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110310 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauroposeidon | Sauroposeidon | Sauroposeidon is a genus of sauropod dinosaur found in Oklahoma. It is one of the biggest dinosaur yet found.
Habit and diet
Sauroposeidon lived in what was then a river delta flowing into the Bay of Mexico. It was a plant-eater that probably ate leaves from the tops of trees, perhaps conifers and early flowering tre... |
110317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20cut | Power cut | A power cut, sometimes called a power outage or blackout, is a word for when the electric power does not work in an area. It is sometimes caused by a power line (or electricity cable) falling down, but may also happen due to routine maintenance. In poor countries, such as many in Africa, there are regular power cuts as... |
110336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20LaHaye | Tim LaHaye | Timothy Francis "Tim" LaHaye (April 27, 1926 – July 25, 2016) was an American evangelical Baptist minister, author, and speaker. He was best known for co-authoring the Left Behind series with Jerry B. Jenkins. He wrote over 50 books, both fiction and non-fiction. Time magazine named LaHaye "one of the 25 most influenta... |
110345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Rogers | Adrian Rogers | Adrian Pierce Rogers, Th.D. (September 12, 1931 – November 15, 2005) was an American pastor, author, and a three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979-1980 and 1986-1988). Rogers was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. He is the starter of Love Worth Finding ministries.
Other websites
His official we... |
110352 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Colson | Charles Colson | Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson (October 16, 1931, in Boston, Massachusetts - April 21, 2012) was the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. Colson was also a public speaker and author. Around 1974 he converted to Christianity, and became an Evangelical Christian.
White House
In 1969 Colson was a... |
110355 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Stanley%20%28evangelist%29 | Charles Stanley (evangelist) | Charles Frazier Stanley (born September 25, 1932 in Dry Fork, Pittsylvania County, Virginia) is the pastor of megachurch First Baptist Church Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the starter and president of "In Touch Ministries". Stanley also served two terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1984 thr... |
110357 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espaillat%20Province | Espaillat Province | Espaillat is a province in the Dominican Republic. It is in the Cibao region, in the north central part of the country. Its capital is Moca.
The province was created on 1885. It was part of the La Vega province until it was made a province.
Name
The province was named after Ulises Francisco Espaillat who was Presiden... |
110358 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie%20White | Reggie White | Reginald Howard "Reggie" White (December 19, 1961 – December 26, 2004) was an American football player who is now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He is well known for being a Evangelical Christian minister. This led to his nickname, "the Minister of Defense."
Other websites
Packers.com: Reggie White
Reggie White... |
110360 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley%20Patton | Charley Patton | Charlie Patton (also known as Charley Patton) (May 1, 1891 - April 28, 1934) was an American Delta blues musician. He is thought to be the "Father of Delta Blues" and was one of the most popular of the early recorded blues musicians.
Trivia
Musical releases and his gravestone spell his name “Charley” even though the ... |
110361 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonite | Ammonite | Ammonites were marine cephalopod molluscs of the subclass Ammonoidea.
Their widely-known fossils show a ribbed spiral-form shell, in the end compartment of which lived the tentacled animal. These creatures lived in the seas from at least 400 to 65 million years ago. They became extinct at the K/T extinction event. Th... |
110373 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop | Drop | A drop is a small bit of liquid, such as water, which is held together by surface tension.
It is normally thought of as falling.
Something that is dropping can sometimes be called dripping.
Drops are often circular in shape, and sometimes when light is refracted through them, it makes a rainbow effect. Rain is an examp... |
110374 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brindle | Brindle | Brindle is a fur coloring in animals. It mainly appears on dogs, cats, cattle, and sometimes horses. The brindle color is similar to the stripes of a tiger, but much less visible. Animals with a brindle-colored coat are said to be brindled.
Animals |
110375 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20fiction | Interactive fiction | Interactive Fiction, usually abbreviated as IF, is a kind of computer game. In interactive fiction, the player types words with their keyboard, as an instruction to the main character of a story. One instruction might be:
take lamp
Which would make the main character pick up a lamp.
Types of video games |
110378 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20League%20First%20Division | Football League First Division | The Football League First Division was a football league. It was the first division of English football between 1888 and 1992. When the Premier League was created in 1992, it became the 2nd division. It was rebranded as the Football League Championship in 2004.
Number of teams
Former champions
English Football Leag... |
110397 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie%2C%20Pennsylvania | Erie, Pennsylvania | Erie is a city in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania. It is named after Lake Erie. As of 2001, 103,717 people lived in Erie.
