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114407 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Knickerbockers%20%28baseball%29 | New York Knickerbockers (baseball) | The New York Knickerbockers were one of the first organized baseball teams who played the baseball rules that are still used today. The team was started by Alexander Cartwright, who is said to be one of the original developers of modern baseball.
In 1849, the New York Knickerbockers wore the first ever recorded baseba... |
114408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20Dodgers | Los Angeles Dodgers | The Los Angeles Dodgers or LA Dodgers are the professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. They complete in Major League Baseball (MLB). The team played in the West Division of the National League. They play in Dodger Stadium. The team began play in Brooklyn, New York, starting in 1883. The team had sev... |
114411 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland%20Athletics | Oakland Athletics | The Oakland Athletics, also known as the Oakland A's, are a professional Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of the American League. From to today, the Athletics have played in Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
The Athletics were an original membe... |
114412 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh%20Pirates | Pittsburgh Pirates | The Pittsburgh Pirates are a professional Major League Baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League. They have won five World Series championships. The Pirates are also often called the Bucs or the Buccos. This is because the word "buccaneer" is slang for pi... |
114453 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coach | Coach | Coach could mean:
Transportation
Coach (carriage), a horse-drawn carriage
Stagecoach, An early form of long distance public transport
Coach (vehicle), a type of passenger-carrying road vehicle.
Coach (rail) a type of passenger car used in rail transport.
Economy class in travel can be referred to as "coach"
Coa... |
114454 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent%20%28musical%29 | Rent (musical) | Rent is a rock musical. The music and lyrics were written by Jonathan Larson. The musical is based on the Italian opera, La bohème. The musical opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on 29 April 1996. It closed on 7 September 2008 after a run of 5,123 performances. It opened on the West End in 2008. In 2005, it... |
114455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coach%20%28sport%29 | Coach (sport) | In sports, a coach or manager is a person who directs and trains a sports team or sportsperson. If there is a difference between coach and manager, it is this:
the coach will train the players
the manager will deal with the business aspects
The borderline areas are selecting the team, and buying new players.
Other web... |
114457 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny%20Ramirez | Manny Ramirez | Manuel Aristides "Manny" Ramírez Onelcida (born May 30, 1972 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a former American Major League Baseball player. The Boston Red Sox traded Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Jason Bay on July 31, 2008. He signed with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2011. He retired on April 8, 2011.
He ... |
114459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica | Leica | Leica could mean:
Leica Camera, a German camera manufacturer
Leica Geosystems AG, a company in eastern Switzerland that makes surveying and geomatics equipment
Leica Microsystems GmbH, a German company that makes microscopes and other precision optics |
114467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso%20Soriano | Alfonso Soriano | Alfonso Guilleard Soriano (born January 7, 1976) is a Dominican Republican professional Major League Baseball player. He currently is a free agent. He has used to play with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals before the Cubs. He played as a second baseman for the Yankees a... |
114498 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire | Linspire | Linspire, also known as LindowsOS (also Lin---s, pronounced Lindash), is a commercial Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux (Ubuntu). Linspire is sold by Linspire, Inc. and is focused on ease-of-use for the average person, rather than catering to advanced needs. As of 2007-10-10, the most recent stable release ... |
114500 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo | Maemo | maemo (properly not capitalized ) is a project that oversees the development of the Internet Tablet OS and the maemo application development platform. The maemo project is paid for by Nokia.
maemo SDK
The maemo SDK is based around the Debian-oriented Scratchbox Cross Compilation Toolkit, which provides a sandbox env... |
114505 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEPIS | MEPIS | MEPIS (pronunciation: meh-pis) is a set of Linux Distributions distributed as Live CDs. The most popular of these distributions is SimplyMEPIS. MEPIS distributions are based on Debian, some of them indirectly. For example, SimplyMEPIS 7.0 is based mainly on Debian, with additional source code from Ubuntu (which is also... |
114510 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Louis%20Cardinals | St. Louis Cardinals | The St. Louis Cardinals (also called "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are part of the Central Division in the National League. The Cardinals have won a National League record 11 World Series championships, second in Major League Baseball for most champio... |
114511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/NepaLinux | NepaLinux | NepaLinux is a Debian and Morphix based Linux distribution focused on desktop usage in Nepali language computing.
It contains applications for desktop users like OpenOffice.org, Nepali GNOME and KDE desktops, and a way for people to type Nepali text.
