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78014 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20University | Howard University | Howard University is an African-American college in Washington, D.C. It was started in 1867.
Other websites
Howard University
Atlantic Soccer Conference
Colleges and universities in the District of Columbia
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
United Soccer Conference
19th-century establishments in Washington, D.C.
1867... |
78017 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20MacFarlane | Seth MacFarlane | Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, comedian and voice actor. He is best known for creating the animated television series, Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show.
Early years and beginning of Family Guy
MacFarlane went to Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), a school in R... |
78019 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki | Tanuki | Tanuki is a word for the Raccoon Dog in Japanese. Tanukis are in Japanese folk tales. In Japan, it is said that tanukis deceive a person, and that the ability is superior to a fox.
Japanese folklore |
78022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalibgwilia | Megalibgwilia | Megalibgwilia is a genus of echidna only known from fossils from Australia, it contains the oldest known echidna species.
References
Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. and Hand, S. 2002. Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp 45–47... |
78026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantle | Mantle | Mantle is a word with various meanings:
Mantle (geology) = Earth's mantle, below crust, above core
Mantle (vesture) = Ecclesiastic cloak
Mantle (mollusc) = Cloak-like part of molluscan anatomy |
78029 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax%20the%20Great | Ajax the Great | Ajax the Great or Aias (ancient Greek: Αἴας) son of Telamon, was a well-known hero from the Trojan War. He was the cousin of Achilles. Ajax died by committing suicide. This happened after Achilles died and he was in a contest with Odysseus to see who would receive Achilles's armour: he lost.
Related pages
Ajax the Le... |
78032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia | Phoenicia | Phoenicia was a civilization to the north of Canaan. Phoenicia existed from 1200 to 900 BC. People from Phoenicia had their own language called the Phoenician language, which is important to many modern languages. They wrote with an alphabet from which the alphabets of Europe evolved.
Phoenicians set up colonies in th... |
78034 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%20Seahawks | Seattle Seahawks | The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team in Seattle, Washington, USA. They started playing football in 1976. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Seahawks played football in three Super Bowls. Their ... |
78035 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury | Salisbury | Salisbury is a city in Wiltshire, South West England. It is the only city in Wiltshire and is its second largest settlement. It sits at the joining of five rivers: the Nadder, Ebble, Wylye, and Bourne, which are tributaries to the Hampshire Avon, which flows to the south coast and into the sea at Christchurch in Dorse... |
78036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Ullrich | Jan Ullrich | Jan Ullrich (born 2 December 1973 in Rostock, Germany) is a retired German bicycle rider. He was very good in riding in the mountains. In Individual time trials he was one of the best cyclists at his time. He won the Tour de France in 1997. Jan Ullrich is the only German athlete who has won this event.
Beginning
Jan ... |
78038 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%2C%20England | Lincoln, England | Lincoln is an old city in Lincolnshire, England. Lincoln has a population of about 100,000 people. It is the county town of Lincolnshire, in the East Midlands of England.
Lincoln developed from the Roman town of Lindum Colonia. Before then it was an Iron Age settlement. Lincoln's major landmarks are Lincoln Cathedral,... |
78039 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj%20el-Barajneh | Burj el-Barajneh | Burj el-Barajneh is a settlement in Beirut, Lebanon. It was set up as a Palestine refugee camp in 1948. It was laid siege to by the Israeli army and local Christian Phalangists during 1982, after Israel invaded Lebanon earlier that year.
Other websites
Burj el-Barajneh Camp: A Photo Essay . Alternative Media Centre ... |
78043 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth | Coelacanth | A coelacanth is a type of fish in the Sarcopterygii, the lobe-finned fishes. They are a sister group to those fish which evolved into tetrapods. Their fossil record goes back 400 million years, before any land vertebrates had evolved.
There are at least two species of coelacanths living in the Indian Ocean. Scientists... |
78044 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent%20city | Tent city | A tent city is used to describe a variety of temporary housing facilities made using tents. Informal tent cities may be set up without authorization by homeless people or protesters. As well, state governments or military organizations set up tent cities to house refugees, evacuees, or soldiers. Tent cities set up by h... |
78048 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Refugee%20Council | Norwegian Refugee Council | The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (Norwegian: Flyktninghjelpen) is an independent, non-governmental organisation in Norway which helps refugees and internally displaced persons around the world.
