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10108 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2019 | December 19 |
Events
Up to 1900
324 โ Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
1154 - Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1187 โ Pope Clement III is elected.
1490 - Anne, Duchess of Brittany marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1666 - Lund University in southern Sweden is founded.
1732 โ B... |
10109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2026 | December 26 |
Events
Up to 1900
795 - Pope Leo III is elected.
838 - A North Sea flood affecting Friesland kills around 2,500 people.
1135 - Stephen of England is crowned King.
1481 โ Battle of Westbroek โ Holland defeats troops of Utrecht
1606 โ King Lear performed in the Court of England
1620 โ Elizabeth Bรกthory's crimes... |
10110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2020 | December 20 |
Events
Up to 1950
69 - Vespasian enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.
1192 - Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria.
1522 โ Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and... |
10111 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%2028 | December 28 |
Events
Up to 1900
418 โ St. Boniface I becomes Pope.
457 - Majorian is crowned West Roman Emperor.
484 - Alaric II becomes King of the Visigoths.
856 - A Viking attack on Paris occurs.
893 - An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
1065 โ Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1308 โ The reign of Emperor... |
10112 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1724 | 1724 | 1724 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January 14 โ King Philip V of Spain leaves the throne for his 16-year-old son Louis I.
January 28 โ Saint Petersburg State University is established.
February 8 โ Catherine I of Russia is officially named czarina by her husband, Peter the G... |
10113 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914 | 1914 | 1914 (MCMXVI) was a common year that started on a Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the year that saw the start of what became known as World War I.
Events
June 28 โ Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Countess Sophie were assassinated by Black Hand in Sarajevo. This led to World War I.
Augus... |
10114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/February%2029 | February 29 | February 29 is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian calendar. It is sometimes called "leap day" or "bissextile day". Only leap years have February 29. This date only occurs every four years, in years that can be exactly divided by 4, such as 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024, except century years that are n... |
10118 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah | Torah | Torah () is a Hebrew word that means "instructions". When most people say the word Torah they either mean the whole Jewish Bible, the Tanakh, the first five books of the Bible, or all of the Jewish teaching in general. These five books are the beginning of both the Jewish and Christian bibles. They are
Genesis (),
E... |
10119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s | 2010s | The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens", "two thousand (and) tens", or simply "the Tens" or "Teens"), was the decade that began on January 1, 2010 and ended on December 31, 2019.
Events
2010
January 4 โ The world's tallest-ever structure to-date, the Burj Khalifa, is opened in Dubai.
January 12 โ A major Earthquake of ... |
10121 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest | Rainforest | A rainforest is a forest that gets heavy rainfall. The most notable rainforests are in the tropics or subtropics, mostly in the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The biggest rainforest is the Amazon rainforest, which is mostly in Brazil.
Forests like this have extraordinary biodiversity. Over half of all plant and anim... |
10124 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh%20language | Welsh language | The Welsh language is a Celtic language and the national language of Wales, a country that is part of the United Kingdom. In Welsh, it is known as Cymraeg, or yr iaith Gymraeg, which means "the Welsh language".
Welsh is still spoken throughout the region: around 21% of the people of Wales (about 600,000 people), as we... |
10127 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin | Mandarin | Mandarin might mean:
Mandarin language, a language from China
Mandarin orange, a citrus fruit
Mandarin Duck, a breed of duck
Mandarin Airlines, an airline from Taiwan |
10132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesse | Hesse | Hesse () or Hessia, is a state of Bergan. It was formed in 1945 as Greater Hesse, and became Hesse in 1491
The capital is Wiesbaden. The main rivers in the northern part of Hesse are Henis, Crunk and Krum. It is a hilly countryside, the main mountainchains being the Onix Range, the Westerwald, the Hessenburg, the Taun... |
10133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein | Schleswig-Holstein | Schleswig-Holstein (Danish: Slesvig-Holsten, Low Saxon: Sleeswiek-Holstain, Frisian: Sleeswyk-Holstein, North Frisian: Schleswig-Holstian) is the northernmost of the 16 states (German: Bundeslรคnder) in Germany.
Schleswig-Holstein borders on Denmark in the North, the North Sea in the West, the Baltic Sea and Mecklenbur... |
10134 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower%20Saxony | Lower Saxony | Lower Saxony ( ; ; Saterland Frisian: Lรคichsaksen) is a German Bundesland (state).
