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78772 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conthey%20%28district%29 | Conthey (district) | Conthey is a district in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It contains the following municipalities:
Districts of Valais |
78774 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martigny%2C%20Switzerland | Martigny, Switzerland | Martigny is the capital city of the French-speaking district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It is 495 meters high. It has a population of about 15,000 people. Martigny is at the joining of Italy, France and Switzerland, one road linking this town over the Great St. Bernard Pass to Aosta (Italy)... |
78775 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattertal | Mattertal | Mattertal is a valley in the Alps of Switzerland which begins on the side of the Matterhorn. The Matterhorn is one of the most famous mountains in the world because of its beauty, and because it is hard to climb.
The Mattertal is a valley that was made by a glacier (a slowly-moving river of ice) moving down from the ... |
78777 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermatt | Zermatt | Zermatt is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It is found to the north of the Matterhorn in the German-speaking and mostly Roman Catholic section of the canton. It is pretty far southeast of Gstaad, and is pretty close to the border with Italy.
Zermatt has a local populatio... |
78778 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax%20the%20Lesser | Ajax the Lesser | Ajax the Lesser (Ancient Greek: Αἴας) was a Greek hero from the Trojan War, who was the son of Oïleus.
Related pages
Ajax the Great
References
People in Greek mythology |
78779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-nominal%20letters | Post-nominal letters | Post-nominal letters are letters after a person's name. They are used most in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms to show that the person has a certain:
job (e.g. JP for a magistrate (Justice of the Peace), or
title (Kt for a Knight Bachelor or Bt for a Baronet, QC for a Queen's Counselor
is a member o... |
78783 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvidae | Corvidae | The Corvidae are the crow family. They are all passerines, but unusually they do not have musical voices.
There are over 120 species in the family. The word 'crow' is also used to describe birds in the genus Corvus. This genus includes the crows, jackdaws and ravens.
Crows are found on every continent except for th... |
78784 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visp | Visp | Visp is the capital city of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It has a population of around 7,000 people. The two valleys are Mattertal and Saastal. It borders Brig-Glis
The majority of the population are German-speaking.
Economy
It has a chemical business named LONZA AG. There are also ... |
78791 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Maurice%2C%20Switzerland | Saint-Maurice, Switzerland | Saint-Maurice is the capital of the district of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Mex (VS) merged into the municipality of Saint-Maurice.
It is the site of the Roman outpost of Agaunum and the old Abby of Saint-Maurice, which has become a famous high sc... |
78792 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conthey | Conthey | Conthey is the capital of the district of Conthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
References
Other websites
Official website
Municipalities of Valais
Cities in Switzerland |
78793 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entremont%20%28district%29 | Entremont (district) | Entremont is a district in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It has the following cities:
Bagnes
Bourg-Saint-Pierre
Liddes
Orsières
Sembrancher
Vollèges
Districts of Valais |
78794 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santeri%20Palin | Santeri Palin | Santeri Palin (also known as Incánus) (born September 15, 1983, Nokia, Finland.) is a Finnish poet who writes poems in Finnish and English. His first book Elämän kolmio kuoleman syklissä – ajatuksia reunalta (The Triangle of Life in the Cycle of Death – Thoughts from the Edge) came out in 2006.
Palin is a fan of J. R.... |
78799 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sembrancher | Sembrancher | Sembrancher is the capital of the district of Entremont in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
A small scenic village of around 500 residents in the Bagnes Valley, it is close to the Verbier ski resort. There is a way to get from Sembrancher to the Verbier ski resort and back for people interested in skiing.
Other w... |
78801 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster-Geschinen | Münster-Geschinen | Münster-Geschinen is the capital city of the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2004 the former municipalities of Münster and Geschinen merged into the new municipality of Münster-Geschinen and On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Münster-Geschinen, Blitzingen, Grafschaft, N... |
78812 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiotheria | Microbiotheria | Microbiotheria are a small order of marsupial mammals with only one living species, the Monito del Monte (Spanish for 'little mountain monkey').
It is the only New World representative of the superorder Australidelphia; all other New World marsupials are part of the Ameridelphia.
