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7414 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari | Ferrari | Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian automobile company that makes fast luxurious automobile. They are made in Italy and are very expensive. They usually cost $150,000 - $1,500,000.
Ferraris first car was the Ferrari 125 S
Ferrari has a rich racing history and is a well known premium automobile brand. The fastest street Fe... |
7415 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat | Fiat | Fiat (UK: /ˈfiːət, -æt/, US: /-ɑːt/, Italian: [ˈfiːat]; originally FIAT, Italian: Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino, lit. 'Italian Automobiles Factory, Turin') is a car company in Italy. It was founded in Turin in 1899. It also made some planes between 1920s and 1970s. Some of their cars by year: Fiat is currently ow... |
7416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu | Daihatsu | The Daihatsu Motor Company Ltd. makes small cars and trucks. The company is part of the same manufacturing group that includes FAW Group Motor Ltd. The company was set up in 1907. Examples of their cars are the Daihatsu Charade, the Rocky Four Wheel Drive SUV and the Daihatsu Copen. Daihatsu cars and trucks are notable... |
7418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbon | Hydrocarbon | A hydrocarbon is a type of chemical compound. It is made of only hydrogen and carbon atoms.
They can be found in crude oil and are separated by fractional distillation (which means they are separated into different groups). The hydrogen and carbon are bonded with non-polar covalent bonds. Because of its lack of polar c... |
7420 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai | Shanghai | Shanghai (, ; Mandarin pronunciation: ) is the biggest city in China and one of the world's largest cities. It had about 24,000,000 people in 2017. It is a special province-level city in China ("municipality"), like Beijing, Tianjin, and Chongqing. Right now, it is the biggest port in the world.
Name
The Mandarin Chi... |
7422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%20S.%20Thompson | Hunter S. Thompson | Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American writer.
He was known for a unique style of writing which he called Gonzo journalism, where the writer writes about himself trying to write about what was happening around him.
He was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and spent most of... |
7423 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Depp | Johnny Depp | John Christopher "Johnny" Depp Jr. (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, musician, philanthropist and producer.
Early life
Depp is the son of an engineer and a waiter. He is of Belgian (Flemish), Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Northern Irish (Scotch-Irish), Scottish and Welsh descent. He grew up with his b... |
7424 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle%20John%27s%20Bathroom%20Reader | Uncle John's Bathroom Reader | Uncle John's Bathroom Readers is the name of a series of books aimed at people who like to read while using the restroom. The books are full of trivia.
The books were first published in 1988.
Books
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
Uncle John's Second Bathroom Reader
Uncle John's Third Bathroom Reader
Uncle John's Fo... |
7426 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia | Catalonia | Catalonia (; ; ) is a Spanish autonomous community. It is south of the eastern Pyrenees, and has a northern border with France. Catalonia is made up of four provinces: Barcelona, Tarragona, Girona () and Lleida (). It has a population of over 7 million people. Catalonia has three official languages: Catalan, Spanish an... |
7427 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20engineering | Civil engineering | Civil engineering is the term for the work of designing and building infrastructure. It usually means large structures, like bridges, dams, buildings, and tunnels. It also covers complicated networks such as water, irrigation and sewerage networks. It also covers the construction of houses and homes. Civil engineers ca... |
7428 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison | Comparison | A comparison is an evaluation of similarities and differences.
Comparison (computer programming)
Comparison (grammar)
Comparative
Three degrees of comparison
Basic English 850 words |
7429 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Gate%20Bridge | Golden Gate Bridge | The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses over the San Francisco Bay, going from San Francisco to Marin County, in the U.S. state of California. It was opened for use in 1937. When the bridge was finished, its length of 9,266 ft (2824 m) made it the longest bridge in the world until 1964. It carries U.... |
7430 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen | Kitchen | The kitchen is the room in the house where food is cooked. Sometimes, people eat in their kitchens, too. Hotels, schools, and places where people work often have kitchens as well. A person who works in a kitchen in one of these places may be a kitchen worker or a chef (depending on where he/she cooks). An outdoor kitch... |
7432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20engineering | Software engineering | Software engineering is a field of engineering, for designing and writing programs for computers or other electronic devices. A software engineer, or programmer, writes software and compiles the software to make instructions the computer can follow.
