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33427 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland%20Guardians | Cleveland Guardians | The Cleveland Guardians are a Major League Baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are part of the American League Central Division. Under the team's former name of Cleveland Indians, the Guardians won two World Series championships in 1920 and 1948. Currently, they hold the longest championship drought in MLB.
... |
33446 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friuli-Venezia%20Giulia | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is a region in the north-east of Italy on the Adriatic Sea. The capital is Trieste. The population is 1,191,588. FVG has a border with the Italian region of Veneto to the west, Austria to the north and Slovenia on the east.
People in this region speak the Italian, Friulian, Slovene and German... |
33448 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udine | Udine | Udine is a city in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. The population is 96,678.
Capital cities in Italy |
33449 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter%20Grass | Günter Grass | Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) – 13 April 2015 in Lübeck) was a German writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was known for writing the controversial, but yet classic novel The Tin Drum.
Life
Grass was born in Danzig in 1927 and went to school there. In the World ... |
33454 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan%20language | Occitan language | Occitan (; ), known also as lenga d'òc by its native speakers (), is a Romance language spoken in the south of France, the Occitan Valleys of Italy, the Val d'Aran of Catalonia and Monaco. The regions together are sometimes known unofficially as Occitania.
Occitan took a different path from Latin to the main official ... |
33462 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass%20%28singer%29 | Bass (singer) | A singer who is a bass is a man with a low singing voice. Some basses may be able to sing down to C two octaves below middle C. Even low A is sometimes needed in Russian church music.
In opera, basses often have the part of the villain, or the king, or a priest. A buffo-bass is a character role in which the bass sin... |
33466 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton | Plankton | Plankton are drifting organisms that live in the surface layers of the ocean. They live in the top layer of the ocean, called the epipelagic zone. They are not strong enough to swim against ocean currents. The term is in contrast to nekton, who can control their movements. There are three groups:
Phytoplankton: which ... |
33469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake%20Forest%20University | Wake Forest University | Wake Forest University is a university found in Winston-Salem, North Carolina . It was started in 1834 in the eastern North Carolina town of Wake Forest. The university was moved to Winston-Salem in 1956. A private school for both men and women, it has been a university since 1967.
The components of Wake Forest Univer... |
33476 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza%20Ghulam%20Ahmad | Mirza Ghulam Ahmad | Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (February 13, 1835 – May 26, 1908), was a 19th century religious leader. He founded the Ahmadiyya movement within Islam. According to Ahmadi doctrine, he was the last prophet, as well as the Mahdi and the Messiah. He is believed by Ahmadis to be the Mujaddid of the 14th Islamic century.
Biography
E... |
33478 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Pharmacology is the study of how medicine and other things have an effect on living organisms and change how they function. Pharmacology could also be defined as the study of how medicine actually works.
Pharmacology is not exactly the same as pharmacy, and a pharmacologist is not exactly the same as a pharmacist. A p... |
33485 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European%20languages | Indo-European languages | The Indo-European languages are the world's most spoken language family.
Linguists believe they all come from a single language, Proto-Indo-European, which was originally spoken somewhere in Eurasia. They are now spoken all over the world.
The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages... |
33486 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%20of%20Mexico | Gulf of Mexico | The Gulf of Mexico is a round sea, called a gulf. Land in North America is around much of it. The United States of America, Mexico, and Cuba are the countries around it. The Straits of Florida connect to the Atlantic Ocean, and the Yucatán Channel connects to the Caribbean Sea.
Petroleum is found near the north and... |
33492 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire | Zaire | Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire () was the name of a country that is now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It used this name from 27 November 1971 to 17 May 1997. The name "Zaire" comes from a Portuguese corruption of the Kongo word nzare, meaning "river".
References
1971 establishments in Africa
... |
33498 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia | Pneumonia | Pneumonia is a disease of the lungs and the respiratory system. The lung contains many small bulbs, or sacs, called alveoli. These help to take out oxygen from the air. In the case of pneumonia, these bulbs become inflamed. They fill up with a fluid which is called pus, and can no longer absorb as much oxygen as before... |
33507 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encino%2C%20Los%20Angeles | Encino, Los Angeles | Encino, California is a district of Los Angeles.
