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23397 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latex | Latex | Latex, also known as rubber, is a natural polymer. It is taken from the milky sap of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), native to the tropical forests of Central and South America.
Today, much of the natural latex comes from Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Indonesia. Polymers made from artificial latex are c... |
23398 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum | Drum | A drum is a musical instrument that is played with the hands using a drum stick (a stick for hitting a drum). A collection of drums and cymbals is called a drum kit, or drum set.
Drums are used to keep a steady beat in a song. They give music of many kinds a sense of feeling. For example, to make a song to be slow or... |
23400 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galician | Galician | Galician might mean:
Something related to the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain)
Galician language |
23402 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashupatinath%20Temple | Pashupatinath Temple | Pashupatinath is one of the most sacred temples of Hinduism. It is in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. It is the temple of the Hindu god Shiva.
Hindu temples
Nepal |
23403 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion | Invasion | Invasion is a word that comes from Latin. Originally, it meant that something goes in (as in military occupation) of a foreign territory. So far, the following uses are known:
Military: Getting troops to take control of enemy territory. Often a state invades another to start a war, but invasions can happen anytime du... |
23407 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive%20tree | Olive tree | The olive tree is a small tree. Its scientific name is Olea europaea. A long time ago, it came from the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean, from Syria and the maritime (next to the sea) parts of Asia Minor and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea. It has been farmed for a very long time. The Anci... |
23410 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello | Hello | Hello is a greeting in the English language. It is common between two people in a non-formal (informal) setting, but can also be used in a formal setting. There are also many other ways of saying "hello", for example a wave of the hand, a salute or a bow (both very formal), a handshake (a little formal) or a high five ... |
23413 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation | Annexation | Annexation (Latin: ad "to" and nexus "joining") is the one-sided forceful takeover of one state's territory by another.
Related pages
Anschluss (World War II, Austria merged to Nazi Germany)
Republic of Texas annexed to United States
References
Politics
International law |
23414 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchuria | Manchuria | Manchuria (Northeast China) is the homeland of the Manchu people. To the Chinese, the region is simply known as the Northeast (Chinese: 东北, Dōngbĕi). Manchuria is made up of China's three northeastern most provinces: Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. Parts of Manchuria were annexed by the Russian Empire in the past, a... |
23416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuva | Tuva | Tuva Republic is one of 85 federal subjects of Russia. Another way to spell its name is Tyva. It is in south Siberia. It is grouped and governed as part of Siberian Federal District. The Siberian Federal District contains nine other federal subjects too. Tuva also shares an international border with Mongolia.
History
... |
23417 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku%20Islands | Senkaku Islands | Senkaku Islands, also called , Diaoyu Dao Islands () and Tiaoyutai Islands (), are uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.
The group of islands, islets and rocks is east of mainland China, northeast of Taiwan, west of Okinawa, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands. The islands are about 200km from... |
23419 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese%20War | Sino-Japanese War | There were two wars known as the Sino-Japanese War (between China and Japan):
The First Sino-Japanese War happened from 1894 to 1895, about control of Korea.
The Second Sino-Japanese War happened from 1931 (more strongly starting in 1937) to 1945. After 1941, it was part of World War II. |
23422 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Youth%20Day | World Youth Day | World Youth Day (WYD) is a gathering (meeting) of young Catholic people. It was created by Pope John Paul II in 1984 "to consolidate the ordinary youth ministry by offering new encouragement for commitment, objectives which foster ever greater involvement and participation"[1]. In other words, the Pope wanted young Cat... |
23424 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20XVI%20Gustaf | Carl XVI Gustaf | Carl XVI Gustaf (born 30 April 1946) is the king of Sweden. He became king or as he himself wrote; "knug", on 15 September 1973. He is married to Silvia Sommerlath who is half German, half Brazilian. With her he has three children:
Princess Victoria of Sweden
Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
Princess Madeleine of Sweden... |
23429 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age%20of%20Empires%20III | Age of Empires III | Age of Empires III is a 2005 computer game made by the company Ensemble Studios. It is published by Microsoft. It is the third game of the Age of Empires games, and has better graphics than the ones before it. It is a real-time strategy game. The plot is from 1500 to 1860. An expansion pack, Age of Empires III: The War... |
23432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20of%20China%20Tower | Bank of China Tower | The Bank of China Tower (BOC Tower, 中銀大廈) is one of the most well known skyscrapers in the central parts of Hong Kong. In the tower, the Bank of China has their offices.
