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127719 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20Bill | Portland Bill | Portland Bill is a peninsula off the south coast of England. It has strong tidal currents. The nearby town of Weymouth is a sailing venue for London 2012.
Geography of England |
127727 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN | CERN | CERN is a research institute near Geneva, Switzerland. The full name is Organisation Européene pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research). The letters "CERN" are left over from the older Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research). CERN was founded... |
127768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onager | Onager | The Onager (Equus hemionus) is a large mammal belonging to the Equidae family. It is native to the deserts of Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Kashmir, Israel and Palestine, and western China. It is sometimes known as the Asian Wild Ass.
Equids
Mammals of Asia
Mammals of Pakistan
Plants and animals of Kashmir |
127769 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantropical%20spotted%20dolphin | Pantropical spotted dolphin | The pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) is an oceanic dolphin. It is found in all the world's temperate and tropical oceans. The species was beginning to come under threat due to the killing of millions of individuals in tuna purse seines (fishing). The 1980s saw the rise of "dolphin-friendly" tuna capture... |
127770 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20whale | Pilot whale | Pilot whales are two species of oceanic dolphins, whose scientific name is Globicephala. The two types of pilot whales are the long-finned pilot whale and the short-finned pilot whale. Their behaviour resembles that of the larger whales more than that of dolphins.
The two look similar at sea and are usually just know... |
127772 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy%20killer%20whale | Pygmy killer whale | The Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata) is a mammal of the oceanic dolphin family. It is small, and rarely seen. Its name is because it shares some features with the Killer Whale. They are not closely related.
Description
The pygmy killer is an average-sized dolphin. It may easily be confused at sea with other spe... |
127775 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian%20Jird | Persian Jird | The Persian jird (Meriones persicus) is a species of rodent in the Muridae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.
The Persian jird is about 6 inches long. It has a brush-tipped tail that is slightly longer than the body. They are wild brown with white... |
127777 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo | Didgeridoo | The didgeridoo (sometimes didjeridu) is an Australian Aboriginal wind musical instrument. They were used by the Yolgnu people of Arnhem Land. They can be quite long, anywhere from long. Most are around long. The longer the instrument, the lower the pitch or key of the instrument. They are a hollow wooden tube, whic... |
127781 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20LaFontaine | Don LaFontaine | Donald LaFontaine (August 26, 1940 – September 1, 2008) was an American voice actor. He had a deep voice. He recorded many movie trailers and television advertisements. He used the well known phrase "in a world...", which has been used in movie trailers many times.
Other websites
Official site
2008 Interview on Worl... |
127783 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungie%20Studios | Bungie Studios | Bungie Studios is an American video game developer. They are most famous for developing the award winning Halo series of video games. They also made Destiny. The studio was founded in May 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation by two students of the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian (Eng.) rus. and... |
127791 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower | Flamethrower | A flamethrower is a device used to shoot fire. They have been used by the military since the days of Greek fire. Most modern military flamethrowers project flaming liquids.
Flamethrowers became rare in the 19th century, due to improvements in other weapons. Trench warfare made them more useful again, and the German ... |
127793 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holster | Holster | A holster is a type of clothing. It is like an extra pocket worn to hold something where it can quickly be taken out for use. Holsters have long been used to hold a firearm, especially a pistol. At the end of the 20th century many people started carrying a mobile phone in a holster.
Accessories |
127794 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confetti | Confetti | Confetti is a lot of small pieces of paper or other material that is thrown into the air at a celebration such as party or a wedding.
In some places, the use of confetti is banned due to health problems of people or animals, or due to the work needed to clean up the confetti afterward.
Confetti comes in a variety of ... |
127810 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanis%20Morissette%3A%20The%20Collection | Alanis Morissette: The Collection | Alanis Morissette: The Collection is the greatest hits compilation album by Alanis Morissette, released in the United States on 15 November 2005.
Track listing
"Thank You" (Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard)
"Head over Feet" (Ballard, Morissette)
"8 Easy Steps" (Morissette)
"Everything" (Morissette)
"Crazy" (Seal, Guy S... |
127816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poales | Poales | Poales is a taxonomic order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons. The order includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges.
