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18224 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey%20City%2C%20New%20Jersey | Jersey City, New Jersey | Jersey City is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is just across the Hudson River from New York City.
County seats in New Jersey |
18225 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Jose%2C%20California | San Jose, California | San Jose (officially San José) is a city in Santa Clara County, California in the United States.
It is the third biggest city in California, after Los Angeles and San Diego. It is the tenth biggest city in the United States. It is south of San Francisco. The city has nearly 2,000,000 people. It has a warm-summer Medi... |
18258 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%2C%20Texas | Venus, Texas | Venus, Texas is a town in the United States. Around 2,960 people lived there (about 1,981 males and 979 females) in 2010.
References
Cities in Texas |
18259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen%2C%20Colorado | Evergreen, Colorado | Evergreen, Colorado is a community in the United States, about 30 miles from Denver, Colorado.
The historic section of Evergreen has a charming strip of small shops and restaurants. Before the town became a hot spot for outdoor recreations, the town used to be a hunting ground for the Ute Indians.
By 1860 settlers h... |
18262 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens | Queens | Queens is a borough of New York City and a county of New York State. It was named for Catherine of Braganza, the Queen of England and wife of King Charles II of England.
Geography
About 2.6 million people live in Queens and it is the largest borough of New York City in size and second in population. According to the... |
18265 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toller%20Cranston | Toller Cranston | Toller Cranston (April 20, 1949 – January 24, 2015) was a Canadian figure skater.
Early life and career
Cranston was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He grew up in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. He was Canadian champion six times, and, despite never coming higher than third at a world championship, he came first in the free skat... |
18266 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal%20Canadiens | Montreal Canadiens | The Montreal Canadiens are an ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL). Their nickname is the "Habs" (short for the French "Habitants", early settlers in Quebec from France). They have won the Stanley Cup championship 24 times, more than any other team.
History
The Canadiens (who use the French spelling ... |
18268 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey | Hockey | Hockey is a type of sport in which players try to get points by hitting an object into the other team's goal with a stick. Others believe hockey came from the French word “hoquet” which means shepherd's stick. James Creighton, an engineer who learned how to play the game of hockey while living in Nova Scotia, is credit... |
18270 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyresta%20National%20Park | Tyresta National Park | Tyresta National Park is a small national park in Sweden. It only has about 50 square kilometers (or 19 square miles) of land. It is located near the capital city of Stockholm. A large fire burned almost 10 percent of the park in 1999, but the animals and plants have come back and are now doing fine.
Other websites
T... |
18276 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Basil%27s%20Cathedral | St. Basil's Cathedral | St. Basil's Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Intercession, is a very famous cathedral in Moscow, Russia. It is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, or Pokrovsky Cathedral. It was commissioned by Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible), for Saint Basil the Blessed. I... |
18286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport%2C%20Wales | Newport, Wales | Newport is a city in the southeast of Wales, Great Britain. It is in the county of Monmouthshire, and in the historic Welsh kingdom of Gwent. Its name in Welsh is Casnewydd. It is the third biggest city in Wales. Newport became a city in 2002. About 140,000 people live in Newport.
A few years ago, Newport had lots of... |
18287 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouthshire | Monmouthshire | Monmouthshire is a county in Wales in the west of Great Britain. From the end of the Middle Ages until the year 1974 Monmouthshire was a part of England for some things and a part of Wales for other things. Then in 1972 Parliament decided that it was going to be in Wales from 1974 onwards.
The chief town in the area i... |
18299 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20grunt | Death grunt | A death grunt is when a singer uses a scream which is very low and deep. It is used in many types of music, but usually death metal. In many people's opinions, it is hard to understand the death grunt. However, some people who listen to them a lot think they are not so hard to understand. Some people believe that death... |
18300 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique | Clique | A clique is a small group of people who like the same things. Sometimes, people use the word clique to talk about groups of young people. The word is also used to talk about groups of adults, usually groups of politicians.
In a clique there are leaders and followers. A clique may also have people they do not like. ... |
18301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth%20subculture | Goth subculture | Goth can also mean a member of a Germanic tribe
A goth is a word usually used to describe a person who listens to gothic music and/or dresses in a goth style clothes. Goths often wear black and unusual jewelry. Both goth men and goth women often wear make-up.
