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56555 | 687081 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56555 | Colon (punctuation) | The colon (":") is a punctuation mark, simply consisting of two equally sized and vertically aligned dots.
Punctuation.
Use in prose.
A colon is a more significant pause than a semicolon. It is usually used to contrast two parts of a sentence:
History.
The colon's first appearance in English text is marked by the "Shor... |
56556 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56556 | Colon | Colon could mean: |
56559 | 9237069 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56559 | Tomorrow Never Knows | Tomorrow Never Knows is a song from The Beatles's "Revolver" album, from 1966.
John Lennon wrote the song based on his readings of "The Psychedelic Experience", which adapted the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" for use as an LSD "user's manual", intending to give users a kind of religious experience. The song's title came f... |
56560 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56560 | Gone with the Wind (movie) | Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American movie based on Margaret Mitchell's book of the same name. It premiered in Atlanta, Georgia. It stars Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland. The movie tells the story of the American Civil War as it was seen by a young southern woman named Scarlett O'Hara.... |
56561 | 497303 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56561 | Titanic (disambiguation) | Titanic can refer to |
56576 | 9867196 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56576 | Santino Marella | Anthony Carelli (born March 14, 1974) is a Canadian professional wrestler and judoka. He currently works for TNA Wrestling as an authority figure. He appears under the ring name Santino Marella. He became famous in WWE, where he was a two-time Intercontinental Champion, one-time United States Champion, and one-time Tag... |
56577 | 28388 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56577 | Santino Morella | |
56579 | 70336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56579 | Fresco | Fresco is a way of painting pictures. A "fresco" is a kind of mural, a painting that is done on a wall. A wall painting is sometimes called a "fresco" by mistake. A true "fresco" is painted onto plaster that is fresh. The plaster has been laid on the wall that day and is still damp. Frescoes last a long time because th... |
56580 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56580 | The Count of Monte Cristo | The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. The story is about revenge and forgiveness. The main character of the book, Edmond Dantès, is wrongly sent to prison. There, he meets an old priest named Faria, who tells Dantès of a treasure. He escapes and finds the large treasure. He uses it to carry out... |
56581 | 1338660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56581 | Hallandale Beach, Florida | Hallandale Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city is named after Luther Halland, a worker for Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad. The population was 41,217 at the 2020 census. Sometimes the city is called the "southernmost Canadian city". This is because Hallandale Beach has been a... |
56587 | 744335 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56587 | Nazi Party | The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German ; "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", abbreviated NSDAP), also known as the Nazi Party, was a far-right German political party. It was started in 1920 from the German Workers' Party (German: "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", "DAP"), which would later be rename... |
56588 | 5738 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56588 | Chico | |
56589 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56589 | Carl Nielsen | Carl Nielsen (born in Sortelung, near Nørre Lyndelse on Funen, June 9, 1865; died in Copenhagen, October 3, 1931) was a Danish composer. He is the most famous composer from Denmark and one of the most important composers of symphonies from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Life.
Carl Nielsen was the seventh in a ... |
56590 | 3650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56590 | First name | |
56591 | 3650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56591 | Christian name | |
56592 | 3650 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56592 | Sculptress | |
56612 | 353961 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56612 | Madonna and Child | The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word "Madonna" means "My Lady" in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the world including Italy, Spain, Po... |
56614 | 888555 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56614 | Göppingen | Göppingen (, "Gebbeng", or "Geppenge") is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In 2005, there were 57,771 people living there. It is at the bottom of the high "Kaiserberg", or "Emperors' Mountain".
History.
The first settlement at Göppingen was in the Hallstatt period, 800-480 BC. A Roman settlement from about 250 BC ... |
56616 | 10052744 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56616 | National Gallery, London | The National Gallery, London is an art gallery in London, England, which has one of the finest collections of European paintings in the world.