Other websites
Maps and aerial photos of Encino
Neighborhoods of Los Angeles |
33515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%20Olympic%20Games | Winter Olympic Games | Winter Olympic Games were originally considered to be linked with the nation hosting the Summer Olympic Games. The country holding the summer games was preferred as the host for the winter games. Since 1948, the locations of summer and winter games have developed independent of each other.
1924 - I Olympic Winter Ga... |
33533 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodside%2C%20California | Woodside, California | Woodside is a town in California with a population of about 5,000 people and over 5,000 horses. It is in the northern region of Silicon Valley and has the highest percapita population of billionaires, as well as being the home of celebrities including Shirley Temple, Neil Diamond, Joan Baez, Michelle Pfeiffer and a gor... |
33534 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen | Pathogen | A pathogen is an infectious thing, such as a virus, bacteria, fungi or parasite, which causes a disease. This ability is called pathogenicity.
The body has many ways to defend against some of the common pathogens (such as Pneumocystis) in the form of the human immune system and by some "helpful" bacteria present in th... |
33539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide | Pesticide | A pesticide is a chemical that is used to kill or prevent small animals (or organisms) which are considered to be unwanted. These organisms are called pests. Some of these pests that people do not want are insects, microbes that destroy plants, and other things that affect humans in a bad way and it may kill humans too... |
33540 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalation | Inhalation | Inhalation is half of what occurs when people or animals breathe. Air is moved from the outside through the respiratory system into the lungs. The lungs take out some oxygen and put it into the blood. Drugs can also be inhaled with an inhaler to put them into the blood. The air is then moved out of the lungs again. Thi... |
33546 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe%20acute%20respiratory%20syndrome | Severe acute respiratory syndrome | Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was an atypical pneumonia. It started in November 2002 in Guangdong Province, in the city of Foshan, of the People's Republic of China. The disease was caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS CoV), a new coronavirus. It was also a part-time STD, it can be spread through both sexua... |
33552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet | Ballet | Ballet is a type of dance. It is only done by dancers who have had special training. The dancers are employed by a dance company, and they perform in theatres. The first reference to ballet is found in a work of Domenico da Piacenza, who lived in the early 14th century.
Ballet involves the creation of the dance itse... |
33554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazio | Lazio | Lazio (Latin: Latium) is one of the twenty regions of Italy, in central Italy. The capital is Rome.
Geography
The region is in Central Italy with an area of . It is bordered to the northwest by the Tuscany region, to the north by the Umbria region, to the northeast with the Marche region, to the east with the Abruzzo ... |
33555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Diesel | Rudolf Diesel | Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (March 18, 1858 – September 30, 1913) was a German engineer and inventor. His best known invention is Diesel engine. He was born in Paris and died on the English Channel.
He had the idea to develop an engine which relied on a high compression of the fuel to ignite it. With this he could do... |
33558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus%20Otto | Niklaus Otto | Nikolaus August Otto (June 14, 1832 - January 28, 1891) was a German engineer. He is the inventor of the internal-combustion engine. This engine was the first to burn fuel directly in a piston chamber. Up until his invention, all engines were external-combustion engines steam engines and burnt their fuel in a separate ... |
33562 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito | Quito | Quito is the capital city of Ecuador. As of 2019, about 1,978,376 people lived there. Quito is the second largest city in Ecuador after Guayaquil. The Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador is one of the largest, least-changed and best-preserved historic centers in the Americas. Quito was designated a World Cultural Heritag... |
33576 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic%20languages | Uralic languages | The Uralic languages are a language family. They were originally spoken in Eastern Europe and Asia but originated somewhere in eastern Siberia near Lake Baikal.
There are two modern main kinds: the Samoyedic languages and the Finno-Ugric languages.
