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10510 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%20Thompson | Lincoln Thompson | Lincoln Thompson (June 18, 1949 - January 23, 1999) was a Jamaican reggae musician, songwriter and Rastafarian. He spent 2 years in the Tartans as a teenager before working under Coxsone Dodd in the early 1970s. In 1974 he released his first record, Humanity. The album had popular singles but it did not sell many copie... |
10512 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Hanks | Tom Hanks | Tom Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and writer.
Career
Many of Hanks' early movies were comedies. He was made famous by his roles in Splash and Big. He made his way into drama with A League of Their Own and Philadelphia. He combined the two genres with Forrest Gump. Ha... |
10513 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook | Hook | Hook can mean:
Hook (movie), a movie based on the story of Peter Pan, starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman
Fishing hook, something used to catch fish
A hook is something that writers put at the end of a chapter or at the beginning in a book or paper used to encourage the reader to keep reading
Basic English 850... |
10516 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Mix-A-Lot | Sir Mix-A-Lot | Sir Mix-a-Lot (born Anthony Ray on August 12, 1963) is an American rapper and producer.
His style of music is called "hip-hop." He was born in Seattle, Washington. He is best known for his hit song "Baby Got Back". That song has catchy phrases and cheap humor, and it talks about liking women with big buttocks. This ma... |
10517 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20York | Dick York | Dick York (September 4, 1928 – February 20, 1992) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Darren Stephens on the television series Bewitched. York left the series in 1969 and was replaced by Dick Sargent.
1928 births
1992 deaths
Deaths from emphysema
American movie actors
American stage actors
American... |
10519 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Earl%20Jones | James Earl Jones | James Earl Jones (born Todd Jones on January 17, 1931) is an American actor. He is famous for doing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies, for doing the voice of Mufasa in The Lion King and in the 2019 remake, and for the CNN tagline ("This...is CNN"). He starred in Lincoln Portrait which has music by Aaron... |
10520 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20and%20Hobbes | Calvin and Hobbes | "Calvin and Hobbes" is a comic strip by Bill Watterson about a boy called Calvin and a tiger called Hobbes. When Calvin looks at Hobbes, he sees a real tiger. However, everyone else sees Hobbes as a toy. This comic began in 1985 and has been in over 2,400 newspapers. Readers bought almost 23 million Calvin and Hobbes b... |
10521 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Randall | Tony Randall | Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 - May 17 2004) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Felix Unger on the television series The Odd Couple.
Other websites
American movie actors
American television actors
Emmy Award winners
Actors from Oklahoma
1920 births
2004 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia |
10522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian | Lesbian | A lesbian is a homosexual woman. This means a woman who is sexually attracted to other women, and not to men.
The word lesbian comes from Lesbos (), an island in Greece. An ancient poet, Sappho, lived on Lesbos. Sappho wrote mostly poems about love. Many of her love poems are written to women. So her name and the isla... |
10523 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine | Maine | Maine is the northeast-most state in the United States. The capital is Augusta, although the city of Portland, farther south, is the largest in the state. Maine became the 23rd state, on March 15, 1820. It was previously a part of Massachusetts. Commercial Fishing, including lobster trapping, is a traditional and stil... |
10526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1884 | 1884 |
Births
May 8 – Harry S. Truman
October 11 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt (d. 1962)
December 30 – Hideki Tōjō, 40th Prime Minister of Japan, Led the Attack on Pearl Harbour (d. 1948)
Deaths
January 25 – Johann Gottfried Piefke, German conductor and composer (... |
10531 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niuatoputapu | Niuatoputapu | Niuatoputapu is an island in Tonga. It has a population of about 1200 people. Niuatoputapu is located in the north of the country, near to Samoa.
Tonga |
10532 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa | Samoa | The Independent State of Samoa is a country in the Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. It has two islands, including Upolu and Savai'i. The capital of Samoa is Apia. It is on the island of Upolu. The head of the country is Va'aletoa Sualauvi II.