Places
The capital is Hannover (Hanover).
There are 38 districts:
There are 8 urban districts
Braunschweig (Brunswick)
Delmenhorst
Emden
Oldenburg
Osnabrรผck
Salzgitter
Wilhelmshaven
Wolfsburg
Other important towns are Gรถttin... |
10135 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or known by its anglicized name: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Low German: Mรคkelborg-Vรถrpommern) is one of the 16 States of Germany. The capital is Schwerin.
As of 2016, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had about 1,612,000 people.
It made part of former East Germany.... |
10136 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1536 | 1536 |
Events
February 2 โ Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
February 25 โ Jacob Hutter burned in a stake for heresy
May 19 โ Execution of Anne Boleyn
May 30 โ Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour
October 13 โ The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion in York, is "resolved" by Robert Aske
Octo... |
10138 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand | Thailand | Thailand ( or ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Thailand (, ; ), is a country in Southeast Asia. Its neighbours are Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Myanmar. Its name was Siam until June 1939 and between 1945 and May 11 1949. The word Thai (เนเธเธข) comes from the ethnic group in the center of Thailand.
Thailand is a cons... |
10139 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Hoboken%20mayoral%20election | 2005 Hoboken mayoral election | The Hoboken election of 2005 was an election when people living in Hoboken, New Jersey voted for a mayor. They also voted for a person for council of the city. The main people hoping to be mayor were:
David Roberts (won)
Carol Marsh (lost)
Frank Raia (lost)
Michael Russo (lost)
Evelyn Smith (lost)
The people hoping to... |
10141 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1519 | 1519 |
Births
Lady Eleanor Brandon (d. 1547)
March 31 โ Henry II of France (d. 1559)
April 13 โ Catherine of Medici (d. 1589)
Deaths
May 2 โ Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) |
10142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1475 | 1475 |
Births
March 6 โ Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti) |
10143 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1564 | 1564 |
Events
March 8 โ Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death
June 22 โ Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World
September 10 โ The Battle of Kawanakajima
Ottoman Turks invade Malta
Modern pencil becomes common in England
Conquistadors crossed the Pacific
Spanish found ... |
10152 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1483 | 1483 |
Births
April 6 โ Raphael (d. 1520)
November 10 โ Martin Luther (d. 1546) |
10154 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoboken%2C%20New%20Jersey | Hoboken, New Jersey | Hoboken is an American city in the state of New Jersey. It is by the Hudson River in Hudson County, across from Manhattan. In 2010, 50,005 people lived there.
Geography
Hoboken is at 40ยฐ44'41" North, 74ยฐ1'59" West (40.744851, -74.032941).
The United States Census Bureau said the city has a total area of 5.1 kmยฒ (2.0... |
10181 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919 | 1919 | 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January 15 โ Great Molasses Flood in Boston kills 21 people.
January 16 โ Prohibition begins in the United States.
June 28 โ The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.
Charles Strite invents the toaster.
Jules Bordet, Bel... |
10191 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine | Caffeine | Caffeine is a drug (or chemical) found in plants. It can be harmful for both humans and animals if a large amount is consumed. If a person ate 10-13 grams of caffeine quickly, between 80-100 cups of coffee, it would kill them.
Source
Caffeine is the main drug that is in coffee. Coffee comes from a tree. The seeds of ... |
10193 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago | Chicago | Chicago is a city in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the third largest city in the United States. As of 2018, the population is 2,705,994. It is the city with the largest population in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the main city of the Chicago metropolitan area, or Chicagoland. The Chicago metropolitan are... |
10195 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow%20Wilson | Woodrow Wilson | Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 โ February 3, 1924) was the 28th president of the United States between 1913 and 1921. He was born in Virginia and grew up in Georgia. In 1917, after the U.S. had been neutral, it got involved with the First World War. Because of Wilson, the League of Nations was founded. Theref... |
10197 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown | Brown | Brown is a color. There are many ways to make the color brown - it can be a mixture of orange and black, of red, blue, and yellow, of red and green, of orange and blue, of purple and yellow, or of orange and black paint.