Origin
The proto-Uralic languages and the early Uralic people origin... |
33578 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian%20languages | Iranian languages | Iranian language may refer to:
Languages of Iran
Iranic languages
Languages of Iran |
33579 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan%20languages | Indo-Aryan languages | The Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of Indo-Iranian languages. They are mostly spoken in Southern Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bangladesh. However, some are also spoken in other places, such as Europe. The Indo-Aryan languages come from a common ancient ancestor, Proto-Indo-Arya... |
33581 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian%20language | Iranian language | Iranian language may refer to:
Languages of Iran
Iranic languages |
33582 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Iranian%20languages | Indo-Iranian languages | The Indo-Iranian languages or Indo-Iranic languages are the largest group of the Indo-European language family. They include the Indo-Aryan (Indic) and Iranic (Iranian) languages. They are mostly spoken in the Indian subcontinent and the Iranian plateau. Originally, they were spoken in Central Asia, to the east and the... |
33583 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic%20languages | Slavic languages | The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) are the largest language family of the Indo-European group. Slavic languages and dialects are spoken in Central, Eastern Europe, the Balkans and northern Asia.
List of Slavic languages
East Slavic languages
These languages are usually written with the Cyrillic al... |
33590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sienna | Sienna | Sienna is a city in the Italian region of Tuscany. Its name is spelt Siena in Italian. The city has a population of about 54,000.
The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's most visited tourist attractions, with over 163,000 international arrivals in 2008.... |
33593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padua | Padua | Padua () is an Italian city near Venice. It has about 210,000 people.
An old myth says that Padua was founded by the Trojan Antenore. There was a settlement since the 4th century before Christ. It got under Roman power in 215 B.C. In 426 A.D. Padua became destroyed by Attila. Narses reconstructed the city, but the Lan... |
33595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20McAleese | Mary McAleese | Mary Patricia McAleese (born 27 June 1951) was the eighth President of the Republic of Ireland from 1997 to 2011. She was first elected president in 1997 and was re-elected to another seven years in 2004 through 2011. She was ranked the 55th most powerful woman in the world on a list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Wo... |
33600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce | Divorce | Divorce is a process in which marriage is ended in the eyes of the law; after a couple divorces, they are no longer married.
Systems of law may have two sorts of divorce
The laws are different in every country, but usually there are two ways reasons for a divorce in law, because of a bad act by one person and divorce... |
33601 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing%20system | Writing system | A writing system (also called a script) is a system of symbols used to represent language. There are different kinds of writing systems, with symbols that represent different things. For example, English uses an alphabet (the Latin alphabet).
Types of writing systems
There are many different types of writing systems.... |
33602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudberry | Cloudberry | A cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) is a herbaceous plant in alpine, tundra and boreal forest. The fruit is an amber-colored edible fruit similar to the raspberry or blackberry.
Despite great demand as a delicacy (particularly in Russia, Norway, Sweden and Finland) the cloudberry is not widely cultivated. It is mainly a ... |
33614 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration | Migration | For people see Human migration; for data see Data migration.
Migration is when animals move on a regular cycle. For example, caribou in the Arctic go south in winter and return in summer when it is warmer. Many birds migrate, such as geese and storks.
Migration is the travelling of long distances in search of a new h... |
33616 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scent%20marks | Scent marks | Scent marks are what animals leave when they are marking their territory. The leader of the pack rubs his/her scent on his/her pack. This helps establish which animal belongs to which pack, and also which animal is the leader.
Other websites
Animals
en:Territory (animal)#Spraying |
33622 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maputo | Maputo | Maputo is the capital of Mozambique. It is on the coast of the Indian Ocean. As of 2004, about 1,114,000 people live in the city. Maputo was founded in the 18th century. The original name was Lourenço Marques, but it was changed after independence. Lisbon in Portugal is a twin town of Maputo. Eduardo Mondlane Universit... |
33624 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original%20sin | Original sin | The concept of original sin refers generally to the Christian belief in the universal nature of sin. Original sin is considered to be the result of the story of Adam and Eve in The Bible. In that story (Genesis 3), God only made one rule for them: They must not eat fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Bu... |
33634 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Airlines | American Airlines | American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is the largest airline of the United States. It is based in Fort Worth It was founded in 1930 with the name American Airways. 82 small airlines were combined in 1930 to form American. In 1934, the name was officially changed to American Airlines. American was the first airline to have compu... |
33638 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Airlines | United Airlines | United Airlines, commonly referred to as United, is a major American airline. It was founded in Boise, Idaho in 1926 and it is currently the second largest airline in the United States to date. It is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. On May 3, 2010, it was announced that Continental Airlines would merge with United t... |
33650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization%20of%20Ukrainian | Romanization of Ukrainian | Romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian is how to write the Ukrainian language in Latin letters. Latin letters are the type that are currently used for this article.
