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9185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism | Tourism | Tourism means people traveling for fun and adventure . It includes activities such as sightseeing and camping. People who travel for fun are called "tourists". Places where many tourists stay are sometimes called "resorts". Places that people go to for tourism are called tourist destinations.
There are many reasons w... |
9186 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire | Berkshire | Berkshire is a county in southeast England. It is west of London. Its county town is Reading. In the past, a town named Abingdon was the county town, but this town is not in Berkshire any more.
Berkshire is also known as the Royal County of Berkshire.
Cities, towns and villages
Bracknell
Datchet
Caversham
Hungerf... |
9188 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckinghamshire | Buckinghamshire | Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in central England, near the south and London. The county town is named Aylesbury.
Cities, towns and villages
Locations marked with a (*) are a part of the cerimonal county of Buckinghamshire, but are governed by the Borough of Milton Keynes.
Amersham
Aylesbury
Beaco... |
9192 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20monitor | Computer monitor | A computer monitor is an electronic device that shows pictures for computers. Monitors often look similar to televisions. The main difference between a monitor and a television is that a monitor does not have a television tuner to change channels. Monitors often have higher display resolution than televisions. A high d... |
9193 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%203 | December 3 |
Events
Up to 1960
915 - Pope John X crowns Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor.
1799 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch - Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Szatary de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.
1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden - French General Moreau... |
9194 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diameter | Diameter | In geometry, the diameter of a circle is a line from one side directly to the opposite side through the centre. It can also be defined as the longest chord of a circle. The same explanations can be also used to describe the diameter in a sphere.
The letter d or the symbol ⌀ are often used as a symbol for the diameter.... |
9203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958 | 1958 | 1958 (MCMLVIII) was .
Events
NASA founded
CEE
Births
January 1 - Elijah Nowak, Polish doctor
January 19 - Don Austen, English puppeteer
January 21 – Frank Ticheli, American composer
March 5 – Andy Gibb, English singer (d. 1988)
March 16 - Phillip Wilcher, Australian pianist
April 3 - Alec Baldwin, American ... |
9204 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921 | 1921 |
Events
Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Irish Civil War (1921-1924)
Births
January 17 – Antonio Prohias (d. 1998)
May 3 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
April 25 – Karel Appel, Belgian artist (d. 2006)
July 6 – Nancy Reagan, American actress and First Lady of the United Stat... |
9205 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892 | 1892 |
Births
January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien
February 10 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
July 23 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, British Indian statesman and leader of the Punjab.
Art, music, theatre, and literature
December 17 – Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker premieres in St P... |
9206 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904 | 1904 | 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January 4 – In Gonzales v. Williams, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that citizens of Puerto Rico are not aliens and could enter the United States freely.
Births
January 18 – Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
April 22 – Robert Opp... |
9207 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951 | 1951 | .
Events
January 4 – The Communist forces of North Korea and China seize the city of Seoul.
Bette Nesmith Graham invents Liquid Paper
Births
January 6 – Kim Wilson, blues singer and harmonica player
January 7 - Helen Worth, English actress
January 12 – Kirstie Alley, actress
Rush Limbaugh, radio personality
Lar... |
9208 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1642 | 1642 |
Events
On September 2, the Puritans force the London theatres to close, ending the era of English Renaissance drama.
Births
December 25 (OS) – Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist (d. 1727)
Deaths
January 8 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (b. 1564) |
9209 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1745 | 1745 | 1745 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys the Austrian army at the Battle of Hohenfriedberg.
August 21 – Catherine the Great marries Peter III of Russia in Saint Petersburg.
September 12 – Francis I is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
January 4 – ... |
9210 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1813 | 1813 | Year 1813 (MDCCCXIII) was a year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1813
January – March
February 11 – Fort Meigs: Leftwich is not successful, and when he leaves, Major Amos Stoddard takes the command of the post.
February ... |
9211 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838 | 1838 |
Events
January 10 – a fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.
