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7618 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7618 | Sally Kellerman | Sally Clare Kellerman (June 2, 1937 – February 24, 2022) was an American movie actress. She was born in Long Beach, California. Her acting performances include the pilot for the original "Star Trek" television series, and the movies "MASH" (1970) and "Back to School" (1986). For her role in "MASH", she was nominated fo... |
7619 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7619 | Hagar the Horrible | Hägar the Horrible is the title of a comic strip and the name of the main character. The comic strip is about a Viking and his life of plundering and his family life. It was started in 1973 by Dik Browne. Since Dik's retirement (he stopped working) in 1988, his son Chris has continued the comic. |
7620 | 10374878 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7620 | Baghdad | Baghdad (, transliterated "Baghdād") is the capital city and largest city in Iraq. It is the second-largest city in Southwest Asia after Tehran. It is the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. 5,772,000 people lived there in 2003. Baghdad is on the Tigris River at 33°20′N 44°26′E. The city was once the cen... |
7621 | 10350623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7621 | Mediterranean Sea | The Mediterranean Sea is the body of water that separates Europe, Africa and Asia.
The Mediterranean Sea is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by a narrow passage called the Strait of Gibraltar. The sea is almost completely surrounded by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Mid... |
7622 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7622 | Shirley Bassey | Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer, born in Cardiff to an English mother and Nigerian father. She is best known for singing the theme songs for the James Bond films, "Goldfinger", "Diamonds are Forever", and "Moonraker". She was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain... |
7623 | 10275236 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7623 | Captain Beefheart | Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet January 15, 1941– December 17, 2010) was an American singer. He is better known by his stage name Captain Beefheart. He was best known for his collaborations and (sometimes) rivalry, with long time friend, Frank Zappa. He is an inspiration to many "alternative" singers. He retired fro... |
7624 | 7629 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7624 | Canterbury, Kent | |
7625 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7625 | December 30 | |
7626 | 515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7626 | Hager the Horrible | |
7628 | 1642320 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7628 | C (programming language) | C (pronounced "SEE") is a computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. They used it to improve the UNIX operating system. It is still much used today. C is a procedural language, which means that people write their programs as a series of step-by-step instr... |
7629 | 803 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7629 | Einstein | |
7630 | 1670169 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7630 | Drake & Josh | Drake & Josh is a Nickelodeon television series created by Dan Schneider, It started in January 2004 and ended in September 2007. The stars of the series are Drake Bell and Josh Peck. The two appeared as best friends on "The Amanda Show". In "Drake & Josh", they play step-brothers of separate parents. The overa... |
7631 | 1663164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7631 | The Amanda Show | The Amanda Show is a sketch comedy television series starring Amanda Bynes, formerly of "All That". It is a spin-off of "All That". The series starred Amanda as almost every major recurring character, including herself, Penelope, Courtney, and Judge Trudy (a parody of Judge Judy.) The series aired on Saturday nights on... |
7634 | 5295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7634 | 1983 | 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar. |
7635 | 1044401 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7635 | Sally Ride | Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and astrophysicist. She was the first American woman to reach outer space.
Ride was born on May 26, 1951. She was born in the neighborhood of Encino in Los Angeles, California. She earned a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. She joined ... |
7636 | 1521690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7636 | Court | A court in a law, is a part of the government in which people come together to decide how to apply the country's laws to a specific situation, especially when there is an argument over how to apply the law. Some disagreements a court may decide are whether a person is guilty of a crime, who is the legal owner of proper... |
7637 | 1630426 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7637 | Birth | Birth (to be born) means when a baby animal comes out of its egg, or out of its mother after pregnancy. It is sometimes thought of as the beginning of life. It is also known as calving in livestock or whelping in meat-eating mammals.
Changes in pelvis during human pregnancy.
