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107403 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20government%20of%20the%20United%20States | Federal government of the United States | The federal government of the United States has three branches of government: the legislature, executive, and judiciary, as established in the United States Constitution.
When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they wanted to make sure that their new government would not have any of the problems that the c... |
107409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco%20Malfoy | Draco Malfoy | Draco Lucius Malfoy is a fictional character from the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. Malfoy is an antagonist, a Slytherin student in Harry Potter's year and Harry's main rival in school. In the Harry Potter movies, he is played by Tom Felton.
Appearance
The fictional Draco Malfoy is described as having... |
107414 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducktales%3A%20Treasure%20of%20the%20Golden%20Suns | Ducktales: Treasure of the Golden Suns | Ducktales:Treasure of the Golden Suns is the pilot of the series DuckTales.
Plot
Part 1: Don't Give up the ship
The shows opens at Duckburg. After Donald Duck enlists in the navy, Uncle Scrooge has to take care of grand-nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Uncle Scrooge brings the boys to the McDuck's mansion where they a... |
107459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS | PCLinuxOS | PCLinuxOS is a Linux operating system. It is a free operating system for personal computers. It was made to be easy to use.
History
The start of PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a packager ... |
107489 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition | Nutrition | Nutrition provides the cells of an organism with food, in a form they can use. Organisms need food to be able to keep their bodies working properly. They also need food to be able to do certain things. Malnutrition can happen when a person does not eat the right amount of nutrients. They can get better by changing thei... |
107513 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei%20%28Hawaii%29 | Lei (Hawaii) | A lei is a flower necklace from Hawaii. The flower used most is the hibiscus or the orchid. May First is called "Lei Day" in Hawaii.
Culture of Hawaii
Flowers |
107515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid | Orchid | The orchids are a large family of flowering plants, the Orchidaceae. They are herbaceous monocots.
There are between 22,000 and 26,000 species in 880 genera. They make up between 6–11% of all seed plants. Orchids can be found in almost every country in the world except for Antarctica.
People have grown orchids for a ... |
107516 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei | Lei | "Leis" redirects here. "LEIS" is an abbreviation for low-energy ion scattering.
Lei could mean:
Lei, the singular formal form of "you" in Italian (informal : tu)
Lei, the plural form of Leu, the name of two currencies. See Romanian leu and Moldovan leu.
Lei (Hawaii), a Hawaiian flower necklace
Lei (surname), a C... |
107522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Buscemi | Steve Buscemi | Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an American actor, director, producer, writer and former firefighter. He is best known for his roles as Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, Carl Showalter in Fargo, and Seymour in Ghost World. With a long career, he has worked in several movies and television shows like The So... |
107525 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey | Survey | Survey could mean:
Geography
Surveying, the technique and science of measuring positions and distances on Earth
Aerial survey, a method of collecting information using aerial photography
Cadastral survey, used to document land ownership, by the production of documents, diagrams, plats, and maps
Dominion Land Survey, t... |
107538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closet | Closet | A closet is a small room in which people put their clothes. It is usually not bigger than a garage or a basement. It is not a wardrobe, it is a room. Some people put things inside it other than clothes.
Furniture |
107547 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS | FreeDOS | FreeDOS is a free and open source operating system. It is made to work just like MS-DOS. Almost all programs that will run on MS-DOS will run on FreeDOS too. It was created because Microsoft did not want to make MS-DOS anymore. FreeDOS can be installed with a floppy or with a CD.
References
Other websites
Official... |
107549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Buzz%20on%20Maggie%20Episodes | List of The Buzz on Maggie Episodes | This article contains information on every episode in Disney's The Buzz on Maggie.
2005 Aired Episodes
Episode 1A: The Flyinator
Maggie wants to see an FM-rated movie called The Flyinator 3, but she gets frightened from seeing it. And when she comes home, her entire family, even Bella, turn into a bunch of Flyinator... |
107554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coahoma%20County%2C%20Mississippi | Coahoma County, Mississippi | Coahoma County is a county in the northwestern part of Mississippi. There are about 30,622 people living there. It's capital is Clarksdale. It was started on February 9, 1836. "Coahoma" is a Choctaw word that means "red panther."