April 30 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation (See Nicaragua's early history)
May – The People's Charter drawn up in the United Kingdom demanding universal suffrage.
May 26 – USA: Trail of... |
9212 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940 | 1940 |
Events
March 3 – In Sweden, a time bomb destroys the office of Norrskenflamman newspaper of Swedish communists – 5 dead
March 5- Members of Soviet politburo: Stalin, Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Mikhail Kalinin, Kliment Voroshilov and Lavrenty Beria himself, signed execution order prepared by Beria & Stalin. Over 25... |
9213 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942 | 1942 |
Events
January 1 – World War II: The term "United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact.
January 2 – World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. The Japanese Admiral stays in Solvec (owned by Charles Henry de Silva), Philippines.
January 5 – Amy Johnson disappears in flight over R... |
9214 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica | Dominica | The Commonwealth of Dominica is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. It is an English-speaking country. It is between the French-speaking territories of Guadeloupe and Martinique. The island is 751 km² (290 mi²) in area. Roseau is its capital. Portsmouth is another main town. Almost 70,000 people live on the island.
... |
9217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923 | 1923 | 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar was made obsolete starting that year, though Eastern Orthodox churches still use the Julian Calendar.
Events
January 1 – Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies
January 10 – Lithuania seizes ... |
9218 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926 | 1926 |
Events
January 1 – Ireland's first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann), begins broadcasting.
January 8 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz
January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in which the two white performers portrayed two black char... |
9219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931 | 1931 | 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France
February 16 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud is elected president of Finland
March 31 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000 people
April 25 – The automobile m... |
9220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/404 | 404 |
Events
January 1 – Last gladiator competition in Rome.
Atticus of Constantinople becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
Honorius moves the capital of the Western Roman Empire to Ravenna.
Saint Telemachus matyrdom. |
9221 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1438 | 1438 |
Events
Pachacuti who would later create Tahuantinsuyu, or Inca Empire became the ruler of Cusco
January 1 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Hungary
March 18 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany
Eric of Pomerania, King of Sweden, Denmark and Norway loses direct control of Sweden. Karl Knutsson Bo... |
9222 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1651 | 1651 |
Events
January 1 – Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. This is his first crowning.
June 28 – June 30: The biggest battle of the 17th century, the Battle of Beresteczko, between Poles and Ukrainians is won by the Poles.
September 3 – English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defe... |
9223 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing%20card | Playing card | Playing cards is the name for the 52 cards used in card games like poker, bridge, blackjack, solitaire and other games.
There are 52 basic cards in a deck (not including the jokers). These cards have a suit and a number (called the value or rank). There are 4 suits and 13 ranks in each suit. Decks may include a wide v... |
9224 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor | Emperor | An emperor is a male who rules an empire. The word is taken from the Latin language imperator. Often it is capitalized.
A woman who comes to power in an empire is called an empress. The wife of an emperor is also called empress. An emperor or empress is often a hereditary monarch and comes to power when one of his par... |
9226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmdale%2C%20California | Palmdale, California | Palmdale is the largest city in the desert area of California. It is a suburb of Los Angeles. It has a population of 147,897 and is the 6th largest city in Los Angeles County. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, currently the 25th fastest. It has a population of 589,043 if you include the subu... |
9227 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno%2C%20California | Fresno, California | Fresno is the largest inland city in U.S. state of California. It has a population of 451,455. If the surrounding suburbs are included, it has a population of 983,788. It is the county seat of Fresno County, in the Central Valley.
Fresno is the closest major city to Yosemite National Park. Fresno has a major airport c... |
9230 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955 | 1955 | 1955 (MCMLV) was .
Events
January 2 – Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is killed.
January 7 – Marian Anderson becomes the first African-American person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City
January 19 - The Scrabble board game debuts.