In adult females the pelvis is shaped diffe... |
7638 | 1622428 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7638 | Pollution | Pollution is when harmful substances are added to the environment and then change it in a bad way. There are six kinds of pollution of the environment:
As pollution grows, ways to combat it have been in demand. Solar energy and wind energy give people clean opportunities to power their homes. But these may also have d... |
7639 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7639 | Immunity (medical) | Immunity is the ability of the body to defend itself from 'foreign bodies'. This means rejecting infections, clearing up dust which gets in the lungs, and killing cancer cells.
Immunity is of two types. Innate immunity protects the host against infection, but has no 'memory', and so gives no long-term immunity.
The se... |
7640 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7640 | Inca | |
7641 | 40117 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7641 | Roman numerals | Roman numerals are a numeral system that was used by ancient Rome. Numbers in this system use letters from the Latin alphabet. Currently, it uses seven symbols:
The Europeans still used Roman numerals even after the fall of the Roman Empire. From the 14th century, the Europeans replaced Roman numerals with Arabic numer... |
7647 | 1625974 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7647 | Map | A map is an image of an area, usually of the Earth or part of the Earth. A map is different from an aerial photograph because it includes interpretation. Many maps are called "charts" such as star charts and nautical charts. Some maps are of distant worlds. Before the late 20th century almost all maps were on paper. To... |
7648 | 10225926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7648 | Globe | A globe is most commonly, a scale model of the earth with the shape of a sphere. Globes can be scale models of the Earth ("terrestrial globes") or of other planets. Globes can also be models of the celestial sphere ("celestial globes"). The English word "globe" comes from the , meaning round mass or sphere.
Most globe... |
7654 | 9217539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7654 | Noah | Noah (meaning rest or comfort) is a man in the Abrahamic religions. He was the son of Lamech, and the father of sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah and his ark are in the Book of Genesis, which also describes Noah as the 'first man to plant a vineyard' (chapter 9). Several other parts of the Bible mention him, as does t... |
7655 | 10250173 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7655 | 1452 | |
7659 | 1666553 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7659 | Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide | Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, otherwise known as simply Ned's Declassified, is a TV show on Nickelodeon. It was created by Scott Fellows.
From "A middle school full of bullies, insane teachers and gross school lunches" comes Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, a show on Nickelodeon. The show stars De... |
7661 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7661 | VH1 | VH1 (Video Hits One) is an American television network. It is a sister station to the groundbreaking MTV.
VH1 shows reality shows and reruns of sitcoms, whereas MTV's focus is on the current hits and also reality shows. VH1 also shows "You're Cut Off!" on Mondays for 3 weeks and Wednesdays for 5 weeks. It started airin... |
7662 | 515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7662 | Vh1's Top 20 Countdown | |
7664 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7664 | Cabinet | A Cabinet is a group of important people in a government, who normally represent the head of government. It is also known as the Council of Ministers or the Executive Council. They are part of the executive branch of government. People in the cabinet are called ministers or secretaries, and they do different things, su... |
7665 | 1248114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7665 | Newspaper | A newspaper is a publication printed on paper and issued regularly, usually once a day or once a week. It gives information and opinions about current events and news. Usually people like to read them to stay informed about their local city, state or country. Newspapers can be delivered to one's home, by subscription. ... |
7670 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7670 | 1833 | Events.
Births
August 20 - Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States (d. 1901) |
7673 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7673 | July 4 | |
7680 | 752027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7680 | Public domain | Public domain is a phrase that describes something that belongs to all people in general: the public. The public domain contains works (such as books, films, or paintings) that are not under copyright protection.
The "opposite" of "public domain" is copyrighted material, which is owned either by the creator of the work... |
7681 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7681 | Child | A child (the plural is children) is a person below the age of puberty (biologically) or, at least in English-speaking countries, below the age of majority or in other contexts below the age of consent. A person can be called his or her parent's child, regardless of the person's age. Another word for "child" is "kid".
