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115022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Young | Pete Young | Bryan Owen "Pete" Young (born March 19 1968 in Meadville, Mississippi) is a former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Montreal Expos in 1992 and 1993. He went to Mississippi State University, where he played college baseball.
Career
On June 2, , Young was drafted by the Cincinnati... |
115025 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Smith | Pete Smith | Pete Smith may mean:
Pete Smith (announcer), Australian radio and television announcer
Pete L. Smith, Major League Baseball pitcher, 1962–1963
Pete Smith (baseball, born 1966), Major League Baseball pitcher, 1987–1998
Peter K Smith, founder of Cavalier Yachts, boat-builder, sailor, and marine anchor designer
Pete... |
115026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Florey | Howard Florey | Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey OM FRS (24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an Australian pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1945, for his study into penicillin. He was appointed a knight bachelor, and later a baron.
Early life
He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He wen... |
115033 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%20%28disambiguation%29 | DJ (disambiguation) | DJ or dj may mean:
Disc jockey
Dow Jones
Either decajoule (daJ = 101 J) or decijoule (dJ = 10-1 J), both SI units of energy
Deejay, a term used in Dancehall music for an emcee or lyricist.
Toasting, talking or chanting over a rhythm
Dansk Jernbane ApS, a Danish railway company
DeadJournal website
Dinner jacket
Dirt... |
115034 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam%20locomotive | Steam locomotive | A steam locomotive is a steam powered railway locomotive. It was used a lot between about 1830 and 1970. Afterwards, diesel and electric locomotives were used more often. The first steam locomotive was made by Richard Trevithick for a railway used for moving iron at an Ironworks in Wales. A steam locomotive works by bu... |
115045 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction | Conjunction | Conjunctions are words which join phrases, clauses and sentences.
Conjunctions have three basic forms which are shown in the table below.
Conjunctions also have two functions, as shown below.
Although some people say it's not correct to use conjunctions at the beginning of a sentences, many famous writers do so.
Re... |
115049 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soanian | Soanian | The Soanian is an archaeological site that is dated to (comes from) the early stone age. The name comes from the Soan Valley in the Sivalik Hills in Pakistan. The people who lived on this site were probably Homo erectus, the first people to control fire.
Hundreds of stone knives were found at the site, as well as ... |
115051 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Hakluyt | Richard Hakluyt | Richard Hakluyt (, or ) (c. 1552 or 1553 – 23 November 1616) was an English writer. He is famous for his efforts in promoting the settlement of North America by the English through his works. His most important books are Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Tr... |
115059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurbanipal | Ashurbanipal | Ashurbanipal (685 BC – 627 BC), the son of Esarhaddon, was the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. He established (started) the first organized library in the ancient Middle East, the Library of Ashurbanipal, which survives in part today at Nineveh.
In the Bible he is called Asenappar. Roman historian Justinus... |
115062 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard%20Daladier | Édouard Daladier | Édouard Daladier (18 June 1884 - 10 October 1970) was a French socialist politician, and Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War. He was one of the politicians who tried to stop the war at the Munich conference in 1938, together with the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain and the two dic... |
115063 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989-90%20NHL%20season | 1989-90 NHL season | The 1989–90 NHL season was the 73rd season of the National Hockey League. Twenty-one teams each played 80 games. The Stanley Cup winners were the Edmonton Oilers, who won the best of seven series 4–1 against the Boston Bruins.The championship was the Oilers' fifth Stanley Cup in the past four years.
This also marked t... |
115068 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich%20Agreement | Munich Agreement | The Munich Agreement was an agreement between France, Italy, Nazi Germany and Britain. After Germany threatened an invasion of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, the British and French prime ministers tried to get Hitler to agree not to use his military in the future in return for taking the land, including the Rhine... |
115082 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%20Island | Dawson Island | Dawson Island (Lat: 53º 58’ 12” S Long: 70º 34’ 48”W) is an island in the Strait of Magellan. It is in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. It is south of the city of Punta Arenas in Chile. It is part of the municipality of Punta Arenas. It is southeast of Brunswick Peninsula. It is an approximately tract of land that ... |
115084 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike | Strike | Strike may mean:
Strike action, when workers decide to stop working at their jobs until their demands are met
General strike, a strike action by many workers in a city, area, or country
Hunger strike, when someone decides to not eat in order to protest
Strike may refer to a fight, including:
Strike (attack), an at... |
115085 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike%20action | Strike action | A strike action (or simply a strike) is when many workers stop working in protest. Strikes are usually done by a labor union to get better pay, hours, or working conditions. They became important during the Industrial Revolution, when many worked in factories and mines. In many countries, it is against the law to str... |
115086 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%20flight | Bird flight | Flight is a method of moving through the air. To do this, birds use wings with light, hollow bones and feathers on them. Birds have a streamlined body shape, so that they slip through air more easily.
