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11387 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy | Playboy | Playboy was a monthly American men's magazine. It was founded by Hugh Hefner in Chicago, Illinois in 1953. Marilyn Monroe was the magazine's first cover model. The logo was created by Art Paul.
The magazine featured articles about men's interests including clothing, sports, consumer goods, men's health, politics, and ... |
11394 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1845 | 1845 |
Births
February 25 – George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
March 27 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physician and Nobel Prize Laureate
10 March - Alexander III of Russia , Czar of Russia and father of Czar Nicholas II .
New Books
Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas, père |
11396 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1165 | 1165 |
Events
The city of Jimmy is founded.
Birthdays
Ibn Arabi
References |
11398 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1817 | 1817 |
Events of 1817
January – March
January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina to free Chile and then Peru.
February 12 – The Argentine/Chilean patriotic army defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Chacabuco.
March 3
The Alabama Territory is creat... |
11406 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20David | Larry David | Larry David (born July 2, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American actor and writer of Jewish descent.
He worked as a writer on Fridays and Saturday Night Live. He co-created the television series Seinfeld. He also created and stars in his own series called Curb Your Enthusiasm. On the series, he appears as a ... |
11415 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Base%20Pearl%20Harbor%E2%80%93Hickam | Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam | Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam is a United States Navy and United States Air Force base in the U.S. state of Hawaii, on the south lagoon shore of Oahu. The navy base was started in 1899 and merged with the air force base in 2010. It is 8 miles (15 km) west of downtown Honolulu.
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, on De... |
11416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG | RPG | RPG may refer to:
In the military, RPG means a rocket-propelled grenade, a weapon that launches explosive warheads.
In entertainment, RPG means role-playing game, a game where the player plays the role of one or several characters.
Disambiguation pages |
11417 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam | Amsterdam | Amsterdam is the capital and largest city in the European country of the Netherlands. Amsterdam is famous for its canals and dikes. Unlike in capitals of most other countries, the national government, parliament, government ministries, supreme court, royal family and embassies are not in Amsterdam, but in The Hague. Th... |
11418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay | Paraguay | Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (), is a small country in South America. It is landlocked, meaning that it does not touch the ocean. It is bordered to the North and East by Brazil, the West by Bolivia, and the South and Southeast by Argentina. The main languages are Spanish and Guaraní.
Paraguay's populat... |
11420 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch%20Ness | Loch Ness | Loch Ness is a loch in the Scottish Highlands. It is also on the Great Glen Fault and part of the Caledonian Canal.
Geography
Loch Ness is 36 kilometres long and only 1.5 kilometres wide. It is the second largest Scottish loch by surface area at , after Loch Lomond. Because of its great depth, it is the largest by vo... |
11421 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Burghoff | Gary Burghoff | Gary Burghoff (born May 24, 1943) is an American actor, artist, and musician. He is probably best known for his role as Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, a company clerk that had extraordinary hearing, in the 1970 movie M*A*S*H and on the television series of the same name. Burghoff also has a deformed hand which was hidden o... |
11422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1847 | 1847 |
Events
The book Wuthering Heights is published
February 22 – The Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican–American War
March 29 – Veracruz is taken by General Winfield Scott
May 7 – The American Medical Association is founded
July 24 – The Mormon pioneers under Brigham Young arrive in Salt Lake City to begin settlin... |
11423 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Gwynne | Fred Gwynne | Fred Gwynne (born July 10, 1926 - July 2, 1993) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Herman Munster in The Munsters. He played Francis Muldoon in Car 54, Where Are You?. The Munsters and Car 54, Where Are You? were television situation comedies. He also wrote children's literature.
References
A... |
11424 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis | Cannabis | Cannabis is a genus of plant. There are three species: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis.
The cannabis plant's flowers contain a chemical or drug known as THC (short for tetra-hydro-cannabinol). Smoking or eating the flower can make a person feel euphoric (very good) or sleepy. The plant is also... |
11442 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada | Nevada | Nevada is one of the United States' states. Its capital is Carson City. Other big cities are Las Vegas, Henderson and Reno.