The goth subculture originated in the early 1980s among fa... |
18302 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette | Cigarette | Cigarettes can be any dried leaf that people roll in thin paper to smoke, but the word is most often used to refer ones with dried tobacco leaves. The nicotine in the tobacco can be addictive to people. The nicotine from cigarettes makes people want to smoke more, even if they do not like the taste or its other effect... |
18306 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk | Gdańsk | Gdańsk is a city in the north of Poland in Pomeranian Voivodeship, near the place where the Vistula river meets the Baltic Sea. It is Poland's 6th largest city (population of 500 000 people) and the largest and most important sea port.
It has existed since the 10th century and many times played a very important role i... |
18309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat | Montserrat | Montserrat is a Caribbean island. It is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The governor of Montserrat is Deborah Barnes-Jones. The capital is officially Plymouth, but the government has moved to Brades after a volcano, Chances Peak, destroyed Plymouth in 1995.
Before the island was called Montserrat, Kalinag... |
18312 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawi | Malawi | Malawi (Republic of Malawi) is a country in south-east Africa. It has borders with the countries of Tanzania, Zambia, and Mozambique. The capital of Malawi is Lilongwe and the spoken languages are English and Chichewa. The official language of Malawi is English. The total size is about 118480 km² and there are about 10... |
18319 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic%20radiation | Electromagnetic radiation | Electromagnetic waves are waves that contain an electric field and a magnetic field and carry energy. They travel at the speed of light.
Quantum mechanics developed from the study of electromagnetic waves. This field includes the study of both visible and invisible light. Visible light is the light one can see with no... |
18322 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Vincent%20and%20the%20Grenadines | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and CARICOM.
The country speaks English as its official language. The capital, and its main port, is Kingstown.
Its national bird is the Saint Vincent ... |
18326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph%20Rupp | Adolph Rupp | Adolph Frederick Rupp (September 2, 1901 – December 10, 1977) was an American college basketball coach. He coached the University of Kentucky's basketball team for 42 years from 1930 to 1972. He helped the team win 4 national NCAA championships. Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky is named after him.
American basketball... |
18327 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami%20Dolphins | Miami Dolphins | The Miami Dolphins is an American football club in the National Football League team based in Miami, Florida, USA. The Dolphins began playing in 1966 and in 1972 they had the only perfect season in NFL history and won a Super Bowl, with Bob Griese leading the team as quarterback. Another quarterback, Dan Marino, is a m... |
18329 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oksana%20Grishuk | Oksana Grishuk | Oksana Vladimirovna Grishuk (born March 17, 1972 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a Russian retired ice dancer. She and her partner, Evgeny Platov, won two Olympic gold medals and four world championships.
Grishuk began training in skating at the age of four. She moved to Moscow in 1986, and studied at the Sport University from... |
18330 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny%20Platov | Evgeny Platov | Evgeny Platov (born August 7, 1967, Odessa, Ukraine).
He was a Russian dancer, and began skating when he was nine years old. He studied at the Physical Institute of Culture in Moscow.
Platov won two Olympic gold medals and four world championships with his partner, Oksana Grishuk
After the 1998 Olympics in Nagan... |
18333 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris | Tetris | A tetris is a tile-matching puzzle game, developed in the Soviet Union in 1984. The game has a simple goal of destroying lines of block before it reaches the top. The line is made up of a square block. etrominoes is the shape of the 4 connected blocks that falls vertically down. The player will have to use the tetromin... |
18336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova | Moldova | Moldova is a country in Eastern Europe. Its full name is the Republic of Moldova (, .) It used to be called Moldavia. It borders Ukraine to the north and Romania to the south.
The official language in Moldova is the Romanian language. The capital of Moldova is Chișinău.
The Russian Empire took almost half of the Prin... |
18338 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish | Polish | Polish can mean:
When written with upper-case P:
Anything related to the country of Poland
Polish language, the language spoken in the country
Poles, the people of Poland
When written with lower-case p:
To polish something is to rub it so that it is smooth and shiny
A substance used to do that action is called polish
... |
18339 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%20language | Polish language | Polish () is the official language of Poland. It is the most common Western Slavic language and the second Slavic language, after Russian.
