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24596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equidae | Equidae | Equidae is a family of odd-toed ungulate that are only one surviving genus: Equus. Horses, donkeys and zebras belong in this genus. Animals of the Equus genus can have hybrid offspring, but they are usually sterile. They can have many different colours. |
24632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx | Lynx | The Lynx is a small cat. It is a genus with four species. The four species are in Eurasia, Spain, Canada and America, and do not overlap much.
Appearance
Lynx have short tails, and usually some hair on the ears. They have large paws (feet) padded for walking on snow, and long whiskers on the face. The color of the bo... |
24641 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shania%20Twain | Shania Twain | Shania Twain (born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965, in Timmins, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer. She was married a long time to music producer Mutt Lange. She is very successful in the country and pop music genres. She had a residency show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Ne... |
24642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Grass%20Roots | The Grass Roots | The Grass Roots are an American rock music group. Their peak in popularity was in the 1960s and 1970s. They formed in Los Angeles, California in 1966. Their biggest hit was the song "Midnight Confessions" which charted in the US at #5 in 1968. Their 1969 song "I'd Wait a Million Years" was #15 in the U.S..
Albums
W... |
24643 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne%20Warwick | Dionne Warwick | Dionne Warwick (born December 12, 1940) is an American R&B singer. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey.
Warwick sang many songs written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Many of these songs were hits.
In 1990, Warwick hosted and executive produced a talk show, Dionne and Friends. She was a contestant in the 2011 ... |
24644 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barenaked%20Ladies | Barenaked Ladies | Barenaked Ladies are a Canadian band. They formed in Toronto, Canada in 1988. The band is made up of four men. In 1991, the band was taken off the program for a New Year's Eve concert in Toronto because someone thought the name was bad. The band started as a duo with Ed Roberstson and Steven Page. Lead singer Page left... |
24645 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Revere%20%26%20the%20Raiders | Paul Revere & the Raiders | Paul Revere & the Raiders were an American pop group who were popular in the 1960s. They started in Portland, Oregon in 1960.
American rock bands
Musical groups from Oregon
Musicians from Idaho
Musicians from Portland, Oregon
Singers from Idaho
Singers from Portland, Oregon
Musical groups established in 1958
1958 esta... |
24696 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendogs | Nintendogs | is a video game for the Nintendo DS. In Nintendogs, the player has dogs. At the start of the game one can choose a type of dog and give it a name. They give the dogs food and drinks if a dog is good one might get to feed them a dog biscuit or a jerky treat. The dogs can be washed, taken for a walk, taught to do tricks ... |
24698 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi | Luigi | Luigi is a video game character made by Nintendo. The famous game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, made him. Luigi is the younger but taller fraternal twin brother of the Nintendo mascot, Mario. He is in many games all over the Mario series, almost always as an assistant to his brother Mario.
The first game Luigi was in wa... |
24700 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID | RAID | RAID is an acronym that stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID is a term used in computing. With RAID, several hard disks are made into one logical disk. There are different ways this can be done. Each of the methods that puts the hard disks together has some bene... |
24703 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid%20Brezhnev | Leonid Brezhnev | Leonid Illich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a leader of the Soviet Union. Born in 1906, Brezhnev was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, effectively the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. During the Second World War, Brezhnev was a Political Comm... |
24722 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximation | Approximation | An approximation is a version of a piece of information that does not describe it exactly, but is close enough to be used. An approximation may be used either when the exact piece of information is not known, or when it's too long or complicated and people need something simpler.
For example, if you wanted to add 2.00... |
24731 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB | PhpBB | phpBB is a commonly used, free computer software for forums. As the name suggests, phpBB is written in PHP, with the use of one of SQL compatible databases.
References
Other websites
Official website
Software
Free software |
24773 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Health%20Organization | World Health Organization | The World Health Organization (WHO) is part of the United Nations (UN), working on international public health, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO was established by the UN on April 7, 1948. In the previous year they had already started an epidemiology service. WHO World Health Day is celebrated on A... |
24782 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerboa | Jerboa | A jerboa is a small desert rodent of Asia and northern Africa. It looks like a mouse, but it has a long tail and very long back legs. The jerboa moves by jumping. Jerboas have long tails, long hind legs, and short front legs.