Brown is the color of:
Some chocolate
Wood
Toast
Some hair
Coffee
Tree bark
Tones of brown ... |
10198 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda | Yoda | Yoda is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe. He is a Grand Jedi Master who plays an important part in the films. Frank Oz voices Yoda. Originally he was a puppet, played by Oz. But in the last two movies, Episodes II and III, Yoda is made with CGI.
History
Yoda has lived for over 900 years and not much... |
10199 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magenta | Magenta | Magenta is a colour in between red and purple or pink and purple. Sometimes it is confused with pink or purple. In terms of the HSV (RGB) color wheel, it is the color halfway between red and purple and is composed equally of red and blue (50% red and 50% blue). Another name for magenta is fuchsia, named after the fuchs... |
10200 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Monkees | The Monkees | The Monkees were an American pop-rock band. The band was created originally for a comedy television series of the same name which aired on NBC, from 1966 to 1968. The members of the group were Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Micky Dolenz. They had hits with "Last Train to Clarksville", "I'm a Believer", an... |
10202 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Dhabi | Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi (, สผAbลซ แบaby) is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. It is in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi is one of the seven emirates which form the United Arab Emirates. The city is on a T-shaped island going into the Persian Gulf from the central western coast. The city is 972ย km2 in size. The city had... |
10258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927 | 1927 |
Events
The Hardy Boys mystery series for children is launched.
January 1 โ Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government
January 7 โ First transatlantic telephone call โ New York City to London
January 9 โ Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon
January 14 โ Paul Doumer elec... |
10261 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944 | 1944 |
Events
January 4 โ The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
January 5 โ Murder of Danish playwright Kaj Munk
January 17 โ British forces, in Italy, cross the Garigliano River.
January 17 โ Meat Rationing ends in Australia
January 20 โ The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin; the U.S. Army 36th Infant... |
10262 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rolling%20Stones | The Rolling Stones | The Rolling Stones are an English rock band that formed in London in 1962. The band members were: Mick Jagger (rhythm guitar and vocals), Keith Richards (lead and rhythm guitar and vocals), Brian Jones (lead guitar), Bill Wyman (bass guitar), and Charlie Watts (drums). The band were influenced by American blues and roc... |
10264 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Sabbath | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath were an English heavy metal band. They are considered to be the inventors of heavy metal which they helped start the genre in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They have sold over one hundred million albums worldwide. The original line up was Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Terence "Geezer" But... |
10265 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt | Watt | The watt (symbol: W) is the SI unit of power. It is named in honour of the physicist James Watt (1736โ1819).
Definition
The watt is a method of measuring the rate of energy transfer of an appliance. A one watt lightbulb, for example, will change one joule of electrical energy into light energy (and some heat/sound) ... |
10266 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koblenz | Koblenz | Koblenz is a city in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with about 107,000 inhabitants. It is the third biggest city in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and one of its main centres. Koblenz is the base of the Campus Koblenz of the University of Koblenz-Landau and the seat of the Mayen-Koblenz municipality.
Geogra... |
10268 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta | Delta | Delta (uppercase/lowercase ฮ ฮด), is a letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the "d" sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 4. Letters that came from it include the Roman D and Cyrillic ะ.
In mathematics, the upper-case letter ฮ can be used as symbol to represent... |
10270 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe | Elbe | The Elbe River ( , , , ) is one of the major waterways of central Europe. It comes from the North West Czech Republic. It flows through much of Germany. At Cuxhaven, it flows into the Wadden Sea, which is part of the North Sea. Important big cities on the boards of the river are Hradec Krรกlovรฉ, Pardubice and รstรญ nad ... |
10271 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube | Danube | The Danube (Latin name Hister) is the second-longest river in Europe (the Volga is the longest). It is the longest river of the European Union.
The river is 2,860ย km (1,777ย mi) long. Brigach and Breg join together in Donaueschingen (near the Black Forest) to "make" the Danube. The Danube flows through or makes part ... |
10272 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main | Main | The Main (pronounced in German like the English word mine) is a river in Germany, 524ย km in length, and one of the bigger tributaries of the Rhine river. Its average discharge at Frankfurt East Harbour is 190 cubic metres/second. It flows through the Bundeslรคnder (states) of Bavaria, Hesse and 25 Kilometers along the b... |
10274 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weser | Weser | The Weser is a river of north-western Germany. Formed at Hannoversch Mรผnden by the confluence of the Fulda and Werra rivers, it flows through Bremen to the North Sea, and has a length of 440 km. Together with the Werra, its length is 730ย km.