The earliest fossils attributed to the Poales date to the late Cretaceous period about million years ago, though some suggest the origin of the group may be 115 mil... |
127817 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae | Poaceae | Poaceae or Gramineae are the "true" grasses. They are a large family of monocot flowering plants. There are about 12,000 species and 780 genera. They are one of most ecologically and economically important of all plant families. Rushes, and sedges fall outside this family, but they are related.
Grasslands are about 20... |
127827 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric%20Flair | Ric Flair | Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949, in Memphis, Tennessee) better known by his ring name, Ric Flair, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler that is currently signed to WWE.
He wrestled for 36 years. His last WWE match was against Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XXIV. He is a two time WWE Hall of Fam... |
127832 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20McCool | Michelle McCool | Michelle McCool (born January 25, 1980) is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for working with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where she competed on its SmackDown! brand. McCool was the first ever WWE Diva's Champion. She is married to fellow professional wrestler Mark Calaway who is better known ... |
127835 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Union%20of%20Pure%20and%20Applied%20Chemistry | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry | The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is an international organisation that represents chemists in individual countries. It governs everything to do with chemicals, elements and new discoveries. Every chemical known has a common name and a IUPAC name. This is also true for the Periodic Table of ... |
127837 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medes | Medes | The Medes were one of the ancestors of Kurdish people who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea They entered this region with the first wave of Iranian tribes, in the late second millennium BC (at the end of the Bronze Age).
By the 6th century BC, the Me... |
127851 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mombasa | Mombasa | {{Infobox settlement
| name = Mombasa, Kenya
| official_name = City and County of Mombasa
| settlement_type = Consolidated city-county
| image_skyline = Mombasa montage.png
| image_caption = Montage of the city of Mombasa
|... |
127852 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headshot | Headshot | A headshot (or head shot) is a photograph of a person's face. It is a form of portraiture. The purpose of a headshot is to show the subject's personality, or character. Headshots are used in the modelling and acting businesses and is vital to the careers of many business and sales executives who use them on business ca... |
127853 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium%20Alpenstrasse%20Biel | Gymnasium Alpenstrasse Biel | Gymnasium Alpenstrasse Biel / Gymnase de la Rue des Alpes de Bienne is a high school in Biel in Switzerland. There are three local high schools and the Gymnasium Alpenstrasse / Gymnase de la Rue des Alpes is one of them. It is the only bilingual (Swiss-German and French) high school in the Canton of Berne. There are ab... |
127856 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mede%2C%20Lombardy | Mede, Lombardy | Mede is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy. It is located about 50 km southwest of Milan and about 35 km southwest of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,993 and an area of 33.2 km².
Mede borders the following municipalities: Frascarolo, Gambarana, Lomel... |
127857 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploidy | Ploidy | Ploidy is a term from genetics and cell biology. It is used to indicate the number of chromosome sets in a cell. Most eukaryotes have either one set (called haploid) or two sets (called diploid). Some other organisms are polyploid, they have more than two sets of chromosomes. Some amphibians are triploid, with three se... |
127863 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhesus%20macaque | Rhesus macaque | The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), often called the rhesus monkey and Indian monkey, is one of the best known species of Old World monkeys.
It lives in a wide area, and has an unknown but quite large population. It lives in a broad range of habitats. Native to South, Central and Southeast Asia, troops of Macaca mul... |
127864 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risso%27s%20dolphin | Risso's dolphin | The Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) is the only species of dolphin in the genus Grampus.
Oceanic dolphins |
127865 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreplay | Foreplay | Foreplay is the name for a number of things people do before they have sex. These things do not need to be directly related to having sex. Rather, they are done to sexually arouse people, to make them want each other more, Examples of things that can be used in foreplay differ among people, Most people prefer simple th... |
127867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20%281996%20movie%29 | Army (1996 movie) | Army is a 1996 Hindi movie. It was directed by Raam Shetty. The movie stars Shahrukh Khan and Sridevi in the lead role.
