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19560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20Braun | Eva Braun | Eva Anna Paula Braun (6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime girlfriend of Adolf Hitler. She met him in Munich when she was 17 years old. They married the day before they committed suicide (killed themselves), Braun killed herself by using cyanide. Hitler used cyanide and at the same time shot himself. When ... |
19566 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20recycling | Computer recycling | Computer recycling means taking things from old computers and using them in new computer things. The phrase is also used to mean that computers need to be thrown away in a special way, as they often have things that are bad for the environment or dangerous inside them that can cause problems if they are thrown away lik... |
19568 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki | Nagasaki | is the capital city of Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan.
Nagasaki was founded by the Portuguese in the late 16th century and unfounded by the United States of America in the mid 20th century
It has been recognized as a core city since 1997.
History
Nagasaki was founded by the Portuguese in the late 16th century. During... |
19570 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayyavazhi | Ayyavazhi | Ayyavazhi (, "path of the master"), is a Hindu denomination with one god that started in South India in the middle of the 19th century. The 'zhi' () in the word, 'Ayyavazhi', is a retroflex, ri.
Ayyavazhi is considered as a branch of Hinduism, officially. It is widespread in Tamil Nadu's southern districts of Kanyakum... |
19572 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akilattirattu%20Ammanai | Akilattirattu Ammanai | Akilathirattu Ammanai (; from akilam (world) + thirattu (collection) + ammanai (ballad)), also called Thiru Edu (venerable book), is the main religious book of the Southern Indian Ayyavazhi, officially a branch of Hinduism. The title is shortened as Akilam. This is the largest Ammanai work.
History
According to the bo... |
19574 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayya%20Vaikundar | Ayya Vaikundar | Ayya Vaikundar () is a Manu (father, sovereign) avatar (the incarnation of a deity) of the Lord Narayana according to Akilattirattu Ammanai the holy book of the Ayyavazhi religion, officially a Tamil Hindu branch.
The physical human body of Ayya Vaikundar was born with the name Muthukutty. However, Muthukutty is refer... |
19577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathi | Pathi | The worship centers of Ayyavazhi are called Pathis. The activities of Vaikundar is historically jointed with this Pathis. There are five Pathis:
Swamithoppepathi
Ambalappathi
Muttappathi
Thamaraikulampathi
Pooppathi
Ayyavazhi |
19578 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%20mass | Planck mass | The Planck mass is a small unit of mass used in physics. It is derived using an equation involving Planck's constant, the speed of light in a vacuum, and the gravitational constant. It is approximately 21.76 μg, which is about the mass of a grain of rice.
The idea was to have a definition based only on fundamental uni... |
19579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20sexuality | Human sexuality | Human sexuality is the ability of people to have sexual experiences and feelings. This involves biological, erotic, physical, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. The most common form of human sexuality is heterosexuality, but homosexuality, bisexuality and asexuality exist too. An abnormal form of s... |
19582 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20and%20Peace | War and Peace | War and Peace () is a famous novel written by Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer. It is about four families of noblemen in Russia during the wars with Napoleon, and how they deal with the war and with one another.
Tolstoy described War and Peace as "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicl... |
19587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay%20City%2C%20Michigan | Bay City, Michigan | The American city of Bay City is a small city in the state of Michigan, United States. In the 2000 census it had more than 35,000 people living in it.
Although small, Bay City is one of the largest port cities on Lake Huron, one of the North American Great Lakes. It is part of a triangle of small cities in Central Mic... |
19591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirconium | Zirconium | Zirconium is a chemical elemental metal. It is a greyish-white in color. It is atomic number 40 on the periodic table. Its symbol is Zr. And it is in the family of four (4). Zirconium alloys are used as cladding for nuclear fuel rods.
Related pages
Zircon
Chemical elements |
19592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yttrium | Yttrium | Yttrium is a chemical elemental metal. It is atomic number 39 on the periodic table. It is silvery-white and tends to form crystals. In chunk form, it is unreactive in air, but powdered yttrium may burn at 400 degrees Celsius. It has several uses, which include lasers, TV's, and metallurgy.
