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137137 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20Pickering | Timothy Pickering | Timothy Pickering (July 17, 1745 – January 29, 1829) was a politician from Massachusetts who served in a variety of roles, most notably as the third United States Secretary of State, serving in that office from 1795 to 1800 under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.
1745 births
1829 deaths
United States Postma... |
137148 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Jay | John Jay | John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American politician, statesman, slave owner, and diplomat. He was a Supreme Court Chief Justice and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Jay served in the Continental Congress and was elected President of that body. During and after the American Revolution... |
137160 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan%20Longoria | Evan Longoria | Evan Michael "Longo" Longoria is a third baseman for the San Francisco Giants. Longoria began his MLB career with the Tampa Bay Rays before being traded to the Giants in 2017. He won the 2008 American League Rookie of the Year award. In 2009, he won the Silver Slugger and Gold Glove awards for American League third bas... |
137164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleolus | Nucleolus | A nucleolus (plural: nucleoli) is the part of a eukaryotic cell where ribosomes are made. Seen under a microscope, the nucleolus is a dark spot inside the cell's nucleus. It is made up of dense RNA and proteins. Prokaryotic cells also have ribosomes, but they don't make as many as eukaryotes do, and there is no visible... |
137174 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice%20Bergen | Candice Bergen | Candice Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress. In 1980, she was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" for her role in Starting Over. Bergen later acted as the title character in Murphy Brown. (1988-98, 2018-present).
Other websites
American movie actors
American televisi... |
137175 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20Nukem%203D | Duke Nukem 3D | Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game. It was made by 3D Realms and sold by Apogee Software. It was first sold on January 29, 1996. Duke Nukem 3D is based on the main character from the platform games Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II which were also published by Apogee. The character is voiced by Jon St. John.... |
137182 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Rehnquist | William Rehnquist | William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American lawyer, jurist, and a political figure. He was the 16th Chief Justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005. Before becoming Chief Justice, he was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1971 to 19... |
137187 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad%20State | Hyderabad State | Hyderābād and Berar (, ) under the Nizams, was the largest Princely state in the erstwhile Indian Empire. The Berar region of present-day Vidarbha in Maharashtra was merged with the Central Provinces in 1903, to form Central Provinces and Berar.
Hyderabad state was in south-central India from 1724 until 1948. It was r... |
137189 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-nation%20theory | Two-nation theory | The two-nation theory (Urdu: دو قومی نظریہ do qaumī nazariya) is the basis of the creation of Pakistan. The two-nation theory in its simplest way means that cultural, political, religious, economic and social dissimilarities between the two major communities, Hindus and Muslims of the Subcontinent. These differences o... |
137194 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Osgood | Samuel Osgood | Samuel Osgood (February 3, 1747 – August 12, 1813) was an American merchant and statesman from Andover, Massachusetts. He served in the Massachusetts and New York state legislatures, represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress and was the first Postmaster General under the United States Constitution.
1747 bi... |
137195 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Bradford%20%28Attorney%20General%29 | William Bradford (Attorney General) | William Bradford (September 14, 1755 – August 23, 1795) was an American lawyer and judge. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bradforn was the second United States Attorney General in 1794-1795.
1755 births
1795 deaths
United States Attorneys General
Politicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lawyers from Phil... |
137196 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Lee%20%28Attorney%20General%29 | Charles Lee (Attorney General) | Charles Lee (1758 – June 24, 1815) was an American lawyer from Virginia. He served as United States Attorney General from 1795 until 1801.
President George Washington appointed Lee the Attorney General after William Bradford died in office. After Senate approval he took office on December 10, 1795 and served through t... |
137198 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Stoddert | Benjamin Stoddert | Benjamin Stoddert (1751 – December 13, 1813) was the first United States Secretary of the Navy from May 1, 1798 to March 31, 1801.
