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134923 | 10240376 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134923 | 2010 FIFA World Cup | The 2010 World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship between 32 men's national football teams. It was held in South Africa from 11 June to 10 July 2010. In the host selection, only African countries may be selected as host of this tournament. In 2004 FIFA selected South Africa to become it the first A... |
134932 | 1670684 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134932 | Cody Rhodes | Cody Garrett Runnels Rhodes ("né" Runnels; born June 30, 1985) better known simply by his ring name Cody Rhodes, is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. He is the current Undisputed WWE Champion in his second reign, as well as 2025 King of... |
134935 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134935 | Deuce (wrestler) | James William Reiher, Jr., (born September 1, 1971) better known as Jimmy Snuka, Jr., is a Fijian-American professional wrestler and the son of professional wrestler "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka. He is best known for wrestling with World Wrestling Entertainment where he worked under the ring names Deuce and Sim Snuka. He is ... |
134937 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134937 | Jim Duggan | James Edward Duggan Jr. (born January 14, 1954), better known by his ring name "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, is an American former professional wrestler, who is best known for wrestling for World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E). Duggan was the winner of the first ever Royal Rumble in 1988. He is known for entering t... |
134938 | 1618275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134938 | JTG | Jayson Anthony Paul (born December 10, 1984) is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name JTG. He is best known for his time working with the WWE. During his time there, he was a member of the tag team Cryme Tyme along with Shad Gaspard.
His last match was on the September 20, 2013 episode of "Sup... |
134939 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134939 | Lance Cade | Lance Kurtis McNaught (March 2, 1981 – August 13, 2010) was an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he wrestled under the ring names Garrison Cade and Lance Cade. Cade was trained by Shawn Michaels and made his professional wrestling debut ... |
134942 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134942 | Matt Striker | Matthew Robert Kaye (born June 26, 1974) is an American professional wrestler and commentator. He is best known for working for the WWE from 2005 to 2013 under the ring name, Matt Striker. He currently works as a commentator for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood.
He has also won a Slammy Award in 2008 for "Announce... |
134943 | 19353 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134943 | Trivium (heavy metal band) | |
134945 | 124208 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134945 | Micheal Moore | |
134946 | 10006203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134946 | Sicko | Sicko was a 2007 documentary movie made by Michael Moore. It explores the American health care system, and compares it to the United Kingdom's, Canada's, France's and Cuba's. It made $24.5 million, making it the third-highest grossing documentary of all time. |
134948 | 1464674 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134948 | Flag of Alabama | The flag of Alabama was adopted by the Alabama state legislature on February 16, 1895.
Origin.
It's believed that the crimson saltire of the Flag of Alabama was designed to look like the blue saltire of the Confederate battle flag. The Battle Flag was square-shaped, and Alabama's flag is sometimes shown as a square. Th... |
134950 | 1386610 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134950 | Flag of Mexico | The Flag of the United Mexican States or Mexico is a tricolor of green, white, and red with an eagle charged in the center of the white stripe, sitting on a cactus, eating a snake. While the meaning of the colors has changed over time, these three colors were adopted by Mexico following independence from Spain during t... |
134952 | 40117 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134952 | Union Jack | Union Flag or Union Jack is the national flag of the United Kingdom. It has had the same design since the Act of Union 1800. The flag is made from the flags of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The common ratio that used by the government and other institutions are 1:2. There are no official ratios for th... |
134953 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134953 | Union Flag | |
134954 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134954 | Flag of UK | |
134964 | 11161 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134964 | Vantage Point (film) | |
134965 | 114482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134965 | Phone Booth (film) | |
134966 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134966 | Tommy Tynan | Thomas Edward Tynan (born 17 November 1955) is an English retired professional footballer. |
134967 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134967 | Lennie Lawrence | Lennie Lawrence (his real name is Robin Michael Lawrence) is an English former football manager. |
134968 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134968 | Neil Warnock | Neil Warnock (born 1 December 1948) is an English football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Championship club Huddersfield Town.
Honours.
Individual |
134969 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134969 | John Gregory | John Gregory (born 11 May 1954) is an English footballer turned manager. He has played for the England national team.
Honours.
Manager.
Aston Villa
Chennaiyin FC
Individual |
134970 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134970 | Roberto Carlos |
Roberto Carlos (born 10 April 1973) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team. He often plays left back.
Club career statistics.
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134983 | 1237047 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134983 | Bob Wilson (footballer, born 1941) | Bob Wilson (born 30 October 1941) is a former football player. He has played for Scotland national team.