The languages spoken in Samoa include Samoan ... |
10533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy%20Jones%20%28musician%29 | Davy Jones (musician) | David Thomas "Davy" Jones (December 30, 1945– February 29, 2012) was an English singer and actor. He was born in Manchester, England.
His father wanted him to be a jockey, but he wanted to be a performer. He appeared in the television programme, Coronation Street and in the London and Broadway versions of Oliver!. In... |
10534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Nesmith | Michael Nesmith | Robert Michael Nesmith (December 30, 1942 – December 10, 2021) was an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman and philanthropist.
Nesmith was born in Dallas, Texas on December 30, 1942. His mother, Bette Nesmith Graham invented Liquid Paper in 1951 and made the family very rich.
In the 1... |
10535 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Tork | Peter Tork | Peter Tork (February 13, 1942 – February 21, 2019) was an American actor and musician. His real name was Peter Halsten Thorkelson. He was born in Washington, D.C. He started as a folk musician in Greenwich Village. In 1966, he became famous as a member of The Monkees. He was recommended for the group by his friend Step... |
10537 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micky%20Dolenz | Micky Dolenz | George Michael Dolenz, Jr. (born March 8, 1945), better known as Micky Dolenz is an American actor, singer, director, and voice artist. He is most famous as a member of The Monkees.
1945 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Musicians from Los Angeles
Singers from ... |
10539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstar%20beer | Goldstar beer | Goldstar is an Israeli beer that has been brewed in Israel since the 1950s.
It is defined as a Munich-style beer. Goldstar contains 4.9% alcohol.
Beer |
10547 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1797 | 1797 |
Events
January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers.
January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Republic adopts the Italian green-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.
February 14 – The Battle of Cape St. Vince... |
10548 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1851 | 1851 |
Events
January 23 – The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning.
March 1 – Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times
March 27 – First reported cas... |
10554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique%20de%20Villepin | Dominique de Villepin | Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (born November 14, 1953), simply known as Dominique de Villepin, was Premier (or Prime Minister) of France from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007. He was made Premier by Jacques Chirac after the French President removed Jean-Pierre Raffarin from the premiership. Raffarin fai... |
10575 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Drake | Francis Drake | Vice Admiral Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. He was born in Tavistock and grew up in Kent, where he learned to be a sailor. Soon he was a shipmaster (captain). Queen Elizabeth I awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581... |
10576 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Commons%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom | House of Commons of the United Kingdom | The term House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is made up of Members of Parliament elected by the people. Sometimes it is called the 'lower house'. (The 'upper house' is called the House of Lords.) Other countries also have a bicameral parliament with a House of Commons working... |
10577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wank | Wank | Wank is a mountain in the Bavarian Alps, by Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, close to the Austrian border.
Wank is 1780m tall, and has a cable car, the Wankbahn, which takes people almost all the way to the top. Near the peak, there is an inn called the Wankhaus which was built in 1911 that allows people to spend th... |
10588 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1685 | 1685 | Year 1685 was a common year that started on a Monday when using the Gregorian calendar.
Events
February 6 – James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland.
February 18 – Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for F... |
10589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank%20Aaron | Hank Aaron | Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021) was a professional baseball player who played right field. He played baseball professionally for 22 years and hit 755 home runs. Even though he has 755 home runs in his career, he never hit 50 or more in a season. He was selected for 25 All-Star games. He was pu... |
10590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu | Vishnu | Lord Maha Vishnu is the Supreme Godhead of Vaishnavism (Para Brahman or Nirguna Brahman) in puranas. He is called Swambhagwan in the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Vishnu is one of the three main Gods in Hinduism and is the Absolute Supreme being in the Vaishnava tradition. Vishnu is one of the members in the Trimurti in Hi... |
10593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money%20laundering | Money laundering | Money laundering is something some criminals do to hide the money they make from crimes. Criminals do money laundering to make it hard for the police to find out where the criminal got the money.