1751 births
1813 deaths
Politicians from Maryland
United States Secretaries of the Navy |
137200 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Hewes | Joseph Hewes | Joseph Hewes (January 23, 1730 – November 10, 1779), was a native of Princeton, New Jersey, where he was born in 1730. Hewes’s parents were part of the Quaker Society of Friends. Immediately after their marriage they moved to New Jersey, which became Joseph Hewes’s home state. Hewes was formally educated at Princeton U... |
137204 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candela | Candela | A candela is the SI base unit of luminous intensity. It measures how bright something is. It is one of the basic units of science. A light bulb is bright, but the Sun is much brighter, so the Sun has more candelas than the light bulb.
The frequency chosen for measuring candelas is in the visible spectrum near green.... |
137215 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongwu%20Emperor | Hongwu Emperor | The Hongwu Emperor (October 21, 1328– June 24, 1398), known in China as , was the first emperor of the Ming part of China's history.
Names
The Hongwu Emperor's real name was . It is written in Chinese writing. His given name was Chongba and his family were the Zhus, but Chinese people write their family names first. ... |
137229 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulja%20Boy | Soulja Boy | DeAndre Cortez Way, also known as Soulja Boy Tell 'Em or simply Soulja Boy, is an American rapper, record producer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is widely known for the songs "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" and "Tell 'Em".
He has brought out two albums, called "souljaboytellem.com" and "iSouljaBoyTellEm". Most critics ... |
137234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron | Hadron | A hadron, in particle physics, is any subatomic (smaller than the atom) particle or antiparticle which is made of quarks.
Quarks are fundamental particles which among other properties have an electrical charge and a name (e.g. 'up', 'down', 'strange'). The electrical charge of a single quark is always a fraction (e.g... |
137244 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlatko%20Zahovi%C4%8D | Zlatko Zahovič | Zlatko Zahovič (born 1 February 1971) is a former Slovenian football player. He has played for Slovenia national team.
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|1989/90||Partizan||First League||9||1
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|1990/91||Proleter Zrenjanin||First League||25||0
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|1991/92||Partizan||First League||13||2
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|1992/93||Partizan||First League|... |
137245 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Lee | Francis Lee | Francis Lee is a former football player. He has played for England national team.
Club career statistics
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|1960-61||rowspan="8"|Bolton Wanderers||rowspan="4"|First Division||6||2
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|1961-62||5||0
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|1962-63||23||12
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|1963-64||34||12
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|1964-65||rowspan="4"|Second Division||38||23
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|1965-66||34||12
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137246 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun%20Goater | Shaun Goater | Shaun Goater is a football player. He plays for Bermuda Hogges.
Club career statistics
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|1989/90||Manchester United||First Division||0||0
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|1989/90||rowspan="5"|Rotherham United||rowspan="2"|Third Division||12||2
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|1990/91||22||2
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|1991/92||Fourth Division||24||9
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|1992/93||rowspan="2"|Second Division||23||... |
137255 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine%20Primera%20Divisi%C3%B3n | Argentine Primera División | Primera División Argentina (English: "Argentine First Division") is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the top division in the country, and has a promotion and relegation system. Relegated teams drop to the Primera B Nacional.
References
Football leagues
Football in Argentina
1931 establishments
20th... |
137267 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr%20%C5%A0micer | Vladimír Šmicer | Vladimír Šmicer (born 24 May 1973) is a former Czech football player. He has played for Czechoslovakia national team and Czech Republic national team.
Club career statistics
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|1992/93||Slavia Prague||First League||21||8
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|1993/94||rowspan="3"|Slavia Prague||rowspan="3"|Gambrinus liga||17||6
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|1994/95||15||3
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137268 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietmar%20Hamann | Dietmar Hamann | Dietmar Hamann (born 27 August 1973 in Waldsassen) is a German football player. He has played for Germany national team.
Club career statistics
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|1993/94||rowspan="5"|Bayern Munich||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||5||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0||6||1
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|1994/95||30||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||6||0||37||0
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|1995/96||20||2... |
137269 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Rowley | Arthur Rowley | George Arthur Rowley, (21 April 1926 – 19 December 2002) was an English football striker. He holds the record for the most career goals in The Football League, 434 from 619 games. He was the younger brother of Manchester United legend Jack Rowley. He was shortlisted for inclusion into the English Football Hall of Fame ... |
137270 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Cunningham | Laurie Cunningham | Laurie Cunningham is a former football player. He has played for England national team.
