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72251 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanine | Guanine | Guanine is one of the five main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA.
The others are adenine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil. With the formula C5H5N5O, guanine is a derivative of purine.
Basic principles
Guanine, along with adenine and cytosine, is present in both DNA and RNA, whereas thymine is usually... |
72253 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottalic%20theory | Glottalic theory | The glottalic theory is that Proto-Indo-European had ejective stops instead of voiced stops and so it had p’ t’ k’, not b d g, as the traditional version of the Proto-Indo-European sound system.
The glottalic theory was made in the United States by Paul Hopper and in the Soviet Union by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and Vyach... |
72256 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans | Proto-Indo-Europeans | The Proto-Indo-Europeans were a group of people after the last Ice age. Their existence, from 4000 BC or earlier, is implied by their language. They were the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE), an unwritten but now partly reconstructed prehistoric language.
People
Knowledge of them comes not only from... |
72257 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urheimat | Urheimat | Urheimat (German: ur- original, ancient; Heimat home, homeland) is a linguistic term meaning the original homeland of the speakers of a proto-language. Since many peoples tend to wander and spread, there is no exact Urheimat, but there is an Indo-European Urheimat different from the Germanic or Romance Urheimat. Recent... |
72258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolian%20hypothesis | Anatolian hypothesis | The Anatolian hypothesis of Proto-Indo-European origin is that the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language lived in Anatolia during the Neolithic era. When the Neolithic Revolution took place in the seventh and sixth millennia BC, the speakers spread over Europe. Those who advocate this hypothesis think that the I... |
72264 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%20Ishkhanyan | Rafael Ishkhanyan | Rafayel Avetisi Ishkhanyan (, 9 March 1922 – 6 February 1995) was an Armenian philologist and historian. He was a professor of the Yerevan State University.
Biography
In 1939, Ishkhanyan entered the department of Armenian language and literature of Yerevan State University. He fought in World War II. After the war, h... |
72271 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-country%20race | Cross-country race | A Cross-country race is any running race that takes place on different types of terrain. Different levels of competition include middle school , high school , collegiate men and , women 5km (3.1 mi) and , amateur, and professional.
The scoring in these events gives one point to the winner, two points to the person wh... |
72272 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20distance%20race | Long distance race | A long distance race is any running event on the track that is longer than 3000m. This includes such events as the 3000m run, the 3000m steeplechase, the 3200m run, the two mile run, the three mile run, 5000m run, five mile run, six mile run, and 10000m run, and so on.
The original marathon race, created in 1896, pai... |
72285 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw%20Convention | Warsaw Convention | distinguish the Warsaw Pact, which was a defence treaty between Eastern European nations
The Warsaw Convention is an international convention which regulates for international carriage of persons, luggage or goods performed by aircraft for reward.
It was signed in 1929 in Warsaw, it was amended in 1955 at The Hague ... |
72286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroner%20%28band%29 | Coroner (band) | Coroner was a thrash metal band from Switzerland. The band was formed in 1985. The band is with Noise record label. The band's most successful albums are No More Color, Mental Vortex and Grin.
References
Other websites
Coroner at Encyclopaedia Metallum
1980s establishments in Switzerland
1985 establishments in Eur... |
72295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchies | Ritchies | Ritchies is the largest independent supermarket group in the IGA network of Australia. It was started in 1870 by Thomas Ritchie who opened a food store in the tiny country village of Frankston, Victoria.
References
Other websites
Official Ritchies Web Site
Supermarkets of Australia |
72296 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Smith | Maggie Smith | Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (born 28 December 1934) is a British actress. She is better known as Maggie Smith. She made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 60 years. She has won many awards for acting, both for the stage and for movies, including seven BAFTA Awards (five competitive awards and two sp... |
72311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20Tsunami | Blood Tsunami | Blood Tsunami is a thrash metal band from Oslo, Norway. The band was formed in 2004.
