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9451 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20hockey | Ice hockey | Ice hockey is a sport that is played by two teams on ice. The players wear ice skates on their feet and can skate across the ice at very high speeds. They hold hockey sticks, which they use to push, shoot or pass a puck around the ice. The players score by shooting the puck into a net; the goaltenders try to stop the... |
9455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1492 | 1492 | The year 1492 is considered to be an important year in the history of the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Spain, and the New World, among others.
Events
Christopher Columbus sets off on the voyage for which he would discover The Americas. |
9458 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtues%20of%20Harmony | Virtues of Harmony | Virtues of Harmony was a sitcom that ran in Hong Kong from 2001 until February 2005. Virtues of Harmony One was set in ancient China during the Ming Dynasty. It follows the lives of the Kam family. The allure of the series was the humorous storylines and how the good always wins. The star of the show was Nancy Sit, a k... |
9459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford%2C%20Kent | Ashford, Kent | Ashford is a large town in Kent in England. Many villages in are nearby and Ashford attracts lots of locals for its shopping. The Ashford international railway station is connected by the Channel Tunnel to mainland Europe. Ashford is an established and populated area of Kent with lots of houses. The UK Government is go... |
9460 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song | Song | A song is a piece of music which contains lyrics and words. Songs may be made by songwriters. Other songs are folk songs, which are songs created by people long ago that have been sung as tradition.
Some people form bands which write and record songs to make money from it. When two or three singers sing the song it is... |
9461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium | Magnesium | Magnesium ( /mæɡˈniːziəm/ mag-NEE-zee-əm) is a chemical element with the symbol Mg, atomic number 12 and common oxidation state +2. It is an alkaline earth metal and the eighth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, where it constitutes about 2% by mass, and ninth in the known universe as a whole. This preponderan... |
9462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Brown | Dan Brown | Dan Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author. His best-known book is The Da Vinci Code.
Dan Brown lives in the United States. His father was a math teacher and his mother was a church organist. Before Dan Brown wrote books, he was an English teacher. Dan Brown's wife, Blythe, is an artist. Sometimes she is kno... |
9463 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurso | Thurso | Thurso is a town in north Scotland. The town has a population of 8,721 (2001 census)
Towns in Scotland |
9464 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penzance | Penzance | Penzance () is a town and port in Cornwall, South West England. It is near Land's End and the most westerly major town in England. Many people live and work in Penzance. In 2001, there were 21,168 people living in Penzance. The main Cornish railway line ends at Penzance. The fishing port of Newlyn is close to Penzance.... |
9469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tonight%20Show | The Tonight Show | The Tonight Show is a popular late night television talk and comedy show in the United States. It appears on the NBC television network. The show started in 1954 and was hosted by Steve Allen. In 1957, Jack Paar became the host, with Ernie Kovacs hosting on some nights.
In 1962, Johnny Carson took over and stayed unti... |
9470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%2017 | January 17 |
Events
Up to 1900
395 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan. The Roman Empire is re-divided into West and East.
1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades the island of Menorca.
1377 - Pope Gregory XI moves the Pope's residence (place where he lives) back to Rome from Avignon.
1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano ... |
9472 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni%20Grabowski | Antoni Grabowski | Antoni Grabowski was a Polish chemical engineer, and an early supporter of the Esperanto movement. The books and poems that he changed into Esperanto from other languages helped to make Esperanto more well-known and used.
Learning and work
Grabowski was born on 11 June 1857 in Nowe Dobre, near Chełmno, in Poland. So... |
9475 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vessel | Vessel | Vessel or vessels may refer to:
Blood vessel, a tube that carries blood around the body
Lymph vessel, a thin walled, valved structure that carries lymph
Vessel element, a narrow tube that carries water in plants (such as the xylem)
Bowl, a common open-top container
Drinking vessel, for holding drinkable liquids
Marine... |
9476 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire | Fire | Fire is a chemical reaction that gives off light and heat. Fire is sometimes useful, but also very dangerous because it can cause houses, trees and other things to burn to ashes. Forest fires are very harmful. They can destroy a huge area in a matter of minutes. Every year people die by accident from fire.
