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20784 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom | Doom | Doom is a first-person shooter video game made by id Software in 1993. It is one of the first games to use three-dimensional levels. The game is about killing demons and zombies in order to stop an invasion. Doom has traps, including crushing ceilings, radiation pools, and exploding barrels, that can kill the player. D... |
20785 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jam | The Jam | The Jam was an English rock band formed in Woking, Surrey in 1972. The members were Paul Weller (guitar, vocals), Bruce Foxton (bass guitar, vocals), and Rick Buckler (drums). Having come out of from the short Punk movement they went on to become one of the UK's top bands. They had four number one hits which were Going... |
20794 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | Alchemy | Alchemy is the very old study and philosophy of how to change basic substances (such as metals) into other substances. It also studied how substances (and how they are changed into other substances) were related to magic and astrology. People who studied alchemy were called alchemists. Some things alchemists tried to d... |
20797 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger%20%28movie%29 | Goldfinger (movie) | Goldfinger is a 1964 spy movie based on the seventh James Bond book written by Ian Fleming. Goldfinger is the third James Bond movie in the series. It is also third to star Sean Connery as the British Secret Service agent James Bond. Shirley Bassey sings the title song of the movie.
Plot
In this movie, the main bad gu... |
20799 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scar | Scar | A scar is the natural result of a healing process in the human body. When the dermis is hurt by a wound, the wounded tissue will be replaced by scar tissue. Scar tissue is not identical to the tissue it replaces. A scar will look different (and have different characteristics) than the surrounding tissue.
Scar tissue i... |
20800 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft | Warcraft | Warcraft is a series of computer games made by Blizzard Entertainment. The games in this series are real-time strategy games, where players play as their characters and gain experience to level up.
Series
The different games from the series are Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Warcraft 2: Battle.net edition (with an expans... |
20808 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches%20Institut%20f%C3%BCr%20Normung | Deutsches Institut für Normung | DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN German Institute for Standardization) is the German national organization for standardization.
It publishes on average 2,000 standards per year in almost all fields of technology and increasingly in non-technical fields (e.g. services).
Example of DIN standards
DIN 476:... |
20809 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20size | Paper size | Paper comes in different sizes. There are names for the different sizes of paper. In different parts of the world, different sizes and names are used.
There are also envelope sizes made to fit different kinds of paper. Envelope sizes are normally wider to fit the paper inside.
International sizes
In most of the worl... |
20813 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envelope | Envelope | An envelope is a form of packing. Envelopes are used for sending letters or documents using regular postal mail. Envelopes are usually made of paper or hardened paper.
An envelope may be small enough to make you need to fold the paper going into it, or it can be as large as the paper so that you do not need to fold it... |
20815 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Hutcheson | Francis Hutcheson | Francis Hutcheson (born August 8, 1694, died August 8, 1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Irish philosophers
1694 births
1746 deaths |
20817 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser%20Arafat | Yasser Arafat | Yasser Arafat (24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004) is best known as the first leader of the Palestinian people. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004. In 1993, he also became president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
Arafat was born in Jerusalem, Gaza or Cairo. H... |
20818 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidote | Antidote | An antidote is a chemical or medicine that will reverse the effects of some poisons. An antidote will make some or all of the effects of the poison go away.
Each antidote only works for certain poisons.
Not every poison has an antidote. For example, the poison aconitine has no known antidote. Aconitine is a very p... |
20821 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak%20Rabin | Yitzhak Rabin | Yitzhak Rabin (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was born in Jerusalem. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel from 1974 until 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995 by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist who had strongly opposed Rabin's signing of the Oslo ... |
20823 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20%28disambiguation%29 | General (disambiguation) | General is a word with many meanings:
The military rank of General officer, also in paramilitary, etc.
The equivalent ecclesiastical position of general superior.
Of or relating to a genus.
A blue-collar worker who does many different services, often called simple a "General" or "General Employee". This is most o... |
20825 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure | Pleasure | Pleasure is an emotion. It is the opposite of pain. Humans and many other mammals feel pleasure. People feel pleasure when they do something that is fun or that feels good.