References
Mississippi counties
1836 establishments in Mississippi |
107571 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province%20of%20Trento | Province of Trento | The Province of Trento (), also called Trentino, is an autonomous province of Italy.
Data
Trentino is an alpine region of northern Italy. The population has always been neolatin since the fall of the Roman empire.
During the Middle Ages the Catholic Church controlled Trento, while Austria controlled the area since t... |
107584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Power%20Stadium | King Power Stadium | The King Power Stadium is a football stadium in Leicester, England, where Leicester City Football Club play their home football matches. Built to replace the aging filbert street ground, it can have up to 32,500 people inside it, more than 10,000 more than the ground it replaced. Originally called the Walkers Stadium,... |
107586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boto%C8%99ani | Botoșani | Botoşani (pronunciation in Romanian: is the capital city of Botoşani County, in the northern part of Moldavia, Romania. It has a population of 115,609 people as of the year 2002
Today, it is best known as the birthplace of many celebrated Romanians, including Mihai Eminescu and Nicolae Iorga.
Sport
Football is rep... |
107596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Ice%20Age | Little Ice Age | The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling after the so-called Medieval Warm Period.
Climatologists (people who study climate) and historians find it difficult to agree on either the start or end dates of this period. Some say the Little Ice Age started about the 16th century and continued to the mid 19th centur... |
107600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Morgan | Michael Morgan | Michael Morgan is the name of several people:
Michael Dennis Morgan is an Olympic-level rower. He has competed for Australia, 2004. He was born December 19, 1946.
Michael Morgan is a German singer of simple popular songs. He was born March 10, 1968, as Michael Lamboley in Merzig in West-Germany. |
107601 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20route | Trade route | A trade route is a series of paths or roads that is used for the commercial transport of cargo.
Historically, the period from 1500 BC–1 AD saw the Western Asian, Mediterranean, Chinese and Indian societies develop major networks for trade, such as the silk road. Europe's early trading routes included the amber road, w... |
107615 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon | Zircon | Zircon is a silicate mineral. It is found in many different places in almost all kinds of rock. The chemical it is made up of is called zirconium silicate: ZrSiO4. Clear zircon may look like diamond and has been used as a cheaper replacement for diamond. It is not the same as cubic zirconia, which is man-made zircon... |
107616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labradorite | Labradorite | Labradorite is one kind of feldspar. It is a silicate mineral, and is special because it is often pretty enough to be used in jewelry. Some kinds of labradorite are called moonstone or sunstone.
Gemstones
Minerals |
107624 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl | Beryl | Beryl is a cyclosilicate, and is the second main ore of beryllium metal. It is sometimes found as very, very large crystals, as much as 18 m. (59 ft.) long. Colored clear beryl is often used for jewelry, including emerald (green), aquamarine (bluegreen), bixbite (red), morganite (pink), and heliodor (golden).
Gemstone... |
107633 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt | Hallstatt | Hallstatt is a village in Upper Austria. Currently, a little over 900 people live there. It is in the Salzkammergut, a mountain regionin Austria. It lies on a lake.
Because of its position, Hallstatt could only be reached by boat (or by using narrow, difficult mountain trails) for a long time. At the end of the 19th ... |
107643 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower%20Compact | Mayflower Compact | The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was drafted by the Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower, looking for the freedom to belive in Christianity according to their own beliefs in God. It was signed on 11 November 1620 (OS) by 41 of the ship's more than one hundred p... |
107663 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Piper | John Piper | John Piper could mean:
John Piper (author) (born 1953), English author and market analyst
John Piper (artist) (1903–1992), English painter and printmaker
John Piper (broadcaster), BBC radio host
John Piper (military officer) (1773–1851), lieutenant-governor of Norfolk Island
John Piper (theologian) (born 1946), Re... |
107666 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Piper%20%28theologian%29 | John Piper (theologian) | John Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946, Chattanooga, Tennessee) is a Reformed Baptist theologian, preacher, and author. He is the pastor for preaching of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has written many books. He started the evangelical ministry named Desiring God, after his book Desiring God... |
107672 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Gates | Bill Gates | William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft. He is the third-richest person in the world behind Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in net worth as of January 2021.