The NRC protects the rights of people who have been forced to leave their countries, or their homes within their countrie... |
78064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism | Euphemism | Euphemism is the use of a word (or phrase) that replaces another one that one thinks to be too offensive or vulgar.
It also may be a replacement of a name or a word, that could reveal a secret or holy and sacred names to the uninitiated. It may also be used to obscure the identity of the subject of a conversation from... |
78069 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20Presidents%20and%20Chancellors%20by%20age | List of German Presidents and Chancellors by age | This is a list of German Presidents (since 1919) and Chancellors (since 1871) by age at death.
Where the person in question is still alive, the age is worked out up to .
Presidents
Chancellors
Presidents by age
Lists of heads of state |
78084 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boscobel%20House | Boscobel House | Boscobel House is a house on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border, near Wolverhamptonand Albrighton, England. It was built around 1632 when landowner John Gifford of White Ladies Priory turned a farmhouse into a hunting lodge. Charles II famously hid in a tree at the Boscobel House to escape discovery by Parliamentary s... |
78089 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismar | Wismar | Wismar (Low German: Wismer) is a town in northern Germany. It is on the Baltic Sea, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is about east of Lübeck, and 30 km north of Schwerin. It has a university and a harbor.
Till September 4, 2011, Wismar was a urban district.
References
Other websites |
78090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism | Dysphemism | Dysphemism means using of an harsh or rude word or phrase instead of a polite one. It is more or less the opposite of euphemism.
Examples of dysphemism are “dead tree edition” for the paper version of an online magazine, or the American soldiers calling their common breakfast of creamed chipped beef on toast “shit on ... |
78094 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20worship | Christian worship | In Christianity, worship has been thought as by most Christians to be the central act of Christian identity throughout history. Many Christian theologians have called humanity homo adorans, which means "worshipping man," and so the worship of God is at the very centre of what it means to be human.
History
Overview
T... |
78105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose | Prose | Latin Prose
For the Wikipedia guideline on prose, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style.
Prose is the ordinary form of the written (or spoken) language. It is not poetry. It does not use any special format such as lists or tables. In writing, it is without special rhythm. It is similar to everyday communication. That is what ... |
78108 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caper%20story | Caper story | The caper story is a special sort of crime story. In the typical caper story, one or more crimes happen (especially thefts, swindles, or occasionally kidnappings) in full view of the reader. The actions of the police or detectives may also be told, but are not that important for the story.
The typical elements of... |
78115 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/14%20BC | 14 BC | Year 14 BC was either a common year starting on Thursday or Friday or a leap year starting on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Lentulus.
Events
Augsburg is founded by the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus
Beeroth (modern Beirut)... |
78118 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20of%20Tina%20Watson | Death of Tina Watson | Christina Mae "Tina" Thomas Watson (13 February 1977 – 22 October 2003), was a 26-year-old American from Helena, Alabama. She died on her honeymoon on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia in 2003. She had only been married to her husband, David Gabriel "Gabe" Watson, for 11 days when she died. The doctor who... |
78140 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Wakefield | City of Wakefield | The City of Wakefield is in West Yorkshire, England. As well as Wakefield there are five other medium-sized towns - Normanton, Pontefract, Featherstone, Castleford and Knottingley - and some smaller towns in the City area. Most people who live in those towns will tell other people that they live in those towns, instead... |
78141 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io%20%28moon%29 | Io (moon) | Io is a moon of the planet Jupiter. It is Jupiter's third biggest moon with a diameter of 3642 km, being slightly bigger than Earth's moon. Io has about 400 active volcanos.
Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. Volcanoes erupt massive volumes of silicate lava, sulphur and sulphur dioxide, const... |
78153 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormorant | Cormorant | Cormorants are a family of seabirds. There are about 40 different species of Cormorants. In some areas, they are also known as shags.
Description
Cormorants range in size from as little as 45 cm (18 in) and 340 g (12 oz) to a maximum size 100 cm (40 in) and 5 kg (11 lbs). Most cormorants, including nearly all norther... |
78154 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Tour%20de%20France | 2006 Tour de France | The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd Tour de France. It took place from 1 to 23 July 2006. The winner was Óscar Pereiro. Floyd Landis was the first person to finish the race, but was disqualified on 20 September 2007 for taking the drug testosterone during the 17th stage of the race.