Birds can move by flapping their wings, or they can stay in the same place. This is called hovering, with rapid wing... |
115088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Mario%20Land | Super Mario Land | Super Mario Land is a platform video game made by Nintendo for the Game Boy game console. It is one of the only two Mario games designed by Gunpei Yokoi, and the first Mario game for a handheld console.
Plot
An evil alien monster called Tatanga comes to a kingdom called Sarasaland and kidnaps Princess Daisy. Mario com... |
115089 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20%28series%29 | Mario (series) | The series is a series of popular platform games by Nintendo. They feature Nintendo's mascot Mario and, in most of the games, his brother Luigi. The Mario series has been running for more than 40 years. More than 200 video games have been released in the series. The series has been named the best-selling video game se... |
115091 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Mario%20World%202%3A%20Yoshi%27s%20Island | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (called in Japan) is a platform video game made by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game console. A follow-up game called Yoshi's Story was released for the Nintendo 64, and a direct sequel was released for the Nintendo DS called Yoshi's Island DS.
Plot
Yoshi's ... |
115095 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palindrome | Palindrome | A palindrome is a word, sentence, or number that reads the same from left to right as from right to left. Punctuation does not matter, but letters and digits do. All alphabetic languages have palindromes. The first palindrome was the Latin Sator Square, which reads:
You can read it horizontally, backwards, even vertic... |
115099 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism | Environmentalism | Environmentalism is both a philosophy and a social movement that is about protecting nature. It advocates helping to preserve, protect, and restore the natural environment from damage. Environmentalists often talk about threats to the earth from pollution, climate change and overpopulation. Environmentalism is both p... |
115106 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai%20Champloo | Samurai Champloo | Samurai Champloo is a Japanese anime television show. Mugen is a fierce animal-like warrior with a unique Bboying (break-dance) inspired fighting style. Jin has a more traditional style. The two opposing samurai warriors are far from friends, yet their split paths seem to cross anyways. Mugen is wandering aimlessly thr... |
115109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Thile | Chris Thile | Chris Thile () (born February 20, 1981) is an American musician, best known as a member of acoustic band Nickel Creek. He has made six albums as a solo artist and with his band, Punch Brothers. His first, Leading Off, was released in 1994 when Thile was 13. Thile has also played and recorded with artists like Mike Mars... |
115110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%A1ice | Košice | Košice (, IPA kɒʃɪtsə) is the second biggest city in Slovakia, and the biggest city in eastern Slovakia. About 235,000 people live in the city. Košice was founded in 1230.
Administrative division
The town of Košice is divided into 4 districts and 22 city parts:
Sister cities
Budapest, Hungary
Bursa, Turkey
C... |
115111 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Brotherhood%20of%20Teamsters | International Brotherhood of Teamsters | The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (also just called the Teamsters) is an American labor union of truck drivers, airline workers, food processors, graphic designers, police officers, and other employees. With over 1.4 million members, it is one of the largest unions in the United States.
History
The Teamsters ... |
115114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyfriend%20%28disambiguation%29 | Boyfriend (disambiguation) | A boyfriend means a partner in a romantic relationship in which the two people are not married to each other.
Boyfriend or boyfriends can mean:
Boyfriend (fashion)
Boyfriend, a 1989 album by Boy George
"Boyfriend" (song), a song by Ashlee Simpson
"Boyfriend" (Fujimoto song)
The Boy Friend (1971) is an English movie d... |
115132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente%20cordiale | Entente cordiale | The Entente cordiale (French for 'friendly agreement') was a number of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom and France. Both countries were worried that their growing empires would cause a war between them. The agreement was the end of almost 1000 years of frequent wars.
The agreement led to th... |
115141 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parma%20wallaby | Parma wallaby | The Parma wallaby (Macropus parma) is the smallest of the macropus genus. It can grow up to 52 cm in length, with a tail about the same length. They weigh up to 5 kg. The Parma wallaby's fur is a grey-brown colour on the back with a dark stripe. It has a white stripe on its face, and a white belly.