The tower was designed by the architect I. M. Pei and is 315 meters high. On the tower there are two masts that are 369 meters (1209 feet) high.
Pho... |
23433 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan%20Bator | Ulan Bator | Ulaanbaatar, or Ulan Bator, is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. The city is an independent municipality not part of any provinces, and its population as of 2008 is just over 1 million. Located in the north central part of the country, the city is at an elevation of about 1310 m in a valley on the Tuul River. ... |
23434 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang | Pyongyang | Pyŏngyang (평양 직할시 in hangul, 平壤直轄市 in hanja) is the capital and biggest city in North Korea. The government does not want people from outside the country to know anything about North Korea, so Pyongyang is one of the few places in North Korea that people from other countries can travel to.
Entry
Pyongyang is a closed ... |
23439 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM | IBM | International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a multinational technology company from the United States that makes and sells software, computer hardware, infrastructure services, and consulting services. IBM is one of the biggest Information Technology companies in the world. IBM has had the most patents of any ... |
23441 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%2C%20mother%20of%20Jesus | Mary, mother of Jesus | In Abrahamic religions, Mary (Judeo-Aramaic מרים Maryām "Bitter"; (Maryam); Septuagint Greek Μαριαμ, Mariam, Μαρια, Maria; ) was the mother of Jesus. Her story is told in the New Testament of the Bible.
Mary in the Bible
Christian beliefs about Mary are based on the Bible. The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Lu... |
23443 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake%20%28video%20game%29 | Quake (video game) | Quake is also a short-form of the word earthquake.
Quake is a first-person shooter video game that was released by id Software on July 22, 1996. It is the first game in the popular Quake series of video games. In the game, the player must fight demons and zombies in lots of different places.
Quake was the first game ... |
23445 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunya | Kunya | A kunya (Arabic:كنية) is a name which is honorably given to an Arab mother or father. Kunya is pronounced koon-ya. Parents are called by their kunyas, which consists of abu (father) or umm (mother) followed by the name of their first son or daughter. Their whole name is their name plus their kunya. For example, Umm J... |
23456 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake | Wake | Wake could mean several things:
Funeral, a gathering for a person who has died
Wake is another name for a wave in water
Wake can mean changing from being asleep to awake |
23458 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen | Zen | Zen is a Chinese school of Mahayana Buddhism. Buddhism was first brought to China from India, by Bodhidharma. It developed in China, into Zen, in the 6th century. From China it spread to Vietnam, Korea and Japan.
Zen is a Japanese word translated from the Chinese word Chán, which means "meditation".
Zen uses meditati... |
23469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots | Scots | Scots is a West Germanic language. It is sometimes called Lowland Scots or Lallans. It is not Scottish English Ulster Scots is a form of Scots found in the north of Ireland. Scots is very different from the Scottish Gaelic language, which is a Celtic language.
There have been disagreements about the linguistic, histo... |
23470 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20analysis | Mathematical analysis | Mathematical analysis is a part of mathematics. It is often shortened to analysis. It looks at functions, sequences and series. These have useful properties and characteristics that can be used in engineering. Mathematical analysis provides a rigorous logical foundation to calculus, which studies continuous functions, ... |
23472 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust | Locust | Locust are the swarming phase of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. Such swarms are usually made of a great number of locusts. They do a lot of damage to the places where they pass, by eating the crops.
These are species which breed rapidly under suitable conditions. The migratory lo... |
23473 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper | Grasshopper | Grasshoppers are insects with long, powerful back legs which they use for jumping. They generally live in dry habitats, such as fields, gardens and meadows, with lots of grass. They are in the suborder Caelifera, which includes locusts. There are 11,000 species, of which 10,000 are in the family Acrididae.
To distingu... |
23474 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive%20oil | Olive oil | Olive oil is a vegetable oil. It is made by getting the juice of the fruits of the olive tree. These are called olives. The oil is used in cooking, as well as cosmetics, traditional medicine, and as a fuel for oil lamps. Refined olive oil uses heat and chemicals to get the fat out of the olives.
