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76897 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza%20Dushku | Eliza Dushku | Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30, 1980) is an American television and movie actress. She has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as True Lies, The New Guy, Bring It On, and Wrong Turn. She is also well known for her acting on television, such as her role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as Faith. She ... |
76900 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Robson | Sandy Robson | Sandy Wayne Robson (born November 6, 1973 in Peterborough, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. He is probably best known for hosting the game show Trash to Treasure and his role as "Dude" in The N's television series About a Girl.
Biography
A Toronto native, Robson's breakthrough role was in Crazy Canucks, the story of the ... |
76967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s%20Prayer | Lord's Prayer | The Lord's Prayer is the best known prayer in the Christian religion. It is also known as the Our Father (the first two words of the prayer) and Pater noster (which is Latin for "Our Father"). It was not until the Protestant Reformation that it was called the Lord's Prayer.
The prayer is spoken in two places in the Ne... |
76969 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20%28music%29 | Service (music) | In Anglican church music, a Service is a piece of music for the choir to sing during a service of worship. It uses the words which are a traditional part of the service. The choir is usually accompanied by the organ, but sometimes it can be just for choir without organ.
In Morning Prayer the words which are set to ... |
76971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20station | Space station | A space station is a artificial satellite in space that people can live at. All past and current space stations have been in low Earth orbit. Space stations can dock with other spacecraft. This allows transferring cargo and people. At present the International Space Station is the only space station in orbit. The first... |
76996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20de%20Graaff%20Generator | Van de Graaff Generator | A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic machine. It uses a moving, nonmetallic belt to accumulate very high voltages on a hollow metal globe. Voltage differences achieved in modern Van de Graaff generators can reach 5 megavolts. Applications for these high voltage generators include driving X-ray tubes, accele... |
77004 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20server | Time server | A time server is a special computer in a computer network.
It is important that computers on a network use the same time. Time servers use an atomic clock, or they ask other computers on the network about the time. They then tell this time to all the other computers in the same network. Common protocols to do this ar... |
77016 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Prepon | Laura Prepon | Laura Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Donna Pinciotti on the Fox television series That '70s Show and as Hannah Daniels on the ABC television series October Road. She plays Alex in Orange Is the New Black.
Other websites
Biography from the That '70s Show websit... |
77025 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Massaro | Ashley Massaro | Ashley Marie Massaro (May 26, 1979 – May 16, 2019), also known simply as Ashley, was an American pictorial model and professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) while wrestling on its Raw brand.
She was the winner of the Raw Diva Search 2005 and was on the cover of t... |
77028 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina%20Perez | Melina Perez | Melina Nava Pérez (born March 9, 1979; ring name Melina) is an American professional wrestler and manager. She is best known for working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where she wrestled on its Raw and SmackDown brands. She was released from her contract with the WWE on August 5, 2011.
Early life
Pérez began... |
77031 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Dumas | Amy Dumas | Amy Christine Dumas (born April 14, 1975)
better known by her ring name Lita, is an American former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler and valet. While working with WWE from 2000 to 2006, she became one of the most popular female wrestlers in the company's history.
Career
After working for a short time on th... |
77037 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafic | Mafic | Mafic is an adjective describing a silicate mineral or igneous rock which is rich in magnesium and iron. The term is a portmanteau, made up from "magnesium" and "ferric".
Mafic minerals are usually dark in color and have a specific gravity greater than 3. Common rock-forming mafic minerals include olivine, pyroxene, ... |
77039 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific%20gravity | Specific gravity | Specific Gravity (SG) is a special case of relative density.
It is defined as the ratio of the density of a given substance, to the density of water (H2O). Substances with a specific gravity greater than 1 are heavier than water, and those with a specific gravity of less than 1 are lighter than water.
SG is by defini... |
77040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta%20Stone | Rosetta Stone | The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing carved into it. There are 3 types of writing on the Rosetta stone; Greek, Egyptian, and another form of Egyptian writing. French soldiers found it in Egypt in 1799. It helped people get a better understanding of the Ancient Egyptian writing system called hieroglyphics. Its disc... |
77042 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain | Curtain | A curtain is a piece of cloth used to block light, water, or cold air from entering a place (some curtains are better at blocking than others because of the type of fabric used). Curtains are hung around showers to keep water off the floor around the shower. Curtains are also hung around windows to keep light from com... |
77046 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal%20record | Criminal record | A criminal record is a list of crimes that a person has done in the past. These records are kept by different law enforcement agencies.