In the late 1800s i... |
115144 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20Entente | Triple Entente | The Triple Entente (English: Triple Agreement) was the name given to an alliance between the United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire. The alliance was made after the Anglo-Russian Entente, an agreement between Britain and Russia in 1907. The alliance was made stronger by agreements made with Japan, the United Sta... |
115146 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20Alliance%20%281882%29 | Triple Alliance (1882) | The Triple Alliance was a military alliance (agreement to fight together) between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, that lasted from 1880 until the start of World War I in 1914. The three countries promised to help each other if another country attacked them. Some Italian people were not happy about the agreement ... |
115151 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus%20novel | Campus novel | A campus novel, also called the academic novel, is a novel that's story is around or about a campus of a university. The genre is said to have started in the 1950s. The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy, written in 1952, is often called the first campus novel, but some have also said that novels such as C.P. Snow's Th... |
115158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20fiction | Crime fiction | Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that has to do with crimes, their solving, criminals, and their reasons for doing crime. Sometimes, crime fiction is also in the science fiction or historical fiction genres, but usually they are separate. It has several sub-genres, such as mystery fiction, legal thriller, (see Joh... |
115164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Pantani | Marco Pantani | Marco Pantani (13 January 1970 – 14 February 2004) was an Italian professional cyclist. He was born in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna. He was very good at climbing mountains in races. In 1998 he won both the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. He was a popular cyclist, and his Italian fans gave him the nickname 'Il Pirata' (... |
115165 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience | Conscience | Conscience is something that tells people if what they are doing is right or wrong. Having it can make people sad about what they have done. It is the sense of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good.
Origin
Middl... |
115168 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare | Clare | Clare can mean:
Places
Australia:
Clare, South Australia, a town in the Clare Valley
Clare Valley, a wine region in Australia
Canada:
Clare (municipal district), a district municipality in Nova Scotia
Clare (electoral district), an electoral district in Nova Scotia
Ireland:
County Clare, one of the 32 counties... |
115169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare%2C%20Suffolk | Clare, Suffolk | Clare is a small town on the north bank of the River Stour in Suffolk, England. Clare is an amazing town with it containing ruins of an old railway station.It has an amazing market in the town center every week.
Other websites
The Official Website For Clare in Suffolk
Clare Photo Gallery
Towns in Suffolk
Civil pa... |
115170 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Hinault | Bernard Hinault | Bernard Hinault (born 14 November 1954) in Yffiniac is a French cyclist who won the Tour de France five times. He is also one of only seven cyclists to have won all three Grand Tours, the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España. He is one of the two cyclists who has won each Grand Tour more than once... |
115183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzaffarabad | Muzaffarabad | Muzaffarabad () is the capital city of Azad Kashmir. It is in Muzaffarabad District on the banks of the Jhelum and Neelum rivers. It is very hilly.
The district is bounded by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the west, by the Kupwara and Baramulla districts of the Indian Jammu and Kashmir in the east, and the Neelum District of ... |
115193 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Next%20Top%20Model%2C%20Cycle%201 | America's Next Top Model, Cycle 1 | This is the results of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 1.
Judges
Tyra Banks
Janice Dickinson
Kimora Lee Simmons
Beau Quillian
Contestants
In order of elimination
(ages stated are at time of contest)
Tessa Carlson, 19, from Chicago, Illinois
Katie Cleary, 21, from Glenview, Illinois
Nicole Panattoni, 22, from Rancho ... |
115196 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-traumatic%20stress%20disorder | Post-traumatic stress disorder | Post-traumatic stress disorder (sometimes also written Posttraumatic stress disorder, often shortened to PTSD) is an anxiety disorder. It can develop when people are severely harmed, or experience something extremely upsetting.
PTSD is different from traumatic stress, which is less intense and shorter, and combat str... |
115219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%20de%20Vries | Hugo de Vries | Hugo Marie de Vries (Haarlem, 16 February 1848 – Lunteren, 21 May 1935) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He suggested the concept of genes, rediscovered Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity, and introduced the term mutation. He developed a mistaken mutation theory of evolution, mainly due to the pecul... |
115221 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Correns | Carl Correns | Carl Erich Correns (10 September 1864 – 14 February 1933) was a German botanist and geneticist. His research into heredity led to his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier work.