Polish has been an important language in Central and Eastern Europe. Polish is now spoken by over 43.5 million people as their first language in Poland. It is also spoken as a Seco... |
18341 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia | Georgia | Georgia could mean either of two things:
Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus
Georgia (U.S. state), one of the states in the United States of America
Related pages
Georgian, a disambiguation page |
18342 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos | Kryptos | Kryptos is the name of a sculpture (art that is like a statue) on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia, USA. Kryptos is very famous. It has codes (secret hidden messages) on it. There are four messages. People know what three of the messages say. No one knows what the fourth me... |
18343 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech%20Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa | Lech Wałęsa | Lech Walesa (Polish: Lech Wałęsa (pronounced [lɛx vaˈwɛ̃sa])) (born September 29, 1943) was a Polish shipyard worker, trade unionist and a politician who used to be the leader of Solidarity and the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983.
References
1943 births
Living peopl... |
18344 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dutch%20football%20teams | List of Dutch football teams | These are some Dutch football (soccer) teams.
Eredivisie (Honour Division)
Season 2018/19
ADO Den Haag
Ajax
AZ Alkmaar
Emmen
SBV Excelsior
Feyenoord Rotterdam
Fortuna Sittard
De Graafschap
FC Groningen
SC Heerenveen
Heracles Almelo
NAC Breda
PEC Zwolle
PSV Eindhoven
FC Utrecht
Vitesse
VVV-Venlo
Wille... |
18345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20de%20Gaulle | Charles de Gaulle | General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 - 9 November 1970) was a French military and political leader. He was president of France from 1959 to 1969. He was a founding member and leader of the French Resistance during the Second World War. He died of an aneurysm.
De Gaulle chaired the Provisional... |
18348 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatran%20tiger | Sumatran tiger | The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is the smallest tiger subspecies. It is listed as critically endangered. They are in danger due to hunting and the destruction of their habitat. It is estimated that there are only about 400-700 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.
The Sumatran tiger lives only on the Indones... |
18356 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Film%20Institute | American Film Institute | The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent, organization that is designed not to make money created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was started in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.
George Stevens, Jr. was the first CEO. Since... |
18366 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullback | Fullback | A fullback or full back is the name of a defensive position in a football (soccer) game. A fullback is also an offensive position in American football that usually blocks for the quarterback or a running back.
American football positions |
18368 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Meucci | Antonio Meucci | Antonio Meucci (Florence, April 13, 1808 – October 18, 1889) was an Italian inventor. He invented the first type of telephone, also known as the first 'talking telegraph' 1857. In 2002, the United States House of Representatives ruled that he invented the first working telephone, although Alexander Graham Bell was fir... |
18369 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/8%20Mile | 8 Mile | 8 Mile is a 2002 American drama movie starring rapper Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy and Mekhi Phifer. It is set in 1995 in Detroit, Michigan.
The film tells about a young white rapper living in inner city Detroit. He tries to make a rap career but most rappers are African Americans.
The film was a critical an... |
18370 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Americans | African Americans | An African American is a person who lives in the United States and speaks English, but whose ancestors were from Africa. It could also mean a first generation African immigrant who has citizenship in the United States.
The term is usually associated with black people. This is because of many African Americans' dark sk... |
18372 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol%20Pot | Pol Pot | Saloth Sar (better known as Pol Pot; January 25, 1925 – April 15, 1998) was the leader of Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. He was the leader of a group called the Khmer Rouge, a group of peasant revolutionaries who turned Cambodia into a military dictatorship officially called Democratic Kampuchea. Between 1.7 and 2.2 m... |
18374 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1800s | 1800s |
Events
Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
Semaphore is adopted by navies.
The United Kingdom was founded (1801)
World leaders
Emperor Napoleon I (First French Empire)
Emperor Francis II (Holy Roman Empire)
Frederick William III of Prussia (Prussia)
Pope Pius VII
Tsar Paul I (Russia)
Tsar Alexand... |
18376 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan%20%28automobile%29 | Sedan (automobile) | A sedan, or saloon, is an automobile that has a low trunk, a roof and one or two doors on each side. The trunk is reachable only from outside.
The word sedan is used in American English, but in British English such an automobile is called a saloon.