What makes this gallery so important is that, although there are bigger galleries, "The National Gallery" has many paintings of very high quality and also because it has painti... |
56617 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56617 | Unperson | In the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four, an Unperson in Newspeak is someone who has been vaporized. Vaporization is when a person is secretly murdered and from society, the present, the universe, and existence. Such a person would be taken out of books, photographs, and articles so that no trace of them is found... |
56624 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56624 | Düren | Düren (Ripuarian: "Düre", Low Franconian: "Dürre" or "Dure") is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is between Cologne and Aachen. About 90,000 people live there. Düren is at the river Rur. |
56626 | 10092405 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56626 | Gütersloh | Gütersloh (, Low Franconian: "Gütersloh") is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 96,000 people live there. It is home to the high-end appliance brand Miele. |
56628 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56628 | Iserlohn | Iserlohn (Westphalian Low German: "Iserlaun", "Iserliaun", or "Iserlauhn"; Middle Low German: "Eisenwald") is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 93,000 people live there; it is one of the largest cities in that region. |
56629 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56629 | Velbert | Velbert is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 87,000 people live there. |
56631 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56631 | Lünen | Lünen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. 88,000 people live there. Lünen has got two important football clubs: Lüner SV and BV Brambauer. Lüner SV is playing in the "Bezirksliga (8. league), but in 1963 the club achieved his greatest aim. They got Champion of Westphalia. |
56632 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56632 | Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia | Marl is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 91,000 people live there. |
56633 | 13560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56633 | Mühlheim a. d. Ruhr | |
56636 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56636 | Bocholt | Bocholt () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. About 73,000 people live there. |
56638 | 1620416 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56638 | Roman Abramovich | Roman Abramovich (born October 24, 1966 in Saratov, Russia) is a Russian-British businessman. Roman Abramovich was born in Saratov, in the former Soviet Union (FSU) on October 24, 1966. He was orphaned at the age of three and raised by his uncle in Ukhta, in the Komi Republic in northern Russia. When he was eight, Abra... |
56652 | 1566408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56652 | Morena Baccarin | Morena Silva de Vaz Setta Baccarin (born June 2, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Inara Serra in the sci-fi television series "Firefly" and the movie "Serenity".
Early life and education.
Baccarin was born on June 2, 1979 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Her father is of Italian descent. Her mot... |
56660 | 1299044 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56660 | José Mourinho | José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix (; born 26 January 1963) is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Liga Portugal club Benfica.
Mourinho is regarded by some players, coaches, and critics as one of the best football coaches of all time. Jose Mourinho's father was... |
56664 | 1530097 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56664 | Sawmill | A sawmill is a place where lumber is cut into boards.
Sawmill process.
Sawmills today work like sawmills from hundreds of years ago. A log enters at one end, and pieces of wood of a specific shape and size come out of the other end.
History.
Sawmills seem to have existed in the medieval period, as one was sketched by "... |
56667 | 7167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56667 | Electromagnetic | |
56669 | 7167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56669 | First Law of Motion | |
56670 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56670 | Hazrat Babajan |
Hazrat Babajan (1806–1931), birthname Gool Rukh ("like a rose"), was born as a Pathan lady in a noble Muslim family of Balochistan in northern British India Empire (now Pakistan). At the age of 18 she fled her arranged marriage and sought God instead. She journeyed to the northeast, first to Peshawar and then to Rawa... |
56677 | 10381203 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56677 | Concept album | A concept album is a kind of album in which all the songs are about the same thing. Most of the time, they tell a story.
Examples.
Examples of concept albums are: |
56678 | 189206 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56678 | Convenience food | Convenience food is a type of food. This kind of food has been made to save consumers time to prepare it. Usually such foods just need to be heated, or can just be eaten from the package. They are made for a long shelf life, so that they can stay in the store for a long time. One thing to remember is that you may have ... |
56679 | 1020587 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56679 | Zippo | A Zippo lighter is a refillable metal lighter made by Zippo Manufacturing Company since 1933. Many different styles have been made since 1933, such as the pipe Zippo, for lighting pipes. Many people collect Zippos. Some Zippos are worth a lot of money.
Zippo lighters are wind-proof, which means that the wind can not bl... |
56680 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56680 | Concept albums | |
56715 | 5738 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56715 | Countries of the world | |
56718 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56718 | 1367 | |
56722 | 10249450 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56722 | 939 | |
56726 | 1508985 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56726 | Water heating | Water heating is a thermodynamic process using an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature. Typical domestic uses of hot water are for cooking, cleaning and bathing, and space heating. In industry both hot water and water heated to steam have many uses.
The most common energy sources for heating water ... |
56738 | 344989 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56738 | Couëron | Couëron is a city in France on the Atlantic Ocean near Nantes. About 18.000 people live in the city. |
56740 | 116088 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56740 | Room temperature | Room temperature does not have an exact scientific definition. It means a temperature that is normal in rooms used by human beings.
Human comfort and health.
A comfortable room temperature depends on individual needs and other factors. According to the West Midlands Public Health Observatory (UK), is the recommended li... |
56741 | 1398040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56741 | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk is a electronic band from Germany that became famous in the late 1970s and 1980s for making electronic music. They used synthesizers and sequencers to make the rhythms and melodies in the song.