Hugo de Vries also – independently – rediscovered Gregor Mendel's work on genetics. Erich von Tschermak's status as a third rediscoverer is... |
115223 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20von%20Tschermak | Erich von Tschermak | Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg (15 November 1871 – October 11 1962) was an Austrian botanist.
Von Tschermak is one of three men – the others were Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns – who were credited with independently rediscovering Gregor Mendel's work on genetics. Von Tschermak published his findings in June 1900.
By a... |
115226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward%27s%20wallaroo | Woodward's wallaroo | Woodward's wallaroo (Macropus bernardus), also called the black wallaroo and Bernard's wallaroo, is the smallest of the wallaroos. The male is black or dark brown and the female is a grey colour. It is a shy nocturnal grazer and does not live in big groups. It uses the rocky cliffs where it lives to shelter and hide fr... |
115227 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Rodriguez | Alex Rodriguez | Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975 in New York City, New York). In the past, he played as shortstop for the Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers.
He is currently first in runs scored and total bases; second in extra base hits and RBI, and 4th in hits among all players in baseball history since their 31st... |
115228 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex | Alex | Alex shortened version of the male name Alexander or the female version Alexandria. Both names mean "protector of men" or "defender of men".
Art and entertainment
Alex Cox (born 1954), British film director
Alex Grey (born 1953), American artist
Alex Kapranos (born 1972), Greek/British singer for the Scottish band Fr... |
115232 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatina | Tomatina | La Tomatina is a festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Many people come from all over the world to throw one hundred tons of over-ripe tomatoes in the streets.
Oficiales tickets Tomatina
Tomatoes
Valencia (autonomous community)
Festivals in Euro... |
115234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallaroo | Wallaroo | A wallaroo is an Australian macropod with its size between the big kangaroos and the small wallabies. The name "wallaroo" is a mix of wallaby and kangaroo. Most wallaroos are smaller than a kangaroo, and live in open, rocky country. Wallaroo means "rock kangaroo". There are three types of wallaroo. They all stand the s... |
115238 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe | Zoe | Zoe could mean:
Zoé (band), a rock en español band from Mexico
Zoe (name), people and fictional characters with the name
Zoë (robot), a four wheeled robot used to map life in the Atacama Desert
Zoe (tribe), an indigenous tribe of the Brazilian Amazon
Zoey 101, an American television show of Nickelodeon
Zoé's Ark, a Fr... |
115239 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe%20%28name%29 | Zoe (name) | Zoë (and other such names) is a female name which came from ancient Greece and means "life" in Greek.
Some uses of the name are:
Real people
Zoe Ball, British television presenter
Zooey Deschanel, American actress/musician
Zoe Karbonopsina (died c. 920), Byzantine empress
Zoe (empress), Byzantine empress (c. 978... |
115258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Warren | Rick Warren | Richard Duane "Rick" Warren (born January 28, 1954) is both founder and pastor of the evangelical Baptist Saddleback Church in Southern California. It is the largest church in California. He is also the best-selling author of many Christian books, such as The Purpose Driven Life. He is also an influential evangelical l... |
115262 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilopine%20kangaroo | Antilopine kangaroo | The antilopine kangaroo (Macropus antilopinus), also called the antilopine wallaroo or the antilopine wallaby, is a large macropod that lives only in the tropical areas of northern Australia. They live in Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland, the "Top End" of the Northern Territory, and the Kimberley region of Weste... |
115272 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization | Synchronization | Synchronization is the co-ordination of a set of events into a system that works according to time. For example, a conductor of an orchestra serves to keep the orchestra in time, or synchronized. Systems that operate with all their parts in synchrony are said to be synchronous or in sync.
In synchronization, time and ... |
115273 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide | Peptide | Peptides are organic chemical molecules. They are polymers made from linking amino acids together in a certain order. The link between one amino acid residue and the next is known as an amide bond or a peptide bond.
Linking peptides together gives proteins, which are also known as Polypeptides.
Molecular biology
Poly... |
115277 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic%20foot | Cubic foot | A cubic foot is a measure of volume. It is the amount of liquid that can be fit into a box 1 foot deep, one foot wide, and one foot in length. A cubic foot can be written ft3. It is used in the United States, and partially in Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Units of area
ja:フィート#立方フィート |
115280 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmin | Webmin | Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for OpenSolaris, Linux and other Unix-like systems. It can configure many operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services, configuration files, as well as modify and control many opensource applications, such as the Apache HTTP Server, PHP and MySQL.