Other websites
County seats in Pennsylvania |
110403 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond%2C%20California | Richmond, California | Richmond is city in the U.S. State of California. It is a suburb of San Francisco. 103,818 people live in Richmond now. Chevron has an oil refinery here; in 2012 the refinery suffered a large fire. |
110413 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana%20Jones%20and%20the%20Last%20Crusade | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 adventure movie directed by Steven Spielberg from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford in the title role. It co-stars Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, Alison Doody, River Phoenix, and John Rhys-Davies.
Plot
The movie... |
110432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Rice | Jerry Rice | Jerry Lee Rice (born October 13, 1962 in Starkville, Mississippi) is an American retired football player. He was a wide receiver in the NFL, and is widely considered the greatest to ever play this position. He is often thought of as one of the best players in the history of the game. Most of his success was with the Sa... |
110434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Sanders | Barry Sanders | Barry David Sanders (born ) is a Hall of Fame and Heisman Trophy winning American football running back. He played college football at Oklahoma State University, then spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL.
American football running backs
1968 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Wich... |
110440 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20McGonagall | William McGonagall | William McGonagall (born Edinburgh, March 1825 – died Edinburgh, 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet. He thought he was good at writing poetry, but his poetry was often considered to be the worst poetry in the English language. He became famous because he was such a bad poet.
Life and poetry
William McGonagall w... |
110444 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallimimus | Gallimimus | Gallimimus (chicken mimic) was a fast-running dinosaur. It had a long, thin, flattened, toothless, horny beak, a small head, and a relatively large brain. Gallimimus lived in the Upper Cretaceous, about 75-70 million years ago.
Description
The bottom front part of its beak was shaped like a shovel. It had large eyes ... |
110452 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%20County%2C%20Alabama | Jefferson County, Alabama | Jefferson County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama.
The county was named after Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. The county has the largest population of all other counties in Alabama. As of the 2000 U.S. census, 662,047 people lived there. The largest city in Jefferson County is Birmi... |
110455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Other%20Wind | The Other Wind | The Other Wind is the sixth and last of a series of books that are written by Ursula K. Le Guin. It follows on from Tehanu, the fourth book, and the short story "Dragonfly" from the fifth book Tales from Earthsea.
The book won the World Fantasy Award for Best Book in 2002, and was also nominated for the Nebula Award f... |
110456 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lathe%20of%20Heaven | The Lathe of Heaven | The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction book that was written by Ursula K. Le Guin. The story is about a character whose dreams change the world. It has been made into two television films. The book was put up for a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, and won the Locus Poll Award for best book in 1972. It was first ... |
110460 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Eye%20of%20the%20Heron | The Eye of the Heron | The Eye of the Heron is a 1978 science fiction book by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Awards
1979, Locus Award, Best SF Novel category, 21st place.
References
1978 books
Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
Science fiction books |
110462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malafrena | Malafrena | Malafrena is a book by Ursula K. Le Guin that was published in 1979 . The novel takes place in the country of Orsinia, which is also the setting of Le Guin's 1976 story collection, Orsinian Tales.
1979 books
Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
Novels |
110488 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20James | Jesse James | Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw. He was the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang in 1875. He was shot in the back of the head and killed by Robert Ford, a member of his gang for a $10,000 bounty that was placed on James by then-Missouri governor Thomas T. Crittende... |
110490 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20James%20%28disambiguation%29 | Jesse James (disambiguation) | Jesse James (1847-1882) was an American outlaw.
Other people named Jesse James:
Jesse James (actor) (born 1989), American actor
Jesse G. James (born 1969), motorcycle builder
Jesse James Burke, son of mobster James Burke
Jesse James Hollywood (born 1979), criminal
Brian Gerard James (born 1969), professional wrestlin... |
110492 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola%20Christian%20College | Pensacola Christian College | Pensacola Christian College (PCC) is an accredited, fundamentalist, Independent Baptist college in Pensacola, Florida. It was started in 1974 by Arlin Horton.
It is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools since 2013.
References
Other websites
Pensacola Christian College officia... |
110501 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moody%20Bible%20Institute | Moody Bible Institute | Moody Bible Institute (MBI) is an institute in Chicago on the Near North Side. In 1886, it was started by evangelist and businessman Dwight Lyman Moody. MBI has three major ministries: education, broadcasting and publishing.
