ) was a Greek who probably lived and worked in Alexandria, Egypt. He is famous for his work on astronomy and geography. Very little is known about his personal life.
He was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. He described in his writing the Greek geocentric view of the universe. Ear... |
6377 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moctezuma%20II | Moctezuma II | Moctezuma II, also known as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (1466-1520) and often called Montezuma in English, was the Aztec emperor (tlahtoani) from 1502 to 1520. His name comes from the Nahuatl Motecuhzoma, it means "he who is leader because of his fury". In Spanish, he is called Moctezuma.
When Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexi... |
6379 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20L%C3%B3pez%20de%20Santa%20Anna | Antonio López de Santa Anna | Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón (February 21, 1794 - June 21, 1876) was a Mexican general and dictator. Under his rule of Mexico, it lost half its territory. Santa Anna was president 11 times. He fought two wars against the United States. In the war against Texas (1835-1836), he won the famous Battle of the... |
6383 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granzyme | Granzyme | A Granzyme is an enzyme contained within cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells. These substances are used to destroy virus-infected cells.
Granzyme secretion can be detected and measured using the ELISPOT and ELISA techniques.
Blood cells
Enzymes |
6393 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid | Apartheid | Apartheid was a racist political and social system in South Africa during the era of White minority rule. It enforced racial discrimination against non-Whites, mainly focused on skin colour and facial features. This existed in the twentieth century, from 1948 until the early-1990s. The word apartheid means "distantiati... |
6398 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus%20Affair | Dreyfus Affair | The Dreyfus Affair was one of the biggest scandals in the history of France. It happened at the end of the 19th century. It was about Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army.
In 1894, Dreyfus was accused of being a spy, and accused of crimes against France. People thought he wrote letters to the Germans te... |
6402 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball | Baseball | Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played on a field by two teams against each other. In baseball, a player on one team throws a small round ball at a player on the other team, who tries to hit it with a bat. Then the player who hits the ball has to run around the field. Players get runs by running around in a full circl... |
6409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonym | Antonym | An antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word. The first known use of the word antonym was in 1857. Properly defined it means a word of opposite meaning and is a noun.
Related pages
Synonym - two words similar to each other
Contronym - word that has two meanings
References
Words |
6413 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names%20of%20God%20in%20Judaism | Names of God in Judaism | In Judaism, God is known by many names. The most important of these names is the Tetragrammaton, or "Four-lettered word": YHVH, YHWH, or י - ה וה. Jews are not allowed to say this name, and instead say Adonai. Even Adonai is only used by some Jews in prayer. Most Jews would refer to God as Hashem, or "The Name". Jews ... |
6415 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFL%20Championship | EFL Championship | The EFL Championship, commonly known as The Championship, is the name of the English second division of football.
2021–22 clubs
Bournemouth
Champions
Former champions
Related pages
English Premier League
Football League One
Football League Two
Championship
Football in England
1888 establishments in England |
6416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham | Birmingham | Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. It is the second-largest metropolitan area and city in the United Kingdom. About 1.1 million people live in Birmingham. Around 4.3 million people live in its metropolitan area. Many people call it the "second city" of the United Kingdom..
... |
6417 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond%2C%20Virginia | Richmond, Virginia | Richmond () is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. The population within the city limits was 204,214 in 2010, with an estimated population of 1,258,251 for the Richmond Metropolitan Area — making it the third largest in Virginia.
Loca... |
6418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Civil%20War | American Civil War | The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war in the United States of America. It was fought when 11 Southern states left the United States and formed the Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy). The US government and the states that remained loyal to it were called the Union.
The main cause o... |
6419 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun | Tutankhamun | Tutankhamun (Tutankhaten, Tutankhamen) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. He reigned from when he was nine years old (1334 BC) to when he died (1323 BC). He became Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (royal family) during the New Kingdom.
