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86883 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy | Legitimacy | The word Legitimacy means something which is good and right. Why the thing is right may be because it follows the law, a religion says it is right, or maybe it is naturally right. People may not agree about what is right, and because of this they may not agree what "Legitimacy" is and what is "Legitimate". There are tw... |
86884 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu | Ainu | Ainu might mean:
Ainu people, a Japanese ethnic group
Ainu language |
86903 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Championships%2C%20Wimbledon | The Championships, Wimbledon | The Wimbledon Championships is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. It is played in Wimbledon, a suburb of London in England, Great Britain. The Championships are unique because they are the only Grand Slam played on a grass court. Wimbledon is the third tennis grand slam of the year and is widely seen as the... |
86908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20counties%20in%20Alabama | List of counties in Alabama | The U.S. state of Alabama has sixty-seven counties. The oldest is Washington County (created June 4, 1800) and the youngest is Houston County (created February 9, 1903).
Alabama was claimed by Spain, as Spanish Florida, and by England, as the Province of Carolina. The first permanent colony was made by the French on t... |
86917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume | Legume | A legume is a type of dry fruit. It is usually produced by plants in the family Fabaceae. Legumes can be a variety of fruits: peas and beans are types of legumes.
Description
Legumes grow from the carpel, the female reproductive part of a plant. The fruit of a legume is found inside a pod that can be split on both si... |
86923 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifocals | Bifocals | Bifocals are eyeglasses with lenses that are split between two different strengths. Usually the lower half of each lens is made to help the wearer read, while the upper one is to help the wearer see at a distance.
Optics |
86924 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning%20rod | Lightning rod | A lightning rod or lightning conductor is an iron rod that is used to make lightning strike it, rather than strike something else. It is part of a lightning protection system. Such a system is made of many such rods. These rods are usually placed at high points of buildings and structures. In addition, paths are made t... |
86931 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashland%2C%20Alabama | Ashland, Alabama | Ashland is an American city in the state of Alabama. It is the county seat of Clay County. The city has a population of about 2,000 people. Ashland is the hometown of Alabama's 52nd governor Bob Riley. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black is from Ashland.
Geography
Ashland has an area of 7.2 miles. The city is Alabama's ... |
86932 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Riley | Bob Riley | Robert Renfroe "Bob" Riley (born October 3, 1944) is an American politician. He is a member of the Republican party. He was the 52nd Governor of Alabama from 2003 until 2011. He was first elected to office in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. Riley was born in Ashland.
Personal life
He has a wife, four children (one is dea... |
86956 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20Czolgosz | Leon Czolgosz | Leon Czolgosz (May 5, 1873 - October 29, 1901) was an American assassin and an anarchist best known as the murderer of William McKinley. He was born in Alpena, Michigan to Polish Catholic immigrant parents. Czolgosz shot President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on 6 September 1901. The President died from his in... |
86970 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20district | Federal district | The federal district is the area around the national capital in some federal countries. that are organized as
capital districts and territories.
A federal district is made so that no state in the country can claim to be more important than the others because the national capital is inside the state, or to stop one st... |
86984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%20County%2C%20Alabama | Baldwin County, Alabama | Baldwin County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama.
It is named in honor of Abraham Baldwin, a member of the United States Senate from Georgia who never actually lived in Alabama. In 2000 the population was 140,415. The estimated 2005 population from the U.S. Census Bureau is 162,586. The county seat (capital ci... |
86987 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Rooney | Wayne Rooney | Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985 in Liverpool) is an retired English footballer. He is currently the manager of Derby County.
Early life
Rooney was born in Croxteth, Liverpool, to Jeanette Marie Rooney and Thomas Wayne Rooney. He is of Irish descent, and was brought up as a Roman Catholic with his 2 younger br... |
86990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20County%2C%20Alabama | Mobile County, Alabama | Mobile County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is named after a tribe of Indians, the Maubila tribe. As of 2003, 399,747 people lived there. Its county seat is Mobile. The entire county is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area.