Olive oil quality is d... |
23476 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil%20lamp | Oil lamp | An oil lamp is a lamp used for lighting by burning oil. Usually, it produces a flame by burning olive oil, or another vegetable oil, or whale oil during the 1700s and 1800s. They burned cleaner, with less smoke, than candles and other sources of light before electricity.
The lamps were usually made of pottery or metal... |
23479 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugation | Conjugation | Conjugations are forms of verbs that are changed to agree with the subject that is doing the action described by the verb. Usually most of the word stays the same, but the endings change. Most conjugation systems follow some sort of pattern within the language.
Example: French verb for 'to eat'- "manger" (stem: mang)
... |
23481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1%20Garrigue%20Masaryk | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 1850 - 14 September 1937) was the first President of Czechoslovakia. He led the country between years 1918 and 1935.
He was a scientist, philosopher, pedagog, politician, and journalist.
He studied in Brno, Vienna, and Leipzig, and he spoke many languages (Latin, French, Polish, German a... |
23483 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne | Arachne | Arachne is a character from Greek mythology.
She was the daughter of Idmon of Colophon, in Lydia (Greece). Her father earned his living with dyeing (coloring) cloth. She learned to be a weaver. A weaver makes cloth, or textiles, from single strands. She was good at what she did, and she claimed that her skill was gre... |
23484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophobia | Arachnophobia | Arachnophobia is a fear of spiders. It is a very common phobia - many people suffer from it. People who have it often feel uncomfortable in areas where there may be spiders. The usual way of treating this is using behaviour therapy. People will be confronted with spiders; they may be required to touch spiders as big as... |
23485 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobia | Phobia | A phobia (from the ) is a strong fear about a specific thing or situation. In psychology, phobia is considered an anxiety disorder. Phobia is different than just being scared of something. The fear is so strong that it affects, and often damages, the sufferer's life. For example, the person will usually do everythi... |
23486 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20le%20Carr%C3%A9 | John le Carré | John le Carré (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020) was an English novelist. He was born in Poole, Dorset. He wrote many spy novels. The name is a pseudonym. His real name was David John Moore Cornwell.
Le Carré graduated from Lincoln College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Le Carré died from pneumonia at Roya... |
23491 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually%20transmitted%20disease | Sexually transmitted disease | A sexually transmitted disease (STD) is a disease which spreads by having sex. STDs can spread through oral sex or anal sex, or when two people's genitals touch. Today, STDs are usually called sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In the past, they were called venereal diseases (VD).
STDs can be caused by viruses... |
23537 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama%20Desert | Atacama Desert | The Atacama Desert is a desert. It is on the Tropic of Capricorn in northern Chile, and is one of the driest places on earth. In some places, less than an inch (25mm) of rain falls every ten years. Only one of the rivers from the Andes mountains reaches the ocean through the desert. The rest disappear into the dry soil... |
23551 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Atomic%20Energy%20Agency | International Atomic Energy Agency | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a spin-off organisation from the United Nations. It was created as an autonomous (self-governing) organization on July 29, 1957. The organization is intended to monitor and promote the peaceful and safe use of nuclear energy with protection from harmful radiation and, also, ... |
23553 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080 | 1080 |
Events
William I of England, in a letter, reminds the Bishop of Rome that the King of England owes him no allegiance.
King Alfonso VI of Castile establishes the Latin liturgy in Catholic church in place of the Mozarabic rite.
Ísleifur Gissurarson, the first bishop in Iceland, dies while giving mass in Skálholt ch... |
23554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Ebert | Roger Ebert | Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American movie critic. Ebert's reviews appear in newspapers such as the Chicago Sun-Times from April 3, 1967 until his death.
Ebert was born on June 18, 1942 in Urbana, Illinois to a Catholic family.
Ebert and Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped make nat... |
23555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seibersdorf | Seibersdorf | Seibersdorf is a village in Lower Austria, Austria. As of 2001, about 1200 people lived there. It is close to Vienna, and mostly known for the research centre of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
References
Other websites
Website of the village (German)
Settlements in Lower Austria |
23558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Revolution | Russian Revolution | The Russian Revolution was a series of revolutions in the Russian Empire during 1917. The events destroyed the Tsarist autocracy, and helped to create the Soviet Union.