Chemical elements |
19594 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%2098 | Windows 98 | Windows 98 is an operating system for computers. Released on June 25, 1998 by Microsoft, it is the successor of Windows 95. It came before Windows Me. Support for Windows 98 ended on July 11, 2006.
Windows 98 was seen by many as a small upgrade to Windows 95, rather than a rebuilt version of Windows. The biggest chang... |
19595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste | Waste | Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance that is discarded after primary use or is worthless, defective, and of no use.
It may be no longer useful as it has served its purpose, and at the end of the process have no further use, and is generally discarded. It is unwanted material th... |
19596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1096 | 1096 | Year 1096 (MXCVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
Bernhard becomes Bishop of Brandenburg
First documented teaching at the University of Oxford
Beginning of the People's Crusade, the German Crusade, and the First Crusade
Vital I Michele is Do... |
19597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1098 | 1098 | Year 1098 (MXCVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
December 12 – massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan where Crusaders resort to cannibalism.
First Crusade: end of the siege of Antioch.
Cîteaux Abbey founded.
Births
September 16 – Hildegard of Bingen, German mystic writer, and compo... |
19598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | Republic of the Congo | The Republic of the Congo is a country in Africa. Its capital city is Brazzaville. The country was a former colony of France; it became independent on 15 August 1960.
The north of the country has very large areas of rainforest, but in the south are many farms which grow cashcrops like bananas, peanuts.
Geography
Congo... |
19599 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabon | Gabon | The Gabonese Republic, or Gabon, is a country in Africa. It is located on the equator. It has borders with Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and the Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Libreville, which is also the largest city in the country. Gabon has an area of almost . 1.5 million people live in Gabon.
Gabon was a c... |
19613 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil%20Nadu | Tamil Nadu | Tamil Nadu () is a state in India. The capital of this state is Chennai. Other large cities in Tamil Nadu include Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli, Salem, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Thanjavur and Thoothukudi. Tamil is the language spoken in Tamil Nadu. It is surrounded by the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Indian Ocean to the ... |
19616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck | Duck | Ducks, closely related to swans and geese, are birds in the family Anatidae. The same family, ducks are not a monophyletic group. They are a 'form taxon', since swans and geese (in the same family) are not called ducks. The main difference is that ducks have shorter necks, and are smaller.
Other swimming and diving ... |
19620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20by%20Northwest | North by Northwest | North by Northwest is a 1959 movie thriller from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Alfred Hitchcock directed it, and Cary Grant starred in it.
Like other Hitchcock movies, the music for North by Northwest was composed by Bernard Herrmann.
The famous opening sequence was created by Saul Bass.
Other websites
Classic Movies: N... |
19625 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwish | Nightwish | Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Finland. They formed in July 1996 and played acoustic mood music. The band's keyboardist and composer Tuomas Holopainen had the idea of forming a band. He asked Tarja Turunen to sing and Emppu Vuorinen to play guitar.
At the beginning of 1997, the band started playing stronger ... |
19632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Leone | Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa. Its capital is Freetown. The official language is English.
The country was first made as a place where freed slaves could live. From 1991 until 2000, there was a civil war in Sierra Leone between rebels and the government. The war is now over. Sierra Leone is known for its blo... |
19633 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door | Door | A door is a hard, flat object a person can open and close so that person can go into a room or other place. It is found in houses and other buildings. Doors are also found in cars and cages.
The reasons for a door are:
for people, animals, and objects to go through; some doors are for emergencies only (emergency exit... |
19634 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1540s | 1540s |
Events
Hernando de Soto is the first European to see the Mississippi River.
Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia.
Edward VI succeeds his father Henry VIII as King of England.
Wars between Protestants and Catholics in Europe.
Japan opens up to Europeans.
Births
El Greco, Greek-born artist
... |
19638 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20737 | Boeing 737 | The Boeing 737 is a twin narrow-body airliner built by Boeing. At first, Boeing was making it to be a shorter, cheaper airliner than its 707 and 727. However, the 737 has become a family of nine different models. The number of passengers it can carry ranges from 85 to 215. The 737 is the only narrow-body airliner that ... |
19646 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar | Tsar | Tsar is the title for the supreme ruler of Bulgaria in 913–1422, later usage in 1908–1946, the supreme ruler of Serbia in 1346—1371 and the emperor of Russia from 1546 until 1721. Since 1721 the title of Russian emperors was imperator, but the word tsar remained in common use until the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Tsar... |
19647 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1550s | 1550s |
Events
Helsinki founded in Finland.
