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140810 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism | Abolitionism | Abolitionism was a movement that wanted to end the practice of slavery in Europe and in America. It was mainly active during the 18th and 19th centuries. Until the 18th century, few people criticized slavery. But thinkers of the Enlightenment started to criticize it, because in their opinion slavery was against human ... |
140811 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Outsiders%20%28novel%29 | The Outsiders (novel) | The Outsiders is a novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she began writing the novel and 17 when it was published. The Outsiders is the lifestory of fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Michael Curtis. Hinton explores a multitude of themes throughout the story, such as friendship, and ... |
140813 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20disobedience | Civil disobedience | Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence. It is one of the primary tactics of nonviolent resistance.
The American author Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in h... |
140816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20David%20Thoreau | Henry David Thoreau | Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817– May 6, 1862) was an American author, naturalist and philosopher. His friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson had a great impact on him, and supported him in many ways. Emerson provided a place for Thoreau to live at Walden Pond, which inspired his book, Walden. He is best known for his book, Wal... |
140818 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saying%20Sorry | Saying Sorry | Saying Sorry is a song by Hawthorne Heights released in 2006 from their second album, If Only You Were Lonely. It was their first single to reach the Top 10.
While in the music video the band all wears white, it can also be seen on the back of the album cover.
References
Other websites
Watch the music video
2006 s... |
140819 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Parade | Love Parade | The Love Parade was a big festival centered around Techno music in Germany. Trucks with loudspeakers and deejays played loud music and passersby danced to it. The festival began in Berlin in 1989. It had been held most years in different locations. In 2004 and 2005, there were no Love Parades. The first Love Parade was... |
140820 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Silence%20in%20Black%20and%20White | The Silence in Black and White | The Silence in Black and White is the first album released by Hawthorne Heights. it was released on June 1, 2004. It was released by Victory Records. On Monday, June 27, 2005 the 2 disc special edition CD/DVD was released. The CD contains acoustic versions of most of the songs. It also contains a DVD containing live pe... |
140826 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gamblers | The Gamblers | The Gamblers is a German drama movie directed and written by Sebastian Bieniek. The movie was first released on June 20, 2007 in Shanghai.
Other websites
Official Webpage
2007 drama movies
German-language movies
German drama movies |
140833 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleeha%20Lodhi | Maleeha Lodhi | Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, HI, is a journalist, academic, and diplomat from Pakistan. Till recently, she was the high commissioner of Pakistan to the United Kingdom. She was ambassador from Pakistan to the United States from 1994-1997 and 1999-2002.
At present she is a Fellow at the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School, Har... |
140842 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturism | Naturism | Naturism or nudism (from Latin nudus - nude) is a term used by many action groups in society. These action groups usually want to spread the news that being naked is a good feeling, even around other people. Usually males and females are mixed and spend their time together. Nakedness is seen without any relation to ... |
140843 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean%20region | Mediterranean region | The Mediterranean region is the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This includes places from Europe and Africa and Asia. Most of the region has a Mediterranean climate with warm to hot dry summers and cool to mild wet winters. Plants that grow there are short trees and shrubs which survive the yearly drought dur... |
140844 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic%20languages | Turkic languages | The Turkic languages are a language family of some thirty languages. They are spoken by Turkic peoples across an area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western and Northern China. Traditionally people think that they are part of the Altaic language family.
Turkic languages are spoken by some 180... |
140846 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20de%20Coubertin | Pierre de Coubertin | Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937) was a French teacher and historian. He was very interested in physical education and he loved the idea of a gymnasium as the ancient Greeks had, were young and old learned and sported together. He is the founder of the International Olympic Commi... |
140847 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamonix | Chamonix | Chamonix is a French commune next to Mont Blanc. It is in the Haute-Savoie department. The Winter Olympic Games were there in 1924.
Olympic cities |
140848 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertville | Albertville | Albertville is a French commune in the Savoie department. Its population is about 17,300 (1999 census). The commune hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1992.
Communes in Savoie
Olympic cities
Subprefectures in France |
140879 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%20%28letter%29 | Shin (letter) | Shin is the twenty-first letter in the Hebrew alphabet.
Hebrew alphabet |
140882 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamedh | Lamedh | Lamed or Lamedh is the twelfth letter in the Hebrew alphabet.