Pleasure in neuroscience
Pleasure is studied in neuroscience. Neuroscientists have mapped pleasure "hotspots" in the brain. Pleasure is important ... |
20826 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/After | After | After might mean"
After (novel), a book by Francine Prose
After... (visual novel), a visual novel
After... (movie), a 2006 thriller film about urban exploration
Basic English 850 words |
20835 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle | Kettle | A kettle is a type of pot that is used in a kitchen. It is used to make water hot or to boil water. It comes from the Latin word catillus ("deep pan or dish for cooking").
In the past, kettles were made of metal bins like copper. Kettles were put on a rack or a hook above the fire to become hot. Now, metal kettles are... |
20837 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve%20agent | Nerve agent | Nerve gas or nerve agent is the name of a family of chemical poisons. Usually people call them nerve agents (they are not always gases). They work by changing the way the nerves work in the human body. They stop messages from the brain from getting sent to the muscles and organs.
Nerve agents are organic chemicals t... |
20839 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbicide | Herbicide | A herbicide is a poison that kills plants. There are many kinds of herbicides, from weedkillers for gardens to Agent Orange which was used to destroy forests in the Vietnam War.
Agriculture
Chemical compounds |
20844 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Hefner | Hugh Hefner | Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was the founder of Playboy Magazine and its Editor-in-Chief.
Birth and education
Hefner was born into a Methodist family, to Glenn Hefner, an accountant, and Grace (Swanson) Hefner, a teacher, on April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised in Woodlawn, Chi... |
20846 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urination | Urination | Urination (peeing) is how animals and humans remove urine from their bodies. Urine is the scientific term for "pee", the liquid bodily waste filtered out of the bloodstream by kidneys and from the liquids that a person drinks. The bladder temporarily holds the waste fluid.
Urinary system |
20850 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctalopia | Nyctalopia | Nyctalopia (Greek for Night blindness) is a disease of the human eyes.The eyes of people who are night-blind cannot adapt to situations where there is relatively little light; as a result, they have trouble seeing in such situations.
There are a number of conditions that can cause this; most commonly:
lack or deficie... |
20852 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinique | Martinique | Martinique is an island in the Caribbean Sea. It has an area of 1,128 km². Nearly 400,000 people live there.
Martinique was known by indigenous peoples of the Caribbean as Madiana or Madinina. It was colonized by the French in the 17th century, and they introduced racist slavery there as they spread it all around the ... |
20854 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP | PHP | PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a scripting language that helps people make web pages more interactive by allowing them to do more intelligent, complex things. PHP code is run on the web server.
A website programmed with PHP can have pages that are password protected. A website with no programming cannot do this ... |
20858 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%20world%20program | Hello world program | A Hello world program is usually a program made by computer programmers that are new to a programming languages, or to test if the compiler for this language is working correctly. It will simply put the text Hello, World! on the screen.
One way to do the Hello World program is shown below, in the C programming languag... |
20861 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1720s | 1720s |
Events and trends
The oldest pianos still in existence today are from the 1720s.
World leaders
Louis XV, King of France (king from 1715 to 1774)
Shahs of the Safavid dynasty in Persia:
Husayn, 1694–1722
Tahmasp II, 1723–1732
George I, King of Great Britain (king from 1714 to 1727)
George II, King of Great B... |
20864 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2030s | 2030s | The 2030s (pronounced "twenty-thirties") will begin on January 1, 2030 and will end on December 31, 2039.
The decade as a whole
This decade will be called "the twenty-thirties". The Roman number will be MMXXX.
Events to happen
Voyager 2 will stop transmitting back to Earth.
January 19, 2038 - 32-bit clocks will ... |
20867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkBASIC | DarkBASIC | DarkBASIC is a programming language that is very easy to create games in so people do not need to worry about DirectX. People now use the more powerful DarkBASIC Professional.