Early life
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 at Swedish Medical Cent... |
107676 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibula%20%28brooch%29 | Fibula (brooch) | A Fibula is an ancient brooch. (Plural: fibulae). Technically, the latin term fibulae meant Roman brooches, but the term is widely used for brooches from the entire ancient and early medieval world. Unlike modern brooches, fibulae were not only decorative, they originally served a practical function: to fasten cloth... |
107679 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Supreme%20Court%20building | United States Supreme Court building | The Supreme Court building is home of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is in Washington, D.C. It was designed in the neoclassical style by an architect named Cass Gilbert.
References
Buildings and structures in Washington, D.C. |
107699 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem%20Baptist%20Church | Bethlehem Baptist Church | Bethlehem Baptist Church can mean:
Note: Some of these are on the National Register of Historic Places
Bethlehem Baptist Church (Phoenix, Arizona)
Bethlehem Baptist Church (Minneapolis), Minnesota
Bethlehem Baptist Church (Barnwell, South Carolina) |
107703 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem%20Baptist%20Church%20%28Minneapolis%29 | Bethlehem Baptist Church (Minneapolis) | The Bethlehem Baptist Church (BBC) is a megachurch in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The church was started in 1871 as the First Swedish Baptist Church of Minneapolis. Since 1980, their pastor has been John Piper.
Other websites
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Baptist churches
Churches in the United States
Minneapolis, Minnesota
... |
107705 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachurch | Megachurch | A megachurch is a large church. It usually has around 2,000 or more people come every week. About 1,300 Protestant churches are megachurches.
Other websites
Database of Megachurches in the U.S.
Churches |
107736 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20Warm%20Period | Medieval Warm Period | The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) or Medieval Climate Optimum was a time of unusually warm climate in the North Atlantic region. It was not a planet-wide phenomena. It lasted from about the tenth century to about the fourteenth century. In discussions of global warming this period is often mentioned.
Some refer to the e... |
107741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20sports | Motor sports | Motor sports are sports where the people taking part use a motor vehicle. The usual vehicles are a car, motorcycle or boat. Some motor sports use aircraft or snowmobiles.
Motor sports can be based either on speed (the first one to reach the finish line wins) or on skill (the one with the least amount of penalty points... |
107753 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara%20IceDogs | Niagara IceDogs | The Niagara IceDogs are a Canadian ice hockey team. They began playing in 1998. The team currently plays in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). They play their home games in St. Catharines, Ontario at the Meridian Centre.
Other websites
Official website
Canadian Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in Ontario
Ontario Ho... |
107757 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haan | Haan | Haan is a town of the district of Mettmann in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Since 1975, Gruiten belongs to Haan.
Population
Twin towns
Haan is twinned with:
Eu, France, since 1967
Berwick-upon-Tweed, United Kingdom, since 1982
Bad Lauchstädt, Germany, since 1990
Dobrodzień, Poland, since 20... |
107762 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20chamber | Gas chamber | A gas chamber is an airtight room used for killing people or animals with poison gas. The people or animals are put into the gas chamber, the door is sealed airtight from the outside, and a gas, such as carbon monoxide or hydrogen cyanide, is put into the chamber. The victims die from inhaling the poisonous gas.
In t... |
107763 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20Wrestling | Impact Wrestling | Impact Wrestling is a professional wrestling company founded in 2002 shortly after World Championship Wrestling closed down. They are the main rivals for World Wrestling Entertainment. They made a video game called TNA iMPACT! and a sequel to it called TNA Impact! 2011 after it's weekly program which was of the same n... |
107777 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Bulge | Battle of the Bulge | The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German attack near the end of World War II, in Belgium, France and Luxembourg. The attack surprised Allied forces. It became the worst battle in terms of casualties for the United States. It also used up huge amounts of Germany's ... |
107783 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing | Nothing | Nothing is a concept of being without any form of matter.
.
Related pages
Existentialism
Nihilism
No
Vacuum
Zero
Matter |
107799 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon | Moon | The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. We usually see it in the night sky and also during the day. Some other planets also have moons or natural satellites.
Our moon is about a quarter the size of the Earth. Because it is far away it looks small, about half a degree wide. The gravity on the moon is one-sixth of t... |
107804 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Ryan | Will Ryan | William Frank Ryan (May 21, 1949 – November 19, 2021) was an American actor, singer and musician.