This makes the language easier for non-Ukrainian people to read and pronounce.
There are two different kinds of Romanization. These methods are transl... |
33659 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical%20DoReMi | Magical DoReMi | Magical DoReMi is a shojo anime that follows the adventures of three elementary school girls as they help Majo Rika turn back into a human being. The anime is geared at girls aged 7-14.
The series aired in Japan on TV Asahi between February 1999 and January 2003. It has four seasons and 201 episodes. There are also 2 ... |
33676 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Nietzsche | Friedrich Nietzsche | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer. At first, he was a professor at the University of Basel. He worked in a part of classical studies called classical philology. He later wrote several books of philosophy. And is now known as one of the most important thin... |
33679 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20screen | Movie screen | A movie screen is a surface on which a movie projector plays a movie. They are sometimes a wall, sometimes a cloth, and sometimes paper. Theaters have movie screens, and some people have them at home. Movable movie screens are made to be used where there is not a movie screen already. Screens are white or grey so t... |
33681 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica | Metallica | Metallica is an American thrash metal/heavy metal band. The band came together in Los Angeles in 1981 and helped to invent the thrash sub-genre of heavy metal. They are well known for many of their songs, including "Master of Puppets", "The Unforgiven", "One", "Enter Sandman", and "Nothing Else Matters." Since then, th... |
33704 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20bomb | Time bomb | A time bomb is bomb with a timer on it. When the timer reaches zero, the bomb will explode.
Explosives |
33705 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1655 | 1655 |
Events
March 25 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
April 7 – Fabio Chigi becomes Pope Alexander VII
April – Admiral Robert Blake severely damages the arsenal of the Bey of Tunis.
May 7 Pope Alexander VII is chosen to be pope.
May 10 – English troops land on Jamaica
August 9 – O... |
33706 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1400s | 1400s | These are some important events that happened in the years from 1400 to 1410.
1400
Henry IV stops the Epiphany Rising. He kills the people who try to have Richard II of England restored as King.
The princes of the German states remove Wenceslaus as Holy Roman Emperor.
Rupert is elected as Holy Roman Emperor.
O... |
33707 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1412 | 1412 | Year 1412 (MCDXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January 16 – The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy.
End of the reign of Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan.
Emperor Shoko ascends to the throne of Japan.
John II of Castile, declare... |
33708 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1634 | 1634 |
Events
February 24-25 – Rebellious soldiers kill Albrecht von Wallenstein
March 1 – Battle at Smolensk, King Ladislaus IV of Poland defeats Russian army.
March 25 – The first settlers arrive in St. Mary's City, Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore), the fourth permanent settlement in British North America.
August 18 – U... |
33716 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinedine%20Zidane | Zinedine Zidane | Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972, nicknamed Zizou, Yaz and ZZ) is a French former football player that played as a Midfielder. He played for four European clubs and the French national team. He was the current manager of Real Madrid since 2016 to 2021.
Early life
Zidane was born in Marseille, France and is of ... |
33724 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon | Babylon | Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, in present-day Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient city of Babylon today is a mound of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Babylon was ... |
33725 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1572 | 1572 |
Events
January 16 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
April 1 – The Sea Beggars, Netherlandish Calvinist rebels, capture the port city of Brielle. This leads to a wave of uprisings in Holland and Zealand, leaving most of those ... |
33726 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1359 | 1359 |
Events
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Orhan I (1326-1359) to Murad I (1359-1389)
Berlin joins the Hanseatic League.
Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, and her husband Louis of Bavaria are absolved from excommunication.