Plot
Arjun and Geeta are a young couple, who are deeply in love with each other. They get married, and soon have a child. Arjun gets in trouble with a well known gangster named Nagraj, and is killed... |
127892 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Radio%205%20Live | BBC Radio 5 Live | BBC Radio 5 Live (formerly BBC Radio Five Live) is the BBC's radio station that gives live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports news. It is the main radio station for sport in the United Kingdom, covering nearly all big sports events in the UK or with British competitors in, including the Olympics and the football World Cup... |
127896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattenom%20power%20plant | Cattenom power plant | Cattenom Power Plant is a nuclear power plant. It is near Metz, Grand Est, France. It has four pressurized water reactors. Each has a capacity of 1300 megawatts. In 2006, it produced the third most electrictity of all power plants in France, behind that of Gravelines Nuclear Power Plant (near Calais) and Plaluel (near ... |
127905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough-toothed%20dolphin | Rough-toothed dolphin | The Rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) is a fairly large oceanic dolphin. It can be found in deep warm and tropical waters around the world.
Oceanic dolphins
eo:Steno |
127906 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinner%20dolphin | Spinner dolphin | The spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a small oceanic dolphin. It is found in off-shore tropical waters around the world. It is famous for its acrobatic displays in which they will spin longitudinally along their axis as they leap through the air.
Oceanic dolphins |
127907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped%20dolphin | Striped dolphin | The striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) is an oceanic dolphin. They live in temperate and tropical waters of all the world's oceans.
Oceanic dolphins |
127921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/And%20did%20those%20feet%20in%20ancient%20time | And did those feet in ancient time | "And did those feet in ancient time" is a short poem by William Blake. It comes in the introduction to a long poem called Milton: a Poem (1804). Today it is best known as the hymn Jerusalem, sung to music written by C. Hubert H. Parry in 1916, more than a century after Blake had written the poem.
The words of the ... |
127925 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert%20Parry | Hubert Parry | Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (born Bournemouth, 27 February 1848; died Rustington, near Worthing, Sussex, 7 October 1918) was an English composer. His music influenced other English composers such as Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Parry wrote a great deal of music, but by far the best known piece he w... |
127926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli | Gimli | Gimli can mean:
Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, a rural municipality in Manitoba
Gimli (electoral district), a provincial riding (or electoral district) in Manitoba, Canada
Gimli Glider, nickname of an aircraft involved in a fuel exhaustion incident
Gimli son of Glóin, a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings |
127942 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistaPE | VistaPE | VistaPE is a is a project (set of scripts) for WinBuilder to create a Live CD based on the kernel of Windows Vista.
VistaPE uses technology and is similar to WinPE 2.0 (from Microsoft), but has a graphical interface, more support for devices and functions, and can run almost any Windows program.
Features
Possibility... |
127954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20of%20GNOME | Eye of GNOME | Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers, Eye of GNOME will only view images. It does, however, provide basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, fullscreen, rotation, and transparent image background control.
File formats
Eye of GNOME su... |
127955 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiga | Ekiga | Ekiga (formerly called GnomeMeeting) is a free and open source VoIP and video conferencing computer application for GNOME and Windows. Ekiga supports both the SIP and H.323 (based on OpenH323) protocols and is fully interoperable with any other SIP compliant application and with Microsoft NetMeeting. It supports many h... |
127957 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Laptop%20Per%20Child | One Laptop Per Child | One Laptop Per Child is an organization founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a non-profit organisation. It wants to make cheap laptops so that children in less rich countries without as much technology can also use a computer to learn. The laptop is called an XO. It has an operating system calle... |
127960 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvaceae | Malvaceae | Malvaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 1000 species in 75 genera. They are found in tropical and temperate regions. They are not found very often in places such as Antarctica because those places are too cold for Malvaceae plants.
Okra is one example it is called lady’s finger or gumbo |
127961 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araceae | Araceae | Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a 'spathe' or leaf-like bract.