History
Nevada was originally founded in 1821 as part of the First Mexican Empire. The Mexican Empire turned into the Mexican Republic in 1823, along with Nevada. Before the arrival of Europeans,... |
11458 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros | Comoros | Comoros (officially called Union of the Comoros) is a small island nation in the Indian Ocean. It is between Madagascar and mainland Africa. The capital is Moroni on Grande Comore. The population (except for Mayotte) is about 798,000 people.
The Comoros Islands are in the Indian Ocean, between Mozambique and Madagas... |
11462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat | Oat | The oat (Avena sativa) is a cereal grain. It is food for people and other animals, for example, chickens and horses. Oatmeal is made from oats. Oat straw is used as bedding for animals.
Porridge is made only from whole grain oats. It forms an excellent part of a balanced diet for the following reasons:
Oats are rich ... |
11464 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapingamarangi | Kapingamarangi | Kapingamarangi is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Federated States of Micronesia. There are about 700 people living in Kapingamarangi. The inhabitants speak the Kapingamarangi language, a Polynesian dialect.
The Kapingamarangi people live a simple life. They believe that it's not what you have that is... |
11465 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati | Kiribati | Kiribati (pronounced "KiriBASS") is an island country located on the Pacific Ocean. It has 33 atolls, groups of tiny islands. The country is near the equator. Its capital is South Tarawa, on the Tarawa atoll.
Kiribati used to be called the Gilbert Islands. In 1892, the Gilbert Islands became a British protectorate wit... |
11470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality | Bisexuality | Bisexuality is a sexual orientation. Bisexual (also bi) people are sexually attracted to both men and women. Some bisexual people love men and women the same and some people love one more than the other.
A popular myth within the LGBT community is that bisexual people can only be attracted to cis people (people who i... |
11471 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados | Barbados | Barbados is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. The island has an area of about 430 km². Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown. The official language of Barbados is English. Barbados is a popular tourist destination. In 2008, the island had a population of about 284,000 people. About 80,000 live in or around ... |
11473 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie | Annie | Annie (1976 present) is a musical. The book was written by Thomas Meehan. The lyrics were written by Martin Charnin. The music was written by Charles Strouse. Annie is based on characters and concepts created by Harold Gray for the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.
The musical premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatr... |
11474 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Taylor | James Taylor | James Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter. He is popular for his songs "Fire and Rain", "You've Got a Friend", and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)". Taylor is a Democrat and attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama's re-election. Taylor even per... |
11476 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truro | Truro | Truro is the capital of Cornwall in South West England. It is the only city in Cornwall, and it is the most southerly city in the British Isles. The River Truro flows though Truro and boats can travel to Truro along the river.
History
Truro became a large town in the 19th century because of the tin mining industry of ... |
11477 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1664 | 1664 |
Events
March 12 – New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain. |
11481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco | San Francisco | San Francisco is a city in the U.S. state of California. It is famous for the Golden Gate Bridge. With a population of 744,041, San Francisco is the 13th largest city in the United States, and the 4th largest city in California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose. It is in the northern part of California, betwe... |
11484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelops | Pelops | Pelops is a person from Greek mythology. He was the son of Tantalus and Dione and the father of Pittheus, Plisthenes, Atreus, Thyestes, Chrysippus and Copreus.
According to the mythology, the Peloponesus was named after Pelops.
Tantaus cut Pelops into pieces and served him to the gods in a stew. He was later put bac... |
11487 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job | Job | A job is any legal activity that allows an individual to perform a service and in return earn credits she/he can use to buy things.
A job can mean "some work that has to be done", for example: there are jobs to be done in the house: washing up, mending things that are broken, etc.
