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217648 | 1477024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217648 | Jerzy Buzek | Jerzy Karol Buzek (born 3 July 1940 in Smilovice, Poland) is a Polish politician and scientist.
He was President of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2012. Between 1997 and 2001, he was the Prime Minister of Poland and a member of the Polish parliament.
Buzek attended the grammar school in Chorzów and got his Matura... |
217649 | 5295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217649 | Honorary degree | An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa (Latin: "for the sake of the honour") is an academic degree given by a university to a person who particularly deserves such an honour. It may be someone who has had nothing to do with that university. The person does not have to do any examination. It is purely an honour fo... |
217653 | 40117 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217653 | Doctor honoris causa | |
217654 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217654 | President of the European Parliament | The President of the European Parliament is the head of the European Parliament. He or she also represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally. The President has to sign that EU laws and the EU budget can become valid.
Presidents serve two-and-a-half-year terms. This time is normally divided between the tw... |
217670 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217670 | Luigi Cherubini | Luigi Cherubini (pronounce: "ke-roo-BEE-nee"), (born Florence, 8 or 14 Sep 1760; died Paris, 15 March 1842) was an Italian-born composer who spent most of his working life in France. He is famous for his operas as well as for his religious music. Beethoven thought that Cherubini was the greatest composer who was living... |
217682 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217682 | Mario Andretti | Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is a retired racecar driver. He won the 1969 Indianapolis 500, the 1978 Formula One championship and won the 1967 Daytona 500. He is called the most successful American racecar driver. |
217684 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217684 | Maria Edgeworth | Maria Edgeworth was a novelist in the early nineteenth century.
Life.
Edgeworth was born in Oxfordshire in 1767 or 1768. She was the daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Anna Maria Edgeworth. When her father married again to his second wife, she went with him to Ireland. There, she helped her father and managed her... |
217689 | 573108 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217689 | Ubuntu Studio | Ubuntu Studio is an officially recognized derivative of the Ubuntu Linux distribution that focuses on audio, video and graphics production. The original version, based on Ubuntu 7.04, was released on May 10, 2007. |
217704 | 1338660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217704 | Faisal Alam | Faisal Alam is a gay Pakistani American who began the "Al-Fatiha Foundation", a group that is committed to helping further the cause of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims.
Alam came to the United States from Pakistan in 1987, when he was ten, and lived in Ellington, Connecticut. In 1997, after a marriage engagement ... |
217710 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217710 | Rick Rypien | Rick Joseph Rypien (May 16, 1984 – August 15, 2011) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He was a very tough player and used to play for the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League (AHL), who were the Canucks partner in the AHL. Ryp... |
217712 | 440121 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217712 | Centre (ice hockey) | Centre (center in the United States) is a position in ice hockey. A centre plays in the middle of the ice as one of three forwards. The centre is between the left wing and the right wing, and is the one who takes faceoffs. Because they are in the middle, the centre sometimes has to help the two defencemen when they nee... |
217713 | 1288 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217713 | Center (ice hockey) | |
217715 | 83511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217715 | Nihon | |
217722 | 3650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217722 | Comic opera | |
217723 | 3650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217723 | Cherubini | |
217734 | 1508758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217734 | Glenda Jackson | Glenda May Jackson (9 May 1936 – 15 June 2023) was an English actress turned politician. She is best known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC series "Elizabeth R" in 1971. She won the Triple Crown of Acting, meaning she was the winner of an Oscar, Emmy and Tony Awards.
Life and career.
Glenda Jackson stu... |
217741 | 9304278 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217741 | ZTE | ZTE Corporation, also known as ZTE (Chinese： 中兴通讯) (Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company Limited) is a publicly owned, Chinese business that designs and builds telecommunications equipment and systems.