Club career statistics
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|1974-75||rowspan="3"|Leyton Orient||rowspan="3"|Second Division||17||1
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|1975-76||34||8
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|1976-77||24||6
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|1976-77||rowspan="3"|West Bromwich Albion||rowspan="3"|First Division||13||6
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|1977-78||... |
137271 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%20Hoddle | Glenn Hoddle | Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957) is a former English football player. He has played for England national team.
Club career statistics
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|1975/76||rowspan="12"|Tottenham Hotspur||rowspan="2"|First Division||7||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||7||1
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|1976/77||39||4||1||0||2||1||colspan="2"|-||42||5
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|1977/78||Sec... |
137284 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Saadi%20Qadhafi | Al-Saadi Qadhafi | Al-Saadi Qadhafi (born 25 May 1973), is a former football player. He played for the Libya national team. He is the third son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. In 2011, he was the commander of Libya's Special Forces. He was involved in the Libyan civil war.
Club career statistics
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|2003-04||rowspan="2"|Perugia||S... |
137285 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Pir%C3%A8s | Robert Pirès | Robert Pirès (born 29 October 1973) is a French football player. He plays for Villarreal in Spain, but he has also played for many other teams like Arsenal and Olympique Marseille, and he has also won the World Cup and the European championship with France. He is known for his quick dribbling, thinking and passing skil... |
137286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran%20Mirkovi%C4%87 | Zoran Mirković | Zoran Mirković (born 21 September 1971) is a former football player. He has played for the Serbia and Montenegro national team.
Club career statistics
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|1990-91||rowspan="3"|Rad||rowspan="2"|First League||5||0
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|1991-92||26||0
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|1992-93||First League||31||1
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|1993-94||rowspan="3"|Partizan||rowspan="3"|First L... |
137287 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Floyd%20Hasselbaink | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (born 27 March 1972) is a former Dutch football player. He has played for the Netherlands national football team. He won the 1998–99 Premier League Golden Boot, along side Dwight Yorke and Michael Owen. This made him the joint first foreign Golden Boot winner.
Career Statistics
Club
Internati... |
137288 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Cole | Andy Cole | Andrew Cole (born 15 October 1971) is a former English football player. He has played for England national team.
Club career statistics
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|1989/90||rowspan="2"|Arsenal||rowspan="2"|First Division||0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
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|1990/91||1||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0
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|1991/92||Fulham||Third Divi... |
137303 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC%20Porto | FC Porto | Futebol Clube do Porto (pron. ) – short: FC Porto or FCP – is a Portuguese sports club best known for its football team. It was created in Porto in 1893. It holds the best International record by a Portuguese team (7 international titles), having won the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup twice each. In 2003, it... |
137305 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.C.%20Zenit%20Saint%20Petersburg | F.C. Zenit Saint Petersburg | FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russian: ФК "Зенит" Санкт-Петербург) is a Russian football club from Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914 according to some Russian sources), the club plays in the Russian Premier League and currently is the richest in the country, due to the sponsorship of Gazprom.
Zenit are the 20... |
137315 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Bruce | Steve Bruce | Steve Bruce (born 31 December 1960) is an English football manager and former player who is the current manager of Championship club West Bromwich Albion. He was born in Corbridge, Northumberland. Bruce was best known for playing for Manchester United where he was captain.
1960 births
Living people
English football ma... |
137317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport%20County%20F.C. | Stockport County F.C. | Stockport County F.C. is an English football club. They currently play in the Blue Square North, in English football. The club plays their home games at Edgeley Park. At home they play in Blue.
Name
1883-1888 Heaton Norris Rovers F.C.
1888-1890 Heaton Norris F.C.
1890-present Stockport County F.C.