The development and distribution of NepaLinux is done by Madan Pura... |
114515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters%2C%20Inc. | Monsters, Inc. | Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was Pixar's fourth computer animated movie. The movie was released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on November 2, 2001. It was released in Australia on December 26, 2001 and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2002.
Monste... |
114518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durango | Durango | Durango is a state in northwest Mexico. About 1,510,000 people live there. Its capital is Victoria de Durango.
References
States of Mexico
1824 establishments
19th-century establishments in Mexico
1820s establishments in North America |
114526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriend%20%28disambiguation%29 | Girlfriend (disambiguation) | A girlfriend is a female friend or romantic partner.
Girlfriend may also mean:
Music
Girlfriend (band)
Girlfriend (album), an album by Matthew Sweet
Girl Friends, a Korean pop duo
Songs
"Girlfriend" (Michael Jackson song)
"Girlfriend" (Pebbles song)
"Girlfriend" (Matthew Sweet song)
"Girlfriend" (The Pillow... |
114576 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian%20Rhapsody | Bohemian Rhapsody | Bohemian Rhapsody is a song by English rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury, and was released on their 1975 album A Night at the Opera.
Promotional video
Though some artists had made video clips to accompany songs (including Queen themselves; for example, their earlier singles "Keep Yourself Alive", "Li... |
114589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Rock | School of Rock | School of Rock is a 2003 American musical comedy movie starring Jack Black.
Plot
Dewey Finn (Black) has been kicked out of his band. His roommate is a substitute teacher. Finn finds one of his requests for a private school and goes in his roommate's place as he needs the money for rent. He soon finds out that the ... |
114592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20Area%20Rapid%20Transit | Bay Area Rapid Transit | Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a heavy rail public rapid transit system that serves the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California. It joins the cities of the East Bay, including Oakland, with San Francisco. Construction began in 1964. The first trains began running on September 11, 1972.
Lines
As of 2020, there ... |
114593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMD | UMD | UMD could mean:
Universal Media Disc, a disc format created by Sony for the PlayStation Portable.
Under Monitor Display, a display used in television production galleries to indicate the source displayed above it.
United Macedonian Diaspora, a Washington, D.C. based organization addressing the interests and needs of e... |
114596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty%20Davis | Betty Davis | Betty Davis (July 26, 1944 – February 9, 2022) was an American funk-soul singer, famous in the 1970s. She was married to the star of Jazz Miles Davis, from where she took her surname.
Davis died on February 9, 2022 at her home in Homestead, Pennsylvania from cancer at the age of 77.
References
Other websites
The S... |
114597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%20Go | Let Go | Let Go is singer Avril Lavigne's first album. It was released on June 04, 2002. It has sold 16 million copies, making it Lavigne's best-selling album so far.
Track listing
Original Edition
"Losing Grip" (Avril Lavigne/Clif Magness) – 3:53
"Complicated" (Lavigne/The Matrix) – 4:03
"Sk8er Boi" (Lavigne/The Matrix) – 3:... |
114598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshan | Anshan | Anshan (or Anzan, , modern: Tal-i Malyan) was an ancient town in what was then Elam empire (today's Iran) in the province Fars. The oldest settlement may have been as early as 5500 BC.
History
Anshan was later ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty and became one of the primary cities of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. The P... |
114602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Maryland%2C%20College%20Park | University of Maryland, College Park | The University of Maryland, College Park, often called simply the University of Maryland, is a public university in College Park, Maryland. It is the largest university in a group called the "University System of Maryland."
History
In 1856, the Maryland Agricultural College was chartered. Sixty years later, the state... |
114610 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another%20Code%3A%20Two%20Memories | Another Code: Two Memories | Another Code: Two Memories (called Trace Memory in North America) is an adventure video game made by CING and published by Nintendo on the Nintendo DS handheld.
Summary
Another Code is about a 13-year-old girl called Ashley Mizuki Robbins who goes to an island called "Blood Edward Island", an island near Washington a... |
114611 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/More%20Brain%20Training%20from%20Dr.%20Kawashima%3A%20How%20Old%20Is%20Your%20Brain%3F | More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain? | More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima: How Old Is Your Brain? (known as Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!) is a puzzle video game made by Nintendo on the Nintendo DS handheld. It's one of the best-selling DS games.