History
Mobile County was first settled in 1702.
The count... |
86997 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Cross | Mike Cross | Mike Cross (born in 1946) is an American singer and guitar player.
Life
Early life
Cross was born in Maryville, Tennessee, he started playing guitar when he was at college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Style
Cross plays acoustic blues and novelty songs. He also plays funny songs like "The Sc... |
86998 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Crudup | Arthur Crudup | Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was a delta blues singer and guitarist. He wrote songs that Elvis Presley later sang.
Life and career
Early life
Crudup was born in Forest, Mississippi, and worked as a migrant worker until he and his family went back to Mississippi in 1926.
Early career
C... |
87000 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Honeyboy%20Edwards | David Honeyboy Edwards | David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was an American blues guitarist and singer. Honeyboy was the last original Delta Blues guitarists still performing.
Life and career
Early life
Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi, United States. He was friends with Robert Johnson, and was with him when he ... |
87007 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%20County%2C%20Alabama | Houston County, Alabama | Houston County is a county in the state of Alabama, United States
It is the newest county in Alabama, as it was only created on 9 February 1903. It is named after the former state Governor George Smith Houston.
The county seat is Dothan.
Economy
Houston County is mostly agricultural. Peanuts, cotton and corn are th... |
87012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii | Pompeii | Pompeii was a Roman city. Now it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
On 24 October, 79 AD, a volcano called Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the city and its people, killing 2,000 of them.
Pompeii is now considered one of the world's most important historical sites because of the way the volcanic ash preserved the ... |
87014 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Sloan | Henry Sloan | Henry Sloan (January 1870 – 13 March 1948?) was an African American musician. He played the Delta Blues and is known for teaching Charlie Patton to play the blues, and moved to Chicago after World War I.
Life
Early life
David Evans says that Sloan was born in Mississippi in 1870. He moved to a Plantation near Indian... |
87030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacks%20and%20Whites%27%20Carnival | Blacks and Whites' Carnival | Blacks and Whites' Carnival (Spanish: Carnaval de Negros y Blancos) is a carnival in the Colombian city of Pasto, and was proclaimed by UNESCO as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The carnival happens each year, from January 2 to January 7. Many tourists visit it.
Stages
It has ... |
87034 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Corbusier | Le Corbusier | Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (birth name), (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known by the popular name of Le Corbusier, was an architect and writer born in Switzerland. In the 1930s, he became a French citizen. He is famous for his theories about modernism in architecture. His plans included the improvement of housi... |
87037 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Karenina | Anna Karenina | Anna Karenina (), also Anglicised as Anna Karenin, is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.
Tolstoy considered this book his first true novel.
Characters in "Anna Karenina"
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina – The title character, the sister of Stepan and the lover of Vronsky
Anna Arkadyevna Karenina is romantic and has... |
87038 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Karenina%20%28disambiguation%29 | Anna Karenina (disambiguation) | For movie, TV, radio, or theatrical adaptations of the novel see:
1914: Anna Karenina (1914 movie), a Russian adaptation directed by Vladimir Gardin.
1915: Anna Karenina (1915 movie), an American version starring Danish actress Betty Nansen.
1927: Love (1927 movie), an American version, starring Greta Garbo and direc... |
87042 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prada | Prada | Prada is an Italian fashion company (also known as a "fashion label" or "fashion house"). It has shops and products around the world.
History
The company, originally named Prada Brothers, was started in 1913 by Mario Prada in Milan, Italy. Mario Prada did not believe that women should have a role in business and prev... |
87043 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20section%20%28geometry%29 | Cross section (geometry) | A cross section is what one gets if one cuts an object into slices.
In geometry the correct definition of cross section is: the intersection of a body in 2-dimensional space with a line, or of a body in 3-dimensional space with a plane.
A cross section, or section is also an orthographic projection of a 3-dimensiona... |
87050 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20%28physics%29 | Space (physics) | Space, in everyday language, is something that we all know. It is measured in the three dimensions of distance: length, width, and height.