Hebrew alphabet |
140884 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%20Turnpike | Kansas Turnpike | The Kansas Turnpike is a road in Kansas, part of the United States. The road is a turnpike—a payment must be made to use it. The road is 236 miles, or 380 kilometers, long. It starts at the line between Kansas and Oklahoma, and goes to Kansas City. It runs through many important cities in Kansas, including Wichita, Top... |
140885 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20Klein | Calvin Klein | Calvin Klein Inc. is an American fashion brand founded in 1968 by Calvin Klein.
American clothing companies
Fashion houses
Companies based in New York City
1968 establishments in New York (state) |
140886 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrie%20Melodies | Merrie Melodies | Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters.
By 1944, no distinctions existed between ... |
140896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Dewey | John Dewey | John Dewey (born 20 October 1859) was an American psychologist and philosopher. He was born in Burlington, Vermont. Dewey graduated from the University of Vermont. He later taught at many schools. In September 1882, Dewey went to the Johns Hopkins University and studied philosophy and psychology and published the paper... |
140901 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscript%20and%20superscript | Subscript and superscript | Subscript is the text which a small letter/number is written after a particular letter/number. It hangs below its letter or number. It is used when writing chemical compounds. An example of subscript is N2.
Superscript is the small letter / number above a particular letter / number. An example of superscript is 25. Th... |
140904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Middle | The Middle | "The Middle" is a 2001 song released by Jimmy Eat World from their album, Bleed American. It is the third song from their album.
The song is not what is usually heard from the band. It is one of the more straightforward, upbeat songs, its also one of their most well-known singles.
There is electric guitar, drums and ... |
140906 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed%20American | Bleed American | Bleed American is the fourth album released by Jimmy Eat World and was made available in 2001. They had to change the title in stores to Salt Sweat Sugar because they were scared Bleed American would be taken the wrong way, possibly in an offensive way due to the September 11 attacks.
Songs
Bleed American (some copi... |
140910 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackpool%20tramway | Blackpool tramway | The Blackpool tramway is a tramway that runs from Blackpool to Fleetwood, on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire, England. The tramway was built in 1885. It is one of the oldest electric tramways in the world and is the only one of the earliest tramways that is still in operation in the United Kingdom.
The tramway is owned ... |
140913 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Church%20of%20the%20East | Ancient Church of the East | The Ancient Church of the East is an Assyrian church.
The church separated from the Assyrian Church of the East. This happened because Mar Shimun XXIII, the patriarch of Assyrian Church of the East introduced reforms which were not supported. These reforms included changes such as those of using the new Roman calenda... |
140915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial%20collectivity | Territorial collectivity | A Territorial collectivity ( or sometimes called collectivité locale) in the France, is a name for all dependent areas. They have an elected local government and (per article #72 of the French constitution) a "certain freedom of administration". In 2018 Corsica became the first collectivité territoriale in metropolitan... |
140916 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleartext | Cleartext | In telecommunications, cleartext is the form of a message or data which is in a form that is immediately understandable to a human being without additional processing. In particular, it implies that this message is sent or stored without cryptographic protection. The phrases, "in clear", "en clair" and "in the clear" a... |
140918 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print%20server | Print server | A print server, or printer server, is a computer or device that is connected to one or more printers and to a network. It accepts print jobs from client computers, then prints the jobs on the requested printer.
The term can refer to:
A computer running any of the printing servers software; implementing any of the net... |
140920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Time%20Protocol | Network Time Protocol | The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol for distributing the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over IP networks.
NTP is one of the oldest Internet Protocols still in use (since before 1985) and uses UDP port 123.
References
Other websites
NTP Public Services Pr... |
140922 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Athena | Project Athena | Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM. It was launched in 1983, and research and development continued until June 30, 1991, eight years after it began. It is widely believed that the goals were to create a computing environment that would utilize up to 1,000 workstations but... |
140926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session%20key | Session key | A session key is a single-use symmetric key used for encrypting all messages in one communication session. A closely related term is traffic encryption key or TEK, which refers to any symmetric key that is used to encrypt traffic messages. Typically TEKs are changed frequently, in some systems daily and in others for e... |
140928 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kite%20Runner | The Kite Runner | The Kite Runner is a 2003 book written by Afghan-American Khaled Hosseini.