Other websites
Official website
Blood Tsunami at Encyclopaedia Metallum
Thrash metal bands
Norwegian heavy metal bands
Oslo
Musical groups established in 2004
2004 establishments in Europe
21st-century establishments in Norway |
72312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates%20College | Bates College | Bates College is an American liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. Bates College was founded in 1855. 1,800 students attend Bates. Economics, English, Psychology, Biology, and History are popular majors at Bates College.
References
Other websites
Bates College
Colleges and universities in... |
72313 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk%20University | Suffolk University | Suffolk University is an American university in Boston, Massachusetts. Suffolk was founded in 1906 by Gleason Archer. The University has three main schools: Suffolk University Law School, Suffolk University College of Arts and Sciences, and Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School. The University remains best kno... |
72323 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20literature | French literature | French literature is the literature of France. It also includes literature that is written in French, even if the writer is not from France. There are countries besides France where French is also spoken. These countries include Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Algeria, and Morocco. Works that are written in Fren... |
72330 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Warsaw%20%281970%29 | Treaty of Warsaw (1970) | The Treaty of Warsaw () is a treaty between West Germany and the People's Republic of Poland. It was signed on December 7, 1970 and ratified by the German Bundestag on May 17, 1972.
In the treaty, both sides committed themselves to nonviolence and accepted the existing border - the Oder-Neisse line. This was a very se... |
72332 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Poland | History of Poland | The History of Poland is the history of rather different territories during the past millennium. At one time, in the 16th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the second largest state in Europe, after Russia. At other times there was no separate Polish state at all. Poland got back its independence in 1918, ... |
72336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-Lithuanian%20Union | Polish-Lithuanian Union | The term "Polish-Lithuanian union" means a development from the personal union between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the creation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, allso called the "Republic of the Two Nations", in 1569 and eventually to the creation of a short-lived state in 1791.
Th... |
72343 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20union | Personal union | A personal union is a relationship of two or more sovereign states, which, through law, share the same person as their head of state.
Personal unions can begin for very different reasons. In many cases a princess who is already married to a king becomes pregnant, and their child inherits the crown of both countries.... |
72346 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scordatura | Scordatura | Scordatura in music is a technique in which players of string instruments tune their strings to different notes from a normal tuning. The word “scordatura” is an Italian word which means “mistuning”. It was used for lutes, guitars, viols and instruments of the violin family.
Using a scordatura tuning made the instrume... |
72348 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028%20Summer%20Olympics | 2028 Summer Olympics | The 2028 Summer Olympics, which will be officially known as the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad, is a sporting event that will happen from July 21 to August 6 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Applying to host the games was supposed to begin in 2019. The host city was supposed to be announced in 2021. In July 201... |
72361 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan%20origins | Etruscan origins | There are three main hypotheses as to the origins of the Etruscan civilization. Autochthonous development in situ out of the Villanovan culture, as claimed by the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus who described the Etruscans as indigenous people who had always lived in Etruria. A migration from the Aegean sea,... |
72362 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan | Etruscan | Etruscan can mean:
Etruscans
Etruscan alphabet
Etruscan architecture
Etruscan chariot
Etruscan cities
Etruscan civilization
Etruscan history
Etruscan jewelry
Etruscan language
Etruscan mythology
Etruscan numerals
Etruscan Sibyl
Etruscan society
Etruscan terracotta warriors
Species
Etruscan honeysuckle
... |
72363 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan%20language | Etruscan language | The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscans in the ancient area of Etruria (what is now Tuscany, western Umbria and northern Latium) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna (where the Gauls took the place of the Etruscans), in Italy.
Inscriptions have been found in northwestern and west-c... |
72364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian%20language | Albanian language | The Albanian language () is an Indo-European language. It is spoken mostly in Albania (3,500,000), Kosovo and (500,000) Republic of North Macedonia.