Other websites
Moody Bible Institute
Christian colleges and universities in the United Stat... |
110502 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%20Foster%20Jenkins | Florence Foster Jenkins | Florence Foster Jenkins (born July 19, 1868 in Pennsylvania, U.S.; died November 26, 1944) was an American soprano who became famous because she was such a bad singer. She sang out of tune, had a very poor sense of rhythm and she was very unmusical.
Life
She was born Florence Foster in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Sh... |
110503 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation | Intonation | Intonation may mean:
Intonation (speech)
intonation (music) |
110504 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Bligh | William Bligh | William Bligh (9 September 1754–7 December 1817) was an English officer in the British Navy. He sailed with Captain James Cook on his third and final voyage in 1776. In 1787 Bligh was made captain of HMS Bounty and sailed to Tahiti to collect breadfruit trees. A Mutiny on the Bounty prevented finishing this task. In 18... |
110509 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript | AppleScript | AppleScript is a way for people to write commands and actions on their Apple Macintosh platform. It is a simple language, like English, and is made by Apple Inc. since the year 1993. The AppleScript program came from the HyperCard program.
Example
An example of the different ways to write a Hello World program in App... |
110510 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachacuti | Pachacuti | Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (or Pachacutec; , whose name means "He who remakes the world" was the ninth Sapa Inca (1438-1471/1472) of the Kingdom of Cuzco, which he transformed into an empire, Tawantinsuyu. He began the era of conquest that, within three generations, expanded the Inca dominion from the valley of Cuzco to n... |
110512 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac | IMac | The iMac is an all-in-one personal computer that was first released in 1998. It is made by Apple Inc.. It has been the main part of Apple's consumer desktop offerings since its debut in August 1998, and has evolved through six distinct forms.
Apple adopted Intel processors which post-2006 iMacs now run on. Because Mac... |
110523 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20Airport | Melbourne Airport | Melbourne Airport is the second busiest airport in Australia. It is the home base for Tiger Airways Australia and Jetstar. It is also the home base for cargo airlines Australian Air Express and Toll Priority. Qantas and Virgin Australia use it as a hub.
Passenger data from paxstat.
References
Transport in Melbou... |
110526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist | Craigslist | Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities for free classified advertisements (with jobs, internships, housing, personal advertisements, erotic services, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, and pets categories) and forums on various topics.
Description
The service was founded in 1995 by Craig ... |
110528 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounts%20and%20allowances | Discounts and allowances | Discounts and allowances are when the price of goods or services is made lower. Discounts and allowances can be a change of the price that the manufacturer sells the product for, the retail price (set by the retailer and often attached to the product with a sticker), or the list price (which is quoted to a potential bu... |
110529 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sale | Sale | Sale may refer to:
Sale, discounts and allowances in the prices of goods, such as:
Fire sale, a drastic discount in prices
Loan sale, a sale under contract of all or part of the cash stream from a specific loan
Closeout, the final sale of an item or items to zero inventory
Sales, the selling of goods or services
Plac... |
110530 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified%20advertising | Classified advertising | Classified advertising is a form of advertising which is particularly common in newspapers, online and other periodicals, e.g. free ads papers or Pennysavers. Classified advertising allows private individuals (not simply companies or corporate entities) to try to sell products or services.
Classified advertising is c... |
110534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%C3%A1scar | Huáscar | Inti Cusi Huallpa Huáscar, or "Sun of Joy" lived in 1503–1532 and was emperor of the Inca empire from 1527 to 1532 AD, He succeeded his father Huayna Capac and brother Ninan Cuyochi. Both of whom died of smallpox while they fought near Quito.
On the death of their father and their older brother, the empire was divide... |
110557 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLAAS%20Jaguar | CLAAS Jaguar | The CLAAS Jaguar is a silage harvester made by CLAAS. It has a DaimlerChrysler engine.
History
The CLAAS Jaguar was first built in 1973, when the idea of silage was fairly new. Claas already made combines and balers. The first CLAAS Jaguar was a small green machine. The 10,000th Jaguar was sold in 1994, the 15,000th ... |
110579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Becket | Thomas Becket | Thomas Becket was an English priest, and Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. People used to think his name was Thomas á Becket, but it is now known to be wrong.
