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8625 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8625 | Bolzano | Bozen (; ; , Southern Bavarian: "Bozn") is the capital city of the province of Province of Bolzano-Bozen in northern Italy's Alto Adige.
Its population is 98.057 (March 2005) and the area of the municipality is 52.34 km2. Bolzano has had Italian-speaking inhabitants since the Middle Ages.
City districts and neighborin... |
8626 | 9591356 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8626 | Flubber | Flubber is a 1997 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Les Mayfield (who had previously directed another John Hughes scripted remake, "Miracle on 34th Street") and written by Hughes, based on an earlier screenplay by Bill Walsh. A color remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961), the film was produced b... |
8632 | 435 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8632 | Val Klimer | |
8635 | 949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8635 | Eu | |
8636 | 1248114 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8636 | Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer. She was born in Spitalfields, a daughter of a rich farmer who inherited his fortune. Her father was known because he was sometimes violent towards her, her four siblings, and their mother when his farms failed. Mary Wollstonecraft was the sec... |
8638 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8638 | Isle of Wight | The Isle of Wight is an island county that is just off the south coast of England. It is about 40 kilometres (25 miles) by 20 kilometres (13 miles) in size. About one hundred and twenty thousand people live on the island.
The Isle of Wight is a county. This means that it has a council of people who make decisions about... |
8639 | 1138143 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8639 | Socks (disambiguation) | Sock or socks could mean: |
8642 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8642 | Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a brain disease that slowly destroys brain cells. As of now, there is no cure for Alzheimer's disease. With time, the different symptoms of the disease become more marked. Many people die because of Alzheimer's disease. The disease affects different parts of the brain but has its worst effec... |
8643 | 1674404 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8643 | Elaine Paige | Elaine Paige OBE (born Elaine Jill Bickerstaff, 5 March 1948) is an English actress and singer. She was born and raised in Barnet, Hertfordshire. She is known for her roles in musical theater.
Life.
She worked in the theatre from a young age. She quickly became famous in the role of Eva Perón in the musical "Evita" in ... |
8644 | 1510353 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8644 | Marti Webb | Marti Webb is a British actress and singer born in London in 1944.
She has notably played roles in musical theatre including "Evita", "Cats", "Godspell", "The King and I", "Annie", "Thoroughly Modern Millie", "The Goodbye Girl" and "Song and Dance".
She first came to prominence with the song cycle "Tell Me on a Sunday"... |
8645 | 1521690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8645 | Yahtzee | Yahtzee is a popular dice game that is well-known all over the world. The object of the game is to roll 5 dice (up to 3 times) to create certain combinations such as:
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8646 | 1508758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8646 | Tim Rice | Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English songwriter and writer. He was born in 1944. Rice is probably best known for his work with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the shows "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and "Evita".
He also co-wrote the shows "Blondel... |
8647 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8647 | Evita (musical) | Evita is a musical. The lyrics were written by Tim Rice. The music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The musical is based on the life of Eva Perón (1919-1952), the wife of Argentinian President Juan Perón, which Che is telling.
"Evita" opened on the West End in 1978, and on Broadway in 1979. It won the Laurence Oliv... |
8648 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8648 | March 8 | |
8649 | 40158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8649 | Sunset Blvd. | |
8650 | 1611993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8650 | Sunset Boulevard (movie) | Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy film noir movie about a screenwriter (William Holden) accompanying a retired Hollywood silent movie actress (Gloria Swanson) who wants to return to acting in movies. It was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won three. For Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical theater, it s... |
8653 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8653 | September 26 | |
8658 | 10249785 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8658 | 1785 | |
8660 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8660 | Molière | Molière (1622 – 17 February 1673) was a French actor, director and writer. His real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Molière was his stage name. He wrote some of the most important comedies in human history.
He was born in Paris where his father owned a carpet shop. As a young person, Molière decided to live an artist'... |
8661 | 1612383 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8661 | Principality of Sealand | The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized micronation that claims HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower) as its territory. Roughs Tower is an offshore platform in the North Sea around off the coast of Suffolk. Roughs Tower was used as a sea fort in international waters during World War II. Since 1987, the tow... |
8663 | 1458798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8663 | Sticky note | A sticky note (or Post-it note) is a small piece of paper with a strip of glue along one edge that make it "sticky," so you can stick it to things. It was invented by Arthur Fry.
