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348944 | 1477024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348944 | Meiji Shrine | is a Japanese Shinto shrine in Tokyo. It honors the spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shōken.
History.
After the emperor's death in 1912, the Diet of Japan voted to commemorate his role in the Meiji Restoration.
Work began on the shrine in 1915. It was formally dedicated in 1920; and it was completed in 1... |
348946 | 1672580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348946 | Margaret Sanger | Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1883 – September 6, 1966) was a famous birth control rights activist. She established the American Birth Control League in 1921. This eventually became what we now know as Planned Parenthood in 1946. She helped finance biologist Gregory Pincus's creation of the birth control pill. Mrs. Sa... |
348948 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348948 | Leaves of Grass | Leaves of Grass is a collection of poetry by American writer Walt Whitman (18191892). The collection was first printed on July 4, 1855 in Brooklyn at a Fulton Street printing shop. About 800 copies were printed. The book was 95 pages long and had 12 poems. Whitman paid for this first printing. The book did not sell wel... |
348949 | 293183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348949 | Calamus | "Calamus" is a group of poems in Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". They are about gay love or, in Whitman-speak, "the manly love of comrades". The Calamus poems have their seeds in a group of poems called "Live Oak with Moss". Whitman wrote these poems before or in the spring of 1859. They were printed with other poems... |
348950 | 220966 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348950 | Calamus (poetry) | |
348958 | 9303564 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348958 | Mount Isa | Mount Isa is a city in the north west region of Queensland, Australia. In June 2006 there 18,857 people living in the city. and 31,000 in the region. Mount Isa began in the 1920s as a mining town. Mount Isa Mines (MIM) is one of the most productive mines in the world, producing lead, silver, copper, and zinc. |
348963 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348963 | Khonsu | Khonsu is the god of the moon, moonlight, and time in Egyptian mythology. In the beginning of the gods, he gambled time with the sky goddess Nut. The goddess Nut won so many times that she could then add five days to the calendar. These days were called the "devil days". Khonsu's father is Amun, and his mother is Mut. |
348964 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348964 | Copycat (movie) | Copycat is a 1995 American psychological thriller movie. It was directed by Jon Amiel, produced by Arnon Milchan and Mark Tarlov and written by Ann Biderman and David Madsen.
It is set in San Francisco, California. It stars Sigourney Weaver as criminal psychologist Dr. Helen Hudson and Holly Hunter as police detective ... |
348965 | 10501497 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348965 | The Piano | The Piano is an award-winning 1993 romantic drama movie which stars Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. This drama is about a mute pianist and her daughter in 19th century New Zealand. The score for the piano by Michael Nyman became a bestselling soundtrack album.
"The Piano" was a commercial and critical success, grossing... |
348966 | 1547558 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348966 | The Firm (1993 movie) | The Firm is a 1993 American legal thriller movie. It stars Tom Cruise and Holly Hunter and was directed by Sydney Pollack. The thriller is based on a novel of the same name by author John Grisham.
Release.
Critical reaction to "The Firm" was mostly positive. The movie got a 76% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.A Sequel Novel ... |
348971 | 1292020 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348971 | Hash table | A hash table is a type of tool for storing information. In computer science, these tools for keeping track of information, or data, are called data structures.
A hash table is a data structure that uses a hash function to keep track of where data is.
Each piece of information to be stored has a name, which is called a... |
348972 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348972 | Andy Griffith | Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, singer and writer. He starred in the 1957 movie "A Face in the Crowd". He also starred in the 1958 movie "No Time for Sergeants". His television series are "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Matlock".
Early life.
Griffi... |
348975 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348975 | Monster (stories) | |
348976 | 1657104 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348976 | Honeyeater | A honeyeater is one of a large family of small to medium-sized birds which feed on nectar. They are most common in Australia and New Guinea, but are also found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far east as Samoa and Tonga, and the islands to the north and west of New Guinea. Bali, on the other side of the Wallace ... |
348977 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348977 | Busan City | |
348978 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348978 | Calligraphy (Islamic) | |
348979 | 693482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348979 | S.F.W. | S.F.W. is a 1994 American thriller film based on Andrew Wellman's novel. It stars Reese Witherspoon, Stephen Dorff and Amber Benson.
S.F.W. was filmed in October and November 1993, in Los Angeles.