2005 video games
2007 video games
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS-only games
de:Dr. Kawashima... |
114612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Kawashima%27s%20Brain%20Training%3A%20How%20Old%20Is%20Your%20Brain%3F | Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? | Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? (known as Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!) is a puzzle video game made by Nintendo on the Nintendo DS handheld. It was released in 2006. It is one of the best-selling DS games. A second game: More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima: How Old Is Your Bra... |
114619 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Smash%20Football | Mario Smash Football | Mario Smash Football (called Super Mario Strikers in North America) is a 2005 football video game made by Next Level Games and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube game console. A sequel was made on the Wii called Mario Strikers Charged Football.
Other websites
2005 video games
Nintendo GameCube games
Mari... |
114620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Strikers%20Charged | Mario Strikers Charged | Mario Strikers Charged Football (called Mario Strikers Charged in North America) is a 2007 football video game made by Next Level Games and published by Nintendo for the Wii game console.
2007 video games
Mario sports games
Wii games |
114621 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubhouse%20Games | Clubhouse Games | Clubhouse Games is a 2006 video game published by Nintendo and developed by Agenda. It features 42 parlor games. It is for the Nintendo DS game console.
Other websites
Clubhouse Games Nintendo site
2006 video games
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS-only games |
114624 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax%20Explosion | Halifax Explosion | The Halifax explosion took place on December 6, 1917 when the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship loaded with explosives collided with the SS Imo, a Norwegian ship in the harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 1,782 people were killed and over 9,000 people were injured. This was the largest man-made explosion in histo... |
114630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassite%20dynasty | Kassite dynasty | The Kassite dynasty was ruled by the Kassites. They were an obscure mountain tribe who came to power in Babylon after the collapse of the First Dynasty of Babylon in 1595 BC following a Hittite sack of the city, and became rulers of northern Babylonia.
The Kassites
The Kassites (Persian: کاسیها) were an ancient peop... |
114649 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm%20Tengoku | Rhythm Tengoku | is a Japan-only music video game/mini-game-collection. It was made by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance hand-held game console, and was later released in arcades. It was made by Nintendo's Research and Development 1. A sequel called Rhythm Tengoku Gold was released on the Nintendo DS in 2008.
Gameplay
Rhythm Tengoku i... |
114654 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm%20Heaven | Rhythm Heaven | Rhythm Tengoku Gold is a music video game made by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the sequel to Rhythm Tengoku.
Gameplay
Rhythm Heaven only uses the touch screen on the DS to play the stages. In the stages, the player has to do what the game wants him or her to, like in a level where the pl... |
114655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature | Caricature | A caricature (from the Italian caricatura, which means "loaded portrait") is a portrait or drawing of a person that exaggerates the way they look, usually to create a humorous effect, or a political statement.
Other websites
Celebrity Caricature
Caricature
Art |
114678 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati%20Red%20Stockings | Cincinnati Red Stockings | The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 were baseball's first all-professional team. The team is in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Cincinnati Base Ball Club started in 1866 and played teams in the National Association of Base Ball Players 1867 to 1870. In 1969, Major League Baseball played those events officially by starting pro... |
114683 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Gaedel | Eddie Gaedel | Edward Carl "Eddie" Gaedel (June 8, 1925– June 18, 1961) is a former professional baseball player. Gaedel played in his only major league game on August 19, 1951, against the Detroit Tigers. He got walked on four pitches in a row and was taken out of the game. Gaedel was officially listed as standing and weighing .
R... |
114687 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BB%9F | Phở | Phở is a traditional Vietnamese rice-noodle soup dish. It is served in a cup of tea. It has white rice noodles in beef broth with thin cuts of beef, vegetable, and spice such as chili or chili sauce. Sometimes, frog legs, shark intestines, snake heads, tendon, tripe, meatballs, chicken leg, chicken breast, or other or... |
114693 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company | Company | A company is a type of business. The definition of the term varies by country. Some companies, usually larger ones, are organized as corporations. It is often a business organization which makes goods or services in an organized manner and sells them to the public for profit. It may also be a non-profit organization. A... |
114702 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social%20behaviour%20order | Anti-social behaviour order | An ASBO, or an Antisocial behaviour order, is a British legal term for an order that is sometimes served on people who often behave badly and have many complaints made against them because of their behaviour. The order is designed to stop them from being anti-social, which means causing distress or alarm (among other t... |
114723 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres%20of%20Foibe | Massacres of Foibe | The Massacres of Foibe are the mass killings in which the majority of victims were ethnic Italians in 1943, after the capitulation of Italy on 8 September, and in 1945, when Yugoslav partisans under the command of Tito occupied parts of Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia. Historians have claimed the violence and cons... |
114725 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istrian-Dalmatian%20exodus | Istrian-Dalmatian exodus | Istrian-Dalmatian exodus was the diaspora or forced migration of ethnic Italians from Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia, after World War II. Those territories were ethnically mixed since the Middle Ages. Most people were Italians, but there were also Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian and other communities.