Fire can b... |
9484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20solas | Five solas | In Europe in the 16th century there was a big change in the Christian religion. In this Protestant Reformation, hundreds of thousands of people left the Catholic church to form Protestant churches all over Europe..
"The Five solas" are an important part of the reformed theology of these Protestant leaders:
Sola Scri... |
9488 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ran%20Persson | Göran Persson | Göran Persson (born January 20, 1949) was the Prime minister of Sweden between 1996 and 2006. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, but quit in March 2007. He was replaced by Mona Sahlin as leader of the party, the party's first woman to do so.
References
Other websites
Government Offices of Swed... |
9495 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Fonda | Jane Fonda | Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist and former fashion model. She is the daughter of Henry Fonda, the sister of Peter Fonda and the aunt of Bridget Fonda, both of whom are actors. She won two Academy Awards. Fonda made instructional videos on exercise and aerob... |
9501 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician | Physician | A physician or medical doctor is a person who uses medicine to treat illness and injuries to improve a patient's health.
In most countries, the basic medical degree qualifies a person to treat patients and prescribe appropriate treatment, including drugs. A physician may also do the simplest kinds of surgery.
Trainin... |
9504 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy%20the%20Vampire%20Slayer | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American television series. It is about a girl who fought vampires and other monsters. It was written by Joss Whedon. He based it on the script that he wrote for a movie with the same title. The movie came out in 1992 and stars Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, Donald Sutherland, and Paul Reub... |
9505 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire | Vampire | Vampires are monsters in legends and stories. The first vampire stories were told in Eastern Europe, but much of how modern people see vampires was created by Bram Stoker in the famous novel, Dracula. Few people believe that vampires are real, but they are still very popular in movies, television, and books.
Vampires ... |
9509 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree | Degree | Degree generally means to have a level in something.
Degree can mean:
Academic degree awarded by a university to people who graduate from it
A degree is a unit of how we measure temperature
degree (angle) in geometry, 1/360th of a circle
degree (mathematics), the highest power of x occurring inside a polynomial |
9510 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20degree | Academic degree | An academic degree is a certification students get when they graduate from a university. It shows they successfully completed their classes, and passed a final examination.
It is an official credential. The length of courses, and the number of courses vary depending on which college is attended. In the U.S.A. high sch... |
9511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20school | High school | High school is a kind of school, a place where people go to learn skills for future jobs. In a three-part system such as in the United States, children go to high school after middle school ("junior high"). In a two-party system such as in the United Kingdom, the change is from primary school to secondary school at 11 ... |
9514 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20school | Public school | A public school means different things in different countries:
USA and Canada
In the United States and Canada, public schools are schools that are paid for by the government. They are open to all students who live nearby without any charge. They are usually paid for through property taxes that are applied to everyone... |
9517 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul | Seoul | Seoul () is the biggest city of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), and its capital. Its official name is Seoul Special City ( Seoul Teukbyeolsi). It has a population of 10 million which is about 1/5 of the Korean population and 1/7 of Korea peninsula, and covers an area of 610 km² that is only 0.6% of South Korea. It... |
9518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%208 | May 8 |
Events
Up to 1900
413 - Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River.
1654 - The Peace of Westminster ends the First Anglo-Dutch... |
9519 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%2025 | July 25 |
Events
Up to 1900
285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as his Roman co-ruler.
306 Constantine I is elected Emperor by his troops.
315 The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome.
864 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings
1261 The city of Constan... |
9523 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare%20state | Welfare state | A welfare state is where the government has a duty to provide some level of basic support for welfare of its citizens, including Social Security. In politics, conservatives are against welfare states.