A job can also mean: work that a per... |
11501 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ | Organ | Organ may be:
Organ (anatomy), a part of the body
Organ (music), a family of keyboard instruments which is usually played with both the hands and the feet. |
11502 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop | Crop | Crops are living plants grown by farmers. Most crops are foods such as grain, vegetables, or fruit. Some crops are for drugs, such as quinine, or fibers such as cotton, or other materials such as rubber or wood. Farms are usually made to grow just one kind of crop. Crops are domesticated plants, most of which have been... |
11505 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat | Proletariat | The proletariat (often shortened to "prole" in slang) is a term used by communists for a segment of society. It describes the class of workers in urban areas who work in industry or manufacturing. These urban workers are different from the peasants, who are workers who do farming jobs in rural areas. Someone is who par... |
11506 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%20River | Ohio River | The Ohio River is the one of the most important tributaries to the Mississippi River. It is 981 miles long and it forms boundaries for the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and West Virginia before finally going to its headwaters in Pennsylvania. It is its widest a little to the West of downtown Louisville, ... |
11521 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia | Croatia | Croatia ( ) is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of Central Europe, and Southern Europe, being influenced by powers from both regions at varying points in its history. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. It was one of the republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavi... |
11523 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Alamein | El Alamein | El Alamein is a town in Egypt. It is most famous for being the place where the British-led Allies won the Second Battle of El Alamein against the Nazis during World War II. The town has a railroad station, which was important to all of the battles that have happened there.
Cities in Egypt |
11525 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%20Redding | Otis Redding | Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 - December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter. He was an African American who was born in Dawson, Georgia. He wrote and sang many popular songs. He was killed in a plane crash at the age of 26 in Madison, Wisconsin. Shortly after his death, his song "Sittin' on the D... |
11526 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Forest | Black Forest | The Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) is a world famous forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Important towns are (from north to south): Pforzheim, Calw, Baden-Baden, Offenburg, Freudenstadt, Horb, Villingen-Schwenningen, Titisee-Neustadt and Waldshut-Tiengen. The highest mountain is the Feldberg (1492m).
The Black ... |
11527 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie%20Avalon | Frankie Avalon | Frankie Avalon (born Francis Thomas Avallone, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 18, 1939) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his starring roles in a series of beach movies in the 1960s. He was known as a teen idol.
References
Other websites
1939 births
Living people
American movie acto... |
11528 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity%20chef | Celebrity chef | A celebrity chef is a chef who is well known for their cooking, kinds of food, and style of preparation. Many celebrity chefs become famous through television appearances, publishing cookbooks, or having their own restaurant.
Some "celebrity chefs" are:
Francesco Bellissimo
Gino D'Acampo
Rocco Despirito
Lisa Faulkner... |
11529 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntz%20Hall | Huntz Hall | Henry "Huntz" Hall (August 15 1919 - January 30 1999) was a well-known American actor. He was best known as Dippy in the Dead End Kids series. He made 78 movies.
Trivia
He is one of the famous people who appeared on the cover of The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
1919 births
1999 deaths
Americ... |
11530 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Peel | Robert Peel | Sir Robert Peel (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British politician. He established many well-known laws in Britain including the police force and had a brief term as Prime Minister.
In 1834, he founded the Conservative party out of the old Tory party which was founded in 1678. Peel was a very clever politician... |
11531 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus | Herodotus | Herodotus ( ; , ; ) was an Ancient Greek historian. He was born in Halicarnassus, a town in south-west Asia Minor (now Bodrum, Turkey)
Herodotus was called the "Father of History" by Cicero. He wrote about the ancient empires of Babylon, Egypt, and Persia, and about the Ancient Greeks.
During his life, Herodotus pro... |
11532 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook | Chinook | A chinook is a warm westerly wind that sometimes flows over Canada's Rocky Mountains in the winter. It can raise temperatures in southern Alberta by twenty or thirty degrees in an hour. A chinook is caused when air flowing off the Pacific Ocean is raised by the mountains and heated as the water vapor in the air condens... |
11541 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoumbi | Etoumbi | Etoumbi is a town in a part of the Republic of the Congo called Cuvette-Ouest.