One way criminals launder money is by using the money earned from illegal activities to buy things (like gold and silver, s... |
10594 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus | Zeus | Zeus is the god of the sky, lightning and the thunder in Ancient Greek religion and mythology, and ruler of all the gods on Mount Olympus. Zeus is the sixth child of Cronos and Rhea, king and queen of the Titans respectively. His father, Cronos, swallowed his children as soon as they were born for fear of a prophecy wh... |
10595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20biology | Evolutionary biology | Evolutionary biology is a subfield of biology that studies how species start and change over time; or in other words, how species evolve. Someone who studies evolutionary biology is known as an evolutionary biologist.
History
Evolutionary biology became an academic subject as a result of the modern evolutionary synth... |
10596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1488 | 1488 |
Births
January 6 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (d. 1540)
January 20
John George, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian noble (d. 1533)
Sebastian Münster, German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. 1552)
March 19 – Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
April 16 – Jungjong ... |
10597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1695 | 1695 | 1695 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
February 6 – Mustafa II (1695–1703) succeeds Ahmed II as Ottoman Emperor.
July 17 – The Bank of Scotland is founded.
Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
Gold is discovered in Brazil.
April 17 – Juana de Asbaje |
10598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1767 | 1767 |
Events
July 2 – Pitcairn Islands discovered (found) by Captain Philip Cartaret in HMS Swallow
Births
March 15 – Andrew Jackson
July 11 – John Quincy Adams |
10599 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1848 | 1848 |
Events
February 24 – The February Revolution begins.
Births
February 27 – Hubert Parry, English composer
March 19 – James Otis, American children's writer
June 7 – Paul Gauguin, French painter
Deaths
February 23 – John Quincy Adams
New Books
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray |
10600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/222%20BC | 222 BC |
Events
By place
Greece
Cleomenes III is defeated and the Spartan army annihilated by the Achaean League and the Macedonians in the Battle of Sellasia.
Ptolemy IV succeeds his father Ptolemy III as king of Egypt.
Rome
Marcus Claudius Marcellus leads the Romans to victory in the Battle of Clastidium, conquering t... |
10601 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla%20Firefox | Mozilla Firefox | Mozilla Firefox (branded as Firefox Quantum or simply known as Firefox) is a free and open source web browser which is made by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It works on common operating systems, such as Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. With Firefox, browsing features can be added... |
10602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny%20Kravitz | Lenny Kravitz | Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American actor, rock singer, songwriter and musician. Some of his biggest hit songs include "It Ain't Over Til It's Over", "Again", and "Fly Away". He sung on "(I Can't Make It) Another Day" Michael Jackson's 2010 album Michael. He also wrote and produced the son... |
10605 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854 | 1854 |
Events
January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is born.
March 20 –The Boston Public Library opens to the public.
June 24 - Franz Liszt shows Franz Schubert's opera Alfonso und Estrella in Weimar. This was thirty-two years after it was composed.
August 9 –Johann succeeds to the throne of Saxony on the ... |
10606 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900 | 1900 | 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian Calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian Calendar. It was the last year of the 19th century.
Art, music, theatre, literature
May 17 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is published.
Events
February 9 – The ... |
10607 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdbox | Birdbox | A birdbox is a human-made, usually wooden box used as a house for birds. It is suitable as a bird home because it is similar to a natural bird home, such as a hollow tree, and birds often make nests inside birdboxes. Birdboxes are often put on trees. They are often made by people who are fond of birds, but they are als... |
10610 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accent | Accent | An accent is the way a person speaks.
Some people pronounce words differently. A lot of the time, different countries that speak the same language pronounce the same words in a different way. Usually they can understand each-other, but they will notice that they sound a little different.
Sometimes, people will talk ... |
10623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Braille | Louis Braille | Louis Braille (4 January 1809 - 6 January 1852) was a French inventor. He was born in Coupvray. He invented the script braille system, which helps blind people to read. Braille is read by passing one's fingers over characters made up of an arrangement of one to six embossed points. It has been adapted to almost every k... |
10624 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial | Marsupial | Marsupials are the main part of an infraclass of mammals called the Metatheria. This consists of the marsupials and their extinct ancestors. There are about 320 different species.
Reproduction
Marsupials give birth to living young. The young are called joeys. The joeys feed on milk. They are born very small.