Honours.
Arsenal
Individual |
134984 | 106408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134984 | Sepp Maier | Sepp Maier (born 28 February 1944) is a former German football player. He played for Bayern Munich and the German national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time. |
134985 | 586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134985 | Bob Stokoe | Bob Stokoe (21 September 1930 – 1 February 2004) was an English footballer and football manager.
In 1955, he won an FA Cup winner's medal with Newcastle United.
Honours.
As a player.
Newcastle United
As manager.
Blackpool
Sunderland |
134987 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134987 | Lothar Matthäus | Lothar Herbert Matthäus (born 21 March 1961) is a former German football player. He has played for the German national team. He currently holds a record for the most appearances for the German team.
Honours.
Bayern Munich
Inter Milan
MetroStars
Germany
Individual |
134998 | 10378326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134998 | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (born in Edinburgh on 19 June 1861, died in London on 29 January 1928) was a British Army general during World War I.
He was the senior commander of the British forces in France from 1915 until the end of the war. Most notably, he led it during the Battle of the Somme, the Thir... |
135001 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135001 | John Charles | John Charles (27 December 1931 - 21 February 2004) was a Welsh football player. He has played for Wales national team.
Honours.
Leeds United
Juventus
Cardiff City
Wales
Individual |
135002 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135002 | Fredrik Ljungberg | |
135003 | 13640 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135003 | Douglas Haig | |
135004 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135004 | Martin Peters | Martin Stanford Peters (8 November 1943 – 21 December 2019) was an English footballer and manager. He played for England national team.
In 2016, it was announced that Peters had Alzheimer's disease. Peters died on 21 December 2019 in London from the disease at the age of 76.
Honours.
Football.
West Ham
Tottenham
Intern... |
135005 | 372122 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135005 | Dmitri Sychev | Dmitri Sychev is a Russian football player. He is currently playing for Lokomotiv-Kazanka Moscow. He has been called the "Russian Michael Owen" because of his fast pace and brilliant agility. |
135018 | 35925 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135018 | José Eulogio Gárate | José Eulogio Gárate is a former football player. He has played for Spain national team.
Club career statistics.
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International career statistics.
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135019 | 5738 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135019 | Shinji Ono | is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography.
Ono was born in Numazu on September 27, 1979. After graduating from Shimizu Commercial High School, he joined J1 League club Urawa Reds in 1998. He became a regular player from first season and he was selected "Rookie of the Year". In sum... |
135021 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135021 | Iker Casillas | Iker Casillas (born 20 May 1981) is a retired Spanish football player. He used to play for F.C. Porto and Spain national team. |
135034 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135034 | Jamie Murphy | James Murphy (born 25 February 1973) is an English physiotherapist and former professional footballer. He played as a left-back.
Honours.
Blackpool |
135047 | 13640 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135047 | Drake parker (character) | |
135048 | 20701 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135048 | Concerts | |
135056 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135056 | Josh Nichols (character) | |
135076 | 10471136 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135076 | List of presidents of Turkey | This is a complete list of presidents of Turkey. The list includes all eleven heads of state that led the country after the Turkish War of Independence. For a list of rulers of its predecessor, the Ottoman Empire, see the article on the Ottoman dynasty. |
135086 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135086 | 2005 French urban violence | |
135093 | 814900 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135093 | Weightlifting | Weightlifting first started in the so-called Dark Ages of the human history. It was usually done by the strongest men in villages all over Europe. It was considered to be a sport for the lower classes, however since then it has changed into the sport for other people as well. It has been in the Olympic Games since 1896... |
135175 | 5738 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135175 | Secret (Maroon 5 song) | |
135179 | 20577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135179 | 2010 World Cup | |
135206 | 1555593 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135206 | Mullet | Mullet, mullets, The Mullet or The Mullets may refer to: |
135222 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135222 | Flag semaphore | Flag semaphore is a system of spreading information at a distance by using two flags. Information is told by the positions of the flags. Each set of positions has a meaning.
Signalling.
Signalling uses two flags. The person signalling would often stand on a platform about 6-10ft (1.8 - 3m) above the ground. They would... |
135231 | 145452 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135231 | Asparagales | Asparagales is an order of flowering plants. The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly between different classifications. No one is sure, but it is supposed that this group of plants evolved between the late and early Cretaceous. But because of the dif... |
135232 | 935234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135232 | Asparagaceae | Asparagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by quite a few taxonomists, but hardly universally: often the plants involved are treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae. |
135234 | 1174418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135234 | Hesperocallis | Hesperocallis is a genus of flowering plants that includes a single species, Hesperocallis undulata, the desert lily, found in the desert areas of the southwest of North America.