Tutankhamun was the son of Akhenaten and one of Akhenaten's sisters, or perhaps one of h... |
6421 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence | Independence | The word independence means "not dependent", or not having to depend on anyone or anything else. It also means being strong and able to survive alone. Anything can be dependent or independent. When people talk about independence, it may be about people or countries, where it is often being spoken about as a good thing.... |
6422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis | Anubis | Anubis is the protector of the gates to the Underworld, Osiris replaced him as the god of the dead. He looks like a man with the head of a jackal (an animal, native to Africa, similar to wolves).
Anubis's Purpose
Anubis, as the god of death and the afterlife, was closely associated with mummification and burial rite... |
6423 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atum | Atum | Atum was the creator of everything in ancient Egyptian mythology. He represented the very first history; nothing existed yet except for him. According to the myth, he rose up out of the chaotic waters of Nu and used his own female side to create Shu (air) and Tefnut (moisture). For a while, his two children were lost a... |
6426 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism | Antisemitism | Antisemitism is the hatred of or prejudice against Jews. Antisemitism has a long history, but the most well-known act of anti-semitism is the Holocaust perpetrated by Germany, also known as the Final Solution, a genocide which happened between 1933 and 1945. The plan was to totally get rid of the Jewish people in Europ... |
6428 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban%20Huertas | Esteban Huertas | Esteban Huertas López (1876-1943) was a Colombian military leader from Panama.
He was born in Boyacá, Colombia. When he was 8 years old he ran away from home and he joined the army. He won many medals and in 1902 he became general. In 1900 he lost an arm when he fired a cannon.
In 1903 he was one of the people who mad... |
6431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama | Panama | Panama is a country in Central America. Its official name is the Republic of Panama, and it is most famous for the Panama Canal. Countries bordering Panama are Costa Rica in the Northwest and Colombia in the Southeast. Panama is between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Most of the people in Panama are Roman Ca... |
6432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20language | Spanish language | Spanish (Spanish: español, pronounced "Eh-span-yole", IPA: /espaɲol/), also called Castilian, is a Romance language. It is the most spoken Romance language in the world. As of December 2021, over 489 million people in the world spoke Spanish as their first language.
Brief history
The language Spanish or previously kn... |
6433 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl | Nahuatl | The Nahuatl language is a language spoken by 1.5 million people, mostly in Mexico.
History
Nahuatl has existed since the 7th century CE.
The first people to speak Nahuatl were indigenous peoples in central Mexico. The Aztecs and the Toltecs spoke an early form of Nahuatl.
The people of Teotihuacan may have spoken ... |
6437 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Hawking | Stephen Hawking | Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was a British theoretical physicist and mathematician. He was born in Oxford. In 1950, he moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire. He was one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Hawking has written many science books for people who are not scientists.
Hawk... |
6439 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech%20Republic | Czech Republic | The Czech Republic (, ) is a country in Central Europe. As of 2 May 2016, the official short name of the country is Czechia (). The capital and the biggest city is Prague. The currency is the Czech Crown (koruna česká - CZK). €1 is about 25 CZK. The president of Czechia is Miloš Zeman. Czechia's population is about 10.... |
6440 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag | Flag | A flag is a piece of coloured cloth with a special design that is put on a pole as a symbol.
Flags first appeared more than 2000 years ago in China, and in Europe under the Roman Empire.
There are many types of flags:
A National Flag is the symbol of a country (nation). For example, the national flag of the United ... |
6448 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite%20Judaism | Karaite Judaism | Karaite Judaism is a kind of Judaism that accepts only the Hebrew Bible as authoritative, and rejects any religious authority in Mishnah and Talmud, which are explanations of the Bible by rabbis in the first few centuries of the Common Era. Karaite Jews believe that each person should be able to explain the Torah for t... |
6449 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warship | Warship | A warship is a ship carrying weapons, which is used by the navy. Some warships also carry naval aircraft.
Warships are made in many different sizes. Here is a list of different kinds of warships, from the largest to the smallest of World War II:
Modern warships
It is a principle of modern navies that larger ships ne... |
6450 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast%20guard | Coast guard | A Coast Guard is an organization that protects people at sea. The role of a coastguard varies greatly by country. The coast guard is sometimes part of a military, or a semi-military organization, or else is a law enforcement (policing) agency. However, the coast guard is always separate from the Navy.