League position
Fo... |
137324 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Theft%20Autumn%20/%20Where%20Is%20Your%20Boy | Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy | "Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy" (or "Grand Theft Autumn", "Where Is Your Boy?") is the second single by rock band Fall Out Boy. It is from their album Take This to Your Grave.
Related pages
Fall Out Boy
Take This to Your Grave
Dead On Arrival
Folie à Deux
2003 songs
Fall Out Boy songs |
137326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornthwaite%20Rason | Cornthwaite Rason | Sir Cornthwaite Hector William James Rason (18 June 1858 – 15 March 1927) was the 7th Premier of Western Australia from 25 August 1905 until 7 May 1906.
References
1858 births
1927 deaths
Independent politicians in Australia
Politicians from Somerset
Premiers of Western Australia |
137327 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Daglish | Henry Daglish | Henry Daglish (18 November 1866 – 16 August 1920) was the 6th Premier of Western Australia from 10 August 1904 to 25 August 1905. He was the first Western Australia Premier from the Labor Party and the first from any organised political party.
References
1866 births
1920 deaths
Daglish, Henry
Politicians from Victo... |
137328 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20James | Walter James | Sir Walter Hartwell James (29 March 1863 – 3 January 1943) was the 5th Premier of Western Australia from 1 July 1902 to 10 August 1904.
References
1863 births
1943 deaths
James, Walter
People from Perth, Western Australia
Independent politicians in Australia |
137330 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf%20Morgans | Alf Morgans | Alfred Edward Morgans (17 February 1850 – 10 August 1933) was the 4th Premier of Western Australia from 21 November to 23 December 1901.
References
1850 births
1933 deaths
Morgans, Alf
Monmouthshire
Independent politicians in Australia |
137331 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Leake | George Leake | George Leake (3 December 1856 – 24 June 1902) was the 3rd Premier of Western Australia from 27 May 1901 to 21 November 1901 and then from 23 December 1901 to 24 June 1902.
References
1856 births
1902 deaths
Independent politicians in Australia
Leake, George
People from Perth, Western Australia |
137332 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Throssell | George Throssell | George Lionel Throssell (23 May 1840 – 30 August 1910) was the 2nd Premier of Western Australia from 15 February 1901 to 27 May 1901.
References
1840 births
1910 deaths
Throssell, George
People from County Cork |
137333 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Forrest | John Forrest | Sir John Forrest (22 August 1847 – 2 September 1918) was the 1st Premier of Western Australia from 29 December 1890 – 14 February 1901. He helped to make sure that Western Australia joined the federation of Australian states. After federation, he went into federal politics. He served as Minister for Defence, Minister f... |
137334 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into%20the%20Fire | Into the Fire | Into the Fire is the fifth studio album by the Canadian rock artist Bryan Adams. Released on March 30, 1987 through A&M Records, the album was a huge commercial success selling over 2 million units worldwide, peaking at number 7 on the US Billboard 200 chart and reaching high positions in charts worldwide. It was recor... |
137337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Albums%20Chart | UK Albums Chart | The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales in the United Kingdom. It is formulated by Official Charts Company and a Top 200 published in ChartsPlus (only the Top 100 is counted in data sources).
British record charts |
137339 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack%20model | Attack model | Attack models or attack types specify how much information a cryptanalyst has access to when breaking or cracking an encrypted message, commonly known as codebreaking or cracking the code. Some common attack models are:
Ciphertext-only attack
Known-plaintext attack
Chosen-plaintext attack
Chosen-ciphertext attack
Adap... |
137340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuts%20Like%20a%20Knife | Cuts Like a Knife | Cuts Like a Knife is the third album by the Canadian rock artist Bryan Adams. Released on January, 1983 through A&M Records, the album became a big hit in Canada when it was released. Outside Canada and the United States the album did not sell as well. After the release of Reckless the album would chart on the British ... |
137343 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Want%20It%20You%20Got%20It | You Want It You Got It | You Want It You Got It is the second album by Bryan Adams, and was released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). The album was to be called Bryan Adams Hasn't Heard Of You Either but the record company wanted him to change the title to something safer.