Dialects
Ghegs, Tosks, Arbëresh, Arvanites, Arbanasi
References
Other websites
An overview of the Albanian language and culture
Albanian language family tree
List... |
72365 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trialeti%20culture | Trialeti culture | The Trialeti culture was seen around the 2nd millennium B.C. In the late 3rd millennium B.C. settlements of the Kura-Araxes culture began to be replaced by early Trialeti culture sites. The Trialeti culture was the second culture to appear in the Caucasus, after the Kura-Araxes culture. The Trialeti culture shows close... |
72367 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kura-Araxes%20culture | Kura-Araxes culture | The Kura-Araxes culture or the Early trans-Caucasian culture, a people that lived from 3400 BC until about 2000 BC. The earliest evidence for this culture is found on the Ararat plain; thence it spread to Georgia by 3000 B.C.
The land they lived in are now Armenia, Georgia , Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.
References
... |
72368 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel | Biodiesel | Biodiesel is a type of fuel prepared by changing vegetable oil, animal fat, special types of algae and possibly even sewage. It is considered a type of renewable energy, since it all comes from living plants and animals. It can be used to power an engine, usually for vehicles, including airplanes. It replaces diesel... |
72369 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod | Nimrod | Nimrod (; , an-Namrūd) according to the Bible was the son of Cush, grandson of Ham and a "mighty hunter before the Lord" who built cities at Akkad, Erech (Uruk), and Babel. According to many legends, and as told by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, he became an evil tyrant who forced all his subjects to bake bric... |
72375 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Kavner | Julie Kavner | Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress and comedienne, best known for playing Brenda Morgenstern on Rhoda in the 1970s, as an actress in several Woody Allen-directed films and playing the voice of Marge Simpson on the animated television show T... |
72399 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age%20of%20Empires | Age of Empires | Age of Empires is a series of real-time strategy computer games made by Ensemble studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
History
Three games in the main series are: Age of Empires, Age of Empires II and Age of Empires III. There is also a spinoff game called Age of Mythology. It is similar to Age of Empires,... |
72403 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20%28instrument%29 | Bridge (instrument) | For other meanings, see Bridge (disambiguation).
A bridge on a string instrument is something that stands on the body of the instrument and supports the strings. It sends the vibrations of the strings to the main part of the instrument so that the sound can be heard.
The bridge of an instrument in the violin famil... |
72404 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bridge (disambiguation) | Bridge may mean:
Bridge (structure), a structure built so that a transportation route can cross above an obstacle.
The Bridge (documentary movie), a movie about suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Bridge (dentistry), a fixed prosthesis used to replace missing teeth.
Bridge (exercise), most commonly the balancing of... |
72405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilwood | Brazilwood | Brazilwood or Pau-Brasil, sometimes known as Pernambuco wood (Caesalpina echinata) is a Brazilian tree. It has a dense, orange-red wood (which takes a high shine), and it is the most frequently used wood for making bows for string instruments from the violin family. The wood also gives a red dye called brazilin.
Ther... |
72434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav | Chav | Chav (male) and chavette (female) are mainly negative, unkind slang words used in the United Kingdom for a subcultural stereotype of young underclass white people. Chav: "a young working class person who dresses in casual sports clothing or a baseball cap".
They may wear fashion based on American hip-hop such as fake ... |
72435 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20house | Council house | The council house is a form of public housing found in Ireland and the United Kingdom, sometimes called social housing in modern times. Council houses were built and operated by local councils to help the local population. As of 2005, approximately 20% of the country's housing is owned by local councils or by housing a... |
72438 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Madness | Midnight Madness | Midnight Madness is a 1980 comedy movie from Walt Disney Productions, starring David Naughton. The movie is about a group of college students who participate in an all night puzzle solving race. It is Michael J. Fox's first film role.
The movie did not do well in theaters and many critics did not like it. However, the... |
72443 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barvas | Barvas | Barvas or Barabhas is a village on the Isle of Lewis. It is said to have the biggest percentage of Gaelic speakers in Scotland, (74.7% here speak Gaelic.)