People can get a criminal record by things like speeding, robbery, breaking and entering and murdering. Getting a criminal record can stop people from getting certain jobs and going ov... |
77049 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor | Visitor | A visitor is a person who does not permanently live in a place. If someone says "I am a visitor here", that means that they do not live in that place all the time.
Related pages
Hospitality
Social sciences |
77050 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso | Espresso | Espresso is a type of Italian coffee that is concentrated. In order to make espresso, coffee beans are powdered and hot water is added under high pressure. This is done using an espresso machine or a macchinetta. Usually, espresso is made using 7 grams of coffee beans. This gives espresso a very strong flavor. Because ... |
77051 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damson | Damson | A damson is a kind of plum. Like the plum, it comes from the Rosaceae family. Originally, the fruit comes from the Mediterranean. Damsons are thought to be members of the 'European Plum' family, which also includes greengage, mirabelle, quetsche, and Italian prune plums. The damson is generally less sweet than other ki... |
77053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-time | Half-time | Half-time is the name of a break in the middle of a sports game. This break gives players a chance to rest. It also gives watchers of the game time to stretch, eat, or go to the bathroom without missing the game. During half-time, there is usually a show on the field of play. It may include a marching band or something... |
77064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20mechanics | Fluid mechanics | Fluid mechanics is the study of how fluids move and the forces on them. (Fluids include liquids and gases.)
Fluid mechanics can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest, and fluid dynamics, the study of fluids in motion. It is a branch of continuum mechanics, a subject which models matter without usi... |
77065 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20statics | Fluid statics | Fluid statics (also called hydrostatics) is the science of fluids at rest, and is a sub-field within fluid mechanics. The term usually refers to the mathematical treatment of the subject. It embraces the study of the conditions under which fluids are at rest in stable equilibrium. The use of fluid to do work is called ... |
77078 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mero%C3%AB | Meroë | Meroë (Meroitic: Medewi or Bedewi) is the name of an ancient city. What remains of the city is on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan. It lies about 200 km north-east of Khartoum.
There are a few villages nearby. They are called Bagrawiyah.
Meroë was the capita... |
77079 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxe-Eisenach | Saxe-Eisenach | Saxe-Eisenach () was the name of three different Ernestine duchies that existed at different times in Thuringia. The chief town and capital of all three duchies was Eisenach.
History
The first Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach was created in 1596 for Johann Ernst, younger son of Johann Frederick II of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach.
In 1... |
77096 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxative | Laxative | A laxative is a food or drug taken to make bowel movements easier, or to treat constipation. Sometimes taking powerful or lots of laxatives can cause diarrhea or a flatulence.
Laxatives work by helping your intestines digest undigested food, and do not make you lose weight. Despite this, some people with eating diso... |
77098 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel%20Barkal | Jebel Barkal | Jebel Barkal, also called Gebel Barkal, is a small mountain in Sudan. It is about 400 kilometers (248.6 miles) north of a city called Khartoum. This mountain is about high and has a flat top.
Mountains of Africa
Sudan |
77100 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault%20Mirage%20III | Dassault Mirage III | The Mirage III is a fighter aircraft made by French airplane company Dassault Aviation. If first flew in 1956 and was introduced in 1961. It used a triangle wing (called a delta wing). It had 2 cannons and some missiles. Because it was an interceptor, an airplane made to shoot down enemy airplanes at high speed, it cou... |
77102 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous%20plant | Herbaceous plant | A herbaceous plant is a plant that does not have much wood and its stems are green and soft. These plants grow fast and produce flowers and many seeds in a short period of time.
In Botany, the word for a herbaceous plant is herb (from Latin herba, "grass") but it is common to use the word herb only for plants that are... |
77103 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy | Trophy | A trophy is an object given to someone because of an accomplishment. These are often given out through sporting events.
A trophy can be in the shape of a cup, a bowl, a plaque, a mug (these usually painted or engraved with something), a human shape (like the Emmy Award), or a spaceship (like the Hugo Award for scien... |
77105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%20Creek | Nickel Creek | Nickel Creek was an American acoustic musical group. Although the group's music has roots in bluegrass, Nickel Creek now calls itself "progressive acoustic". The band has three people: Chris Thile (mandolin), Sean Watkins (guitar), and Sara Watkins (violin). A fourth member also plays bass with the band. Chris Thile's ... |
77107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day%20War | Six-Day War | The Six-Day War was a war that started on 5 June 1967 and ended 10 June 1967. Israel fought Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, but many other countries helped the different sides.