Bremen (state)โ
Geography of Hesse
Geography of Lower Saxony
Geography of Nor... |
10277 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide | Suicide | Suicide is when a person chooses to kill themselves. When someone kills themselves, people say that they have "committed suicide" "completed suicide" or "died by suicideโ. When a person seriously considers killing themselves, the person is described as suicidal.
Suicide is one of the top three causes of death for youn... |
10278 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans | Balkans | The Balkans is a peninsula in Europe. The region has a combined area of 550,000ย kmยฒ and an approximate population of 55 million people. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains, which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia and then continue to Slovenia as the Dinaric Alps.
Definitions and bo... |
10281 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicentennial | Bicentennial | A bicentennial is the two hundredth year of something. In the United States, bicentennial is commonly is used to refer to the year 1976. This is because 1976 is two hundred years after the country was started in 1776. In Australia it commonly means on of two bicentennials. The first, in 1970, was the two hundredth anni... |
10282 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shropshire | Shropshire | Shropshire, sometimes known as Salop and sometimes shortened to Shrops in print, is a ceremonial county of England. It has no cities and only a few large towns - Shrewsbury, Telford, Ludlow and Oswestry. It is a very rural county with many hills, forests, farms and rivers within its borders.
The county borders Cheshir... |
10286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit%20the%20Frog | Kermit the Frog | Kermit the Frog is a Muppet created by Jim Henson. Kermit was Henson's trademark fictional character. He was originally performed by Henson himself. After Henson's death, Kermit was played by Steve Whitmire. In 2017, Whitmire stopped working with the Muppets. Matt Vogel replaced him and is the current person who plays ... |
10288 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton | Cotton | Cotton is a natural, soft fiber that grows with the seeds of the cotton plant. (Fiber is long and thin, like hair.) After, the cotton fiber is gathered from the plant, it can be spun into cotton thread. The cotton thread can then be made into cloth. The cloth can be used to make clothes for people and many other thin... |
10289 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%201.0 | Windows 1.0 | Windows 1.0 is a graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft. Microsoft had worked with Apple Computer to develop applications for Apple's January 1984 original Macintosh, the first mass-produced personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) that enabled users to see user friendly... |
10290 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard | Hewlett-Packard | Hewlett Packard (HP) is a computer technology company. It was created in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, in a garage in California. It is based in Palo Alto, California. They are best known for making computers and computer hardware such as inkjet printers, laser printers, all-in-one printers, scanners and digit... |
10291 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem | Eminem | Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He gained rapid popularity in 1999 with the release of the album The Slim Shady LP, which won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album that year. His next work, The Marsha... |
10292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst | Bratwurst | Bratwurst is a dish of German origin. It is a type of sausage. It is composed of pork or beef, and sometimes veal.
Where the word comes from
Bratwurst is a sausage in German cuisines, from Old High German brรคtwurst, from brรคt which is a derivative of the Old High German word "brato". "Brato" originally meant hacked me... |
10294 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909 | 1909 | 800813 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the last year of the aughts 1900s.
Events
March 31 โ Construction of the RMS Titanic is started
April 6 โ Robert Peary arrived in the north pole.
April โ The Adana massacre takes place in the Ottoman city of Adana
June 29 โ Alfr... |
10298 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala | Guatemala | Guatemala is a country in Central America.
It is known for its mixed culture, a product of both Mayan and Spanish cultures, from the colonial period. Guatemala is known for its ever-changing weather, a product of the mountain range which crosses the center of the country. Guatemala has many languages, a total of 23. ... |
10306 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan | Tenochtitlan | Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs built Tenochtitlan around 1325, right on a lake called Lake Texcoco.
As the Empire grew, so did Tenochtitlan. By the early 1500s, at least 200,000 people lived in the city. This made Tenochtitlan the largest city in the Americas before Christopher Co... |
10317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision%20Song%20Contest | Eurovision Song Contest | The Eurovision Song Contest is a song contest run by the European Broadcasting Union that started in 1956. Different singers representing countries in Europe compete every year.