Villages in Scotland |
72445 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis | Lewis | Lewis is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Western Isles (or Outer Hebrides) of Scotland.
Its biggest town is called Stornoway, which has a population of over 5000. Most people on the island speak Gaelic. On the island, there is a town called Barvas, which is the place which has the big... |
72446 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stornoway | Stornoway | Stornoway is the biggest town in the Outer Hebrides. It is on the Isle of Lewis, and over 5,000 people live there. It has nearby the Stornoway Airport, an old RAF airbase which now acts a link between the island and the Scottish mainland.
Towns in Scotland |
72447 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skye | Skye | Skye is the largest and most northerly island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. More than 9000 people live there, and half of the people speak Gaelic. The main settlement is Portree, known for its picturesque harbour.
The island has been occupied since the mesolithic period and has a colourful history. It was rule by... |
72467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20Summer%20Olympics | 2024 Summer Olympics | The 2024 Summer Olympics, which will be officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, is a sporting event that will happen from July 26 to August 11 in Paris, France.
On July 11, 2017, a proposal to choose the 2024 and 2028 Olympic host cities at the same time was approved by an Extraordinary IOC Session in La... |
72476 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Winter%20Olympics | 2022 Winter Olympics | The 2022 Winter Olympics, formally called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, is the 24th Games of the Winter Olympics. It is an international winter sports event that will be held from February 4 to February 20, 2022. The winning bid was announced in the summer of 2015 and Beijing was chosen, and since it hosted the 2008 ... |
72479 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarneri | Guarneri | Guarneri is the name of a family of famous violin makers from Cremona in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Together with the families Amati and Stradivari they made some of the best violins the world has known.
Andrea Guarneri (c. 1626 - 7 December 1698) was a pupil in the workshop of Nicolo Amati from 1641 to... |
72480 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amati | Amati | Amati is the name of a family of Italian violin makers. They made violins between about 1549 and 1740. They worked in Cremona in Italy, the town which is famous for violin making.
Andrea Amati: the founder of the family
The most famous member of the family was Andrea Amati who was born some time before 1511 and died... |
72483 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardians%20of%20Scotland | Guardians of Scotland | The Guardians of Scotland were appointed to act as King during the two interregnums of 1290-1292 and 1296-1302.
An interregum is a time when a monarchy has no king. It is from the Latin for "between reigns".
History of Scotland
1292 establishments
Establishments in Scotland
14th-century disestablishments in Europe
... |
72490 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montel%20Vontavious%20Porter | Montel Vontavious Porter | Alvin Burke, Jr. (born October 28, 1973) is an American professional wrestler and rapper. He is better known by the ring name Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP). He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He has also worked with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). He... |
72493 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel | Pretzel | A pretzel (French: Bretzel, Alsatian: bradchdal, German: Breze or Brezel) is a baked snack that originated in Germany. It is traditionally twisted into a unique knot-like shape. The pretzel dough is made from wheat flour and yeast. Before baking, it is dipped into "Natronlauge" (, sodium hydroxide solution (NaOH) or so... |
72496 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoplifting | Shoplifting | Shoplifting is theft by stealing goods or money from a retail store. Shoplifting is punishable by law enforcement.
Theft
no:Shoplifter (sang) |
72497 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait | Portrait | A portrait is a painting or a photograph of a person's face and its expression. The purpose of a portrait is to show the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography, a portrait is actually not a snapshot, but a calm image of a person in a still position. A portrait normally s... |
72498 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid | Steroid | A steroid is a organic compound, either natural or man-made, which has four cycloalkane rings in its structure. Plants, animals and fungi make hundreds of different natural steroids.
Steroid hormones are steroids which act as hormones in the body. Natural steroid hormones are usually made from cholesterol in the adren... |
72499 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20rage | Road rage | Road rage means violent behavior by a driver of a road vehicle. This includes verbal abuse, offensive gestures, and dangerous driving methods. Road rage may cause violence or accidents.