In The Kite Runner, Amir and Hassan grow up together in Afghanistan like brothers, although they could not be more different. Amir is the son of a rich businessman, a Sunni Muslim, a Pashtun. He is educated and loves to read and write. Hassan'... |
140929 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined%20oral%20contraceptive%20pill | Combined oral contraceptive pill | The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP) is a contraceptive for women. It is often called birth control pill or simply "The Pill." The pills contain hormones that make the women who take them infertile. Women who take the pill will not become pregnant during sexual intercourse. When a woman stops taking the pills, s... |
140932 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization%20%28computer%20science%29 | Synchronization (computer science) | In computer science, synchronization refers to one of two different but related concepts: synchronization of processes, and synchronization of data.
Process synchronization refers to the idea that multiple processes are to link or handshake at a certain point, so as to reach an agreement or commit to a certain seque... |
140934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-server | Client-server | In Computer science, client-server is a software architecture model consisting of two parts, client systems and server systems, both communicating over a computer network or on the same computer. A client-server application is a distributed system made up of both client and server software. Client server application pr... |
140957 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream | Mainstream | Mainstream is a term that usually refers to the common current of thought held by the majority, meaning that "mainstream" things are those that are currently popular with most people. It is most often applied in the arts (i.e., music, literature, and performance). This includes:
something that is ordinary or usual;
... |
140960 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel%20Agila | Opel Agila | Opel Agila was a car from the German carmaker Opel from 2000 to 2015.
Suzuki Wagon R+ and Splash
The Suzuki Wagon R+ is a badge engineered version of the Agila. It was replaced by the Splash in 2008 in Europe, however it is still available in countries such as Japan. You may still be able to buy a new Wagon R+ if yo... |
140962 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heatseekers%20Albums | Heatseekers Albums | Heatseekers Albums (formerly Top Heatseekers) is a weekly music chart for albums introduced by Billboard in 1993. It was created to publish sales by new and developing musical recording artists. Albums that appear on Top Heatseekers may also appear on the Billboard 200 at the same time.
Top Heatseekers contains fifty... |
140965 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo%20Entertainment | Zoo Entertainment | Zoo Entertainment was an American record label, and a part of BMG. The label was created in the early 1990s by Lou Maglia, the former president of Island Records. It is now out of operation. Maglia and former BMG executive Kevin Czinger ran Zoo Entertainment and its successor company Volcano Entertainment. When money r... |
140982 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subculture | Subculture | A subculture is a group of people involved in a community of some sort. Subcultures can be hobbies, groups or communities. A subculture is a group of people with a culture (whether distinct or hidden) which makes them different from the larger culture that they belong to, known as the "dominant" culture. If a subcultur... |
140983 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg%20%28disambiguation%29 | Luxembourg (disambiguation) | Luxembourg can mean:
Luxembourg, a small country in Western Europe
Luxembourg Franc, the currency Luxembourg used to use
Luxembourgish language, the main language in Luxembourg
Luxembourg (city), the capital of Luxembourg
Luxembourg (province), a province in Belgium |
140984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingfield%2C%20Wiltshire | Wingfield, Wiltshire | Wingfield is a village in the county of Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.
Location
Wingfield is two miles west of the town of Trowbridge.
Other websites
Wingfield on Genuki
www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Wingfield and surrounding area
Villages in Wiltshire |
140985 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigme%20Khesar%20Namgyel%20Wangchuck | Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (born 21 February 1980) is the son of Jigme Singye Wangchuck and the 5th and current reigning Dragon King (Druk Gyalpo) of the Kingdom of Bhutan. He became king on 9 December 2006. He was officially crowned on 1 November 2008.
References
Kings and queens
Bhutanese people
1980 births
Liv... |
140997 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late%20Registration | Late Registration | Late Registration is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Kanye West, released on August 30, 2005, by Roc-A-Fella Records. Late Registration debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 860,000 copies in its first week. The album has thus far sold over 3.1 million units in the United States a... |
141000 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barangay%20Santa%20Clara%2C%20Santa%20Maria%2C%20Bulacan | Barangay Santa Clara, Santa Maria, Bulacan | Santa Clara (PSGC: 031423021) is one of the twenty-four barangays composing the municipality of Santa Maria, Bulacan, in the Philippines. It is bordered by Barangay Lalakhan on the southwest, Bagbaguin on the south, Poblacion on the east, Sta. Cruz on the north and Barangay Tambubong in Bocaue on the west.