The first revolution was on 8 March 1917, but in Russia it was recorded as 28 February 1917. This happened because Russia still used the Julian calen... |
23560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baguette | Baguette | Baguettes are long thin loaves of bread popular in France, but now common in many other countries. Usually, they are made of white bread. Baguettes usually have a hard crust on the outside but soft white bread on the inside.
French traditions say that bread may only contain the following four things: flour, water, yea... |
23562 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer | Barometer | A barometer is an instrument used to measure air pressure. The barometer measures air pressure in various kinds of units including hectopascals (hPa).
There are various types of barometers such as the water barometer, aneroid barometer, and the mercury barometer. The mercury barometer, the earliest barometer, was cr... |
23572 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia | Nokia | Nokia Corporation is a Finnish telecommunications company with its main office in Espoo, a suburb of Helsinki.
History
The company began in 1865 as a wood pulp mill in Finland and began making paper. The paper was sold to Russia, the UK, and France. The company merged with the Finnish Rubber Company which wanted to u... |
23574 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research | Research | Research is a way of looking for new information, new understanding, and new facts. A person who does research is called a researcher. Some researchers work in academia. Other researchers work for businesses, for organisations, or for the government. Research is often used for solving problems or increasing available k... |
23583 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Entertainment%20Expo | Electronic Entertainment Expo | The Electronic Entertainment Expo (Exposition) or E3 , first held in 1995, is one of the biggest conferences for video games. Every year in late May or early June, game developers and other professional people gather to show new video games, computer hardware, and features. It is only open to people who have been invi... |
23589 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Edward%20Island | Prince Edward Island | Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is a province of Canada. It is the smallest of Canada's ten provinces. Most of the people on Prince Edward Island speak English. Prince Edward Island was named for the son of King George lll of Britain, and it joined the Dominion of Canada in 1873.
This province is long and 4 to 60 kilome... |
23591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigen | Antigen | An antigen is a molecule on the outside of a pathogen (a "germ"). It causes the production of antibodies which stick to the invading virus or bacterium. This is an immune response.
Antigens are usually a protein on the outside of a bacterium or virus. It gets recognized by the adaptive immune system as foreign, and th... |
23592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos | Chaos | Chaos is when something unpredictable or random happens. It may refer to several different things:
Chaos magic, a branch of occultism
Chaos (mythology), the concept in classical creation stories
Randomness, a lack of intelligible pattern or combination
Chaos theory, a branch of mathematics and physics
Chaos (genu... |
23593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20entropy | Information entropy | Information entropy is a concept from information theory. It tells how much information there is in an event. In general, the more certain or deterministic the event is, the less information it will contain. More clearly stated, information is an increase in uncertainty or entropy. The concept of information entropy ... |
23597 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice%20Girls | Spice Girls | The Spice Girls are a British girl group. The group formed in 1994. The group has five members. Each member uses a nickname initially given to them: Melanie Chisholm ("Sporty Spice"), Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"), Melanie Brown ("Scary Spice"), Victoria Beckham (née Adams) ("Posh Spice"), and Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spic... |
23598 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20cone | Traffic cone | Traffic cones (also called road cones, safety cones or pylons) are cone-shaped markers, usually made from plastic, that are put on roads to temporarily redirect car traffic in a safe manner.
Uses
Traffic cones are usually placed around construction sites or roadside accidents. As well, many utility companies such as ... |
23607 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha%20Christie | Agatha Christie | Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer of crime stories. Her books are very famous all over the world, and she sold more than 4 billion books around the world. Only William Shakespeare has sold more books. Also, her books are written in more languages than any... |
23623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion | Motion | Motion referes to any physical movement or change in position or place
Science
Motion (physics), any physical movement or change in position or place
Brownian motion
Circular motion
Equation of motion
Perpetual motion
Motion perception
Motion sickness
Glacial motion
Polar motion
Astronomy
Diurnal motion
Pr... |
23627 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/MB | MB | MB, Mb, mB or mb may mean:
Megabit (1,000,000 bits), preferred symbols Mb
Megabyte (1,000,000 bytes), preferred symbol MB
Mebibyte (220 = 1,048,576 bytes), preferred symbol MiB
MB may mean:
Bachelor of Medicine, an academic degree (Latin Medicinae Baccleureus)
MacBook, an Apple Computer
Manitoba (Canadian Provin... |
23628 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame%20Nkrumah | Kwame Nkrumah | Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (born Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma, September 21, 1909 – April 27, 1972) was an African political leader. He was well known as the first Prime Minister, then President, of Ghana. He imagined a united Africa. On March 6, 1957, after ten years of campaigning for Ghanaian independence, Nkrumah was elected ... |
23630 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego%20Vel%C3%A1zquez | Diego Velázquez | Diego Velázquez (baptized 6 June 1599 – 6 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV.