February 8 – Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Malenkov
February ... |
9233 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye | Popeye | Popeye the Sailor Man is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. He first appeared in a comic strip called Thimble Theatre by E.C. Segar in 1929. Popeye is a sailor who smokes a pipe and mutters things under his breath. He has only one eye, he is short and uneducated, but when trouble occurs, usually sa... |
9235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics | Astrophysics | Astrophysics is the study of how stars, planets and other things in the Universe work, and how we can learn about them. Astrophysicists use physics to explain what astronomers find and see.
Astrophysics is also the study of how the Universe started and how it is changing with time. This part of astrophysics is called ... |
9237 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20order | Word order | Word order is part of syntax, which is part of grammar. Word order may be different in different languages. For example, English "I play tennis only sometimes" would be in German Ich spiele nur manchmal Tennis, literally "I play only sometimes tennis". In Norwegian, the same sentence would be Jeg spiller bare tennis no... |
9239 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20H.%20W.%20Bush | George H. W. Bush | George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 – November 30, 2018) was an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Before he became president, he was the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 (under the Ronald Reagan administration), an ambassador to the U... |
9240 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio | Ohio | Ohio is one of the 50 states in the United States. Its capital is Columbus. Columbus is also the largest city in Ohio.
Other large cities in Ohio are Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Akron, Toledo, and Youngstown.
Some famous people from Ohio include golfer Jack Nicklaus, Wilbur and Orville Wright, astronauts John Glen... |
9246 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek | Greek | Greek can mean:
A description of things or people from the European country of Greece
A description of things or people from one of the ancient European city-states of Ancient Greece
Greeks, the people of Greece
The Greek language, the language people speak in Greece
Koine Greek, the language of the New Testament, ... |
9252 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity | Relativity | The word relativity usually means two things in physics:
The principle of relativity, which was originally thought up by Galileo Galilei, and later used by Albert Einstein as one of the important postulates (like rules) of the theory of relativity.
The theory of relativity itself, which has two parts: special relati... |
9253 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20relativity | Principle of relativity | In physics, the principle of relativity is the requirement that the equations describing the laws of physics is as same as the all frames of reference.
In 300 BCE, Greek philosopher Aristotle thought that heavy objects fall faster than objects that are not heavy. The natural science of Aristotle was most popular in We... |
9254 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20relativity | Special relativity | Special relativity (or the special theory of relativity) is a theory in physics that was developed and explained by Albert Einstein in 1905. It applies to all physical phenomena, so long as gravitation is not significant. Special relativity applies to Minkowski space, or "flat spacetime" (phenomena which are not influe... |
9255 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964 | 1964 | 1964 (MCMLXIV) was .
Events
January 1 – Top of the Pops is first shown on BBC television.
January 3 – Footage of The Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show.
January 15 – Vee Jay Records files a lawsuit against Capitol Records and Swan Records over manufacturing and dist... |
9256 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1894 | 1894 |
Events
Outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War
June 30 – Tower Bridge in London opened.
Births
February 10 - Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister
April 17 – Nikita Krushchev, Soviet leader
March 20 – Ky Ebright, American Olympic rowing coach (d. 1979)
July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English writer
November 27... |
9257 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/587 | 587 |
Year 587 (DLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 587 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Deaths
Saint David |
9258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/September%207 | September 7 |
Events
Up to 1900
70 A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
878 King Louis II of France is crowned by Pope John VIII.
1159 Pope Alexander II is chosen.
1191 Third Crusade: Battle of Asruf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Asruf.
1228 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor lands at Acr... |
9259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1191 | 1191 | 1191 (MCXCI) was .
Events
May 12 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
September 7 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England fights against Saladin at Arsuf. Result of battle is inconclusive.
The monks of Glastonbury Abbey announce that they have found the burial sites of King Arthur ... |
9260 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1539 | 1539 |
Events
May 30 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold.
Hernando de Soto introduces Pigs into North America
May – 6 Articles Statute of English Parliament, important in the English Reformation"
September 4 – Henry VIII contracts to marry Anne of Cleves
Luthe... |
9261 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2030 | May 30 |
Events
Up to 1900
70 - Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the second wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the first wall.