Geography
... |
141005 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis%20lazuli | Lapis lazuli | Lapis lazuli is a mineral, and a gemstone. It is formed as a metamorphic rock of the limestone type.
Lapis is famous for its beautiful blue colour: its name means "stone of blue". Lapis Lazuli has been used for many things. Its has been made into beads and used in jewellery since Prehistoric times. It can be carved in... |
141008 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royan | Royan | Royan is a city in the south west of France near the Atlantic Ocean and the Gironde estuary. About 18 100 (2005) people live in the city. Royan is a famous seaside resort, with five sandy beaches, a marina and a fishing port.
Communes in Charente-Maritime |
141022 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%203 | Spider-Man 3 | Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 superhero movie directed by Sam Raimi. It is a sequel movie to Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 and has Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in the same roles as Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson. Spiderman gets a black suit from space, which begins to make him angry when fighting his enemies the Sandman and... |
141026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled%20language | Controlled language | Controlled natural languages (CNLs) are artificial languages built by simplifying the grammar and reducing the number of words in the language to avoid ambiguity or complexity.
There are two types of controlled languages: some designed to help non-native speakers of a language, and some designed to enable automatic se... |
141027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20language | Artificial language | An artificial language is a language specially made for a purpose. These languages can be based on an existing natural language or can be artificial.
Some types of artificial languages are:
Constructed languages take the place of natural languages. They make human communication simpler, or make fictional worlds bel... |
141037 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benozzo%20Gozzoli | Benozzo Gozzoli | Benozzo Gozzoli (4 October 1497) was an Italian Renaissance painter. He is most famous for a small chapel that he decorated with frescos of the Procession of the Magi.
Life
Benozzo was born in Florence in about 1420. Nothing is known about his parents, or how he started training as an artist. The first that is known... |
141040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Am...%20Sasha%20Fierce | I Am... Sasha Fierce | {{Infobox Album
| name = I Am… Sasha Fierce
| type = studio
| artist = Beyoncé
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| released = November 12, 2008
| recorded = 2007–2008
| length = 41:46 (standard edition)
| genre =
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|Reviews =
About.com 2008
Allmusic 2008
Billboard (favourable) 2008
Entertainmen... |
141047 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Shearston | Gary Shearston | Gary Reht Shearston (born January 9 1939) is an Australian singer and songwriter. He was a leading figure of the folk music scene of the 1960s. He is important as a singer of Australian traditional folk songs. He scored a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom in 1974 with version of the Cole Porter classic I Get A Kick Out ... |
141051 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flame%20in%20All%20of%20Us | The Flame in All of Us | The Flame in All of Us is the last album released by Thousand Foot Krutch. It was released on September 18, 2007. It has more of a rock sound than earlier albums, but also has some softer songs. The band recorded with producer Ken Andrews in the Spring of 2007. The album began at #58 on The Billboard 200 charts.
Five ... |
141052 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls%20Apart | Falls Apart | Falls Apart was a single released by Thousand Foot Krutch in 2007. It was made available online in July 2007. It is on their album The Flame in All of Us.
Music video
The "Falls Apart" video starts off showing the band in a dark wood room, with lots of rope around them. The members only have enough room to play their... |
141059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowra%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Cowra, New South Wales | Cowra is a city in the central west of New South Wales, Australia. It is in Cowra Shire. It is 310m above sea-level and about 300 km west of Sydney. Cowra is on the banks of the Lachlan River.
The first name for Cowra was Coura Rocks. This may have been the name of one of the first cattle farms. This name is probably... |
141062 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20computing | Network computing | Network computing is when computers work together over a network. Network computing is "Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network" This means that the network may use the power from all the networked computers to perform complex tasks. The network could also be for sharing files so that they can be lo... |
141067 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan | Loan | A loan is a type of debt. The borrower needs to repay the lender the sum of money loaned part by part over time in order to clear the debt.
Acting as a provider of loans is one of the main tasks for financial institutions. For other institutions, issuing of debt contracts such as bonds is a main source of funding. Ban... |
141068 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage | Mortgage | A mortgage is a way to use one's real property as a guarantee for a loan to get money. Real property can be land, a house, or a building. Many people do this to buy the home they use for mortgage: the loan provides them the money to buy the house and the loan is guaranteed by the house.