References
Human behavior
Violence |
72500 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland | Graceland | Graceland is a 13.8 acre estate and large white-colored mansion that was owned by Elvis Presley. It is located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Further reading
Engel, Matthew. "Still stuck on Elvis, fans exalt the King". The Guardian (London), August 17, 2002, p. 1.
Harris, John. "Talking about Graceland". The Guardian (Lo... |
72511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Shearer | Harry Shearer | Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943, in Los Angeles, California) is an American comedic actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, musician, author, radio host, director and producer. Shearer is famous for playing the voices of several minor characters for The Simpsons (1989 to present).
Shearer was a child actor.... |
72512 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Cartwright | Nancy Cartwright | Nancy Jean Cartwright (born on October 25, 1957 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, clown, jester, mime and tap dancer. She is known for providing the voices of Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Todd Flanders and Ralph Wiggum on the animated television show The Simpsons. She also plays the voice... |
72516 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco%20Lee | Coco Lee | Coco Lee (; born Ferren Lee, 17 January 1975, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-American pop, dance and urban contemporary singer. Her real name is Ferren Lee-Kelly and 李美林 Lǐ Měi Lín in Chinese (although she also uses the stage name 李玟 Lǐ Wen when she writes songs). She sings Cantonese, Mandarin and English.
Biography
CoCo L... |
72518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Schneidermann | Daniel Schneidermann | Daniel Schneidermann (born April 5, 1958 in Paris) is a French journalist. He mainly reports about televised media. He is most active in weekly columns. Schneidermann has written in Le Monde and is presently in Libération. He also can be seen on the television program Arrêt sur images (Freeze-frame), broadcast by the p... |
72522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound%20%28mass%29 | Pound (mass) | A pound (usually abbreviated as lb, plural lbs) is a unit used to measure the mass of something. It is used in the imperial system and the United States customary system. There are a number of different definitions. The most commonly used definitions band today is the international avoirdupois pound. This is equal to ... |
72540 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Armenia | Eastern Armenia | Eastern Armenia was a part of Ottoman Armenia and Persian that was merged with the Russian empire.
The Eastern Armenian dialect of the Armenian language is spoken mostly in the Caucasus region (including Armenia) and in Iran and Russia.
Related pages
History of Armenia
Ottoman Armenia
Russian Armenia
Greater Armenia
... |
72541 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Armenia | Western Armenia | Western Armenia (), also referred to as Byzantine Armenia, later Turkish Armenia, or Ottoman Armenia is a term coined following the division of Greater Armenia between Byzantine Empire (Western Armenia) and Persia (Eastern Armenia) in 387 AC.
History
After the death of Armenian king Arshak III, in 390 AC, the Western ... |
72542 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Poland%20%281385%E2%80%931569%29 | Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569) | The Kingdom of Poland of the Jagiellons lasted from 1385 to 1569. It was created by the accession of Wladislaus II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania, to the Polish throne in 1386. The Union of Krewo united Poland and Lithuania into one monarchy. The union was confirmed but also transformed by the Union of Lublin in 156... |
72543 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagiellon%20dynasty | Jagiellon dynasty | The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty that came from Lithuania and reigned in some Central European countries (present day Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Kaliningrad, parts of Russia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia) between the 14th and 16th century.
Members of the dynasty were grand dukes of ... |
72547 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27oh%21 | D'oh! | D'oh! (also spelled out as annoyed grunt), is a famous catchphrase created by the fictional character Homer Simpson, from the popular animated television series, The Simpsons. It was also famously accepted into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2002. The quote is normally used when Homer hurts himself, finds out that he... |
72550 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua%20regia | Aqua regia | Aqua regia (Royal water in Latin) is a very strong acid. It is made by mixing one part concentrated nitric acid and three parts concentrated hydrochloric acid. The acid was named by alchemists because it can dissolve the noble metals gold and platinum. Tantalum, iridium and a few other metals are not dissolved by it.