"Hesperocallis" has traditionally been classified in Liliaceae but until recently its relationships have been unclear. Other classifications ... |
135235 | 935234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135235 | Laurales | The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. They are a basal group of dicots. They are related to, and sometimes included in, the Magnoliales.
The order includes 85-90 genera from seven families of trees and shrubs. Most of the species are tropical and subtropical, though a few genera reach the temperate zone. The b... |
135236 | 1665073 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135236 | Hasbro | Hasbro is an American toy company. It is one of the biggest toy and electronic audio game makers in the world (including board games), only Mattel is larger. Other companies competing are Supe Impulse and Moose Toys. Hasbro also makes "Monopoly", a popular board game. Their main office is in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Un... |
135237 | 1351064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135237 | Bay leaf | Bay leaf (plural bay leaves), (Greek "Daphni", Romanian "Foi de Dafin") is the aromatic leaf of several species of the Laurel family (Lauraceae). Fresh or dried bay leaves are used in cooking for their distinctive flavor and fragrance. |
135239 | 1368260 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135239 | Ginger | Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is used as a spice and a folk medicine.
It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudostems. These are false stems made of rolled leaves: about one meter tall with narrow leaf blades. The inflorescences come directly from the rhizome on separate ... |
135240 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135240 | Revenue | Revenue (or revenues) is income that an organization receives from its normal business activities. In the case of a corporation this is usually from the sale of goods and services to customers. In the case of a government, revenue usually comes from various taxes. In addition to sale of goods and services, some compani... |
135241 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135241 | Net income | Net income is equal to the income that a company has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. Net income can be distributed among holders of common stock as a dividend or held by the firm as retained earnings.
It is computed as the residual of all revenues and gains less all expenses and losses for ... |
135243 | 1458798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135243 | Real time (media) | Real time in a narrative is where the events in the story take the same amount of time to happen as they do for the audience to experience them. If a movie told in real time is two hours long, as in "Rope", then the plot of that movie covers two hours of fictional time. For example, in the TV series "24", an hour long ... |
135244 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135244 | Southern Cone | The term Southern Cone (, ) refers to a geographic region composed of the southernmost areas of South America, below the Tropic of Capricorn. Due to geographical affinities, natural, economic and social, the Southern Cone is usually understood as the region that includes all of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the souther... |
135252 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135252 | 1936–37 NHL season | The 1936–37 NHL season was the 20th season of the National Hockey League (NHL). Eight teams each played 48 games. The Detroit Red Wings were the Stanley Cup winners as they beat the New York Rangers three games to two in the final series.
Regular season.
Final standings.
"Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, ... |
135256 | 1174418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135256 | William M. Jennings | William M. Jennings (December 14, 1920 – August 17, 1981) was an owner in the National Hockey League.
Born in New York, New York, Jennings was owner of the New York Rangers from 1959 until his death in 1981. The William M. Jennings Trophy was named in his honour. Jennings also helped initiate the Lester Patrick Trophy ... |
135257 | 18539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135257 | List of National Hockey League general managers | |
135258 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135258 | Robert Esche | Robert Esche (born January 22, 1978) is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played parts of eight seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Phoenix Coyotes and Philadelphia Flyers. He also played for Ak Bars Kazan of the Russian Superleague (RSL), SKA Saint Petersburg and Dina... |
135263 | 1639817 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135263 | Concussion | Concussion is an injury to the brain caused by being hit on the head, as often happens in motor vehicle collisions, fights or contact sports such as football. It is the most common form of traumatic brain injury. Related terms include mild brain injury, mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), mild head injury (MHI), and mi... |
135264 | 1420423 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135264 | Mercury-in-glass thermometer | The mercury-in-glass thermometer was invented by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in Amsterdam (1714). It is a bulb containing Mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. The volume of mercury in the tube is much less than the volume in the bulb. The volume of mercury changes slightly with temperature. The small chan... |
135267 | 70336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135267 | Language reform | Language reform is a type of language planning. Language reforms make big changes to a language. These changes are usually done to make a language simpler to understand or to write. Sometimes changes are done to make the language purer; that is, to get rid of foreign parts of the language, or to get rid of parts of the... |
135274 | 10250956 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135274 | Beaufort scale | The Beaufort scale is a scale for measuring wind speeds. It is based on observation rather than accurate measurement. It is the most widely used system to measure wind speed today. The scale was developed in 1805 by Francis Beaufort, an officer of the Royal Navy and first officially used by HMS Beagle.