For example, the... |
6451 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium%20market%20price | Equilibrium market price | An equilibrium market price is the price at which there is no tendency for it to change.
When price is lower than the equilibrium price, quantity demanded will be greater than quantity supplied. There will be a tendency for the price to increase.
When price is higher than the equilibrium price, quantity supplied wil... |
6472 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba | Samba | Samba is a kind of music, dancing, and singing, originally from Brazil. It began as a music/dance movement in the 1920s.
The dance of brazil.
Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Brazilian origin in 2/4 time. In ballroom dance there are three steps to every bar, making the samba feel something like a 3/4 timed danc... |
6475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20weapon | Nuclear weapon | A nuclear weapon, also known as a nuclear bomb or a nuke, is a weapon that suddenly releases the energy in the nucleus of certain types of atoms. When triggered, the device releases a huge amount of energy in the form of a nuclear explosion.
Nuclear explosions can destroy a city and kill most of its people. They als... |
6479 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chojn%C3%B3w | Chojnów | Chojnów is small city in Poland. As of the year 2000, 14,900 people live in the city. The city is on the river Skora. The city belongs to the county Legnica. It is in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The average height of the city is 170 meters above sea level.
Chojnów is first mentioned in a note dated 1272 as a Hayn... |
6482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics | Comics | In comics, stories or information are given using pictures, or pictures and words together. In comics, a story is told with many pictures, mostly in panels. The first panel is supposed to be read first, and takes place earlier in time than the panels that follow it.
There are many kinds of comics. Comic strips are ... |
6490 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond | Diamond | A diamond (from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas "unbreakable") is a re-arrangement of carbon atoms (those are called allotropes).
Diamonds have the highest hardness of any bulk (all one type) material. Because of this, many important industries use diamonds as tools for cutting and polishing things. Many of them ar... |
6493 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving is a holiday in the United States and Canada when people give thanks. In the United States, it is on the fourth Thursday of November. In Canada, it is on the second Monday of October.
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln said the last Thursday of November would be a national Day of Thanksgiving for the United State... |
6494 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel%20Prize | Nobel Prize | Every year, the Nobel Prizes () are given to people and institutions around the world. These prizes are for the study of science and for world peace. The science prizes include Literature, Science, and Medicine. The Nobel Prize was started by Alfred Nobel. His 1895 testament gave money for the Prizes. The Nobel Foundat... |
6495 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph | Graph | A graph is a picture designed to express words, particularly the connection between two or more quantities. You can see a graph on the right.
A simple graph usually shows the relationship between two numbers or measurements in the form of a grid. If this is a rectangular graph using Cartesian coordinate system, the tw... |
6501 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20detection | Collision detection | Collision detection is a program used on computers to help it understand when two objects will hit into each other. When a computer shows two things on the screen, or controls two things in real life (like robots), it sometimes needs a special program to detect where objects to understand where things are. This might b... |
6502 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Software%20Distribution | Berkeley Software Distribution | Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is a kind of the UNIX operating system that is distributed for free since 1989. It was started by people in Berkeley, California, USA in the year 1977. Now, people from around the world work on it.
There are many different kinds of BSD that many people have worked on. Some of them... |
6503 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Cartier | Jacques Cartier | Jacques Cartier was a French trader and explorer. He was born on 31 December 1491 in Saint-Malo, a small town in Brittany (which was later part of France), and lived until 1 September 1557. He sailed three times to Canada.
He was the first European man to see Prince Edward Island, the St. Lawrence River, and also hoc... |
6504 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco%20da%20Gama | Vasco da Gama | Vasco da Gama (1460 or 1469 - December 24th, 1506) was a Portuguese sailor. He was the first European who went to India through the Cape of Good Hope at the southern end of Africa. He went to India three times by ship.