Marsup... |
10625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.%20J.%20Thomas | B. J. Thomas | Billy Joe "BJ" Thomas (August 7, 1942 – May 29, 2021) was an American country singer-songwriter. Thomas was born in Hugo, Oklahoma.
His most famous songs are "Hooked upon a feeling" and "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head", which was in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He sang throughout the 1970s. He chan... |
10632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws%20of%20war | Laws of war | The Laws of war are some simple rules or international law which most people accept about fighting out of humanitarianism. Many people think that because there is fighting, there should be no rules. This is called "total war". However, laws of war have been made so that wars do not get worse than they need to be.
Anyt... |
10648 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra | Maharashtra | Maharashtra is the name of a state in India. Its language is Marathi. It is the fourth biggest state of India by area and second biggest state in India based on population. Only one Indian state has more people (Uttar Pradesh). Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra. (The name Mumbai comes from the original name of the c... |
10655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete%20Best | Pete Best | Randolph Peter Best or Pete Best (born Randolph Peter Scanland; 24 November 1941) was The Beatles's original drummer. He was born on 24 November 1941 in Madras, India to an Indian mother and an English father. His mother, Mona, later owned the Casbah Club in Liverpool, where The Beatles would sometimes perform. Best wa... |
10656 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne%20Quintuplets | Dionne Quintuplets | The Dionne Quintuplets were the first quintuplets (five babies born at the same time from the same mother) to survive after being born. They were born in Ontario, Canada on May 28, 1934 to Elzire and Oliva Dionne. They were:
Annette
Cecile
Emilie (died on August 6, 1954 from an epilepsy seizure)
Marie (died on Februa... |
10677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%27s%20Well%20That%20Ends%20Well | All's Well That Ends Well | All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is a comedy. It was based on a story in Boccaccio's Decameron. The date All's Well was written is uncertain, but it was probably written between 1600 and 1603. It was probably first performed about 1602-1603, and probably first printed in the First Folio of... |
10707 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fag | Fag | Fag can mean different things:
Cigarette (British slang)
Faggot (slang), a slang term for a homosexual man
Fag, a term in schools like Eton College, for a younger boy who acts as the servant of an older boy. |
10713 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20%28title%29 | Christ (title) | In Christianity, the Christ (; ) is a title for the savior and redeemer who would bring salvation to the Jewish people and mankind. Christ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew title Messiah (; anointed one), the figure promised by God to the Jewish people and mankind for the salvation of the world. Christians believe... |
10722 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Bale | Christian Bale | Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. He is from Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire. Bale is best known for playing Batman in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy. He began in a movie of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun. He also played in American Psycho and The Machinist. In ... |
10744 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Clapton | Eric Clapton | Eric Patrick Clapton (born 30 March 1945, in The Green, Ripley, Surrey, England) is an English guitarist, singer and composer. Clapton is the son of a sixteen-year-old, Patricia Clapton, and Edward Fryer, a Canadian soldier stationed in England. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 2 on its list of Greatest Guita... |
10745 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos%20Aires | Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city in the South American country of Argentina.
Buenos Aires city is also known as Capital Federal to differentiate the city from the Buenos Aires Province.
Until 1994 Buenos Aires city was under the presidential government, but after a constitutional reform in that year, the ... |
10747 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon%20B.%20Johnson | Lyndon B. Johnson | Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often called by his initials LBJ, was an American politician. He was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Before becoming president, he was the 37th vice president of the United States from 1961 to 1963. He became president when President... |
10754 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Church | Catholic Church | The Catholic Church is the largest Christian church in the world. It has over one billion members, and is the world's largest religious group. Its members believe that Jesus Christ started the Catholic Church 2,000 years ago. The Church’s headquarters are in the Vatican City.