Kraftwerk made electronic music many years before other bands knew it would be popular. They paved the way for the M... |
56743 | 572554 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56743 | Cricket ball | |
56746 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56746 | Baptist | Baptist is a word describing a tradition of Christianity and may also refer to individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a denomination. The tradition takes its name from the belief that followers of Jesus Christ should be placed in water to show their faith. Baptists do not practice infant baptism.
In 1639, Roger W... |
56748 | 8854081 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56748 | Techno | Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became popular in Frankfurt, Germany during the early 1980s. It was influenced by synthpop, house music, funk, post-disco and futuristic fiction ideas that were important during the end of the Cold War in the United States at that time. Juan Atkins is generally thought to... |
56749 | 7167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56749 | Techno music | |
56750 | 1659580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56750 | Dog sled | A dog sled is a sled that is pulled by sled dogs and can go over ice and snow. Dog sleds were first made by First Nations people in Canada before the English and French got there, because they had no horses so they used dogs to travel. They were also made by people in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia because it was a... |
56751 | 1241374 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56751 | Multiset | A multiset (sometimes called a bag) is a concept from mathematics. In many ways, multisets are like sets. Certain items are either elements of that multiset, or they are not. However, multisets are different from sets: The same type of item can be in the multiset more than once. For this reason, mathematicians have def... |
56753 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56753 | Tom Brokaw | Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist and is the former anchorman (host) of "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw". His last appearance as anchorman was on December 1, 2004. In the later part of hosting "NBC Nightly News", the program became the most... |
56754 | 431010 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56754 | Jewish people | |
56755 | 7120070 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56755 | Tuple | In mathematics, a tuple is a finite sequence of objects. Sometimes, the finite sequence is also called an "ordered list". This means that the order of the objects matter. In a tuple, the objects are either enclosed within parentheses (such as formula_1), or within angle brackets (such as formula_2). Each of the objects... |
56756 | 9083870 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56756 | Manure | Manure is organic matter used as fertilizer in agriculture. Manures improve the fertility of the soil by adding organic matter and lots of nutrients, such as nitrogen that is trapped by bacteria in the soil. Higher organisms then feed on the fungi and bacteria in a chain of life.
The term "manure" was used for inorgani... |
56757 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56757 | N-tuple | |
56759 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56759 | Nutrient | A nutrient is either a chemical element or compound used in an organism's metabolism or physiology. A nutrient is essential to an organism if it cannot be produced by the organism and must be obtained from a food source.
This article deals with nutrition in animals, especially humans. Nutrition in plants, fungi, bacter... |
56760 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56760 | Histogram | A histogram is a concept from statistics. It is a graphical display that tells us about the distribution of the samples involved. They are commonly a picture made from a table with many categories. The table tells how many samples there are in each category.
The word "histogram" is derived from "histos" and "gramma" in... |
56761 | 1604351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56761 | Green manure | Typically, a green manure crop is grown for a specific period, and then plowed under and incorporated into the soil. Green manures usually perform several functions, that include soil improvement and soil protection:
Historically, the practice of green manuring can be traced back to the fallow cycle of crop rotation, w... |
56762 | 1467751 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56762 | Normal distribution | The normal distribution is a probability distribution used in probability theory and statistics. It is also called Gaussian distribution because it was first discovered by Carl Friedrich Gauss. The normal distribution is very important in many fields because many things take this form. A random variable that takes this... |
56763 | 1659580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56763 | Biomass | Biomass is a basic term in ecology, and in the energy production industry.
Organic waste such as dead plant and animal material, animal dung and kitchen waste can be converted into gaseous fuel called biogas. The organic waste is decomposed by bacteria in biogas digesters to emit biogas which is essentially a mixture o... |
56768 | 16695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56768 | Variance | In probability theory and statistics, the variance is a way to measure how far a set of numbers is spread out.