Da Gama was born in Sines, Portugal. His birthday was June 5th. According to some people's accounts,... |
6514 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayseri | Kayseri | Kayseri is a city in the center of Turkey. Kayseri used to be called Mazaka or Kaisareia. The city has a population of nearly 1 million. Famous meals in this city are pastirma, sucuk and manti. Erciyes Mountain is the third highest mountain in Turkey. It is 3917 metres high.
Political structure
The city of Kayseri co... |
6521 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodised%20salt | Iodised salt | Iodized salt (also spelled "iodized salt") is table salt mixed with tiny amounts of iodide and is used to prevent disease of the thyroid gland.
People only need a very small amount of iodine to prevent disease. Food crops usually get iodine from the soil, but some places around the world have low amounts of iodine. ... |
6526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/College | College | College is a kind of school or university, a place where people go to learn skills for future jobs. Most college students go to college right after high school but others choose to go later in life. Most students are there because it will help them to earn more money and live better lives.
In some countries, for examp... |
6527 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery | Battery | A battery converts chemical energy into electrical energy by a chemical reaction. Usually the chemicals are kept inside the battery. It is used in a circuit to power other components. A battery produces direct current (DC) electricity (electricity that flows in one direction, and does not switch back and forth).
U... |
6528 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife | Knife | A knife is a metal tool with a sharpened metal blade that is used to cut all sorts of things. The plural form of "knife" is "knives." Knives can serve various purposes. Hunters use a hunting knife, soldiers use the combat knife, scouts, campers, and hikers carry a pocket knife; there are kitchen knives for preparing fo... |
6533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyngan%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Nyngan, New South Wales | Nyngan is a town in New South Wales, Australia. It is built on the banks of the Bogan River. It is north west of Dubbo, and south east of Bourke in the Central West Plains of New South Wales. It is a town of 2500 people. It exists because of the people who work on the farms and in a copper mine, 50 kilometres to the ... |
6547 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film%20%28disambiguation%29 | Film (disambiguation) | Film may refer to:
the art and industry of making motion pictures
movies - also called motion pictures or films.
photographic film
a thin skin or membrane, or any covering or coating
a thin layer of liquid (film (liquid)) on water or solid stuff |
6548 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic%20film | Photographic film | Photographic film is a sheet of plastic for recording visual scenes. The plastic has been specially treated to be sensitive to light. The image is recorded on the plastic when the plastic is exposed to light. Film is kept in small canisters (boxes) which protect it from the light. A normal photographic film may hold up... |
6556 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass | Compass | A compass is a navigational tool that uses magnetism. It has an arrow which points in the direction of the North Magnetic Pole. A compass is very useful for navigating on oceans and in deserts, or other places where there are few landmarks.
The first compass was invented by ancient Chinese in the Han Dynasty. It was a... |
6564 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20Magellan | Ferdinand Magellan | Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer. He became the first European to sail the Pacific Ocean, and the first to sail around the world. Magellan's voyage proved that the Earth was round.
Born in 1480, his birthplace is recorded as either Sabrosa or Porto in Portugal. He worked in the royal... |
6565 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20the%20Navigator | Henry the Navigator | Dom Henry the Navigator (1394–1460) was a prince from Portugal, the third son of King John I of Portugal. He was called Infante Dom Henrique in Portuguese. He was never a navigator himself. He got his name because he organized many ocean voyages on which lands were found. He is seen as the man who started the Age of Di... |
6567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete | Concrete | Concrete is an important material for making different buildings and structures. It is a composite made of Portland cement, sand, gravel or aggregate, and water in varying proportions depending on the task.
Concrete is used more than any other man-made material in the world. As of 2006, about 7.5 billion cubic meters... |
6580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon | Marathon | A marathon is a long-distance running sport event where an athlete must run 42.195 kilometres (26 miles and 385 yards). There are many marathons held all over the world each year. It is a very difficult event and runners are advised to run many miles before they compete. This event was named after a battle of the Greco... |
6585 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Roman%20Empire | Holy Roman Empire | The Holy Roman Empire should not be mistaken for the Roman Empire.