Also known as the Arum family, members are often colloquially known as aroid. This ... |
127970 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openair%20Frauenfeld | Openair Frauenfeld | Openair Frauenfeld is an annual Hip Hop music festival that takes place in Frauenfeld and is considered to be the largest Openair festival in Switzerland and the largest Hip Hop music festival in Europe. It was created in 1985 and has now taken place for 14 times. The event was originally hosted under the name Out in t... |
127972 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20SA | Omega SA | Omega SA is Swiss watch manufacturer. It belongs to the Swatch Group of companies. It is in Biel-Bienne (Switzerland). Omega SA produces watches of a high standard. It was founded in 1848 by Louis Brandt in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). There are many famous people that promote Omega SA including Michael Schuhmacher... |
127973 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierh%C3%BCbeli | Bierhübeli | Bierhübeli-oder auch Sahli genannt is the name of a concert hall in the center of Berne, Switzerland. Many famous artists from all around the world have played there including Sugarhill Gang, Adam Green, Sportfreunde Stiller, Wir sind Helden, Joy Denalane and Bad Religion.
History
From 1729 there has been a restaurant... |
127974 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakan%20Yakin | Hakan Yakin | Hakan Yakin () (born 22 February 1977 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss football player of Turkish origin. He is the brother of Murat Yakin and half-brother of former Swiss football professional Ertan Irizik.
Yakin's biggest success was the winning of the Swiss Super League and the Swiss Cup with the Basel in 2002. Wi... |
127975 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyss | Lyss | Lyss is a municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland. It has a population of 11,000 people. About 84% of these people are Swiss German. Politically, Lyss can be called a city. The name "Lyss" comes from the local river Lyssbach.
On 1 January 2011, the old municipality ... |
127976 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globi | Globi | Globi is a Swiss cartoon character. He is often called the Swiss Mickey Mouse. Globi is one of the most famous cartoon figures in the Swiss-German part of Switzerland. It was created in 1932 by the Globus department store chain for advertising. It is a blue human-like parrot with a black beret and trousers in black and... |
127980 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20Coming | Second Coming | In Christianity, the Second Coming is a time when Jesus Christ will come back to earth. The Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed state that "Christ will come again". This coming is to judge the living and the dead. Throughout history, there have been different ideas about the details of this event. These disagreements... |
127981 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beret | Beret | A beret is a soft, round type of hat. They are similar to caps, but without the peak at the front. Berets are usually made of felt or a similar material. Berets are often worn in France.
Berets are worn as part of the uniform of many military and police units across the world. Many other organizations also wear be... |
127988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premature%20birth | Premature birth | Premature birth is when a baby is born before the normal end of pregnancy. In humans, a pregnancy normally lasts for about nine months. On average, a pregnancy lasts for 266 days.
Babies who are born before 37 complete weeks of pregnancy (calculated from the last menstrual period) are said to be premature. In the Unit... |
127990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclave | Autoclave | An autoclave is a device that uses pressure to heat aqueous solutions above their boiling point. It is done to kill microbiological organisms, called sterilization. The autoclave was invented by Charles Chamberland in 1879.
Laboratory equipment |
127992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20O%27Neill | Martin O'Neill | Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill, OBE (b. 1 March 1952) is an Northern Irish football manager. He is currently the manager of Sunderland F.C., and has previously managed Celtic F.C.. and Aston Villa F.C. O'Neill was born in Kilrea, Northern Ireland.
References
1952 births
Living people
Northern Irish footballers
Northern ... |
127996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Duffy | Jim Duffy | James Duffy (born 27 April 1959) is a former Scottish football player and manager.