The Tour began in Strasbourg, on t... |
78155 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth%20Phoenix | Beth Phoenix | Elizabeth Carolan (born November 24, 1980) better known by her ring name Beth Phoenix, is an American professional wrestling commentator and wrestler She currently works for WWE as a color commentator under the name Beth Phoenix
Phoenix is a former 3-time WWE Women's Champion and won a Slammy Award in 2008 for Diva ... |
78157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridge%20%28firearms%29 | Cartridge (firearms) | A cartridge (also called a round, sometimes a shell) is a type of ammunition, consisting of a cylindrical casing (made of metal, usually brass) that has inside of it a bullet, gunpowder and primer. It is made to fit neatly in the chamber of a gun. This kind of cartridge became usual in the 19th century.
Ammunition |
78163 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong%20Island | Hong Kong Island | Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region). Most of the city of Hong Kong was built on the island. Hong Kong Island is in size.
In 2008, 1,289,500 people lived on Hong Kong Island (16,390 people per square kilometre). Years ago, when the British first took over... |
78164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist%20Party%20of%20China | Communist Party of China | The Communist Party of China (spelled as 中国共产党/中國共產黨 in Simplified/Traditional Chinese, originally called the Chinese Communist Party) is the dominant political party and founder of the People's Republic of China, and is the only ruling party in People's Republic of China now. Originally, the party was led by Chen Duxi... |
78168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatar%20language | Tatar language | The Tatar language is a Turkic language that is spoken by the Tatar people, and is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia.
Alphabets
Like many other Turkic languages, different alphabets are used to write the Tatar language.
Cyrillic
In Russia, the Tatar alphabet is Cyrillic by a federal governm... |
78172 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Medici | House of Medici | The House Medici (pronounced med-ee-chee) or Medici family was a very important family in Florence, Italy from the year 1300 to about 1600. They were the richest family in Europe for many years. Many leaders of Florence during the Renaissance were Medicis. The Medicis were important because they ran many banks, includi... |
78177 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano%20Bruno | Giordano Bruno | Giordano Bruno (January 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian friar of the Dominican Order. He was also a philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for believing in the infinity of the universe. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model.
Bruno thought the Sun was just one of an infinite num... |
78183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel%20of%20Fortune%20%28US%20game%20show%29 | Wheel of Fortune (US game show) | Wheel of Fortune is a game show on television. It was created by Merv Griffin in 1975. It was first hosted by Chuck Woolery from 1975 until 1981. Pat Sajak has been hosting the show since 1981 and Susan Stafford and Vanna White replaced in 1982. The show has been aired in syndicated format since 1983. The show is cu... |
78192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom | Shalom | Shalom (שלום) is a Hebrew word which means "peace". It is also used as a method of greeting like "hello" and "goodbye".
Similar to its use in English, it can mean peace between two persons or entities. It also means inner peace, being calm or the quietness of a person, well-being, welfare or safety of an individual or... |
78197 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20Gordiani | Villa Gordiani | Villa Gordiani is a park in Rome. Several Roman ruins, some of them still well preserved, are in the park.
Photos
Parks in Europe
Rome |
78213 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts%20Bay%20Colony | Massachusetts Bay Colony | The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement in the 17th century on the east coast of North America. The colony was later called New England and what is now the cities of Salem and Boston. The Bay Colony also included what is now known as the States of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and ... |
78214 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/About%20a%20Girl%20%28TV%20series%29 | About a Girl (TV series) | About a Girl is a Canadian comedy television series, which was first shown on October 5, 2007 on The N in the United States, and Global in Canada. It is the first scripted comedy for The N. On February 25, 2008, actor Sandy Robson announced that the show was getting cancelled. The show ended with 13 episodes in one sea... |
78215 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20line | Number line | A number line is a line with integers (simply ordinary numbers, ...-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3...) on it extending forever in both directions. Usually, zero (0) is placed in the middle of the line. The numbers have an equal space from each other. Other numbers in between the numbers on the line represent rational, irrationa... |
78223 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunicate | Tunicate | Tunicates (sea squirts or Urochordata) are a subphylum of the Chordates.