Hello World in DarkBASIC
print "Hello, World!"
Other websites
DarkBASIC
DarkBasic - The Gaming Language
Programming languages |
20870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML | XML | The Extensible Markup Language (short XML) is a markup language like HTML but is extensible. It's created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). XML defines rules for the construction of a document. XML adds context to the information in a document. It does not say how this should be displayed.
Some programs get info... |
20871 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript | JavaScript | JavaScript is a high-level programming language that follows the ECMAScript standard. It was originally designed as a scripting language for websites but became widely adopted as a general-purpose programming language, and is currently the most popular programming language in use. JavaScript is usually found running in... |
20881 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Money%20Fair | World Money Fair | The World Money Fair is an international bourse of coins. A bourse is where dealers, collectors and the public to buy, sell and trade coins.
In 1970 A. M Beck founded in Muinch the "Organisation of European Coins-Bourses", "Organisation Europäischer Münzen-Börsen" (OEMB) in German. He had the idea to build up a stron... |
20951 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocracy | Autocracy | Autocracy is a form of government. In an autocracy, a single person has all legal and political power, and makes all decisions by himself or herself. The person who holds the power is called an autocrat.
When there is a monarch ruling a country as an absolute monarchy, this is also called an autocracy. Having an auto... |
20953 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy | Oligarchy | Oligarchy is a form of government. In an oligarchic system, all the power is held by a small group of people. It is usually the most powerful people who govern the state. It was used in Sparta, where the kingship alternated between three leading families.
Rule by the best
An oligarchy where the best rule is called Ar... |
20959 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation | Punctuation | Punctuation is the name for marks used in writing text. They are to help understanding and the correct reading. These are some common punctuation marks used in English:
. is a period or full stop
, is a comma
? is a question mark
! is an exclamation mark
' is an apostrophe or single quote mark
" is a quotation m... |
20961 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land | Land | Land can mean some territory, forming part of a country. Roughly 22% of the surface of Earth is land, while the rest is covered with water. Land can have different types of soil; it may be covered with stones, sand, dirt, etc. Sometimes it is not clear where land ends and a body of water begins.
Related pages
Geology... |
20962 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface | Surface | A surface is the outer part of something. Most surfaces have a width and a length, but no depth.
Surfaces are studied in geometry.
Examples of Surfaces
An apple has a skin on its surface.
People live on the Earth's surface.
A piece of metal is put in red paint. The metal is taken out of the paint. After, the o... |
20963 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20slavery | Sexual slavery | Sexual slavery is a special case of slavery or forced labour. Sexual slaves are like normal slaves, except for the following:
They may have been forced into prostitution;
The people are slaves, forced to do non-sexual labour. However, sexual relations with the slaves may be permitted, or even common;
They may be forced... |
20964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Internet%20top-level%20domains | List of Internet top-level domains | Here is a list of currently existing top-level domains (TLDs).
References
Other websites
IANA's information on TLDs
The Internet Domain Survey
Computer-related lists
Country codes |
20965 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1784 | 1784 |
Events
The Congress of the United States signs a treaty to end the American Revolutionary War.
The Methodist Church is started by John Wesley.
Births
October 13 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain
November 24 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States
Deaths
August 28 – Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary
De... |
20967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20seasons | List of Atlantic hurricane seasons | The following is a list of Atlantic hurricane seasons. All began on June 1 in their respective years. They ended on November 30. These dates are when tropical cyclones usually form in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Atlantic hurricane season is the time of year that hurricanes form in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The season s... |
20969 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pacific%20hurricane%20seasons | List of Pacific hurricane seasons | The following is a list of Pacific hurricane seasons. They all began on May 15 in the eastern Pacific and June 1 in the central Pacific in their respective years. There, they end on November 30. These dates are when tropical cyclones usually form in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Before the satellite age started in the 19... |
20977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963%20Atlantic%20hurricane%20season | 1963 Atlantic hurricane season | The 1963 Atlantic hurricane season started on June 1, 1963, and ended in November 30, 1963.