Rodents
Arabic words and phrases
Mammals of Africa
Mammals of Asia |
24810 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop | Aesop | Aesop, or Æsop (from the Greek Αἴσωπος Aisopos), is known for his fables. He was, by tradition, a slave of African descent who lived from about 620 BC to 560 BC in Ancient Greece.
Aesop's Fables are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for entertainment, especially children's plays and cartoons. Aesop ... |
24823 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell | Smell | The term smell may refer to one of the following articles:
Olfaction, the sense of smell, that is, the ability to perceive odors
Odor - the sensation perceived by the detection of certain chemical compounds by the sense of olfaction
Basic English 850 words |
24824 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfaction | Olfaction | Olfaction is the sense of smell. The sense of smell is how a human or animal notices a smell (or odour or odor) by using the nose. Many animals have better noses than people. Some animals can detect small particles in the air or sometimes water that people cannot.
People have special cells in the nose that can detect... |
24827 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaspoon | Teaspoon | A teaspoon is a spoon used for stirring tea, measuring sugar, and playing games such as spoons. They are also called flatspoons in American English. Longer teaspoons can be used to eat ice cream and other desserts, too. It is usually covered with silver or stainless steel.
It is also a unit of measurement, now equal t... |
24840 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camembert | Camembert | Camembert is a village in France. It is in Normandy. It is in the Orne département of the Lower Normandy region in France. It is most famous as the place where Camembert cheese originated. In 1999, 199 people lived there.
Communes in Orne |
24842 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camembert%20cheese | Camembert cheese | Camembert cheese, more generally known as Camembert, is a French soft cheese. It originated in the village of Camembert in Normandy. Since 1983, the name Camembert de Normandie has been protected as Appellation d'Origine controlée (AOC).
Production
Camembert is made from unpasteurized cow's milk, and is ripened by th... |
24872 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childbirth | Childbirth | Childbirth, also known as labour and delivery, is the ending of pregnancy where one or more babies leaves the uterus by passing through the vagina or by Caesarean section. In 2015, there were about 135 million births globally.
About 15 million were born before 37 weeks of gestation, while between 3 and 12 percent were... |
24886 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva | Shiva | Shiva or Mahadeva is the supreme god in Shaivism tradition in Hinduism and one of the chief deities as a member of the Trimurti. Shiva is causeless auspiciousness. An embodiment of ultimate space of enlightenment. He assumed human form to guide humans in the past and thus is known as Adhiguru (first guru).
His space o... |
24895 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII%20art | ASCII art | ASCII art is art made out of ASCII characters. This can be simple art like "<3" (it looks almost like a heart if you turn your head sideways), or it can be more complex, with characters carefully placed out, containing many lines of characters.
ASCII art was originally used to "draw" pictures on computers that only al... |
24896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddle | Riddle | A riddle can be classed as a statement with a solution. This solution, however, need not be logical. Solving riddles usually involve thinking about the question and putting it into context.
Other websites
Anglo-Saxon riddles
riddles for adults-interesting and challenging riddles for adults
Logic
Games |
24907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novalis | Novalis | Novalis is the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), who was a writer and philosopher of the early German Romanticism.
1772 births
1801 deaths
German writers |
24908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20piercing | Body piercing | Body piercing or just piercing is a form of body modification, where humans of either gender pierce their skin to put jewellery through the hole later. There are many different reasons some people have piercings, such as religious or other cultural purposes. Many people, especially in North America and Europe, choose t... |
24909 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical | Physical | Physical can mean:
Something that is made of matter
Something about the human body
Physical anthropology
Something done by a force made when something moves to apply or create the force. (This is only a form of Kinetic energy.)
Basic English 850 words |
24910 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonka%20Dunin | Elonka Dunin | Elonka Dunin (; born December 29, 1958) is an American video game developer. Her job is to make computer games at Simutronics Corporation, in Missouri. She also knows a lot about famous puzzles, especially a puzzle called Kryptos, which no one knows all the answers to yet.
In 2006, she wrote a book with hundreds of p... |
24914 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova | Supernova | A supernova is the explosion of a giant star. It usually happens when its nuclear fusion cannot hold the core against its own gravity. The core collapses, and explodes.