Second Treaty of London signed between England and France, but rejected by... |
33727 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1389 | 1389 |
Events
February 24 – Margaret I defeats Albert in battle, thus becoming ruler of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
June 28 – Battle of Kosovo between Serbs and Ottomans. Both leaders, the Serbian Prince Lazar and Murad I were killed in battle.
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Murad I (1359-1389) to Beyazid I... |
33730 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20engineering | Genetic engineering | Genetic engineering (GE), also called genetic modification, is a branch of applied biology. It is the changing of an organism's genome using biotechnology. These methods are recent discoveries. The techniques are advanced, and full details are not given here.
This is an overview of what can be done:
new DNA may be i... |
33737 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Il-Sung | Kim Il-Sung | Kim Il Sung (, ; April 15, 1912 - July 8, 1994) was the first leader of North Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994. He died of a heart attack on July 8, 1994. The North Korean government gave him the title of "Eternal President" after his death.
Kim Il Sung created the Juche political idea. He ran North Korea diffe... |
33741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleophilic%20substitution | Nucleophilic substitution | A nucleophilic substitution is a chemical reaction. It is a type of substitution, or replacing, reaction. It happens when one nucleophile replaces another one on an atom. The other group leaves the atom and is called a leaving group.
There are different types of nucleophilic substitution. Which type happens depends on... |
33745 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption | Eruption | Eruption means "breaking out" (from Latin), for example:
Volcanic eruption, the flow of lava and ash from a volcano
Plinian eruption, a type of volcanic eruption
the emerging of a tooth
Eruption can also mean:
Eruption (band)
"Eruption" (song), from Van Halen's first album. |
33747 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasschaat | Brasschaat | Brasschaat is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
In 2007, 37133 people lived there.
It is at 51° 17 North, 04° 29 East.
There has always a big military force in Brasschaat. After World War II there were more military-related things. Including the defence buildings made to stop the Nazi's from reachin... |
33749 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walloon | Walloon | Walloon might mean:
Anything related to Wallonia in Belgium
Walloon language
Walloon people, an ethnic group in Europe, from Wallonia |
33750 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi | Okapi | The okapi (Okapia johnstoni) is an even-toed ungulate mammal from central Africa. With the giraffe they form the family Giraffidae.
Appearance
The okapi has a reddish brown body, a whitish gray face, and white and black stripes on its legs. The okapi has a few features that show its link to giraffes. Its height is no... |
33755 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffidae | Giraffidae | Giraffids are mammals, in the order of the even-toed ungulates. The family has two living species, the giraffe and the okapi.
Taxonomy
Family Giraffidae
Giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis
Okapi, Okapia johnstoni
Habitat
The giraffe and the okapi both live in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert. The giraffe lives in ... |
33762 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman | Amman | Amman (), is the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the capital of the Amman Governorate. It is the largest city in the Kingdom and one of the largest Arab cities in terms of population, with a population in 2014 of about 4 million, which also makes it one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The cit... |
33763 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh | Riyadh | Riyadh (/rɨˈjɑːd/; ar-Riyāḍ Najdi pronunciation: ) is the capital and most populous city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and belongs to the historical regions of Nejd and Al-Yamama. It is in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on a large plateau, and is home to 6.5 million people.
The city... |
33767 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular%20culture | Popular culture | Popular culture is culture which interests the general masses of people. It is influenced and spread by mass media. People experience or learn popular culture by hearing popular music on the radio, watching television, playing video games, or reading popular books and magazines. Popular culture may affect all kinds of ... |
33774 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric%20hospital | Psychiatric hospital | A psychiatric hospital is a place where mentally ill people are kept so they can be treated.
Doctors who work at psychiatric hospitals are called psychiatrists. Usually people choose to be in a psychiatric hospital. Sometimes psychiatrists can put people in hospitals who do not want to be there, because they think the... |
33775 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20camp | Military camp | A military camp or bivouac is a semi-permanent facility for where an army stays when it is not at its military base. Camps are erected when a military force travels away from a major installation or fort during training. It is also used for operations, and often form large campsites.
In the Roman era the military camp... |
33776 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private%20%28rank%29 | Private (rank) | A private is the lowest rank of the Army or Marines. The rank is earned after joining the service or graduating from a military camp.