The company is located in Shenzhen, and was started in 1985 ZTE offers a many telecommunications products th... |
217750 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217750 | SuperCollider | SuperCollider is a programming language designed especially for sound and music. Artists and musicians use it to create pieces of music, or interactive sound sculptures, or other computer-based audio things. |
217755 | 1266141 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217755 | Ryan Newman (racing driver) | Ryan Joseph Newman (born December 8, 1977) is an American racecar driver who drives the No. 51 Ford Mustang for Rick Ware Racing. Newman used to drive the No. 39 Chevrolet Impala for Stewart Haas Racing, and the No. 12 Dodge for Team Penske. Newman won the 2008 Daytona 500. |
217756 | 45220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217756 | Mario Gabriele Andretti | |
217757 | 45220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217757 | Gregory Jack Biffle | |
217758 | 114482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217758 | Ryan Joseph Newman | |
217762 | 40158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217762 | Sukhum | |
217764 | 389700 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217764 | Stem cells | |
217775 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217775 | Germ layers | |
217777 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217777 | Endoderm | |
217778 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217778 | Mesoderm | |
217779 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217779 | Ectoderm | |
217812 | 824868 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217812 | FDR | |
217813 | 9658962 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217813 | Cuboid | A cuboid is a 3D shape. Cuboids have six faces. These faces form a convex polyhedron. The faces of the cuboid can be any quadrilateral. The most common cuboid is the rectangular cuboid. It is made from 6 rectangles that are placed at right angles to each other. A cuboid that uses all square faces is a cube. The cuboid ... |
217818 | 83511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217818 | Carl Gustav Jung | |
217821 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217821 | Lucas Oil Stadium | Lucas Oil Stadium is in Indianapolis, Indiana and is the home of the Indianapolis Colts, an NFL team.
The stadium had its first game on August 24, 2008 when the Colts played the Buffalo Bills.
The stadium also hosted the 2015 final four between the Wisconsin Badgers and the previously unbeaten Kentucky Wildcats. |
217824 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217824 | Lakas–CMD | Lakas–Christian–Muslim Democrats is a centrist political party in the Philippines. It is a member of Centrist Democrat International.
Team CalamBAGO is alliance part of Lakas–CMD. |
217826 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217826 | Queen Elizabeth I | |
217832 | 31045 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217832 | Everglades City, Florida | |
217836 | 1660632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217836 | Sgt. Frog | Sgt. Frog, known in Japan as , is a manga series that started in 1999, it would later start a anime that began in 2004 and ended in 2011.
It parodies htf. Keroro is having a takeover of the planet pokopen (which refers to earth), he says "de arimasu", "sir yes sir", "si senor", "shi ye", and "akene rupo keyo", and also... |
217843 | 1444326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217843 | I Vow to Thee, My Country | I Vow to Thee, My Country is a British patriotic song created in 1921 when a poem by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice was set to music by Gustav Holst.
History.
The lyrics come from a poem by Cecil Spring-Rice that he wrote in 1908 when he was working at the British Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. At first called "Urbs Dei", or "Th... |
217844 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217844 | List of Toronto subway and RT stations | This is a list of all stations of the Toronto Transit Commission's subway and RT system. The Toronto subway and RT was the first subway system in Canada. The first subway line was built under Yonge Street. It opened in 1954 and it had 12 stations at first. After that, the subway station grew to become Canada's largest ... |
217846 | 83511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217846 | Urbs Dei | |
217847 | 275563 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217847 | The Perfect Fool | The Perfect Fool is an opera in one act with music written by the English composer Gustav Holst. Holst wrote the work over the time period from 1918 to 1922. The opera was first played at the Covent Garden Theatre, London on May 14, 1923. At the beginning, Holst had asked Clifford Bax to write the libretto, but Bax did... |
217850 | 1464674 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217850 | Comet Hale–Bopp | Comet Hale–Bopp (formerly called C/1995 O1) is the biggest and brightest comet that has come by earth in the last century. It was called the Great Comet of 1997. It is probably the most-seen comet in history - even more than the famous Halley's comet.
Discovery.
Hale-Bopp was discovered by two astronomers, Alan Hale an... |
217851 | 40158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217851 | Hale-Bopp | |
217858 | 88301 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217858 | Sgt Frog (manga) | |
217861 | 10153184 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217861 | Tech N9ne | Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American rapper and singer better known by his stage name Tech N9ne (which was pronounced "tech nine").