Recently, there were four outbreaks of the Ebola virus in Etoumbi. Some people think this is because the people that live there ate some dead animals from the forest. In 2003, 120 people died in an outbreak. Because of an outbreak in May, 2... |
11542 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad | Chad | Chad (; , officially called the Republic of Chad), is a landlocked country in Central Africa. The capital is N'Djamena.
It was a French colony until 1960. It suffers from poverty, illness, drought, and armed conflicts. In 2011, the population of Chad was 11,535,000.
Arabic and French are the official languages. Isla... |
11543 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal%20sex | Anal sex | Anal sex is a sex act performed on the anus. Anal sex can involve a penis inserted in the anus, oral stimulation of the anus, using fingers for penetration and using different objects for stimulation.
Overview
The anus is a part of the body that is tight and cannot lubricate itself. Because of this, a person should b... |
11544 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1248 | 1248 | Year 1248 (MCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
Cologne Cathedral built.
King Louis IX of France starts the Seventh Crusade. He leaves with an army of 20,000 toward Egypt.
Roger Bacon publishes the formula for black powder in Europe. |
11545 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%20Blackman | Honor Blackman | Honor Blackman (22 August 1925 – 5 April 2020) was an English actress. She was born in Plaistow, Essex. She is best known for her roles in the movie Goldfinger and on the television programmes, The Avengers and The Upper Hand (the British version of Who's the Boss).
Blackman died at her home in Lewes on 5 April 2020. ... |
11546 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet | Hamlet | The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy play by William Shakespeare. It is one of his best-known plays, and many lines have become famous quotations. The play is often just called Hamlet.
Hamlet was written between 1600 and 1602, and first printed in 1603. With 4042 lines and 29551 words, Hamlet is the l... |
11547 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director | Director | A director is someone who is in charge of something. It can mean slightly different things in different places.
Art director, a position in theatre, movies, television, and related areas
Board of directors, the people in charge of a company
Movie director, the person who controls how a movie is made
Television directo... |
11548 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1605 | 1605 |
Events
Don Quixote, part 1, is written by Miguel De Cervantes |
11549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias | Bias | Bias means that a person prefers an idea and possibly does not give equal chance to a different idea. Bias can be influenced by a number of factors, such as popularity (for example, a newspaper might be biased towards a particular political party due to their employees sharing the same political beliefs as that party).... |
11552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1701 | 1701 |
Births
September 7 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (d. 1788) |
11554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpsichord | Harpsichord | Harpsichords are keyboard instruments that make sound by having the strings plucked with a plectrum. They are thought to have originated when a keyboard was attached to a psaltery. This makes them different from a clavichord where the strings are hit. The piano is therefore closer to a clavichord than a harpsichord. On... |
11555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kingston%20Trio | The Kingston Trio | The Kingston Trio was a folk music group from Palo Alto, California who were popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
References
Musical groups from California
Folk music groups
Palo Alto, California |
11557 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Passion%20of%20the%20Christ | The Passion of the Christ | The Passion of the Christ is the title of a movie that was produced and directed by Mel Gibson based on sister Catherine Emmerich's visions. It was released in 2004. The movie shows the last 24 hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth (called by his followers Jesus Christ) as told in the Gospel accounts contained in the ... |
11558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression | Depression | Depression might mean:
Depression (mood), when a person is very sad
Depression (mental illness), a type of mood disorder
Depression (economics), when the economy is shrinking instead of growing
Great Depression, a major economic depression in the 1930s |
11560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalry | Cavalry | Historically, cavalry have been soldiers who fought while riding horses. In modern times, "cavalry" means the branch of the military that fight in armored vehicles such as tanks. They differ from the infantry in that the Infantry fight on foot.
Soldiers have fought on horses ever since people have ridden horses. Befor... |
11561 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary%20Taylor | Zachary Taylor | Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was the 12th president of the United States. He served as President from 1849 until his death in 1850. He was a second cousin to James Madison.