The biggest stars that make supernovae are hypergiants and smaller ones are supergiants. They are massive: because of gravity, they use up their ener... |
24915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk | Folk | Folk can mean:
a specific people, tribe, or nation
folklore, stories and traditions told orally.
folk art, art done in traditional styles
In music:
folk music or folksong, music by and of the common people.
folk dance, a 19th century form of dance
folk-punk, a genre of music that combines elements of folk and p... |
24916 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian | Victorian | Victorian may mean:
19th-century matters:
Victorian era
Victorian architecture
Victorian decorative arts
Victorian fashion
Victorian morality
Victorianism in esthetics and manners
Victorian literature
Victorian America
Saint Victorian (disambiguation)
Related pages
Victoria (disambiguation)
Victoriana |
24917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem | Bethlehem | Bethlehem is a Palestinian city on the West Bank. It is most famous as the place where Jesus was born. (See Gospel of Matthew chapter 2.) It is five miles from Jerusalem in Israel.
Ancient Israel and Judah
New Testament
Old Testament |
24920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco | Disco | Disco is a style of music that was most popular from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, featuring African-American and Latino musicians and audiences, and in private dance parties thrown in the underground gay community of New York. People usually dance to disco music at bars called disco clubs. The word "disco" is also... |
24921 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20II%2C%20Prince%20of%20Monaco | Albert II, Prince of Monaco | His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco (born 14 March 1958) is the ruler of Monaco. He became ruler after his father Prince Ranier III died in April 2005. He is the only son and the middle of three children of Rainer and his wife Grace Kelly.
Titles and styles
Albert has held three positions:
14 March 1958–6 A... |
24922 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex%20Warner | Rex Warner | Rex Warner (birth name Reginald Ernest Walker; 9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was a classical English writer and translator.
1905 births
1986 deaths
English writers
British translators |
24923 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Cook | Hugh Cook | There is also Hugh Cook (science fiction author), born in England, who also lived in New Zealand and Japan.
Hugh Cook (born 1942) is a Canadian writer.
Bibliography
Cracked Wheat and Other Stories - 1985 ()
The Homecoming Man - 1989 ()
Home in Alfalfa - 1998 ()
Cook, Hugh
1942 births
Living people |
24924 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Boas | Franz Boas | Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German born American anthropologist. He is considered by many to have been the 'Father of American Anthropology.' While today archaeology, cultural anthropology , linguistics, and Biological anthropology are often considered somewhat separate discipline, Boas had a ho... |
24925 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapotec%20people | Zapotec people | The Zapotec are a native tribe of people from Mexico. People think there are between 300.000 and 400.000 people. Most of them live in the state of Oaxaca. Most of them speak either Zapotec dialect continuum or the Chatino language. Before Christopher Columbus came to America, the Zapotec civilisation was highly develop... |
24926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX | IMAX | IMAX is a kind of movie projection system, which shows movies on a very large screen. It was first introduced in Japan in 1970.
Other websites
Official site
Movie terminology |
24930 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esotericism | Esotericism | Esotericism is about secret knowledge for a small group of people. Esotericism also describes mystical, spiritual or occult viewpoints (point of view). Esotericism studies Gnosticism, Yoga, Alchemy, Magic, Spiritualism, Hypnosis, Astrology, Meditation, Mysticism, and Occultism. Many followers of Abrahamic faiths, par... |
24931 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Cook%20%28science%20fiction%20author%29 | Hugh Cook (science fiction author) | Hugh Walter Gilbert Cook (9 August 1956 – 8 November 2008) is a science fiction author. Cook was born in Essex, England, and moved to New Zealand. Then in 1997 he moved to Japan.
1956 births
English writers |
24932 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism | Jainism | Jainism is a religion originally from India that teaches that "all the events in the universe are self-caused, random, fixed and are independent of previous events or external causes or god": Jain philosophy is the oldest philosophy of India that distinguishes body (matter) from the soul (consciousness) completely. It ... |
24941 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sect | Sect | A sect is a small religious or political group that separates from a larger group. Sects have many of the same beliefs and practices as the original group, but often have some different doctrines. In contrast, a denomination is a large religious group.
Related pages
Cult
New religious movement
Religion
Sociology |
24951 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal | Caracal | The caracal (Caracal caracal), also called Persian lynx or African lynx, is a wild cat. Caracals are similar to lynxes, but are more related to the serval. Caracals are the fastest of the small cats.