I... |
7682 | 1673561 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7682 | Nickelodeon | Nickelodeon (nicknamed Nick) is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Skydance. Launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children, it is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 2 t... |
7683 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7683 | Jimmy Carter | James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024) was an American politician and humanitarian. He was the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Before becoming president, Carter was a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967 and the 80th governor of Geo... |
7684 | 16695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7684 | Cannes | Cannes () is a commune and the prefecture of Alpes-Maritimes.
It is most famous for the Cannes Film Festival, which takes place every summer. Many famous people come to the movie festival from around the world to promote their movies and to see other peoples' movies. |
7685 | 1619484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7685 | Theodore Roosevelt | Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Before becoming president, he served as the 25th vice president under President William McKinley for six months in 1901. Roosevelt... |
7686 | 794 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7686 | 1 January | |
7687 | 9264431 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7687 | Composer | A composer is someone who writes (composes) music. Some composers work by writing music down on paper; this is called 'written notation'. Classical music writers work this way. Writers for TV and movie music also usually write this way, so that an orchestra or other players can read the music and play it.
Some musician... |
7688 | 10396225 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7688 | Cannes Film Festival | The Cannes Film Festival is an event held every year in Cannes, France. The festival previews films from around the world.
Only those who are invited can attend the festival. The top film wins the Palme d'Or. The second most prestigious trophy is the Grand Prix. A jury selects which film earns the prizes. The jury is l... |
7689 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7689 | Henry VIII | Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was the King of England from 1509 until his death.
Henry VIII increased the power of the monarchy and government over the country. Many people he did not like were executed under his orders, including two of his own wives. He was easily led by whoever was his favourite adviso... |
7690 | 661929 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7690 | Orchestra | An orchestra is a group of musicians playing instruments together. They make music. A large orchestra is sometimes called a "symphony orchestra" and a small orchestra is called a "chamber orchestra". A symphony orchestra may have about 100 players, while a chamber orchestra may have 30 or 40 players. The number of play... |
7692 | 691370 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7692 | Homosexuality | Homosexuality is a sexual orientation. A homosexual person is romantically or sexually attracted to people of their own gender. Men who are romantically or sexually attracted to other men are called gay. Women who are romantically or sexually attracted to other women can be called gay as well, but are usually called le... |
7693 | 1619484 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7693 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American politician and military officer who was the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-sta... |
7696 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7696 | Factor | A factor can be: |
7697 | 1618275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7697 | Ball | A ball is a round object (usually spherical, but can sometimes be ovoid) with several uses. A ball can be either hollow, such as a basketball, or solid, such as a ball bearing.
Ball is used metaphorically sometimes to denote something spherical or spheroid, e.g., armadillos and human beings curl up into a ball, making ... |
7698 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7698 | Ferrocement | Ferrocement is both a method and a material used in building or sculpting with cement, sand, water and wire or mesh material. It is often called the thin shell. Thin shell ferrocement offers strength and economy and can be used in many ways including: building homes, creating sculptures, or building boats and ships. |
7706 | 1508758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7706 | Camera lens | A camera lens is the part of a camera that directs light to the film or, in a digital camera, to a computer chip that can sense the light. Many cheap lenses are plastic but better ones are made from glass. The lens makes an image by focusing the light.
The majority of cameras only have one lens that users cannot change... |
7707 | 1617622 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7707 | Boy | A boy is a young male human, either a child or teenager. Little boys still have the body of a child. It is not until they reach puberty (adolescence) that their bodies start to mature and they become a man.
The word “boy” was used a long time ago in Anglo-Saxon English. The opposite of a boy is a girl.
Culture.
The way... |
7708 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7708 | Company clerk | Responsible for performing clerical and administrative duties in an office setting. Assists executive assistants and secretaries by sorting mail, filing, answering phones, greeting clients, scheduling meetings, and restocking supplies. |
7709 | 1618275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7709 | Paul McCartney | Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and composer. He is internationally known as a singer and bassist of the Beatles. With singer and guitarist John Lennon, he contributed music and lyrics to a lot of the band's songs.