General years
Taylor was a general in the United States Army. He led an army during the Mexican-American War. He was selected... |
11575 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni%20Rodari | Gianni Rodari | Gianni Rodari (October 23, 1920 in Omegna (Novara) - April 14, 1980 in Rome) was an Italian writer. He was famous for his books for children.
Rodari, Gianni
1920 births
1980 deaths |
11578 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery%2C%20Alabama | Montgomery, Alabama | Montgomery is the capital city of the state of Alabama in the United States. It is on the Alabama River. In 2000 201,568 people lived there.
History
Montgomery was started on December 3, 1819 by merging New Philadelphia and East Alabama Town. The city became a county seat in 1822. On January 28, 1846, the state capit... |
11581 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha%2C%20Nebraska | Omaha, Nebraska | Omaha is a city in the state of Nebraska in the United States. The city is home to 408,958 people making it the state's largest city both in population and geography.
Music
Omaha is known for its Indie music scene. Bright Eyes and 311 are some of the most well known bands to come out of the city. Local music venues in... |
11582 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo%2C%20Spain | Toledo, Spain | Toledo is a city in Spain with a population of 85,000. It is a historical city with a lot of monuments. The city was important from the Roman period to the 18th century. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha and the Toledo province. Many famous people and artists were born or lived in this ... |
11583 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Tutone | Tommy Tutone | Tommy Tutone was a 1980s pop music group. They are best known for their 1982 song 867-5309-Jenny.
Discography
Studio albbums
Tommy Tutone (1980)
Tommy Tutone 2 (1981)
National Emotion (1983)
Nervous Love (1996)
Tutone.rtf (1998)
Singles
Angel Say No (1980)
867-5309/Jenny (1981)
Which Man Are You (1982)
Ge... |
11584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas%20Priest | Judas Priest | Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band. They formed in The Black Country, England in 1969. They are famous for having two guitar players, named Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing. The singer, Rob Halford, left the band in the early 1990s because of problems with the other people in the band. He went back to the band i... |
11585 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo%20Alto%2C%20California | Palo Alto, California | Palo Alto is a city in the American state of California in Santa Clara County that has a population of about 55,000 people. It is in the region called Silicon Valley and close to Stanford University. It is the home of many innovators and entrepreneurs. "Palo Alto" means tall tree in Spanish after a famous redwood that ... |
11586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everly%20Brothers | Everly Brothers | Phil and Don Everly (Phil January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014 and Don February 1, 1937 – August 21, 2021) were two brothers from the U.S. state of Iowa. They started performing in the 1950s and had a lot of famous songs in the 1950s and 1960s. They are considered very influential in rock and roll.
Don was born in Muhle... |
11587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896 | 1896 |
Events
The first modern Olympic Games takes place in Athens.
Alden J. Blethen buys The Seattle Times.
On January 4, Utah became a state in the United States.
Births
February 9 – Alberto Vargas – Pin-up artist
May 30 - Howard Hawks, American director (d. 1977)
August 27 – Miyazawa Kenji Japanese poet, writer ... |
11589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/42 | 42 | 42 is a year in the 1st century. It was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Piso.
Events
Roman Empire
Romans take control of Ceuta.
Lands now known as Algeria and Morocco become a Roman province.
The Dalmatian legate Furiu... |
11592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie%20Nelson | Willie Nelson | Willie Hugh Nelson (; born April 29, 1933) is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist.
In 1961, a song that he wrote was recorded by Faron Young, and became a number one song on Billboard's Hot Country Songs music chart. In 1975 he had his first number one song, as ... |
11593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa-Eurasia | Africa-Eurasia | Africa-Eurasia (also called Afro-Eurasia, Eurafrasia, Afrasia) is the world's biggest landmass. Around 85% (approximately 5.5 billion) of the world population lives there. It is split between the two continents of Africa and Eurasia, the latter of which has been historically further subdivided into Europe and Asia.