In modern physics, space is a "boundless four-dimensional continuum" known as spacetime. Disagreement exists about whether it is an entity (something that actually exists). It may ... |
87052 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace | Horace | Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known to English speakers as Horace, was a famous poet in the Roman Empire.
Life
Horace was born in the small Italian town of Venusia. His father used to be a slave, but was known as a freedman because his master had freed him. They moved to Rome a sho... |
87053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space | Space | Space in simple understanding is an area or volume.
Space or spacing may also refer to:
In science:
Outer space, the area beyond the limit of the atmosphere of Earth
Space (physics), one of the fundamental concepts like time and mass.
In music:
Space music, music that facilitates the experience of contemplative... |
87054 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20object | Physical object | In physics, a physical object (or body) is a collection of masses, which you look at as one object only. It applies to both living and non-living things.
A human's and animal's physical body is made up of organs and tissues. It is a part of a total living being, and might include its behaviour and way of thinking.
T... |
87055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20%28disambiguation%29 | Body (disambiguation) | Body may mean:
Body as human or animal body.
Physical body, an object in physics
Body (metaphysics), some sort of inert physical matter subject to the whims of volition and in kind to physical law
Professional body, an organization, usually non-profit, that exists to further a particular profession
, the HTML elem... |
87057 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebisu | Ebisu | Ebisu (恵比須, 恵比寿, 夷, 戎), also known as Yebisu or Hiruko (蛭子) or Kotoshiro-nushi-no-kami (事代主神), is the Japanese god of fishermen, good luck and working men, and also the guardian of the health of children. He is one of the Seven Lucky Gods.
Origins as Hiruko
Ebisu was first named Hiruko, meaning "leech child". He was t... |
87064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican%20peso | Dominican peso | The Dominican peso is the money of the Dominican Republic. Its official name is Peso oro and its symbol is "$" with RD in front of it (RD$) to differentiate it from other pesos or dollars. The ISO 4217 for the Dominican peso is DOP. Each peso is divided into 100 centavos (English, "cents").
History
The first Dominican... |
87065 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception | Proprioception | Proprioception is the sense that people have of knowing where the parts of their body are. It is also called kinesthetic sense.
Proprioception is used when a person touches the tip of their nose while keeping their eyes closed. Even though they cannot see their finger or their nose, they can sense how to touch them ... |
87068 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation | Permutation | A permutation is a single way of arranging a group of objects. It is useful in mathematics.
A permutation can be changed into another permutation by simply switching two or more of the objects. For example, the way four people can sit in a car is a permutation. If some of them chose different seats, then it would ... |
87073 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%20E6%20m%C2%B2 | 1 E6 m² | To help in showing the sizes of different geographic regions, areas between 1 km² (100 hectares) and 10 km² (1000 hectares) are listed below.
Areas smaller than 1 km²
1 square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. It is equal to:
100 hectares
1 E+6 m² or 106 m² in s... |
87074 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid | Lipid | A lipid is a type of organic molecule found in living things. It is oily or waxy. Fats are made from lipid molecules. Sources of lipid can be found in algae, seeds, meat, cheese, butter and fish. Lipids are long chains of carbon and hydrogen molecules. Lipids are classified as simple and complex. Examples of complex mo... |
87077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20theory | Group theory | In mathematics and abstract algebra, group theory studies a type of algebraic structure called a group. Group theory is often used in mathematics as a starting point for the study of many algebraic structures, such as a set of numbers along with its addition and multiplication. Because group theory is also useful for s... |
87086 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Vartan%20Cathedral | St. Vartan Cathedral | St. Vartan Cathedral is the first cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church to be constructed in North America. It is located in New York City on the corner of Second Avenue and 34th Street. It was built to resemble the St. Hripsime Church in Etchmiadzin.