They are sea filter-feeders: they live mainly on plankton. They are called tunicates because the adult form is covered by a leathery tunic. This tunic supports and protects the animal. The adults are sessile, stuck to rocks.
Many tunicates ar... |
78230 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng%20He | Zheng He | Zheng He or Ma He (Chinese 郑和; 1371–1433) was an explorer, diplomat, and admiral from China. He lived during the Ming Dynasty. Zheng He was the leader of a very large fleet of ships that traveled all over the Indian Ocean and Southwest Asia. Zheng He was an eunuch of China's Imperial Court. The fleet that Zheng He com... |
78231 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20elements | List of elements | This page shows a list of all 118 chemical elements that have been identified.
Legend
Categories and subcategories in the metal–nonmetal range
List
Notes
The element does not have any stable nuclides, and a value in brackets, e.g. [209], indicates the mass number of the longest-lived isotope of the element. However... |
78235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20B%C3%BCchner%20Prize | Georg Büchner Prize | The Georg Büchner Prize (German: Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary prize of Germany. It was created in 1923 in memory of German writer Georg Büchner and was only given to artists who came from or were closely tied to Büchner's home of Hesse.
In 1951, the prize changed to a general literary prize, gi... |
78236 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham%20Young%20University%20Hawaii | Brigham Young University Hawaii | Brigham Young University Hawaii, or BYU-Hawaii for short, is an undergraduate university that educates 2,400 students from Asia, the Pacific islands, the United States, and other parts of the world.
The campus is in Laie, Hawaii. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was foun... |
78237 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus%20africanus | Australopithecus africanus | Austalopithecus africanus was first discovered by Raymond Dart in 1925. He found a well-preserved skull of a young australopithecine, three to four years old. This skull is often called the Taung Child, after Taung, South Africa where it was found. It is perhaps the most complete skull of A. africanus known. Based on c... |
78239 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus | Australopithecus | Australopithecus is a genus of extinct hominids closely related to humans.
The first Australopithecus described was the Taung Child, discovered by Raymond Dart, and described in 1925.
Their remains are mostly found in East Africa, and the first fossil is from 3.9 million years ago (mya). The split from other apes wo... |
78240 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo | Homo | Homo is a genus of upright primates that walk on two legs. The only living species is Homo sapiens (humans).
The genus began about 2.3 million years ago. Their ancestors were almost certainly some line of Australopithecine apes. Species of Homo have:
A larger brain (above 900ml)
Improved walking and running ability.
... |
78279 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty%20in%20India | Poverty in India | Poverty in India is an important issue. India has some of the poorest people in the world.
The Government of India says that the poverty line for rural areas is ₹ 816 per month and ₹ 1000 per month in urban areas. This means that many people do not have enough money. India's proposed but not yet adopted official pover... |
78280 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Christian%20Community | The Christian Community | The Christian Community (original German name: Die Christengemeinschaft) is a Christian denomination. It was founded in 1922 in Dornach (Switzerland) by a group of theologians and pastors, led by the Protestant pastor Friedrich Rittelmeyer. He was helped by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthro... |
78281 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Melbourne%20railway%20stations | List of Melbourne railway stations | This is a list of the 200 currently operating suburban railway stations (216 including greater metropolitan stations) in Melbourne, Australia. The stations make up 16 railway lines going out from the city (and 4 greater metropolitan lines), as well as the central City Loop.
There are also a further 19 stations on 3 ol... |
78286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Kurdistan | Flag of Kurdistan | The Flag of Kurdistan (Kurdish: Alaya Kurdistanê) has three colours and are placed horizontally. The top colour is red, the middle is white and the bottom is green. In the middle of the white is a sun with 21 rays. The 21 rays represent Navruz.
Kurdistan
Kurdistan
K |
78287 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20graphics | Vector graphics | Vector graphics (also called graphical modeling, or object-oriented graphics) is a type of computer graphics. Vector graphics uses geometrical objects, like points, lines, curves, and polygons to model the image. Mathematics can be used to describe the graphics. Most often vectors and matrices are used. The first major... |
78291 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence%20%28band%29 | Silence (band) | Silence is a German rock - heavy metal band. It was founded in 1995 in Bavaria, Germany. Its founding members were Stefan Mueller (guitar), Holger Kronester (drums), and the brothers Bernd (guitar) and Marco Wolf (bass). They played a mix of rock and metal music. Their music always had a dark, depressive side.