... |
11594 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916 | 1916 | 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January 1 – The Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusionblood that had been stored and cooled.
January 1 – Impressionist painter Monet paints 'Water Lilies'.
January 5 – Heavy rain – allegedly caused by rainmake... |
11595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery | Cemetery | A cemetery or a graveyard is a place, usually surrounded by a fence, where people bury dead bodies and honor the dead people. Many of them have gardens and other greenery in them to symbolise life and to honor those who are dead.
Related pages
Catacomb
Mausoleum
Necropolis
Death customs |
11596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Blair | Linda Blair | Linda Blair (born January 22, 1959 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actress. She is best known for her role in the movie The Exorcist (1973).
Other websites
1959 births
Living people
Actors from St. Louis, Missouri
American movie actors
American television actors |
11597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Crosby | David Crosby | David Van Cortland Crosby (born August 14, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American Guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is most famous as a founding member of the bands The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
References
American guitarists
Musicians from Los Angeles
American folk musicians
American rock... |
11598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Harvey | Paul Harvey | Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009) was an American radio host. He was best known for his short radio program called "The Rest of the Story" that was broadcast on many radio stations in the United States. He worked in the radio industry from 1933 to 2009. He also had news programs two times a da... |
11599 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20dioxide | Carbon dioxide | Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a chemical compound and is acidic. It is a gas at room temperature. It is made of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. People and animals release carbon dioxide when they breathe out. Also, every time something organic is burnt (or a fire is made), it makes carbon dioxide. Plants use carbon dioxide ... |
11600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermission | Intermission | An intermission or interval is a break in a performance. An intermission may be twenty minutes or longer: time for people to have a drink and time for the performers to relax. Plays and operas are usually divided into acts. The intermission will come where there is a suitable break between the acts. There are a few ... |
11601 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Duchovny | David Duchovny | David Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Fox Mulder on the television series, The X-Files. On August 13, 2007, his series Californication began airing on the Showtime television network.
References
1960 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television a... |
11602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramie%2C%20Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming | Laramie is a city in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is near the University of Wyoming. It is the county seat of Albany County.
The University of Wyoming is located in Laramie.
Recent history
In 1998, Matthew Shepherd was murdered in this town.
References
Other websites
City of Laramie, official website
Cities ... |
11603 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Death | Black Death | The Black Death was a pandemic in Europe and Asia during the 14th century. This outbreak of disease was at its worst between 1347 and 1351. It killed between 75 million and 200 million people across Europe, the Middle East, India, and China.
Historians cannot be certain which disease caused the Black Death. However, m... |
11604 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool | Liverpool | Liverpool is a city in North West England, United Kingdom with a population of about 485,000 in 2015. It is part of the Liverpool-Birkenhead metropolitan area, the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the UK. The local government is Liverpool City Council.
Liverpool is on the eastern side of the River Mersey. It used to... |
11605 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1166 | 1166 |
Births
December 24 – John I of England
Events
Marko III follows Yoannis V as patriarch of Alexandria.
Henry the Lion builds the first bronze statue north of the Alps.
Giraldo Sempavor captures Evora. |
11606 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom | Serfdom | Serfdom is the forced labour of serfs in a feudal society. In medieval Europe, serfs were peasant farmers who worked without pay for a lord. In exchange, they got to live and work on the lord’s manor. They also got the lord’s protection.
Serfs had more rights than slaves (for example, serfs could own property). Ho... |
11608 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator | Refrigerator | A refrigerator is a machine used for keeping things cold. It is sometimes called a fridge or an icebox. It is normally maintained at 4-5 degree Celsius for household use. People put food and drinks in it, to keep those items cold or good (unspoiled) for a longer time. A refrigerator has a heat pump which takes heat aw... |
11611 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis%20Ian | Janis Ian | Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink, April 7, 1951) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction writer. She stated singing folk in the mid-sixties while she was still a teenager. She sang the most in the 1960s and the 1970s, but she's still singing today. In 1975, Ian won a Grammy Award fo... |
11612 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius | Vilnius | Vilnius is the largest city and the capital of Lithuania, with a population of 553,904 (850,700 together with Vilnius County) as of December 2005. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County. Vilnius lies 312 kilometres (194 mi) from... |
11613 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1524 | 1524 | Year 1524 (MDXXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
January – Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World.