... |
72551 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inari%20%28mythology%29 | Inari (mythology) | is the Japanese kami (spirit) of fertility, rice and agriculture. Inari is sometimes represented as a male, female or both.
The traditional messengers of Inari are foxes.
References
Japanese deities |
72554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan%20hypothesis | Kurgan hypothesis | The Kurgan model of Indo-European origins is about both the people and their Proto-Indo-European language.
It uses both archaeology and linguistics to show the history of their culture at different stages of the Indo-European expansion.
The Kurgan model is the most widely accepted theory on the origins of Indo-Europe... |
72558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marija%20Gimbutas | Marija Gimbutas | Marija Gimbutas (Lithuanian: Marija Gimbutienė, born Marija Birutė Alseikaitė) (Vilnius, Lithuania, January 23, 1921 – Los Angeles, United States February 2, 1994), was a Lithuanian-American archeologist, known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and the theories that she introdu... |
72559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luwians | Luwians | The Luwians also known as Luvians were a people closely related to the Hittites. Sometime after 2300, the Luwians, an Indo-European-speaking people, settled in southern Anatolia.
The Luwians were related to the Hittites and were the dominant group in the Late Hittite culture.
Related pages
Urartu
Luwian Language
Ref... |
72562 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygia | Phrygia | Phrygia () was a kingdom in the west central part of the Anatolia. The Phrygian people started to live in the area from c. 1200 BC, and made a kingdom in the 8th century BC. It was ruined by Cimmerian invaders c. 690 BC, then conquered by its neighbor Lydia, before it passed successively into the Persian Empire of Cyru... |
72565 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20Genocide | White Genocide | White Genocide (Armenian: Ճերմակ or սպիտակ ջարդ, Jermag or Spitag Chart) is the word Western Armenians use to describe assimilation in the West. Armenians were forcibly deported from their homeland in Anatolia during the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1918, and never allowed to return. Western Armenians consider Armenians w... |
72568 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier%20Drogba | Didier Drogba | Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (born 11 March 1978 in Abidjan) is a retired Côte d'Ivoire professional football player.
Early life
He lived in Abidjan until he was 5 years old and then he moved to France to live with his uncle, Michael Goba. His uncle had been a professional football player in Côte d'Ivoire.
Career
In t... |
72579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscatine%2C%20Iowa | Muscatine, Iowa | Muscatine is a city in Muscatine County, Iowa. In 2000, 22,697 people lived in the city of Muscatine.
History
Muscatine began as a trading post in 1833. The city was first called Bloomington in 1839. The name was later changed because there were so many other cities named Bloomington. Some people think the name "Musca... |
72582 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20Army | Armenian Army | The Armenian Army is the army of Armenia. Armenia has sent around 1,500 officers to be trained in Greece and Russia over the past years. Since the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War, Armenia has made the army boost the defense and help defend Nagorno-Karabakh from a possible new attack by neighboring Azerbaijan.
Related ... |
72583 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20Air%20Defense | Armenian Air Defense | The Armenian Air Defense is the anti-aircraft group of the Armed Forces of Armenia. It was a part of the military reform program of Ter-Grigoriants.
Armenian anti-aircraft defense has an anti-aircraft missile brigade and two regiments armed with 100 missile launchers of various models and fixes. These missile launche... |
72584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20Armenia | Armed Forces of Armenia | The Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia is the Army, Air Defense, and Border Guard. Some parts were formed out of the former Soviet forces in the Armenian SSR.
The Commander-in-Chief of the military is the President of Armenia, currently Robert Kocharyan. The Ministry of Defense is in charge of political leadersh... |
72586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%20of%20Armenia | President of Armenia | The president of Armenia (, Hayastani Nakhagah) is the head of state of Armenia. They are elected to a single seven year term by the National Assembly of Armenia.