1381 - Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
1431 - In Rouen, Normandy, France, Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
... |
9262 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1431 | 1431 |
Events
February 21 – The trial of Joan of Arc
March 3 – Eugenius IV becomes Pope
May 30 – In Rouen, France, 19-year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.
Foundation of University of Poitiers
Battle of Inverlochy |
9263 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1574 | 1574 |
Events
April 14 – Battle of Mookerheyde: Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau. Louis is killed.
May 30 – On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III. His mother, Catherine of Medici, acts as... |
9264 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984 | 1984 | 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was .
Events
January - June
January 4 - Rapeye series by Paramount Pictures.
March 22 – People said the teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California were abusing the children in the school. The police found out that this was not true.
March 23 – Sarah Tisdall, who told The Gu... |
9265 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985 | 1985 | 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was .
Events
January 20 - President Ronald Reagan is inaugurated for the second time.
February 18 - NBA player Larry Bird barely misses a quadruple-double in a game against the Utah Jazz. He sits out the entire fourth quarter.
March 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Communist Party o... |
9266 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986 | 1986 | 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was .
Births
January 24 – Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
January 24 – Ricky Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
February 1 – Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
February 19 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
February 21 – Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano
March 1 – Jonathan Spector, Amer... |
9267 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2012 | August 12 |
Events
Up to 1900
30 BC Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, commits suicide.
1099 First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders defeat Saracens and the Kingdom of Jerusalem is established under Godfrey of Bouillon.
1121 Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under David IV of Georgia wins a decisive victory over the ... |
9268 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918 | 1918 | 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar, and a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.
Births
January 2 – Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, German type designer and educator
January 15 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (d. 1970)
February 22 – Robert Wadlow, American reco... |
9269 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat | Wombat | A wombat is a marsupial in the family Vombatidae. It lives in the Australian eucalyptus forests. There are two genera with three living wombat species; the Common Wombat and the Hairy-nosed Wombats.
It is a medium-sized animal that makes a burrow by digging holes in the ground. Wombats are usually around a metre (40 i... |
9273 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%2010 | January 10 |
Events
Up to 1900
49 BC – Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon which signalled civil war.
9 - Beginning of the Xin dynasty in China.
69 - Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as Deputy Roman Emperor.
236 - Fabian became Pope.
1072 – Robert Guiscard conquered Palermo.
1475 - Stephen III of Mold... |
9275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.C.%20Wyeth | N.C. Wyeth | Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945) was an American painter and book illustrator. He was born in Needham, Massachusetts. He was known for his illustrations for such books as Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, The Yearling, The Last of the Mohicans, and King Arthur. His daughters Henriette and Carolyn, ... |
9281 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%20%28bird%29 | Turkey (bird) | Turkeys are a family of bird in the genus Meleagrididae. They are like a chicken but much bigger. Wild turkeys live in forests in North America and Central America. In the United States, people traditionally eat turkey on the holiday of Thanksgiving.
The family Meleagrididae has one genus in it, Meleagris. This genus ... |
9283 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnology | Arachnology | Arachnology is a science that studies arachnids. Examples of arachnids are spiders, scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and harvestmen. Ticks and mites are also arachnids but they sometimes are not included in arachnology. They are studied in acarology.
Branches of zoology |
9287 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama | Alabama | Alabama is a state in the United States. Its capital city is Montgomery. The largest city is Birmingham. It became a state in 1819. Native American tribes such as Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek first lived in Alabama.
History
The first people to live in Alabama were Native Americans before the arrival of Eur... |
9288 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona | Arizona | Arizona is a state in the United States of America. It is considered part of the Southwestern United States and is bordered by New Mexico to the east, Utah to the north, Nevada to the northwest, California to the west, its northeast corner touches part of Colorado, this area is known as the Four Corners. To the south o... |
9289 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia | Bolivia | Bolivia , officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a country in South America. It is land locked by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Peru, and Chile. Luis Alberto Arce Catacora became the president of Bolivia in November 2020.
The population of Bolivia is 11.51 million (2019).