The most famous hurricane of the season was Hurricane Flora. It was one of the most deadly. It killed 7,200 people in Haiti and Cuba.
Storms
Hurricane Arlene
A group of clouds in the central Atlantic became a tropical storm ... |
20978 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil | Sildenafil | Sildenafil is an aphrodisiac. It is a medication that is also called Viagra, Revatio and (in the Indian subcontinent) Caverta.
Sildenafil makes the blood vessels become wider. This lowers the blood pressure. Sildenafil mostly works in the penis and in the lungs. This medicine increases blood flow to the penis. This h... |
20979 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1825 | 1825 |
Events
January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies and is succeeded by his son Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
February 12 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west
March 4 – John Quincy Adams officially succeeds James Monroe as President of the U... |
20980 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1771 | 1771 |
Events
January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark
July 17 – Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting In... |
20981 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1777 | 1777 |
Events
The Cornish language died out
2nd edition of Encyclopædia Britannica published
January 3 – American Revolutionary War: American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
January 12 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, Ca... |
20982 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1757 | 1757 |
Events
January 2 – The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
March 14 – On board the HMS Monarch, Royal Navy Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for breach of the Articles of War.
May 6 – Battle of Prague – Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.
June 18 – Battle... |
20983 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%20BC | 4 BC | Year 4 BC was a common year starting on Tuesday or Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Rufus.
Events
Herod Archelaus becomes the ruler of Judea. Herod Antipas rules Galilee and Perea.
Publius Quintilius Varus leads Roman legions to Jerusalem to res... |
20984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester%20McCoy | Sylvester McCoy | Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith or Sylvester McCoy (born 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor on Doctor Who from 1987–1989, he also briefly played the Doctor in beginning of the 1996 TV movie.
Other websites
1943 births
Living people
Scottish movie act... |
20985 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20McGann | Paul McGann | Paul McGann (born 14 November 1959) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in Withnail and I (1987) and as the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie.
English movie actors
English television actors
1959 births
Living people
English voice actors |
20987 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%20O%27Keeffe | Georgia O'Keeffe | Georgia O’Keeffe (November 15 1887 – March 6 1986) was an American artist. She was born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, U.S. O'Keeffe studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students' League, University of Virginia, Charlottesville and Teachers College.
She is mainly known for her modernist paintings. These pain... |
20988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis%20%28band%29 | Genesis (band) | Genesis is an English progressive rock group. They formed in 1967. They have sold about 150 million albums all over the world. This puts them among the top 30 best-selling recording artists of all time. The group's members have included Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins. Both of them were successful as solo artists as wel... |
21011 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly%20nightshade | Deadly nightshade | Deadly nightshade or belladonna (Atropa belladonna) is a well-known, hardy perennial shrub. It is a member of the nightshade family.
Originally, it grew in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. It has also been seen in North America, but is far less common there. Usually it grows in the shade. The plant does not like direc... |
21012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial | Perennial | A perennial is a plant that bears leaves and perhaps flowers every year. Some plants only bear leaves and flowers once, then they die. Such plants are called annual. Other plants live for two years. They are called biennial.
Most trees and shrubs are perennial plants. |
21014 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub | Shrub | A shrub or bush is a category of plants. A tree usually has one stem, which at some height has branches. A shrub can have multiple stems from the bottom up. Usually, bushes do not grow as tall as trees, very often they are less than 1–2 m tall.
Very many plants can be either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing ... |
21015 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen | Evergreen | An evergreen is a plant which keeps its leaves throughout the year. Which is Different with deciduous plants, which lose their leaves during the winter or wet seasons. There are many different kinds of evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs.
Types of plants |
21016 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous | Deciduous | Deciduous means "temporary" or "tending to fall off" (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off).
When talking about plants this means that the plant loses its leaves, usually in autumn. The leaves will then grow again in spring.