The ban... |
78292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20B%C3%BCchner | Georg Büchner | Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Many people think that he might have become as important as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller if he had lived longer.
He was the son of a do... |
78293 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20B%C3%BCchner | Ludwig Büchner | Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner (29 March 1824 – 1 May 1899) was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th century scientific materialism.
Büchner was born at Darmstadt, Germany, on 29 March 1824. From 1842 to 1848 he studied physics, chemistry, botany, mineralog... |
78297 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre | Goitre | A goitre or goiter (Latin: struma), also called a bronchocele, is a swelling in the neck (just below Adam's apple or larynx). It happens when the thyroid gland gets larger (usually because the body is not getting enough iodine).
Classification
Goitres are classified in different ways (put into different categories):... |
78298 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati%20Reds | Cincinnati Reds | The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball from Cincinnati, Ohio, are the oldest team in professional baseball, established in 1869. The was knowns as the Cincinnati Red Stockings until 1878, when the team changed the name to the current Cincinnati Reds. The Reds joined the National League in 1876 The Reds have wo... |
78300 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh%20Beckett | Josh Beckett | Joshua Patrick Beckett (born May 15, 1980) is an American former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He has played for the Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Other websites
1980 births
Living people
American baseball players
Boston Red Sox players
Sportspeople from Texas
Los Angeles Do... |
78301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt%20Schilling | Curt Schilling | Curtis Montague (Curt) Schilling (born November 14, 1966 in Anchorage, Alaska) is an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher. Schilling is a right-handed starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. He has won World Series championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Red Sox. Sc... |
78302 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Dunn | Adam Dunn | Adam Troy Dunn (born November 9, 1979, in Houston, Texas), nicknamed "Big Donkey", is an American retired Major League Baseball first baseman, outfielder, and designated hitter. He played for the Cincinnati Reds, Arizona Diamondbacks, Washington Nationals, Chicago White Sox and Oakland Athletics. He batted left-handed ... |
78303 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke | Stroke | A stroke is an illness in which part of the brain loses its blood supply. This can happen if an artery that feeds blood to the brain gets clogged, or if it tears and leaks.
A stroke is when there is a lack of blood flow to the brain. There are two types of strokes. One is when there is a blood clot blocking the artery... |
78309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel%20of%20Fortune | Wheel of Fortune | Wheel of Fortune could mean a popular TV game show:
Wheel of Fortune (US game show), the current, syndicated US version.
Wheel of Fortune (US daytime game show), the former, daytime US version.
Wheel of Fortune (UK game show)
Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show)
Wheel of Fortune 2000, a kids' version of the series
W... |
78311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wheel%20of%20Fortune | The Wheel of Fortune | For other uses, see Wheel of Fortune.
The Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, is a concept in medieval and ancient philosophy and means the unpredictable nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna, who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel - some suffer great misfortune, others... |
78316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster%20graphics | Raster graphics | Raster graphics (or bitmap graphics) is one of two kinds of computer graphics. With raster graphics, images are modeled as big collections of pixels. Usually they form an image shaped like a rectangle. Each pixel holds something, like color or transparency. Raster images are used very often. Computer screens are made o... |
78320 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postscript | Postscript | Postscript is a programming language. It was developed by Adobe, in 1984. It is a standard used by many computer printers. There are three different versions of it, Postscript Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3.
The Portable Document Format is another standard, also from Adobe. It is better adapted to printing. Many things... |
78329 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20chestnut | Horse chestnut | The other kind of chestnut is called sweet chestnut. It is not related to this tree
A horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), also known as the horse-chestnut, buckeye, conker tree, or Spanish chestnut, is a large deciduous tree. It is native to southern Europe, in the Balkans. It is often grown in temperate climates... |
78331 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Pizarro | Francisco Pizarro | Francisco Pizarro González, Marqués de los Atabillos (1471– June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador. Today, he is known as the conqueror of the Inca Empire. He also founded Lima, La Ciudad de los Reyes, capital of Peru. Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain.