Cathedrals in the United States
Buildings and structures in Ma... |
87088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margherita%20of%20Savoy | Margherita of Savoy | Margherita of Savoy or Margaret of Savoy (born November 20, 1851 in Turin, died January 4, 1926 in Bordighera), was an Italian queen of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign (1878-1900) of her husband, Humbert I.
Family
She was a daughter of Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa and Elizabeth of Saxony. Her paternal grandparents w... |
87090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonance%20and%20dissonance | Consonance and dissonance | In music, consonance and dissonance are words which are used to describe certain musical intervals or chords. The adjectives are consonant and dissonant.
A consonant interval or chord is one which sounds stable and pleasant. It could, for example, be the end of a piece of music. For example: C and E sound well toge... |
87098 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe%20diem | Carpe diem | Carpe diem is a famous phrase from one of the poems of Horace. It means "seize the day" in Latin.
What it means
Especially during the Baroque era, the phrase was important. In the 17th century there was the Thirty Years' war, which lasted roughly from 1618 to 1648. For the people of the time, death was present almost... |
87101 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Heinemann | Gustav Heinemann | Gustav Walter Heinemann (born 23 July 1899 in Schwelm; died 7 July 1976 in Essen) was a German politician. He was Interior Minister under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He resigned when Adenauer started getting ready to set up the German Army. He later resigned from the CDU and joined the SPD. He also served as Justice Mi... |
87107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwelm | Schwelm | Schwelm is a town in the district of Ennepe-Ruhr Rural District the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Geography
Schwelm is in the southeast of the "Ruhrgebiet", the Ruhr Area of Germany, between Westphalia and the "Bergisches Land". Schwelm is commonly known as the "Pforte Westfalens" ("Gate to Westphalia").
History
T... |
87110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesarbeitsgericht | Bundesarbeitsgericht | The Bundesarbeitsgericht or Federal Labour Court is the German federal supreme court of appeals for cases of labour law. This includes "individual" labour law (mostly about contracts of employment) and "collective" (more than one) labour law (e.g. cases about strikes and collective bargaining). The court hears cases f... |
87112 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundessozialgericht | Bundessozialgericht | The Bundessozialgericht (German for Federal Social Court) is the German federal supreme court of appeals for social security cases. The court was created on 11 September 1954 to hear cases about public health insurance, long-term care insurance, pension insurance and occupational accident insurance plans. These cases... |
87113 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Administrative%20Court%20of%20Germany | Federal Administrative Court of Germany | The Bundesverwaltungsgericht or Federal Administrative Court is one of the five federal supreme courts of Germany. It is the federal court of appeals for generally all cases of administrative law. These cases are mainly arguments between people and the government, but sometimes are disputes between two different parts... |
87119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Mar%C3%ADa%20de%20Iquique%20School%20Massacre | Santa María de Iquique School Massacre | The Santa María de Iquique school Massacre was on December 21, 1907. At that time Chile's government was led by Pedro Montt. Hundreds of workers died in the front of the school Santa María de Iquique.
The workers had been walking from saltpetre mines of Tarapacá, striking to get better life conditions.
The strike... |
87130 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid | Grid | Grid may mean:
Meaning an array of squares or rectangles:
Grid plan, a city plan in which streets run at right angles to form a grid
Grid reference, a standard method for the location of a point on a map.
Grid view or datagrid, a graphical user interface element that presents a tabular view of data
Grid graph, in... |
87144 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype | Skype | Skype () is a software program that uses the Internet to make telephone calls (using a technology called Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). It was created in 2003 by the Swedish and Danish Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, and is currently run by a company in Luxembourg called Skype Technologies S.A.R.L, which since ... |
87146 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wookieepedia | Wookieepedia | Wookieepedia (the Star Wars Wiki) is an online encyclopedia for information on the Star Wars fictional universe—including information of all eleven films, as well as Expanded Universe. It is a more specialized and useful wiki for those who wish to go farther than the basics in the Star Wars universe, and is almost ent... |
87152 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chianti | Chianti | Chianti is a kind of red wine. It is produced in Tuscany in the famous area of "Chianti" inside the provinces of Arezzo, Florence, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato and Sienna.