Examples
The government provides scholarship to people who do not have as much as most other people in terms of educa... |
9524 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlete%20%28band%29 | Athlete (band) | Athlete are an English band from South London. Their second album is widely regarded as their breakthrough and they have released two singles so far from the album.
Discography
Albums
Vehicles and Animals – (April 7, 2003) #19 UK
Tourist – (January 31, 2005) #1 UK
Beyond the Neighbourhood – (September 3, 2007) #... |
9525 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20chemistry | Organic chemistry | Organic chemistry is the study of chemical compounds that contain carbon. Carbon has the ability to form a chemical bond with a wide variety of chemical elements and other carbon atoms. This allows a nearly unlimited number of combinations, called organic compounds. The subject of carbon compounds is called organic che... |
9526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton | Proton | A proton is part of an atom. They are found in the nucleus of an atom along with neutrons. The periodic table groups atoms according to how many protons they have. A single atom of hydrogen (the lightest kind of atom) is made up of an electron moving around a proton. Most of the mass of this atom is in the proton, whic... |
9529 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%2026 | July 26 |
Events
Up to 1900
615 K'inich Janaab' Pakal I, aged 12, is crowned ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque.
1309 Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor is recognised as King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 Wars of the Roses: Forces of Edward IV of England defeat those of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick in the ... |
9530 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%207 | April 7 |
Events
Up to 1900
451 - Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
1141 - Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England.
1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Cebu.
1655 - Fabio Chigi is elected to become Pope Alexand... |
9532 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%2016 | March 16 |
Events
Up to 1900
597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem and replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as King.
455 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martinus in Rome.
1190 – Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York.
1244 - Over 200 Cath... |
9533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1774 | 1774 |
Events
January 21 – Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid I.
May 10 – Louis XVI becomes King of France.
June 2 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
June 11 – Jews in Algi... |
9534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint%20Eastwood | Clint Eastwood | Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, movie director, producer, and composer.
Early life
Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California on May 31, 1930. He was nicknamed "Samson" by the hospital nurses as he weighed at birth. Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry. He was... |
9535 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti%20Western | Spaghetti Western | Spaghetti Westerns were a name given to low-budget Western movies, which were made by Italian movie companies in the 1960s. They were different from the American western movies, usually filmed in Italian, had limited budgets, filmed on location in Spain and Italy with minimal sets, and many close-ups and artistic shots... |
9536 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland | Disneyland | Disneyland Park is a theme park in Anaheim, California, United States. It is the first Disneyland. It was opened on July 17, 1955, by Walt Disney, the man who invented Mickey Mouse. It is one of the most popular theme parks in the world. Disneyland Park celebrated it or 66th, anniversary on July 17, 2021.
In 2001, the... |
9538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boroughs%20of%20Berlin | Boroughs of Berlin | The German capital Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs (German: Stadtteile/ Bezirke). The boroughs are called Bezirke in German. The 12 boroughs have political rights like a town community but they are not a legal city.
On January 1, 2001 there was a Berlin borough reform. The reform cut the number of Berlin's borou... |
9539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhuman | Superhuman | Superhuman means something that is beyond what people are naturally able to do. It is a word most used in fiction such as superhero comic books, but also sometimes in science fiction and fantasy movies and books.
Any character in books or movies that is much stronger than any real person, or can do things such as fly ... |
9550 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Madrid%20CF | Real Madrid CF | Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, sometimes known as Real Madrid, is a Spanish football club from Madrid, Spain. It was started in 1902 and competes in La Liga (the Spanish top league). The "Real" in the club's name is Spanish for "royal", because it was blessed by the King of Spain in 1920.
Real Madrid has won La Liga 34 ... |
9551 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1874 | 1874 |
Births
March 29 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
August 10 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
September 13 – Arnold Schoenberg
November 30 – Winston Churchill |
9552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot | Bigfoot | Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch is a creature in folklore. People say that they are primates living in remote areas of Canada and the United States, most commonly in the Pacific Northwest. Even though many people claim to have seen a Bigfoot, or seen their tracks, no one has ever captured one, or found a dead body. So, ... |
9557 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Da%20Vinci%20Code | The Da Vinci Code | The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 book by Dan Brown.