The first single, "Lonely Nights", was a big hit in the US. Two other sing... |
137344 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20Adams%20%28album%29 | Bryan Adams (album) | Bryan Adams is the first album by Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams. It was released in February 1980 by A&M Records. "Hidin' From Love" went to #64 on Canada's RPM 100 Singles chart and "Give Me Your Love" went to #91 on the same chart.
In early 1978, Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance made a song-writing duo together. They... |
137345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known-plaintext%20attack | Known-plaintext attack | The known-plaintext attack (KPA) is an attack model for cryptanalysis where the attacker has samples of both the plaintext and its encrypted version (known as ciphertext version) then they can use them to expose further secret information after calculating the secret key.
Encrypted file archives such as ZIP are very ... |
137347 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/18%20til%20I%20Die | 18 til I Die | 18 til I Die is a rock album by the Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams. It was released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). It is the second album Adams co-produced with Robert Mutt Lange and features a more raw rock style, including some Blues style music.
Track listing
International
Australia
Personnel
Bryan Ada... |
137348 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20a%20Day%20Like%20Today | On a Day Like Today | On a Day Like Today is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).
Track listings
Personnel
Bryan Adams - guitars, piano, vocals
Mickey Curry - drums
Keith Scott - bass, guitar
Phil Thornalley - guitar, bass, string arrangements
Dave Pickell - piano, organ
Danny Cu... |
137349 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room%20Service | Room Service | Room Service is a rock album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released internationally in 2004 and in the U.S. the following year. "Open Road" was the first single taken from the album, followed by "Flying", "Room Service" and, as an American release, "This Side of Paradise". In the summer of 2005, "Open Road... |
137350 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/11%20%28album%29 | 11 (album) | 11 is the eleventh studio album by the Canadian rock artist Bryan Adams. It was released on March 7, 2008 through Universal Music Group. The album was a number 1 hit in Canada, Switzerland and India and on number 6 in the UK. It was recorded at The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, Canada, and additionally at hotel rooms an... |
137351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosen-plaintext%20attack | Chosen-plaintext attack | A chosen-plaintext attack (CPA) is a model for cryptanalysis which assumes that the attacker can choose random plaintexts to be encrypted and obtain the corresponding ciphertexts. The goal of the attack is to gain some further information which reduces the security of the encryption scheme. In the worst case, a chosen... |
137354 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext-only%20attack | Ciphertext-only attack | In cryptography, a ciphertext-only attack (COA) or known ciphertext attack is an attack model for cryptanalysis where the attacker is assumed to have access only to a set of ciphertexts.
The attack is completely successful if the corresponding plaintexts can be deduced (extracted) or, even better, the key. The abilit... |
137359 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosen-ciphertext%20attack | Chosen-ciphertext attack | A chosen-ciphertext attack (CCA) is an attack model for cryptanalysis in which the cryptanalyst gathers information, at least in part, by choosing a ciphertext and obtaining its decryption under an unknown key.
When a cryptosystem is susceptible to chosen-ciphertext attack, implementers must be careful to avoid situ... |
137361 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambly | Kambly | Kambly is a Swiss biscuit factory. It was founded in 1910 by Oscar Kambly.
History
He got to know a girl that lived in Trubschachen. It was a real lovestory. When he went at her home he had the idea to make a biscuit after his grandmother's recipe, this was in 1906. In 1910 he could absorb the store of his instructor.... |
137370 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20cryptanalysis | Differential cryptanalysis | Differential cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis applicable to block ciphers, but also can be applied to stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. It is the study of how differences in the input can affect the resultant differences at the output. In the case of a block cipher, it refers to a set of ... |
137375 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20cryptanalysis | Linear cryptanalysis | In cryptography, linear cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis based on finding affine approximations to the action of a cipher. Attacks have been developed for block ciphers and stream ciphers. Linear cryptanalysis is one of the two most widely used attacks on block ciphers; the other being differential cryp... |
137379 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julianne%20Moore | Julianne Moore | Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is a an American actress with Scottish origins. She was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards.