Career
His music career first began when he was in high school. He then signed the first of two recording contracts with CBS Records.
He got back into music and after moving to California. He began to write and record wa... |
107808 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captivity%20%28animal%29 | Captivity (animal) | Animals who live under human control or care are in captivity. Captivity can be used as a term meaning the keeping of either domesticated animals (livestock, pets) or wild animals. This may include for example farms, private homes and zoos. Sometimes humans take care of critically endangered animals and therefore these... |
107839 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw | Choctaw | The Choctaw are a Native American people originally from the southeastern United States.
References
Native American |
107841 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native%20Americans%20in%20the%20United%20States | Native Americans in the United States | Native Americans in the United States (also known as American Indians) are the indigenous peoples from the areas of North America now part of the continental United States, including parts of Alaska. The Cherokee were the first Native Americans to be recognized as US citizens. In the 19th century white colonists called... |
107855 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Cowen | Brian Cowen | Brian Cowen (born 10 January 1960) was the Taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland. He became the taoiseach on 7 May 2008, after Bertie Ahern, he resigned after losing a general election on 9 March 2011. He was the leader of a political party called Fianna Fáil. They were in a coalition government with t... |
107859 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20chat | Web chat | A web chat is a chat system to exchange information via the Web. People use a web browser to communicate with others. Apart from the browser you do not need anything else, which makes a web chat easy to use and ideal for people not very experienced with computers.
On the technical side web chats are often written with... |
107865 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Grand%20Prix | British Grand Prix | The British Grand Prix is a grand prix motor race organised in Great Britain by the Royal Automobile Club. First held in 1950 and after that every year since today.
Winners
Multiple winners (drivers)
Drivers in bold are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season.
Multiple winners (constructors)
... |
107866 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob%20River | Ob River | The Ob is a river in Siberia. Together with the Lena and the Jenissei, it is one of the most important rivers of Siberia. Depending upon how its length is measured, it can be between 3.650 km and 6.210 km long. Some important cities on the banks of the river include Novosibirsk (Russia's third largest city), Barnaul, K... |
107867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive%20reasoning | Deductive reasoning | Deduction is one of the two main types of reasoning. The other is induction. In deduction, we apply a general rule to a particular case.
Deductive arguments are attempts to show that a conclusion must follow from a set of premises or hypotheses. A deductive argument is valid if the conclusion follows necessarily from ... |
107869 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20reasoning | Inductive reasoning | Induction is one of the main forms of logical reasoning. The other is deduction. In induction, we find a general rule by using a large number of particular cases. For example, watching water in many different situations, we can conclude that water always flows downhill.
Induction is not the method of science, but i... |
107879 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20Territory | Oklahoma Territory | Oklahoma Territory was an organized territory of the United States from May 2, 1890 until November 16, 1907, when Oklahoma became the 46th state. It was made up of the western area of what is now the state of Oklahoma. The eastern area consisted of the last remaining part of Indian Territory.
Lands that came to make u... |
107881 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20theory | Scientific theory | In everyday speech, the word "theory" is used as a "best guess". In modern science, a scientific theory is a tested and expanded hypothesis that explains many experiments. It fits ideas together in a framework. If anyone finds a case where all or part of a scientific theory is false, then that theory is either changed ... |
107897 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin-Epagnier | Marin-Epagnier | Marin-Epagnier is a former municipality in the district of Neuchâtel in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. In 1888, the formerly independent municipality merged with Epagnier and Marin to form Marin-Epagnier. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Marin-Epagnier and Thielle-Wavre joined together and became the new... |
107901 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalenenberg | Magdalenenberg | Magdalenenberg is the name for a tumulus grave. It dates from the Iron Age. It lies at the southwestern tip of the Black Forest, in Germany. The nobleman who is buried there was part of the Hallstatt culture. With a volume of 33.000 cubic metres it is the biggest grave from that time in Central Europe.
In his first-ha... |
107902 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20Cenote | Sacred Cenote | Sacred Cenote (Well of Sacrifice) is a well known cenote at the Maya site of Chichen Itza. One can access it by a 900 foot paved corridor that leads from the Great Plaza. The Sacred Cenote was used for human sacrifices to the rain god Chaac in periods of drought.