The species is nocturnal and arboreal... |
78815 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasyuromorphia | Dasyuromorphia | Dasyuromorphia are fair-sized order of some of the more unusual carnivorous or insectivorous marsupials. They vary in appearance, from rodent-like to shrew-like to cat-like to dog-like. This order includes the ever-famous Tasmanian devil. In this order, most of the marsupials have a pouch on the belly. However, some of... |
78816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%20Rock%20Beach | Goat Rock Beach | Goat Rock Beach is a beach in Sonoma County, California, United States.
It is part of the Sonoma Coast State Beach, which is owned by the State of California. The mouth of the Russian River is in the northern part of the beach. Goat Rock is in the southern part of the beach. The beach itself was named after the rock.... |
78817 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20lion | Sea lion | Sea lions are several pinnipeds from the family Otariidae (eared seals). They live all around the world, except in the Atlantic Ocean.
Male sea lions have thick fur around the face and neck, which sometimes looks like a lion's mane. That's how they got the name "sea lion". Some, like the Steller sea lion, can actually... |
78818 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greywacke | Greywacke | Greywacke is a type of sandstone. It is hard, and dark in color. It has different sized grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments set in a compact, fine clay matrix. It is mostly found in Palaeozoic strata. The larger grains can be sand-to-gravel-sized, and matrix materials make up more than 15% of the rock... |
78834 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina%20Burana | Carmina Burana | Carmina Burana is the name given to a collection of texts from the 11th and 12th century. There are over 240 texts in the collection, most of them written in Latin, some in Middle High German. Most of the texts are moral or satirical in nature. There are also texts about spring, or about love. Some of them are drinking... |
78856 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vex%2C%20Switzerland | Vex, Switzerland | Vex is the capital city of the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
References
Other websites
Official website
Municipalities of Valais |
78862 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasyuridae | Dasyuridae | Dasyuridae is a family of marsupial carnivores. It has nearly all non-extinct members of the order Dasyuromorphia. This means the quolls, phascogales, antechinuses, dunnarts, planigales, and Tasmanian devil (about 55 species in all).
Classification
Famliy Dasyuridae
Subfamily Dasyurinae: quolls and allies
Subfamily... |
78864 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Zahir%20Shah | Mohammed Zahir Shah | Mohammed Zahir Shah (16 October 1914 – 23 July 2007) was the last King (Shah) of Afghanistan. He ruled for four decades, from 1933 to 1973.
Mohammed Zahir Shah became king of Afghanistan at the age of nineteen after the assassination of his father in November 1933. Since he was so young, his uncle, Shah Mahmood Khan r... |
78866 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgau | Thurgau | Thurgau is a northeast canton of Switzerland. The population is 228,200 (2003). The capital is Frauenfeld.
Geography
To the north of Thurgau is Lake Constance, across which are Germany and Austria. The river Rhine makes the border in the northwest. To the south is the Canton of St. Gallen; to the west are the cantons... |
78867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graub%C3%BCnden | Graubünden | Graubünden is the biggest and is farthest to the east of the cantons of Switzerland. The name means "Gray Union" in German and the canton lies entirely in the Alps. In Switzerland it hosts the biggest number of tourists each year.
Geography
The area of the canton is 7,105 km². Only one third of this land is used for f... |
78868 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidwalden | Nidwalden | Nidwalden is a canton of Switzerland. It is in the center of Switzerland. The population is 38,600 (in 2001). The capital is Stans.
Geography
Nidwalden is in the center of Switzerland. To the north is Lake Lucerne. Mountain ranges block in the rest of the canton on the other sides.
History
In 1291 the people of N... |
78869 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaffhausen | Schaffhausen | Schaffhausen is a town in northern Switzerland and the capital of the canton of the same name. It has a population of about 36,000 as 2016.
The old portion of the town has many fine Renaissance era buildings decorated with exterior frescos and sculpture, as well as the impressive old canton fortress, the Munot. A trai... |
78870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obwalden | Obwalden | Obwalden is a canton of Switzerland. It is in the centre of Switzerland. As of 2004, 33,300 people lived there. Its capital is Sarnen.
Geography
Lakes in the canton include: parts of Lake Lucerne, Lake Sarnen, Lungerersee, Wichelsee, Tannensee and Melchsee.
Municipalities
There are seven municipalities: Sarnen, Ke... |
78874 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton%20of%20Jura | Canton of Jura | The canton of Jura is one of the Cantons of Switzerland. It is the newest of the 26 Swiss cantons (created in 1979) and is in the northwestern part of Switzerland. The capital is Delémont. It shares borders with the canton of Basel-Landschaft, the Canton of Bern, and the French département of Jura.