Web... |
115283 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20tree | Family tree | A family tree is a chart showing family relationships in a tree structure form. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.
As normally showed, a family tree "grows" down from the top, from the oldest generations at the top to the newer generations at the bottom... |
115285 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival%20of%20the%20fittest | Survival of the fittest | Survival of the fittest is a famous phrase of Herbert Spencer which describes the idea that, in nature, there is competition to survive and reproduce. It is a metaphor, as are the phrases struggle for existence, and natural selection, both of which were used by Charles Darwin. Scientists often use such metaphors as sho... |
115289 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20responses%20to%20the%20idea%20of%20evolution | Social responses to the idea of evolution | Evolution was an idea debated before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In very broad terms, this idea says that species change over time. Even today, some people still talk about the concept of evolution and what it means to them, to their philosophy and their religion. Sometimes these people also tal... |
115290 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palembang | Palembang | Palembang is a city in Indonesia. It is in the south of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. As of mid-2019, 1,662,893 people live there. It is the capital of the province of South Sumatra.
History
The city was the capital of the old, Buddhist kingdom of Srivijaya that included a large part of Malaysia and Indonesia. Af... |
115292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Darwinism | Social Darwinism | Social Darwinism is a term used for different movements. Charles Darwin was one of the main proponents of evolution. Evolution is a concept from biology that tries to explain how different life-forms change over time. It basically says that because most children are not exactly like their parents, there is change. Some... |
115293 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beccles | Beccles | Beccles is a small market town in Suffolk, England, around the area of The Broads. The town had a population of about 9, 850 people around 2005. Beccles has a suburb called Worlingham which has a combined population of about 13,580. Beccles is twinned with Petit-Couronne in France.
History
Beccles was once a flouris... |
115295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism | Lamarckism | Lamarckism (also called Lamarckian evolution) is a hypothesis regarding evolution. Evolution tries to explain how species change over time. Today, the only widely accepted theory of evolution is that developed from the ideas of Charles Darwin.
Lamarckism was developed by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck. He based his ideas, t... |
115297 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism | Darwinism | Darwinism is a term used to talk about ideas connected to those Charles Darwin had about evolution. The meaning of 'Darwinism' has changed over time, and depends on who uses the term.
Summary
Within any population, there is natural variation. Some individuals have more favourable variations than others.
Even thoug... |
115301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istria | Istria | Istria (Croatian, Slovene: Istra, Italian: Istria), formerly Histria (Latin), is the biggest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea.
Census data
Source: Croatian Census - 2001. Slovenian Census - 2002. Italian Census - 1970/2001
Related pages
Istrian-Dalmatian exodus
References
History of Europe
Geography of Croatia
Geog... |
115303 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal%20diagnosis | Prenatal diagnosis | Prenatal testing or Prenatal diagnosis are tests done on pregnant women. They are used to test fetuses for birth defects and some genetic disorders.
Prenatal tests can be non-invasive or invasive. Non-invasive tests include things like utrasounds. In invasive tests, a needle is inserted - for example, to get a sampl... |
115305 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory%20sterilization | Compulsory sterilization | Compulsory sterilization is a term used for laws that force certain groups of people to be sterilized so that they can no longer make babies. International Criminal Court considers compulsory sterilization for a "crime against humanity". Transgender persons are often obliged to undergo sterilization for legal rocogniti... |
115307 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20place%20names%20in%20Dalmatia | List of Italian place names in Dalmatia | This is a list of Italian language place names on the Dalmatian coast, including the islands up to Rijeka/Fiume.
Larger towns
Dubrovnik Ragusa
Herceg-Novi Castelnuovo di Cattaro
Knin Tenin
Kotor Cattaro
Makarska Macarsca
Šibenik Sebenico
Split Spalato
Trogir Traù
Zadar Zara
Split and surroundings
Split Sp... |
115308 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism | Malthusianism | Malthusianism is a set of ideas developed by Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. Malthus was an economist who lived during the industrial revolution.
In 1798, Mathus published a book, called An Essay on the Principle of Population. In it, he describes the Malthusian growth model. He wrote that the growth of the population... |
115310 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20LeMond | Greg LeMond | Gregory James "Greg" LeMond (born June 26, 1961 in Lakewood, California) is an American road racing cyclist who raced as a professional from 1981 to 1994.