The most common sticky note is the Post-it, which is made by a company called 3M. In 1974 a man named Arthur Fry came up with the idea for th... |
8667 | 170917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8667 | Advertisement | |
8668 | 1674917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8668 | Becker (TV series) | Becker was a 1998 American television series. It was a sitcom on the CBS network. It starred Ted Danson as Dr. John Becker, a very grumpy family doctor who is unhappy with his life in The Bronx, New York. Becker became famous for his witty responses and constant negative outlook on all situations. The show aired on Wed... |
8669 | 1508758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8669 | Ted Danson | Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor and producer. Danson was born in San Diego, California and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is best known from his work on television. His roles include:
Ted Danson was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2018, 2019, and... |
8675 | 1166 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8675 | GameBoy Advance | |
8676 | 1652218 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8676 | Digital camera | A digital camera, also known as a digicam, is a camera that stores pictures on digital storage instead of film. Because of this, a digital camera can hold many more pictures than a traditional film camera. A digital camera can sometimes hold hundreds or thousands of pictures. Many use a memory card to store them. Most ... |
8677 | 1674917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8677 | Cheers | Cheers is a long-running American sitcom made by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. The show premiered on September 30, 1982 and had its widely watched series finale on May 20, 1993, followed by a long and ongoing run in syndication. In eleven seasons, there were 270 e... |
8678 | 1672574 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8678 | Jackie Chan Adventures | Jackie Chan Adventures is an American animated television series. Episodes were first broadcast on the WB television network, and later syndicated on other networks such as the Cartoon Network. It features fictionalized Jackie Chan and his niece Jade on their adventures trying to stop evil. |
8681 | 1458798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8681 | Stapler | A stapler is an office tool that is used to place thin items such as paper together. It uses a small piece of wire (a staple) to put them together. The ends of the staple are pointed and go into the paper.
There is also a chain of stores called "Staples", which sells office supplies.
When you press the stapler down, i... |
8682 | 121204 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8682 | Pixar | Pixar Animation Studios () or simply Pixar, is an American animation studio. It is known for its advanced CGI productions. It has been a partner of Disney for many years. In 2006, Disney bought the company. The company’s studio lot is located in Emeryville, California.
Pixar started as a division of George Lucas' Lucas... |
8684 | 1663157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8684 | Finding Nemo | Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy adventure movie written and directed by Andrew Stanton, released by Walt Disney Pictures and the fifth film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It tells the story of the over-protective clownfish named Marlin (Albert Brooks) who searches for his captured son Nem... |
8691 | 693482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8691 | Fibonacci | Fibonacci, also known as Leonardo Pisano (c. 1170 - c. 1250 AD), was a famous Italian mathematician.
Probably born in Pisa, Italy, Fibonacci was raised and educated in North Africa. This was because his father was a diplomat for the Republic of Pisa. While in North Africa, Fibonacci studied mathematics with an Arab te... |
8695 | 1659451 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8695 | Richard Stallman | Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953) is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU project, and the Free Software Foundation. He is also a famous hacker. He created GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger. He is one of the main authors of the GNU General Public License ("GNU GPL" or "GPL"), the mo... |
8697 | 1386969 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8697 | National Hockey League | The National Hockey League or NHL, is the highest-level ice hockey league in the world. It has 32 teams - 7 from Canada and 25 from the United States. The championship trophy is the Stanley Cup.
The NHL were founded in 1917. There were five original teams in 1917:
They played 22 games a year. The Wanderers had to stop ... |
8698 | 9880536 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8698 | Isaac Asimov | Isaac Asimov ( – April 6, 1992) was a writer of science fiction. He was also a biochemist with a PhD from Columbia University.
Life.
Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Smolensk Oblast, Russian SFSR to a Jewish family, on an unknown date between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920. Asimov celebrated his birthday on January ... |
8699 | 948 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8699 | Asimov | |
8702 | 435 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8702 | Memory Card | |
8712 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8712 | November 13 | |
8714 | 10343550 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8714 | 1980 | 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. |
8715 | 10376642 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8715 | 1936 | 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar. |
8716 | 1110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8716 | Febuary 24 | |
8717 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8717 | March 5 | |
8718 | 320190 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8718 | 1963 | 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. |
8719 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8719 | April 17 | |
8720 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8720 | April 14 | |
8721 | 10343546 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8721 | 1977 | 1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar. |
8722 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8722 | March 24 | |
8723 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8723 | May 12 | |
8724 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8724 | 1907 | 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar. |
8725 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8725 | December 18 | |
8726 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8726 | June 4 | |
8727 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8727 | November 12 | |
8728 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8728 | September 14 | |
8729 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8729 | July 30 | |
8730 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8730 | September 28 | |
8731 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8731 | February 6 | |
8732 | 10249647 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8732 | 1911 | 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar. |
8733 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8733 | March 29 | |
8734 | 1629609 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8734 | January 15 | |
8735 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8735 | May 19 | |
8736 | 844779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8736 | February 24 | |
8737 | 10343521 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8737 | 1962 | 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. |
8740 | 1260226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8740 | Evolution | Evolution is a biological process. It is how living things change over time and how new species develop. The theory of evolution explains how evolution works, and how living and extinct things have come to be the way they are.