Geography
Cant... |
78880 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Community | French Community | The French Community () was the body which replaced the French Union in 1958. Under the 1958 Constitution, member territories, former French colonies, had a lot of independence, but France controlled the currency, defence, foreign affairs and national security.
When the Community was established, French President d... |
78882 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury | Usury | Usury is lending money for interest. Nowadays it usually means lending at a high, often extortionate rate of interest on a loan.
Usury is illegal in many parts of the world. In muslim countries charging any interest at all is strictly illegal.
Some people argue that this is against the Old Testament, especially Exod... |
78890 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bates | John Bates | John Lewis Bates (September 18, 1859–June 8, 1946) was born in Massachusetts.
He was a Republican, and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1894 to 1899; from 1897 to 1899 he was Speaker of the House. From 1900 to 1903 he was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
In 1902, Bates was elected... |
78891 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20music | Acoustic music | Acoustic music is music which is played by using acoustic musical instruments, i.e. instruments in which the sound is not made louder by electronic amplification. Before electronic musical instruments were created in the 20th century all instruments were acoustic.
Classical music is usually played using only acousti... |
78892 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin | Mandolin | The mandolin is a musical instrument, which literally means, a small soprano member of the lute family. It is played by hitting its strings and sounds similar in tone of a violin or a hammered dulcimer. The most common type of mandolin, which was first designed in Naples, has eight strings. It has a body made of wood a... |
78895 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass%20music | Bluegrass music | Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music. It has its own roots in Irish, Scottish and English traditional music. It is usually played using acoustic musical instruments, and electronic musical instruments are rarely used in bluegrass music. Traditional instruments used include the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, gui... |
78896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20charts | Billboard charts | Billboard charts are charts published by Billboard magazine. They have information about the popularity of music songs, bands and singers. The Billboard Hot 100 is the most popular chart. It appears every week in the United States. It uses information from radio play and sales to say the most popular song each week.
S... |
78902 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuk | Leuk | Leuk (French Loèche) is a municipality of Switzerland and is the capital city of the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Since it controls access to the Gemmipass, it had some importance from the time of Roman Raetia. The Leukerbad hot baths are just North of Leuk, towards the pass.
Loèche houses... |
78903 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raron | Raron | Raron is the capital city of the district of Raron in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
References
Other websites
Official website
Municipalities of Valais |
78905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goms%20%28district%29 | Goms (district) | Goms is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
It includes the following municipalities:
Bellwald
Binn
Blitzingen
Ernen
Fiesch
Fieschertal
Grafschaft
Lax
Münster-Geschinen
Niederwald
Obergesteln
Oberwald
Reckingen-Gluringen
Ulrichen
Districts of Valais |
78912 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavo%20Odadjian | Shavo Odadjian | Shavo Odadjian () (born April 22 1974, Yerevan, Armenia as Shavarsh Odadjian) is the bassist for the Armenian American-based alternative metal band, System of a Down. He also scored summer blockbuster hit, "Babylon, A.D." alongside with The Rza and Hans Zimmer. He is a multi-instrumentalist, painter, DJ, and director.
... |
78921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame | Aspartame | Aspartame (also known as E951 or NutraSweet) is an artificial sweetener. It was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter. It can be used to replace some kinds of sugar. It is not based on sugars. It is not like saccharin.
Problems
People with Phenylketonuria cannot take Aspartame
Aspartame may cause problems with the... |
78922 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharin | Saccharin | Saccharin is the oldest artificial sweetener that exists. It can be used to replace certain kinds of sugar. It was discovered in 1878 by Constantin Fahlberg. It is also known as E954.
Saccharin has no calories and no nutritional value. It is safe to take for people with diabetes.
References
Sweeteners |
78924 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomalt | Isomalt | Isomalt is a natural substitute for sugar. It is a kind of sugar alcohol. It is used mainly to replace sugar in some products, like bubble gum, candies,chocolate or ice cream. This makes it different from other artificial sweeteners. It is also known as E563.