Becket was born in Cheapside, London. He was an intelligent child, who also enjoyed playing sports and hunting. At age... |
110603 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress%20of%20Solitude | Fortress of Solitude | The Fortress of Solitude is Superman's Kryptonian base. The first Fortress was a huge iceberg. A huge golden key that only Superman or Supergirl could lift was needed to open the door. Superman built it. The second Fortress was a huge crystalline building. It looked similar to a pile of crystals and icebergs. A green c... |
110607 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine%20shrimp | Brine shrimp | Brine shrimp are small shrimp that live in salt water. Brine shrimp are Artemia, a genus of aquatic crustacea which has changed little (externally) since the Triassic period. They can often be found in saltwater ponds and marshes, and cannot live very long in fresh water. Artemia avoid most types of predators, such a... |
110615 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder%20Bay | Thunder Bay | Thunder Bay is the most populous city in Northwestern Ontario, in Canada. Its population was 107,909 as of the 2016 census. Before, it was two cities called Fort William and Port Arthur. Thunder Bay has the second largest population in Northern Ontario, behind Greater Sudbury.
References |
110618 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroom | Macroom | Macroom is a small town in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. It lies on the River Sullane, a large tributary of the River Lee.
Towns in Ireland
County Cork |
110632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecorino%20cheese | Pecorino cheese | Pecorino cheese (or simply Pecorino) is the name for a few kinds of Italian cheeses made from sheep milk. The word pecora, from which the name comes from, means sheep. Most of these cheeses are aged for some time. They taste rather salty.
Types
Pecorino Romano is probably the best known outside Italy, especially in ... |
110635 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecorino%20Romano | Pecorino Romano | Pecorino Romano is a type of Pecorino cheese. It is mostly made in the Italian state of Lazio (Rome), but it is also made in some bordering municipalities. It is aged for about 5 months. This hard and crumbly cheese similar to Parmigiano-Reggiano is usually used for grating. It is one of the most well known pecorino ch... |
110636 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecorino%20Sardo | Pecorino Sardo | Pecorino Sardo is a type of Pecorino cheese. It is made in the Italian state of Sardinia. It is made from sheep milk, mostly from the local breed. Since 1991, it has Protected designation of origin. It is aged for a couple of months, but can also age up to 6 months. It is not as well known outside of Italy as the Roman... |
110637 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecorino%20Toscano | Pecorino Toscano | Pecorino Toscano is a type of Pecorino cheese. It is made in the Italian state of Tuscany. Since 1996, it has protection of designated origin. The cheese is aged for about 20 days. This firm cheese can be used for grating or it can be eaten with some Mediterranean fruits and vegetables.
References
Pecorino cheeses |
110638 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecorino%20Siciliano | Pecorino Siciliano | Pecorino Siciliano is a type of Pecorino cheese. It comes from the Italian state of Sicily. It comes in a cylinder like shape. It is not well known outside of Italy. Since 1996, it has protected designation of origin. It has a firm and rough texture.
References
Pecorino cheeses |
110640 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Brodeur | Martin Brodeur | Martin Pierre Brodeur (born May 6, 1972, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He was formerly a ice hockey goaltender for the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League (NHL) and ins currently a current team executive for the New Jersey Devils. During his 21-years with the Devils,... |
110647 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miikka%20Kiprusoff | Miikka Kiprusoff | Miikka Sakari Kiprusoff (pronounced "MEE-kah KIHP-roo-sawf") (born October 26, 1976) is a Finnish retired professional hockey goaltender. He played 11 seasons in the NHL mainly with the Calgary Flames.
The Calgary Flames announced on September 9, 2013 that Kiprusoff had retired.
Awards
He was named to the SM-liiga Al... |
110653 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeni%20Nabokov | Evgeni Nabokov | Evgeni Viktorovich Nabokov () (born July 25, 1975 in Ust-Kamenogorsk, U.S.S.R., now Kazakhstan), is a Kazakhstani-Russian professional ice hockey goaltender. He used to play for the San Jose Sharks, New York Islanders, and Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. He has also played for Metallurg Magnitogorsk ... |
110655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik%20Lundqvist | Henrik Lundqvist | Henrik Lundqvist (; born 2 March 1982, in Åre, Sweden) is a Swedish ice hockey goaltender for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has been nominated for the Vezina Trophy three times. He finished third all three times. His play during his first season resulted in the New York media and Rangers ... |
110657 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube%20Delta | Danube Delta | The Danube Delta is the second largest delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta. It is one of the best preserved deltas on the continent. Most of the Danube Delta can be found in Romania, but the northern part of the delta is in Ukraine. In the Ukraine the delta is not preserved as well as it is in Romania.