March 1 (approximate date) – da Verrazzano'... |
11614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus | Fungus | A fungus (plural: fungi) is a living organism that includes yeasts, moulds, mushrooms and others. Fungi have thin thread-like cells called hyphae that absorb nutrients and hold the fungus in place. Some, such as mushrooms, also have a body containing many cells. Fungi do not have chlorophyll to capture energy from sunl... |
11615 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernsey | Guernsey | Guernsey is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. It is one of the Channel Islands, and is the main administration island of the Bailiwick of Guernsey'. Elizabeth II is the head of state, but it has a government of its own, with its own laws and special status when it comes to taxes.
65,573 people... |
11616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery | Pottery | Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up potteryware. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery (plural "potteries"). Pottery also refers to the art or craft of a potter or the making of pottery. A dictionary definition is simply clay fi... |
11618 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenwriter | Screenwriter | A screenwriter is a person who writes the screenplay (or script) for a movie or television show - that is, a screenwriter writes the words that the actors and actresses speak.
A script conveys the dialogue of the movie, and will briefly describe visuals, although not too much, as this is left up to the director.
... |
11619 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento%2C%20California | Sacramento, California | Sacramento is the capital of the U.S. state of California. The governor and legislature of California are in Sacramento. About 400,000 people live in Sacramento. About 1,700,000 live in and around Sacramento.
Sacramento comes from Spanish and Portuguese for holy rite. A sacrament is a religious act that gives people ... |
11620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Scriabin | Alexander Scriabin | Alexander Scriabin (also spelt: Skryabin) (born Moscow January 6 1872; died Moscow April 27 1915) was a famous Russian composer and pianist. He wrote music for the orchestra and for the piano. His music belongs to the Late Romantic period, but his later works sound quite modern, and he was influenced by Impressionism. ... |
11621 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Mugabe | Robert Mugabe | Robert Gabriel Mugabe (21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean politician. He was the President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017. Before that, he was Prime Minister, the head of government, after being elected in 1980. For many years before he resigned, Mugabe ruled his country in the style of a dictator.
P... |
11622 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana | Guyana | The Co-operative Republic of Guyana (formerly British Guiana) is a country in South America. It is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world (700,000 people live there inside its over 200,000 km² of area). Georgetown is the capital; like most of the country's settlements, it is on a flat coastal plain t... |
11623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sen%20no%20Rikyu | Sen no Rikyu | Sen no Rikyu (, 1522–1591) made important and lasting changes to the Japanese tea ceremony. He was a follower of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Besides the tea ceremony, Rikyu practiced ikebana and wrote poetry. He also studied zen.
1522 births
1591 deaths
People from Osaka Prefecture |
11625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet and playwright. He wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the plays Salomé, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere's Fan.
Wilde was bisexual. He was married, and had two children. His down... |
11632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2%20%28band%29 | U2 (band) | For the aircraft, see Lockheed U-2.
U2 are an Irish rock band. The four members of the band are lead singer Bono (born Paul David Hewson), lead guitarist The Edge (born David Howell Evans), bassist Adam Clayton, and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. U2 are a very popular band all over the world and have been since the 1980s. ... |
11633 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono | Bono | Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, activist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known as the lead singer of rock band U2.
Career
He became a member of the band U2 on 25 September 1976, when he responded to a message that was placed by Larry Mull... |
11634 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Clayton | Adam Clayton | Adam Clayton (born 13 March 1960 in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England) is the bassist for the rock band U2. He lives in County Dublin now, and he has a house in Southern France too.
Life
When Adam was five years old, he and his family moved to Malahide near Dublin. He started playing guitar when he went to school. He joi... |
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