The book talks about a religious group called Opus Dei, a famous artist named Leonardo da Vinci, and some famous paintings he made called the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
According to Sharan Newman in The Real History behind the Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown based The Da Vi... |
9558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959 | 1959 | 1959 (MCMLIX) was .
Events
Fidel Castro becomes the President of Cuba.
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states of the United States.
February 3- American musicians, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash on their way to a concert, an event that would be known as The D... |
9559 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957 | 1957 | 1957 (MCMLVII) was .
Events
The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil
The Asian Flu pandemic begins in China
March 10 – Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient Indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
March 25 – Treaty of Rome
October 4 - Sputnik launc... |
9560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966 | 1966 | 1966 (MCMLXVI) was .
Events
January 3 – Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles songs "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out".
January 8 – Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who.
January 12 – Batman debuts on ABC (1966-1968).
February 23 – Television is first b... |
9563 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot | Peugeot | Peugeot is a French company. They make cars, vans, motorcycles and scooters in France.
Vehicles
Peugeot 605
The Peugeot 605 is the name of a car. This was a full-size car. It was made between 1989 and 1999 after the company stopped the production of Peugeot 505. After this, the company made a smaller car named Peug... |
9564 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Keynes | Milton Keynes | Milton Keynes is a very large town in Buckinghamshire, England. In 1967, the government decided to start a large new town with the idea that it would become a city of 250,000 people by the end of the twentieth century. The place where it was built already included three towns and sixteen villages, with about 45,000 p... |
9565 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais | Calais | Calais is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in north France. It is an important ferry port opposite Dover. The Channel Tunnel is also nearby. About 73,000 people live in Calais.
Communes in Pas-de-Calais
Port cities and towns of the North Sea
Subprefectures in France |
9567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%202 | December 2 |
Events
Up to 1950
1409 - The University of Leipzig opens.
1697 - The new St. Paul's Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren, opens.
1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse on the English coast is destroyed by fire.
1763 - Dedication of the Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island.
1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in ... |
9569 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Clockwork%20Orange | A Clockwork Orange | A Clockwork Orange is an English dystopian novella written by Anthony Burgess and published in 1962.
Through the exploits and experiences of the teenaged, charismatic but sociopathic, Alex, it explores mankind's violent nature. The novel is set in a not-so-distant future society with a culture of extreme youth rebelli... |
9571 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/False | False | False means untrue. If something is false, it means it is not real. A falsehood is anything said that is not true. A falsehood can also be a series of lies, told to "prove" something that is false itself.
In logic, "false" is one of the truth values (with the other one being 'true'). This is written as , F or 0.
Rela... |
9572 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20biology | Marine biology | Marine biology is the study of any living plant or animal in the sea. Marine biologists are the people who study it. Like other scientists, marine biologists must know a lot about the creatures they are studying. They also must understand how the sea works. The study of how the sea works is oceanography.
History
Durin... |
9574 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%20of%20Russia | President of Russia | The President of Russia is the head of state and head of the executive of the central government of Russia and the commander in chief of the Russian Armed Forces. The current president is Vladimir Putin. Boris Yeltsin was the first president of Russia, Vladimir Putin was second and fourth, and Dmitry Medvedev was the t... |
9575 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio%20Berlusconi | Silvio Berlusconi | Silvio Berlusconi (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician and businessman. He was Prime Minister of Italy from May 1994 to January 1995, June 2001 to May 2006, and May 2008 to November 2011. He was the first to become Prime Minister without first holding another office. He is the leader of a coalition named F... |
9576 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi | Burundi | Burundi (officially called the Republic of Burundi) is a small country in Africa. The capital of Burundi is Gitega. The official languages of Burundi are Kirundi French and English. There are about eight and a half million people in Burundi. Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world.