List
References
Other websites
Rulers of Armenia
1991 establishments in Europe
20th-century establishments in Armenia |
72587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levon%20Ter-Petrosyan | Levon Ter-Petrosyan | Levon Ter-Petrosyan (Armenian: Լևոն Տեր-Պետրոսյան; Russian: Левон Тер-Петросян) (born January 9, 1945), also Levon Ter-Petrosyan, was the President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998. Because of many economic and political problems, he resigned on February 3, 1998. He was replaced by Robert Kocharyan. Levon Ter Petrosian, an... |
72589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation%20%28music%29 | Intonation (music) | Intonation, in music, can have two different meanings:
In plainchant, intonation is when a solo singer - usually the priest - sings the first phrase of a piece of music before the choir start to sing. The intonation is the tune on which the music is based. For example, when the choir sings a piece called Gloria the ... |
72590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical%20tuning | Musical tuning | In music tuning an instrument means getting it ready so that when it is played it will sound at the correct pitch: not too high or too low.
When two or more instruments play together it is particularly important that they are in tune with one another. This means that when they play the same note it is indeed exactly ... |
72592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20members%20of%20the%20Red%20Army%20Faction | List of members of the Red Army Faction | This is a list of Members of the Red Army Faction. After Andreas Baader escaped from jail in 1970, the media began referring to the "Baader-Meinhoff Gang". When Baader and Meinhof were arrested, they became known as the Red Army Faction.
First generation
These are the earliest members, from the late 1960s. The most i... |
72603 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20of%20K%C3%B6penick | Captain of Köpenick | The Captain of Köpenick (born Wilhelm Voigt on February 13, 1849 - January 3, 1922) was a German shoemaker, criminal and impostor who became world-famous in 1906 for a trick he played in Berlin when he pretended to be a Captain in the army.
Early life
Voigt was born in Tilsit, a town which was then part of Germany bu... |
72611 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites | Hittites | The Hittites were an ancient people from Anatolia who spoke an Indo-European language. They established a kingdom centered at Hattusha in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC.
At its peak, the Hittite Empire covered most of modern Turkey and Syria. This was under the reigns of Suppiluliuma I (~1350–1322) an... |
72612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppiluliuma%20II | Suppiluliuma II | Suppiluliuma II, the son of Tudhaliya IV, was the last known king of the New Kingdom of the Hittite Empire, ruling 1207 BCE – c.1178 BCE, contemporary with Tukulti-Ninurta I of Assyira.
He is known from two inscriptions in hieroglyphics. They record wars against former vassal Tarhuntassa, and against Alasiya in Cy... |
72621 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Rhandeia | Battle of Rhandeia | The Battle of Rhandeia was a battle fought between Armenia and Parthia against the Roman Empire. It was fought just after the Mithridatic Wars. The Romans were led by Lucius Caesennius Paetus. They were defeated by the Parthian-Armenian army led by Tiridates I of Armenia.
The Parthians made Tiridates the King of Armen... |
72622 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrochloric%20acid | Hydrochloric acid | Hydrochloric acid is a chemical compound. It is a solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas that is dissolved in water. In the past, people called it muriatic acid. It is widely used in industry, and it is also made by the stomach to help digest food. Hydrochloric acid, like all acids, react with bases to produce salts (... |
72628 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayr%20monastery | Kobayr monastery | Kobayr (Armenian: Կոբայր) is a 12th century Armenian Apostolic Church monastery. It is located in the village Kober within Lori marz, Armenia.
Kobayr was built on a shelf of a gorge by the princes of the junior Bagratuni branch, Kyurikids in 1171. The monastery was later acquired by the Zakarids and converted into a ... |
72629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hnevank | Hnevank | Hnevank (, means old monastery) is a 7th century Armenian Apostolic Church monastery. It is near the city of Stepanavan in the Lori marz of Armenia. The monastery is on a hill within a gorge, near where the Dzoraget and Gargar rivers join.