History
The war began by Egypt planning to capture Israel, which was seen by the Arab world as an illegitimate state. The war also began because of... |
77109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus%20afarensis | Australopithecus afarensis | Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct hominid. It lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago. A. afarensis was similar to slightly later Australopithecus africanus. It had a slender build.
A. afarensis may be more closely related to the genus Homo than A. africanus. Homo includes the modern human species, Homo sap... |
77112 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakalipithecus | Nakalipithecus | Nakalipithecus nakayamai is a fossil ape species. It was a discovery of a 10-million-year-old jawbone with teeth, in a volcanic mud in Nakali, Kenya. N. nakayamai is thought to have lived around 9.9 million to 9.8 million years ago. More teeth were found in the same place; eleven of them are thought to belong to this s... |
77113 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defoliant | Defoliant | Defoliants are a type of chemical that destroys plants like trees, bushes and grass .
A very common defoliant is Agent Orange used by the US Airforce in the Vietnam War to destroy cover of the enemy. It killed the rainforest and caused birth defects as well as other illnesses among Vietnamese and US soldiers
Referenc... |
77119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20lights | Phoenix lights | The Phoenix Lights (sometimes called the "Lights over Phoenix") were a light phenomenon that occurred on March 13 1997 over Arizona and Nevada, in the United States. Some claim that they were UFOs. The governor of Arizona also said he thought they could be UFOs. The thing was V-shaped with 5 lights at the bottom of it ... |
77120 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/272 | 272 | Saint Denis, Bishop of Paris and Patron Saint of France |
77124 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/909 | 909 | Year 909 (CMIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
Events
The Maya leave their biggest towns and cities.
Births
Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury
References |
77130 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing%20English%20as%20a%20foreign%20language | Testing English as a foreign language | This page lists ways of testing English as a foreign language (EFL). It is for teachers of English who teach people whose first language is not English. It lists tests with brief descriptions.
Types of exam
Cambridge exams
The Cambridge exams are very popular in Europe. The University of Cambridge ESOL makes these ex... |
77142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumetazoa | Eumetazoa | Eumetazoa is a clade which includes all major animal phyla except sponges, and a few other groups of animals, such as the Placozoa. The Eumetazoa have true tissues, neurons, and an embryo that goes through a gastrula stage.
Subgroups
Radiata
Bilateria
References
Borchiellini C. et al. 2001. Journal of Evoluti... |
77148 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateria | Bilateria | The Bilateria are animals which are bilaterally symmetrical. They have front and a back end, an upside and downside, and a left and right side. Most animals are bilateral.
Main subgroups
Deuterostomia
Echinodermata (20,000 species, 7000 living)
Chordata. mostly Vertebrata (63,000 species)
Hemichordata
Protosto... |
77161 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyre | Lyre | A lyre (pronounce to rhyme with "fire") is an instrument which is like a mixture between a harp and a guitar. It is held in one hand and the strings are strummed using the other hand. Lyres were among the first string instruments to be invented.
Plucked string instruments
Early musical instruments |
77165 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20crust | Oceanic crust | The oceanic crust is the part of Earth's lithosphere that is under the ocean basins.
Oceanic crust is primarily composed of mafic rocks, or sima which is named for its magnesium silicate minerals. It is thinner than continental crust, and is about 7-10 kilometers thick, however it is more dense, having a mean density ... |
77166 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20crust | Continental crust | The continental crust is the layer of granitic, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks which form the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.
It consists mostly of feldspar and other sialic rocks. It is less dense than the material of the Earth's mantle, which consis... |
77169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cities%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | List of cities in the United Kingdom | This is a List of cities in the United Kingdom. This list includes all places with city status.
References
United Kingdom
United Kingdom-related lists
United Kingdom |
77177 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift%20work | Shift work | Shift work is a working practice which is designed to use all 24 hours of a day, and not only the standard working day hours.
A day for example can be divided into three eight-hour shifts. An employee only works one of the shifts in each day. The "first shift" is in the morning, the "second shift" is in the afternoon ... |
77180 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tang%20Saum%C3%A2tre | Étang Saumâtre | Étang Saumâtre (in English, brackish pond) is the largest lake of Haiti. It is the second largest lake of Hispaniola, after Lake Enriquillo. It is also known as Lake Azuei. It is known as Lago del Fondo in the Dominican Republic. Its Taíno name was Yainagua.