There are many types of Chianti:
Chianti is a really famous red wine. It is put into a "fiasco", a traditional Italian straw-covered wine bottle.
Chianti... |
87166 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%C3%AFmo%20Park | Maxïmo Park | Maxïmo Park (sometimes spelled Maximo Park) are an English indie rock band who formed in 2001.
History
Maxïmo Park formed in 2001 (with frontman Paul Smith coming from Billingham in Teesside). To Start off with, the four founding members played only a little amount small shows, with Archis Tiku on vocals, constantly ... |
87173 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20rock | Math rock | Math rock is a guitar-based style of indie rock which has complex rhythms. This genre started in the late 1980s. A closely-related genre is post-rock. Some of the same bands might be called both. Post-rock is usually characterized by a stronger jazz influence.
References
Music genres |
87182 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Kingdom%20of%20Egypt | Middle Kingdom of Egypt | The Middle Kingdom is the period in the history of ancient Egypt stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Fourteenth Dynasty, roughly between 2030 BC and 1640 BC.
The period had two phases, the 11th Dynasty, which ruled from Thebes and the 12th and the following dynasties which revol... |
87183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thebes%2C%20Egypt | Thebes, Egypt | Thebes (, Thēbai) was a city in Ancient Egypt about 800 km south of the Mediterranean Sea, on the east bank of the river Nile (). It was the capital of Waset, the fourth Upper Egyptian nome.
Sources
Gauthier, Henri. 1925–1931. Dictionnaire des noms géographiques contenus dans les textes hiéroglyphiques. Vol. 3 of 7... |
87185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Germany | Politics of Germany | Politics of Germany are based on a federal parliamentary democratic republic. The government is elected by the people in elections where everyone has an equal vote. The constitution is called the Grundgesetz. As well as setting out the rights of the people, it describes the jobs of the President, the Cabinet, the Bunde... |
87186 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical%20notation | Musical notation | Music notation or musical notation is a way of writing down music so that anyone can play it. Many systems have been used in the past to write music. Today most musicians in the Western world write musical notes on a stave: five parallel lines with four spaces in between them. However, there are many others, some of wh... |
87188 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicology | Musicology | Musicology means the study of music by a scholar. A scholar is an academic person, often a professor or lecturer at a university. Someone who studies musicology is a Musicologist.
Musicologists study all kinds of music. They study the history of music and learn about all the composers and how they developed their i... |
87192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian-Tatar%20massacres%201905-1907 | Armenian-Tatar massacres 1905-1907 | The Armenian-Tatar massacres (also known as the Armenian Tatar War and the Armeno-Tatar War) refers to the ethnic fight between the Armenians and the Caucasian Tartars (modern Azeris) in the Caucasus in 1905—1907.
The massacres started during the Russian Revolution of 1905. Hundreds of people were killed. The most vio... |
87205 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-pop | C-pop | C-pop is short for Chinese popular music (). Most of today's C-pop artists are from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China, as well as from other countries where Mandarin or Cantonese languages are used, such as Singapore and Malaysia. However, Taiwanese music has some origins from the Japanese enka so Taiwanese pop is s... |
87207 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanie%20Sun | Stefanie Sun | Stefanie Sun () is a multi-award-winning C-Pop singer and songwriter. She was born on 1978. Stefanie has sold over 10 million copies in Asia. After her release of her tenth album, she is said to be the most popular Mandarin female singer in Asia and the most successful singer from Singapore.
Early life
Stefanie Sun ... |
87210 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20German%20federal%20election | 2005 German federal election | The election of the German Federal Diet (Bundestag) 2005 took place on 18 September 2005.