He has been rapping since 1991 and has made 13 studio albums. He got his stage name from rapper Black Walt because of his fast rhyming style.... |
217862 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217862 | Alex Wojciechowicz | Alexander Francis Wojciechowicz (born August 12, 1915 in South River, New Jersey - died July 13, 1992 in Forked River, New Jersey) was an American football Center who played for the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL. Wojciechowicz was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968. Wojciechowicz... |
217863 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217863 | Algology | |
217873 | 8871954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217873 | Temerin | Temerin is a town and municipality in South Bačka District, Vojvodina, Serbia. The municipality of Temerin includes the towns of Temerin and Bački Jarak, and villages Sirig and Kamendin. In the 2002 census, the town of Temerin had a population of 19,143, and the municipality had a population of 28,201. Most of its inha... |
217897 | 40158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217897 | Sistan and Baluchistan | |
217898 | 45220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217898 | Beetle Juice | |
217899 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217899 | Beetlejuice | Beetlejuice can mean: |
217905 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217905 | Philotheus Boehner | Philotheus Boehner (February 17, 1901 – May 22, 1955), who was born as Heinrich Boehner, was a member of the Franciscan order and a very well respected medieval scholar.
Life.
Philotheus Boehner was born as Heinrich Boehner on February 17, 1901, in Lichtenau, Westphalia. He joined the Franciscan Order in 1920, and was ... |
217908 | 1477024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217908 | Selena Gomez | Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress, singer and businesswoman.
Early life.
Selena Marie Gomez was born on July 22, 1992 in Grand Prairie, Texas, United States of America. Her parents divorced when she was five years old with Selena Gomez staying with her mother. Gomez had a close relationship... |
217912 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217912 | Nudibranch | Nudibranchs are a widespread and successful group of marine Gastropod molluscs. The name means 'naked gills'. They are shelless and uncoiled Gastropods, famous for their very brilliant colours. There are more than 3000 known species.
Nudibranchs are one of the groups which are informally known as sea slugs. This is a t... |
217914 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217914 | Sea slug | Sea slug is an informal name for a group of gastropods which look similar, but are not monophyletic. They are polyphyletic. Their similar shape and life styles is an example of convergent evolution. The group includes:
It would seem that their similar growth pattern, with the loss of torsion, bilateral symmetry, reduct... |
217929 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217929 | Anatole France | ' (; born ', ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, critic, and novelist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. He was a member of the "Académie française".
Early life.
Anatole France was a son of a bookseller. He studied at the "Collège Stanislas". He got married in 1877 but he get divorced in 1... |
217932 | 1548059 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217932 | Hurricane David | Hurricane David was the strongest and deadliest hurricane of the 1979 Atlantic hurricane season, but not the costliest. This hurricane caused a lot of damage as it slammed into Dominican Republic as a category 5 hurricane and it struck Florida as a category 2 hurricane. Hurricane David killed 2,068 and caused over $1.5... |
217934 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217934 | Scaphopoda | Scaphopoda, which are called tusk shells in English is a class of marine molluscs. The name of the class can be translated as shovel-footed. These animals vary in size, most are small though. These animals usually do not live in the tidal zone, they dig themselves into muddy or sandy ocean floors, up to a depth of abou... |
217948 | 1391867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217948 | Michael Polakovs | Michael Polakovs, known in America as Coco the Clown, (born Riga, Latvia 23 February 1923; died USA, 6 December 2009) was a famous clown. His father was known as Coco the Clown in Britain. Michael played the part of Coco the Clown in America. He was also known for being Ronald McDonald, the clown who publicized McDonal... |
217950 | 10465780 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217950 | Coco the Clown | Coco the Clown (or Nicolai Polakovs) was a clown character who is very famous in Britain and his birthplace of Latvia. His son Michael Polakovs became famous in America for helping to found the Ringling brothers, barnum and bailey Circus Clown College and inventing and being the very first Ronald McDonald. Coco was not... |
217952 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217952 | Pipo de Clown | Pipo de Clown (English: Pipo the Clown) is a clown who became very popular on Dutch television. The character was created by Wim Meuldijk. The actor who took the part of Pipo de Clown was Cor Witschge (1925-1991). The television series started in 1958 and was shown until 1980.
In the television programmes Pipo lives wi... |
217957 | 437652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217957 | Coronel Fabriciano | Coronel Fabriciano is a Brazilian city in the Vale do Aço metropolitan area, state of Minas Gerais. It is in the region of Vale do Rio Doce and is 200 km from the state capital. The municipal population was estimated in 2020 by IBGE in 110,290 inhabitants, with an area of 221.252 km².