The lake is on the arid part of the Plain of the Cul-de-Sac.... |
77187 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman%20F6F%20Hellcat | Grumman F6F Hellcat | The F6F Hellcat was a United States Navy fighter aircraft made by Grumman during World War II. I t first flew in 1942 and was introduced in 1943. It was supposed to be a little bit better than the F4F Wildcat, but became a big improvement. It was more powerful and could turn better. It was made to fight the Japanese... |
77188 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman%20F4F%20Wildcat | Grumman F4F Wildcat | The F4F Wildcat was a fighter aircraft made by Grumman. It first flew in 1937, and was introduced in 1940. It was used in the Pacific during the early years of World War II. It could take off from aircraft carriers. During the war, it mainly fought the A6M Zero. Because the Wildcat was not beating the Zero, a new airpl... |
77189 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi%20A6M%20Zero | Mitsubishi A6M Zero | The Mitsubishi A6M Zero, often called just the A6M Zero or simply the Zero was a long range carrier ship-based fighter aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. The aircraft was built by Mitsubishi, making its first flight in 1939, and entering naval service in 1940.
It was the primary fighter used ... |
77194 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONCACAF%20Champions%20League | CONCACAF Champions League | The CONCACAF Champions League (originally called the CONCACAF Champions' Cup) is a football competition between the best club teams in North and Central America and the Caribbean. The teams are selected by the Central American and Caribbean Association of Football (the CONCACAF) because of their good performances in ma... |
77195 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation%20of%20North%2C%20Central%20American%20and%20Caribbean%20Association%20Football | Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football | The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football often referred to as just CONCACAF, is the organization that controls North, Central, and Caribbean football.
Related pages
CONCACAF Gold Cup
CONCACAF Champions' Cup
Other websites
CONCACAF homepage
Football organizations |
77198 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali%20Federation | Mali Federation | The Mali Federation was a country in the west of Africa. Senegal and Mali came together and made this country. (Mali's name was French Sudan at that time). It started on April 4 1959 and it was controlled by France. However, it became independent on June 20 1960.
The Federation's prime minister was Modibo Keïta, and t... |
77202 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20Added%20Tax | Value Added Tax | Value Added Tax (often called by its initial letters "VAT" or “V.A.T.”) is the English name of a tax that is added to things sold in the European Union. It is like a sales tax that is charged in some US States.
The tax is paid every time goods are sold.
The maker charges the wholesaler VAT and pays the tax to the gov... |
77212 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxe-Coburg | Saxe-Coburg | Saxe-Coburg () was a country in today's Bavaria, Germany. It was part of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach after the Division of Erfurt in 1572. In 1596 Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach was split, Johann Casimir got Saxe-Coburg and Johann Ernst got Saxe-Eisenach. When Casimir died in 1633, his brother Ernst of Saxe-Eisenach both c... |
77213 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterostome | Deuterostome | Deuterostomes are a nephrozoan superphylum of bilaterian animals, a taxon above the level of phylum. It is not part of the usual system of classification.
They are bilateral animals, and are contrasted with the protostomes. Deuterostomes are distingued by their embryo: in deuterostomes, the first opening (the blastopo... |
77215 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach | Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach | Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach was one of the short lived Ernestine duchies. It only existed between 1572 - 1596 and again from 1633 - 1638. It was a part of the Holy Roman Empire, today it is within the federal states of Bavaria and Thuringia.
Creation
The duchy was created by the Division of Erfurt in 1572 when Coburg and ... |
77221 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Rader | Dennis Rader | Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945 ) is an American serial killer. He murdered 10 people near Wichita, Kansas between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer (or the BTK strangler). BTK stands for Bind, Torture, Kill. He was named this because that was what he did to the people he killed. Letters were writt... |
77232 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20and%20Jerry%20Kids | Tom and Jerry Kids | Tom and Jerry Kids Show is a 1990 television series by Hanna-Barbera Studios. This follows Tom and Jerry as kids in their cat-and-mouse games. The show also contains segments featuring Droopy and his son Dripple (who would later star in their own short-lived spin-off, "Droopy, Master Detective"), Spike & Tyke (from the... |
77236 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannelore%20Kohl | Hannelore Kohl | Johanna Klara Eleonore "Hannelore" Kohl (née Renner; 7 March 1933 – 5 July 2001) was the wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (died 2017). She met him for the first time in Ludwigshafen, Germany, when she was 15 years old.