Good quality software is easier to fix and add new features. Good d... |
7433 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student | Student | A student is a person who goes to school and is learning something. Students can be children, teenagers, or adults who are going to school, but it may also be other people who are learning, such as in college or university. A younger student is often called a pupil. Usually, students will learn from a teacher or a lect... |
7434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburb | Suburb | A suburb is an area of a town or city, a little away from Downtown, where there are fewer big buildings and mainly houses, schools and shops. Such places are called suburban areas or suburban districts. Sometimes, the suburbs cover a very large area. The suburbs are part of the metropolitan area and may be legally part... |
7435 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper | Skyscraper | A skyscraper is a very tall high-rise building, usually more than 152 metres (500 feet) in height. Most skyscrapers are built in urban areas such as cities, and they are very common in the central business district (also called downtown) areas of many large cities including New York City, Chicago, London, Paris, Sydne... |
7436 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer | Integer | In mathematics, integers are the natural numbers and their negatives. Integers can also be shown on a number line as follows:
In particular, zero is also an integer, but it is not positive nor negative. "Integer" is another word for "whole". An integer is a rational number with no "fraction", or part. An integer is a ... |
7437 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20number | Natural number | Natural numbers, also called counting numbers, are the numbers used for counting things. Natural numbers are the numbers small children learn about when they first started to count. Natural numbers are always whole numbers (integers excluding negative numbers) and often exclude zero, in which case one is the smallest n... |
7438 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Rule | Golden Rule | The Golden Rule is a moral which says treat others as you would like them to treat you. This moral in various forms has been used as a basis for society in many cultures and civilizations. It is called the 'golden' rule because there is value in having this kind of respect and caring attitude for one another.
People o... |
7439 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester | Leicester | Leicester () is a city in the East Midlands region of England and it is the county town of Leicestershire.
In the 2011 census the population of Leicester was about 330,000. The city is also the 11th largest by population in England and the 13th largest in the United Kingdom.
History and Society
Leicester is about 2,0... |
7441 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood | Hollywood | Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California. It is very famous around the world as a place where movies and television series are made. It has many different attractions such as the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Universal Studios and the famous Hollywood Sign. Many tourists come to Hollywood to see all of these things... |
7442 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%20Night%20Live | Saturday Night Live | Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a popular American television program. It has been broadcast on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. It is one of the longest-running television programs in American television. It is broadcast from NBC studios in New York City. The name comes from the fact that the program is aired live... |
7443 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis%20Presley | Elvis Presley | Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer, musician and actor. Is extremely considerate as the most influential and most famous musician of the 20th century, and is widely regarded as a cultural icon. He was one of the first and most famous in rock and roll music. He also starred... |
7446 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood%20Forest | Sherwood Forest | Sherwood Forest is an ancient woodland near Nottingham, England. It is famous as the home of the mythical outlaw, Robin Hood and his men (and Maid Marian). Legend claims that they lived near the Major Oak. Its branches are now supported by props.
Other websites
Forests of England
Nottinghamshire |
7447 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Everest | Mount Everest | Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. Mount Everest is in the Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world. It is about high.
Its peak is on the border of Nepal and China, and lies in the Death zone where the air is too thin for a human being to live, so usually compressed gas tanks with different ga... |
7448 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanda | Luanda | Luanda is the capital and the largest city of Angola. Its former name was Loanda. It is a main seaport of the country on the Atlantic Ocean. In 1995, about 3 million people lived there.
It is a center of manufacturing, but very destroyed because of a long civil war.
It was founded by Portuguese in 1575 as São Paulo d... |
7449 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi | Pepsi | Pepsi is a carbonated cola soft drink made by PepsiCo. A can of Pepsi (330ml) has 8 cubes of sugar in it, whereas Coca-Cola has 7.