There are twelve... |
135276 | 9505374 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135276 | Western Front | |
135277 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135277 | The Wheel of Time | The Wheel of Time is a long running fantasy series of novels written by American author Robert Jordan. The first in the series, "The Eye of the World" was published in 1990, and the last, "A Memory of Light", was published in 2009. Jordan died while he was writing the last book, so it was finished by Brandon Sanderson.... |
135279 | 10185608 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135279 | Robert Jordan | Robert Jordan (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007) was the pen or writing name of the American fantasy author James Oliver Rigney Jr. He was most famous for writing the long, epic fanasy series "The Wheel of Time". He died from amyloidosis before he was able to finish the series. The last volume "A Memory of Light" ... |
135281 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135281 | Brian Burke | Brian Thomas Burke (born 25 February 1947) was the 23rd Premier of Western Australia from 25 February 1983 to 25 February 1988. He was from the Labor Party. He worked as a journalist before becoming a politician. As Premier he was popular at first but later on his government was involved in a number of private companie... |
135282 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135282 | Mongol Dynasty | |
135283 | 13640 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135283 | Wheel of Time | |
135284 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135284 | Ray O'Connor | Raymond James O'Connor (6 March 1926 - 25 February 2013) was the 22nd Premier of Western Australia from 25 January 1982 until 25 February 1983. He was from the Liberal Party. He became Premier when Charles Court resigned. Later he was convicted of fraud and spent time in prison. |
135285 | 552748 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135285 | Charles Court | Sir Charles Walter Michael Court (29 September 1911 – 22 December 2007) was the 21st Premier of Western Australia from 8 April 1974 to 25 January 1982. He was from the Liberal Party. He became a politician in 1953. His son, Richard, was also a Premier. |
135286 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135286 | Chang'an | Chang'an was the capital of ancient China of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history. Chang'an literally means "Perpetual Peace" in Classical Chinese. During the Xin Dynasty, the city was renamed "Constant Peace"; yet after its fall in the year 23 AD, the old name was restored. During the Ming Dynasty, the name was ... |
135289 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135289 | John Tonkin | John Trezise Tonkin (2 February 1902 – 20 October 1995) was the 20th Premier of Western Australia from 3 March 1971 to 8 April 1974. He was from the Labor Party.
He was born in Boulder City in 1902. Educated in local schools Tonkin became a teacher in rural Western Australia. An active member of the Labor Party, he was... |
135290 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135290 | David Brand | Sir David Brand (1 August 1912 – 15 April 1979) was the 19th Premier of Western Australia from 2 April 1959 to 3 March 1971. He was from the Liberal Party. |
135292 | 18539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135292 | Albert Hawke | Albert ("Bert") Redvers George Hawke (3 December 1900 – 14 February 1986) was the 18th Premier of Western Australia from 23 February 1953 to 2 April 1959. He was from the Labor Party. His nephew, Bob, became Prime Minister of Australia in the 1980s. |
135293 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135293 | Ross McLarty | Sir Duncan Ross McLarty (17 March 1891 – 22 December 1962) was the 17th Premier of Western Australia from 1 April 1947 to 23 February 1953. He was from the Liberal Party. |
135294 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135294 | Frank Wise | Frank Joseph Scott Wise (30 May 1897 – 29 June 1986) was the 16th Premier of Western Australia from 31 July 1945 to 1 April 1947. He was from the Labor Party.
Wise was born in Queensland and after finishing high school he became a tropical fruit farmer. He joined the Queensland Department of Agriculture, and later move... |
135295 | 595018 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135295 | Early modern Europe | The early modern period is a term used by historians for the period in Western Europe and its first colonies which spans the three centuries between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution.
The early modern period is characterized by the rise to importance of science and technological progress, civic politics and... |
135299 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135299 | Kevin Moore (rugby league) | Kevin Moore (born 30 November 1965, in St Johns Lakemba, New South Wales, Australia) is a rugby league coach and former player. He was the head coach for the Bulldogs in the NRL from 2009 to 2011. As a player, he played as a scrum-half. |
135300 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135300 | Roman Čechmánek | Roman Čechmánek (March 2, 1971 in Gottwaldov (now called Zlín), Czechoslovakia – 12 November 2023) was a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender. He died on 12 November 2023, at the age of 52.