He became the first American to win the Tour de France in 1986. In 1987 he was injured in a shooting accident, and could not race again until 1989, when he won th... |
115311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Galton | Francis Galton | Sir Francis Galton FRS (Birmingham, 16 February 1822 – Surrey, 17 January 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English scientist. His main field of work was human biology and inheritance of mental characteristics.
Galton was a polymath: an anthropologist, a eugenicist, a tropical explorer, geographer, invento... |
115312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Spencer | Herbert Spencer | Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, and a prominent liberal political and social theorist of the Victorian era.
Works
Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution. He saw evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the hu... |
115314 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20sport | National sport | A national sport is a sport or game that was invented and firstly played by citizens of the same country or nation. It also means the game or sport has a long history of popularity in the country or nation.
Each country has its own national sport.
Sports
Sport |
115316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution | Coevolution | Coevolution is where the existence of one species is tightly bound up with the life of one or more other species. Species whose lives connect, evolve together. What happens is that survival rates in each species changes as a result of changes in the other species.
Examples of coevolution are:
Species which mutually b... |
115317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo | Rongorongo | Rongorongo is a system of writing native to Easter Island. It cannot be read. There are two dozen examples of rongorongo script, mostly carved on tablets made from wood of the portia tree Thespesia populnea, known as makoi in Rapanui (Easter Island) language. The longest inscription in existence is the Santiago Staff, ... |
115318 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle%20Festival | Candle Festival | The Candle Festival (known in Thai as Haetian) is held in Ubon Ratchathani, Isan, Thailand.
At the start of rainy season, it is traditional for the devout to donate to monks items of personal use, such as candles. This part of the festival became the core of the Ubon Ratchathani version of the event. It is now a major... |
115319 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia%20tree | Portia tree | The portia tree (Thespesia populnea) Family Malvaceae, is a small tree or shrub 5-10 (-20) m high that is pantropical in littoral environments, although probably native only to the Old World. In Hawai‘i and elsewhere in the Pacific it is possibly indigenous, although may have been spread by early Polynesians for its us... |
115331 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Zelda%3A%20The%20Minish%20Cap | The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap | The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, known in Japan as , is an action adventure video game made by Flagship and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance game console.
2004 video games
2005 video games
Flagship games
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
Virtual Console games
Minish Cap |
115333 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL%20region | PAL region | The PAL region is a PAL region which covers most of Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.
Related pages
PAL
Regional lockout
Television technology |
115334 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Zelda%3A%20Four%20Swords%20Adventures | The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures | The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, known in Japan as , is an action adventure video game made by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube game console.
2004 video games
Cooperative video games
Nintendo GameCube-only games
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development games
Four Swords Adventures |
115335 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Zelda%3A%20Oracle%20of%20Ages%20and%20Oracle%20of%20Seasons | The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons | The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons are action adventure video games made by Capcom and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Color game console.
Plot
Oracle of Seasons
The Triforce sends Link to the land of Holodrum, where he stumbles upon a traveling group of performers. ... |
115336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Zelda%3A%20Majora%27s%20Mask | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask | is an action-adventure video game made by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 game console. The game was remade in 2015 for the Nintendo 3DS titled The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
Plot
After The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link is led to Termina by the possessed Skull Kid and is turned into a Deku, a small, woode... |
115337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Zelda%3A%20Link%27s%20Awakening | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, known in Japan as , is an action-adventure video game made by Nintendo for the Game Boy game console. It was remade for the Game Boy Color with full color graphics and new features.
History
Unlinke most The Legend of Zelda games, Link's Awakening's history is outside of the Hyru... |
115338 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Legend%20of%20Zelda%3A%20A%20Link%20to%20the%20Past | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, known in Japan as is an action-adventure video game made by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo game console. It's the third game of The Legend of Zelda series, though it is a prequel to The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. It's about a young boy named Link who ... |
115339 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda%20II%3A%20The%20Adventure%20of%20Link | Zelda II: The Adventure of Link | Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is an adventure-role-playing video game made by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System game console.
Plot
The main hero of the series, Link, finds out that Princess Zelda has gone under a deep sleep after a fight with a wizard. While trying to find crystals to awaken Zelda, Link... |
115344 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology%20%28rhetoric%29 | Tautology (rhetoric) | In rhetoric, a tautology is the repetition of a statement, for example, "With malice toward none, with charity for all".