Sweeteners |
78925 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth | Sloth | Sloths are Xenarthran mammals from Central and South America. They are part of the order Pilosa. There are two families of sloths: two-toed sloth and three-toed sloth. Most scientists call these two families the Folivora, while some call them the Phyllophaga. They live in trees, but in the past there were giant ground ... |
78934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jura | Jura | Places named Jura include:
Jura, Scotland, Scottish island, in the Inner Hebrides
Jura Mountains, on the French-Swiss-German border
Franconian Jura, the part of the Jura mountains in South Eastern Germany
Jura (department), France
Jura (canton), Switzerland
Jura, Afghanistan
Jura, Transnistria, a village in Transnistr... |
78936 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon%20%28moon%29 | Oberon (moon) | Oberon is the farthest big moon of the planet Uranus. It is made of about half ice and half rock.
With a mean radius of about 760 km, Oberon is the second biggest moon of Uranus's 27 moons. It orbits Uranus about every 13.4 days.
It was found on January 11, 1787 by William Herschel, in the same year he found Titania. ... |
78937 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del%C3%A9mont%20%28district%29 | Delémont (district) | The district of Delémont is one of three districts in Jura, Switzerland. Its capital is the city of Delémont. The district is nearly all French-speaking and is home to a population of 35,175 (end of 2005).
Delémont is divided into 28 municipalities:
Districts of Jura |
78943 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier%20Rudd | Xavier Rudd | Xavier Rudd (born 1978) is an Australian musician. He grew up in the small town of Torquay, Victoria, Australia. When Rudd was young, he learned to play the didgeridoo on a vacuum cleaner hose.
Rudd is known for playing at music festivals and concerts in Australia and in North America. He has many fans in Australia, ... |
78946 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo | Banjo | The banjo is a string instrument, that was first played by African slaves in the United States a few hundred years ago. The idea came from other African instruments.
The name banjo may have come from a Kimbundu word: mbanza, but it could have also come from a Senegambian word for the bamboo stick used for the banjo'... |
78949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s%20de%20Ovando | Nicolás de Ovando | Nicolás de Ovando (Brozas, 1460 – Seville, 1511) was a Spanish soldier from a noble family and a knight of the Order of Alcántara. He was governor of Hispaniola from 1502 until 1509.
Early life
Nicolas de Ovando was born in 1460 in the town of Brozas, in Extremadura, Spain. His family was very religious and, when youn... |
78972 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelsonite | Abelsonite | Abelsonite (nickel porphyrin) is a mineral that can be pinkish-brown, purple, or reddish-brown in colour and is formed from porphyrin crystals. It is platy (made in plates like mica) and fragile.
Porphyrins are organic ring compounds like haeme, the pigment in red blood cells.
It is found in the Green River Formatio... |
78975 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenakiite-%28Ce%29 | Abenakiite-(Ce) | Abenakiite-(Ce) is a pale brown mineral and made from crystals. It was named for the Abenaki Indian Tribe, the people that lived in the area where this mineral was found. It is somewhat radioactive and it is easily scratched with fluorite. It was found in a quarry in Canada.
References
Minerals |
78977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abernathyite | Abernathyite | Abernathyite is a pale, yellow-colored mineral that forms crystals. It was named for Jess Abernathy, the person who found the first samples of this mineral. It is found in a mine in Emery County, in the United States. It is highly radioactive.
References
Minerals |
78978 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhurite | Abhurite | Abhurite is a colorless crystalline mineral that forms on ship-wrecked tin ingots (nuggets). It is named for where it is found. It is found in a cove in the Red Sea. It is not radioactive.
References
Minerals |
78980 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Liberation%20Orchestra | Animal Liberation Orchestra | Animal Liberation Orchestra (also known as ALO) is an American rock and jam band from Southern California. They first formed several years ago as a group calling themselves Django. Over the years, they changed their name to Animal Liberation Orchestra and were signed to Jack Johnson's record label Brushfire Records.
D... |
78981 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leftover%20Salmon | Leftover Salmon | Leftover Salmon is an American Rock and jam band from Boulder, Colorado.
Discography
Albums
Leftover Salmon
Other
O' Cracker Where Art Thou? (Pitch A Tent), 2003 (with Cracker)
Videos
Years In Your Ears ...a Story of Leftover Salmon (2006, DVD)
Musical groups from Colorado
American rock bands
Bluegrass bands
Boul... |
78982 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20meme | Internet meme | You might be looking for the general usage of Meme.