National Memorial Day... |
114729 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi%2C%20India | Kochi, India | Kochi is a city in the state of Kerala, in India. It used to be called Cochin. It is also called the "Queen of the Arabian Sea". The city has the second-highest population after the capital city of Kerala, Trivandrum. Kochi is the financial and commercial hub of the state. Kochi has a very old synagogue. It is usually ... |
114736 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20cultural%20and%20historic%20presence%20in%20Dalmatia | Italian cultural and historic presence in Dalmatia | Italian cultural and historic presence in Dalmatia is related to the Italian influence in Dalmatia (now divided between Croatia, Herzegovina and Montenegro) from the historical and cultural points of view.
Historical Influence
The historical influence from the Italian peninsula in Dalmatia started with the Roman conq... |
114737 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frugivore | Frugivore | A frugivore is an animal that prefers to eat fruit.
Plant and frugivore relationship
The fruit is part of a plant's sexual reproduction cycle. Plants spend a lot of energy and nutrients in creating fruit. Fruit is produced to attract animals into eating the fruit. The animal digests the pulp but not the seeds, ensuri... |
114739 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20language%20in%20Croatia | Italian language in Croatia | The Italian language is the third most spoken language (after Croatian and Serbian) in the Republic of Croatia today. It is an officially recognized minority language in Istria County (where it is spoken by 7.69% of the population).
Speaker Population
The 2001 census in Croatia reported 19,636 ethnic Italians in the c... |
114742 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism%20%28Ayn%20Rand%29 | Objectivism (Ayn Rand) | Objectivism is a philosophy that was started by Ayn Rand. It has four main ideas:
1. Everything that exists has an identity. This identity does not depend on how people think about it or talk about it. This is also true for things like feelings or ideas. It says that a thing is the thing which it is, or "A is A." What... |
114744 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dike%20%28goddess%29 | Dike (goddess) | Dike is the Greek goddess of moral justice for human being.
Greek gods and goddesses |
114745 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatia | Dalmatia | Dalmatia is a region of the Balkan Peninsula along the Adriatic Sea. It mostly belongs to Croatia. It goes from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor (in Montenegro) in the southeast.
Related pages
Dalmatian Italians
Istrian-Dalmatian exodus
Italian language in Croatia
Italian cultural and historic pr... |
114746 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad%20Lorenz | Konrad Lorenz | Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Vienna, 7 November 1903 – Vienna, 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, naturalist, ornithologist and Nobel Prize winner. He is one of the founders of studies on animal behaviour (ethology). Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in Greylag geese and jackdaws.
Biogra... |
114749 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization | Virtualization | Virtualization (or Virtualisation) is a word used in computing. Virtualization means that the users (programs, or real people) only see an abstraction of a computer resource. Virtualization can be done in software, or with hardware.
RAID. RAID is used to virtualize computer storage. A RAID system appears as one "disk... |
114750 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatian%20Italians | Dalmatian Italians | Dalmatian Italians are Italians whose family comes from Dalmatia in today's Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Italian presence in Dalmatia
Dalmatian Italians are one of the historical ethnic groups of Dalmatia (in today's Republics of Croatia and Montenegro).
They are direct descendants of the autochth... |
114752 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukar | Chukar | The chukar (Alectoris chukar) is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. Other common names of this bird include 'Chukker' (sometimes misspelled as 'Chuker'), 'Chukar Partridge', 'Red-legged Partridge', 'Rock Partridge', 'Indian Hill Partridge', 'Chukk... |
114755 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soral | Soral | Soral is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
References
Other websites
Official Website
Municipalities of Geneva |
114764 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Matrix%20Reloaded | The Matrix Reloaded | The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 movie written and directed by the Wachowski sisters. It is a sequel to The Matrix (1999). It is a prequel to The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix Resurrections.