Automobile body styles |
18377 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertible | Convertible | A convertible is a car with a roof that can be removed or folded down, but is often seen without a roof. A convertible usually has two doors, but convertibles with four doors can also be found. Some examples are Mazda MX-5, BMW Z4, Ferrari 458 Spyder, Mercedes-Benz SLK Class, etc. A convertible is a type of automobile ... |
18385 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy%20Gray | Macy Gray | Macy Gray (born Natalie Renee McIntyre on September 9, 1967) is an American singer and actress. She started her career after moving to Los Angeles in 2000. Gray is best known for her 1999 single, "I Try", which came off of her first album, On How Life Is.
Discography
Albums
1999: On How Life Is
2001: The Id
2003: The... |
18387 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%20Kane | Citizen Kane | Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama movie starring Orson Welles in his first full-length movie. There are rumors that its story is based on the life of the famous businessmen William Randolph Hearst, Howard Hughes, and Samuel Insull. Welles said that his character, Kane, was based on more than one famous person. In F... |
18391 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan%20%28disambiguation%29 | Sedan (disambiguation) | Sedan can mean any of a few things:
A sedan is a car body style
The much older form of transport, the sedan chair, from which the name of the car body style is borrowed.
Sedan, Ardennes, a sous-préfecture of the Ardennes département in France, where the Battle of Sedan occurred in 1870
Sedan, Kansas, a community in the... |
18392 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nobel%20Prize%20winners%20in%20Physics | List of Nobel Prize winners in Physics | The Nobel Prize in Physics is a Nobel Prize in the science of physics.
Some famous winners are:
Albert Einstein
Werner Heisenberg
Marie Curie
Guglielmo Marconi
Peter Higgs
Enrico Fermi
Ernest Lawrence
Paul Dirac
List of winners
Related pages
List of Nobel Prize winners by country
List of Nobel Prize winn... |
18393 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite | Dynamite | Dynamite is an explosive invented by Alfred Nobel. Its main explosive component is nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin is very sensitive to movement. It explodes very easily, when moved. For this reason, it is absorbed into diatomaceous earth to make it less sensitive. Diatomaceous earth is a soft, sedimentary rock made of fo... |
18396 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20%26%20Company | Oliver & Company | Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated musical movie. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 27th Disney animated movie. The movie is loosely based on the famous Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. The novel has been adapted many other times for the screen... |
18398 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince%20Lombardi | Vince Lombardi | Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913, in Brooklyn, New York, USA–September 3, 1970) was an American football coach that never had a losing season. Lombardi was named NFL Man of the Decade in the 1960s, and won five NFL championships, including winning the first two Super Bowls.
The yearly trophy given to the Super ... |
18400 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano | Guano | Guano is the excrement of bats and birds. This excrement is exceptionally high in nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, three nutrients which are essential for plant growth. Therefore, it is often used as fertilizer, to make plants grow more quickly.
Related pages
Uric acid
Physiology
Biochemistry |
18402 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790s | 1790s |
Events
French Revolution
Supreme Court of the United States meets for first time.
Whiskey Rebellion in the United States.
World leaders
King Louis XVI (France)
Maximilien Robespierre (France)
King George III (Great Britain)
Emperor Leopold II (Holy Roman Empire)
Emperor Francis II (Holy Roman Empire)
Fre... |
18405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20point | Triple point | The triple point of any substance is the combination of temperature and pressure at which it exists in its solid, liquid, and gaseous state all at once, in equilibrium.
The temperature of the triple point of water is a commonly used physical constant which is used to define temperature scales and calibrate temperature... |
18408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency | Frequency | Frequency is how often an event repeats itself over a set amount of time.
In physics, the frequency of a wave is the number of wave crests that pass a point in one second (a wave crest is the peak of the wave).
Hertz (symbol Hz) is the unit of frequency.
The relationship between frequency and wavelength is expressed... |
18411 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey%20stick | Hockey stick | A hockey stick is a long, wooden pole used to push, pass, or shoot in the sports of ice hockey and field hockey. The art of developing ice hockey sticks is a complex science and has become big business. Ice hockey sticks are mostly made of composite materials and they have different "flexes", meaning some sticks are mo... |
18414 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop%20Dogg | Snoop Dogg | Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.