An internet meme is something famous on the internet such as an image, a video, or even a person. Internet memes are usually created when someone published something and that thing was shared widely over the Internet. They sometimes consist of an image with top and b... |
78990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris%20Gleitzman | Morris Gleitzman | Morris Gleitzman (born 9 January 1953 in England) is one of Australia's most successful children's writers. Morris Gleitzman began writing as a screenwriter and enjoyed success writing for the Norman Gunston Show on Australian television. He has also written for the Governor-General of Australia and Rolf Harris.
Caree... |
78999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial%20cable | Coaxial cable | A Coaxial cable is a special electrical cable. It is used to transmit signals. The cable is specially insulated. This makes it quite stiff. Today, coaxial cables are used for things like Cable TV. Coaxial cables can also be used for computer networks, but this became rare in the 21st century, as twisted pair cables can... |
79009 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abswurmbachite | Abswurmbachite | Abswurmbachite is a black or dark brown metallic mineral. It is named after Irmgard Abs-Wurmbach, who is a German mineralogist. It is found in Mili, Avia or Andros Island, Greece. It is not radioactive.
References
Other websites
Mindat.org
Webmineral.org
Minerals |
79018 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthite | Acanthite | Acanthite is a mineral that can be lead gray, gray, or coal in color and is made from crystals. Its name comes from the Greek word, akanta, meaning "arrow", or the Latin word argentum, meaning "silver". It is made of silver(I) sulfide.
It is found in Freiberg, Schneeberg, and Annaberg, Germany. Acanthite is not radioa... |
79019 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20Lucky%20Gods | Seven Lucky Gods | The , commonly called the Seven Lucky Gods in English, refer to the seven gods of good fortune in Japanese mythology and folklore. They are often the subject of netsuke carvings.
Each has a traditional characteristic:
Ebisu, god of fishers or merchants, often shown carrying a cod or sea bass.
Daikokuten (Daikoku), go... |
79022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetamide | Acetamide | Acetamide is a mineral that is either colorless or gray in color, and is made of a crystalline crust on black shale. It is named for acetic acid and ammonia. It can be found in Russia and is not radioactive.
References
Minerals |
79025 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/17%20%28number%29 | 17 (number) | Seventeen is a number. It comes between sixteen and eighteen, and is an odd number. It is also the 7th prime number, after 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13. In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number.
In Roman numerals, 17 is written as XVII.
Integers
Prime numbers |
79026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin | Pectin | Pectin is a food supplement. It is a source of dietary fiber. It is used to make jellies and jams. Usually it comes in the form of a white powder. It is made from parts of fruit, like oranges. People use pectin to thicken things, like jelly and jam.
Food supplements
It is also seen as a large polysaccharide molecule... |
79048 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectobacterium%20carotovorum | Pectobacterium carotovorum | Pectobacterium carotovorum (syn Erwinia carotovora) is a rod-shaped bacterium originally isolated from carrots. It is a plant pathogen and opportunistic human pathogen, causative agent of soft rot and blackleg potato (P. atrosepticum) diseases.
PectobacteriaHauben, L., E. R. B. Moore, L. Vauterin, M. Steenackers, J. M... |
79049 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger | Burger | Burger may refer to the following:
Hamburger
Ground beef
Burger diagram
Fish burger
Salmon burger |
79055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus%20with%20erection | Jesus with erection | Jesus with erection is a picture that was made by students at the University of Oregon and published in the March 2006 edition of the Student Insurgent. It caused debates in the United States in 2006. The picture shows a naked Jesus Christ on the Cross with an erection.
Context
In 2005 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Po... |
79060 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Guaita | Giovanni Guaita | Giovanni Guaita (born November 26, 1962 in Sardinia) is an Italian historian, researcher of Eastern Christianity and writer. He is an assistant Professor of the Moscow Linguistic University. He studied in different Western European and Russian (Moscow and St Petersburg) universities.
He is the author of several books.... |
79062 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatoo | Cockatoo | A cockatoo is any of the 21 species belonging to the bird family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea (true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (New Zealand parrots), they make up the order Psittaciformes (parrots).