References
2005 in Europe
2005 elections
Federal elections in Germany
German Bundestag
2000s in Germany
September 2005 events |
87217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra | Mudra | In Indian religions, a mudra (Sanskrit, literally "seal") is a gesture made with the hand or fingers. Along with asanas (body postures), they are used in yoga. Each mudra has a meaning. They are a central part of Hindu iconography. Mudras are also used in Buddhism. There are hand gestures in both Hindu and Buddhist ... |
87224 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron%20Kwok | Aaron Kwok | Aaron Kwok is a popular Hong Kong singer and movie actor. He is one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Cantopop. He has been called "Hong Kong's Michael Jackson" for his dancing.
Aaron Kwok is one of Hong Kong and Asia's most important pop stars. Over the last decade or so, Kwok has won over a hundred music awards. As a ... |
87225 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrene | Styrene | Styrene is a certain organic chemical compound having the chemical formula C8H8. Its chemical structure is made up of a vinyl group bonded onto a benzene ring. This benzene ring makes styrene an aromatic compound. At room temperature and pressure, styrene is a clear, colorless liquid. Other names for styrene can be sty... |
87228 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para%20Para%20Sakura | Para Para Sakura | Para Para Sakura is a 2001 romance-comedy movie directed by Jingle Ma, starring Aaron Kwok and Cecilia Cheung. It was filmed and produced in Hong Kong. It runs for 107 minutes and is in the language Cantonese.
Plot Outline
Kwok plays the role of Phillip Wong, a colour-blind dance instructor who holds a class devoted t... |
87233 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ%20Lin | JJ Lin | Wayne Lim Junjie (born March 27, 1981) is a Singaporean singer, songwriter, and music composer. Lin is commonly known as JJ Lin and his Chinese name is Lin Jun Jie. In 2004, with his self-composed song Jiang Nan, his career began to take off and his name became quickly known throughout China and Taiwan. JJ Lin was ori... |
87243 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Li%20Yin | Zhang Li Yin | Li Yin Zhang (; ), also known in Korea by her Korean name RiIn Jang, is the first and currently only Chinese solo singer to break into the Korean music industry. Li Yin has been nicknamed the "Chinese BoA". She speaks both Mandarin and Korean, and has released music in both Korea and China. She also speaks English but ... |
87249 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyingma | Nyingma | Nyingma is the name of one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Nyingma school is made up of several different lines that start with Padmasambhava, the legendary founder of Tibetan Buddhism. The word "Nyingma" means "ancient". Nyingma followers see themselves as holding the oldest teachings of Vajrayana. ... |
87265 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/433%20Eros | 433 Eros | 433 Eros is the first Near-Earth asteroid (NEA) that was found. It was named after the Greek god of love, Eros (Greek Ἔρως). It is an S-type asteroid about 13 × 13 × 33 km in size, the second-biggest near-Earth asteroid (NEA) after 1036 Ganymed. It belongs to the Amors. It is the first asteroid that was known to cross ... |
87272 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema | Thelema | Thelema is the English spelling of the Greek noun : "will", from the verb θέλω: to will, wish, purpose. Early Christian writings use the word to refer to the will of God, the human will, and even the will of God's opponent, the Devil.
Thelema is also a way of life first written about by François Rabelais (16th century... |
87273 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svecchachara | Svecchachara | Svecchachara is the Sanskrit equivalent of the Greek word Thelema, interpreted by Aleister Crowley as "Do What Thou Wilt."
In the first volume of the TWILIGHT YOGA, Ecstasy, Equipoise, and Eternity, Shri Gurudev Mahendranath wrote,
Sveccha means one's own wish or free will. Svecchachara means a way of life where one ... |
87275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole%20Nydahl | Ole Nydahl | Ole Nydahl (born 19 March 1941 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is the founder and leader of Diamond Way Buddhism, an organisation in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Since the 1970s he has travelled the world teaching and founding meditation centres.
Teachers
Ole Nydahl’s first teacher was the Drukpa-Kagyu master ... |
87277 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%20%28Taiwanese%20singer%29 | Tank (Taiwanese singer) | Tank (real name 呂建中 Lǚ Jiàn Zhōng, born February 6 1982) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. He is currently signed to HIM International Music, which also manages famous singers and groups like S.H.E, Fahrenheit and Power Station. Tank's first album, Fighting 生存之道 was released on 23 February 2006.