They often sponsor (help fund/advertise on an event) sports events and music events, like the Super Bowl. Pepsi also has huge sponsorships for the MGM Mirage hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada. T... |
7451 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin | Penguin | Penguins are seabirds in the family Spheniscidae. They use their wings to travel underwater, but they cannot travel in the air. They eat fish and other seafood. Penguins lay their eggs and raise their babies on land.
Penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere of the world: Antarctica, New Zealand, Australia, Sou... |
7453 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%206 | March 6 |
Events
Up to 1900
12 BC - The Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar is named "Pontifex Maximus", incorporating his position into that of Emperor.
1447 – Nicholas V becomes Pope.
1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledged allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agreed to h... |
7455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953 | 1953 | 1953 (MCMLIII) was .
Events
January 20 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th President of the United States.
January 31 - In the night to February 1, a storm severely floods parts of the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
May 29 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first humans to reach t... |
7456 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820 | 1820 |
Events
Venus de Milo discovered.
Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
Deaths
George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
Daniel Boone (b. 1734)
Books
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving |
7458 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism | Cannibalism | Cannibalism is where a person eats the flesh of another person. It is also called anthropophagy. Anthropologists are not sure how widespread it was, but it did happen in some societies. It also occurs in non-human animals.
The word 'cannibalism' comes from the Island Carib people of the Lesser Antilles. They got a lon... |
7459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2029 | May 29 |
Events
Up to 1900
1176 - Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1328 – Philip VI of France is crowned King.
1453 - Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1613 - Heavy f... |
7460 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween | Halloween | Halloween is a celebration on the night of October 31st. It is most practiced in the United States and Canada. Children wear costumes and go to people's homes saying "Trick or treat!" to ask for candy (sweets in the UK) and people give it to them. The suggestion is: "Give me a treat or I will play a trick on you." Peo... |
7462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida%20Kahlo | Frida Kahlo | Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954), usually known as Frida Kahlo, was a Mexican painter. She was known for her surreal and very personal works. She was married to Diego Rivera, also a well-known painter.
She was born in Coyoacán, Mexico. She had polio that left her disabled when she ... |
7463 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932 | 1932 |
Events
Italy: the architect Giuseppe Terragni begins in Como the construction of the Casa del Fascio, completed in 1936, a masterpiece of Italian Rationalism.
London: the financer Amedeo Natoli publish the book Some of the most important features of the economic and financial situation in 1932, completed in 1932, ... |
7464 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%20and%20Loathing%20in%20Las%20Vegas | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a book written by Hunter S. Thompson. The book is based on an article Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine. It was later made into a movie directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro.
The beginnings ... |
7465 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Chapman | Graham Chapman | Graham Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was most famous as a member of Monty Python. He was openly gay and was in a long-term relationship with writer David Sherlock. Chapman was born in Leicester. He studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He died of oroph... |
7466 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Palin | Michael Palin | Sir Michael Edward Palin KCMG CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian and author.
Palin was born in Broomhill, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. He studied modern history at Brasenose College, Oxford.
He became famous as a member of Monty Python in the 1970s. Afterwards he had his own television serie... |
7467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Jones | Terry Jones | Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director and historian. He was a member of Monty Python.
Jones was born on 1 February 1942 in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales. He was married to Alison Telfer, and later to Anna Söderström.
In Septem... |
7469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20%28state%29 | New York (state) | New York, officially the State of New York, is a state of the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies, which were the first thirteen states to make up the US. New York is in the northeastern United States, bordered by Lake Ontario and Canada on the north, Lake Erie and Canada on the west, Pennsylvan... |
7470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling%20Stone | Rolling Stone | Rolling Stone is an American popular culture magazine. It mainly features articles about music, as well as sports, movies, and celebrities. It also features movie and album reviews, "greatest of all time" lists, and political editorials and commentary.