Look
The Caracal is 65 cm in length (about 2 feet), plus 30 cm tail (about 1 foot). It has longer legs and a look very... |
24953 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel | Eel | True eels are teleost fish. They have long and narrow bodies like snakes. Adult eels can be as short as 10 cm or as long as 3 m. It depends on their species. The large eels can weigh up to 65 kg.
Eels have fewer fins than other fish. They do not have all the belly and chest fins. The back and anal fins are long and u... |
24957 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter%20egg | Easter egg | An Easter egg is an egg, eaten and used for decoration during the Easter holidays. The egg was a symbol of the earth to celebrate spring. The oldest tradition is to use painted chicken eggs, but today chocolate eggs wrapped in coloured foil, hand-carved wooden eggs, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as cho... |
24958 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur | Lemur | Lemurs are primates and prosimians (not monkeys). The word "lemur" comes from the Latin word lemures, which means "ghosts". Lemur are divided into eight families, with 15 genera and about 100 living species. However, lemur classification is controversial: it depends on which species concept is used. Lemur is also a ge... |
24959 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Friday | Good Friday | Good Friday is a religious holiday usually observed by Christians. It is also called Holy Friday, Black Friday, or Great Friday. It is observed to remember the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, his death, and his rising from the dead. The holiday is often at the same time as the Jewish holiday of Passover.
The estimated y... |
24960 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea | Archaea | The Archaea (or Archea) are a group of single-celled organisms. The name comes from Greek αρχαία, "old ones". They are a major division of living organisms.
Archaea are tiny, simple organisms. They were originally discovered in extreme environments (extremophiles), but are now thought to be common to more average cond... |
24963 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared%20Diamond | Jared Diamond | Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American author and biologist. His book Guns, Germs, and Steel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
Life
Diamond was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a doctor and his mother was a teacher. He received his college degree from Harvard University in 1958, and the... |
24964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia%20ni%20Cristo | Iglesia ni Cristo | The (IPA: ; Filipino for Church of Christ), or INC, is a church which was made in the Philippines by Felix Manalo and not god in 1914. The INC says it was made by Jesus Christ but it is Felix Manalo who really created INC. The church does not believe in the religious teachings of the Trinity, including the teaching t... |
24966 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20court%20%28United%20States%29 | State court (United States) | In some countries, a municipal court is a court with limited jurisdiction, both in people and laws. Most commonly, municipal courts only deal with the laws and citizens of one city or town. But in some places they make decisions for an entire county, and may be involved with early hearings of cases that will be tried i... |
24968 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Goldman | Emma Goldman | Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was one of the most well-known anarchists from late 19th century to early 20th century. She was an anarcho-communist who was an early supporter of atheism, gay rights and feminism.
Life
Goldman was born in modern-day Lithuania (at the time it was part of the Russian Empire)... |
24970 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20engineering | Computer engineering | Computer engineering is the practice of making computers and their parts. Computer engineers are always trying to make new parts smaller and better. They can also work on software, especially software for embedded systems (specialized electronics like cell-phones and satellite receivers, not a general-purpose computer... |
24971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20Civil%20War | Spanish Civil War | The Spanish Civil War (18 July 1936 – 1 April 1939) was a civil war between Republicans and Nationalist. During this time, fascist General Francisco Franco and his troops wanted to take control of Spanish Republic. Many different groups worked together to help the democratic Spanish Republic stop Franco, including Bas... |
24975 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor%20Tyutchev | Fyodor Tyutchev | Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (rus: Фёдор Иванович Тютчев, fyô'dər ēvä'nəvĭch tyū'chĭf) (December 5 1803 – July 27, 1873) was one of the most significant Russian poets. Almost 20 years of his life he spent in Munich and Turin. Tyutchev was a good friend of Heinrich Heine, knew Schelling as well. Tyutchev didn’t want people... |
24989 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythropoietin | Erythropoietin | Erythropoietin, or Erythropoetin (EPO) is a hormone produced by the kidneys. Epoetin is a synthetic version.