She was born in Berlin as Eleonore Johanna Renner, and later, she changed her first name... |
77247 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber%20Benson | Amber Benson | Amber Nicole Benson(born January 8, 1977) is an American actress, writer, movie director, and movie producer. She is best known for her role as "Tara Maclay", on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Early life
Benson was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She had a mixed Christian and Jewish upbringing.
Career
Feature ... |
77261 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Scheel | Walter Scheel | Walter Scheel (8 July 1919 – 24 August 2016) was a German politician (FDP).
Biography
Scheel was born in Solingen.
During World War II, he became a member of the Nazi Party and served in the Luftwaffe, the last years of the war as a Radar operator on a Me 110 night fighter.
He was federal minister of economic cooper... |
77274 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Mailer | Norman Mailer | Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American writer and journalist. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, New York City.
Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer writes creative nonfiction, sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers t... |
77283 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lion%20King | The Lion King | The Lion King is an animated movie made by Walt Disney in 1994. It was the most successful animated movie of the 1990s. The movie is about a young lion prince who learns about his role as prince and in the circle of life. It is dedicated to Frank Wells. Wells was the president of The Walt Disney Company. He died shortl... |
77286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20Osbourne | Kelly Osbourne | Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne (born 27 October 1984, in London) is an English singer and actress. She is the daughter of the singer Ozzy Osbourne.
Osborne is one of the co-presenters in the E! programme Fashion Police. She also presents a programme on BBC Radio 1 called The Surgery on Sunday evening. Her duet song with ... |
77289 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoine%20Car%C3%AAme | Marie-Antoine Carême | Marie Antoine (Antonin) Carême (8 June 1784 – 12 January 1833), was a French chef and author.
He is well known for greatly simplifying and writing about the style of cooking known as haute cuisine, the high art of French cooking. He was known as "chef of kings and king of chefs", because he cooked for royalty, and is... |
77300 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Window%20System | X Window System | The X Window System is a set of protocols and programs. It is also known as X11, or simply X. It can manage windows, and other components of a graphical user interface on a bitmap display. This way of doing graphics is most common in Unix-like operating systems.
X provides the basic components to build GUI environment... |
77304 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammaliaformes | Mammaliaformes | Mammaliaformes ("mammal-like") is a clade which contains the mammals and their closest extinct relatives.
Living members of the clade include the monotremes (Monotremata), marsupials (Marsupialia) and the eutherians (Placentalia).
Mammaliforms have highly specialized molar teeth, with cusps and flat regions for grind... |
77311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal%20gland | Pineal gland | The pineal gland is a small endocrine gland in the middle of the brain of humans and other vertebrates. It makes and releases the hormone named melatonin.
There is almost no melatonin in the blood in the daytime. At the end of the day, melatonin in the blood allows sleepiness in humans and other animals which sleep at... |
77358 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric%20acid | Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid | γ-Hydroxybutyric acid (gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, commonly shortened to GHB) is a chemical substance. Small quantities of it can be found in the central nervous system of many animals. It can also be discovered in wine, beef and small citrus fruits.
In the central nervous system, GHB interacts with other neurotransm... |
77373 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsmark | Reichsmark | The Reichsmark (which was shown with the symbol RM) was the currency in Germany from 1924 until June 20, 1948. One Reichsmark was subdivided into 100 Reichspfennig.
Banknotes images
Other websites
Coins of the Third Reich
Former currencies of Europe
Economy of Germany
History of Germany |
77403 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum%20%28color%29 | Plum (color) | Plum is a color similar to purple. The name comes from the fruit called a plum.
The first written use of plum as a color name in English was in 1805.
Meaning of plum
In business, the color plum represents a business deal that is profitable—a plum contract. A plum job is a job that one is assigned to that has a high ... |
77405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative%20Party | Co-operative Party | The Co-operative Party is a small centre-left political party in the United Kingdom that supports cooperative ideas and values. Its candidates must be members of the Labour Party as well, and stand as "Labour and Co-operative Party" candidates.