In 1979, th... |
110658 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachia | Wallachia | Wallachia (also spelled Walachia; or "The Romanian Land") is a historical area of Romania. Wallachia is divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wallachia) and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia).
Other websites
Areas of Romania
History of Romania
Ottoman Empire |
110667 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian%20War%20of%20Independence | Romanian War of Independence | The Romanian War of Independence was battled in 1877. It was against the Ottoman Empire. On , Romania and the Russian Empire signed a treaty that allowed Russian troops to pass through Romanian land, so long as the Russians respected the integrity of the Romanians.
On , in the Romanian parliament, Mihail Kogălniceanu... |
110673 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian%20Revolution%20of%201989 | Romanian Revolution of 1989 | The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a week-long series of violent riots and fighting in Romania. It took place in late December of 1989. The fighting began to end Nicolae Ceauşescu's control of the Communist state. In 1989, similar revolutions ended Communist governments in other countries in Eastern Europe. Revolutio... |
110678 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20NHL%20General%20Managers | List of NHL General Managers | This is a list of general managers in the National Hockey League. In the National Hockey League, the general manager of a team typically controls player trades and talks about contracts with players. He is also responsible for the coaches.
Current NHL general managers
References
General Managers
Lists of sportspeop... |
110723 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominik%20Ha%C5%A1ek | Dominik Hašek | {{Infobox ice hockey player
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| caption = Hašek with the Red Wings in 2008
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| birth_place = Pardubice, Czechoslovakia
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 1
| weight_lb = 166
| position = Goaltender
| catches = Left
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{{plainlist |
ELH
H... |
110724 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televangelism | Televangelism | Televangelism is the use of modern mass media such as television or radio to speak of the faith. Usually this is done to convince other people of one's own beliefs. It is common with Christianity but also occurs with other religions. The word is a made up of television and evangelism. The term was started by Time magaz... |
110757 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie%20Parent | Bernie Parent | Bernard Marcel Parent (born April 3, 1945 in Montreal, Quebec), better known as Bernie Parent, is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.
Other websites
1945 births
Boston Bruins players
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Conn Smythe Trophy winners
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Living people
People from... |
110760 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Esposito | Tony Esposito | Anthony James "Tony O" Esposito (April 23, 1943 – August 10, 2021) was a professional ice hockey goaltender, who played in the National Hockey League, most notably for the Chicago Black Hawks. He was considered one of the pioneers of the now popular butterfly style. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988.... |
110764 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973-74%20NHL%20season | 1973-74 NHL season |
Regular season
Final standings
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes
Note: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold
Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, PTS = Points, PIM... |
110797 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Sunday | Billy Sunday | William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1862 in Story County, Iowa – November 6, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American athlete and religious person. He was an outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s. After that he became an influential American Presbyterian evangelist at the start of the 20th... |
110807 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007-08%20NHL%20season | 2007-08 NHL season | The 2007–08 NHL season was the 91st season of operation (90th season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). It began on September 29, 2007. The regular season ended April 6, 2008. The Stanley Cup playoffs ended on June 4. The Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup.
Regular season
Final standings
GP = Games Pla... |
110808 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Newton | John Newton | John Henry Newton, Jr. (July 24, 1725 – December 21, 1807) was a slave ship captain who became an Anglican clergyman. He was the author of many hymns, including "Amazing Grace".
References
Other websites
Famous Quotes by John Newton
Amazing Grace: The True Story
Amazing Grace: John Newton information
1725 births
1... |
110809 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Newton%20%28disambiguation%29 | John Newton (disambiguation) | John Newton may mean:
John Newton (1725–1807), English slaveship master and Anglican clergyman, author of “Amazing Grace”
John Haymes Newton (b. 1965), American actor
John Newton (engineer) (1822–1895), U.S. Army engineer and Civil War general
John Newton (soldier) (1755–1780), American Revolution soldier, fictionalize... |
110820 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beginning%20Place | The Beginning Place | The Beginning Place is a science fiction book that was written by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1980.
1980 books
Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
Science fiction books |
110832 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula%20K.%20Le%20Guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | Ursula Kroeber Le Guin () (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American writer. She wrote books, poetry, children's books, essays, short stories, fantasy and science fiction.