Early life
The reason why he is called "Snoop Dogg" is because his mother nicknamed him after a character called "Snoopy", because Snoop Dogg was a fan of the P... |
18418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan%20tiger | Malayan tiger | The Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni) is a subspecies of the tiger that was discovered in 2004. People used to think they were Indo-Chinese tigers, But now they have their own subspecies. They have the same length and weight as the Indo-Chinese tiger. They live in southern Malaysia and they are an endangered spe... |
18419 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian%20tiger | Caspian tiger | The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) is an extinct sub species of the tiger. It was the most western sub species of the tiger, very close to Europe. They became extinct in the 1970s. They were found in Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Iran, Mongolia, and Georgia.
Recent research by scientists looking at the ... |
18420 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20instrument | String instrument | A string instrument is a musical instrument that makes sound by vibrating the strings on it. The strings are plucked to produce sounds. Each string has a different frequency. The desired frequency can be obtained by adjusting the tension on the string. A string instrument plays soft notes. The strings on the instrument... |
18421 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee%20Doodle%20Dandy | Yankee Doodle Dandy | Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 biographical musical movie. It starred James Cagney as George M. Cohan.
Other websites
1942 movies
American musical movies
American biographical movies
United States National Film Registry movies
English-language movies
Movies directed by Michael Curtiz |
18422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess%20Who%27s%20Coming%20to%20Dinner | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American comedy-drama movie, starring Spencer Tracy (in his final film role), Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton. It centers around what happens between a young white woman and her parents, after she falls in love with a black man in San Francisco.
Other web... |
18424 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing%20Up%20Baby | Bringing Up Baby | Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American comedy movie starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and directed by Howard Hawks. It is set in Connecticut.
Other websites
1938 movies
1930s comedy movies
1930s romance movies
American comedy movies
English-language movies
Movies set in Connecticut
United States National Film Re... |
18425 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Searchers | The Searchers | The Searchers is a 1956 epic western movie set in Texas in the 1860s. it is directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, about a man looking for his niece who was taken by Native Americans. It is also one of the movies that influenced Star Wars.
Other websites
1956 movies
American western movies
English-language m... |
18427 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas | Goodfellas | Goodfellas is a 1990 American biographical crime movie directed by Martin Scorsese. It is about life in the Mafia.
It gained six nominations for Oscars. It won one (for Joe Pesci's role). Many people thought the movie was great.
It is set in New York City. The movie is based on the life of mafioso Henry Hill (1943-2... |
18429 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier | Soldier | A soldier is a person who is a part of an army. Soldiers have existed for many years, dating back to ancient times.
If people fight in irregular (not normal forces) armies not wearing a uniform, and not part of the official military (fighting group of a nation), they are called partisans if they fight against another ... |
18430 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone%20River | Yellowstone River | The Yellowstone River is a river in the northwestern part of the United States. It is a tributary of the Missouri River and flows through the states of Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota. It also flows through Yellowstone National Park and feeds Yellowstone Lake.
The Yellowstone River was first explored in 1806 by W... |
18431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy | Toy | A toy is something to play with. Toys are for children, adults, and animals. Before 1970, most toys were made of metal and wood. Now, they are mostly made of plastic. Sometimes they are made of electronic material. Some people also consider video games toys. Toys include balls, plastic cars, and dolls. They also can be... |
18436 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn | Unicorn | A unicorn is a legendary and mythical creature. It looks like a pony with one long, single and white horn on its head. The word unicorn means literally "one-horn". It comes from the Latin word ūnus, which means one, and cornu which means horn, which term is in itself borrowed from the earlier Greek word monokerōs (als... |
18437 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium | Radium | Radium is a chemical element with the atomic number 88 and symbol Ra on the periodic table. It was discovered by Marie Curie and Pierre Curie in the form of radium chloride in 1898. It is an almost pure-white alkaline earth metal, but when it is exposed to nitrogen, it turns black quickly. All isotopes of radium are ra... |
18438 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka | Dhaka | Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh. It is also the largest city of Bangladesh and the most polluted and unhygienic city of the world. In 2011, 8,906,039 people lived there. In 2020 estimated at 21,005,860 live in the Greater Dhaka area. Dhaka has grown by 3,408,683 since 2015, which represents a 3.60% annual chang... |
18439 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%2C%20Northern%20Territory | Darwin, Northern Territory | Darwin is the territorial capital of the Northern Territory in Australia. The city has about 147,000 people living there. The city is named after Charles Darwin. A member of the crew of the ship that started a port there in 1839 named it Port Darwin in honor of Darwin, who had sailed on that same ship earlier.