The word "catholic" comes from the Greek... |
10760 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villeneuve-d%27Ascq | Villeneuve-d'Ascq | Villeneuve-d'Ascq (which means New city of Ascq in French) is one of the main cities of the metropolis of Lille, in France. It is between Lille and Roubaix, at the crossroads of the principal freeways towards Paris, Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels,
Demography
Villeneuve-d'Ascq has more than 65,000 people and attracts 50,... |
10762 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary%20Clinton | Hillary Clinton | Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician. She was the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. Clinton was the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. She is a former U.S. Senator, First Lady of the United States and First... |
10776 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra%20Pradesh | Andhra Pradesh | Andhra Pradesh () () is a state in the Republic of India. It has a population of 75,727,000 people according to the census of 2001. The eastern boundary is a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. Its latitude and longitude is 17.3660°N and 78.4760°E. The state has an area of . It is bigger than Burkina Faso but smaller t... |
10777 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Vargas | Alberto Vargas | Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez (9 February 1896 – 30 December 1982), better known as Alberto Vargas, was a Peruvian-born painter, best known for his pin-up paintings of beautiful women. In the 1930s he became famous for movie posters. In the 1940s and 1950s he painted for Esquire Magazine and in the 1960s and 1970s fo... |
10778 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Lucas | George Lucas | George James Walton Lucas Jr (born May 14, 1944 in Modesto, California) is an American movie director, producer, and screenwriter most famous for his Star Wars and Indiana Jones movie series.
He also directed the movies THX 1138 (1970) and American Graffiti (1973). He made the Indiana Jones series with Steven Spielber... |
10779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu | Telugu | Telugu is an Indian language spoken in the southern part of India. It is the official language of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Telugu is the second most spoken language in India and 15th largest spoken language in the world. As it is one of the... |
10808 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%203 | PlayStation 3 | The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is the third video game console made by Sony. It was released in Japan on November 11, 2006. It came out on November 17, 2006 in North America, and was released in Australia and Europe on 23 March 2007. It competed against the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii consoles.
The PlayStation 3 is a... |
10812 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%202 | PlayStation 2 | The PlayStation 2 is Sony's second video game console. It was released in March of 2000. The one before this was PlayStation (or PS1). The next PlayStation is PlayStation 3 which was released in November 2006. The controllers of the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 are the same, but the PlayStation 3 is used wirelessly ... |
10813 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony | Sony | Sony is a technology company, based in Japan, which makes many electric products. Among its most popular products is the video game console PlayStation, which was followed by PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and now the PlayStation 4. They also sold the Walkman invented by Andreas Pavel - a small music audio cassette playe... |
10814 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox%20360 | Xbox 360 | The Xbox 360 is the second video game console released by Microsoft, after 2001's Xbox. It was released on November 16, 2005, 1462 days after the original Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes against the Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation 3. All three are called next-generation or seventh generation consoles. The Xbox 360 was o... |
10817 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox%20%28console%29 | Xbox (console) | The Xbox is a video game console (a machine that plays video games and DVDS). It was made by Microsoft from November 2001 to October 2005. A person plays the games with a controller. The controllers were very large in the beginning, but were made smaller later. The Xbox video game console can play music, DVDs, and game... |
10821 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube | GameCube | The Nintendo GameCube (also called GameCube, NGC, GCN, or GC for short) is the fourth video game home console made by Nintendo. Nintendo's previous console was called the Nintendo 64. Nintendo's next console is called the Nintendo Wii, released in 2006 with models released before November 2011 being backwards compatibl... |
10822 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fangame | Fangame | Fangames are computer games created by fans based on popular video games. They are often made using C++, The Games Factory, Multimedia Fusion Express, and GameMaker. But now with free versions available of powerful game development tools available, some fangames are made in either Unity or Unreal Engine.
Other website... |
10847 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw | Wrocław | is the biggest city in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in the southwest part of Poland. The German name of the city is Breslau, and the Czech name is Vratislav. The Oder River goes through the city. There are also 4 other small rivers which connect with the Oder River in the territory of the city: Bystrzyca, Oława, Ślęza a... |
10853 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906 | 1906 | 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
April 18 – An earthquake in San Francisco, California kills at least three thousand people.
Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish do... |
10857 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20Albano | Lou Albano | Louis Vincent Albano (born July 29, 1933 - died October 14, 2009) was a very famous American professional wrestler in the 1980s. Albano is best known as Captain Lou Albano. He also appeared in Cyndi Lauper's music video "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and played Mario on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, based on the seri... |
10858 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip%20synching | Lip synching | Lip synching is when a person moves his or her lips at the same time as a recorded sound or with another person. Some artists lip sync a live performance because they are not as confident and want to avoid hitting possible bad notes.
The word synch is short for synchronize, meaning to do something at the same time.
... |
10860 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith%20Evans | Faith Evans | Faith Evans (born June 10, 1973 in Lakeland, Florida). She grew up in Newark New Jersey. She is an American R&B singer. Her first husband, "The Notorious B.I.G.", died in a drive-by shooting in 1997 . She has been arrested for cocaine and marijuana. Evans' album R&B Divas was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 2014 Gr... |
10861 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria | Bacteria | Bacteria (sing. bacterium) are very small organisms. They are prokaryotic microorganisms. Bacterial cells do not have a nucleus, and most have no organelles with membranes around them. Most have a cell wall. They do have DNA, and their biochemistry is basically the same as other living things. They are amongst the simp... |
10862 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Theft%20Auto%3A%20San%20Andreas | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is one of the video games for the Grand Theft Auto game series. It was made by Rockstar Games. The game came out on the PlayStation 2 first and later on Xbox and PC. In this game, the player can do whatever they want, including hitting or killing people, damaging cars and properties and su... |
10866 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Andreas | San Andreas | San Andreas may mean:
San Andreas Fault, the 1000 km fault
San Andreas, California, a place in the United States
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a video game for PlayStation 2, PC and Xbox |
10870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Switzer | Barry Switzer | Barry Switzer (born October 5, 1937 in Crossett, Arkansas, USA) was an American football coach. He coached both professional and college football for 32 years. Switzer is one of only three head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl. He has one of the highest winning percentages i... |
10873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant | Constant | A constant is something that does not change. Constants (numbers) are used in maths and computer programming.
An important fact to remember in calculus is that the derivative of a constant is always zero.
Related pages
Variable
Mathematics
Computer science |
10896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker | Poker | Poker is a game which people play with a normal set (or deck) of 52 cards. Poker is a gambling game which involves some luck, but also some skill. In poker, players make bets against each other depending on the value of their poker hand. Bets are usually made with plastic or ceramic discs called chips. Bets may also... |
10897 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Salvador | El Salvador | El Salvador () is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital and largest city is San Salvador. Other important cities are: Santa Ana and Sonsonate. El Salvador borders the Pacific Ocean on the south, and the countries of Guatemala to the west and Honduras to the north and ... |
10898 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20of%20Hainaut | Isabelle of Hainaut | Isabelle of Hainaut (5 April, 1170 - 15 March, 1190) was a Queen of France. She was born in Lille on 5 April 1170. Her father was Baldwin V of Hainaut and her mother was Margaret I of Flanders. She married Philip II of France in 1180.
1170 births
1190 deaths
Kings and Queens consort of France
People from Lille |
10901 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragaria | Fragaria | is the Latin name used in science for the genus of about 20 species of strawberries, plants in the rose family that grow small sweet red fruit. The most well-known and most grown of these species is the strawberry Fragaria× ananassa. The other species are informally known as the wildstrawberries.
Name is a Latin word ... |
10902 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1859 | 1859 |
Events
The Suez Canal begins to be built in Egypt.
January 24 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time).
Deaths
Date unknown – Mahmud Bayazidi, Kurdish polyma... |
10903 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Simon | Paul Simon | Paul Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician and songwriter. He is of Jewish descent and became famous as a member of Simon and Garfunkel, with his friend, Art Garfunkel. He wrote their songs. The two went their separate ways in the early 1970s and since then Simon has become a successful solo artist.
Pa... |
10904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley%20Jones | Shirley Jones | Shirley Jones (b. March 31, 1934) is an American and singer and actress. She appeared in movie musicals, singing a leading role in movies such as Oklahoma!, The Music Man, and Carousel.