Rule of Bloody Mary, or Mary I of England from 1553 to 1558.
São Paulo founded in Brazil.
Religious wars continue in Europe.
Russia breaks peace with Sweden by attacking Finland.
The Shaanxi Earthquake, the deadliest earthquake in history.
Births
Sarsa Dengel, Emperor o... |
19649 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1840 | 1840 |
Events
The Great Natchez Tornado: A massive tornado hits Natchez, Mississippi. Before it was over, 317 people had died and 209 were injured.
Births
January 3– Father Damien, priest
January 18 – Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
May 7 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer
Kuroda K... |
19650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert%20Dollfuss | Engelbert Dollfuss | Engelbert Dollfuss (German: Dollfuß) (October 4, 1892 – July 25, 1934) was the Chancellor of Austria from 1932 until 1933. He led the country as a dictator from early 1933 until 1934.
He studied law in Vienna, and Economics in Berlin. During World War I, he served in the Alps and briefly became a Prisoner of War in 19... |
19653 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20isolate | Language isolate | A language isolate is a language that is not known to be related to any other language.
Many languages are related to other languages by coming from an older language, and both are still similar. Languages that are related are language families. Most languages known to belong to a language family. However, some are no... |
19654 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species | Species | A species is a kind of organism. It is a basic unit of biological classification, and a formal rank in taxonomy. Originally, the word was used informally in a rather vague way, but now there are at least 26 different ways it is used.
All animals or plants that are the same kind belong to the same species. Wolves (Cani... |
19655 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestor | Ancestor | An ancestor is a person (or another organism or thing) from whom (or which) another is descended. Usually, it refers to a person far in the past, rather than the parents or grandparents in the close family. A very similar word is forebear. A female ancestor may be called an ancestress. The line of ancestors from which ... |
19656 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20dolphin | River dolphin | River dolphins are five species of dolphin which live in fresh water rivers and estuaries. Three species live in fresh water rivers. The La Plata Dolphin lives in salt water estuaries and the ocean.
South Asian river dolphins (two sub-species)
Ganges river dolphin, Platanista gangetica gangetica – Lives in Nepal, Repu... |
19657 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary | Estuary | An estuary is where a river meets the sea. There, saltwater mixes with freshwater. The river becomes wider and wider and flows slowly to the ocean.
Bays, marshes, swamps, and inlets can all have estuaries. A view of an estuary from the air is usually an interesting sight: many estuaries meander (curve and bend) to fin... |
19666 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bond | James Bond | James Bond is a fictional British spy created by Ian Fleming in 1953.
History
1950s-1960s
In 1953, Fleming wrote Casino Royale, the very first James Bond novel. The novel made a lot of money, and he continued to write one James Bond novel each year until he died in 1963. In a 1956 South African radio program Moonrak... |
19669 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Streetcar%20Named%20Desire%20%281951%20movie%29 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 movie) | A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 movie. It is based on the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams. The movie stars Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh.
Other websites
Plays
1951 drama movies
American drama movies
United States National Film Registry movies
Multilingual movies
Movies directed by Elia Kazan |
19674 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron | A tetrahedron (triangular pyramid) is a three-dimensional shape. It has four corners. It looks like a pyramid. It has six equally long edges, four corners and four equilateral triangular faces. Every two edges meet on one of those corners forming a sixty-degree angle. All of its sides are triangles.
Formulas for a reg... |
19675 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Hooke | Robert Hooke | Robert Hooke FRS (Isle of Wight, 18 July 1635 – London, 3 March 1703) was an English naturalist, architect and polymath. Hooke played an important role in the birth of science in the 17th century with both experimental and theoretical work. He was a colleague of Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, and a rival to Isaac N... |
19681 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission | Emission | Emission is a word that originally comes from Latin. Originally it means something that is sent out. Several things can be sent out:
The most common use talks about emission of toxic gases. Those gases get produced by factories and motors, like motors in cars.