Army
Marines |
33777 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinster | Spinster | A spinster is an older word for an unmarried woman. A word used more often today is "single woman" or bachelorette.
Other meanings
A spinster is also someone who spins yarn from wool using a spinning wheel. Spinsters use the yarn to make clothes like a tailor, seamster, seamstress. One famous spinster is the girl in t... |
33779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Clark | Dick Clark | Dick Clark (November 30, 1929 — April 18, 2012) was an American television entertainer. He was nicknamed "the world's oldest teenager". From the 1950s to the 2000s, he entertained people from around the United States, as well as the rest of the world. He also hosted game shows, including The $100,000 Pyramid. His other... |
33786 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl | Perl | Perl is a programming language that was first made to change text files. The programming language has been changed many times to do things in addition to changing text files. Some of these things are tasks like making web pages show information in a better way than before, or take information and show it in a way that ... |
33790 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Kepler | Johannes Kepler | Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German mathematics teacher, astronomer, optician, natural philosopher, astrologer and Lutheran theologian.
He was Tycho Brahe's apprentice. Tycho Brahe looked at the way the planets moved in the sky. Johannes Kepler found a simple way to say how the planets m... |
33791 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal | Pascal | Pascal is a programming language.
It was created in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth, to help people learn how to make computer programs.
Development
Now, there are many different dialects of the language, some of which support object-oriented programming.
In 1990 the “Pascal” and “Extended Pascal” standards were registered wit... |
33792 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymen | Hymen | The hymen (also called maidenhead) is tissue that surrounds or partially covers the external vaginal opening. The hymen has no known use. People used to believe that the hymen always tears after having sexual intercourse for the first time, and that you could if a woman was virgin by looking at her hymen and seeing if ... |
33793 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead | Maidenhead | Maidenhead is a town in England in Berkshire. About 60,000 people live in the town. The town is about 25 miles (41 kilometres) from London. It is named after a wharf that was built there in 1297. It lies on the River Thames.
Towns in Berkshire |
33796 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-spot | G-spot | The Gräfenberg spot (usually called G-spot) is defined as a highly sensitive area near the entrance inside of the human vagina. It is believed to be a part of the urethral sponge. Some people believe it is a bundle of nerves in the female human reproductive system. If the area is stimulated, this can cause pleasurable ... |
33802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skene%27s%20gland | Skene's gland | Skene's glands (also called lesser vestibular glands or paraurethral glands) are glands in the upper wall of the vagina. They empty into the urethra. Their location is known as the Gräfenberg spot. In males, their homologue is the prostate gland.
The glands are named after the person who described them first, Alexande... |
33807 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholin%27s%20gland | Bartholin's gland | The Bartholin's glands are two glands found slightly below and to the left and right of the opening of the vagina in women.
History
They were first found in the 17th century, by the Danish anatomist, Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655-1738).
Anatomy
The glands secrete mucus to make sexual intercourse easier. Bartho... |
33809 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gland | Gland | A gland is a group of cells in the body which make substances such as hormones. They are in humans and other animals, and in plants.
If the substance is put directly into the bloodstream, the gland is called endocrine gland.
If the substance is carried by a duct, the gland is called an exocrine gland. Exocrine ducts... |
33810 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol | Sevastopol | Sevastopol (, formerly called Sebastopol) is a large seaport and city. It is on the Crimean Peninsula, on the north side of the Black Sea. 380,000 people live in the city. It was started in 1783. The port was shared by naval forces of Ukraine and Russia until 2014 when Russia took control.
Cities in Ukraine
Capital c... |
33818 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegukka | Aegukka | "Aegukka", Korean for "Patriotic Song", is North Korea's national anthem. To celebrate the country's independence from imperial Japan, it was written by Pak Se-yong and composed by Kim Won-gyun, then it was adopted in 1947 shortly after.
It should not be confused with South Korea's anthem, which has the same name but ... |
33819 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegukga | Aegukga | Aegukga (Aeguk-kka; 애국가 ; 愛國歌), meaning The Patriotic Song is the national anthem of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). It should not be confused with North Korea's anthem, which has the same name.