Family
He was an illegitimate son of Gonzalo P... |
78332 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo | Bingo | Bingo or Housie is a game where people try to match numbers drawn at random with numbers on a card. When someone does this, they call "BINGO!" or "HOUSE!" very loud so everyone playing can hear.
The game was invented in Italy in the 1500s. The game slowly moved to other countries like France, Great Britain, and other ... |
78337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/9%20%28number%29 | 9 (number) | Nine is the Arabic number which comes after 8 and before 10. It is an odd number, and is the highest single-digit number. It is also a square number. In Roman numerals, nine can be written as IX.Square numbers
Integers |
78338 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%20%28number%29 | 5 (number) | The number five is a number that comes after four and before the number six. In Roman numerals, it is V.
Mathematics
Five is the third prime number, after two and three, and before seven. The number five is also an odd number.
Most people have five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot.
Creation
It is n... |
78339 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurling | Hurling | Hurling (in Irish, iománaíocht or iomáint) is an Irish outdoor team sport similar to hockey, played by two teams of 15 people.
The object of the game is for players to use a wooden axe-shaped stick called a hurley (in Irish a "camán", pronounced kam-awn), or a hurl, to hit a small ball called a sliotar (pronounced sli... |
78340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/6%20%28number%29 | 6 (number) | The number six is a natural number that comes after the number five and before the number seven. Six is also the first perfect number which means that the sum of its factors (1, 2 and 3) are equal to the number itself (6). The next perfect number is 28. In Roman numerals, it is VI.
Mathematics
In mathematics, the num... |
78341 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%20%28number%29 | 4 (number) | The number four is a number and a numeral. It comes after the number three, and before the number five. In Roman numerals, it is IV.
Mathematics
In mathematics, the number four is an even number and the smallest composite number. Four is also the second square number after one.
A small minority of people have four fi... |
78342 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/7%20%28number%29 | 7 (number) | The number seven is a natural number that comes after six and before eight. In Roman numerals, it is VII.
Mathematics
In mathematics, the number seven is an odd number and a prime number.
It is also a Mersenne prime.
Divisibility Rule
To test if an integer is divisible by 7 or not,
Take off the last digit and mult... |
78343 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/8%20%28number%29 | 8 (number) | The number eight is a natural number that comes after the number seven and before the number nine. In Roman numerals, it is VIII.
Mathematics
In mathematics, the number eight is an even number and a composite number. Eight is also a power of two, being 2 times itself 3 times.
Integers |
78345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatello | Donatello | Donatello (born Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, c. 1386 – 13 December 1466) was an Italian sculptor during the Renaissance. He lived in Florence. He worked in stone, bronze, wood, clay, and wax with several assistants. His reputation as a great artist was stated by Vasari, and has always stood well. He worked in Rom... |
78359 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Bernhardt | Sarah Bernhardt | Sarah Bernhardt (; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress, and has often been called "the most famous actress in the history of the world". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon working in Europe and the United States. She de... |
78362 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Rudd | Kevin Rudd | Kevin Michael Rudd AC (born 21 September 1957) is a former Australian politician who was twice Prime Minister of Australia serving from 2007 to 2010 and again from 27 June 2013 to 18 September 2013. He also served as Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010. Rudd was the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 14 Septembe... |
78364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurley%20%28stick%29 | Hurley (stick) | A hurley(Irish: Camán), also known as a ‘hurl’, is a wooden stick measuring between 70 and 100 cm (26 to 40 inches) long with a flattened, curved end (called the bas), used to hit a sliotar (leather ball) in the Irish sport of hurling. It is also used in camogie, the female equivalent, and there often called a camogie ... |
78366 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliotar | Sliotar | A sliotar (or sliothar) is a hard solid sphere slightly larger than a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together. Sometimes called a "puck" or "hurling ball", it resembles an American baseball with more pronounced stitching. It is used in the Gaelic games of hurling, camo... |
78368 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camogie | Camogie | Camogie (in Irish, camógaíocht) is an Irish team sport, organised by the Camogie Association of Ireland, the women's variant of hurling. The rules are almost identical to hurling with a few exceptions.