It was founded in 1967 in San Francisco, California.
Some of the... |
7471 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Steadman | Ralph Steadman | Ralph Idris Steadman (born 15 May 1936) is a British cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his artwork for the books and articles of Hunter S. Thompson.
Personal life
Steadman was born in Salford, Manchester, and brought up in Towyn, North Wales. He went to Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan (high school), Abergele, East ... |
7472 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia | Tunisia | Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in North Africa. Tunis is its capital.
History
Before the Muslims
Since history has been recorded, there were Berber tribes living in what is now Tunisia. Most of them built little towns and ports along the coastline so they could trade with different travelle... |
7473 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972 | 1972 | 1972 (MCMLXXII) was .
Events
February 17 – U.S. President Richard Nixon visits China.
May 15 – Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally.
June 13-22 – Hurricane Agnes strikes Florida and moves through the East Coast of the United States. In Pennsylvania... |
7474 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979 | 1979 | 1979 (MCMLXXIX) was .
Events
January 4 – The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootings
February 1 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile
March 4 – The U.S. Voyager 1 spaceprobe photos show Jupiter's rings
Apr... |
7476 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia | Malaysia | Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime bord... |
7479 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Mouse | Mickey Mouse | Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character created in 1928 at Walt Disney Animation Studios. The character serves as the mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
He is the Walt Disney company's mascot. He is the main character in Fantasia. Mickey Mouse also has television shows with other characters including Donald Duc... |
7480 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV | HIV | Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a type of virus called a retrovirus, which infects the human immune system (the system in the body which is in charge of fighting off illness). HIV may cause AIDS (a collection of diseases and symptoms) by eventually killing the white blood cells which a healthy body uses to fight ... |
7481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Zappa | Frank Zappa | Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American musician and composer. He was known for his strange style of music, which was often weird and funny. He made various types of music and many albums. Zappa worked with many other musicans, most notably his 1960s group The Mothers of Invention and... |
7482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmania | Tasmania | Tasmania (Palawa Kani: Lutruwita, Bruny Island Tasmanian: Lutruwita) is a large island off the southern coast of mainland Australia. It is a state of Australia. Its capital and the largest city is Hobart. The island was joined to the mainland until the end of the most recent ice age about 10,000 years ago.
It is the h... |
7484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%2AA%2AS%2AH | M*A*S*H | M*A*S*H was an American media franchise that had several novels and a movie. Several television series have also been based on it. These include M*A*S*H (1970 movie), M*A*S*H (TV series) (1972), AfterMASH and Trapper John, M.D..
Novel
M*A*S*H started as a novel written by Richard Hooker. It was released in 1968, and... |
7494 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Sutherland | Donald Sutherland | Donald McNichol Sutherland OC (born July 17, 1935) is a Canadian actor. He has appeared in more than 100 movie and television shows.
Sutherland is known for his roles in Fellini's Casanova, Klute, Don't Look Now, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, JFK, Ordinary People, Pride & Prejudice, and The Hunger Games. He is the f... |
7495 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20%28disambiguation%29 | Canadian (disambiguation) | Canadian may refer to:
Something of, from, or related to Canada, a country
Canadians are people identified with the country of Canada.
Canadian may also refer to:
Language
Canadian English
Canadian French
Geography
Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States
Canadian River, United States, the largest tributary of th... |
7496 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Martin | Paul Martin | Paul Martin Jr. (born August 28, 1938) is a Canadian politician. He was the 21st Prime Minister of Canada. He was also the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He became prime minister December 12, 2003, when Jean Chrétien stepped down. He won an election on June 28, 2004, because the Liberals won more seats than th... |
7497 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20gun | Machine gun | A machine gun is a weapon that can fire one bullet after another as long as the trigger is pulled and there are bullets ready to fire. This is called automatic fire. A more general name for this type of weapon is an automatic weapon. Machine guns fire bullets delivered from a long chain of cartridges called an ammuniti... |
7498 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Hood | Robin Hood | Robin Hood is a folk hero from the Middle Ages in England. He is a legendary person, and people have told stories about him for centuries. There are also many books, plays, movies, and cartoons that tell stories about Robin Hood.