S.F.W.: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on CD on September 27, 1994 by A&M Records. |
348983 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348983 | Damage (1992 movie) | Damage is a 1992 British-French erotic drama movie. It was directed by Louis Malle. It is based on the novel "Damage" by Josephine Hart. It stars Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche. "Damage" was originally rated NC-17, though it was edited to have an R rating. It is about a middle-aged, married politician who has an aff... |
348984 | 17988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348984 | Odinism | |
348991 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348991 | Palk strait | |
348994 | 17988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348994 | Meliphagidae | |
349001 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349001 | Birth control pill | |
349006 | 10184805 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349006 | Human microbiome | The human microbiome (or human microbiota) is the collection of microorganisms which live on us. They live on the skin, in the saliva and mouth, in the eyes, and in the gut and the rest of the gastrointestinal tract. They include bacteria, archaea, fungi and single-celled eukaryotes ('protozoa'). Everyone carries aroun... |
349012 | 10382392 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349012 | En passant | In chess, en passant ("in passing" in French) is a special move for pawns to capture. First, if the pawn moves two squares from their starting square and stands next to an opponent pawn, the opponent's pawn can take the pawn one square diagonally in front of the pawn away from their square.
The en passant rule was inv... |
349015 | 1668934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349015 | Salafi | Salafism (Arabic: جَمَاعَتْ السَّلَفَىتْ) is a conservative movement within Sunni Islam originating in Arabia. A Salafist or Salafi is a Sunni Muslim who thinks Islam should be practiced the way the first few generations of Muslims did during the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
The majority of Salafists follow t... |
349018 | 5745006 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349018 | Extinct (disambiguation) | Extinct may refer to: |
349022 | 9300300 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349022 | Hard Boiled | Hard Boiled is a 1992 action crime thriller movie from Hong Kong. John Woo is the thriller's director. The movie stars Chow Yun-fat as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Tony, an undercover cop, and Anthony Wong as Johnny Wong, a leader of criminal triads. "Hard Boiled" received mixed to positive reviews ... |
349023 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349023 | 2010–11 Bundesliga | The 2010–11 Bundesliga was the 48th season of the Fußball-Bundesliga, Germany's top football league. The season started on August 21, 2010 and ended on May 14, 2011. The defending champions were FC Bayern Munich. The Bundesliga also changed its logo this season.
League table.
Below are the teams in the 2010/11 season. ... |
349024 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349024 | 2010-11 Fußball-Bundesliga | |
349025 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349025 | 2010/11 Fußball Bundesliga | |
349026 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349026 | 2010/11 Fußball-Bundesliga | |
349027 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349027 | 2010-11 German Bundesliga | |
349028 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349028 | German Bundesliga 2010-11 | |
349029 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349029 | German Bundesliga 2010/11 | |
349034 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349034 | Written language | |
349035 | 1588815 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349035 | List of extinct volcanoes | An extinct volcano is a volcano which scientists consider unlikely to erupt again. A volcano that has not erupted in the past 10,000 years is often listed as extinct.
The extinct volcano no longer has a magma supply. An extinct volcano is no longer near an active geologic hot spot, if it ever was.
Volcanologists someti... |
349066 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349066 | Human microbiota | |
349067 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349067 | Ukrainian people | |
349068 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349068 | Ukrainian nation | |
349069 | 18539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349069 | Scheherazade (composer) | |
349072 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349072 | Euro 2008 | |
349073 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349073 | Euro 2004 | |
349080 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349080 | Hatchet | The term hatchet in contemporary usage refers loosely to any short-handled ax or ax-like tool, including hand axes, belt axes, camp axes, etc., with handles less than 20 inches in length.
Traditionally, however, hatchets and hand axes were different categories of tools by manufactuers and retailers in their catalogs a... |
349081 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349081 | UAH | |
349086 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349086 | Currency of Ukraine | |
349090 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349090 | EUR | |
349092 | 1674917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349092 | Outnumbered | Outnumbered is a British sitcom shown on BBC One. It began on 28 August 2007 and is partly improvised. It is about the Brockmans, a middle-class family of five who live in a house in suburban south London. Hugh Dennis plays the father, Pete, who is a history teacher. Claire Skinner plays the mother, Sue, who is a part-... |
349128 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349128 | Lindisfarne Gospels | The Lindisfarne Gospels is an Illuminated manuscript book of the gospels. It was made at a monastery off the coast of Northumberland at Lindisfarne, about 700 AD.