After studying theatre at Boston University Moore began her... |
137392 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20Storm%20Cristobal%20%282008%29 | Tropical Storm Cristobal (2008) | Tropical Storm Cristobal was the third tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It began on July 19 as a weather system away from the Southeast U.S. Coast. It became a tropical storm later that day. Cristobal stayed away from land, and reached its highest strength as a strong tropical storm on July 21. It ... |
137396 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijndael%20key%20schedule | Rijndael key schedule | AES (Rijndael) uses a key schedule to expand a short key into a number of separate round keys. This is known as the Rijndael key schedule.
The three AES variants have a different number of rounds. Each variant requires a separate 128-bit round key for each round plus one more. The key schedule produces the needed roun... |
137404 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillaz | Gorillaz | Gorillaz are an animated British rock band. The band was invented by Damon Albarn, a member of the band Blur, and Jamie Hewlett, who has worked on the comic book series Tank Girl. Even though the band members are fictional, they have released a large amount of albums and music videos. The band's animated members are 2-... |
137405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal | Pantanal | The Pantanal is the world's largest wetland or swamp.
It covers a region of 140,000 km2, larger than the area covered by the country Greece.
The Pantanal is in South America and shared by Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay.
There are many threats to the Pantanal such as pollution, mercury from gold mining and ranching. Al... |
137406 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balliol%20College%2C%20Oxford | Balliol College, Oxford | Balliol College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1263 by John Balliol, father of King John Balliol of Scotland.
Usually, the undergraduate students are among the most politically active students in the university. The college's alumni include Boris Johnson, the Prime Mi... |
137418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Mende | Erich Mende | Erich Mende (28 October 1916 - 6 May 1998 in Bonn) was a German jurist and politician for the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany and the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
Mende was born in Groß Strehlitz, near Oppolne.
1936 he made his abitur. Afterwards he had to do his working service for the state and then his m... |
137420 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra%20Kelly | Petra Kelly | Petra Karin Kelly (November 23, 1947 – October 1, 1992) was a German politician, peace activist and one of the founders of the Green Party of Germany.
Kelly was born in Günzburg. Her stepfather was a US officer. Her original father and her mother were German.
Her family moved to the US in 1959.
She went to school in b... |
137422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along%20the%20River%20During%20Qingming%20Festival | Along the River During Qingming Festival | Along the River During Qingming Festival is a well known panoramic Chinese painting by artist Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145). It was painted during the Song Dynasty. The painting is among the most famous of all Chinese paintings. It is kept at the Forbidden City, also known as the "Palace Museum" in Beijing.
Chinese cultur... |
137423 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiserswerth | Kaiserswerth | Kaiserswerth is a settlement with a more than 1,000-year history.
It is one of the oldest parts of Düsseldorf.
Geography
It is in the north of Düsseldorf, next to the river Rhine. Kaiserswerth has 7,712 inhabitants and an area of 4.71 km².
History
About the year 700 the monk St. Suitbert founded a Benedictine-abbey... |
137424 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy | Vichy | Vichy () is a commune in central France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, along the Allier river. It is the commune in the department with second largest population after Montluçon. It is in the historic province of Bourbonnais.
History
Vichy has lots of Spas and resorts. This site was inhabited before the Roman co... |
137425 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochina | Indochina | Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia.
It lies roughly east of India, south of China.
Indochina comprises the territory of the following countries:
Cambodia
Laos
Vietnam
These countries have been known as Indochina since the time of French Colonialism.
Often also included in t... |
137432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi%20Halfa | Wadi Halfa | Wadi Halfa is a small city in the northern part of Sudan by Lake Nubia (the Sudanese section of Lake Nasser).
It has 6 neighborhoods with inhabitants of 18,000 people. There is a highway under construction which will connect it with Aswan in Egypt and via Dongola with Khartoum.