The Holy Roman Empire (; ), occasionally but unofficially referred to as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, was a group of regions and free cities in central Europe under the rule of an emperor who was elected by the princes and magistrates of... |
6587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesland | Friesland | Friesland (Fryslân in West Frisian, Friesland in Dutch) is a province in the north of the Netherlands. The capital (city) of Friesland is Leeuwarden (Ljouwert in Frisian). People in Friesland speak West Frisian and Dutch. People also speak Frisian in a small part of Groningen (province), and in East Friesland and Nort... |
6588 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen%20%28province%29 | Groningen (province) | Groningen is a province in the Northeast of the Netherlands. At the east is the German region Lower Saxony, in the south is Drenthe, in the west is Friesland (or Fryslân in Frisian) and in the north is the Wadden Sea. About 587,000 people are living in Groningen (2021).
The capital of Groningen is also called Groninge... |
6589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen%20%28disambiguation%29 | Groningen (disambiguation) | Groningen might mean:
Groningen (province), a province in the Netherlands
Groningen (city), the capital city of that province
Groningen (Suriname), a town in Suriname
FC Groningen, a professional football club in the Netherlands |
6590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy | Burgundy | Burgundy () is a former administrative region of France. It is now part of the administrative region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It was also a historic region in eastern France. The French adjective and name of the inhabitants of the region is Bourguignon.
With over , it is one of the largest region of France. It cove... |
6591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke | Duke | A Duke is someone part of nobility. In monarchies, like the UK, the title has legal status, and is inherited in the male line.
The first English dukes were created by Edward III in 1337, when he gave his eldest son, Edward, the Black Prince, the title of Duke of Cornwall.
Dukes are formally referred to as 'The Duk... |
6592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin | Latin | Latin is an Italic language that was used in Ancient Rome. Short Latin texts have been found from about the 5th century BC and longer texts from about the 3rd century BC.
Classical Latin was used in the 1st century BC and was the official language of the Roman Empire. It was widely used in the western part of the Medi... |
6593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Ages | Middle Ages | The Middle Ages were a period of about a thousand years in European history. They started around the year 476 , when the Western Roman Empire ended, and continued until around the time Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492. This period of time is called the 'Middle Ages' because it took place between th... |
6594 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Bonaparte | Louis Bonaparte | Louis I of Holland (Lodewijk Napoleon in Dutch) (1779-1846), was the younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of the Kingdom of Holland in 1806. He served with his brother in the Italian campaign of 1796–97 and in Egypt in 1798–99. Napoleon named him king of Holland in 1806. When Louis disagreed with hi... |
6595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel%20de%20Ruyter | Michiel de Ruyter | Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (1607 – 1676) was a famous Dutch admiral.
De Ruyter was born in Vlissingen. He fought the English in the three Anglo-Dutch Wars and scored several huge victories. He won amongst others the Four Days Battle and the Raid on Medway, close to London, the English capital. He also fought batt... |
6596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Rudolf%20Thorbecke | Johan Rudolf Thorbecke | Johan Rudolf Thorbecke (14 January 1798 - 4 June 1872) was an important Dutch politician. In 1848, he wrote a constitution almost on his own. This constitution gave the king less power and the people more, so it made the Netherlands a democracy. Thorbecke was a liberal. Several times he was prime minister, and internal... |
6598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel%20Doorman | Karel Doorman | Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 in Utrecht - February 28, 1942) was a Dutch admiral (Dutch: schout-bij-nacht) during World War II.
In 1942 he was made commander of the combined American, British, Dutch and Australian fleet in the Dutch East Indies.
In February 1942, he led his fleet against a much... |
6599 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Star-Spangled%20Banner | The Star-Spangled Banner | "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. Francis Scott Key wrote the words to it in 1814 after seeing British ships attacking Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland during the War of 1812.
The words are set to the music of a British drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven". The song has... |
6605 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdou%20Diouf | Abdou Diouf | Abdou Diouf (born September 7, 1935) was president of Senegal from 1981 to 2000. He was the second president since the country became independent.
Diouf has been the Secretary General of La Francophonie since 2003.