Early Life.
Paul was born at Walton Centre for Neurology an... |
7710 | 314538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7710 | Afrikaner people | Afrikaners are white South Africans who speak Afrikaans as mother tongue and follow the Afrikaans culture. Most of them have Dutch ancestors, but some of them have German or French Huguenot ancestors. They are also called Boers, Voortrekkers and Burghers, although under slightly different contexts.
In South Africa, th... |
7711 | 10269915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7711 | John Lennon | John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was a British singer, songwriter and guitarist. He became famous as a singer and guitarist of the English rock band The Beatles. After the Beatles stopped making records in 1970, he lived in the United States with his wife Yoko Ono. He... |
7713 | 7167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7713 | Illegal | |
7714 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7714 | Invention | An invention is a new thing that someone has made. The computer was an invention when it was first made. We say when it was "invented". New things that are made or created are called inventions. Cars and plastics are inventions that everyone knows. Inventions are made by inventors. Many inventions are patented.
Ideas a... |
7715 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7715 | Genocide | During a genocide, a group (often a government, army, or paramilitary) tries to destroy another group because of their ethnicity, race, nationality, and/or or religion. Genocide is always an intentional act - never an accident.
In a genocide, the targeted (victim) group is killed in large numbers. However, genocide als... |
7716 | 9749687 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7716 | Yoko Ono | is a Japanese musician and artist. She is the widow of John Lennon. Before she married Lennon she was married to Toshi Ichiyanagi from 1956 to 1963 and Anthony Cox from 1963 to 1969. She has two children, Kyoko Chan Cox (with Cox) and Sean Lennon (with Lennon).
Early life.
Both of her parents came from wealthy familie... |
7717 | 9504769 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7717 | Coast | The coast is wherever land meets the sea.
The coast also means the land next to the sea, which can also be called the shore, or sea-shore. However, coast is not used to describe where rivers or lakes meet the land - it is only used to describe the sea meeting the land.
If a house is near to the coast we say it is "on... |
7718 | 1641114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7718 | George Harrison | George Harold Harrison (25 February 1943 – ) was an English musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. After the group broke up in 1970, he had a solo career. He made many albums and worked with other musicians including Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Phil Spector, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Ravi Shank... |
7719 | 1102992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7719 | Note (disambiguation) | Note has several meanings. |
7720 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7720 | Ravi Shankar | Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was one of India's most famous musicians. Shankar was one of the first to bring aspects of traditional Indian music into Europe and United States|American culture in the 1960s. He was a major influence on George Harrison, who was a member of The Beatles. Shankar is famous ... |
7721 | 28880 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7721 | Sentence | A sentence is a group of words that are joined together to mean something. It is the basic unit of language and expresses a complete thought. It does so by following the grammatical basic rules of syntax: "Ram is walking".
A complete sentence has at least a subject and a main verb to state (declare) a complete thought:... |
7722 | 1145577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7722 | James Joyce | James Augustine Aloysius Joyce () (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet of the modernist movement. He was from Dublin, Ireland. He wore an eyepatch, because of eye damage. He could not see well.
His books are written in a special style. At first he wrote in a way which describes very accurate... |
7725 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7725 | May 1 | |
7726 | 1243964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7726 | Andes | The Andes are a mountain range along the western coast of South America.
They stretch over 7,000 km / 4,400 miles from the south of Argentina and Chile to the north of Colombia. They are also found in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.
The Amazon river system has its sources in the eastern flanks of the Andes.
The Andes are th... |
7727 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7727 | February 21 | |
7728 | 16695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7728 | Meal | A meal is a serving of food eaten by human beings. Meals usually include several different types of food, such as grains, vegetables, fruit, and in some cases, meat. Meals have different names by time they are taken or by the type of food that is eaten.