Jones had a supporting role in the movie Elmer Gantry, starring actor Burt Lancaster. She is also famous for her role as Shirley Par... |
10905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeForest%20Kelley | DeForest Kelley | Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999) was an American actor.
Roles
Kelley is most famous for his role as Dr. Leonard McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek and the six movies that followed.
Also known as well as an older Admiral Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Fleet Surgeon Gener... |
10906 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Bakula | Scott Bakula | Scott Bakula (October 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles on the television shows, Quantum Leap and Star Trek: Enterprise.
Other websites
Shenandoah at Ford's Theatre.
Scott Bakula 2000 Interview on Sidewalks Entertainment
American television actors
Actors from St. Louis, Missouri
1954 bir... |
10907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestry | Forestry | Forestry means working to take care of forests. Someone who has a job looking after forests is called a forester.
Forests are very important for the world today. Much of the water cycle and carbon cycle goes through forests. Many of them are disappearing because people destroy them for firewood or to make farms. A f... |
10913 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20soccer%20teams | List of United States soccer teams |
Major League Soccer
Eastern Conference
Atlanta United FC
Charlotte FC
Chicago Fire FC
Columbus Crew
Cincinnati FC
D.C. United
Inter Miami CF
CF Montréal
New England Revolution
New York City FC
New York Red Bulls
Orlando City SC
Philadelphia Union
Toronto FC
Western Conference
Austin FC
Colorado Rapids
FC Dallas
H... |
10914 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/800s%20BC | 800s BC |
Events
The poet, Homer is thought to have lived.
Dido, Queen of Carthage is thought to have lived.
804 BC - The empire of Assyria takes over the city of Damascus.
804 BC - The Egyptian ruler Pedubastis I dies.
Ancient Italian society develops.
Olmec people start to build pyramids. |
10915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon | Oregon | Oregon is a state in the United States. Salem is the capital (where most of the state government works), and Portland is the city with the most people. Oregon was the 33rd state to join the United States, in 1859.
Geography
The state of Washington is to the north of Oregon. California and Nevada are to the south. Idah... |
10917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas | Arkansas | Arkansas, nicknamed the Land of Opportunity or The Natural State, is a state in the United States of America. Its capital and largest city is Little Rock. It has been estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015 that around 2,978,204 people live in Arkansas.
History
Arkansas became the 25th state to enter the Union in ... |
10918 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Englund | Robert Englund | Robert Englund (born June 6, 1949 in Glendale, California) is an American actor. He is most famous for playing Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
References
Other websites
Robert Englund's official website
Robert Englund interview with the Horror Asylum
Robert Englund interview by Ladyghost
R... |
10921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20IV%20of%20France | Henry IV of France | Henry IV (13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was part of the Capetian dynasty and the first king of the Bourbon family in France.
Life
Henry IV was born in Pau. He was the son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne of Navarre. He was ... |
10922 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20of%20Valois | Margaret of Valois | Margaret of Valois (May 14, 1553 – May 27, 1615) was a Princess of France and a member of the house of Valois.
Her father was Henry II of France and her mother was Catherine of Medici. She was also the sister of Francis II of France, Charles IV of France and Henry III of France. Margaret was then married to Henry IV o... |
10923 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%20Margot | Queen Margot | Queen Margot is a book written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is a story about Margaret of Valois and Henry IV of France. The same author wrote many other books including The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
1845 books |
10924 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta%20Maria%20of%20France | Henrietta Maria of France | Henrietta Maria of France (November 25, 1609 - September 10, 1669) was the youngest daughter of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici. She was born in the Louvre Palace in Paris on November 25, 1609. She was a Roman Catholic.
Henrietta Maria married Charles I and became the Queen of England.
Issue
1609 births
1669... |
10930 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna | Madonna | Madonna could mean:
Mary (mother of Jesus), called "The Madonna".
Madonna (entertainer) - American singer, actress, and writer.
Madona, a city in Latvia. |
10931 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%20%28entertainer%29 | Madonna (entertainer) | Madonna Louise Ciccone, commonly known as Madonna (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, author, director, philanthropist, businesswoman, record producer, film director, and humanitarian. Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan, but she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career... |
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