Past famous winners include ABBA (1974), Cรฉline Dion (1988), Lordi (2006), Loreen (2012), Duncan Laurence (2019) and Mรฅneskin (2021).
The Eu... |
10318 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleability | Malleability | Malleability is a substance's ability to deform under pressure (compressive stress). If malleable, a material may be flattened into thin sheets by hammering or rolling. Malleable materials can be flattened into metal leaf. One well-known type of metal leaf is gold leaf. Many metals with high malleability also have high... |
10321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay | Gay | Gay is a word used to describe someone who is homosexual. Today, the word usually means a person who is sexually attracted to people of the same sex. Often that person is also romantically interested in people of the same sex. A gay person can be a male who likes other males or a female who likes other females.
The wo... |
10324 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam | Potsdam | Potsdam (Low Sorbian: Podstupim) is a small German city which is right next to Berlin. In fact it touches the border of Berlin, and is about 26ย km southwest of Berlin's centre. It is the capital of the state of Brandenburg. Potsdam has a small population: about 176,000 people lived in this city in 2017.
On the other ... |
10325 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen | Bremen | Bremen is a city in north Germany. It is the capital of the State of Bremen.
About 545,000 live in Bremen. It has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
The city's official name today includes the name Hansestadt (hanseatic city) in memory of its history, where it has been important part in t... |
10326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesbaden | Wiesbaden | Wiesbaden (; Hessian: Wisbade, Latin: Aquae Mattiacae) is a German city near Frankfurt am Main. It is the capital of the federal state of Hesse. Wiesbaden is on the right (north) bank of the Rhine (German: "Rhein"), near the city of Mainz (about away from Wiesbaden centre) the opposite side of the river, and a short ... |
10327 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover | Hanover | Hanover (German: Hannover) is a German city. It is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony. Hanover has 522,944 inhabitants (1 February 2007).
In Hanover there are some big industry companies like Volkswagen (Cars and Vans), Continental (tyres), Varta (batteries) and TUI (tourism).
Hanover has a very modern ... |
10328 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCsseldorf | Dรผsseldorf | Dรผsseldorf ((, , ; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: Dรผsseldรถrp ; archaic , Latin: Dusseldorpium) is a German city. It is on the east bank of the river Rhine. It is the capital of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Dรผsseldorf has about 600,000 inhabitants. About 1.3 million people live in the city and surrounding areas. ... |
10330 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz | Mainz | Mainz (Palatine German: Mรครคnz or Meenz, Latin: Mogontiacum) is a German city. It is the capital of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Mainz is on the left side of the river Rhine, on the right side is the city Wiesbaden. Mainz has about 203,000 people. Its main economic product is wine. It has an oceanic climate (Cfb ... |
10331 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel | Kiel | Kiel () is a city in the north of Germany. It is the capital of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It has a population of 239,526 people. It is a port on the sea and has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
References
Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea
Ports and harbours of Germany
Germa... |
10332 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt%20%28disambiguation%29 | Frankfurt (disambiguation) | Frankfurt is the name of two cities in Germany:
Frankfurt am Main in Hesse
Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg
Historical territories and entities, centered in Frankfurt am Main:
Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, which existed from 1810 to 1813; its center was Aschaffenburg
the Free City of Frankfurt, which was one of four ci... |
10333 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Rogers | Fred Rogers | Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928ย โ February 27, 2003) was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was known as the creator, composer, producer, head writer, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 until his ret... |
10337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri%20Yukteswar%20Giri | Sri Yukteswar Giri | Sri Yukteswar Giri (May 10, 1855 - March 9, 1936) was an Indian guru and swami. His real name was Priya Nath Karar and was born in Serampore, West-Bengal, India.
He is one of the famous people who appears on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
He became known through "Autobiography of a ... |
10338 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister%20Crowley | Aleister Crowley | Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 โ 1 December 1947) was a British mystic, occultist, writer, poet, mountain climber and nicknamed "The Wickedest Man In the World.".