In a mortgage, there is a debt... |
141074 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth%20%28computing%29 | Bandwidth (computing) | In computer network and computer science, digital bandwidth or just bandwidth means the amount of data that can be sent from one point to another in a certain period of time. It is measured as a bit rate expressed in bits per second (bits/s) or multiples of it (kbit/s Mbit/s etc.)
Digital bandwidth should not be conf... |
141102 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki%20Fm | Niki Fm | Niki FM is a song by Hawthorne Heights. It is one of their most famous songs, and their second hit.
The band's singer, JT, says it is his most personal song from the album The Silence in Black and White, and is his favourite song to perform live in concert. They still play it at concerts, although without the harsh v... |
141107 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears%20of%20War%202 | Gears of War 2 | Gears of War 2 is a third-person shooter video game made by Epic Games and published by Microsoft. It can only be played on Microsoft's own Xbox 360 console. It is the sequel to the popular Xbox 360 game Gears of War. The game was released around the world on November 7 2008. By November 12 it had already sold over 2 m... |
141108 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic%20Games | Epic Games | Epic Games is a video game company based in North Carolina, USA. They are famous for making the Fortnite, Unreal Tournament, and Gears of War series' of video games.
American video game companies
Companies based in North Carolina
1991 establishments in the United States |
141110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann%20sum | Riemann sum | In mathematics, the Riemann sum is a method of approximating the integral of a function over an interval. One representation of the integral, is the area under a curve in a graph. The Riemann sum is calculated by splitting the region into equal parts. In each part, the function is replaced by a shape. Shapes that ar... |
141114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitudes | Beatitudes | The Beatitudes (from Latin beatus, meaning "blessed" or "happy") are a list of traits that Christians should follow told by Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke. Some of these include humbleness, meekness, and making peace.
Jesus Christ taught these ideas as part of a three lesson sermon; the Sermon on the Mount.
Re... |
141119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism | Asceticism | Ascetic redirects here. You might also be looking for acetic acid. The term should not be confused with aestheticism.
Asceticism (Greek: askēsis) is a word that describes a certain way of living. In this kind of life, a person gets rid of worldly pleasures for religion or spirituality. A person might not have sex or d... |
141123 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Marco%2C%20Florence | San Marco, Florence | Museo Nazionale di San Marco is a church and Dominican convent. in Florence, Italy. The church also has the Museum of St. Mark (Museo di S. Marco) which shows paintings by Fra Angelico.
The Domincan Convent was begun in the early 1400s. The first "prior" (head man) was St. Antoninus of Florence. The famous painter kno... |
141125 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadhu | Sadhu | In Hinduism, sadhu is a common term for an ascetic or someone who practices yoga (yogi). Sadhus have given up trying to achieve the first three Hindu goals of life: kama (enjoyment), artha (practical objectives) and even dharma (duty). The sadhu is solely dedicated to achieving moksha (liberation) through meditation an... |
141129 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digambar | Digambar | Digambar (sky-clad) is one of the two main sects of Jainism, the other is Svetambar. The word digambara is made up of two words 'dig' and 'ambar', the person whose clothes (ambar) is the directions (dig). The digambar have a stricter interpretation of Jainism than other sects.
Vows of a monk
Every Digambara monk is ... |
141138 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squidward%20Tentacles | Squidward Tentacles | Squidward Tentacles is one of the main characters of SpongeBob SquarePants. He is SpongeBob's grumpy neighbor and a coworker of SpongeBob SquarePants that lives in a moai.
SpongeBob SquarePants characters
Fictional characters introduced in 1999 |
141157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asian | Afro-Asian | Afro-Asian or Blasian, means a person of mixed race. Black African and East Asian.
History
West Asia and Africa
Ethiopians went to South Arabia in the 2nd century and the 4th century. By 532 AD they had invaded Yemen. After this, many more Africans came to South Arabia as slaves; men were usually traded and the women... |
141164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Mickiewicz | Adam Mickiewicz | Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (; 24 December 179826 November 1855) was a heavily influential national Polish Romantic poet, generally regarded as the greatest figure in Polish literature, especially known for his epic poem Pan Tadeusz. At the later phase of his life he was also a political activist, an ideologue and a Messia... |
141170 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC6 | RC6 | In cryptography, RC6 is a symmetric-key block cipher derived from RC5. RC6 is a parameterized algorithm with a variable block size, a variable key size, and a variable number of rounds. RC stands for "Rivest Cipher", or alternatively, "Ron's Code".