Early life
Tank was b... |
87284 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday | Mayday | Mayday () is one of the biggest alternative rock bands in the Taiwanese pop culture. Mayday sing songs mostly in Mandarin and sometimes in Taiwanese language.
Career
Before Mayday's official debut in 1998, the band sung in local restaurants and clubs. Mayday became famous with their 1999 single "志明與春嬌". In the same ye... |
87300 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der%20Dativ%20ist%20dem%20Genitiv%20sein%20Tod | Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod | Der Dativ ist dem Genitv sein Tod (German: the dative case is the genitive case's death) is a book series written by Bastian Sick which deals with doubtful cases of grammar, orthography, and punctuation. Because of that, the writer wants to fight against unthinking habit and what he believes to be a change to a lower s... |
87314 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made%20of%20Bricks | Made of Bricks | Made of Bricks is the first album by the British singer-songwriter, Kate Nash. It was released on 6 August 2007 on Fiction Records. It reached number one in the UK album charts.
The album was released five weeks earlier than first planned due to the popularity of the single "Foundations". In its opening week of sales ... |
87316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matin%C3%A9e%20%28album%29 | Matinée (album) | Matinée is the first album from British singer-'songwriter Jack Peñate. It was released on October 8, 2007 on XL Recordings.
Track listing
"Spit At Stars"
"Got My Favourite"
"Have I Been A Fool"
"Torn On The Platform"
"Learning Lines"
"Run For Your Life"
"We Will Be Here"
"Made Of Codes"
"My Yvonne"
"Second,... |
87321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%201%27s%20Live%20Lounge | Radio 1's Live Lounge | Radio 1's Live Lounge is an album of live tracks played on Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show. It contains both covers and the bands' own songs.
Track listing
Disc 1
Foo Fighters - "DOA"
Arctic Monkeys - "Love Machine" (originally by Girls Aloud)
Snow Patrol - "Run"
The Kooks - "Crazy" (originally by Gnarls Barkley)
Razor... |
87322 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sula%20Sgeir | Sula Sgeir | Sula Sgeir is a small, uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic. One of the most remote of the British Isles. The island is inhospitable to humans. There is a ruined stone house called Taigh Beannaichte (Blessed House) on the east headland Sgeir an Teampall, the island is formed by pieces of rocks, where are ... |
87332 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiderivative | Antiderivative | Antidifferentiation (also called indefinite integration) is the process of finding a certain function in calculus. It is the opposite of differentiation. It is a way of processing a function to give another function (or class of functions) called an antiderivative. Antidifferentiation is like integration—but without li... |
87350 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baucau | Baucau | Baucau is a city in East Timor (Timor Leste). It is east of the capital, Dili. About 16,000 people live there. That makes it the second biggest town in East Timor. It is served by the Cakung Airport. The town was first started by Portugal as a trading center.
References
Cities in East Timor |
87354 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%20BC | 1 BC | Year 1 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Some sources list it as a common year starting on either Friday or Saturday. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Piso.
Events
Emperor Augustus made a peace treaty with Phraates V
Ovid writes the Ars Amatoria
Pin... |
87358 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Protection%20Act%202018 | Data Protection Act 2018 | The Data Protection Act 2018 (c 29) is a law passed by the British government in 2018, and replaces the one passed in 1998.
It sets out rules for people who use or store data about living people and gives rights to those people whose data has been collected. The law applies to data held on computers or any sort of s... |
87359 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism | Nontrinitarianism | Nontrinitarism is a movement that rejects the idea of the Christian Trinity. That idea says that God is three different persons in one being.