The city was founded in December 2... |
217962 | 693482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217962 | Axillary bud | An axillary bud is an embryonic shoot which is between the stem and petiole of a plant. |
217963 | 83511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217963 | The Oort cloud | |
217964 | 45220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217964 | Sir Ridley Scott | |
217967 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217967 | Robert Lang | Robert Lang (born December 19, 1970 in Teplice, CS) is a Czech retired ice hockey centre. He played a career total of 18 years in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, and... |
217971 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217971 | Joel Quenneville | Joel Norman Quenneville (born September 15, 1958 in Windsor, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach. He coached in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the head coach for the St. Louis Blues from 1996 to 2004, the Colorado Avalanche from 2005 to 2008, the Chicago Blackhawks from 2008 to 2018, an... |
217972 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217972 | Three Cups of Tea | Three Cups of Tea is a book co-written by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. It follows Mr. Mortenson's journey to founding his organisation, the Central Asia Institute (CAI), which builds schools and other facilities for children, especially girls, in Pakistan and Afghanistan. |
217973 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217973 | Aragonese | Aragonese might mean: |
217978 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217978 | Vladimir Teplyakov | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Teplyakov () (November 6, 1925 – December 10, 2009) was a Russian physicist who is best known for his work with particle accelerators. He, working with his friend I.M. Kapchinsky, created the Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) principle, which was very important dealing with the speed of low energ... |
217986 | 693482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217986 | Donovan McNabb | Donovan McNabb (born November 25, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois) is a retired American football player. He played as a quarterback in the National Football League. He played college football for Syracuse.
McNabb was picked by the Philadelphia Eagles with the second pick in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft. With the Ea... |
217988 | 83511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217988 | Vlad Teplyakov | |
217996 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217996 | Avril sk8er | |
217997 | 83511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217997 | Three cups of tea | |
217999 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217999 | Fall to Pieces | "Fall to Pieces" is a song by Canadian singer Avril Lavigne, and was the fifth and last single from her second album, Under My Skin; it was the fourth single in the United States. The song was produced and written by Avril Lavigne and Raine Maida. It was Lavigne's least liked song in the U.S., but was very well liked i... |
218001 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218001 | Moritz Wagner | Moritz Wagner (Bayreuth, 3 October 1813 – Munich, 31 May 1887) was a German explorer, collector, geographer and naturalist.
Wagner devoted three years (1836–1839) to the exploration of Algiers. It was there that he made an important discovery in natural history, which he later developed.
His idea, first based on a stud... |
218002 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218002 | Africanized bee | Africanized honeybees are an artificial man-made hybrid of the European honeybee and African bees. They are more dangerous and defensive than regular honeybees. Because of this, some people call them 'killer bees'.
Africanized honeybees are much more protective of their beehive and more likely to sting. When one of the... |
218008 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218008 | Polyphyletic | |
218010 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218010 | Paraphyletic | |
218011 | 437652 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218011 | Ipatinga | Ipatinga is a Brazilian city in the Vale do Aço metropolitan area, state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2009 was 244.508 inhabitants. Its area is . The city was founded in April 29, 1964.
It's limited with Caratinga, Coronel Fabriciano, Mesquita, Santana do Paraíso and Timóteo. |
218019 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218019 | Timóteo | Timóteo is a city in Brazil. It is in the Vale do Aço metropolitan area in the state of Minas Gerais. In 2009, 79,813 people lived there. The city has an area of . The city was founded in April 29, 1964.
Timóteo is ArcelorMittal Timóteo headquarters, a company of the group ArcelorMittal.
It is limited with the municipa... |
218020 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218020 | Mammal-like reptile | Mammal-like reptile is an old term for the therapsids: those synapsids which gave rise to the true mammals.
The term is both outmoded and a mistake, because mammals did not descend from reptiles. Both groups descended from early amniotes (egg-laying tetrapods), probably in the Lower or Middle Carboniferous.
The precur... |
218022 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218022 | Tusk shells | |
218023 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218023 | Tusk shell | |
218024 | 1604351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218024 | Cleidoic egg | The cleidoic egg (from Greek kleistos = closed) is the type of egg which reptiles and birds lay. Mammalian reproduction has evolved from laying cleidoic eggs to live birth. The cleidoic egg is sometimes called the amniotic egg, because it is characteristic of amniotes.
Discussion.