1959 births
Living people
Scottish football managers
Scottish footballers |
127999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine%20replacement%20therapy | Nicotine replacement therapy | The nicotine in cigarettes and other tobacco products makes people dependent. When they quit, they will get withdrawal symptoms. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is there to reduce the dependency symptoms. This is usually done by delivering nicotine (or a substance very similar to it) in other ways. Common methods in... |
128006 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20California%2C%20Berkeley | University of California, Berkeley | The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major university in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range ... |
128007 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata | Metadata | Metadata (also Meta data) is data about data, that is information about other information. This is often useful. Libraries usually group books by subject and keep a catalog of the books. In that context the metadata in the catalog include various pieces of information including the author and the subject it is classifi... |
128008 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure%20rate | Failure rate | Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails. Usually it is expressed in a number of failures per time period, like failures per hour. It is often written as the Greek letter λ (lambda) and is important in reliability theory. In practice, the closely related Mean Time Between Failure... |
128010 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write | Copy-on-write | Copy-on-write (COW) is a means of optimisation in Computer Science. When several callers ask for the same resource, they can all be given a pointer to the same address. Only when they try to change the resource does a local copy need to be made. This happens without the caller noticing. It is done so that all the other... |
128017 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20Anywhere%20File%20Layout | Write Anywhere File Layout | Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) is a file system. It was developed with large RAID arrays in mind. After a failure, the RAID array can be directly restarted. Other features like making the filesystem bigger without taking it offline are also supported.
Software |
128020 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan%20blue%20bear | Tibetan blue bear | The Tibetan bear or Tibetan blue bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus) is a subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos). It is found in the eastern Tibetan Plateau.(In the Himalayas).
Ursidaes
Mammals of Pakistan
Plants and animals of Kashmir |
128021 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan%20red%20deer | Tibetan red deer | The Tibetan red deer (Cervus affinis affinis or Cervus affinis wallichi), also known as shou, is a subspecies of Central Asian Red Deer that is native to the Tibetan highlands of Central Asia.
Deer
Mammals of Pakistan
Plants and animals of Kashmir
Mammals of Asia |
128022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20goat | Wild goat | The wild goat (Capra aegagrus) is a mammal of the Caprinae subfamily.
The wild goat is a widespread species, with a distribution ranging from Europe and Asia Minor to central Asia and the Middle East.
The wild goat is an ancestor of the domestic goat.
Wild goats do not rely on humans for shelter, food or medical care
... |
128023 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic%20wildcat | Asiatic wildcat | The Asiatic wildcat (Felis silvestris ornata) is also known as the Asian Steppe wildcat or Indian Desert cat. It is a subspecies of the Wildcat.
It lives mainly in the Thar Desert, and the Rann of Kutch in India and Pakistan. It is about the size of a domestic cat, with a pale yellowish body marked with black spots.
... |
128024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly%20Flying%20Squirrel | Woolly Flying Squirrel | The woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus) is a squirrel. It is the only species of the genus Eupetaurus.
Until recently scientific knowledge of this rare species was limited to 11 skins collected in the late nineteenth century. However, recent research has confirmed that it is still extant in Pakistan-administ... |
128026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20yak | Wild yak | The wild yak (Bos mutus) is a large wild bovid native to the Himalayas in Central Asia. It is the ancestor of the domestic yak (Bos grunniens).
Most yaks are domestic, which means they live on farms run by people. There are a few wild yak but there are not many left and are in danger of extinction. There may be as fe... |
128027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/STV%20%28TV%20channel%29 | STV (TV channel) | STV is a free television channel in Scotland. It is part of the ITV network. It is one of the five main channels in Northern and Central Scotland. It started in 2006, when the old Grampian Television (Northern Scotland) and Scottish Television (Central Scotland) were merged. STV has the channel 3 licence in these areas... |
128029 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotsport | Scotsport | Scotsport is a television programme on STV in Scotland. It covers the results of football in Scottish games.
Football in Scotland
English-language television programs |
128030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Scotland | BBC Scotland | BBC Scotland is a part of the BBC in Scotland. It operates the television and radio channels in Scotland.
Related pages
BBC Radio Scotland
BBC |
128032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Radio%20Scotland | BBC Radio Scotland | BBC Radio Scotland is BBC Scotland's national English language radio network. It broadcasts a wide variety of programming including news, sport, music, the arts, comedy, drama, history and lifestyle. It replaced the Scottish opt-out part of BBC Radio 4 in November 1978.
History
BBC Radio Scotland was founded as a ful... |
128034 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily%20Record | Daily Record | The Daily Record is a Scottish newspaper printed in Glasgow. For many years, it had been the best-selling daily paper in Scotland, with average sales of 363,411 as of April 2008.