Types.
In North America and in Europe, people usually eat three me... |
7729 | 70336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7729 | Leipzig | Leipzig (Upper Saxon: "Leibzsch" or "Leibz'sch") is the biggest city in the state of Saxony (eastern Germany). When Germany was divided into East and West Germany, Leipzig was one of the three biggest industrial cities in the East Germany.
Leipzig occupies and is still an industrial city. 510,651 people are living in L... |
7731 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7731 | 1351 | |
7732 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7732 | January 30 | |
7733 | 10377690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7733 | Evil | Evil means something which is morally bad or wicked. It is the opposite of good. People may say that an action which hurts people or breaks certain rules such as the Ten Commandments is evil. A person or a group that does evil things may also be called evil.
Logical problem of evil.
A version of the Problem of evil, pe... |
7735 | 10496481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7735 | 1872 | 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar, the 1872nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, . |
7736 | 813423 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7736 | Poznań | Poznań (German name: "Posen") is the biggest city and capital of Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland, one of the oldest and the biggest cities in Poland. Its population is about 560,000 and its area is 262 square kilometers.
Poznań was one of the 4 Polish cities where the UEFA European Football Championship matches we... |
7737 | 9763072 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7737 | Cartoonist | A cartoonist is a person who draws cartoons. Cartoons can be pictures on a printed page (also called comics or comic strips) or moving pictures on film (also called animation). Both kinds of cartoons can be found on the internet. Examples of some famous cartoonists are: |
7738 | 314538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7738 | Jim Henson | James "Jim" Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American animator, artist and puppeteer. He was best known for his work with the Muppets, which he helped to create. His best known puppet is Kermit the Frog.
As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as "Sesame Street" and... |
7741 | 944 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7741 | Spongebob Squarepants | |
7745 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7745 | Game Boy Advance Video | Game Boy Advance Video is a format of cartridges for the Game Boy Advance. They work the same as normal cartridge but play television shows instead of games. They generally contain 45 minutes of TV, for example, a show from Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. They were first made in early 2004, but gradually stopped being ... |
7747 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7747 | Butterfly | A butterfly is a (usually) day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera. They are grouped together in the suborder Rhopalocera. Butterflies are related to moths, from which they evolved about 56 million years ago. The earliest discovered fossil moth was 200 million years ago.
The life of butterflies is closely connected ... |
7749 | 1477024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7749 | Nazism | Nazism is a set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany. It started in the 1920s, but the Nazi Party took over Germany in 1933 and started carrying out their ideas in Germany, which they called the Third Reich. They stayed in power in Germany until 1945, when they lost World War II.
Overview.
Naz... |
7751 | 10092024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7751 | Pork | Pork is meat that comes from pigs. It is the most commonly consumed meat in the world Evidence of pig husbandry dates back to 5000 BC.
A simple meal to make which contains pork is afelia. Sausages, bacon and ham are the most common uses of pork in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other parts of the Western wo... |
7752 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7752 | Mike Farrell | Mike Farrell (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, writer and producer. He played BJ Hunnicutt on the television series "M*A*S*H". He played Michael "Mike" Hawks in the television movie "Battered" in 1978. He played Chicago real estate developer Lee Miglin in the limited crime series "".
Farrell was born in St.... |
7753 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7753 | David Ogden Stiers | David Allen Ogden Stiers (October 31, 1942 – March 3, 2018) was an American actor, comedian, conductor, director, musician, singer and voice artist. He was most famous for his role as Charles Emerson Winchester III in "M*A*S*H". He also provided the voices in several Disney animated movies. This included playing Cogswo... |
7754 | 1150185 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7754 | Beauty and the Beast | Beauty and the Beast is a French folk story. It tells the story of a merchant who is lost in the woods. He finds the palace of a beast who wants to kill him, and makes a deal with the beast, to have his daughter in exchange. The daughter goes to live in the Beast's castle; the two fall in love; and the beast turns into... |
7755 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7755 | Wayne Rogers | William Wayne McMillan Rogers III (April 7, 1933 – December 31, 2015) was an American television and movie actor. He played the role of "Trapper" John McIntrye on the TV series "M*A*S*H". (The role was played by Elliott Gould in the 1970 movie version and Pernell Roberts on the 1979-1986 TV show, "Trapper John MD"). He... |
7756 | 239064 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7756 | McLean Stevenson | McLean Stevenson (November 14, 1929 – February 15, 1996) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Henry Blake on the TV show, "M*A*S*H". He left the show in 1975 and his character was killed off.