Diego Velázquez had a hard life. He got married when he was eighteen. With his wife, he had two daughters. He died at the age of 61 after having painted many paintings, including Las Meninas... |
23632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinshasa | Kinshasa | Kinshasa is the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (once called Zaire). It is the third largest city in the continent of Africa (after Lagos and Cairo). About eleven million people live there. Kinshasa is also a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kinshasa is on one side of the Con... |
23635 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Barrier%20Reef | Great Barrier Reef | The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef. It is near the coast of Queensland, Australia. It is made up of nearly 2900 coral reefs and over 600 islands. It is 327,800 km2 big and 2600 km long. It has been listed an important World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest structure m... |
23641 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%20Compromise | Missouri Compromise | The Missouri Compromise, also called the Compromise of 1820, was a plan proposed by Henry Clay of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was signed by President James Monroe and passed in 1820. The agreement was between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in the United States Congress, mostly about the regulation of slaver... |
23642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl | Peafowl | A peafowl is a bird of the Phasianide family. It is a relative of the pheasant.
There are two species of peafowl: the Asiatic peafowl (Pavo) or the Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis). The Congo peafowl is the only member of the pheasant family that originated outside Asia.
The male peafowl can have up to 150 brightly... |
23643 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager | Manager | A Manager is a person who manages or is in charge of something. Managers can control departments in companies, or guide the people who work for them. Managers must often make decisions about things.
According to Henri Fayol, a French management theorist, managers must be able to do:
planning
organizing
leading
co... |
23646 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachshund | Dachshund | The dachshund is a breed of dog. It is usually short (small in height), but long from front to back and with short legs. “Dachshund” is a German word that is used in English, and it means “badger dog.” (In German, dachshunds are called Dackel or Teckel.)
The breed was developed to use its sense of smell to find, chas... |
23654 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karachi | Karachi | Karachi () is the largest city in Pakistan and the capital of the province of Sindh. Until 1958, it was also the capital of Pakistan. It is also called the City of Lights. It is also one of the world's biggest megacities. In 2017, there are about 17.63 million people who live in Karachi. It is the largest city in the M... |
23662 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration | Transliteration | Transliteration is a conversion of a text from one script to another. It swaps letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways (such as α → a, д → d, χ → ch, ն → n or æ → ae.
Transliteration is not about the sounds of the original. It is about the type or written characters, mostly the letters.
Example: the name ... |
23663 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism | Taoism | Taoism or Daoism is a type of belief, or a way of thinking about life. It is at least 2,500 years old and it comes from China. Taoism is now said to be a philosophy. Tao (or Dao, ) is the name of the force or the "Way" that Taoists believe makes everything in the world. Taoists think that words cannot be used to correc... |
23667 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustment | Adjustment | An adjustment is when something is changed in a small way. This is usually to make it better. The word can be used as a verb, as in "Bill needs to adjust his tie".
Examples of adjustments:
The wrong word is written on a piece of paper. By erasing the word and writing the right one, an adjustment has been made to th... |
23668 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty | Poverty | Poverty means not having enough money for basic needs such as food, drinking water, shelter, or toiletries. Many people in different countries live in poverty, especially in developing areas of West and Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and some parts of Asia.
There are different ways to measure poverty. T... |
23672 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course | Course | A course could mean:
A way or path, like in racing
The direction a ship or other vehicle is moving
A class taught at a school |
23677 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Empire | British Empire | The British Empire was made up of the colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories which were controlled by the United Kingdom.