Variance describes how much a random variable differs from its expected value. The variance is defined as the average of the squares of the differences between the individual (observed) and the expected value.... |
56769 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56769 | Tarzan's Treehouse | Tarzan's Treehouse is a walk-through attraction in Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It was originally called the Swiss Family Treehouse. The treehouse explores the past of the Disney character Tarzan. The tree is fake, but is considered by Disney imagineers a real species or "Disneyodendron eximus" which translates t... |
56770 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56770 | Adam Małysz | Adam Henryk Małysz (born 3 December 1977 in Wisła, Poland) is a Polish former ski jumper. He has four Olympic medals (3 silver, 1 bronze). His longest jump was 230,5 meters. Since 2011, he has been a rally driver. |
56776 | 1063175 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56776 | Salome | Salome or Salomé (Hebrew: שלומית Shlomit) (c AD 14 between 62 and 71), is the name of a character in the New Testament. Her name is not actually given there, but she was an entirely historical person. She was the daughter of Herod Antipas and Herodias. Her name is pronounced with a short 'o', and the 'e' at the end is ... |
56777 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56777 | Salomé | |
56787 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56787 | Winchester College | Winchester College is a well-known boys' school. It is an example of a British public school. The school is located in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England. Its official name is Collegium Sanctae Mariae prope Wintoniam (or Collegium Beatae Mariae Wintoniensis prope Winton), or St Mary's College near Winchester.... |
56788 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56788 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie) | Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action/comedy fantasy movie about a cheerleader (Kristy Swanson) chosen by fate to fight and kill vampires. The movie is a light parody. It goes against the clichés of horror movies. The movie led to a darker and much more popular TV series of the same name. The television se... |
56789 | 45220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56789 | Fran Rubel Kuzui | Fran Rubel Kuzui is an American movie director and producer. She is best known as the director of the 1992 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie, which was made into the television series of the same name. |
56790 | 1508758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56790 | Roseanne Barr | Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, writer, and comedian. She has also been known as Roseanne Arnold and Roseanne Thomas. For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, she was known simply as Roseanne. By 2005, she had resumed referring to herself by her maide... |
56792 | 1538302 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56792 | UTC+2 | |
56793 | 1110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56793 | UTC+1 | |
56794 | 823563 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56794 | Full English Wikipedia | |
56797 | 1161309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56797 | Bi-Lo (Australia) | Bi-Lo was a supermarket with 214 shops all over Australia. It used to have shops in Western Australia called Newmart. It changed the names of all its stores to Coles Supermarkets in 2006 and 2007. BI-LO is an Australian discount supermarket chain known for its fresh foods, groceries, and friendly service, all at afford... |
56801 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56801 | SEWiki | |
56807 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56807 | Sucrose | Sucrose (common name: table sugar, also called saccharose) is a disaccharide (glucose + fructose) with the molecular formula C12H22O11. Its systematic name is α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-β-D-fructofuranose. It is best known for its role in human nutrition and is formed by plants but not by higher organisms.
Physical and c... |
56808 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56808 | Disaccharide | A disaccharide is a sugar (a carbohydrate) composed of two monosaccharides, such as glucose and fructose that make up the disaccharide sucrose. It is formed when two sugars are joined together and a molecule of water is removed. Due to this, disaccharides cannot hydrolyse, meaning their molecules are unable to be broke... |
56811 | 1604351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56811 | Biological hazard | A biological hazard, or biohazard, is anything coming from living organisms (i.e. pollen, fungi, animals, insects, bacteria and viruses) that could be a threat to someone's health. It is represented by ☣, the biohazard symbol, which is used everywhere in the world. When people see this sign they know to take precaution... |
56812 | 1652218 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56812 | Petri dish | A petri dish is a piece of laboratory glassware, a small dish shaped like a cylinder. Scientists use it to grow cells from animals, fungus, and diseases so they can study them. They are usually made of glass or plastic. Glass petri dishes can be used again if they are sterilized. Sometimes people fill them with agar, w... |
56815 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56815 | IGA Australia | Independent Grocers of Australia or (IGA) for short, is the largest independent supermarket group in Australia. It is part of the Independent Grocers Association which has shops all over the world. Each "IGA" shop is run by the local shopkeeper unlike big companies such as Woolworths and Coles which runs all of their s... |
56816 | 844779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56816 | City of Chelmsford | Chelmsford is a borough in the county of Essex in the East of England. It has the same name as it main settlement of Chelmsford, the county town of Essex. About 170,000 people live in the borough. It was formed on 1 April 1974. |
56819 | 75310 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56819 | Desktop | |
56821 | 1458798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56821 | Communication studies | Communication Studies is a college or university area of study involving the study of communication. Students learn about speech and different types of media. |
56822 | 693482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56822 | Belote | Belote is a French 32 card trick-taking game. This game requires four players divided into two teams. There are many kinds of belote : "belote," "belote coinchée," and "belote avec annonce". All of them come from a Dutch game, played since 1600.
Rules.
Dealing.
The dealer may choose to shuffle the deck. The previous de... |
56827 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56827 | Monosaccharide | Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates. They consist of one sugar and are usually colorless, water-soluble, crystalline solids. Some monosaccharides have a sweet taste.