People talk about radio emissions. Those are programmes ... |
19686 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20Tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September 1828 20 November 1910) was a Russian novelist and anarchist, famous for writing the books War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and many other works. He was a Christian and believed in non-violence and practiced simple living. His work The Kingdom of God is within you has influen... |
19687 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20wine | California wine | People have made wine in the American state of California for a long time. California has become recognized as making some of the world's best wine. California makes most of the wine that is made in America.
History
People first made wine in California in 1769. Missionaries from Mexico brought their wine plants to pro... |
19689 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch%20Cassidy%20and%20the%20Sundance%20Kid | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American movie from 20th Century Fox. George Roy Hill directed it, and John Foreman produced it. It stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford as two robbers in Wyoming who go to Bolivia to escape the law.
The movie was loosely based on the real story of the two title characters ... |
19724 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1480s | 1480s |
Events
War of the Roses in England.
Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal sails around Africa and on to India.
Spanish Inquisition begins.
Births
Martin Luther, German monk and reformer
Raphael, Italian painter and architect
Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer
Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of Eng... |
19735 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed%20II | Mehmed II | Mehmed II or Mehmed the conqueror (, Meḥmed-i sānī; Modern , ; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to 1446, and later from 1451 to 1481. At the age of 21, he conquered Constantinople, bringing an end to the medieval Byzantine Empire.
Related pages
Mehmed the Conquero... |
19758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bold%20and%20the%20Beautiful | The Bold and the Beautiful | The Bold and the Beautiful is a popular American soap opera. After The Young and the Restless, it is the highest-rated soap opera there.
The series is shown in over 100 countries. About 300 million people watch it every day. This makes The Bold and the Beautiful the most watched television series in the world. The fir... |
19759 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20color | Primary color | Primary colors (or primary colours) are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. The primary colors are those which cannot be created by mixing other colors in a given color space.
For subtractive combination of colors, as in mixing of pigments or dyes for printing, the CMYK set of primari... |
19760 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilicus | Umbilicus | The umbilicus (also called navel or bellybutton) is a place on the body of mammals that is left after a baby loses its umbilical cord. The umbilicus of humans is in the middle of the abdomen. It is usually only easy to see on humans, and is a thin line on many other mammals. In humans, they can be split into two differ... |
19761 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Cook | James Cook | Captain James Cook, FRS (27 October 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, mapping many areas and recording several islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. He is most notable for the British finding the east coast of A... |
19762 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offside%20rule | Offside rule | The offside rule is one of the oldest football rules, but is still a much discussed rule. This is probably because of the relatively complicated set of provisions provided by the sport's law-making body, the IFAB for deciding if a player in an offside position is actually guilty of an offside offence by becoming involv... |
19763 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s%20Day | Valentine's Day | Valentine's Day is a celebration that happens on February 14. It is the day of the year when lovers celebrate their love. This can be done by giving flowers, chocolates, Valentine's cards or just a nice gift. Love notes can be given to one another. These notes that people give out are also called valentines. Some... |
19765 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary%20Islands | Canary Islands | The Canary Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Morocco. They are an autonomous community of Spain (they make their own laws). There are seven main islands. The people who live there speak Spanish. The autonomous community has two capital cities, of equal status: Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran... |
19766 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Airport | Edinburgh Airport | Edinburgh Airport (IATA EDI, ICAO: EGPH) is an airport in Scotland. It is one of seven airports in the United Kingdom owned by the company BAA, which also owns Glasgow Airport and Aberdeen Airport in Scotland.
It is served by many different airlines including Scot Airways, British Airways, EasyJet, BMI, Continental Ai... |
19767 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa | Lufthansa | Lufthansa is the largest airline in Germany, and the second-largest in Europe. Some of Lufthansa's hubs are Frankfurt am Main and Munich, Germany. A hub is an airport where people who fly from one city to a second city can transfer or change airplanes.
Lufthansa buys airplanes from Boeing and Airbus. Lufthansa ha... |
19768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando%20Bloom | Orlando Bloom | Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977, in Canterbury, Kent, England) is an English actor. He is most known for his first major movie role as the elf Legolas Greenleaf in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
In 1993, he moved to London to improve his career, doing bit parts in TV series like Casualty. ... |
19778 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/871 | 871 |
Events
Somerton becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Wessex.