References
Diouf, Abdou
Diouf, Abdou
Living people
Prime Ministers of Senegal |
6607 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle | Needle | A needle is a small tool used to push or pull a thread through a small hole. It is most often used to make clothing and footwear.
The needle consists of a short stick with a sharp point and hole for the thread. Needles are now mostly made of steel, but in ancient or Stone Age times they would have been made of small b... |
6610 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%203 | February 3 |
Events
Up to 1900
1112 - Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona and Douce I, Countess of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of the two states.
1377 - Over 2,000 people in Cesena, Italy are killed by Papal troops.
1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands at Mossel Bay in present-day South Africa, having become... |
6617 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province | Province | A province is a subdivision of a country. It is a kind of local government.
Some countries are divided into provinces. The word "province" comes from the Latin word provincia.
South Africa, Canada, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, and Denmark are examples of countries that are divided into provinces.
In some countr... |
6623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade | Jade | Jade is a kind of stone. We use the name "jade" for two different sorts of mineral. The first sort is nephrite. This is a form of actinolite (asbestos is a sort of actinolite, too). The second sort is the mineral jadeite, and it is a pyroxene. The first sort (nephrite) is harder than the second sort (jadeite). The firs... |
6626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Yushchenko | Viktor Yushchenko | Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko () (born February 23, 1954) is a previous President of Ukraine. On November 26, 2004, he lost the Ukrainian presidential election. However, he and his followers argued that the election had been corrupted. They argued that the election results had been falsified by the Ukrainian government... |
6630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Yanukovych | Viktor Yanukovych | Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (; born July 9, 1950, Yenakiieve, Stalin Region, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian politician who was the 4th President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014; found guilty of treason. On January 12, 2015, he was declared wanted by Interpol
Political career
He was Prime Minister of Ukraine from November... |
6640 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt | Salt | In chemistry, a salt is any neutral chemical compound made of cations (positive ions) attached to anions (negative ions). The main kind of salt is sodium chloride with the chemical formula NaCl. It is formed when hydrochloric acid is added in sodium hydroxide. The reaction is as follows
HCl+NaOH2 gives NaCl+H20+heat
M... |
6642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business | Business | A business is an organization where people work together. In a business, people work to make and sell products or services. Other people buy the products and services. The business owner is the person who hires people for work. A business can earn a profit for the products and services it offers. The word business come... |
6643 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter | Winter | Winter is one of the four seasons and the coldest time of the year. The days are shorter and the nights are longer. Winter comes after autumn and before spring.
Winter begins at the winter solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere the winter solstice is usually December 21 or December 22. In the Southern Hemisphere the win... |
6644 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%201 | June 1 |
Events
Up to 1900
70 BC – An earthquake in Shandong, China, kills 6,000 people.
193 – Roman Emperor Marcus Didius is killed in his big house.
1204 - King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.
1215 - Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols u... |
6646 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta | Junta | A junta is a Spanish word that is used for military dictatorships.
Often juntas got their power because of a coup d'état.
Greece, Chile, Mauritania, Guatemala, Brazil, South Vietnam, and El Salvador are examples of countries that were once ruled by juntas.
The most famous junta nowadays is that of Myanmar, but Myanm... |
6656 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezahualcoyotl | Nezahualcoyotl | Nezahualcoyotl (1402 - 1472) was king of Texcoco, a part of the Aztec empire. He was also a famous poet.
The name Nezahualcoyotl is Nahuatl, it means "hungry coyote".
1402 births
1472 deaths
Mexican people
Poets
Kings and queens
Aztec
tl:Nezahualcóyotl |
6658 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Hidalgo | Miguel Hidalgo | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (8 May, 1753 – 30 July, 1811) was a Mexican priest. He started Mexico's war of independence against Spain.
Hidalgo made a speech in 1810 now called the Grito de Dolores. He called on the people to support the King of Spain against the rebellious Viceroy of Mexico. After a few months he was ta... |
6659 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20penalty | Death penalty | [[File:Capital punishment in the world.svg|thumb|500px|
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Death penalty, a form of capital punishment, is when a government or state ... |
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