When referring to teeth, it means the teeth at the front of the mouth that grow ... |
21017 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade | Shade | A place is called in the shade when the sun is shining, and some object, a tree for example, blocks the direct sunlight. So the sunlight can not reach the spot. The dark image, which the object casts on the ground (or on another object) is called shadow, not shade.
Shade can also mean a darker or lighter color of the ... |
21018 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination | Hallucination | A hallucination is seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling or feeling things that do not really exist. Usually people have to be awake and conscious to have hallucinations. That way, a person who sees or hears something that is not really there has a hallucination. Hallucinations are different from dreams. When people dream... |
21019 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow | Shadow | A shadow is a dark area on a bright surface. It is caused by something blocking a source of light. A shadow's outline, called a silhouette, will have the same shape as the object blocking the light.
Depending on the light source, or sources, a wide range of effects can be produced. A point source of light casts only a... |
21024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1553 | 1553 |
Events
June 26 – Christ's Hospital and King Edward's School, Witley created by Royal Charter
July 6 – Edward VI of England dies
July 10 – Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England – for the next nine days
July 18 – Lord Mayor of London proclaims Queen Mary as the rightful Queen – Lady Jane Grey willingly giv... |
21025 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1732 | 1732 |
Events
February 23 – First performance of Handel's Orlando, in London
June 9 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
December 7 – The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened
Genoa regains Corsica
139 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled b... |
21026 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1768 | 1768 |
Events
January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London)
May 10 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London
Secretary of State for colonies appointed in Britain
Massachusetts Assembly dissolv... |
21033 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sims | The Sims | The Sims is a video game released in 2000 . It is a life simulator that imitates real life. Sims can get jobs, have needs, and can get married. It was the third best selling computer and video game of all time (it mostly sold well on the computer).
The Sims was so successful it has created three sequels, (The Sims 2 i... |
21038 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam | Webcam | A webcam is a video camera that connects to a computer, and can let people see each other over the Internet. Most people that have webcams use them with an instant messenger to see each other at the same time. Webcams can also be used for recording videos and video blogs. The webcam can be part of a computer, mobile ph... |
21041 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-intercept | Y-intercept | The y-intercept of a line on a graph is where the line touches (or intercepts) the y-axis (the numbered line going straight up).
The equation for straight lines is . "" is the -intercept.
Related pages
Algebra
Mathematics |
21050 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Waltz | The Last Waltz | The Last Waltz was final concert of the Canadian/American rock group The Band. It took place on Thanksgiving (November 26) in 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. It was also made into a movie by Martin Scorsese, that came out in 1978.
Other musicians who were in The Last Waltz concert were:
... |
21053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1436 | 1436 |
Events
April – Paris is recaptured by the French
End of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. Sigismund is accepted as King.
Alexandru I Aldea is replaced as ruler of Wallachia by Vlad II Dracul. |
21054 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1241 | 1241 | 1241 is a year in the 13th century.
Events
April 5 – Mongols of Golden Horde under the command of Subotai defeat feudal Polish nobility, including Knights Templar, in the battle of Liegnitz
April 27 – Mongols defeat Bela IV of Hungary in the Battle of Sajo. |
21055 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/886 | 886 |
Events
The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.
Alfred the Great captures London and renames it Lundenburgh. The boundaries between Wessex and the Danelaw are shifted.
Alfred the Great builds a small harbour called Queenhythe s... |
21056 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1204 | 1204 | 1204 (MCCIV) was .
Events
February – Byzantine emperor Alexius IV is overthrown in a revolution, and Alexius V is proclaimed emperor.
April 12 – The Fourth Crusade take Constantinople by storm, and pillage the city for three days. End of the Fourth Crusade.