Life
Early life: California
Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California, on October 21, 1929. Her father, Alfred... |
110879 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20van%20Eyck | Jan van Eyck | Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck () (before c. 1395 – before 9 July 1441) was an early Dutch painter active in Bruges. He is thought to be one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. He was interested in art since he was a child and was encouraged in this career by his older brother, Hubert.
Other ... |
110905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awana | Awana | Awana (an acronym for Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed, from 2 Timothy 2:15), is an international evangelical non-profit organization. It was founded in 1950. Its headquarters is in Streamwood, Illinois. It was founded by Baptist minister Arthur Rorheim in 1950.
References
Other websites
Awana Clubs International
C... |
110908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%20L.%20Moody | Dwight L. Moody | Dwight Lyman (D.L.) Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 22, 1899) was an American evangelist and publisher. He started the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now the Northfield Mount Hermon School), the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers.
Related pages
Horatio Spafford - ... |
110917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%20Christian | Fletcher Christian | Fletcher Christian (September 25, 1764 - 1793) was an English seaman on HMS Bounty when it sailed to Tahiti to collect breadfruit trees in 1787. He led a mutiny (take over) to stop Lieutenant William Bligh returning to England. (See Mutiny on the Bounty). He left Bligh and 18 seaman in a small boat, and went back to Ta... |
110918 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosaur | Ichthyosaur | Ichthyosaurs are an extinct order of marine reptiles from the Mesozoic era.
By the Upper Triassic they are similar in shape to dolphins and to fast predatory fish like tuna (convergent evolution). They are found in marine strata from the earliest Triassic to the Cretaceous, though the early proto-ichthyosaurs are some... |
110923 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosaurus | Ichthyosaurus | Ichthyosaurus was an extinct marine reptile from the Lower Jurassic. It was the first member of the order Ichthyosauria to be discovered. The first complete skeleton was discovered in the early 19th century (1810/11) by Mary Anning in the Dorset Jurassic Coast. Many more specimens were found in Europe, especially from ... |
110934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenopterygius | Stenopterygius | Stenopterygius was a typical, dolphin-shaped ichthyosaur of the Lower Jurassic. It is like the poster reptile of the ichthyosaur family, Ichthyosaurus, but with slightly narrower flippers and a smaller head. Its name means "narrow wing".
Stenopterygius was more streamlined than the earlier ichthyosaurs of the Triassi... |
110939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temnodontosaurus | Temnodontosaurus | Temnodontosaurus was an ichthyosaur from the early Jurassic, some 196 to 190 million years ago. It was found in England by Mary Anning, and later in Germany. It was, in fact, her first ichthyosaur. Her brother found the skull, and she found the rest of the skeleton, in about 1810. It was described in 1814. There are fo... |
110940 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californosaurus | Californosaurus | Californosaurus was an ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile. It was 10 feet (3 m) long. It had four paddle-shaped flippers and sharp teeth in long, pointed jaws (looking a bit like a dolphin).
Californosaurus lived during the late Triassic period in seas that covered what is now California. It fed on fish and other... |
110941 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbospondylus | Cymbospondylus | Cymbospondylus was a large but primitive Triassic ichthyosaur of the Middle and Upper Triassic. It had a long eel-like body up to 10 meters or more in length.
Cymbospondylus is known from both Germany and Nevada. No doubt, like other large marine reptiles and present-day aquatic mammals, it had a wide oceanic distribu... |
110943 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixosaurus | Mixosaurus | Mixosaurus was a small, common and cosmopolitan Triassic ichthyosaur. It was only about a meter in length. Fossils are known from Alaska, Canada, China, Timor, Indonesia, Italy, Nevada, New Zealand, Spitsbergen, and Svalbard. Thus it lived in the Tethys Sea but also ventured further afield.
Mixosaurus seems to have be... |
110945 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophthalmosaurus | Ophthalmosaurus | Ophthalmosaurus was an ichthyosaur of the Upper Jurassic (165 to 150 million years ago), named after its large eyes. Well-preserved skeletons, ranging in age from juveniles to adults, have been found in Europe, North America and Argentina.
Ophthalmosaurus had the largest eyes of any vertebrate relative to its body siz... |
110954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve | Valve | A valve is a device that it is used to decrease or stop the flow of a fluid (like gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries). It can be installed for example in a pipe or a vessel.
There are many types of valves. Some examples are:
globe valve
gate valve
butterfly valve
safety valve.