The manuscript is now on display in the British Library. It is one of the finest works in the style which is called insular art. This combines Mediterranean,... |
349130 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349130 | Schengen zone | |
349131 | 5295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349131 | List of World Heritage Sites in Iran | There are twenty-four World Heritage Sites in Iran as of 2019, |
349133 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349133 | List of World Heritage Sites in Iraq | |
349136 | 457136 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349136 | List of World Heritage Sites in the Arab States | This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Arab countries. Some of these countries are geographically in Asia and some in Africa.
List.
The list below has an image of the site or part of the site; the name; the location; the nominating state party; the criteria met by the site, including if it is a cultural, ... |
349139 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349139 | List of World Heritage Sites in Saudi Arabia | |
349140 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349140 | List of World Heritage Sites in Syria | |
349141 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349141 | List of World Heritage Sites in Bahrain | |
349142 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349142 | List of World Heritage Sites in Jordan | |
349143 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349143 | List of World Heritage Sites in Lebanon | |
349144 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349144 | List of World Heritage Sites in Oman | |
349145 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349145 | List of World Heritage Sites in Yemen | |
349146 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349146 | List of World Heritage Sites in United Arab Emirates | |
349147 | 18539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349147 | Geneva protocol of 1925 | |
349148 | 31155 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349148 | List of World Heritage Sites in China | The List of World Heritage Sites in China is a group of places chosen by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
History.
UNESCO was created for the "conservation and protection of the world’s inheritance of books, works of art and monuments of history and science". The constitutio... |
349150 | 18539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349150 | List of World Heritage Sites in South Korea | As of April 2012, ten sites have been added on the World Heritage List. Nine are cultural sites and one is a natural site. Fourteen more sites have been proposed for adding and are on the tentative list. |
349152 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349152 | Lists of World Heritage Sites | A World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as of special cultural or physical significance.
For lists of World Heritage Sites, see: |
349153 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349153 | List of World Heritage Sites in Kazakhstan | |
349154 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349154 | List of World Heritage Sites in Tajikistan | |
349155 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349155 | List of World Heritage Sites in Algeria | |
349158 | 1604351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349158 | Dormant volcano | Dormant volcanos are the volcanos that are quiet but might erupt again in the future. If a volcano that has been silent for years erupts again or shows activity, it is called a "dormant volcano". Vesuvius of Italy is a prime example. After many years of dormancy, it re-emerged in 1931. Then it is dormant again. For exa... |
349160 | 1657104 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349160 | Book of Kells | The Book of Kells (; ; Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illuminated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. It was created in a Columban monastery in either... |
349162 | 18539 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349162 | Ben Smith (ice hockey) | |
349165 | 1604351 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349165 | Cher Lloyd | Cher Lloyd (born 28 July 1993) is an English singer, songwriter and rapper. She has several hit songs, including "Want U Back". Lloyd became famous when she finished fourth in the seventh series of "The X Factor".
Lloyd's first single "Swagger Jagger" was released in June 2011. Even though the song received mixed revie... |
349171 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349171 | List of World Heritage Sites | |
349173 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349173 | Guy Pearce | Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor and musician. He was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire to a New Zealander father and English mother. He moved to Geelong, Victoria, Australia, when he was three. His television roles include Mike Young in "Neighbours" from 1986-1989 and "Mildred Pierce", for whic... |
349196 | 183741 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349196 | BAFTA Award | |
349197 | 373511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349197 | British Academy Film Awards | The British Academy Film Awards are an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is the British of the Oscars. As of 2008, it happens in the Royal Opera House, in London. Before, it was at the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square. The 65th British Academy Film Awards took place... |
349200 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349200 | Entree | |
349201 | 9889451 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349201 | List of active volcanoes | Active volcanoes are volcanoes which are erupting, or have erupted in modern times. Many volcanoes have erupted dozens of times in the past few thousand years, but are not erupting at this moment. Some scientists consider a volcano "active" if it has erupted in the Holocene period (historic times).