May 16 – Baldwin, Count of Flanders is crowned emperor of... |
21060 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/985 | 985 |
Events
Barcelona sacked by Al-Mansur
Greenland colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct – see History of Greenland)
Lady Wulfruna founded the town that later became the city of Wolverhampton
Henry the Wrangler restored ... |
21061 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/681 | 681 |
Events
August 9 – The Bulgars win the war with the Byzantine Empire; the latter signs a peace treaty, which is considered as the birth-date of Bulgaria
Wilfrid of York is expelled from Northumbria by Ecgfrith and retires into Sussex |
21062 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1593 | 1593 |
Events
May 18 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
June 22 – Ottoman Empire defeated in Battle of Sisak, their first defeat in Europe.
July 25 – King Henry IV of France returns to Catholicism, and is recognized as King in most of France.
Outbreak of t... |
21063 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1721 | 1721 |
Events
Pope Innocent XIII becomes pope
Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos
April 4 – Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
September 10 – Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War
November 2 – Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All t... |
21064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas | Vedas | The Vedas are the four holiest books of the by mankind to the next, perhaps over thousands of years.
Each book has four major kinds of text – the Samhitas (mantras and benedictions), the Aranyakas (text on rituals, ceremonies, sacrifices and symbolic-sacrifices), the Brahmanas (commentaries on rituals, ceremonies and... |
21074 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20Minister%20of%20Greenland | Prime Minister of Greenland | The Prime Minister of Greenland (, lit Leader of the Government; ), officially referred to as the Premier, is the head of the Government of Greenland. The incumbent prime minister is Múte Bourup Egede of the Siumut party.
The prime minister is usually leader of the majority party in the Parliament of Greenland. Jonat... |
21076 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia%20and%20Montenegro | Serbia and Montenegro | Serbia and Montenegro (Serbian: Србија и Црна Гора, Srbija i Crna Gora, abbreviated as "SCG") was the name of the state union of Serbia and Montenegro. They used to be two separate Yugoslav republics. In 2006, they became their own countries.
It was on the west-central Balkan Peninsula, next Bosnia and Herzegovina an... |
21081 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20%28government%29 | Minister (government) | A Minister can be a Member of Parliament, or a Clergyman (person who works as a Minister in the Church). This article talks about a Minister as a Member of Parliament.
What is a minister?
A Minister is a Member of Parliament who has a special role dealing with a certain area of Government. In the British Government, ... |
21083 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jealousy | Jealousy | Jealousy or envy is a feeling (or emotion) people get when they want what others have. This is a negative feeling. When someone is jealous of someone else, they usually dislike the other person. These particular emotions are usually caused by a person having a certain object or quality which you desire but can not obta... |
21084 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger | Anger | Anger is one of the basic emotions. It is an inherited response, and is common to all mammals and a number of other animals. It happens when we are threatened, offended, wronged, or denied something we really want or need.
Psychology of anger
Anger is a normal emotion. It involves a strong, uncomfortable and emotiona... |
21095 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20microscope | Light microscope | A light microscope works like a refracting telescope except that the object is very close to the objective lens. An object to be studied, for example a tiny organism so small it looks like just a dot, is put on a slide, which is usually a flat piece of glass. The clips on the microscope's flat stage hold the slide in p... |
21116 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt | Rembrandt | Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Leiden, 15 July 1606 – Amsterdam, 4 October 1669) was a famous Dutch painter and artist.
He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history, and the most important in Dutch history.p420 His contributions to art came in a period that historian... |
21119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20movie%20studios | Major movie studios | Big Five are the United States's major movie production studios which also distribute their product. All of them have historic flagship production facilities near Hollywood.
All Big Five major studios (Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures) are parts... |
21120 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culinary%20mustard | Culinary mustard | Culinary mustard is a condiment people use when making food. It comes from the seeds of the mustard plant.
Preparation
Mustard is prepared by grinding the seeds of the Mustard plant, and mixing them with water or vinegar. Depending on which seeds are taken, and/or how much vinegar is added, the mustard may turn out h... |
21121 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condiment | Condiment | A condiment is a prepared food that is put to other food, to make the food better or taste different. It usually is in the form of a sauce or a powder. Salt and pepper are examples of well-known condiments. Ketchup, mustard, relish, mayonnaise, horseradish, soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce are also well-known condime... |
21127 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar | Vinegar | Vinegar is a liquid containing mainly water and acetic acid and used mostly in cooking. It can be made from wine or other liquids containing alcohol, like cider or fermented fruit juices. Ethanol is oxidized from the liquid, resulting in vinegar.