References
Newspapers published in the United Kingdom |
128035 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily%20Mirror | Daily Mirror | The Daily Mirror is a British newspaper. It was founded on 2 November 1903.
History
20th century
The Daily Mirror was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women. Hence the name: he said, "I intend it to be really a mirror of feminine life as well o... |
128038 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiga | Boiga | Boiga is a large genus of mildly venomous, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes typically known as the cat-eyed snakes or just cat snakes.
Species
Boiga andamanensis (Wall, 1909) - Andaman Cat Snake
Boiga angulata (Peters, 1861) - Leyte Cat Snake
Boiga barnesii (Günther, 1869)
Boiga beddomei (Wall, 1909) - Beddome's Cat Snake... |
128039 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungarus | Bungarus | Bungarus is a genus of elapid snakes. They are commonly known as kraits. Kraits are venomous. They are found in India and South-East Asia.
Reptiles of Pakistan |
128040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Krait | Common Krait | The Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus) is a type of snake that is found in the jungles of India. This snake is a very poisonous. It is one of the "big four" snakes in India.
Reptiles of Pakistan |
128041 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daboia | Daboia | Daboia is a monotypic genus of Old World venomous vipers. This genus was made for the species "Daboia Russelii", also known as the "Russell's Viper". It was named after Patrick Russell (1726-1805). Patrick Russell was a Scottish
herpetologist, who studied many Indian snakes. The name, Daboia, is a Hindi (the main langu... |
128042 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoclemys%20hamiltonii | Geoclemys hamiltonii | Black Pond turtle or Spotted Pond turtle Geoclemys hamiltonii is a species of turtle found in South Asia.
Sources
Reptiles of Pakistan |
128045 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomicity | Atomicity | Modern database systems are governed by things about transactions called the ACID principle. In that context, several operations can be grouped into what is called a transaction. From the outside, there are two points in time: before the transaction, and after the transaction. If one operation of this transaction fails... |
128055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon%20error%20correction | Reed–Solomon error correction | Reed-Solomon error correction is a forward error correction code. It works by oversampling a polynomial constructed from the data. The polynomial is evaluated at several points, and these values are sent or recorded. Sampling the polynomial more often than is necessary makes the polynomial over-determined. As long as ... |
128059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Parted | GNU Parted | GNU Parted is a free computer program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking, and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising hard disk usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging. It was written by Andrew Clausen and Len... |
128077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum%20%28album%29 | Continuum (album) | Continuum is the 3rd studio album by rock musician John Mayer. The album was released in September 2006. The album holds singles by John Mayer like "Waiting on the World to Change", "Gravity", and "Belief".
Album
The album features mainly new songs, though "Gravity" and "Vultures" are available in live versions from ... |
128080 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chir%20Pine | Chir Pine | The Chir Pine (Pinus roxburghii) named after William Roxburgh, is a pine native to the Himalaya. It has little green needle type leaves.
Plants of Pakistan
Plants and animals of Kashmir |
128081 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus%20villosa | Ulmus villosa | Ulmus villosa (Brandis ex Gamble, the Cherry-bark Elm) is one of the more distinctive Asiatic elms. It can live a long time.
Plants of Asia |
128088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers | Transformers | Transformers are make-believe robots that are made by a toy company named Hasbro. In the story, they come from a planet called Cybertron. There are two main types of Transformers. These are the Autobots, the good guys, and the Decepticons, the bad guys. The leader of the Autobots is named Optimus Prime, and the leader ... |
128090 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin | Hoatzin | The hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) is a tropical bird found in swamps, river forests, and mangroves of the Amazon and the Orinoco delta in South America.
They are the only bird which eats leaves as a main part of their diet. Their gut has special adaptations which help their digestion.
The hoatzin is also notable for ... |
128102 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman%20Peninsula | Tasman Peninsula | Tasman Peninsula is 75 km by road south-east of Hobart, at the south east corner of Tasmania, Australia.
Location
Tasman Peninsula is south and west of Forestier Peninsula. It is connected by a very narrow piece of land (isthmus) called Eaglehawk Neck. The Forestier Peninsula is joined to the rest of Tasmania by an i... |
128107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-player%20character | Non-player character | A non-player character (or an NPC) is a character played by a computer in a video game. NPCs are in many video games and help the player learn how to play the game or guide the player through the game.