Lyrics
The song is sang in the order of 1, refrain, 2, refrain, 3, refrain, 4, refrain.
History
The song was firs... |
33826 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest | Conquest | The word conquest can refer to different things:
A military invasion
Action of a Conquistador
Impressing someone, possibly through courageous actions
A town in the state of New York, see Conquest, New York
A British historian, named Robert Conquest |
33829 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni%20Islam | Sunni Islam | Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam. They are the branch of Islam that came through the Rashidun Empire, which started with Abu Bakr and ended by Ali ibn Abi Talib. Sunni beliefs are based on the Qu'ran and the Kutub al-Sittah. Sunnis make up around 90% of all Muslims. With approximately 1.8 billion followers... |
33836 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting | Hunting | Hunting is going out to find and kill animals. Animals and some humans, hunt for food. People have hunted at least since the stone age. They used spears, and now people mostly use guns and bows. Some people kill the animals for fur, to make clothes and shelter, or to decorate their homes, or to sell. Fox hunting is som... |
33838 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho%20Brahe | Tycho Brahe | Tycho Brahe (14 December 1546 — 24 October 1601) was an astronomer from Denmark. He observed the night sky before the invention of the telescope. He built a large observatory called Uraniborg on the island of Hven in Denmark.
He discovered that the universe outside the Solar System could change when he studied a sup... |
33840 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipse | Ellipse | An ellipse is a shape that looks like an oval or a flattened circle.
In geometry, an ellipse is a plane curve which results from the intersection of a cone by a plane in a way that produces a closed curve.
Circles are special cases of ellipses, obtained when the cutting plane is perpendicular to the cone's axis. ... |
33842 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babur | Babur | Babur, full name Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (14 February 1483 – 26 December 1530) was founder of Mughal Empire in Indian subcontinent. He was eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza., governor of Farghana.
Plans of the conquest of India
In 1525 Babur set out to attack and conquer India. He had only about twelve thousand men w... |
33852 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra | Mantra | In Hinduism and Hindu mythology, Mantra means a group of words. There are many such groups of words. Some mantras have meanings. However, there are many mantras which are just syllables, with or without any words. Such mantras do not carry meanings. From the ancient times, Hindus, as well as in many cases, texts of Bud... |
33855 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit%20tree | Fruit tree | A fruit tree is a tree that produces edible fruits to hold its seeds. However, although every tree produces fruit, not all fruit is edible for humans. Nut trees bear such fruits as almonds, walnuts, brazil nuts.
Examples of tree fruit
Apricot
Apple
Cherry
Citrus (Orange, Lemon, etc.)
Coconut
Damson
Durian
Fig... |
33871 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20of%20Control | Line of Control | The Line of Control (LOC) is the line that marks where the region of Kashmir is divided. The land on one side of the line is controlled by India, and the land on the other side is controlled by Pakistan. It is not a legal international border, but is the effective boundary between the two countries. India and Pakistan ... |
33879 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detmold | Detmold | Detmold (; West Low German: Deppelt) is a town in the German state North Rhine-Westphalia. It has about 74,000 inhabitants. Detmold is the cultural capital of the District of Lippe.
Other websites
Google Maps
References
Other websites
Lippe Rural District |
33880 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnsberg | Arnsberg | Arnsberg (; Westphalian: Arensperg) is a town in the German state North Rhine-Westphalia. It has about 74,000 inhabitants, who are mostly Catholic.
References
Other websites
Hochsauerland Rural District |
33882 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegen | Siegen | Siegen is a city in the German state North Rhine-Westphalia. It has about 110,000 inhabitants and a university.
Twin Towns
It has been twinned with the borough of Spandau in Berlin since 1952. Other twin cities are:
, Rijnsburg, since 1963, continuation of partnership with amalgamated town of Katwijk as of 2006
Unit... |
33883 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graz | Graz | Graz is a city in Austria and capital of Styria.
After Vienna, Graz has the second highest number of people living in the city. In 2014 the city and surrounding areas had 605,143 people. The city has six universities.
History
The oldest reference to Graz in historical documents is from 1128. In 1379 Graz became the... |
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