The monastery was all rebuilt by lord Smbat of the House of Orbelian, a branch ... |
72636 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%27s%20disease | Huntington's disease | Huntington's disease is a genetic disorder. It affects the brain and gets worse over time. This can lead to problems with moving, memory loss as well as thinking skills. Lastly, it also causes changes in behavior. Chorea is one of the main symptoms of Huntington's disease. On average, the disease leads to death about ... |
72642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenoidectomy | Adenoidectomy | Adenoidectomy is the process of taking out a person's adenoids from the back of their throat through the process of surgery. They may be removed for several reasons, including difficulty breathing through the nose and having ear infections. The surgery is common in young kids. The procedure is usually performed using a... |
72649 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish%20Armenian%20Reconciliation%20Commission | Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission | The Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission was made in 2001 to help Turkey and Armenia be closer. The main goal was to make the governments more active.
Members
Gunduz Aktan (Ankara) - resigned June 2003
Alexander Arzoumanian (Yerevan)
Ustun Erguder (Istanbul)
Sadi Erguvenc (Istanbul) - resigned June 2003
Da... |
72650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13 | ROT13 | ROT13 (or ROT-13) is a very simple form of encryption cipher. It is a variant of a Caesar cipher. In it, the alphabet is written in two lines, of 13 characters each. Encryption, and decryption is done by simply switching the letters that are below each other. That way, A becomes N, B becomes O, and so on.
It is widely... |
72659 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Kahn | Tony Kahn | Tony Kahn is an American radiohost, narrator, and writer who has won many awards. He is the son of Hollywood movie writer Gordon Kahn.
Early life
Kahn was born in Los Angeles, California. His father was placed on a list of people with political beliefs that some people thought were not acceptable. This happened duri... |
72660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT | DDT | DDT is a well-known pesticide. The abbreviation stands for Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane, one of its names. The Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948, for his discovery. In the 1960s there was a study that questioned if it was good to spread large amounts of... |
72667 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleobase | Nucleobase | A nucleobase is a part of RNA and DNA which may be involved in pairing (see base pair). Nucleobases are important for genetics.
They include cytosine, guanine, adenine, thymine in (DNA), uracil in (RNA) and xanthine and hypoxanthine (mutated forms of guanine and adenine). These are abbreviated as C, G, A, T, U, X and ... |
72672 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%97dainiai | Kėdainiai | Kėdainiai is a town in the centre of Lithuania. The river Nevėžis passes by the town. More than 30.000 people live here. Kėdainiai has an old town with a lot of churches. Also, Kėdainiai is a centre of industry, especially chemistry.
Cities in Lithuania |
72673 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base%20pair | Base pair | In molecular biology, two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA strands that are connected by hydrogen bonds are called a base pair (often abbreviated bp).
In DNA pairing, adenine (A) forms a base pair with thymine (T),
to form an A/T base pair.
Guanine (G) pairs with cytosine (C) in DNA, to form a G/C base pair.... |
72674 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementarity%20%28molecular%20biology%29 | Complementarity (molecular biology) | In molecular biology, complementarity is a property (something that it can do) of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. Each nucleotide has a nitrogenous base, and each nitrogenous base can pair up with the nitrogenous base from another different nucleotide. One can say that the nitrogenous base is complementary to the ot... |
72675 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando | Glissando | In music a glissando is a slide up or down the notes of a scale. The plural is “glissandi”. In written music the instruction to the player is often shortened to “gliss”. The word comes from the French “glisser” = “to slide”.
With the singing voice, or with an instrument such as the trombone or a string instrument a... |
72677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almudena%20Cathedral | Almudena Cathedral | The Almudena Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de la Almudena) is a Catholic cathedral in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the newest landmarks in Madrid. It is on a hilltop, next to the Royal Palace.
It was designed as long ago as 1879, but then the plans were changed to make it look like a 13th-century cathedral like the one... |
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