Video game characters
Role-playing games |
128111 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking%20Dawn | Breaking Dawn | Breaking Dawn is the fourth and last novel in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. The novel is divided into three sections called 'books'. The story in Book One and Book Three is told from the perspective of Bella Swan. Book Two is from the perspective of Jacob Black, Bella's werewolf friend. Breaking Dawn was rele... |
128118 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayne%20Ward | Shayne Ward | Shayne Ward (16 October 1984) is an English singer. He was born in Clayton, Greater Manchester. He won the 2005 UK series of television programme The X Factor. He has released three studio albums.
Other websites
English pop musicians
English singers
Musicians from Manchester
The X Factor contestants
1984 births
Livi... |
128127 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20X%20Factor%20%28UK%29 | The X Factor (UK) | The X Factor is a British television programme, in which ordinary people who want to be singers compete for a recording contract and a cash prize. It is shown from August-December each year on Saturdays and Sundays on the channel ITV. It replaced Pop Idol by Simon Cowell in 2004.
Hosts
The show started being presented... |
128128 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl%20%28singer%29 | Cheryl (singer) | Cheryl Ann Tweedy (born 30 June 1983) is an English singer and dancer.
Career
Girls Aloud
In 2002, Cole auditioned for music reality show Popstars: The Rivals. She and four other girls, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh, and Nadine Coyle won the competition. They formed a group called Girls Aloud on 30 ... |
128131 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannii%20Minogue | Dannii Minogue | Dannii Minogue (born 20 October 1971) is an Australian pop singer, actress, presenter and model. She was a judge on the British television programme The X Factor from 2007 to 2010. She was born Danielle Jane Minogue in Melbourne on 20 October 1971 to a Welsh immigrant mother and Irish-Australian father. Her sister is s... |
128136 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side%20project | Side project | In music, a side project is a musical project by one or more people who are already famous for their work in another band. The term "side project" can also be used when a musician changes their style. Side projects usually happen so that a musician can do music that they would not normally do as part of the band.
Musi... |
128137 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Cash | Martin Cash | Martin Cash (baptised 10 October 1808 – 26 August 1877) was a famous Australian bushranger. He was one of the few people who escaped from the prison at Port Arthur, Tasmania. In 1870 he wrote a book (autobiography) about his life.
Early life
Cash was born at Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland. As a boy he worked on ... |
128139 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga%20Prefecture | Saga Prefecture | is a prefecture of Japan in the Kyūshū region of Japan on the island of Kyūshū. The capital city is Saga.
History
The area of Nagasaki Prefecture and Saga Prefecture was formerly called Hizen Province. The current name dates from the Meiji Restoration.
In the Edo period this area was called the .
Seven Wise Men of S... |
128140 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%20Is%20This%3F | What Is This? | What Is This? was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band started in 1977 with two friends from Fairfax High School, Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons, who formed a band called Anthym. Flea joined the band as bass player, before leaving to go to college. Flea and another school friend, Anthony Kiedis, asked Slova... |
128146 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20World%20Financial%20Center | Shanghai World Financial Center | The Shanghai World Financial Center is a high skyscraper in Shanghai, China. It has 101 storeys and is currently the third tallest building in the world, because Burj Khalifa is the tallest. Inside the building, there are offices, hotels and shopping malls.
This building's roof is actually higher than Taipei 101's ro... |
128147 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20mamba | Black mamba | The black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) belongs to the Elapidae family of snakes. It is the second largest venomous snake in the world. An adult black mamba can grow up to in length. The black mamba's skin is not actually black, it gets its name from the colour of the roof of its mouth.
The black mamba lives in the ... |
128149 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber | Cucumber | The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely grown plant in the family Cucurbitaceae. This family also includes squash. A cucumber looks similar to a zucchini (British English: courgette).
To a botanist, cucumbers are biologically fruits even if they are commonly considered vegetables: that is their value as a food. Th... |
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