History
In 1962, Burun... |
9579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espoo | Espoo | Espoo () is the second largest city in Uusimaa, Finland. As of January 2014, more than 260,000 people lived in Espoo. Other municipalities near to it are Kauniainen, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Nurmijärvi, Vihti and the capital Helsinki.
Nature
There are several lakes in the northern parts of Espoo. Example Lippajärvi, Pitkä... |
9584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital | Hospital | A hospital is a place where a person goes to be healed when he or she is sick or injured. The difference between a hospital and other healthcare places like a clinic or a doctor's office is that a hospital will have beds where patients can stay overnight. These patients are called inpatients. The goal of inpatient trea... |
9585 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose | Nose | A nose is a body part which allows animals to smell things. The nose also helps animals breathe. It has parts that make it work and send messages to the brain. The nose's parts include smell receptors and nerve connectors to receptors. In humans, the nose is on the front of the face. The power of the nose varies for an... |
9586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love | Love | Love is a mix of feelings and actions that shows a deep liking for someone or something. Love involves caring for another. Romantic love can lead to things such as dating, marriage and sex, but a person can also feel for friends, such as platonic love, or family.
There are also chemical reactions within the brain that ... |
9589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Jackson | Michael Jackson | Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer, who was the most successful music artist of all time. He is referred to as the "King of Pop", the "Emperor of Pop", the "King of Music", or just "The King", and is extremely considered as the most influential and mo... |
9593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable | Portable | Something that is portable can be carried or easily moved. The word portable may also refer to:
Portable building, a manufactured building that is built off site and moved in upon completion of site and utility work
Portable classroom, a temporary building installed on the grounds of a school to provide additional c... |
9594 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20graphic%20design | History of graphic design | Graphics (from Greek ) are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone. It includes everything that relates to creation of signs, charts, logos, graphs, drawings, symbols, geometric designs and so on.
Graphic design is the art or profession of combining text and pictu... |
9595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography | Pornography | Pornography (or porn) is the name for writing, pictures, and films which feature sex for the sole or primary purpose of arousing people sexually, either to help them masturbate, or to prepare them for sex with a partner.
When the purpose of these works is not arousal, but for example education, or art, these works ... |
9596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudity | Nudity | Nudity (or nakedness) is when a person is not wearing clothes. The word "nudity" can also be used when only part of a person's body is uncovered. It is used particularly if the person's genitals (or a woman's nipples) can be seen, even if other parts of the body are covered.
Nudity can also mean that a person is weari... |
9597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom | Kingdom | A kingdom is a country with a king or queen. The type of government is a monarchy.
For example, the United Kingdom has a queen as head of state.
Monarchy |
9600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism | Protestantism | Protestantism is a form of Christian faith and practice. It began in northern Europe in the early 16th century. At that time, they were against some parts of Roman Catholicism. Together with Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, Protestantism became one of the three greatest forces in Christianity. Protestantism muc... |
9610 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers | Algiers | Algiers is the capital city of Algeria, which is a country in northern Africa. It is on the northern coast of the country. The population of the city is 1,519,570. After Algeria beacme independent from France, Algiers became a very important city for anti-colonial activists and revolutionaries from around the world.
N... |
9612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arles | Arles | Arles is a city in the south of France. It was built in the 6th century BC by the Greeks. Today more than 50,000 people live there. In the 1880s, the famous painters, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived there. Vincent van Gogh painted his famous Sunflowers in Arles.
The city is at the heart of the Camargue. Not ma... |
9617 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate | Certificate | A certificate is a document for authentication of something. It may be an award that can be given to people. The certificate can be given to people for graduation, for good working skills, or to thank someone who has done good things. They are usually tied to an occupation, technology, or industry. Certifications are u... |
9619 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily%20Mail | Daily Mail | The Daily Mail is a large, well-known newspaper. It started in 1896. It is published every weekday and Saturday from a factory in London, England. It is not printed on Sundays. Its sister paper, the Mail on Sunday, is printed instead.