Bolivia is named after Simón Bolív... |
9290 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts | Massachusetts | Massachusetts is a state in the United States of America. Its official name is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Its capital and largest city is Boston. It is on the east coast of the United States. It is next to the Atlantic Ocean and the states of Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire. The... |
9291 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallahassee%2C%20Florida | Tallahassee, Florida | Tallahassee is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2010 census, its population was 181,376.
The name comes from the Apalachee Native American words: talwa meaning town, and ahassee meaning old.
Tallahassee was created as the capital of Florida during the territory's second legislative session. I... |
9292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1227 | 1227 | Year 1227 (MCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
March 19 – Pope Gregory IX succeeds Pope Honorius III as the 178th pope.
August 18 – Genghis Khan |
9293 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Skerritt | Tom Skerritt | Thomas Alderton Skerritt (August 25, 1933) is an American actor. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is best known for his roles in the films M*A*S*H (1970), Alien (1979), and Top Gun (1986).
Other websites
1933 births
Living people
American movie actors
Actors from Detroit, Michigan |
9302 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trossingen | Trossingen | Trossingen is a town in South Germany (Baden-Württemberg). It is in a region called Baar, between the Swabian Alb and the Black Forest.
Trossingen is called a "music town". It has around 16,000 people who live there, there is the 'University of Music Trossingen', which is one of Baden-Württemberg's state conservatorie... |
9304 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Smurfs | The Smurfs | The Smurfs are fictional little blue beings created by Peyo, a Belgian cartoonist. They first appeared in 1958, and later in a cartoon television show created by Hanna-Barbera Productions in the 1980s. On September 12, 1981, they were featured on NBC on Saturday mornings as a cartoon series. The little blue creatures f... |
9307 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul | Istanbul | Istanbul () is a mega city that sits in both Europe and Asia divided by the Bosporus. Although the largest city of Turkey its not the capital. It is the largest city in Europe by population. It is also the 3rd largest European city in size. It was the capital city of the old Ottoman Empire until 1923. The city has bee... |
9315 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA | ABBA | ABBA is a Swedish pop music group, who had many hits in the 1970s in Stockholm and early 1980s. ABBA was the most commercially successful pop group of the 1970s. The name "ABBA" is made from the first letter of each member's first name:
A gnetha Fältskog
B jörn Ulvaeus
B enny Andersson, and
A nni-Frid Lyngstad.
AB... |
9316 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg%20Allman | Gregg Allman | Gregg Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017) was an American rock musician. He was a member of the Allman Brothers Band with his brother, Duane Allman, which popularized Southern Rock in the 1970s. He married Cher, a well-known pop singer and actress after she divorced Sonny Bono in 1974. They had a son, Elijah Blue ... |
9317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allman%20Brothers%20Band | Allman Brothers Band | The Allman Brothers Band were an American southern rock band in the 1970s. It originally formed in 1969 with Duane Allman (slide guitar), Gregg Allman (vocals, organ), Dickey Betts (guitar), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums) and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).
In 1971, soon after their first albu... |
9324 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Borough%20of%20Hackney | London Borough of Hackney | The London Borough of Hackney is a London Borough in north east London.
London Borough of Hackney |
9326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Frost%20Bridge | John Frost Bridge | The John Frost Bridge is a bridge in Arnhem. It was bombed after Operation Market Garden in September 1944. It was later rebuilt. Some parts of the bridge are still the same as they were in 1944.