There are many different versions, but in most stories, Robin Hood is an outlaw who lives... |
7500 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball | Basketball | Basketball is a team sport where one team, usually consisting of five players in each team, play against each other on a rectangular court. The objective is to get the ball through a hoop mounted high on a backboard on the opponent's side of the court, while preventing the opponent from shooting it into your team's hoo... |
7501 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk%20hero | Folk hero | A folk hero is a person, who may or may not have existed, and is famous and well liked by people, or people of a certain country. Usually it is someone who helped the common people or fought against the authorities, such as a bad king. People tells stories about folk heroes, most of their stories have been passed down ... |
7503 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%201 | January 1 | Starting in the 1200s, January 1 was called New Year's Day. It is a holiday.
Events
Up to 1800
153 BC – Roman consuls begin their year in office.
45 BC – The Julian calendar is first used.
193 – The day after Commodus is murdered, the Roman Senate chooses Pertinax to succeed him as Roman emperor
1001 – Stephen I... |
7504 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20Green | Seth Green | Seth Benjamin Green (born Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green; February 8, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, and voice talent. He became famous in the late 1990s after appearing in many teen movies. His most notable roles include Scott Evil in the Austin Powers series of movies, Chris Griffin on the television series Fam... |
7506 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton%20Kutcher | Ashton Kutcher | Ashton Christopher Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, and former model. He became well known when he played Michael Kelso on That '70s Show. In 2003, Kutcher produced and starred in his own series, Punk'd, as the host.
In May 2011, Kutcher was announced as Charlie Sheen's replacement on the series Two and a Half... |
7508 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%20Torvalds | Linus Torvalds | Linus Benedict Torvalds ( , ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer.
His parents named him after Linus Pauling. He studied at the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1996. He became famous because of the success of his operating system, Linux. He started making this system as a student project... |
7509 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third president of the United States. He wrote the Declaration of Independence while others signed it and wrote the Statute of Religious Freedom.
He was also a planter with many slaves, though he freed several people in the Hemings family.
Early life
Jefferso... |
7510 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahiti | Tahiti | Tahiti is an island in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is part of the French Polynesia. Papeete is the capital and largest city. Other major cities are Faaa and Mahina. About 169 674 people live there (2002). The languages that are spoken in Tahiti are French and Tahitian which are both official. In Tahiti (in the Socie... |
7513 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva%20%28canton%29 | Geneva (canton) | Geneva is a canton in Switzerland. The capital of the canton is Geneva City.
The French name is Genève, The German name is Genf, in Italian it is Ginevra.
Geneva is the seat of many institutions of the United Nations. It has about 186.000 inhabitants and a very old university. About 960.000 people live in the urban a... |
7514 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20John%20Heinz%20III | H. John Heinz III | Henry John Heinz III (October 23, 1938 – April 4, 1991) was an American politician from Pennsylvania and the great-grandson of the founder of H. J. Heinz Company. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and was a US senator from 1977-1991. He was killed in a plane crash in 1991.
... |
7515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tempest | The Tempest | The Tempest is one of William Shakespeare's last comedies. It tells the story of a wizard who drives a ship to the island he lives on, in order to undo something that happened to him in the past. Unlike most of Shakespeare's plays, it does not appear to be based off an earlier story. With one exception of his lesser kn... |
7517 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar | Calendar | A calendar is a tool for organizing days. People use calendars to say when something happened, and for planning things that have not happened yet. The calendar gives the days names and numbers, called calendar dates. The dates are usually made based on how things in the sky seem to move. The year and month are based on... |
7518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%20Cobb | Randall Cobb | Randall "Tex" Cobb (born 1950) was an American boxer from Texas. He fought champion boxer Larry Holmes for the WBC World Heavyweight title at Houston's Astrodome on November 26, 1982. Holmes beat Cobb, winning all 15 rounds on two scorecards, and fourteen out of fifteen on the third (scores of 150-135 twice and 149-136... |
7519 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquilino%20Pimentel%20Jr. | Aquilino Pimentel Jr. | Aquilino Quilinging Pimentel Jr. (December 11, 1933 – October 20, 2019), also known as Nene, was a politician in the Philippines.