It is the second-most sold newspaper in the United Kingdom. It sells more than a mil... |
9624 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland-Palatinate | Rhineland-Palatinate | Rhineland-Palatinate (, Rhine Franconian: Rhoilond-Palz) is one of 16 states () of Germany. It has an area of and 4.073 million people living in it. The capital is Mainz.
History
Rhineland-Palatinate was created on 30 August 1947. It was formed from the northern part of the French Occupation Zone (the Rhenish Palati... |
9625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine%20River | Rhine River | The Rhine River (, , ) is long. The Rhine is the second longest river in Europe. Its name comes from the Celtic word "renos", which means 'raging flow'.
The Rhine is an important waterway. can be used by ships, and boats can go to the Black Sea using the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. Many goods are transported over the R... |
9626 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber%20baron | Robber baron | The term robber baron was first used in the 12th and 13th centuries to describe rich men who lived in large castles along major transportation rivers, like the Rhine in Europe. They would send ships out onto these rivers to stop anybody who was traveling through who did not know better and collect a tax from them on an... |
9627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winery | Winery | A winery is a place or business that makes wine.
Related pages
Vineyard
Wine |
9642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar | Sugar | Sugar is the common name for a number of chemical substances, some of which have a sweet taste. Mostly, it refers to either sucrose, lactose, or fructose. Sugar is contained in certain kinds of food, or it is added to give a sweet taste.
Regular sugar extracted from sugarcane or sugar beet (the one commonly added to f... |
9645 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury | Canterbury | Canterbury is a city in Kent, England. It is about from London. It was made famous by a book called The Canterbury Tales. It is also famous for Canterbury Cathedral. Thomas Becket was assassinated by knights who came from Sandlings.
Transportation
There are two railway stations in the city; Canterbury East and Canter... |
9650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddersfield | Huddersfield | Huddersfield is a large town in the Metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It was famous for its cloth industry, and where Rugby League football started.
Huddersfield was the birthplace for the Labour Party prime minister, Harold Wilson. It is also known for its football team, who were the first ... |
9652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank%20dog | Anti-tank dog | Anti-tank dogs were dogs with explosives placed on their backs. These dogs were trained to run under enemy tanks. The explosives were then remotely detonated in order to destroy the target tank.
These dogs were trained by the Soviet Union during World War II to be used against German armored vehicles. They were traine... |
9659 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%202 | October 2 |
Events
Up to 1900
829 Theophilus becomes Byzantine Emperor.
1187 Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1263 The Battle of Largs is fought between Scots and Norwegians.
1535 Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
1552 Conquest of Kazan by Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
1780 Am... |
9661 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%202 | January 2 |
Events
Up to 1900
366 – Many Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine, invading the Roman Empire.
533 – Mercurius became Pope John II. He was the first pope to use a papal name.
1492 – Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
1757 – The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
1777 – Amer... |
9662 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%205 | January 5 |
Events
Up to 1900
1066 – Edward the Confessor, King of England, dies. The resulting crisis leads to the Norman conquest of England later the same year.
1463 – Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.
1500 – Duke Ludovico Sfor... |
9669 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%206 | January 6 | Since 2021, the terms January 6, January 6th, and 1/6 have been used in the media as a shorthand for the 2021 United States Capitol riots, which occurred on that day
Events
Up to 1900
1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
1118 – Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
1311 – Henry VII, H... |
9670 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%207 | January 7 | For Orthodox Christians, this is when Christmas is celebrated.
Events
Up to 1900
1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1350 - Guttorm Palsson, Bishop of Stavanger in Norway, dies, as the last known death from Europe's 1347-1350 plague epidemic.
1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of ... |
9675 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeglasses | Eyeglasses | Eyeglasses (U.S), or spectacles (Brit.), are pieces of glass or clear plastic, called lenses, in a frame that holds them in front of someone's eyes.