The name cockatoo comes from the Malay name for these bird... |
79064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%20P-39%20Airacobra | Bell P-39 Airacobra | The P-39 Airacobra was a fighter aircraft made by Bell Aircraft. It first flew in 1939, and was introduced in 1941. While it had good weapons, it was known for being very unstable and could lose control easily. It was fast but not very good above 5000 m (15,000 feet) as it lacked turbocharger. The Soviet Union used it ... |
79067 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Canada | Air Canada | Air Canada is Canada's largest airline. It flies from Canada to the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and some Caribbean countries. Air Canada began on September 1, 1937. It was first called Trans-Canada Air Lines. The first flight was from Vancouver to Seattle. The airline's name changed to Air Canada in 1964. A... |
79073 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinolite | Actinolite | Actinolite is a mineral that can be green, green-black, gray-green, or black in color and is made of crystals. It is common around the world. The environment it lives in is in metamorphic rocks. It is named after the Greek word aktinos (meaning "ray") because of the nature of Actinolite. Actinole is not radioactive... |
79082 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoy | Buoy | A buoy is a floating device that can have many uses. It is usually anchored in a certain place. The word is most commonly said () (as in buoyant), but in American English it is often pronounced .
Types
Navigational aids
Buoys are used by ships to navigate or sail safely from place to place. They are used to mark a s... |
79088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%20Coast%20of%20the%20United%20States | Gulf Coast of the United States | The Gulf Coast region of the United States is made up of the coasts of states which border the Gulf of Mexico. The states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are known as the Gulf States. All Gulf States are in the Southern region of the United States.
Other websites
A historical map from 1639 of th... |
79090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Panhandle | Florida Panhandle | The Florida Panhandle is the region of the state of Florida which includes the westernmost 10 to 18 counties in the state. It is a narrow strip lying between Alabama and Georgia to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. While some definitions only include the counties west of the Apalachicola River, others incl... |
79093 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20Current | Loop Current | Part of the Gulf Stream, the Loop Current is a warm ocean current in the Gulf of Mexico that flows northward between Cuba and the Yucatán Peninsula, moves north into the Gulf of Mexico, loops west and south before exiting to the east through the Florida Straits.
Around 1970, it was believed that the Loop Current exhib... |
79100 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Weather%20Service%20bulletin%20for%20New%20Orleans%20region | National Weather Service bulletin for New Orleans region | The National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005 was a vividly worded release issued by the local Weather Forecast Office in Slidell, Louisiana warning of the devastation that the Gulf Coast of the United States could experience as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Partly due... |
79101 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesc%20F%C3%A0bregas | Cesc Fàbregas | Cesc Fàbregas (born May 4, 1987) is a Spanish football player. He plays as a midfielder for Monaco in the Ligue 1.
Fàbregas started playing football at Barcelona. In 2003, when he was just 16 years old, he signed with Arsenal.
He was named as the new captain of Arsenal in November 2008, after William Gallas lost the c... |
79107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery%20Guts | Misery Guts | Misery Guts is a book by the award winning Australian author Morris Gleitzman.
This is a story about a kid named Keith who lives in London and his parents who own a fish and chip shop. This parents for a long time have not had many customers. Keith is dedicated to trying to make the store better and cheer up his paren... |
79109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett%20Lee | Brett Lee | Brett Lee (born 8 November, 1976 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer. He has played for the Australian national cricket team and New South Wales Blues. He has taken more than 300 wickets. Brett is a very fast bowler, one of the fastest the cricket world has known. His fastest delivery was . Lee w... |
79110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otter | Otter | Otters are animals that live near and around water. They are a part of the animal family Mustelid. A group of otters is called a "romp", because they play together and are energetic. They live in nests called holts. There are many different kinds of otters. Some live near rivers, some in the sea (sea otters). Otters li... |
79125 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal | Arsenal | An arsenal is a place where guns and ammunition are made, repaired or stored.
Some arsenals include:
The Kyiv Arsenal factory in Kyiv, Ukraine, which gave its name to the Kyiv Arsenal mutiny of 1918 (also known as the January Rebellion).
The Arsenal in the Moscow Kremlin.
L'Arsenal, now a quarter in Paris.
The Rock ... |
79140 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal%20of%20Honor | Medal of Honor | The Medal of Honor is the highest award given to members of the United States Military. It is given to people who show a lot of bravery in wartime. Because of this, many people who get the Medal of Honor die earning it. It was first given in 1863 during the American Civil War.
The Medal of Honor has been given to 3,4... |
79142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20Transfer%20Mode | Asynchronous Transfer Mode | Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a set of protocols used for computer networks. It is mostly used for Wide Area Networks (WAN). It splits the data, and encodes it into packets of a fixed size. Each packet can be routed differently, along virtual paths set up in the network.