Plot
In this movie, the humans and the machines are at war. The machines have taken over everywhere except for the city of Z... |
114774 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20Smart | Get Smart | Get Smart was a television series that was shown on NBC from September 18, 1965 to April 12, 1969. It was then shown on CBS from September 26, 1969, to September 11, 1970. It made fun of the secret agent genre. It starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as the chief. Max Smart w... |
114777 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93CIO | AFL–CIO | The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, called the AFL-CIO, is a group of labor unions in the United States and Canada. There are 54 national different unions in the group, and they speak for over 10 million workers. It was started in 1955, when the American Federation of Labor and th... |
114790 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20symbols | List of mathematical symbols | The following list contains some of the most notable symbols in mathematics. Please note that these symbols may have alternate meanings in different contexts.
Related pages
Mathematical constant
Other websites
Mathematical Symbols — Math Vault
Math Symbols List — RapidTables
Symbols
Symbols
Mathematical notat... |
114797 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas%20Brothers | Jonas Brothers | The Jonas Brothers were an American Christian Pop band from Wyckoff, New Jersey. It is made up of three brothers: Kevin Jonas, Joe, and Nick Jonas. They released four albums before disbanding: It's About Time in 2006, Jonas Brothers in 2007, A Little Bit Longer in 2008, and Lines, Vines and Trying Times in 2009.
The b... |
114804 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20turf | Artificial turf | Artificial turf, or synthetic turf, is a man-made (something made by humans) surface made from synthetic materials, made to look like natural grass. It is most often used in arenas for sports that are normally played on grass. However, it is also used on lawns and in commercial applications. The main advantage of artif... |
114843 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange | Newgrange | Newgrange is a Megalithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange, County Meath, Republic of Ireland. It was built about 3200 BC. The kidney shaped mound covers an area of over one acre and is surrounded by 97 kerbstones, some of which are decorated with megalithic art. The 19 metre long inner passage leads to a cruciform chamber wi... |
114870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Ortiz | David Ortiz | David Américo Ortiz Arias (born November 18, 1975 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball designated hitter who played for the Boston Red Sox. Ortiz used to play for the Minnesota Twins from -. Nicknamed "Big Papi" or "Señor Papi", Ortiz has played in four All-Star Games. He holds the R... |
114876 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumtaz%20Mahal | Mumtaz Mahal | Arjumand Banu Begum (also called Mumtaz Mahal) was the second wife of Shah Jahan, the Mughal emperor. Mumtaz Mahal (meaning 'Jewel of the palace') was the nickname her husband gave to her.
Life
Mumtaz Mahal was born in April 1593 in Agra, India. Her father was the Persian noble Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan, the brother of ... |
114886 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam | Imam | An imam (; ) is an Islamic leader, often the leader of a mosque and/or community. Similarly to spiritual leaders, the imam is the person who leads the prayer during Islamic gatherings. More often the community turn to the mosque imam, if they have an Islamic question. In smaller communities an imam could be the commun... |
114904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea | Earthsea | Earthsea is a fictional place made by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story "The Word of Unbinding" in 1964, but that became more famous in her book A Wizard of Earthsea, first written in 1968. The books that follow A Wizard of Earthsea are The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea and The Oth... |
114905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZaurus | OpenZaurus | OpenZaurus is a Debian-based embedded Linux distribution for the Sharp Zaurus personal mobile tool PDA.
Status
On April 26, 2007, it was announced that the OpenZaurus project was over. Future development efforts are to focus on the Ångström distribution for embedded systems.
Related pages
Familiar Linux
Palm OS
... |
114906 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Simmons | Dan Simmons | Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American writer. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning series called the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus Award-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle. He writes in genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy.
Books
Hyperion Cantos series
Hyperion (1989)... |
114907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion%20Cantos | Hyperion Cantos | The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction books that were written by Dan Simmons.
Hyperion received the Hugo Award for best novel in 1990 and The Fall of Hyperion was nominated for the Nebula Award for best novel in 1990. Three of the novels received the Locus Award for best science fiction novel: Hyperion (1... |
114910 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion | Hyperion | Hyperion is a Titan in Greek mythology.
Hyperion may also mean:
In science:
Hyperion (moon), a moon of Saturn
In fiction:
Hyperion (poem), an unfinished epic poem by John Keats
Hyperion (book), a science-fiction novel by Dan Simmons, in his Hyperion Cantos series |
114911 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion%20%28book%29 | Hyperion (book) | Hyperion is a science fiction book that was written by Dan Simmons in 1989. It is the first book of his Hyperion Cantos series. The book won the Hugo Award award in 1989 for best novel.