Corrective lenses let some people see or read better if they have problems seeing. If the someone is long-sighted (the light is focusses past the retina), they use a diff... |
9676 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa | Goa | Goa (गोवा) is a state in the Republic of India. It is India's smallest state. It has the second smallest number of people. The total area is 1,430 mi² (3,702 km²), it is bigger than Samoa but smaller than the Georgian territory of South Ossetia. In traditional Indian geography it falls under the South Indian zone. It i... |
9679 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20language | Second language | A second language is a language that a person learns in addition to their first language. A second language may be learned in a formal or informal way, such as at school or in a family. A person may speak two or more second languages.
Adults do not learn languages the same way that children do. Learning a second lang... |
9680 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ido | Ido | Ido is a constructed language, a so-called reformed Esperanto, which was developed in 1907. Ido was made by a group of people that thought Esperanto was too hard to be a world language. They did not like how Esperanto used letters with special diacritic marks over them, because that made it hard to type, and they thoug... |
9683 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Solana | Javier Solana | Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga (born July 14, 1942 in Madrid) is a Spanish physicist, politician and diplomat.
He is the former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and also the former European Union foreign policy chief.
Solana was studying in both the United Kingdom and the Unit... |
9686 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph | Paragraph | A paragraph is a collection of words strung together to make a longer unit than a sentence. Several sentences often make to a paragraph. There are normally three to eight sentences in a paragraph. Paragraphs can start with a five-space indentation or by skipping a line and then starting over. This makes it simpler to t... |
9687 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansing%2C%20Michigan | Lansing, Michigan | Lansing is the capital city of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is about 1 to 2 hours west of Detroit. It is in the center of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
The landscape is flat. There is a lot of agriculture.
Notes
References
Other websites
State capitals in the United States
1835 establishments in Michigan Te... |
9690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody | Parody | A parody is a special piece of art.
Parodies make fun of another piece of art by mocking it.
The parody is an imitation of the original, but exaggerating it, showing clichés which have been used, to make the original look ridiculous or to make a comment about an issue affecting society.
For example, in a serious Wes... |
9691 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact | Fact | A fact is a statement that is real or true, or a thing that can be shown to be real or true. That is its core meaning, though the word has a long history, and has been used in many ways.
A fact is something that has really happened or is actually the case. The usual test for a statement of fact is whether it can be s... |
9693 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim | Victim | Victim is a term used for a person who suffers adverse circumstances, often in relation to having a crime committed against them. If someone is robbed, he or she is the victim. If someone is killed, that person is the victim. The person who committed the crime is the culprit.
Victim blaming is saying that it is the fau... |
9695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culprit | Culprit | A culprit is a person who commits a crime. If someone robs a person, the robber is the culprit, while the person who was robbed is the victim.
law |
9697 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot%20put | Shot put | Shot put is an athletics sport where people try to "put" a heavy weighted ball as far as they can. They are not allowed to throw it, but instead they push the ball out into the air. They "put" the ball by holding it at their neck and pushing it through the air. The shot put has been part of the Olympics since 1896. Th... |
9698 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic | Magic | Magic can mean:
Magic (illusion), tricks that fool people into thinking they see something they really did not see
"Magic" (Pilot song), a song by the Scottish band Pilot
Apotropaic magic, protection against harmful influences
Black magic
Magic: The Gathering, a collectible card game
Witchcraft, the action of using ma... |
9699 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiking | Hitchhiking | Hitchhiking is a way to end travel from place to place in someone else's car or lorry. Usually, a hitchhiker (a person who hitchhikes) will stand at the side of a road and hold his or her thumb in the air waiting for a passerby to come and pick her or him up. This is a sign that he or she wants to go somewhere else.
I... |
9700 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl | Owl | Owls are birds in the order Strigiformes. There are 200 species, and they are all animals of prey. Most of them are solitary and nocturnal; in fact, they are the only large group of birds which hunt at night. Owls are specialists night-time hunters. They feed on small mammals such as rodents, insects, and other birds, ... |
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