Alfred the Great succeeds as king of Wessex after Ethelred of Wessex's death. |
19779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1791 | 1791 | The year of 1791 started on a Saturday in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January 25 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791, splitting the province of Quebec (a colony in North America spreading from the Gulf of Mexico coast to Hudson Bay)
March 2 – A semaphore machine is revealed to the publ... |
19780 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1084 | 1084 | Year 1084 (MLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
May : Sack of Rome by the Normans of Robert Guiscard.
Births
David I of Scotland |
19781 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium | Chromium | Chromium is a chemical element. Its symbol on the periodic table (a list of all the elements) is Cr. It always has 24 protons, so its atomic number is 24. Its mass number (number of protons and neutrons) is about 54. Most of the times it has 28 neutrons, but different isotopes have more or fewer neutrons. As a metal, i... |
19782 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon | Neon | Neon is a chemical element on the periodic table. It is part of the noble gas group and it has an atomic number of 10. It is an odorless and tasteless gas.
History
The word "neon" comes from the Greek word meaning "new" as it was discovered by William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers in 1898.
Chemistry
Neon does not re... |
19783 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin | Tin | Tin is a chemical element with symbol Sn (for ) and atomic number 50. It is in Group 14 on the periodic table. It is not radioactive.
Properties
Physical properties
Tin is a silver, somewhat soft metal. It is a post-transition metal. Its melting point is 231.93°C and its boiling point is 2602 °C. It can melt easily ... |
19785 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon | Silicon | Silicon is a chemical element. Its atomic number is 14 on the periodic table. Its symbol is Si. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid. It is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. It is a member of group 14 in the periodic table.
Silicon looks like a metal, but cannot do everything that a metal can, like conduct... |
19786 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium | Cadmium | Cadmium is a metal. It is element 48 on the periodic table. Its symbol is Cd. Its atomic number is 48 and its atomic mass is 112.4. It is found in Group 12 on the periodic table.
Properties
Physical properties
Cadmium is a blue-gray soft metal. It can be considered a transition metal or a post-transition metal. It is... |
19787 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton | Krypton | Krypton is a stable noble gas. It has an atomic number of 36. The name krypton comes from the Greek word kryptos meaning hidden. It is used in fluorescent lamps, flashbulbs, and as a wavelength standard. The metre used to be defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in a vacuum of krypton gas.
Chemistry
Because it is a gas... |
19788 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble%20gas | Noble gas | The noble gases are a group of elements that are all gases. These elements are all in group 18 of the periodic table. All of them are monoatomic, meaning each molecule is a single atom. They almost never react with other elements. This is because they have a full 8 electrons outer electron shell. There are six noble ga... |
19790 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium | Polonium | Polonium is a rare radioactive metalloid. It is chemical element 84 on the periodic table and its symbol is Po. It was discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie.
Polonium is highly unstable, radioactive and toxic. This makes it difficult to handle. It can be dangerous, even in very small amounts. One gram of Po wil... |
19791 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth | Bismuth | Bismuth is a chemical element. It is element 83 on the periodic table and its symbol is Bi. Its atomic mass is 209. It is only slightly radioactive. The radioactivity is minimal so it is typically seen as nonradioactive. Bismuth is only naturally found as one isotope, which is the almost nonradioactive one. Its radioac... |
19792 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium | Iridium | Iridium is the 77th element on the periodic table. Its symbol is Ir and its atomic number is 77.
Chemistry
Iridium is a metal. Like other metals in the platinum group, Iridium is a rare and expensive "noble metal" and is a transition metal. It looks like platinum and is found in asteroids and comets. Iridium depos... |
19793 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20metal | Transition metal | The transition metals are a group of metals that are found in the middle of the periodic table. The alkaline earth metals, beginning with beryllium are to the left and the boron group elements are to the right. The term "transition element" was invented for them in 1921.
The atomic numbers of these metals are from 21-... |
19794 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmium | Osmium | Osmium is a chemical element. It is element number 76 on the periodic table. Its symbol is Os.
There is not much osmium on earth. There is actually such a small amount that osmium is very expensive.
Osmium is a metal and it does not react very much, and such a metal is known as a "noble metal".