The party today
It is the political part of the wider British co-operativ... |
77414 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1nica | Bánica | The Dominican city of San Francisco de Bánica, or simply Bánica, is a municipality of the Elías Piña province, on the border with Haiti and near the River Artibonite.
Origin of name
The name Bánica comes from the Taíno name of the region, Banique ("land of ebony trees").
Population
The municipality had, in 2010, a to... |
77418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quillaja%20saponaria | Quillaja saponaria | {{Taxobox
| name = Soap bark tree
| image = Quillaja 608.JPG
| regnum = Plantae
| divisio = Magnoliophyta
| classis = Magnoliopsida
| ordo = Fabales
| familia = Quillajaceae<ref name="V Tech">APG II 2003 listing notes that Quillajaceae is a part of the order Fabales and no longer a part of the family Rosaceae (order ... |
77432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20E.%20Anderson | Clarence E. Anderson | Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson (b. January 13, 1922 in Oakland, California) was a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. He joined the Air Force in 1942. During World War II, he flew a P-51 Mustang named "Old Crow". He had 16 kills, and was a triple ace. At the end of World War II, he was a captain. He flew an F-105... |
77434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20Weasel | Wild Weasel | A Wild Weasel is a nickname for an aircraft in the United States Air Force that is supposed to destroy enemy anti-aircraft guns, surface-to-air missiles, and other ground attack weapons by seeking them out with radar and destroying them with missiles.
History
The idea was first thought of in 1965 during the Vietnam ... |
77436 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20F-105%20Thunderchief | Republic F-105 Thunderchief | The F-105 Thunderchief was a bomber during the Vietnam War. It first flew in 1955, and was introduced in 1958. It was used as a bomber, but was later replaced by the F-4 Phantom II and the F-111 Raven. But it was still in service for a while as a Wild Weasel. It could carry an electronic counter-measures pod that could... |
77453 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20Co-operative | Labour Co-operative | Labour Co-operative or Labour and Co-operative is the name used in the United Kingdom to describe politicians who are elected as members of the Co-operative Party.
The electoral agreement between the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party says that the Co-operative Party candidates must be members of the Labour Party... |
77457 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldic%20badge | Heraldic badge | A heraldic badge is not a part of an armiger's achievement of arms, but it is granted by the same body.
The badge is designed to be used by the supporters of an armiger. A mediaeval knight would be granted arms by letter patent, but his supporters or followers would not be allowed to display that achievement, instead... |
77465 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal%20code | Postal code | A Postal code is a series of numbers or letters and numbers used by a post office to help identify where a letter or parcel should be sent.
The code can be read by machines, this speeds up sorting mail.
In the United Kingdom the first part of the post code has one or two letters and one or two numbers. This identifies... |
77467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem%20Housing%20Authority | Bethlehem Housing Authority | The Bethlehem Housing Authority (BHA) provides social housing in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The Bethlehem Housing Authority was formed in 1939. Its job was to build houses for the people living in Bethlehem, which is a city in eastern Pennsylvania.
The National Housing Act (1937) was one of President Franklin Delano R... |
77506 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Six | Les Six | Les Six (pronounced "Le sees") is French for "The Six". Les Six were a group of six French composers who were friends around the year 1920. They were young at the time, and they shared a lot of ideas about music. The composer Erik Satie called them "Les Nouveaux Jeunes", but then a man called Henri Collet called them "... |
77509 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Auric | Georges Auric | Georges Auric (born Lodève, France, 15 February 1899; died Paris 23 July 1983) was a French composer. He was one of the six composers who became known as Les Six.
Childhood
Auric was a child prodigy. He composed a lot of music from the age of 10, but most of these early works he destroyed later. He grew up in Montpe... |
77511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Left%20%28Germany%29 | The Left (Germany) | The Left (), sometimes called the Left Party (), is a political party in Germany. It is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. It is considered to be left-wing populist by some researchers. The party is the direct descendant of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). It was formed on 16 June 2007, when ... |
77512 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Durey | Louis Durey | Louis Durey (born Paris, 27 May 1888; died Saint-Tropez, France, 3 July 1979) was a French composer. He was the oldest, but probably the least well-known of the six composers who are called Les Six.