These eggs have a protective shell, an... |
218025 | 555269 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218025 | Terrapin | A terrapin is a turtle that lives in brackish water. They are named for the diamond pattern on their shells. They eat mollusks, crabs, and fish. Terrapins are sexually dimorphic. Females are much larger than males. Males range between 4 and 5 inches. Females average nearly 7 inches. The largest terrapin on record was a... |
218026 | 1391867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218026 | Regions of Brazil | Brazil is currently divided into five regions (also called macroregions) by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). These divisions are composed of states with similar cultural, economical, historical and social aspects, and, although information given by this type of division is not very accurate f... |
218027 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218027 | Vale do Aço metropolitan area | The Vale do Aço metropolitan area (Região Metropolitana do Vale do Aço, in Portuguese) is a metropolitan area in Minas Gerais, Brazil, comprising only the four municipalities of Coronel Fabriciano, Ipatinga, Santana do Paraíso and Timóteo, but have an influence area of 24 other municipalities.
The region has become int... |
218031 | 935234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218031 | Mantle (mollusc) | The mantle is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it is the dorsal body wall which covers the organs of digestion, reproduction and movement.
In many, but not all, species of molluscs, the epidermis (skin) of the mantle secretes calcium carbonate and conchiolin, and creates a shell.
The word "mantle" means ... |
218032 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218032 | Mantle cavity | |
218040 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218040 | Terrapins | |
218046 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218046 | Carboniferous | The Carboniferous was the geological period after the Devonian and before the Permian. It lasted from about 359 to about 299 million years ago. It is the fifth period of the Paleozoic era and the Phanerozoic eon.
In the U.S.A. the Carboniferous is divided into the Mississippian (lower part, 359–323.2 mya) and the Penns... |
218052 | 70336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218052 | Mesozoic | The Mesozoic Era was the geological era in which dinosaurs lived, as well as the first mammals. It lasted about 186 million years, starting 252.2 mya (million years ago) with the P/Tr extinction and ending 65 mya with the K/T extinction (the one that killed all dinosaurs except birds).
Dinosaurs appeared around 231 mya... |
218054 | 251904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218054 | Palaeozoic | The Palaeozoic (or Paleozoic) era is the earliest of the three eras of the Phanerozoic. Its name means "early life". It lasted from about 541 to 252 million years ago (mya) and ended with the greatest extinction event, the Permian–Triassic extinction event. The Palaeozoic was the beginning of plants and animals. In par... |
218060 | 9926574 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218060 | Blackjack | Blackjack (Twenty-one, pontoon or "Vingt-et-un") is a kind of card game which usually involves gambling. It is often played in casinos. There is a dealer, who deals cards from a special device called a 'dealer's shoe' or a 'shuffling machine'. The dealer has one to eight decks. When there are one or two decks, the deal... |
218062 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218062 | Phanerozoic | The Phanerozoic eon is the current eon on the geologic timescale. It is the one in which abundant animal life has existed. It covers about 541 million years, and goes back to the time when hard-shelled animals first appeared. It was once thought that life began in the Cambrian, the first period of this eon.
The time b... |
218063 | 293183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218063 | Skip-Bo | Skip-Bo is a children's card game. You try and match numbers, colours, etc. It is similar to the card game Uno. |
218064 | 1604351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218064 | Ordovician | The Ordovician is the second period of the Paleozoic era and the Phanerozoic eon. It lasted from about 485.4 million years ago (mya) to 443.4 mya. It follows the Cambrian period and is followed by the Silurian period.
The Ordovician was named after the Welsh tribe of the "Ordovices". It was defined by Charles Lapworth ... |
218066 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218066 | Silurian | The Silurian was the period from the end of the Ordovician, about 443.4 million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Devonian period, about 419 mya. It is the third period of the Paleozoic era and the Phanerozoic eon and the shortest period in the Paleozoic.
As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define ... |
218075 | 1398040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218075 | Devonian | The Devonian is the fourth period of the Paleozoic era and the Phanerozoic eon. It lasted from about 419 million years ago (mya) to about 359 mya. It is named after Devonshire, England, where rocks from this period were first studied.
Sea levels were high, and there was a great variety of fish and other marine organism... |
218089 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218089 | Proterozoic | The Proterozoic eon comes before the Phanerozoic. It was a period before the first abundant complex life on Earth. The name Proterozoic comes from the Greek "earlier life". The Proterozoic Eon extended from 2500 million years ago (mya) to 541 mya. It is the most recent part of the former Precambrian.
The Proterozoic co... |
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