It began with the overseas colonies and trading posts set up by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height, it was the largest empire in history, and the... |
23689 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimbote | Chimbote | Chimbote is the largest city in the Ancash Region of Peru. The city has over 400,000 residents.
It is on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Most of the people of Chimbote catch fish, or work with seafood in some way. The city catches more fish than any other place in Peru.
Chimbote is known for its good version of t... |
23690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram | Tram | A tram (tramcar, trolley, or streetcar) is a passenger vehicle that is like a light train. It carries people to places within a city. Because a single tram can carry many people at the same time, riding on a tram instead of driving a car is a good way to help prevent pollution and stop the roads getting too busy.
The ... |
23692 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20food | Fast food | Fast food is the term for a kind of food that people eat from a restaurant, cafe or take-out where food is prepared and served quickly.
It is mass-produced food. It is often pre-prepared and delivered to the shop ready for frying or boiling. There is a strong priority on "speed of service".
The restaurants that sel... |
23694 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ford (disambiguation) | Ford can mean more than one thing:
Henry Ford, U.S. inventor; or other members of his family
Ford Motor Company, car company started by Henry Ford; and the cars and trucks it makes
Gerald Ford, former U.S. President
Harrison Ford, U.S. actor
ford, a safe, shallow place to get to the other side of a river |
23695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Joplin | Scott Joplin | Scott Joplin was an American ragtime musician and composer. He is widely considered the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Early life
Joplin was African-American and born in the U.S. state of Texas sometime between June 1867 and January 1868 and grew up in Texarkana, Texas. His relatives were railroad workers. H... |
23697 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propane | Propane | Propane is an organic compound with the chemical formula . It is an alkane with three carbon atoms. It is used in fuels.
It begins to burn very quickly.
Its melting temperature is −187.7 °C; its boiling temperature is −42 °C; its density is 1.83 g/l.
Propane is extracted from natural gasoline or from petroleum.
Sou... |
23710 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Japan | Flag of Japan | The flag of Japan shows a red sun (rising sun) in the middle of a white field. It is called "Nisshoki" (日章旗) formally in Japan. But Japanese people usually call it "Hinomaru" (日の丸) which means "circle of the sun".
The Japanese navy uses the other flag; the sun has rays.
This flag represents the heat of the sun. Its col... |
23712 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism | Nationalism | Nationalism is a way of thinking that says that some groups of humans, such as ethnic groups, should be free to rule themselves. Nationalists think that the best way to make this happen and avoid control or oppression by others is for each group to have their own nation. Some nationalists think this is the best way to ... |
23713 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought | Drought | Drought is a continuous period of dry weather, when an area gets less than its normal amount of rain, over months or even years. Crops and other plants need water to grow, and animals need it to live. Droughts can become dangerous to people and other land animals; causing famine and even creating deserts.
The word ... |
23714 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deafness | Deafness | Deafness is when someone cannot hear at all, or cannot hear well. Deafness is also known as 'hearing loss'. There were many famous people who were deaf, such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Helen Keller.
Definition
A person is considered to be deaf if they cannot hear the same range of sounds as a person with normal hear... |
23716 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver%20bird | Liver bird | The Liver birds are two large and famous bronze metal birds on top of a building - the Liver Building - in the city of Liverpool, England. The building has the offices of an insurance organization. The birds are symbol of the city, although no birds really look like this.
The sound of the end of the word "liver" in t... |
23717 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstration | Demonstration | A demonstration can mean an event where people do something to let others know what they think and to try to change their point of view. It is one kind of protest. Examples of demonstrations include marches, where people walk together, and rallies, where people gather in one place. During a demonstration, the people wh... |
23718 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartist | Chartist | The Chartists were people who wanted to get more rights for working class people in the mid-19th century. They were called Chartists because they wrote their main aims down in the People's Charter of 1838.
Other websites
The-six-points from CHARTIST ANCESTORS
Punch Series on "Great Chartest Demonstrations"
Illustr... |
23721 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20theater | Movie theater | A movie theater or movie theatre, is a place where movies are shown on a big screen. People or "patrons" (the audience) watch movies, usually in chairs inside an auditorium. The movie is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium while the dialogue, sounds and music a... |
23728 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1654 | 1654 |
Events
April 5 – Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War.