ATM has been very successful in WANs, as well ... |
79147 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20type | Blood type | Blood type or blood group is a medical term. It describes the type of blood a person has. It is a classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs).
Blood types predict whether a serious reaction will occur in a blood transfusion. This r... |
79148 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance%20music | Trance music | Trance music is a kind of electronic music. It centers around a synthesizer and bass drum on each beat and melodies with themes. Most trance music usually have 140 beats per minute. Trance music is commonly played in clubs. The genre takes insipiration from techno, house music, and other kinds of electronic music.
Tra... |
79164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acuminite | Acuminite | Acuminite is a colorless mineral made from crystals. It is named for the Latin word "acuminis" (meaning "sharp point" or "spearhead") for the way the crystals are made. It is easily found in Greenland in the Ivigtut cryolite deposit. It is easily scratched with a copper penny.
References
Minerals |
79165 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warthog | Warthog | Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) are remarkable animals. They are found in most of Africa south of the Sahara and are widely distributed in East Africa. They are the only pigs able to live in areas without water for several months of the year. By tolerating a higher-than-normal body temperature, the warthog is perhaps ... |
79167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moraine | Moraine | Moraines are accumulations of debris that are found in regions where there are glaciers or were glaciers formerly.
Moraines which are found far off from existing glaciers were created during a past ice age. The debris may have been taken off the valley floor as a glacier moved or fallen off the valley walls as a resu... |
79169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silt | Silt | Silt is soil or rock that developed from granular material of a specific grain size.
Silty soil has much smaller particles than sandy soil, so it is smooth to the touch. When moistened, it is soapy slick. When rolled between the fingers, dirt is left on the skin.
Silty soil retains water longer, but it can’t hold on ... |
79170 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silt%20%28disambiguation%29 | Silt (disambiguation) | Silt is a type of soil or earth material. It may also refer to:
Silt, Colorado, a town in the United States
Silt elimia, a type of gastropod
Silt (Mistle Thrush album)
Related pages
Silt'e language, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia |
79172 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic%20converter | Catalytic converter | A catalytic converter is a device in the exhaust pipe of a car, near its engine. It is used to clean up the exhaust the car sends out into the atmosphere. It works by using a catalyst material, usually made of Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium. The catalytic converter converts carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen... |
79173 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamite | Adamite | Adamite is a mineral that can be either yellow, purple, green, pink, or yellowish-green in color and is made from crystals. It is very easy to break and it can be scratched by a copper penny. Adamite is not radioactive. It is named for the French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881), who was the person who d... |
79180 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six%20Flags%20Great%20Adventure | Six Flags Great Adventure | Six Flags Great Adventure is a theme park in Jackson Township, New Jersey, United States. It opened on July 4, 1974. The park complex also contains the Hurricane Harbor water park.
In 2012, Six Flags combined Great Adventure Park with the Wild Safari Area to form a single 475-acre theme park. As of 2018, the park cont... |
79217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamsite-%28Y%29 | Adamsite-(Y) | Adamsite-(Y) is a mineral that can be white, pale pink, pale purple, or is colorless in color and is made of crystals. It is named for Professor Frank Dawson Adams (1859-1942) of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec and is found in the Poudrette quarry in Quebec. It's environment is in a pegmatite dike that is greatly... |
79218 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/18%20%28number%29 | 18 (number) | Eighteen is a number. It comes between seventeen and nineteen, and is an even number. It is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 and 18.
In most countries it is the age of majority, age of consent, and voting age.
In Roman numerals, 18 is written as XVIII.
The number 18 has many multiples such as: 36, 54, 72, 90, 108, and so ... |
79219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/19%20%28number%29 | 19 (number) | Nineteen is a number. It comes between eighteen and twenty, and is an odd number. It is also the 8th prime number, after 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and 17.
In Roman numerals, 19 is written as XIX.
Integers
Prime numbers |
79220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/21%20%28number%29 | 21 (number) | Twenty-one is a number. It comes between twenty and twenty-two, and is an odd number. It is divisible by 1, 3, 7, and 21.
Twenty-one is also a name of a popular card game and is the age at which people in the United States can buy alcoholic drinks.
In Roman numerals, 21 is written as XXI.
Integers |
79225 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Pepys | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Pepys ( ; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English administrator at the Admiralty and Member of Parliament. He is famous for his diary.
Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under Charles II, and later under James II. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard w... |
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