The theory of evolution is an essential idea in biology. Theodosius Dobzhansky, a well-known... |
8744 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8744 | December 31 | |
8745 | 10504011 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8745 | December 25 | |
8746 | 10343489 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8746 | 1937 | 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar. |
8751 | 8491567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8751 | Bedfordshire | Bedfordshire is a county of England. Its county town is Bedford. It borders Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (with the Borough of Milton Keynes) and Hertfordshire. The highest elevation point is 243 m (797 ft) on Dunstable Downs in the Chilterns. The county motto is "Constant Be", which is taken from t... |
8758 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8758 | March 26 | |
8759 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8759 | March 20 | |
8764 | 1391867 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8764 | October 8 | |
8765 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8765 | October 28 | |
8793 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8793 | American football | American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport. It is played by two teams with 11 players on each side. American football is played with a ball with pointed ends. Points are scored in many ways, usually by one team getting the ball into the end zon... |
8794 | 1260226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8794 | The Ugly Duckling | "The Ugly Duckling" () is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen lavished great care on this story, spending a year perfecting it. It was first published in 1844 with "The Angel", "The Sweethearts", and "The Nightingale" in "New Fairy Tales". The critics liked these stories. Andersen considered the ... |
8795 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8795 | Mockery | |
8796 | 7336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8796 | Racist | |
8799 | 844779 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8799 | General relativity | General relativity is a theory of space and time. The theory was published by Albert Einstein in 1915.
The main idea of general relativity is that space and time are two different parts of spacetime. In general relativity, gravity does not work the same way that Sir Isaac Newton said gravity worked. According to Einst... |
8802 | 9249 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8802 | Major world religions | |
8857 | 8491577 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8857 | Rutland | Rutland is the smallest county of England. It is surrounded by the counties of Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire.
The main towns of Rutland are Oakham and Uppingham.
In the mid-1970s, it was the inspiration for Eric Idle's TV show, Rutland Weekend Television. |
8861 | 10343496 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8861 | 1943 | 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar. |
8864 | 10459407 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8864 | Adlai Stevenson I | Adlai Ewing Stevenson (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) was an American politician. He was vice president of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. he ran for president and several other political offices but lost. He was also the first assistant Postmaster General and a member of the House of Representat... |
8865 | 10032651 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8865 | Toledo, Ohio | Toledo is the fourth largest city in Ohio, USA. It was named after Toledo, Spain. It is a large industrial city and has many factories that make things like car parts and glass. Toledo is about an hour (by car) south of Detroit, Michigan. The main highways in and out of Toledo are Interstate 75, Interstate 80, Intersta... |
8896 | 435 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8896 | American Football | |
8901 | 1398040 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8901 | The Carpenters | The Carpenters were an American musical duo. The members were Richard Carpenter and his sister Karen. Starting in 1969, the duo had many popular songs including "We've Only Just Begun", "Close to You", "Sing", "Rainy Days and Mondays", "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" and others. They continued until Karen's... |
8902 | 8179532 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8902 | Jerry Reed | Jerry Reed (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008) was an American country music singer and actor. Best known for his songs "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot You're Hot" and "Eastbound and Down", he also acted in several movies including "Smokey and the Bandit" and "The Waterboy". He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He died in ... |
8903 | 45220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8903 | ESOL | |
8904 | 45220 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8904 | Esol | |
8905 | 1350669 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8905 | 1990 | 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. |
8906 | 19506 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8906 | Bee Gees | The Bee Gees was a British musical group. For most of its history, the band consisted of three brothers all of whom were born on the Isle of Man, a British Crown dependency and grew up in Queensland, Australia. The brothers, Barry Gibb (born 1 September 1946), and twins Maurice Gibb (22 December 1949 – 12 January 2003)... |
8912 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8912 | Improverts | The Improverts are an improvised comedy group based in Edinburgh, Scotland. They are a part of the Edinburgh University Theatre Company. Their home is the Bedlam Theatre. It has been their home since they were created 18 years ago. The group is similar to "Who's Line is it Anyway?", Comedy Store Players, and Keith John... |
8914 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8914 | Taipei 101 | Taipei 101 () is a 101-floor building in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2004, it replaced the Willis Tower (which used to be called the Sears Tower) as the tallest completed building in the world. However, in 2010, it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Taipei 101 holds records for:
Taipei 101 does not hold the record for ... |
8915 | 1611993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8915 | September 1 | |
8917 | 10343501 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8917 | 1946 | 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. |
8918 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8918 | December 11 | |
8919 | 1110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8919 | Febuary 18 | |
8920 | 1110 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8920 | 26 July | |
8921 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8921 | February 4 | |
8922 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8922 | Sergio Aragonés | Sergio Aragonés Domenech (; born September 6, 1937) is a popular cartoonist. He was born in Spain and grew up in Mexico. He is most famous for his cartoons for "MAD Magazine" and the comic book "Groo the Wanderer". |
8923 | 5295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8923 | Lisa Bonet | Lisa Bonet (born Lisa Michelle Bonet; November 16, 1967), also known as Lilakoi Moon, is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Denise Huxtable on television series, "The Cosby Show" and "A Different World". She was also married to singer Lenny Kravitz from 1987 to 1993. She is of African American and ... |
8925 | 316344 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8925 | Tobacco | Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them. The plant is part of the genus "Nicotiana" and of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. It is used as a drug, mostly by inhaling the smoke of, but also by using snuff or chewing. People use cigarettes, cigars, and pipe to make tobacco smok... |
8926 | 385 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8926 | Jewish religion |
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