Notes
Other websites
Cenotes of Chichén Itzá
Archae... |
107904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenote | Cenote | A cenote is a type of sinkhole that contains groundwater. It is typical in the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula and some nearby Caribbean islands. The term comes from a word used by the lowland Yucatec Maya to refer to any location where groundwater can be got at.
Definition and description
Cenotes are surface connections ... |
107910 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkton%2C%20Kent | Monkton, Kent | Monkton is an English village on the Canterbury-Ramsgate road. It is at the southwestern edge of the Isle of Thanet, Kent near St Nicholas at Wade and Minster-in-Thanet. The church there is dedicated to Mary Magdalene. Inside the Church is a plaque, commemorating a local soldier, Euncie Rochelle, who died in the Iraq w... |
107920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20chair | Electric chair | An electric chair is a specially built chair which is used to execute condemned criminals by electrocuting (giving them a strong electric shock) them. This means that they are being killed as a punishment for a crime that they were accused of, usually murder.
An electric chair is a strong wooden chair which has electr... |
107923 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%20Bernab%C3%A9u%20Stadium | Santiago Bernabéu Stadium | The Santiago Bernabéu Stadium is a football stadium in Madrid, Spain. It is the second largest stadium in Spain after the Camp Nou. It has a capacity for 81,044 people. The stadium is called Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Spanish.
The 1982 FIFA World Cup and the final, were held at the Santiago Bernabéu.
History
The s... |
107929 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocution | Electrocution | Electrocution or electric shock is when electricity passes through something living. It happens when the human body gets in contact with electric current. The word "electrocution" originated as a portmanteau between electricity and execution, referring to those executed by electric chair, but has evolved to describe an... |
107932 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stora%20Enso | Stora Enso | Stora Enso is a Finnish-Swedish cellulose and paper making corporation. It is the one of the largest paper making firms in the world. It was formed by the merger of Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora and Finnish forestry products company Enso-Gutzeit Oy in 1998.
Its head office is in Helsinki, and it ... |
107938 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeechWeb | SpeechWeb | A SpeechWeb is a collection of SpeechWeb applications. The collection or web of applications can be navigated using a SpeechWeb browser.
The goals of the SpeechWeb are:
1. Providing end users with voice only interfaces to remote applications.
2. Providing software developers with a framework to build their user inte... |
107939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikal | Tikal | Tikal (or Tik’al, according to modern orthography) is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Maya civilization. It lies in modern day Guatemala at . Now it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a popular tourist spot.
Tikal was one of the major cultural and population centers of the Maya civilization. The o... |
107943 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance | Resistance | Resistance could mean:
The general ability to stop something from happening (Ex. resistance to water means that the object can avoid being hurt by water)
Resistance, an ability to reject infection
Electrical resistance, the repulsion of a current in a circuit
A struggle against an oppressive government. See also ... |
107945 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard | Bard | The bard probably belonged to a social class in Celtic Europe. Bards were poets or singers and were most likely were in the service of Celtic nobility. They were probably employed to tell about how good their master (the nobleman) was or to sing about what he did. Today, it is not quite clear what the difference was fr... |
107947 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation | Operation | Operation may refer to:
Surgery
An arithmetic operation:
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
A planned military engagement, such as a battle
A business or franchise
Basic English 850 words |
107951 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum | Mausoleum | A mausoleum is a building used to store the remains of people who have died. Instead of being buried in soil, like in a cemetery, they are placed in chambers behind walls, or in a vault under the floor. The word came from the name of an ancient king.
Lenin's Mausoleum
Soviet leader Lenin is a mausoleum. In 1953, Jose... |
107953 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20figurines | Venus figurines | Possibly among the earliest traces of art are Venus figurines. These are figurines that show women. Most often the women are shown as being pregnant, with breasts well visible. The figurines occur from Western Europeto Siberia. Most are about 30.000 years old; Two figurimes have been found that are much older, the Venu... |
107955 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20of%20Tan-Tan | Venus of Tan-Tan | The Venus of Tan-Tan is a venus figurine. It was found in Morocco. It has been dated to be between 300.000 and 500.000 years old. Unlike the other venus figurines, it appears neither male nor female.