Unlike a tautology in logic, it is not automatically true.
Examples
The phrase "A is A", often mistakenly attributed to Aristotle, was a favorite of Ayn Rand. The idea frequently appears in her ... |
115345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology%20%28logic%29 | Tautology (logic) | A tautology can also be a figure of speech
In propositional logic, a tautology (from the Greek word ταυτολογία) is a propositional formula that is always true, and is sometimes denoted by the symbol (a symbol also reserved for the truth value 'true'). In other words, a tautology cannot be wrong. For example, formulae ... |
115349 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhorn%20beetle | Longhorn beetle | The longhorn beetles or long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae) are a family of beetles that have long antennae. The antennae may be longer than the beetles' body. Over 35,000 species have been described.
The length of the antennae is an obvious feature of their body. Their long antennae sprout from tubercles on the face. ... |
115358 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroevolution | Macroevolution | Macroevolution refers to large-scale evolution. For some, this means the origin of species. For others, it means the large-scale changes seen in the fossil record.
"Major changes in structure and ways of life over.. tens of millions of years". R.L. Carroll.
"A large evolutionary pattern... events that result in the or... |
115359 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20pool | Gene pool | A gene pool is the set of all possible variations (alleles) of all genes of a population. It is a concept in population genetics.
For example, plants have genes that say what colour their flowers will be. The gene pool of peas has an allele for red flowers and another one for white flowers.
Classical genetics |
115360 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription%20%28genetics%29 | Transcription (genetics) | Transcription is when RNA is made from DNA. The DNA sequence is copied by a special enzyme called RNA polymerase to make a matching RNA strand.
"All living things, with their myriad variations, use an almost identical microscopic machine to read their genes. This machine – RNA polymerase – is responsible for a process... |
115363 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Hovell | William Hovell | William Hilton Hovell (April 26 1786 — November 9 1875) was an English explorer of Australia. Together with Hamilton Hume he explored much of Victoria.
Early life
William Hovell was born at Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. He joined the Royal Navy and became a captain. In October 1813, he moved to New South Wales with his... |
115365 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%20prequel%20trilogy | Star Wars prequel trilogy | The Star Wars prequel trilogy is a series of movies released between May 1999 and May 2005. All three movies were written and directed by George Lucas.
Production
Lucasfilm started production on The Phantom Menace after George Lucas got interested in reviving the Star Wars franchise.
Reception
While all three movies ... |
115366 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid%20Caliphate | Abbasid Caliphate | The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the four greatest Muslim caliphates of the Arab Empire. It overthrew the Umayyad caliphs from all but Al-Andalus. It was built by the descendant of Muhammad's youngest uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib. It was created in Harran in 750 of the Christian era and shifted its capital in... |
115369 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%20Mariners | Seattle Mariners | The Seattle Mariners are an American Major League Baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. The Mariners are part of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since July 1999, their home stadium has been T-Mobile Park (originally Safeco Field). Until they moved in June 1999, the club's home par... |
115375 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanajuato%20%28state%29 | Guanajuato (state) | Guanajuato is a state in central Mexico. About 4,890,000 people live there. Its capital is also called Guanajuato. The largest city is León.
States of Mexico |
115378 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n%20%28state%29 | Yucatán (state) | Yucatán is a state in the east of Mexico. About 1,820,000 people live in Yucatán. Its capital is called Mérida.
The state is on the Yucatán Peninsula. It has the state of Campeche to the southwest, and Quintana Roo to the southeast. The Gulf of Mexico is off its north coast.
The state was a very important region for... |
115392 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio | Caravaggio | Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (28 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist. He worked in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He was a painter who did a type of art called Baroque style. He was the first person to be really good at painting this way.
Even while he was alive, many peopl... |
115393 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic%20Revival%20architecture | Gothic Revival architecture | Gothic Revival architecture is architecture that has been made to look as if it is from medieval times, but is really much later. This architectural style began in the late 1740s in England. Its momentum grew in the early 19th century. Serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic a... |
115394 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio | Lúcio | Lucimar da Silva Ferreira, called Lúcio (born 8 May 1978 in Brasília, Brazil) is a Brazilian football player and the captain of the Brazil national team, for that he has played 8 matches and made 4 goals. His team is Internazionale Milano.
Club career statistics
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