References
Hyperion
1989 books
Hugo Award winning books
Science fiction books
American novels |
114912 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fall%20of%20Hyperion | The Fall of Hyperion | The Fall of Hyperion is the second science fiction book in his Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons. It was written in 1990 and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel that same year. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Book in 1991.
Hyperion
1990 books |
114915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endymion%20%28Hyperion%29 | Endymion (Hyperion) | Endymion is the third science fiction book written by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos series. The novel was extremely successful-within a year of its release, the book had been reprinted five times. The novel was nominated for the 1996 British Fantasy Award.
References
1996 books
Hyperion |
114916 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rise%20of%20Endymion | The Rise of Endymion | The Rise of Endymion is a 1997 science fiction book by Dan Simmons. It is the fourth and last book in his Hyperion Cantos series. The book was nominated for the 1997 British Fantasy Award and the 1998 Hugo Award for Best Book.
References
Hyperion
1997 books |
114920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate%20logic | Predicate logic | In logic and philosophy, predicate logic is a system of mathematical logic. It uses predicates to express the state of certain things, which are "incomplete propositions" with a placeholder for objects or subjects that must be inserted in order to obtain a valid proposition.
Predicate logic is different from proposit... |
114922 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaho%20language | Arapaho language | The Arapaho language (also Arapahoe) is a Plains Algonquian language (an areal rather than genetic grouping) spoken by elders in Wyoming. It is now spoken very little, and is in danger of becoming extinct.
References
Languages of the United States |
114925 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assamese%20language | Assamese language | Assamese ( translated asÔxômiya) () is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language, spoken most in the state of Assam in North-East India. It is also the main language of Assam. It is spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states.
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Indo-Aryan languages
Languages of Bangladesh
Assam
Languag... |
114927 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avar%20language | Avar language | The Avar language (self-designation "language of the mountains" or Авар мац "Avar language") belongs to the Avar-Andi-Tsez subgroup of the Alarodian Northeast-Caucasian (or Nakh-Dagestani) language family. It is spoken most in the eastern and southern parts of the Russian Caucasus republic of Dagestan, and the Balak... |
114929 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani%20language | Azerbaijani language | The Azerbaijani language, also called Azeri, is a Turkic language that is spoken in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. Azerbaijani is the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Dagestan in Russia.
Azerbaijani is also spoken in Dagestan (a republic of Russia), south-eastern and eastern Georg... |
114937 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkir%20language | Bashkir language | The Bashkir language (Native name: ) is a Turkic language. Speakers of the Bashkir language mostly live in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. A large number of speakers also live in Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, and Kurgan Oblasts.
Alphabet
Like other languages of Russia, Bas... |
114951 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Od%20language | Od language | Od (also called Oad, Odki) is a language spoken mostly about the Sindh and in a few in southern Punjab. It may also be spoken in Rajasthan, Republic of India.
Indo-Aryan languages
Languages of Pakistan |
114956 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilium/Olympos | Ilium/Olympos | Ilium/Olympos is a science fiction series that was written by Dan Simmons. The events in the books are set in motion by beings who have taken on the roles of the Greek gods. The first book in the series, Illium received the Locus Award for best book in 2004.
Books
There are two books in the series:
Ilium (2003) - Lo... |
114959 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilium%20%28book%29 | Ilium (book) | Ilium is a science fiction book that was written by Dan Simmons. It is the first part of the Ilium/Olympos cycle, and is about the re-creation of the events in the Iliad on Mars.
In July 2004, Ilium got the Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2003. It was later nominated for the 2004 Hugo Award for best boo... |
114966 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympos%20%28book%29 | Olympos (book) | Olympos is a book that was written by Dan Simmons in 2005, and is the sequel to Ilium It is a science fiction book that ends the series Ilium/Olympos. It uses ideas from the Iliad and the Odyssey.
2005 books
Ilium/Olympos |
114985 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfiqar%20Ali%20Bhutto | Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto | Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (, ; January 5, 1928 – April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician. He was the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973. He was Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. He was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the largest and most influential political party in Pakistan.