Bridges
Buildings and structures in the Netherlands
Transport in the Netherlands
Arnhem |
9329 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vengaboys | Vengaboys | The Vengaboys are a Dutch pop music group. The group is made up of DJ Danski and DJ Delmondo. They toured Spanish beach parties in a bus. The group formed in 1992. They added four dancers in 1995-1996 and toured through Europe. Their first song was Up & Down. It was released in March 1997. The group is popular across ... |
9330 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%20Benedict%20XVI | Pope Benedict XVI | Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (; ; , born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is Pope Emeritus of the Catholic Church. He served as the 265th Pope from 2005 to 2013. In that position, he was both the leader of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Vatican City State. Benedict was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal... |
9335 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guan%20Gong | Guan Gong | Guan Gong, also known as Guan Yu or Guan Yun Chang (160 – 219) was a general who lived close to two thousand years ago in China. He helped his sworn brother Liu Bei to fight against the dynasty of Wei that seized the throne from the last Han-Emperor. He was also the sworn brother of Zhang Fei, another warrior of Liu Be... |
9340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence%20farming | Subsistence farming | Subsistence farming is the kind of farming done by farmers who have small plots, enough only for themselves. Literally, subsistence agriculture means no extra food is produced to sell or trade. This means farming doesn't give them money to buy things. However, today most subsistence farmers also do trade to some degree... |
9343 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Clyde | River Clyde | The River Clyde (, ) is a river in Scotland. It flows through Glasgow before opening up into the Firth of Clyde.
Other websites
River Clyde: Source to Firth Panorama Project
The Clyde-built ships data base - lists over 22,000 ships built on the Clyde
Clyde Waterfront regeneration
Clyde Waterfront Heritage
... |
9345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20charge | Electric charge | Electric charge is a basic property of electrons, protons and other subatomic particles. Electrons are negatively charged while protons are positively charged. Things that are negatively charged and things that are positively charged pull on (attract) each other. This makes electrons and protons stick together to form ... |
9346 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyroxiphium | Argyroxiphium | Argyroxiphium is a small genus of plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. Its members are known by the common names of silversword or greensword due to their long, narrow leaves and the silvery hairs on some species.
The Silversword plant grows only at high elevations on the Island of Maui in Hawaii.
The silvers... |
9347 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Pacman | Mr. Pacman | Mr. Pacman is an American pop music band from Colorado. They use sounds from old video games to create their music. Mr. Pacman has recorded 2 CDs & made 4 music videos.
Other websites
http://myspace.com/mrpacman/ - official website
American pop music groups
Electronic music bands
Musical groups from Colorado
Musical... |
9348 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20video | Music video | A music video or music clip is a short movie that represents a song on a television screen. Most music videos feature the artist who recorded the song singing or lip-syncing it on screen. TV network channels that are famous for playing music videos are MTV, VH1, BET, and CMT.
In most countries in East Asia, music vide... |
9364 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip%20hop | Hip hop | Hip hop is a type of culture/art style that started in the 1970s in the Bronx. It began in Jamaican American, African American, and Puerto Rican/Hispanic and Latino American urban areas in some of the larger cities of the United States. Hip hop uses drum beats produced by a drum machine, and rapping, where the rapper o... |
9386 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20blindness | Color blindness | People with color blindness cannot tell the difference between certain colors. They may not see colors at all.
Most color blindness is heritable, usually as simple Mendelian inheritance. Sometimes, it is the result of damage to the eyes, nerves, or the brain. It can be caused by coming into contact with certain che... |
9402 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopron | Sopron | Sopron (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃopron]; , ; Central Bavarian: Ednburg, ) is a city of Hungary, near the western border of Hungary with Austria, at the foot of the Alps, 60 km from Vienna (in Austria) and 220 km from Budapest. The people of this city are famous for their loyalty to their country, and their hometown.... |
9404 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumo | Sumo | is a Japanese full-contact sport.
In sumo, a wrestler (rikishi) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyō) 4.55 metres in diameter. Also, the rikishi try to use their skill to force an opponent to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of his feet.
Sumo tournaments (basho) take pla... |
9407 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20districts | List of German districts | Germany is divided into 402 administrative districts. These consist of 295 rural districts (Landkreise), listed fully here, and 107 urban districts (Kreisfreie Städte / Stadtkreise) - cities which constitute a district in their own right.
References
Districts of Germany
Districts |
9409 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen%20%28state%29 | Bremen (state) | Bremen is the smallest state in Germany. It is a city-state with an area of . Bremen has a population of 664,000 people.