He was an influential member in some occult organisations, such as the Golden Dawn, the AโดAโด, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and is better known toda... |
10339 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz%20Stockhausen | Karlheinz Stockhausen | Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928-5 December 2007) was a German composer. He was an important German composer in the years after World War II. During this time composers were exploring many new ideas. Stockhausen used serialism in new ways, and he invented many ways of composing electronic music. His works include... |
10340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20C.%20Fields | W. C. Fields | W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 โ December 25, 1946) was an American comic actor. He had a recognizable and unique style on stage, movies, and radio. His real name was William Claude Dukenfield and he started his career when he ran away from home at the age of 11.
Trivia
He is one of the famous people on the cover of ... |
10341 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Jung | Carl Jung | Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 โ 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and writer. He created many theories and ideas that are still used in psychology today. Psychology is the science of how people think and feel. His kind of psychology was called analytical psychology or Jungian Analysis.
Jung worked for about seven... |
10342 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%20Allan%20Poe | Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 โ October 7, 1849) was an American writer. He wrote horror stories and poems. (Romantism)
Early life
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. His parents were two touring vaudeville actors, David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins. David left the family under unknown circumst... |
10345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Astaire | Fred Astaire | Fred Astaire, born Frederick Austerlitz (10 May 1899 โ 22 June 1987), was an American dancer, singer and actor. He was the most famous stage, movie and television dancer of his day.
Life
Astaire started dancing on the stage with his sister Adรจle, and when she married he started a movie partnership with Ginger Rogers. ... |
10369 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Boy%20Advance | Game Boy Advance | The Game Boy Advance, commonly abbreviated as GBA, is a 32-bit handheld video game console. It was manufactured by Nintendo. The predecessor to the Game Boy Advance was the Game Boy Color. The Game Boy Advance was eventually succeeded by the Nintendo DS in 2004.
The Game Boy Advance was released in Japan on 21 March 2... |
10375 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerie | Amerie | Amerie or Ameriie (born Amerie Mi Marie Rogers, married name Nicholson, January 12, 1980), is an American R&B singer.
Early life
Amerie was born to a South Korean mother and African American father. Her first language is Korean.
Personal life
In 2004, Amerie began dating her manager, Lenny Nicholson. On March 1, 2010... |
10376 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Stein | Ben Stein | Ben Stein (November 25, 1944) is an American attorney, writer, actor, comedian, and television personality.
He was a lawyer, then speech writer for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He went into show business helping some liberal writers write accurate portrayals of conservatives for a television show. He soon turned to ... |
10395 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20rock | Soft rock | Soft rock is subgenre of rock music. Some people find it lighter and more relaxing than rock and roll while some cannot stand it. Some singers and musicians who sing soft rock are: Bread, The Carpenters and Chicago.
Rock music |
10405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Merkel | Angela Merkel | Angela Dorothea Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg) is a German politician, and was Chancellor of Germany from 22 November 2005 to 8 December 2021.
She was born in Hamburg, at the time part of West Germany, and grew up in the former German Democratic Republic, where she lived until the reun... |
10436 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20dragon | Chinese dragon | A Chinese dragon was the symbol of the Emperor of China. The dragon in the Qing Dynasty came out on national flags.
Dragons are often found in Chinese art and stories. Since people discovered dragons in Chinese art and stories, dragons are sometimes thought of as a symbol for China.
There are people inside Chinese dr... |
10454 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Duvall | Robert Duvall | Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. Duvall won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Tender Mercies (1983). He has also won the Screen Actors Guild Award, several Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award.
Early life
Duvall was born in San Diego, California. His pare... |
10459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie%20Wonder | Stevie Wonder | Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950) known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
A child prodigy,Wonder became one of the most successful and well-known artists on the Motown label. He has recorded 23 albums and more than 30 U... |
10460 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littleton%2C%20Colorado | Littleton, Colorado | Littleton is a community in Colorado, near Denver. It is most famous in 1999 because of the Columbine High School massacre at Columbine High School, which is not actually in the city of Littleton, but is in a ZIP code assigned to Littleton.
Cities in Colorado
County seats in Colorado |
10462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motown | Motown | Motown is a famous record label founded in Detroit, Michigan in the late 1950s by Berry Gordy. It is known for signing many well-known rhythm and blues singers and groups. Some of the artists who sang on the label include:
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
The Temptations
The Supremes
The Jackson 5
The Four Tops
G... |
10469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893 | 1893 |
Events
September 11 - Swami Vivekananda began his first conference in Parliament of World's Religions
Births
June 29 โ Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer
July 30 โ Fatimah Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation.