Osmium is the denses... |
19795 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon | Radon | Radon is a chemical element in the periodic table. It is element 86 on the periodic table and its symbol is Rn. It is an odorless, tasteless noble gas. It is quite radioactive and can decay very quickly. 27 isotopes of Radon are known today. The most stable of them has a half life of about 3.8 days.
Chemistry
Radon i... |
19796 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP | FTP | FTP, also known as File Transfer Protocol, is a communication protocol for the rapid, simple transmission of files across a network supporting the TCP/IP. This network is generally the Internet, or a local network. FTP is a way of accessing files on another computer. FTP uses the Client-Server architecture, meaning tha... |
19797 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext%20Transfer%20Protocol | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | Hypertext Transfer Protocol (often abbreviated to HTTP) is a communications protocol. It is used to send and receive webpages and files on the internet. It was developed by Tim Berners-Lee and is now coordinated by the W3C. HTTP version 1.1 is the most common used version today. It is defined in RFC 2616.
HTTP works b... |
19798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet | Ethernet | Ethernet is a way of connecting computers together in a local area network or LAN. It has been the most widely used method of linking computers together in LANs since the 1990s. The basic idea of its design is that multiple computers have access to it and can send data at any time. This is comparatively easy to enginee... |
19800 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity | Obesity | Obesity is the condition of being much too heavy for one's height so that one's health is affected. In other words, it means to be too overweight. Also known as being fat. It is considered a disease and has been described as an epidemic.
To know if a person is overweight, the body mass index (BMI) is calculated, by di... |
19803 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rn | Rn | Rn or RN could mean:
Radon, a gas that is a basic chemical element
Registered nurse, a nursing specialist in the medical field
Royal Navy, |
19808 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips%20Academy | Phillips Academy | Phillips Academy (also called Andover, Phillips Andover, or PA) is a high school for boys and girls in Andover, Massachusetts, near Boston, USA. The school is a boarding school. 75% of the students live there.
Phillips Academy is one of the oldest private boarding schools in the United States. Two American Preside... |
19812 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluttony | Gluttony | Gluttony is a wasting of resources. Usually it is food that is wasted. Either one person eats too much, or the person does something so the food (or the resources) do not reach those who need it.
In Christianity, this is considered to be one of the Seven deadly sins.
Seven deadly sins |
19813 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed | Greed | Greed is a desire to have more goods, or more wealth than is needed. Christianity says that greed is one of the Seven deadly sins. There it is listed as avarice, or in Latin avaritia.
Emotions
Seven deadly sins
nl:Hoofdzonde#Avaritia |
19815 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazurek%20D%C4%85browskiego | Mazurek Dąbrowskiego | Mazurek Dąbrowskiego is the Polish national anthem, made in 1797 by Józef Wybicki.
Lyrics
Other websites
"Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" in Mp3 format (Full version)
"Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" in Mp3 format (Instrumental version)
National anthems
Poland
1797 establishments
Establishments in Poland
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19816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSA | CSA | CSA can mean the Confederate States of America.
CSA was Czechoslovak State Airlines (now called Czech Airlines) |
19818 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornication | Fornication | Fornication is a word that means having sex with someone who is not your spouse. Many Christians and Muslims believe it is sinful.
Sexual acts
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19820 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit | Profit | Profit is how much money somebody (normally a company) makes. This is found by subtracting how much money they have spent (expenditure) from how much money they have brought in (revenue).
An example
If John spends $15 on some ice cream cones, and then sells them for $20, he has made a profit of $5. This is because he ... |
19821 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roasting | Roasting | Roasting is a way of cooking. Something gets roasted if it is put over a fire, and some is burnt. The same effect can also be attained with a grill at a barbecue.
Meat
In different countries people like to roast different things. People usually roast meats such as pork, beef, chicken, lamb, and duck. The roasted me... |
19823 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza | Influenza | Influenza, better known as the flu and sometimes called the grippe, is a common childhood illness, but is not as common among adults. It is not limited to humans, most mammals and many birds can also catch influenza. It is caused by several different viruses (see: RNA virus), which is why people can have the flu more t... |
19824 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreas | Pancreas | The pancreas is an organ that makes hormones and enzymes to help digestion. The pancreas helps break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. The pancreas is behind the stomach and is on the left side of the human body.