Erythropoietin acts on the bone marrow so that it makes more red blood cells. It is used to treat some kinds of anemia. Anemia can happen in kidney failure, or from chemotherapy to treat cancer. The man-made ho... |
24993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-punk | Anarcho-punk | Anarcho-punk is a subculture that combines punk music and anarchist politics. Some important anarcho-punk bands include Crass, Conflict, Chumbawamba, and Subhumans. Common ideas that many anarcho-punks support are anti-war, animal rights, feminism, environmentalism, equality, anti-capitalism and other common anarchist ... |
24996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household%20hardware | Household hardware | For the computer term, see Computer hardware.
Household hardware describes various things used mostly at home. Those things can be equipment such as fasteners, keys, door knobs, locks, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, tools, screws and machine parts, especially when they are made of metal.
Related pages
Ha... |
25000 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton | Breton | Breton can mean:
The Breton language
The Breton people, a Celtic ethnic group native to the region of Brittany
pl:Rasy z serii gier The Elder Scrolls#Breton |
25001 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs | Slavs | Slavs live in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Central Asia and North Asia. Present-day Slavic peoples are classified into West Slavs (mainly Poles, Czechs and Slovaks), East Slavs (mainly Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians), and South Slavs (mainly Serbs, Bulgarians, Croats, Bosniaks, Macedonians, ... |
25004 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharbal | Maharbal | Maharbal was Hannibal's cavalry-leader during the Second Punic War. Many times he was important in Carthage's successes over Rome. In his Italian campaign, Hannibal always was able to have more cavalry than Rome, and so relied on them and Maharbal to give himself a big advantage.
Maharbal is most famous for what he s... |
25005 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal | Hannibal | Hannibal (Hǎnnibal Barca, 247 BC – ? 183/2/1 BC), was a Carthaginian statesman and general. He was the greatest enemy of the Roman Republic.
Hannibal is most famous for what he did in the Second Punic War. He marched an army from Iberia over the Pyrenees mountains and the Alps mountains into northern Italy and defeat... |
25021 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism | Veganism | Veganism is a philosophy that says people should not use animals. There are vegans who choose not to eat animals, and vegans who choose not to use them in any other way either.
Vegans do not eat or drink food that comes from animals, including meat, eggs and dairy products (like milk, cheese, and yogurt). A vegan diet... |
25027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia | Necrophilia | Necrophilia is a paraphilia of being sexually attracted to dead bodies. Some necrophiliacs have sex with dead bodies. It is usually considered bad. It is illegal in many parts of the world, but not all.
Paraphilias
Sex crimes |
25035 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait%20of%20Magellan | Strait of Magellan | The Strait of Magellan is a passageway from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. It is just south of mainland South America and north of Tierra del Fuego. It goes through Argentina and Chile and a for long time the two countries argued over which one owned the land around it. Chile now owns it. The strait is named after ... |
25042 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenerbah%C3%A7e%20S.K. | Fenerbahçe S.K. | Fenerbahçe is a sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. It was officially founded in 1907.
Fenerbahçe's home stadium is the Fenerbahce Şükrü Saraçoğlu Stadium in Kadıkoy Istanbul.
They have won the Spor Toto Super League 28 times and Ziraat Turkish Cup 6 times.
Other websites
Official website of Fenerbahce
Fenerbahceulke... |
25048 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo%20sapiens | Homo sapiens | Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man") is the scientific name for the human species.
Homo is the human genus. H. sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo. Homo Sapiens are sometimes called "anatomically modern humans".
Origin
The recent African origin of modern humans is the mainstream model of the origin a... |
25053 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Tanganyika | Lake Tanganyika | Lake Tanganyika is large lake in the Great Rift Valley of central Africa. The lake is divided between four countries – Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania and Zambia. It is the longest fresh water lake in the world and the second deepest.
Other websites
Tanganyika
Geography of the Democratic Rep... |
25108 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio%20%281940%20movie%29 | Pinocchio (1940 movie) | Pinocchio is the second animated Disney movie, made by Walt Disney Productions and first released to movie theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on February 7, 1940. Based on the story Pinocchio: Tale of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi, it was made in response to the huge success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The movie tells... |
25109 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock%2C%20Texas | Lubbock, Texas | Lubbock is a city in the United States. It is in the state of Texas. More than 212,000 people live there.
It is the home of Texas Tech University.
County seats in Texas |
25111 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl | Pearl | Pearls are made of a kind of material made by mollusks, like oysters. Pearls are small and often white but sometimes in pale colors or even black. They are often round, but sometimes half-round, oval, or in different shapes. Pearls are often used for jewelry. The pearl is the birthstone for the month June.