June 3 – Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims
June 6 – Charles X succeeds his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. After her abdication on June 5, Christina now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly c... |
23731 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20KLF | The KLF | The KLF were a band from England. They made music from the late 1980s until the early 1990s. A lot of the music they made was pop music or dance music. The band members were two men, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. Bill Drummond is a musician, singer, and writer from Scotland. Jimmy Cauty is a musician and artist from E... |
23734 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monounsaturated%20fat | Monounsaturated fat | A monounsaturated fat is a kind of fat found in foods such as nuts, olives, and avocados. They are the main fat in olive oil. The group contrasts with, on the one hand, unsaturated fats. and on the other hand, polyunsaturated fats.
In general, these fats are considered to be healthier than others. They have the same a... |
23735 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyunsaturated%20fat | Polyunsaturated fat | Polyunsaturated fats are fats that are usually found in items like fatty fish, nuts, and vegetable oils. Such items are typically found to be liquid at room temperature.
Chemistry
Polyunsaturated fats are long-chain organic compounds. Their molecules has more than one double bonds. The structure reduces the strength o... |
23739 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20North%20Avenue%20Irregulars | The North Avenue Irregulars | The North Avenue Irregulars is a 1979 movie starring Edward Hermann, Ruth Buzzi, Steven Franken, and Cliff Osmond.
Plot
The movie is about a newly installed minister, who entrusts, despite objections by the founding pastors daughter, the churches "sinking fund" money into the hands of a congregate whom he does not e... |
23740 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candleshoe | Candleshoe | Candleshoe is a 1977 Walt Disney Productions live action movie. It stars Jodie Foster as Casey Brown, Helen Hayes as Lady St. Edmund (in her last screen appearance), David Niven as Priory (as well as Colonel Dennis and Mr. Gipping), and Leo McKern as Harry Bundage. Candleshoe is loosely based on the Michael Innes novel... |
23748 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru%20Utada | Hikaru Utada | Hikaru Utada (宇多田ヒカル Utada Hikaru, born January 19, 1983 in New York City), is a Japanese and American singer and songwriter. Because she was born in the United States, she can speak English perfectly. She is the only child of the 1970s Enka singer Keiko Fuji. Her first Japanese album, First Love, was very popular. It ... |
23751 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble%20for%20Africa | Scramble for Africa | The Scramble for Africa, also called the Race for Africa was a time in History when there was a large amount of colonial expansion in Africa. It lasted from the 1880s until the start of World War I. Many European countries started colonies in Africa during this time. This is an example of New Imperialism. The last ha... |
23752 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1160s | 1160s |
Events
Leipzig becomes a city.
England starts to take over Ireland.
Births
Pope Innocent III
Emperor Takakura of Japan
Genghis Khan, leader and founder of the Mongol Empire
Deaths
Eric IX of Sweden
Emperor Qinzong of China
Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
Leaders
Theobald of Bec, Archbishop o... |
23763 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed | Seaweed | Seaweed is a term used for several kinds of algae that live in the ocean. Red algae, Green algae and Brown algae are commonly considered to be seaweed. Seaweed gets its energy from photosynthesis just as plants do.
Ecology
Two specific environmental requirements are important in seaweed ecology. These are the presence... |
23778 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy%20tale | Fairy tale | A fairy tale is an English language expression for a kind of short story. It has the same meaning as the French expression or , the German word , the Italian , the Polish , the Russian or the Swedish . These stories are not all directly about fairies, but they are different from legends and traditions (which usually ... |
23780 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20show | Game show | A game show is a reality television program where people play a game for points, with the goal of winning money or prizes. Different game shows use different games. Most test the players' knowledge, skill, or cleverness. Many game shows incorporate some element of chance; for example, in Wheel of Fortune, contestant... |
23781 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre | Genre | For the game genre, check List of video game genres.
A genre (from ) is a style or type of music, literature, movies, or other media.
Some genres (styles) are used in more than one form of art or communication. For example, the genres fantasy and science fiction are used in literature, movies, and television.
Exampl... |
23800 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristy%20Swanson | Kristy Swanson | Renee Kristen "Kristy" Swanson (born December 19, 1969) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the main character in the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has also starred in the movie Flowers in the Attic as well as many movies and television programs.
1969 births
Living people
American movie actors
... |
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