Most volcanoes live ... |
349202 | 39458 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349202 | Hollywood Boulevard | Hollywood Boulevard is a street in Hollywood, California. The street starts at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue. There it turns out and runs due west to Laurel Canyon Boulevard. |
349203 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349203 | Ukrainian currency | |
349204 | 10157234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349204 | DeScribe | Shneur Hasofer () (born July 1, 1982) better known by his stage name DeScribe (Hasofer is Hebrew for "the scribe"), is a Hasidic Jewish musician. His music Mixing elements of dancehall, reggae, hip hop and R&B.
Biography.
Personal life.
DeScribe was born in Sydney, Australia, to a Hasidic Jewish family. His mother,... |
349205 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349205 | University of Siena | The University of Siena (, UNISI) is in Siena, Italy. It was created in 1240. It is one of the oldest European universities and the 4th oldest in Italy. As of 2011, the university had about 17,290 students. |
349212 | 1435680 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349212 | Haplodiploidy | Haplodiploidy is a sex determination system in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid.
Haplodiploidy determines the sex in "all" members of the insect order Hymenoptera (bees, ants, and wasps), and the Thysanoptera ('thrips').p408 The system ... |
349213 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349213 | Haploid-diploid | |
349215 | 9771337 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349215 | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Во́льфович Жирино́вский) (born Vladimir Volfovich Eidelstein; 25 April 1946 – 6 April 2022) was a Russian politician, lawyer and a colonel in the Soviet Army and later the Russian Army.
Works.
He was the founder and Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDP... |
349218 | 551548 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349218 | Brown sugar | Brown sugar is a type of table sugar. It is made by mixing white sugar with molasses, a sugar byproduct. Brown sugar can either be light or dark depending on how much molasses is in it. Brown sugar can harden after a while out of the package. |
349231 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349231 | Probotector | |
349232 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349232 | Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles | |
349233 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349233 | TMHT | |
349242 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349242 | EET | |
349243 | 238030 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349243 | EEST | |
349244 | 1458798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349244 | Infotainment | Infotainment (information and entertainment) is a type of media and therefore a type of communication. This media is designed to inform the media's recipient with information but at the same time to entertain them. It is often used to novels to explain scientific things like the greenhouse effect easily and mixed with ... |
349248 | 68157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349248 | Incisivosaurus | Incisivosaurus ("incisor lizard") is a genus of small, probably herbivorous theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of what is now the People's Republic of China.
The first specimen is a skull that was collected from the lowermost levels (the fluvial Lujiatun beds) of the Yixian Formation. The beds were laid down ... |
349251 | 9588547 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349251 | Edward Woodward | Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE (1 June 1930 – 16 November 2009) was a British actor. He was born in Croydon, London. His parents were working class. His television roles included the title characters in ' (for which he won a BAFTA Award) and ' (for which he won a Golden Globe Award). His movie roles include Sergeant... |
349257 | 293183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349257 | The Wicker Man | A wicker man is a wicker effigy used in human sacrifice
It may refer to: |
349258 | 8831464 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349258 | The Wicker Man (2006 movie) | The Wicker Man is a 2006 American horror movie. It is a remake of 1973 British movie of the same name and is also based on Ritual. It is set on an island in Washington. It was written and directed by Neil LaBute. It was produced by Nicolas Cage and Avi Lerner. It stars Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, ... |
349262 | 1566408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349262 | Jason Bateman | Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director and producer. He is known for his role on the television series "Arrested Development". His older sister is Justine of "Family Ties" fame. Jason recently received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 26, 2017. |
349270 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349270 | Andrew DeClercq | Andrew Donald DeClercq (born February 1, 1973) is a former American basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for ten seasons. He played for the Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic. DeClercq played college basketball for the University of Florida.... |
349271 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349271 | Table of World Heritage Sites by country | The Table of World Heritage Sites is evolving as more sites are added to a growing list.
History.
There are a total of 936 sites. These include properties in 153 states.
As of March 2012, 189 states have ratified the World Heritage Convention.
The worldwide sites have been divided by the World Heritage Committee into ... |
349274 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349274 | Walter McCarty | Walter Lee McCarty (born February 1, 1974 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American former basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association. He played for the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, and the Los Angeles Clippers.
McCarty played college basketball at the University of Kentucky.
In ... |
349275 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349275 | Brandon Bass | Brandon Bass (born April 30, 1985) is an American basketball player of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is with the Boston Celtics. He played for LSU in college. He is a 6'8", 250 lb power forward.
On July 26, 2007, Bass agreed to play for the Dallas Mavericks. He signed through the 2008-09 season with a $... |
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