Examples of monosaccharides include glucose (dextrose), fructose, galactose, and ribose. Monosaccharides are the building blocks of di... |
56830 | 935234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56830 | Lactose | Lactose is a disaccharide that is made up of galactose and glucose molecules. Lactose makes up around 2-8% of the solids in milk. The name comes from the Latin word for milk, plus the -ose ending used to name sugars. Lactose is found in some milk products.
Digestion of lactose.
Infant mammals are fed on by milk from th... |
56831 | 688863 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56831 | Glycogen | Glycogen is a polysaccharide that is the principal storage form of glucose in animal cells.
Glycogen is found in the form of granules in the cytosol in many cell types, and plays an important role in the glucose cycle. Glycogen forms an energy reserve that can be quickly mobilized to meet a sudden need for glucose, bu... |
56838 | 1078549 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56838 | Pollutant | Pollutants are compounds which are dangerous to the environment.
They can also be harmful to humans in the long-term range. They come from mineral and fossil sources or are produced by humans themselves.
Many pollutants have a poisonous effect on the body. Carbon monoxide is an example of a substance which is damaging ... |
56839 | 1521690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56839 | Carbon monoxide | Carbon monoxide, with the chemical formula CO, is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. It consists of one carbon atom covalently bonded to one oxygen atom. It is made when carbon compounds burn and there is not enough oxygen. It is a good fuel and burns in air with a blue flame, making carbon dioxide. It is very t... |
56844 | 7687490 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56844 | Schweinfurt | Schweinfurt is a city in Franconia. The population is about 50,000. Larger, nearby cities are Würzburg and Bamberg. |
56845 | 10309337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56845 | Falco | Falco (February 19, 1957 - February 6, 1998) was an Austrian pop singer. His breakthrough was "Der Kommissar", which beat top positions in international charts. This song and his first two albums were produced by Robert Ponger.
His song "Rock me Amadeus" has been the one and only song reaching №1 of the American charts... |
56849 | 1504891 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56849 | Gabriel Pascal | Gabriel Pascal (4 June 1894 – 6 July 1954) was a Hungarian movie producer and director.
Gabriel Pascal was born in Transylvania (which is now part of Romania) in 1894. Pascal is best known for having turned some of the best plays by the famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw into successful movies. His most famous... |
56858 | 1671889 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56858 | McLaren | McLaren Racing Limited is a Formula 1 racing team. McLaren was started by Bruce McLaren in 1963. McLaren's current drivers are Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.
McLaren also makes road cars at its Woking factory.
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56870 | 10451467 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56870 | Haylie Duff | Haylie Katherine Duff (born February 19, 1985) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her supporting role on the television series "7th Heaven". She is the sister of Hilary Duff.
Duff was born in Houston, Texas. Her mother, Susan Duff, is a producer. Robert Erhard Duff, Haylie's father, lives at the f... |
56872 | 1678810 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56872 | 20th Century Studios | 20th Century Studios, Inc. (formerly known from 1915 to 1935 as Fox Film, 1933 to 1935 as 20th Century Pictures 1935 to 1985 and 1985 to 2020 (and informally) as 20th Century Fox or Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation or Twentieth Century Fox or 20th Century Fox Film Corporation) is a large American company that mak... |
56873 | 8636145 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56873 | Marquette, Michigan | Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Close to 20,000 people live there. Marquette is in the Upper Peninsula, on Lake Superior and is an important port on that lake. Much of the iron ore that was taken from mines in the Upper Peninsula was loaded onto ships in Marquette. Marquette is in the United States o... |
56879 | 9920934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56879 | John Taverner | John Taverner (born about 1490 – died 18 October, 1545) was the most important English composer of his time. He was also an organist.
We cannot be sure exactly when Taverner was born. Some people think that he was a boy chorister at the church of Tattershall in Lincolnshire but his name does not appear on the list of c... |
56880 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56880 | John Tavener | Sir John Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer.
Life.
John Tavener was born in Wembley, Middlesex. He went to Highgate School in North London. Another pupil there at the time was John Rutter. At school he studied piano, organ and composition and wrote music for the school orchestra. He al... |
56893 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56893 | Escape speed | Escape speed is the initial speed that something would need to completely escape the gravity of a large body, like a star or a planet (such as the Earth), by mere inertia.
If a ball is thrown upwards while standing on the ground, the ball will reach a certain height (the faster thrown - the higher) and fall back down. ... |
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