Wadi Halfa is now one of fastest growi... |
137455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20energy | Mechanical energy | In physics, mechanical energy describes the potential energy and kinetic energy present in the components of a mechanical system.
When a given amount of mechanical energy is transferred (such as when throwing a ball, lifting a box, crushing a soda can, or stirring a beverage) it is said that this amount of mechanical ... |
137498 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiligo | Vitiligo | Vitiligo is a skin disease that causes the skin to lose its color. It occurs when the melanocytes, cells that give skin their color, die or do not work. This is a problem because these cells protect against the light from the sun.
How is it caught?
The exact cause of vitiligo is complex and not fully understood. It ... |
137505 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue | Virtue | Virtue (Latin virtus; Greek ἀρετή) is a kind of behaviour which is thought to be good. The adjective is "virtuous". Someone who lives a virtuous life is someone who leads a good moral life, doing things that society thinks are good. The opposite of virtue is vice.
Philosophers throughout the ages have written the... |
137514 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound%20Lines | Greyhound Lines | Greyhound Lines (commonly called Greyhound) is a company in the United States that runs bus services between cities. It was founded in 1914. Its parent company is on the London Stock Exchange. The buses use air brakes and hold over 200 gallons of diesel.
American transport companies
1914 establishments in the United ... |
137516 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twofish | Twofish | In cryptography, Twofish is a symmetric key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits and key lengths up to 256 bits.
In 1997, the NIST announced for competition to choose a successor to DES to be known as AES, Twofish was one of the five finalists of the Advanced Encryption Standard competition, but was not selecte... |
137522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20differential%20cryptanalysis | Truncated differential cryptanalysis | In cryptography, truncated differential cryptanalysis is a generalization of differential cryptanalysis, an attack model against block ciphers. In 1994 Lars Knudsen designed the technique, during this period ordinary differential cryptanalysis analyzes the full difference between two texts, the truncated version consid... |
137523 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid%20Caliphate | Fatimid Caliphate | The Fatimid Caliphate was ruled by the al-Fātimiyyūn () dynasty from 5 January 909 to 1171. It was an Arab Shi'a dynasty It ruled the fourth and final Arab caliphate. In different times different areas of the Maghreb, Egypt, and the Levant belonged to the caliphate.
Egyptian city of Cairo was made the capital. The te... |
137527 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghreb | Maghreb | The Maghreb ( ) is the western part of the Arab world. It is in North Africa. The term is generally applied to all of Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, but in older Arabic usage meant only the area of the three countries between the high ranges of the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranea... |
137528 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaintext | Plaintext | In cryptography, plaintext is the information which the sender want to transmit to the receiver(s).
Before computers, plaintext meant text in the language of the communicating parties. Since computers, the definition has been expanded. It now includes not only the electronic representation of text, such as emails a... |
137530 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext | Ciphertext | In cryptography, ciphertext (or cyphertext) refers to the output of the encryption process. Plaintext is turned into ciphertext using an algorithm (cipher). This makes it unreadable to anyone except those who own unique information about it, usually referred to as a key.
Decryption is the reverse process of encryptio... |
137533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azad%20Kashmir%20Day | Azad Kashmir Day | Azad Kashmir Day celebrates the 67th day of the Azad Jammu Kashmir government, created on 24 October 1947. However, most people celebrate it on 26 October as they class it as a lucky day once all the papers were signed and settled.
Kashmir
Holidays |
137536 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20cipher | Stream cipher | In cryptography, a stream cipher is a symmetric key cipher where plaintext bits are combined with a pseudorandom cipher bit stream (keystream) using an exclusive-or (xor) operation. In a stream cipher the Plaintext digits are encrypted one at a time, and the transformation of successive digits varies during the encrypt... |
137549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon | Nyon | Nyon is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is found 25 kilometers north of Geneva, and is part of the Geneva metropolitan area. The town has (as of 2006) 17,267 people.