International play.
His only Olympic appearance was for the Czech Republic in the 1998 Winter Olympics. Backing-up star goalte... |
135301 | 18539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135301 | Roman Cechmanek | |
135305 | 9805431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135305 | Jaromír Jágr | Jaromír Jágr ( , born February 15, 1972 in Kladno, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger, who plays for the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League (NHL). Jágr formerly played in the National Hockey League with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, New Yo... |
135306 | 18539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135306 | Jaromir Jagr | |
135307 | 1232185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135307 | Spinning jenny |
The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel. It was invented around 1764 by James Hargreaves (c. 1720 – 22 April 1778) in Stanhill, near Blackburn, Lancashire in the northwest of England. The device meant that there was much less work needed to produce yarn. A single worker could work eight or more spools at o... |
135323 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135323 | Roman Turek | Roman Turek (born May 21, 1970 in Strakonice, Czechoslovakia — now the Czech Republic) is a professional ice hockey goaltender, who played for the Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues, and Calgary Flames in a 9-year National Hockey League career. Currently he is playing in the Czech Extraliga for HC České Budějovice. |
135327 | 1396217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135327 | Driveshaft | A driveshaft, drive shaft, driving shaft, propeller shaft, or Cardan shaft is a part of a machine that takes power from the engine or motor to a place where useful work can be done.
Most engines or motors create power as torque by making something rotate. This can be from an internal combustion engine (as in a car), wa... |
135328 | 1575776 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135328 | Power loom | The term power loom, corresponds to a mechanized loom powered by a driveshaft. The first "power loom" was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785, later to be perfected by William Horrocks. It allowed textile making to be done far faster than if a human had done the same work. By 1850, over 250,00... |
135331 | 20469 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135331 | GWR | |
135336 | 40117 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135336 | Ahmadiyya | Ahmadiyya (), fully known as Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, is a secretive Islamic movement founded in the 19th century by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who claimed to be the Mahdi and and the promised messiah. Ahmad wanted to restore Islam's original message. It originated in the Punjab region before the British Raj was divided in... |
135339 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135339 | Paris Métro | The Paris Métro or Métropolitain () is a rapid transit system in Paris, France. The network is mostly underground. It has 19 lines, which together are 225.1 km (139.9 mi) long. There are 304 stations. 17 of these lines are owned by RATP, the state-owned public transport operator in Île-de-France, and 2 by Paris Airport... |
135341 | 10465345 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135341 | Heroes (TV series) | Heroes is an American television show on the network NBC in the US, BBC 2 in the UK and various other stations worldwide. It is about a group of people who have superpowers. It was shown from 2006-2010. |
135343 | 9611106 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135343 | Eddie Su'a | Eddie Su'a (born 13 January 1983) is an Australian former rugby league player. He played for the Cronulla Sharks in the NRL in 2007. He played as a prop. |
135345 | 10505637 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135345 | String (music) | A string in music is a string made of steel, nylon, or gut which vibrates on string instruments, such as the guitar, harp, piano, or violin. They are usually under tension to help them vibrate. |
135352 | 10344596 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135352 | Peter Sellers | Richard Henry "Peter" Sellers (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian best known for his three roles in "Dr. Strangelove",as Aldo Vanucci in "After The Fox"; as "Inspector Clouseau" in "The Pink Panther" movies, and as Clare Quilty in the original 1962 screen version of "Lolita". |
135354 | 1543286 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135354 | Boris Johnson | Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson HonFRIBA (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and journalist. He was the 55th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the 16th Leader of the Conservative Party from 23 July 2019 to 5 September 2022. Johnson was the Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip from 2015 ... |
135355 | 1508985 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135355 | NUbuntu | nUbuntu or Network Ubuntu is a project to take the existing Ubuntu operating system and remaster it as a Live CD and Full install with tools needed for penetration testing servers and networks. The main idea is to keep Ubuntu's ease of use and mix it with popular penetration testing tools. Besides usage for network and... |
135376 | 1542442 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=135376 | Prussian blue | Prussian blue, also known as Berlin blue, is a dark blue color that is artificially made.
It is one of the first pigments made synthetically. It was accidentally found in 1704 by two chemists in Berlin.
The dark blue uniforms of the Prussian army were dyed this color.
Color.
A color can be shown by hex triplet is a six... |
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