Birth
Louis Durey was the son of a businessman. He had no idea that he wanted to be a composer until he heard the oper... |
77517 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Honegger | Arthur Honegger | Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 - 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in Le Havre, France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of the group of composers called Les Six. His most popular piece of music is an orchestral work called Pacific 231, which imitates the sound of a steam l... |
77525 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius%20Milhaud | Darius Milhaud | Darius Milhaud (pronounced "DAR-yus MEE-oh") (born Marseille, 4 September 1892; died Geneva 22 June 1974) was a French composer. He was a member of the group called Les Six. He is one of the most important French composers of the 20th century. He wrote more than 400 compositions. His music is often influenced by jazz a... |
77527 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%C3%B4ne | Saône | The Saône is a river in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Rhône river. It starts in the Vosges department amd joins the Rhône in the city of Lyon.
Two French departments has the name of the river in their names: Haute-Saône and Saône-et-Loire, both in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
Geography
The Saô... |
77533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford | Hereford | Hereford (pronounced or ) (pronounced "Henforth") is a city and civil parish in the West Midlands of England, close to the border with Wales and on the River Wye. It is the county town of Herefordshire.
The name Hereford comes from the Anglo Saxon here, meaning an army and ford which is a place where soldiers could... |
77535 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20finger | The finger | The finger (also called "the bird", or most commonly "the middle finger") is a common insulting hand signal in some countries.
If you put your middle finger up, you are saying something like "fuck you" or "fuck off". However, it may also be used humorously, for example between people who are close friends. Context is... |
77537 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%20%28moon%29 | Ariel (moon) | Ariel is a moon of Uranus found on October 24, 1851 by William Lassell. It was found at the same time as Umbriel.
The moon is named after the leading sylph in Alexander Pope's poem Rape of the Lock. It is also the name of the spirit who serves Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Uranus' moons |
77549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trondheim | Trondheim | is a city and municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. With 198,219 inhabitants (as of October 2019), Trondheim is Norway's third largest municipality, as well as the centre of the fourth largest urban area, with a population of about 186,364. As of 2019, the Trondheim Region, a statistical metropolitan are... |
77552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax | Ajax | Ajax can mean different things:
AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam
Ajax the Great, a hero from the Trojan war
Ajax the Lesser, another hero in the Trojan war
Ajax (programming), a technique used in web application development
Ajax, Ontario, a town in the Canadian province of Ontario |
77553 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trondheim%20Region | Trondheim Region | The Trondheim Region is a statistical metropolitan area in the counties of Sør-Trøndelag (population: 223,363) and Nord-Trøndelag (23,388) in Norway. It is centered around the city of Trondheim.
1/ km²2/ Population per km², population data from ssb ;3/ Orkdal has been added to region due to new road completed
Trondhe... |
77557 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20potential | Electric potential | Electric potential is electric potential energy (EPE) per unit of charge. (The unit of energy is the joule and the unit of charge is the coulomb.) Electric potential tells what the electric potential energy of a charged object will be for every coulomb of charge it has, or how many joules of energy there will be per ... |
77559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Teipel | Christine Teipel | Christine Teipel (1621 – 4 May 1630) was a 9 year old child who was executed as a witch. This execution happened in Schmallenberg-Oberkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Life
She was questioned on March 7, 1630. She told about 15 other people who had taken part in a Witches' Sabbath, at night. There were 8 me... |
77566 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax%20%28programming%29 | Ajax (programming) | AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is a technique used to make webpages faster to use. If they are programmed with AJAX, they seem to react faster. They only send small bits of information to the web server. That way the whole web page does not need to reload, only small parts of it.
Good things
There... |
77567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Bradford | City of Bradford | Bradford is a major city in West Yorkshire, England. The city has a population of about 500,000 people. Bradford grew due to its excellence in the textile trades of nineteenth century England. Bradford is home to Bradford City Football Club who became the first English football club to win the current FA Cup trophy in ... |
77571 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian%20litas | Lithuanian litas | Lithuanian litas (Lithuanian: Litas) was the national currency of the Republic of Lithuania. Litas became a currency of Lithuania in 1922, then again in 1993. In present days, there are 8 coins (1, 2, 5, 10, 50 cents and 1, 2 and 5 LTL) and 6 banknotes (10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 LTL) in use. It stopped being in use ... |
77574 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Holl | Maria Holl | Maria Holl (* 1549 in Altenstadt near Geislingen an der Steige, in Germany; † 1634) was an inn-keeper in Nördlingen. She was accused of witchcraft, but she did not confess to a crime, despite the torture. After this, she was released, and cleared of the accusations.
Because she was very successful running the tavern, ... |
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