Career
He was first elected as a delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention. He then went into exile when President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. He came back in 1980 and was e... |
7521 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Robertson | Pat Robertson | Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is an American evangelist and host of the 700 Club, a Christian news and talk show on television. He ran for President in 1988 against George H.W. Bush, but did not win the primaries. He has said several times that natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and th... |
7522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20House | Full House | Full House is an American comedy television series set in San Francisco. It originally aired from 1987 to 1995. It told the story of Danny Tanner (Bob Saget), a man whose wife has died and is left alone with his three daughters, DJ (Candace Cameron), Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin), and Michelle (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen).... |
7523 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1888 | 1888 | This page lists things that happened in the year 1888.
Births
August 9 - Fred C. Newmeyer, American actor and director (d. 1967)
December 22 - J. Arthur Rank, movie executive (d. 1972)
Deaths
March 6 – Louisa May Alcott, American writer (Little Women, etc.)
Events
Glasgow Celtic Cup started.
The Year of th... |
7524 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Press | Hot Press | Hot Press is a music and political magazine. It was founded in 1977. The magazine is based in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is different from other similar magazines by its anti-establishment opinion and the amount of focus on Irish music, most notably early U2. It is currently edited by Niall Stokes.
Other websites... |
7525 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20Song | Alabama Song | The "Alabama Song" comes from the 1930 operetta Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The music is by Kurt Weill; officially the lyrics are by Bertolt Brecht, but were probably actually written by Elisabeth Hauptmann. The lyrics for the "Alabama Song" are in English (although a specific type of English) and are perfo... |
7526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Doors | The Doors | The Doors were an American rock band. They were one of the most popular rock groups of all time. Led by singer Jim Morrison, along with Ray Manzarek (keyboards), Robby Krieger (guitar) and John Densmore (drums), the group is thought of today as a major influence on rock music, and they are still just as popular as they... |
7529 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%20Gilley | Mickey Gilley | Mickey Gilley (born March 9, 1936) is a country musician and singer. He is a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart. He is best known for his nightclub "Gilley's" which was featured in the movie Urban Cowboy and his hit song "Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time".
Related pages
List of country music... |
7530 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Lee%20Lewis | Jerry Lee Lewis | Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American musician. He was born in Ferriday, Louisiana and is a cousin of Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. Like other music players who were known by many people around the same time as him Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins, he sang gospel and coun... |
7531 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Swaggart | Jimmy Swaggart | Jimmy Lee Swaggert (born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal televangelist (a preacher who gives services on TV). His church, Family Worship Center, is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Swaggart first started his television ministry in 1975, and it continues today, over 33 years later. The show airs nationally across t... |
7532 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Cash | Johnny Cash | John R. "Johnny" Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was a Grammy Award-winning American musician, actor and author. He is considered one of the most important musicians of the 20th century. He is well known for his country music, his music spanned many other genres, including gospel, folk an... |
7533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto%20%28mythology%29 | Pluto (mythology) | Pluto is the god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Pluto was also the god of wealth because diamonds and other jewels come from underground.
A myth about Pluto is that he took Proserpina, who was the daughter of Ceres, to the underworld to be his wife. Ceres cried and did not let plants grow on the Earth. People n... |
7534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism | Maoism | Maoism is the communist (a plan about how countries should work) idea created by the Chinese man Mao Zedong. Mao believed that peasants, not factory workers, should lead the communist revolution (change in government). China followed Maoism when he became leader, in 1949. This created differences with communism in the ... |
7535 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B | C++ | C++ (pronounced "see plus plus") is a computer programming language based on C. It was created for writing programs for many different purposes. In the 1990s, C++ became one of the most used programming languages in the world.