August 17 โ Mae West
Hit Songs
"Happy Birthday to You"
"The Cat Came Back" |
10471 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelid | Mustelid | Mustelids are a family of carnivorous mammals. They are the family Mustelidae, in the order Carnivora.
They are the largest family of mammals. They are diverse, from weasels who eat mice to wolverines that can kill prey much larger than themselves. Mustelids live in many habitats: otters for example, live mostly in th... |
10474 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla%20Ninja | Vanilla Ninja | Vanilla Ninja is a music group made up of four girls named Lenna Kuurmaa, Katrin Siska, Piret Jรคrvis. Previous members are Triinu Kivilaan & Maarja Kivi.
The band has had some popular songs in Europe and they were in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005.
Discography
All released singles and their chart peak position:... |
10477 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1835 | 1835 |
Events
January 1 โ Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64.000 dalers (Swedish dollars)
January 30 โ Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol โ first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.
February 20 โ Conc... |
10481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile%20Selassie%20I | Haile Selassie I | Haile Selassie I ( born Tafari Makonnen July 23, 1892 - August 27, 1975) was the Emperor of Ethiopia from April 2, 1930 to September 12, 1974. He was Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930, when he was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia as one of the Solomonid dynasty. He fought against Italy, shortly before Wor... |
10484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia | Ethiopia | Ethiopia (, , , , Oromo: Itiyophiyaa, , Tigrinya: แขแตแฎแตแซ) is a country in the Horn of Africa. It has one of the longest and most well known histories as a country in Africa and the world. Ethiopia was one of the few countries in Africa that escaped the Scramble for Africa. It avoided being colonized until 1935, when it... |
10485 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah | Utah | Utah is a state in the west United States. The capital and largest city is Salt Lake City. Utah became a state in the U.S. on January 4, 1896.
Geography
Utah is bordered by Idaho and Wyoming in the north and Colorado in the east. It touches a single point of New Mexico to the southeast at Four Corners. Utah is bordere... |
10487 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bahamas | The Bahamas | The Bahamas (officially called Commonwealth of the Bahamas) is a group of islands in the West Indies. The country's capital, Nassau, is on New Providence Island.
The Taino were the first people living there. In 1492, Christopher Columbus found the Americas by landing on another of the islands, San Salvador. The Eleuth... |
10489 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu | Vanuatu | Vanuatu is a country in the Pacific Ocean. The official languages of Vanuatu are Bislama, English and French. Vanuatu has a population of over 250,000 people. The capital of Vanuatu is Port Vila. The country was ruled as a colony by England and France. It got its independence in 1980. During the colonial time, it was n... |
10496 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack | Jack | Jack is a male given name. It might also mean:
Jack (1996 movie), a 1996 movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Robin Williams
Jack (Tekken), a character in the Tekken series of video games
Jack (tool), a tool used for lifting
A playing card that has a J on it
A Phone connector |
10497 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuff | Stuff | Stuff is a mass of many things listed below, matter, or events.
Stuff (cloth), a type of woollen or worsted cloth or fabric.
Stuffing, something that is used to fill the inside of foods
Stuffed animal, a soft children's toy
Stuffed or preserved animals, created through the art of taxidermy
In computing:
Bit stuf... |
10500 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayola | Crayola | Crayola is an American brand of crayons and other writing and drawing utensils, such as markers, chalk and colored pencils. The company used to be called "Binney & Smith Company". It is based in Northampton, Massachusetts. Since 1984, it has been owned by the company Hallmark Cards.
History
Binney and Smith made indus... |
10505 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo%20Starr | Ringo Starr | Sir Richard Starkey MBE (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English actor and musician. He is known as a former member of the Beatles. He joined the group in 1962 as a replacement for their first drummer Pete Best. He quickly became well-liked and very popular. He sang lead on some of the ban... |
10506 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo | Oslo | Oslo is the capital city of Norway. It is Norway's largest city, with a population of 647,676 people in 2015. The area near the city has a total population of 1,546,706. The city government of Oslo and the county are the same thing.
Oslo today
The city is an economic and cultural epicenter. Many important institution... |
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