There are several movements which can be classified as Nontrinitarian. At the First Council of Nicaea, in the year 325, people met and defined the idea of trinity. Some movemen... |
87365 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daegu | Daegu | Daegu (대구, also spelled Taegu, officially called Daegu Metropolitan City) is a city in South Korea. It is between Seoul and Busan, but is closer to Busan. Daegu is the fourth largest city in South Korea. About 2.4 million people live in Daegu. Of South Korea's 16 cities and provinces, Daegu is the poorest in terms of G... |
87368 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%2010 | Interstate 10 | Interstate 10 (or I-10) is a long Interstate Highway which the west side ends at Santa Monica, California (near Los Angeles), and the other side ends at Jacksonville, Florida. In Texas, it is one of the routes which the speed limit is per hour. The route is long and travels through 8 states. It is the fourth longest ... |
87373 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked%20list%20of%20Dominican%20Provinces | Ranked list of Dominican Provinces | These are ranked lists of the Provinces of Dominican Republic. Population figures areas are taken from the report on the 2010 census.
The percentages (%) mean how much of the country the province has (population and area).
By population
By area
By population density
Map
References |
87374 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda%20Cosgrove | Miranda Cosgrove | Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14, 1993) is an American actress and singer. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She first started her career in 1998 in various commercials. She is best known for her roles as Megan Parker in Drake and Josh, Summer Hathaway in School of Rock and her lead role as Carly Shay in Nic... |
87376 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Believers | Old Believers | In the Russian Orthodox church history, the Old Believers (, read starovery or staroobryadtsy) became separated after 1666-1667. They split from the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon. Old Believers continue liturgical practices which the Russian ... |
87379 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/81%20%28number%29 | 81 (number) | Eighty-one is a number. It comes between eighty and eighty-two, and is an odd number. It is also a square number.
Square numbers
Integers |
87380 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Florence | Province of Florence | The Province of Florence (in Italian: "Provincia di Firenze") is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. The province has an area of 3,514 sq. km and a population of 933,860 (2001) in 44 comuni.
Much of the province is in the plain of the Arno river that became an urban centre around the city of Florence.
The city... |
87381 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Arezzo | Province of Arezzo | Province of Arezzo (Italian: Provincia di Arezzo) is the eastern most province in the Tuscany region of Italy. The capital of province of Arezzo is the city of Arezzo.
The province has an area of 3,232 km², and a total population of 323,288 (2001) in 39 comuni (singular: comune).
Other websites
Province homepage (i... |
87382 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Grosseto | Province of Grosseto | Province of Grosseto (Italian: Provincia di Grosseto) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. The capital of the province is the city of Grosseto. In the province, there is The Natural Park of Maremma. It is in the famous area of Maremma.
The province has an area of 4,504 km² and a total population of 211,086 (2... |
87383 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Catholic%20Church | Old Catholic Church | The Old Catholic Church is a name for a group of Christian churches. Most of them are from German-speaking countries. Their beliefs are close to that of the Anglican Church.
Origins
They split from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1870s. This was because the First Vatican Council had said the pope was infallible. The... |
87386 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Livorno | Province of Livorno | The Province of Livorno (Italian: Provincia di Livorno) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. The capital of the province is the city of Livorno.
The province has an area of 1,218 km², and a total population of 326,444 (2001). There are 21 comuni (singular: comune) in the province.
Gallery
Other websites
P... |
87390 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Lucca | Province of Lucca | Province of Lucca (Italian: Provincia di Lucca) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. The capital of the province is the city of Lucca.
The province has an area of 1,773 km², and a total population of 372,244 (2001). There are 35 comuni (singular: comune) in the province.
Other websites
Province homepage
... |
87391 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Massa-Carrara | Province of Massa-Carrara | The Province of Massa-Carrara (Italian: Provincia di Massa-Carrara) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is named after the two main cities in its territory: Carrara and Massa, its capital.
The province has an area of 1,157 km² and a total population of 200,695 (2005). There are 17 comuni (singular: comune... |
87392 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Pisa | Province of Pisa | The Province of Pisa () is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. The capital of the province is the city of Pisa.
The province has an area of . In 2005, 394,101 people lived there. There are 39 comuni in the province.
Pisa is well known for the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa,which is in the city.
Other websites
... |
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