Stevenson was born in Normal, Illinois.
His grandfather Adlai E. Stevenson was Vice-president of the United S... |
7757 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7757 | Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve | Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (15 April 1793 – 23 November 1864 (Julian calendar: 11 November)) was a German-born Russian astronomer. He was born in Altona (now an area of Hamburg), Germany, but later lived in Russia. He was an expert on double stars and one of the first astronomers to measure stellar parallax (cl... |
7762 | 1611993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7762 | Mario Party | Mario Party is a series of video games made by Nintendo. The idea of each game is that Mario and his friends must travel across a game board and earn stars and coins. Each new game in the series contains new characters, playing boards, and mini-games. Every few turns, each character must participate in a mini-game. The... |
7764 | 9542590 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7764 | Helsinki | Helsinki () is the capital city of Finland. Helsinki is the largest city in Finland. 604,380 (31.12.2012) people live in Helsinki, and 1,360,000 live in the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Helsinki is in the south of Finland, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. The city is in the Uusimaa region. When one looks from Helsin... |
7765 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7765 | Jehovah's Witnesses | Jehovah's Witnesses is a religious group with more than eight million members around the world.
They believe that God (who they call Jehovah) will end crime, violence, sickness and death by destroying all badness in the world. They say God's kingdom will restore God's original purpose for the earth: to bring about pea... |
7767 | 1391751 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7767 | Wife | A wife is a married woman. "Married" means that the law says two people are legally "joined". During the marriage ceremony, the wife is called the bride.
In countries and times it has been different how many wives a man can have legally. In old times there were no limitations in some countries. In Christianity and Juda... |
7768 | 7167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7768 | Legal | |
7769 | 554531 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7769 | Catherine Parr | Catherine Parr (alternatively Katherine or Kateryn) (26 August 1512 – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and of Ireland (1543–47). She was the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII. She married him on 12 July 1543, and outlived him by one year. She was also the most-married English queen, with four husbands. She... |
7770 | 1464674 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7770 | Brother | |
7774 | 10419623 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7774 | Queen (band) | Queen are a British rock band formed in 1970.
They are among the most commercially successful bands in history. They have sold over 300 million albums worldwide. The first members of the band were Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (lead guitar, vocals), Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), and John Deacon (bass ... |
7775 | 10489105 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7775 | Simon & Garfunkel | Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were an American folk and rock music duo. They were two childhood friends, who became famous in the 1960s. Their songs, including "Mrs. Robinson", "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright", "The Sound of Silence", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water", all composed by Simon, are still popular to this day.
T... |
7776 | 1145577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7776 | Madagascar | Madagascar is a large island nation in the Indian Ocean. It is off of the East coast of Africa and its capital is Antananarivo. Twenty-two million people live there. It is the world's fourth-largest island.
The official languages of Madagascar are Malagasy and French.
Pre-human history.
About two hundred million years... |
7777 | 1530097 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7777 | Board game | A board game is a game usually played with pieces on a board, or some area with marked spaces.
Most board games use pieces that may be moved, placed, or traded depending on the rules of the game. These pieces may be money, chips, pawns, or other objects. Board games may often involve some random chance with dice or ca... |
7778 | 515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7778 | Dbs | |
7779 | 515 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7779 | Board games |
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