Most of ... |
18440 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Territory | Northern Territory | The Northern Territory is a territory of Australia. The capital city is Darwin. Other large towns in the Territory include Alice Springs, Katherine and Tenant Creek.
The Northern Territory has large areas of desert. It has many important places such as Uluru, or Ayers Rock. The rock is sacred to the native people.
Ka... |
18441 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey%20Rebellion | Whiskey Rebellion | The Whiskey Rebellion was a rebellion against the federal government of the United States. Some farmers in western Pennsylvania rebelled against the United States government in 1794 because they believed that a new tax on whiskey was not fair. Selling whiskey was how people traded in western Pennsylvania, but farmers e... |
18442 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saginaw%2C%20Michigan | Saginaw, Michigan | Saginaw is a city in mid-Michigan, United States. It had about 70,000 people in the city as of the 2000 census. It is very cold there in the winter. It is near Bay City, Michigan.
Cities in Michigan
County seats in Michigan |
18443 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Cruise | Tom Cruise | Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (; born July 3, 1962), widely known as Tom Cruise, is an American movie actor and producer. He has starred in many movies, including War of the Worlds and Jerry Maguire. He is one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood.
His first movie was Endless Love. His first leading role was in the mov... |
18446 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgy%20%28band%29 | Orgy (band) | Orgy is an American alternative metal band. They formed in 1997 in Los Angeles, California. The band's first hit was Blue Monday, which was a remake of a song by 1980s band New Order. The members of the band are:
Jay Gordon - singer
Bobby Hewitt - drummer
Ryan Shuck - guitarist
Amir Derakh - guitar, synthesizer player... |
18448 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine | Magazine | A magazine is a type of book people read. Magazines are not like regular books. This is because a new version of the magazine is printed many times each year. Magazines are a type of periodical.
They are called periodicals because versions are published at a fixed frequency. Magazines are printed on paper. People us... |
18453 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie | Zombie | A zombie is a mythical dead person who has returned to life as a walking corpse. Mythical things that have been "re-animated" are called undead, or the living dead. The zombie myth came from the Caribbean.
Voodoo zombies
In Haiti people believe that Voodoo sorcerers or 'bokor' can bring dead people back to life, mak... |
18455 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgy | Orgy | There is also the alternative metal band Orgy (band).
In common use, an orgy is when more than two people have sex together, sometimes also called group sex.
This dates back to prehistoric ages, recorded in many ancient civilizations.
Orgy could also mean any activity done without limits.
Originally, the word comes... |
18457 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labradoodle | Labradoodle | A Labradoodle is a mixed-breed dog, created by breeding a Labrador Retriever with a Poodle. Labradoodles are now bred worldwide.
Labradoodles are not a considered an official dog breed by most dog expert organizations, such as the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI). The American Kennel Club (AKC )has now cre... |
18458 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang | Heilongjiang | Heilongjiang is the northeastern-most province in China. It is considered to part of the region known as Manchuria. It is bordered by Russia on the north and east. To the south is Jilin province, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region lies to the west.
The capital and largest city is Harbin. There had been a conside... |
18459 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin | Jilin | Jilin is one of 3 provinces in the far northeastern part of China, also known as Manchuria. It is bordered on the north by Heilongjiang province, to the west by the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region", and to the southwest by Liaoning province. To the southeast lies North Korea.
The capital city of Jilin is Changchun ... |
18460 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaoning | Liaoning | Liaoning is a northeastern province of the People's Republic of China. The capital city of Liaoning province is Shenyang. From 1931 to 1945 Japan ruled Liaoning as part of Manchukuo.