They can be operated manu... |
110955 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve%20%28disambiguation%29 | Valve (disambiguation) | A valve is a device that regulates the flow of fluids.
Valve may also refer to:
Valve Corporation, a computer software/games company responsible for the best-selling Half-Life games
Valve hall, a building which contains the valves of the static inverters of an HVDC plant
Mercury arc valve, a type of electrical rect... |
110959 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHH | HHH | HHH may refer to:
H. H. Holmes, one of America's first modern-day serial killers
Hash House Harriers, an international group of running clubs
Hilton Head Airport, in South Carolina, United States
Hilton Head Island High School, in South Carolina, United States
Hog Hoggidy Hog, a South African band
Holland Heinek... |
110981 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Carteret | Philip Carteret | Philip Carteret (22 January 1733 – 21 July 1796) was an English officer in the Royal Navy. He sailed as a lieutenant on John Byron's circumnavigation (sailing around) of the world in 1764. He went around the world again as part of the Royal Navy's exploration in 1766.
Early life
Carteret joined the Royal Navy in 1747 ... |
110986 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Aramaic | Judeo-Aramaic | Judeo-Aramaic is a dialect of Aramaic that was spoken by many Jews during the Second Temple Period (587 BC-70 AD) and for a few centuries afterward. Probably the mother tongue of Jesus, it was influenced mostly by Hebrew.
Semitic languages |
110988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Jane%20Smith | Sarah Jane Smith | Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character in the British television series Doctor Who and its related spin-offs. She is played by Elisabeth Sladen. Sarah Jane was a companion of the Third and Fourth Doctor.
She is an investigative journalist. Sarah Jane Smith is one of the companions who travelled the longest with the... |
111004 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold%20mountain | Fold mountain | Fold mountains are mountains formed mainly by the effects of folding on layers in the upper part of the Earth's crust. The term is rather out of date, though still fairly common in physical geography literature.
In the time before plate tectonics became well understood, the term was used for mountain belts, such as t... |
111010 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Berezovsky | Boris Berezovsky | Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013) was a Russian-British business man, billionaire, and former mathematician. He was best known for the powerful positions he held in the 1990s when Boris Yeltsin was president of Russia.
Berezovsky was deputy secretary of Russia's security council, and a frie... |
111020 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptictidium | Leptictidium | Leptictidium (meaning delicate weasel) was a genus of small prehistoric eutherian from Eocene period. this extinct species of mammal lived alongside the dinosaurs, but died out when the tropical forests opened up.
Leptictidium had long hind legs, and probably used only those two legs when moving fast. Whether it hopp... |
111054 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20dolphin | Oceanic dolphin | Oceanic dolphins are the members of the Delphinidae family, of the order Cetacea. They are aquatic mammals. They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves. These dolphins usually live in the open seas, unlike the river dolphins.
Taxonomy
Family Delphinidae
Genus Peponocephala
Mel... |
111058 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio%20Spafford | Horatio Spafford | Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – October 16, 1888, Jerusalem) was a prominent American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn "It Is Well With My Soul". Horatio was a lawyer in Chicago. He lost all of his possessions in the great Chicago fire. Af... |
111062 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20high%20school | Cyber high school | Cyber high school is a high school on the internet. It teaches students over the Internet. It means that a high school student has the option of receiving their education at home.
Locations
In the United States, 38 states have some form of cyber high school, according to CBS News. These schools often include giving ... |
111075 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always%20Coming%20Home | Always Coming Home | Always Coming Home is a book that was written by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1985. This book is a novel about a group of humans called the Kesh, living in the future in California.
Translations
, Eksmo, 2005
, Prószyński, 1996
Other websites
Official author book site
Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
1985 books |
111078 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainish%20Cycle | Hainish Cycle | The Hainish Cycle is the setting for a number of science fiction books and stories that were written by Ursula K. Le Guin.
List of books
The Dispossessed (1974) - Urras-Anarres (Tau Ceti)
The Word for World is Forest (1976) - Athshe/New Tahiti
Rocannon's World (1964) - Rokanan (Fomalhaut II)
Planet of Exile (1966... |
111082 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny%20Crosby | Fanny Crosby | Frances Jane Crosby (usually known as Fanny Crosby) (March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915) was an American poet and lyricist. She wrote Protestant hymns. She was a lifelong Methodist. She wrote over 8,000 hymns in her life, even though she became blind shortly after she was born. She was also known for her preaching and ... |
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