One is that goalkeepers wear the same colours as outfield players and a player in camogie can handpass a score, which... |
78370 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounders | Rounders | Rounders is a sport which originated in Great Britain and Ireland. The game is regulated by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland and the National Rounders Association (NRA) in the UK. Both have different, although broadly similar, game-play and culture. Competitions are held between teams from both tradi... |
78379 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket%20%28insect%29 | Cricket (insect) | Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as true crickets), are insects somewhat related to grasshoppers and more closely related to katydids or bush crickets (family Tettigoniidae). They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. There are about 900 species of crickets. They tend to be nocturnal and are often con... |
78382 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounders%20%28movie%29 | Rounders (movie) | Rounders is a 1998 movie about the underground world of high-stakes poker. The movie was directed by John Dahl and starred Matt Damon and Edward Norton. It follows two friends who need to quickly earn enough cash playing poker to pay off a huge debt. The term “rounder” refers to a person whose sole means of earning a l... |
78389 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic%20Athletic%20Association | Gaelic Athletic Association | The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael) is an organisation which is mostly focused on promoting Gaelic Games - traditional Irish sports, such as hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball, and rounders. The organisation also promotes Irish music and dance, and the Irish language. It is th... |
78390 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic%20Games | Gaelic Games | Gaelic games are the traditional sports played in Ireland. The two main Gaelic games are Gaelic football and hurling. Both are organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Other games organised by the association include camogie, rounders, Gaelic handball. During the late 19th century 21, Gaelic games in Ireland... |
78391 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic%20handball | Gaelic handball | Gaelic handball is a game where two players use their hands to return a ball against a wall. The game is similar to American handball; Gaelic handballers play against their US counterparts.
Other websites
HandballCity.com
Colorado Handball Association in USA
www.handball.ie
Irish Handball Results
www.gaa.ie
United S... |
78392 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20handball | American handball | American (or court) handball, usually referred to simply as handball, is an American form of fives played against one or more walls.
History
It is a common belief that American handball was brought to the United States in the 1880s by Irish immigrants. The Gaelic handball sport was played since the 15th century in Ir... |
78393 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fives | Fives | Fives is a British sport believed to come from the same origins as many racket sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved or bare hands as though they were a racquet.
Background
The name may be derived from the slang expression "a bunch of fives" (meaning a fist). The gam... |
78394 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami%20Heat | Miami Heat | The Miami Heat are an American professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association in Miami, Florida. It was started in 1988. They play their home games at the FTX Arena. They won the 2006 NBA Finals where they defeated the Dallas Mavericks 4 games to 2. Dwyane Wade was the Finals MVP. The two teams met... |
78395 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttress | Buttress | A buttress is a structure placed against the walls of a building to give it more support, or to help it to hold the roofs. Buttresses are common in ancient buildings, especially in Europe. A buttress can be an inside or outside support.
Architectural elements
Walls |
78396 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20tennis | Real tennis | Real tennis is the original racket sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, developed. It is also known as jeu de paume in France and as "court tennis" in some parts of United States.
Real tennis is still played at a small number of active courts in the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, ... |
78397 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeu%20de%20paume | Jeu de paume | Jeu de paume was originally a French game similar to lawn tennis, but played without racquets. The players hit the ball with their hands as in volleyball. Jeu de paume literally means: game of palm (of the hand). After some time gloves replaced bare hands. But even when bats, and finally racquets, became standard eq... |
78399 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace%20of%20Versailles | Palace of Versailles | The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal castle in Versailles, France.
In French, it is often called the Château de Versailles. When the castle was built, Versailles was a country village, but it is now a suburb of Paris.
From 1682, when King Louis XIV moved from Paris and lived in this palace, unti... |
78400 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau | Château | A (plural ) is a manor house or castle of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry.
The term comes from French-speaking regions and is used most often for buildings in these regions. Where clarification is needed, a fortified château (that is, a castle) is called a château fort. But the word is ... |
78401 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau%20%28disambiguation%29 | Château (disambiguation) | Château may refer to:
Terms
château (French for castle; plural châteaux) - a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of gentry, usually French, with or without fortifications
château fort - used in French and occasionally in English, where there is need of a distinction between a large p... |
78402 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron | Positron | A positron (also called an antielectron) is the antimatter version of an electron. It has the same mass and spin as an electron. However, it has a positive electric charge, whereas an electron has a negative charge. Like all antimatter, when it meets its so-called counterpartner, each are annihilated and turned into en... |
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