History
Nyon was built by the Romans between 50 BCE and 44 BCE, and was called "Colonia Iulia Equestris"... |
137550 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterkenny | Letterkenny | Letterkenny () is a town in County Donegal of the Ireland. It is on the River Swilly and has a population of 17,586.
In 1824, when the first description of Letterkenny as a modern town was written, it was stated that: "Within half a mile is the Port of Ballyraine, whither vessels of 100 tons bring iron, salt and colo... |
137552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalwil | Thalwil | Thalwil is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
History
Early Middle Ages Thalwil was Alemannic farmland.
Thalwil was originally four Wachten, or hamlets:
Ludretikon, the oldest hamlet (mentioned in 915), bordering Rüschlikon
Oberdorf (Upper Village), the area around the ... |
137563 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearth | Hearth | A hearth (har-th) is a brick or stone lined fireplace or oven that is used for cooking and heating. Historically, the hearth was the center of the home, as it provided heat for the house. Its Latin name is focus. That is why "focus" is used for many kinds of central point.
In more modern times, the hearth may be secti... |
137567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-o%27-lantern | Jack-o'-lantern | A Jack-o'-lantern is a carved pumpkin, turnip, beet, or potato. In the 19th and 20th centuries people in Scotland and Ireland carved Halloween lanterns from large yellow turnips. This custom has become less prevalent in recent years as supermarkets have begun selling the larger and easier-to-carve American pumpkins.
... |
137586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes%20of%20Titan | Lakes of Titan | The lakes of Titan, a moon of Saturn, are made of liquid methane. The lakes were found by the Cassini-Huygens space probe. The larger lakes are known as maria (seas) and the smaller ones as lacūs (lakes).
It was possible that there were seas of liquid methane on Titan and first suggested after reading Voyager 1 and Vo... |
137588 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Coast%20blues | West Coast blues | The West Coast blues is a type of blues music related to jazz and jump blues, with lots of piano sounds and jazz guitar solos, which originated from Texas blues musicians that moved to California in the 1940s. West Coast blues also uses smooth, honey-toned vocals, often sounding similar to urban blues.
Texas and the ... |
137589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20person | Third person | Third person (or third-person) may refer to:
A grammatical person, he, she, and they in many languages
Third-person narrative, a perspective in story-telling
Third-person view, a point-of-view in film, television, and video games that is shown outside any of the actors or characters.
Third-person shooter, a genre ... |
137590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Pottinger | Frederick Pottinger | Sir Frederick William Pottinger, 2nd Baronet (1831–1865), police inspector, was born on April 27, 1831, in India. He became famous for leading the New South Wales police in their hunt for the bushrangers Ben Hall, John Gilbert, Frank Gardiner and John Dunn.
Early life
He was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pot... |
137602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfire | Bushfire | A bushfire is a wildfire that happens mostly in the Australian bush. Bush is the word for scrub, woodland or grassland of Australia and New Zealand. In south east and south west of Australia, bushfires are most common in the summer and early autumn. In the north of Australia, bushfires usually happen during winter whic... |
137607 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20selection | Artificial selection | Artificial selection is the intentional breeding of plants or animals. It means the same thing as selective breeding and is an ancient method of genetic engineering.
Selective breeding is a technique used when breeding domesticated animals, such as dogs, pigeons or cattle. Some of these animals may have traits that a... |
137609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectable%20marker | Selectable marker | A selectable marker is a reporter gene introduced into a cell along with a gene insert. What this means is, the experimenter can tell the right gene is in the cell because the marker can be seen or detected.
Most often, this is used for bacteria or for cells in culture. Selectable markers show the success of a transf... |
137610 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20algorithm | Evolutionary algorithm | In Computer Science, especially in artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms are a kind of algorithm that simulate evolution to optimise something. Each generation of solution is subjected to some kind of fitness function; those that survive are then recombined in some way to make the next generation of solution... |
137611 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20life | Artificial life | Artificial life (commonly Alife or alife) is a field of study which examines systems related to life, its processes, and its evolution. This is done with simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. There are three main kinds of alife, named for their approaches: soft, from software; hard, from hardw... |
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