The part of the pancreas that makes hormones is called the Islets of Langerhans. The Islets of Lange... |
19827 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroplast | Chloroplast | A chloroplast is a small organelle inside the cells of plants and algae. They absorb light to make sugar in a process called photosynthesis. The sugar can be stored in the form of starch. Chloroplasts contain the molecule chlorophyll, which absorbs sunlight for photosynthesis. In addition to chlorophyll, a chloroplast ... |
19828 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll | Chlorophyll | Chlorophyll is a chemical in the chloroplasts of plants. It allows plants to absorb and use light. Energy from the light is used in photosynthesis to make glucose. This contains lots of stored energy which the plant needs to release. It does this through respiration. This energy is then used when the plant grows or rep... |
19830 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak | Oak | The oak tree is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus. There are about 600 living species. The common name "oak (Oaks)" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, such as Lithocarpus.
The genus Quercus is native to the Northern Hemisphere. It includes deciduous and evergreen species from cool temperate ... |
19831 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose | Glucose | Glucose (C6H12O6 ) is a simple carbohydrate, or sugar. It is one of several kinds of sugars. It is important because cells in an organism use it as a source of energy. Turning glucose into energy is called cellular respiration, which is done inside the cells of a living organism. Excess glucose is converted to fats and... |
19836 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose | Cellulose | Cellulose is the main chemical that forms the main structure of plants. It is the most abundant macromolecule on Earth. It is also a kind of fiber. Cellulose is a very complex carbohydrate and consisting of 3,000 or more glucose units. Cellulose was discovered by Anselme Payen in 1838. He isolated it from plant matter ... |
19840 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote | Wikiquote | Wikiquote is a sister (related) project of Wikipedia. It is one of many projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikiquote was based on an idea by Daniel Alston and made by Brion Vibber. The goal of the project is to produce a large reference of quotations from famous people, books, and proverbs, and to give details ... |
19841 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia | Brasília | Brasília () is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its Federal District are in the Central-West region of the country. It is on a plateau known as Planalto Central. Brasília has a population of about 2,557,000 (3,599,000 in the metropolitan area) as of the 2008 IBG... |
19845 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical%20genre | Musical genre | A musical genre is how people describe different styles of music. Some of the most common music genres are:
Hip hop
jazz
pop
rock
rhythm and blues
soul music
alternative
Plus there are several more common music genres. Religious music is also common, such as hymns, choir music and many more.
To provide an exa... |
19861 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim%20sum | Dim sum | Dim sum is a way of serving Chinese and/or Vietnamese food. A range of different foods are served to the people who are eating, including pork wontons, fried shrimp, and egg rolls.
They are served on small wooden platters, and are usually steamed.
Other websites
Hong Kong Tourism Board Guide to Dim Sum
The mysteri... |
19864 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Smash%20Bros.%20Melee | Super Smash Bros. Melee | Super Smash Bros. Melee, known in Japan as is a video game where players can choose from many people from famous Nintendo games and have them fight each other. Players can fight alone or team up with someone else against a friend. This game is a sequel to Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 64. Super Smash Bros. Melee ... |
19865 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalysis | Catalysis | Catalysis is the change in speed (rate) of a chemical reaction due to the help of a catalyst. Unlike other chemicals which take part in the reaction, a catalyst is not consumed by the reaction itself. A catalyst may participate in many chemical reactions. Catalysts that speed the reaction are called positive catalysts.... |
19866 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20peroxide | Hydrogen peroxide | Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound. Its molecular formula is H2O2. It is used as a cleaner, and as hair bleach. In a concentration of 3% (meaning that there are 3 grams of hydrogen peroxide for 100 grams of a water solution), it can be used to treat wounds. Over time it will slowly become oxygen gas and water thr... |
19867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayotte | Mayotte | Mayotte is an island in the Indian Ocean next to Madagascar.
It is geographically part of the Comoros Islands, but politically, it is part of France.
Related pages
Communes of Mayotte
Other websites
Open Directory Project - Mayotte directory category
Mayotte travel information at Wikivoyage
Analysis of th... |
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