The C++ programming language was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in the 1980s, a... |
7537 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20War | Korean War | The Korean War, also known as the Forgotten War, took place between 1950 and 1953 between the Republic of Korea (or South Korea), supported by the armed forces of several countries that were commanded by the United States;, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or North Korea), supported by the People's Republ... |
7538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Landis | John Landis | John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie director. Landis was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Los Angeles, California. He started his career working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox.
Some of his movies are:
The Kentucky Fried Movie
National Lampoon's Animal House
The Blues Brothers
An Americ... |
7545 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%2021 | March 21 | It is the traditional date of the March equinox, although it often falls on March 20.
Events
Up to 1900
537 - Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is prevented from doing so at the Praenestine Gate, known as Vivarium, by the defenders under Byzantine generals Bess... |
7546 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith%20Massey | Edith Massey | Edith Massey (May 25, 1918 - October 24, 1984) was an American actress.
She acted in several of director John Waters' most well-known movies: Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, and Polyester. Waters discovered Massey as a waitress in a Baltimore, Maryland, USA bar he and his friends fr... |
7549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Liberty | Statue of Liberty | The Statue of Liberty (officially named Liberty Enlightening the World and sometimes referred to as Lady Liberty) is a monument symbolising the United States. The statue is placed on Liberty Island, near New York City Harbor.
The statue commemorates the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence. It was g... |
7550 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1875 | 1875 |
Events
March 3 – Georges Bizet's Carmen debuts in Paris
Wadworth Brewery founded.
Births
February 2 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist and composer
February 28 – Christie MacDonald, actress and singer
May – Paul Sarebresole
July 26 – Carl Jung
September 3 – Ferdinand Porsche, German car designer
Deaths
... |
7551 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankst | Ankst | Ankst is a Welsh independent record label formed in 1988 at Aberystwyth University. Ankst has been the launch-pad for several popular Welsh artists, including Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. The label is now based in Pentraeth on Anglesey.
Other websites
Official website
British record labels
1988 esta... |
7552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988 | 1988 | 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was .
Events
February 13 – Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California. He calls his new home "Neverland".
February 17 – A 12-year old Mötley Crüe fan in Florida is badly burned while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's "Live Wire" music video. The boy suffered burns over ten pe... |
7553 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%201 | April 1 |
Events
Up to 1900
286 - Roman Emperor Diocletian makes his general Maximian co-Emperor.
325 - Emperor Cheng of Jin, at the age of 4 years, becomes Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China, succeeding his father, Emperor Ming of Jin.
527 - Byzantine Empire: Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-r... |
7554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%208 | January 8 |
Events
Up to 1900
307 - Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned, and succeeded by his son, Jin Huaidi.
871 – Battle of Ashdown – Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army.
1198 – Innocent III becomes Pope.
1297 - François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the Rock ... |
7555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%204 | October 4 |
Events
Up to 1900
23 Rebels capture the then-Chinese capital city Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and behead the Emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
610 Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, otherthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1511 Formation of a Holy Le... |
7557 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2011 | February 11 |
Events
Up to 1900
660 BC – Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
244 - mutinous soldiers in Zaitha, Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) murder Roman Emperor Gordian III.
731 – Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.
824 – Paschal I ends his reign as Pope.
1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized a... |
7558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20S.%20Eliot | T. S. Eliot | Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an American-born British poet. He was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. He also wrote plays and some important essays about literature.
Early life
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, then went to college in Harvard. He spent most of ... |
7559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Lloyd%20Webber | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a British composer and impresario of musical theatre. His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London.
Career
In 2018, Webber became one of fifteen people to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award.
During his c... |
7560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%2024 | October 24 |
Events
Up to 1950
69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
1147 - After a siege of four months crusader knights reconquer Lisbon.
1260 - The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of ... |
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