In 1997, the NIST announced a competition to choose a successor to Dat... |
141173 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC5 | RC5 | In cryptography, RC5 is a simple symmetric-key block cipher. Designed by Ronald Rivest in 1994, RC5 is a parameterized algorithm with a variable block size, a variable key size, and a variable number of rounds. "RC" stands for "Rivest Cipher", or alternatively, "Ron's Code".
In order to provide varieties of security a... |
141178 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic%20languages | Altaic languages | Altaic is a language system that includes the Turkic languages, Mongolic, and the Tungusic languages. That is probably the meaning attributed to "Altaic" by most general linguists.
It has disputed language families, but only a few linguists still believe that it existed. It supposedly had 66 languages that are now sp... |
141182 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian%20language | Mongolian language | The Mongolian language (, Mongol kele, Cyrillic: Монгол хэл, Mongol khel) is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family and the language of most of the residents of Mongolia, where it is officially written with the Cyrillic alphabet and of around three million Mongolian speakers in the Inner Mongolia Autonom... |
141188 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC2 | RC2 | In cryptography, RC2 is a symmetric-key block cipher. Designed by Ronald Rivest in 1987. "RC" stands for "Rivest Cipher", or alternatively, "Ron's Code".
RC2 is a 64-bit block cipher with a variable key size and using 18 rounds.
Rounds are arranged as a source-heavy feistel network, with 16 rounds of one type called ... |
141191 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20East%20Timorese%20crisis | 1999 East Timorese crisis | The 1999 East Timorese crisis was a conflict. Militia who did not like the independence in East Timor started the conflict when they attacked civilians. These attacks led to more violence all over the country. Most of the violence occurred in the capital Dili.
The violence started after the result of an election was ... |
141202 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20Is%20for%20Lovers | Ohio Is for Lovers | Ohio Is for Lovers is a single released by Hawthorne Heights it came from their first album The Silence in Black and White
The lyrics are one of the main reasons why the band are considered to be Emo. It contains the lyrics "cut my wrists and black my eyes" more than once.
Some people take this literally, but the sing... |
141211 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20Godiva | Lady Godiva | Lady Godiva (; about 980 – 1067) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman. She was married to Earl Leofric and frequently donated to the church, and was highly religious. There are legends that say that she rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England.
Legend
Lady Godiva was the wife of Earl Leofric of Mercia. The Earl’... |
141216 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandal | Scandal | A scandal is a very public incident which involves a claim of wrong-doing, shame, or moral offence. A scandal may be about a real event, an untrue event (often called a ) or a mixture of both. Something which is a scandal can be described as scandalous.
Scandals may be told by , who have access to secrets and allow t... |
141234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown%20to%20Extinction | Countdown to Extinction | Countdown to Extinction is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth. Countdown to Extinction was released on July 6, 1992. It was released through Capitol Records. The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 and sold 128,000 copies in the first week.
The album was nominated for Best Metal Perform... |
141239 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester | Manchester | Manchester is a city in North West England. In 2013 there were 514,417 people living there, which makes it the fifth largest city in the United Kingdom.
It is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was given city status in 1853. The city is in the middle of the Greater Manchester Ur... |
141248 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20goaltenders%20who%20have%20scored%20a%20goal%20in%20an%20NHL%20game | List of goaltenders who have scored a goal in an NHL game | There have been twelve goaltenders who have scored a goal in a National Hockey League (NHL) game. The most recent to do so was Pekka Rinne in 2020.
Scorers
Key
A Ellis had not yet reached the bench to be replaced by an extra attacker (he even attempted to return to stop the puck) and thus the goal was credited as an ... |
141259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/51%20Pegasi%20b | 51 Pegasi b | 51 Pegasi b, also called Bellerephon or 51 Peg b, is the first extrasolar planet discovered orbiting a main-sequence star, 51 Pegasi. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery on 6 October 1995. It is 50 light years away in the direction of the constellation Pegasus.