He was ed... |
114992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pothohar%20Plateau | Pothohar Plateau | The Pothohar Plateau (also spelled Pothwar, Potwar or Potohar) () is a plateau in Punjab, Pakistan. The area was the home of the Soan Culture (a stone age culture), and there are many fossils, tools, coins, and remains of ancient archaeological sites. The local people speak a dialect of Punjabi, called Pothohari or 'Po... |
114993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahari%20languages | Pahari languages | Pahari (or Pahaari) is a word for a number of dialects spoken across the Himalayan range, not limited to a single country. The word comes from 'pahar' meaning mountain. The word 'Pahaari' or 'Pahari' is an adjective in Hindi, Urdu, or Punjabi and it means 'of the mountain', so 'Pahari' means 'language of the mountain ... |
114994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose-Einstein%20statistics | Bose-Einstein statistics | In statistical mechanics, Bose-Einstein statistics means the statistics of a system where you can not tell the difference between any of the particles, and the particles are bosons. Bosons are fundamental particles like the photon.
The Bose-Einstein distribution tells you how many particles have a certain energy. The ... |
114995 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision | Activision | Activision is an American video game company. It was the first third party in the industry's history. It was founded on October 1, 1979. On July 9, 2008, it merged with Vivendi to make a new company called Activision Blizzard. Activision is best known for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Call of Duty, and Guitar Hero.
Referenc... |
114996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO | OXO | OXO is a tic-tac-toe video game, and one of the first video game ever made. It was made in 1952 for the EDSAC computer by Alexander S. Douglas for his Ph.D. thesis on human-computer interaction at the University of Cambridge.
Puzzle video games
Early video games and events |
114997 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Wright%20%28game%20developer%29 | Will Wright (game developer) | Will Wright (born on January 20, 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American video game developer and is the co-founder of Maxis, now a part of Electronic Arts. He's most famous for SimCity, The Sims and Spore. He is currently working on a new project, and has set up the "Stupid Fan Club".
References
1960 births
Livin... |
114998 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikmin | Pikmin | Pikmin is a real-time strategy video game made by Nintendo for the GameCube game console. It was one of the launch titles made for the GameCube, and is one of the only games Shigeru Miyamoto designed in its generation. It's about a person called Captain Olimar who crash-lands on a planet and meets creatures called Pikm... |
114999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikmin%202 | Pikmin 2 | Pikmin 2 is a real-time strategy video game made by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube game console. It is the sequel to Pikmin. It's about Olimar and his friend Louie going back to the planet from Pikmin to find treasure to save his boss' company. Olimar and Louie control a hoard of Pikmin and give them commands, whic... |
115000 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid%20Meier | Sid Meier | Sid Meier (born at February 24 1954 in Sarnia, Ontario) is an Canadian-American video game developer, most well known for his turn-based strategy games. He founded Microprose in 1982 with Bill Stealey. In 1996 he left Microprose and joined Firaxis Games.
Games
Gunship (1986)
Railroad Tycoon (1990)
Civilization (19... |
115001 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20H.%20Baer | Ralph H. Baer | Ralph Henry Baer (March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was a German-American inventor and engineer, known for his contributions to the video game industry.
Because he was of Jewish descent, Baer moved to New York City in 1938. He later became a U.S. citizen.
He died at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire on December 6... |
115002 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong | Pong | Pong is a video game made by Atari. It is believed to be the first video game ever made, although it was made after games similar to it were also made, including Tennis for Two and could be emulated by WinUaw.
To play the game a quarter or token must be put into the game machine's slot. Two knobs, are called "paddles"... |
115003 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan%20Bushnell | Nolan Bushnell | Nolan Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur. He founded both Atari Inc. (alongside Ted Dabney) and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters. Bushnell is in the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame. He got the BAFTA Fellowship and the ... |
115005 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20Warrior | Dragon Warrior | Dragon Warrior (called Dragon Quest in Japan) is a role-playing video game made by Chunsoft and published by Enix Corporation and Nintendo of America for the Nintendo Entertainment System game console. It is the first in the Dragon Quest series.
1986 video games
Game Boy games
Game Boy Color games
Mobile games
MSX gam... |
115008 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2%20%28movie%29 | X2 (movie) | X2 (known as X-Men 2: X-Men United in advertising) is a 2003 superhero movie. It was directed by Bryan Singer. It is a sequel to X-Men (2000) movie and was followed by X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
Plot
The movie opens with a mutant named Nightcrawler. He is at the White House and attempts to kill the president. At ... |
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