How a natur... |
25112 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner%20Bros. | Warner Bros. | Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly called Warner Bros.) is a large entertainment group and movie studio. It is owned by WarnerMedia. Warner Bros. is known for Looney Tunes. They own the copyrights to the Harry Potter movie series, the Batman movie series, and Superman movie series, the DC Extended Universe and t... |
25113 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%20Episode%20VI%3A%20Return%20of%20the%20Jedi | Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi is science fiction movie. It is the sixth film in the Star Wars film series. The movie was released in 1983. It also includes romance, action, adventure and drama.
Plot
The Empire constructs a new Death Star. Luke, Leia, and the droids rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, an... |
25115 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter | Quarter | Quarter might mean:
One fourth of something
Quarter (U.S. coin)
A neighborhood or section of a city, such as the Armenian Quarter |
25122 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20of%20religion | Freedom of religion | When people have the freedom of religion, they can either belong to any religion they choose, or belong to no religion
Where there is no freedom of religion, people can be punished and persecuted for not having the right religion. Communist countries such as Cuba, North Korea and China have also punished people for re... |
25137 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDC%20%28band%29 | MDC (band) | MDC are an anarcho-punk and hardcore punk band that started in Austin, Texas in 1979. They helped make hardcore punk popular in Austin, but in 1982 they moved to San Francisco, California, where they continued to become popular in the hardcore punk community. In 1993 the band stopped playing music, but they began again... |
25140 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus%20Prime | Optimus Prime | Optimus Prime, known in Japan as Convoy, is a character from the Transformers franchise. Prime is the leader of the Autobots, a group of transforming robots from the planet of Cybertron. The Autobots are constantly at war with another group of transforming robots called Decepticons. According to Bob Budiansky, co-write... |
25142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic%20strip | Comic strip | A comic strip is a series of panels with cartoon drawings in them that make a story. Sometimes comic strips are humorous, and sometimes they are serious. Famous examples of comic strips are:
Peanuts by Charles Schulz
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
Motley's Crew by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman
Between Friends by ... |
25145 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%20Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand could mean:
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination led to World War I
Franz Ferdinand (band), a Scottish band
Franz Ferdinand (album), their debut album
Franz Ferdinand (DVD), their music DVD
Franz Ferdinand, a character from the Alfred J. Kwak anime series
Related pages
Ferdinan... |
25147 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20ScotRail | First ScotRail | ScotRail was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Abellio operating the ScotRail franchise.
History
National Express operated the ScotRail franchise from March 1997 until October 2004.
On July 28 2003 Transport Scotland announced Arriva, First and National Express had been chosen to bid for the n... |
25150 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste%20container | Waste container | A waste container (known more commonly in British English as a dustbin, rubbish-bin or simply a bin, and American English as a trash can) is a container, usually made of plastic or metal, used to store refuse.
Rubbish (trash) is usually kept in these until it is emptied by collecters, who will take it to a landfill or... |
25151 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara%20Empire | Vijayanagara Empire | The Vijayanagara empire was an Indian empire. From 1336 and afterwards, it was in the Deccan, in the peninsula and in southern India. It was founded by Harihara (Hakka) and his brother Bukka Raya. The empire is named after its capital city Vijayanagara, now Hampi in modern Karnataka, India. It began in 1336 and ended... |
25152 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi%20Sultanate | Delhi Sultanate | The Delhi Sultanate (دلی سلطنت), or Sulthanath-e-Hind (سلطنتِ ہند) or Sulthanath-e-Dilli (سلطنتِ دلی) were the Persian-speaking dynasties of Turkic and Afghan origin, which were controlling most of the Indian subcontinent from 1210 to 1526. Many of these dynasties ruled from Delhi. This includes the Slave dynasty (1206... |
25153 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysala%20Empire | Hoysala Empire | The Hoysala Empire (Kannada: ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ) was an Indian empire. It controlled part of southern India from 1000 to 1346 A.D. Belur, Karnataka was the empire's capital. The Hoysala Empire is remembered today mostly because of its architecture. The hundreds of temples found across Karnataka are good examples of temples that we... |
25156 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia%20%28ancient%20kingdom%29 | Macedonia (ancient kingdom) | Macedonia (Greek: Μακεδονία) or Macedon was an Ancient Greek kingdom of the Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the most powerful state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was established and was at first ruled by the royal Argead dynasty, which was followed by the Antipatrid and Antigonid dynasties. Home to the anc... |