Ancient history |
107957 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20of%20Berekhat%20Ram | Venus of Berekhat Ram | The Venus of Berekhat Ram is a stone that was found on the Golan Heights in 1981. Scientists have proposed to classify it as a Venus figurine, because there are traces it was worked on with a stone tool. The things that have been worked can clearly be told apart from the natural stone. It is therefore agreed that the p... |
107959 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Baptists | List of Baptists | This is a list of Baptists. This list is not complete.
Preachers, theologians, and missionaries
Chambers, Oswald, converted to Christianity under C. H. Spurgeon
Colson, Chuck, former top aide to President Richard Nixon
Falwell, Jerry, televangelist, founder of the Moral Majority
Graham, Billy
Ham, Mordecai,... |
107963 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy | Joy | Joy is an emotion of great happiness.
Joy can also be interpreted as a person's name.
Joy may also refer to:
Joy as a surname
Alfred Harrison Joy, American astronomer (d. 1973)
Bernard Joy, English footballer (d.1984)
Bill Joy, Computer Pioneer (William Joy)
Brian Joy, a former English footballer
C. Turner Joy... |
107964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace | Grace | Grace could mean:
Grace, Idaho
Grace (given name), a feminine name
Grace (prayer), said before or after a meal
Grace (plotting tool), software
Grace (photograph), the Minnesota state photograph
"Grace" (short story), by James Joyce
Grace (style), a form of address
"Grace" (Stargate SG-1), a television series ep... |
107971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga%2C%20Tennessee | Chattanooga, Tennessee | Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee, a state in the United States of America. Cities larger than it are Memphis - the largest; Nashville - the capital of the state; and Knoxville. Chattanooga is in the southeast of Tennessee.
The first people to live in the Chattanooga area were Native American Indians... |
107973 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville%2C%20South%20Carolina | Greenville, South Carolina | Greenville is a city in South Carolina, United States. Bob Jones University is in Greenville. Greenville is in the Blue Ridge region of the state and is the county seat of Greenville County. As of 2010, it had an urban population of 400,492.
References
Other websites
Greenville website
County seats in South Caro... |
107977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Edwards | Jonathan Edwards | "Jon Edwards" redirects here. You may be looking for John Edwards.
Jonathan Edwards can mean:
Jonathan Edwards (theologian) (1703–1758), an American jalen and theologian and president of Princeton University
Jonathan Edwards (athlete) (born 1966), a British triple jumper and world record holder |
107978 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Edwards%20%28theologian%29 | Jonathan Edwards (theologian) | Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a colonial American preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. He was one of the most important people in the Great Awakening, a religious movement in the United States. He preached a sermon called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
1703 bir... |
107981 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate%20cancer | Prostate cancer | Prostate cancer is a disease in which cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. It is often treated with prostatectomy, radiotherapy, or hormonal therapy.
Aggressive prostate cancer is now known to have a genetic basis. Men with gene BRCA2 are more likely to get the cancer, and more lik... |
107983 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Edwards | John Edwards | Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American politician. He served one term as U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
Early life
Johnny Edward was born at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital in Seneca, South Carolina, He was son of Wallace Edwards and Catharine Edwards, He studied Clemson University a... |
107984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller%20Theological%20Seminary | Fuller Theological Seminary | The Fuller Theological Seminary is in Pasadena, California. It is one of North America's largest seminaries. The Seminary has over 4,300 students from over 67 countries and 108 denominations.
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Official site
Colleges and universities in California
Christian colleges and universities in the U... |
107986 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%20of%20Divinity | Bachelor of Divinity | In Western Christian theology, a Bachelor of Divinity (BD or BDiv) is usually an undergraduate academic degree given for courses taken in the study of divinity. At some institutions, the BD is a higher degree than the Bachelor of Arts.
Related pages
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
Academic degrees
Christian theolog... |
107987 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freespire | Freespire | Freespire is a Linux distribution made with parts from Ubuntu. It was made to make using free software easy, while giving the choice to use non-free (not open source) parts. These parts might be programs, drivers, or codecs. Linspire, a commercial Linux distribution, is made from Freespire.