Vinegar made from dates is a traditional product of the Middle East. It ... |
21128 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecticide | Insecticide | An insecticide is a poison made to kill insects and spiders.
Insects are very tough animals that have adapted to a great variety of settings. Therefore, the poison used to kill them is also deadly to humans. There can be great danger of eating pesticide when you have vegetables. This is why often people will rub an ap... |
21130 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia | Paranoia | Paranoia is a mental health condition that affects a person's thoughts. A person with paranoia is called paranoid. Paranoia is a thought process heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion.
A paranoid person's thinking is shaped by fear and anxiety. For example, the person m... |
21131 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion | Delusion | A delusion is a false belief held by a person. If doctors talk about delusions they mean that the false belief is the result of some disease, usually a disease of the mind, such as paranoia, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, but not always neccesarily, delusions can come in many different forms such as political diff... |
21132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism | Paganism | Paganism is a term that covers a great number of spiritual and religious beliefs, and someone who follows one of these beliefs is known as a Pagan. Some of those in ancient times, who are called Pagans today, believed there was not just one god but a number of gods and goddesses. The stories from Greek mythology are f... |
21136 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1578 | 1578 | Year 1578 (MDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January 31 – Battle of Gemblours – Spanish forces under Don John of Austria and Alexander Farnese defeat the Dutch. Don John begins to recover control of the French-speaking Southern Net... |
21137 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1504 | 1504 | 1504 was a year of the Gregorian calendar, that started on a Friday.
Events
January 1 – French troops surrender Gaeta to the Spanish under Cordoba.
January 31 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide hi... |
21138 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1726 | 1726 |
Events
George Friderich Handel becomes a British subject.
Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.
The city of Montevideo was established.
Mary Toft allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits in England, later revealed to be a hoax.
The Gujin tushu jicheng, an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using movable copp... |
21144 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage | Courage | A person has courage if they do something even though they are afraid. Courage can be doing things that other people think should be scary. A person has courage if they put themself in danger to save another person (this is called mental strength). If someone has courage, it is said that they are courageous, standing u... |
21147 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1710s | 1710s |
Events
The Great Northern War
World leaders
King Louis XIV of France (1643–1715)
King Louis XV of France (1715–1774).
Queen Anne of Great Britain (1702–1714).
King George I of Great Britain (1714–1727).
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1705–1711).
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711–1740).
Husayn, Shah of Persia dur... |
21157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan%20%28person%29 | Fan (person) | A fan or fanatic is someone who like a thing, a person, or an idea. Things that fans might like are hobbies, sports (often a team), music, a kind of movie or book, or almost anything. There are lots of kinds of fans, including science fiction fans and fans of popular music stars, like The Beatles. Fans will meet with e... |
21161 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula%201 | Formula 1 | Formula 1 is a type of motorsport. Teams compete in a series of Grand Prix races, held in different countries around the world. Some of the most popular races are held in Monaco, Japan, Italy and Britain. The cars are very fast, reaching speeds of up to 350 kilometers per hour (220 miles per hour). The championship has... |
21162 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah%20%C3%96calan | Abdullah Öcalan | Abdullah Öcalan is the leader of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an influential socialist organization in Turkey. Turkey branded Abdullah Öcalan as a terrorist and has been imprisoned for the rest of his life for terrorist activities in 1999. "Öcalan" means, in Turkish, "he who takes revenge".
He was born on April 4, 1... |
21163 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean%20Community | Caribbean Community | The Caribbean Community , or CARICOM, is a group of nations in the Caribbean Sea that have come together founded on 4 July 1973. They share their products, and they have a government to help organize the area. They are mainly together to help trade and their economies.
The full members are:
Barbados
Belize
Domin... |
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