25161 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger%20King | Burger King | Burger King (often just called BK) is a chain of fast food restaurant that comes from the United States. It sells hamburgers, French fries, and soft drink. It was created in 1954 in Miami, Florida, by James McLamore and David Edgerton. Edgerton bought a restaurant named Insta Burger King and changed it to Burger King. ... |
25162 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech%20Kaczy%C5%84ski | Lech Kaczyński | (18 June 1949 - 10 April 2010) was the President of the Republic of Poland from 2005 until his death in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia on 10 April 2010. Kaczyński served as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002, until the day before he became president. He was a Roman Catholic and was the identical twin brother of the Prime Min... |
25163 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argead%20dynasty | Argead dynasty | The Argead dynasty (Greek: , ) was an ancient Macedonian royal house. They were the founders and the ruling dynasty of the kingdom of Macedon from about 700 to 310 BC. From about 700 BC the founder of the dynasty, Perdiccas I, led the people who called themselves Macedonians eastward from their home on the Haliacmon R... |
25164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipatrid%20dynasty | Antipatrid dynasty | The Antipatrid dynasty was a Macedonian dynasty. It was created by Cassander in 302 BC, who was the son of Antipater. However it was not a long dynasty. It ended in 294 BC when it was taken over by the Antigonid dynasty.
Kings
Cassander (302-297 BC)
Alexander V of Macedon (297-296 BC)
Philip IV of Macedon (296-294 BC)... |
25165 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonid%20dynasty | Antigonid dynasty | The Antigonid dynasty was a Macedonian dynasty. The kings were part of the family of Alexander the Great's general Antigonus I Monophthalmus ("the One-eyed"). The dynasty ended when the Roman Empire conquered the area after the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC.
Kings
Demetrius I Poliorcetes (294 BC – 287 BC)
Antigonus II Gon... |
25167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama | Futurama | Futurama is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is in New New York City during the 31st century. The shows were first shown on Fox Network on March 28, 1999, until August 10, 2003.
In 2008 Comedy Ce... |
25169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar | Radar | Radar is a machine that uses radio waves for echolocation to find objects such as aircraft, ships, and rain.
The basic parts of a radar are:
The transmitter creates the radio waves.
The antenna directs the radio waves.
The receiver measures the waves which are bounced back by the object.
By doing this, the rada... |
25170 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameSpot | GameSpot | GameSpot is a website that was created in June 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein.
History
In the beginning the website was mainly about PC games. Another similar site, videogamespot.com was created in December of the same year to talk about console video game systems. In 1997, videogamespot.com became... |
25171 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV.com | TV.com | TV.com is a popular website owned by the CNET Games & Entertainment family of websites, which also includes GameSpot, GameFAQs and MP3.com. The website replaced the popular TV Tome website.
The website has information about television (mostly English-language television in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada... |
25172 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1159 | 1159 |
Events
In the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinals are given the right of election of the Pope. Prior to this, the pope was selected by election by the clergy and congregation of the church.
Heiji Rebellion in Japan
Tunis is conquered by the Almohad caliphs.
Marie of Boulogne becomes the Countess of Boulogne
Death... |
25174 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive%20%28color%29 | Olive (color) | Olive is a color which looks like green or yellow. (when gray or black is added to yellow, the various shades of the color olive are produced). Some dark shades of olive can also be made by mixing a darker color (like brown) with green.
The most common place you will find the color olive is on an olive. It is the col... |
25176 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/400s | 400s |
Events
Constantine III seizes control of the Roman garrison in Britain, declares himself emperor, and crosses into Gaul.
August 22, 408 – Stilicho, military power behind the imperial throne, is executed. The Roman military is leaderless for several years until Constantius III becomes patrician.
Construction (and t... |
25177 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Asia | South Asia | South Asia (or Southern Asia) is the southern part of the continent of Asia. It is also known as Indian subcontinent.
There are 8 countries in this region. It is surrounded by (clockwise) West Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Southeastern Asia and the Indian Ocean. Major countries in this part of the world are as f... |
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