Location
Liaoning province is the southernmost province of Manchuria (the three northeastern most provinces of China), which together, ... |
18471 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin | Basin | Basin might mean:
Wash basin, a bowl-shaped container used for washing hands or food
Drainage basin, the area drained by a river
Oceanic basin, a low place in the Earth that holds an ocean
Sedimentary basin , like the Amazon Basin
Basin (geology)
An open, round container shaped like a bowl with sloping sides, used fo... |
18472 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade | Blade | A blade is the flat, sharp part of a tool or weapon used to cut or stab, such as a knife or sword. Most blades have handles. Blades can be used to stab, cut, or separate things. It can also be the top part of grass or the leaf of a plant. Blades come in all different sizes and shapes, sharpness and materials.
Basic En... |
18478 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastacia | Anastacia | Anastacia Lyn Newkirk, best known as Anastacia , (born September 17, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter and stylist.
Anastacia's father was of German ancestry; her mother is of Irish ancestry.
Anastacia has had several health problems in her life. She was diagnosed with Crohn's disease when she was 13. In early ... |
18479 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key | Key | A key is an object used to open and close locks. Many things have locks, for example, doors. Keys are also used to turn on cars, machines and other things.
A key is used by placing the key into the slot of the thing you want to unlock.
A key that can open more than one lock (if each lock also has its own key) is cal... |
18480 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat | Rat | The rat is a medium-sized rodent. Rats are omnivores, they eat lots of different types of food. Most rats are in the genus Rattus. There are about 56 different species of rats.
The best known rats are the black rat (Rattus rattus), and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). These two are known as Old World rats. The grou... |
18481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch | Branch | A branch is the part of a tree that grows out from the trunk of a tree.
Basic English 850 words
Plant anatomy |
18482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon | Spoon | A spoon is a tool for eating. It is usually used for eating foods that are like liquids (like soup and yogurt), and it can also be used for stirring. Humans use spoons every day. Some solids (like cereal and ice cream) are also usually eaten with spoons. A ladle is a bigger type of serving spoon used for soup, stew, or... |
18497 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutlery | Cutlery | Cutlery refers to tools used for preparing, serving and eating food. The most common types of cutlery are knives, spoons and forks. Other words for cutlery are silverware, tableware, utensils and flatware.
The best quality cutlery may be made of silver, but more often silver plating. Stainless steel is used for most g... |
18498 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vase | Vase | A vase is a container, often used for flowers. They can be made from a number of materials, including glass and ceramics. Many vases are decorated or painted but some are left plain. It sometimes is used for decorations in American and Chinese homes. It can be a big part of culture in many countries.
Containers |
18499 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen | Yemen | The Republic of Yemen or Yemen is a nation in the Middle East. The colonial government is called the Houthis. It is the old North Yemen and South Yemen, in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Saudi Arabia and Oman on the north and the east. To the south is the Guardafui Channel and Gulf of Aden, and to the w... |
18504 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory%20system | Sensory system | The sensory system is the way animals find out about their nearby environment and their bodies. To do this they have special devices for collecting data called sense organs. The sense organs act as transducers: they turn energy from the outside or inside of the body into nerve signals. The signals are then very rapidly... |
18508 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%20Tesla | Nikola Tesla | Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943), was an ethnically Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and physicist. He is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. He was born in the village of Smiljan, in the part of former Au... |
18510 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene | Scene | Scene can mean:
A certain place in a movie or play where a part of the story takes place.
A part of a culture made up of people who have a common interest, usually in a certain type of music. ("Dark clothes are a part of the emo scene.")
A style based upon "emo", where individuals dye the hair with many bright colou... |
18518 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector%20Gadget | Inspector Gadget | Inspector Gadget is a Canadian-French-American-Japanese anime that ran from 1983 to 1986. It was the first show produced by DIC Entertainment.
Elements of the franchise pay homage to the 1960s series Get Smart, Gadget's voice was even provided by Don Adams who was the star of Get Smart. Other elements are homages to t... |
18519 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicated | Syndicated | Syndicated means a television program being shown on a different television network than the one that first showed the program. A syndicated program can also be a program that was not made for a television network. These types of programs are made and then sold to many different television stations to be shown.
There ... |
18520 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon | Cartoon | A cartoon is a kind of vector which is a few short lines followed by a series of drawns, sometime animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The word "cartoon" has been used in several different ways in the world.
Types of cartoons
Cartoon for an artwork
The oldest meaning is a drawing that is a full-sized... |
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