Related pages
List of Linux... |
107988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual%20gift | Spiritual gift | In Christianity, the spiritual gifts are gifts given to Christians. Each Christian has his or her own gift (or gifts). They are talked about in the New Testament, mainly in First Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4. Some believe that they only worked in early Christianity.
Christian theology
ru:Святой Дух#Дары... |
107990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctification | Sanctification | The word sanctification refers to the act of making holy or setting apart as special. The word is used five times in the Authorized Version of the New Testament (1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Thessalonians 4:3,1 Thessalonians 4:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, and 1 Peter 1:2).
To sanctify means “to set apart for special use or purpo... |
107991 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia | Glossolalia | Glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, is speaking rapid speech-like syllables which cannot be understood. In some cases it is part of religious practice. Some consider it as a part of a sacred language. It is a common practice amongst Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity.
Linguistics
In 1972 a linguist from the Uni... |
107993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20hedonism | Christian hedonism | Christian hedonism is a controversial Christian doctrine in some evangelical churches, partly those of the Reformed tradition. This term was made by Baptist pastor John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God. Piper talks about this philosophy of the Christian life as "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied... |
108001 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucatec%20language | Yucatec language | Yucatec Maya ("Maaya T'aan" in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula. It is also spoken in northern Belize and parts of Guatemala. To native speakers, it is known only as Maya - "Yucatec" is a label linguists use to distinguish it from... |
108004 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxmal | Uxmal | Uxmal is a large pre-Columbian city. The ruins are in Mexico today, in the state of Yucatán. According to the records of the Maya, the city was built around the year 500 AD. According to current research, about 25.000 people lived there. Most of the buildings that can be seen today were built between 700 and 1100. Afte... |
108007 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayasal | Tayasal | Tayasal is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site from the Postclassic period. The site is in the southern Maya lowlands on a small island in Lake Petén Itzá. This island is now part of the Department of Petén in northern Guatemala. Tayasal was the capital of one of the last independent Maya polities to be conquere... |
108008 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological%20site | Archaeological site | An archaeological site is a place where physical remains of the past survive. The archaeologists working there will carefully record what they find. They may also change the site so that what has been found can be preserved better.
The site will have trenches so that people can excavate better. To start the excavation... |
108010 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop%C3%A1n | Copán | Copán was a Maya city. Today, the ruins are in Honduras, near the border to Guatemala. The kingdom of Copan flourished from the 5th to the 9th century. The people would hire slaves to build houses. If they hired 80 - 100 workers it would usually take them around 2-3 months to finish it
History of Honduras
Maya civiliz... |
108012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenie%20Meyer | Stephenie Meyer | Stephenie Meyer (born December 24, 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American author. She was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She is the author of the Twilight series. The Host, Meyer's first adult novel, was released on May 6, 2008.
Critical reception
Meyer's first novel, Twilight, has won numerous honors, including:... |
108016 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20Thompson | Flora Thompson | Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet that was famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.
She was born in Juniper Hill, a hamlet in north-east Oxfordshire. She was the eldest of six children of the stonemason Alber... |
108018 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClamWin | ClamWin | ClamWin Free Antivirus is a free, open source antivirus software for Microsoft Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the ClamAV engine.
ClamWin is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and can be downloaded from the official website for free.
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Free softw... |
108021 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20van%20Basten | Marco van Basten | Marcel "Marco" van Basten (born October 31, 1964 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is a former Dutch footballer. He was most recently the manager of the Netherlands national football team. He had to quit playing football early because of an injury that kept him from playing for more than a year.
Van Basten was known for his st... |
108022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonry | Masonry | Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar. The term "masonry" can also refer to the units themselves.
The common materials of masonry construction are brick, stone such as marble, granite, travertine, limestone; concrete block, glass block, and tile. Masonry is ge... |
108026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lark%20Rise%20to%20Candleford | Lark Rise to Candleford | Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels set in the English countryside in the late 19th century. They were written by Flora Thompson, and first published in that form in 1945. The trilogy includes the previously published stories Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941) and Candleford G... |
108036 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lark%20Rise%20to%20Candleford%20%28TV%20series%29 | Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series) | Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD. Its cast includes actors from other late 2007 and early 2008 BBC costume... |
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