The official name is "Freie Hansestadt Bremen". This is because Bremen used to be in the Hanseatic League which was a group of cities which did a lot of trading. Many goods were sent from the p... |
9413 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxony-Anhalt | Saxony-Anhalt | Saxony-Anhalt (, (; Low German: ) is a Bundesland (state) in Germany. It has an area of . 2,580,626 people live there. The capital is Magdeburg.
Some big cities and towns in Saxony-Anhalt are:
Bitterfeld-Wolfen
Dessau
Halberstadt
Halle (Saale)
Wittenberg
Magdeburg (capital)
Merseburg
Naumburg (Saale)
Quedlinb... |
9414 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt | Erfurt | Erfurt is the capital city of the German state of Thuringia. It has an area of . In December 2015 it had a population of 210,000 people. The River Gera runs through the city.
History
People have lived in the area for about 100,000 years. The city was first mentioned in writing in 742, in a letter to the Pope from St B... |
9415 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg | Magdeburg | Magdeburg (; ) is the capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, in Germany. The city covers an area of . About 236,000 people live there (2016).
A demonstration of air pressure (called the Magdeburg spheres) was done here by Otto von Guericke in 1656. Also, the 18th century composer Georg Philipp Telemann was born here.... |
9417 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance%20languages | Romance languages | The Romance languages (also sometimes called Romanic languages) are a language family in the Indo-European languages. They started from Vulgar Latin (in Latin, "vulgar" is the word for "common" and so "Vulgar Latin" means "Common Latin"). The most spoken Romance languages are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Ro... |
9421 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar%20evolution | Stellar evolution | Stellar evolution is the study of how a star changes over time. Stars can change very much between when they are first created and when they run out of energy. Because stars can produce light and heat for millions or billions of years, scientists study stellar evolution by studying many different stars in different sta... |
9424 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics | Genetics | Genetics is a discipline of biology. It is the science of heredity. This includes the study of genes, and the inheritance of variation and traits of living organisms. In the laboratory, genetics proceeds by mating carefully selected organisms, and analysing their offspring. More informally, genetics is the study of how... |
9434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20Square%20Park | Church Square Park | Church Square Park is a park in Hoboken, New Jersey between Garden Street and Willow Avenue and 5th and 6th Streets. The Hoboken Public Library is on its north side.
New Jersey
Parks in the United States |
9437 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply | Supply | In economics, supply is the amount of something that companies are willing to provide in a market. The law of supply and demand will decide the price at which something will be bought and sold.
Description
According to C.R. McConnell and S.L.Brue, a supply is a scale showing the amount of a good or service that selle... |
9438 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand | Demand | Demand is the total amount of goods or services which people want to buy, for a set price. The demand for an item indicates how much it is needed or wanted. This is important in economics, because the law of supply and demand will decide the price at which something will be bought and sold.
Demand is the amount of goo... |
9439 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction | Transaction | A transaction is an exchange. Money, goods, and services are often exchanged. They are bought, sold or traded.
A bank transaction is when money is taken out of or put into a bank.
Commerce |
9440 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia%20Britannica | Encyclopædia Britannica | The (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), previously published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a popular encyclopaedia which right now published as an online. It is written in British English. It was originally only printed on paper, but late in the 20th century it expanded to have digital, or computer versions as... |
9441 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline | Pipeline | A pipeline is a long tube, that is used to transport liquids or gases over long distances. Pipelines are made of metal. While the transport of liquids and gases is common, some pipelines are used to transport coal or iron ore, which are mixed with mud. Such pipelines are sometimes called slurry pipelines. Even though a... |
9442 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado | Avocado | The term avocado refers to a type of berry. It has medium dark green or dark green bumpy or smooth skin depending on the variety. The flesh of an avocado is deep chartreuse green in color near the skin and pale chartreuse green near the core. It has a creamy, rich texture. The word, Avocado came from a aztec word meani... |
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