References
Exoplanets |
141274 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny | Johnny | Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Ball
Johnny Bower
Johnny Carson
Johnny Cash
Johnny Depp
Johnny Halliday
Johnny Haynes
Johnny Horton
Johnny Marr
Johnnny Morris
Johnny Mowers
Johnny Nash
Johnny Rivers
Johnny Saxton
Johnny Shines
Johnny Unitas
Johnny Weir
Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Winter |
141278 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasers | Greasers | Greaser or Greasers can refer to:
Greaser (derogatory), a derogatory term for a Mexican.
Greaser (subculture), a subculture that developed in the United States in the 1950s. |
141297 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirrako%20Ioanninon | Sirrako Ioanninon | Sirrako Ioanninon is a mountainous Greek village. It is in the district of Ioannina in the north-east of Greece. Sirrako is built at an altitude of 1,150 metres up the Lakmos mountain which makes it one of the highest Greek villages. It is a traditional village with old stone houses whose main characteristic is that th... |
141298 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic%20protocol | Cryptographic protocol | A cryptographic protocol (also known as encryption protocol or security protocol) is an abstract or an existing protocol that performs a security-related function and applies cryptographic methods.
A protocol describes how the cryptographic algorithms should be used to secure information. The description of a protoco... |
141301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Greek%20islands | List of Greek islands | This is a list of islands that are part of Greece. They are shown in order of size.
islands |
141306 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious%20persecution | Religious persecution | Religious persecution means unfair treatment of a particular group of people because of their religion. It aims at forcing the religious to go away or give up their religion. "Persecution" comes from a Latin word meaning "chase", and usually meant chasing someone in order to kill them. In later centuries the term was a... |
141307 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution%20of%20Christians | Persecution of Christians | Persecution of Christians is treating Christians unfairly based on their religion. This can mean using violence against them or putting them in prison. Persecution of Christians exists in many countries which include India, Iran, Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Burma, Lebanon, Syria, Sri Lanka etc.
Related pages
Reli... |
141312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious%20violence | Religious violence | Religious violence means the religiously-motivated killing and/or injuring of people of one religion by people of another region.
The September 11 attacks are an example of religious mass-killing. In India, incidents of attacks by hindu-nationalists upon christians have periodically occurred since independence. The Un... |
141317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu%20cinema | Telugu cinema | Telugu Cinema (Telugu: తెలుగు సినీపరిశ్రమ), means movies and movie-making in the Telugu language. Another word for Telugu Cinema is Tollywood. This is portmanteau made of the words "Telugu" and "Hollywood".
Tollywood movies are produced in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states in the Republic Of India.
Related pages
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141318 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandalwood | Sandalwood | For movies of the Indian state of Karnataka, see Sandalwood (cinema).
Sandalwood is a form of wood and also the oil made from it. It is used for perfume and medicine. They are found in India, Australia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands. Its genus is Santalum. In Indonesia and Malaysia, its local name is Cendana.
Wo... |
141321 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya%20film%20industry | Oriya film industry | Oriya Film Industry or Ollywood refers to the Bhubaneswar and Cuttack based Oriya film industry in the Republic of India. The origins of that name are disputed, called Ollywood a portmanteau of the words Odia and Hollywood.
Cinema of India |
141323 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollywood | Mollywood | Mollywood refers to Malayalam cinema, movies made in the Indian state of Kerala in the Malayalam language.
Related pages
Bollywood ("Indian Hollywood" - Hindi, Urdu and Marathi cinema)
Jollywood (Sanskrit cinema)
Lollywood (Pakistani cinema)
Tollywood (Telugu cinema)
Hollywood
Cinema of India |
141326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri%20Yaad%20%28movie%29 | Teri Yaad (movie) | Teri Yaad is a Pakistani Urdu movie. It is the first movie to be released in the country after Pakistan was created in the separation of India. The movie was released on 7 August 1948, Eid day. It was the first movie released after the creation of Pakistan, but not the first to be produced by the people who lived in t... |
141328 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bird%20and%20the%20Bee%20Sides | The Bird and the Bee Sides | The Bird and the Bee Sides is a 2008 album released by Relient K on July 2nd.
The album contains 13 new songs, and many of their B sides and unreleased songs. A few other songs could be found from a scavenger hunt that the band encouraged fans to do. You had to solve a puzzle
It's the first album to feature their cur... |
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