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69049 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69049 | Spanging | |
69050 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69050 | Panhandling | |
69051 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69051 | Sponging | |
69052 | 1161309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69052 | Benicio del Toro | Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. He grew up in Santurce, but spent his adolescence and high school years in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He has won several awards in his career, including an Academy Award. |
69054 | 1041406 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69054 | Geoffrey Rush | Geoffrey Roy Rush, (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor who has won Academy and Emmy awards, as well as several others. He was the first Australian actor to win an Academy Award for acting.
Rush was born in Toowoomba, Queensland. He studied at Everton Park State High School and at University of Queensland. Rush wa... |
69055 | 1508758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69055 | Joaquin Phoenix | Joaquín Rafael Phoenix () (born October 28, 1973), originally called Leaf Phoenix, is an American actor. He is from a family of actors, like his brother, the late actor River Phoenix. He has been nominated four times for the Academy Award, winning once in 2020. He also won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA a... |
69056 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69056 | William Hurt | William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American actor. He won an Academy Award in 1985 for his work in the movie movie "Kiss of the Spider Woman". He played Thaddeus Ross in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In May 2018, Hurt was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. He later died from the diseas... |
69057 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69057 | Adrien Brody | Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He starred in Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" (2002). The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, the youngest actor ever to win the award. In 2025, he won another Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "The Brutalist" (2024).
His mother, Sylv... |
69058 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69058 | Mark Wahlberg | Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American actor and television and movie producer. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother is of Irish, Scottish, English ancestry. He has been nominated for an Academy Award. He was also known as "Marky Mark" at the beginning of his career, when... |
69060 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69060 | Marky Mark | |
69062 | 10453452 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69062 | Wesley Snipes | Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, martial artist and movie producer. He is best known for his role as the vampire hunter Blade in the "Blade" trilogy movies.
Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida and spent most of his childhood in The Bronx, New York City. He moved back to Orlando when he was... |
69063 | 1611993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69063 | Jak 3 | Jak 3 is a video game for Sony's PlayStation 2 made by Naughty Dog. It is the third game in the "Jak and Daxter" series.
Story.
Jak, Daxter, and Pecker are thrown into the desert by their own people one year after the previous game, Jak II, ended. They are found by Damas, Kleiver, and another wastelander. Jak is teste... |
69064 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69064 | Edward Norton | Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American movie actor and director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards. He won the Golden Globe in 1997 for "Primal Fear".
Biography.
Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18th 1969. When he was 28, he played someone accused of murder in the movie, Primal Fe... |
69065 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69065 | Cardinal (bird) | The Cardinals or Cardinalidae are a family of passerine birds that live in North and South America. |
69067 | 1474574 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69067 | Magpie | Magpies are birds in the crow family, Corvidae. They are general scavengers and predators of insects, small mammals, and other birds' eggs and young.
The word "magpie" usually means the European magpie ("Pica pica") in the genus Pica, they are a very common bird, found everywhere in Europe. Though elsewhere, there are ... |
69068 | 11592 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69068 | Chicks | |
69074 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69074 | Final Fantasy Tactics | Final Fantasy Tactics is a tactical role-playing game for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance. It was released in 1997 by Square Co., Ltd. on the PlayStation and in 2003 on Game Boy Advance (now Square Enix). |
69083 | 11137 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69083 | Riot! | |
69086 | 16695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69086 | Vacuole | A vacuole is a membrane-bound organelle. They are a kind of vesicle. Vacuoles are closed sacs, made of membranes with inorganic or organic molecules inside, such as enzymes. They have no set shape or size, and the cell can change them as needed. They are in most eukaryotic cells and do many things. They can store waste... |
69088 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69088 | Dip | |
69099 | 1161309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69099 | College of Arms | The College of Arms, in London is one of the few remaining government heraldic authorities in Europe. It was founded in 1484 by King Richard III, and its job is to control heraldry and grant new "armorial bearings", sometime called coats of arms.
The college is run by the Kings of Arms, heralds and pursuivants who hand... |
69103 | 11132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69103 | Saarbruecken | |
69104 | 11132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69104 | Wuerzburg | |
69105 | 13560 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69105 | Muenster (Westfalen) | |
69106 | 11132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69106 | Moenchengladbach | |
69107 | 11132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69107 | Luebeck | |
69110 | 4135 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69110 | City of Salford | |
69111 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69111 | City of Sunderland | The City of Sunderland is a metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Since 1992 it has had the status of a city and metropolitan borough.
It is named after its largest settlement, Sunderland, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Washington, Houghton-le-Spring, and other smaller... |
69115 | 8221147 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69115 | Self-Strengthening Movement | The Self-Strengthening Movement ( or ; 1861 - 1895) was a reform organised during the late Qing Dynasty. The movement's intent was the modernization of China as a result of many military defeats it had faced at the hands of the West. It could be divided into three phases the first phase (1861 - 1872), the second phase ... |
69116 | 1498485 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69116 | Michael Keaton | Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally by the artistic name Michael Keaton, is an American actor. He became popular for his early comedic film roles, most notably his performance as the title character of Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice" and would return to the role in the 2024 sequel "Beetlejuic... |
69117 | 11600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69117 | Summand | |
69118 | 11600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69118 | Iff | |
69120 | 1411457 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69120 | Inequality | Inequality is when one object is:
Inequality is sometimes used to name a statement that one expression is smaller, greater, not smaller or not greater than the other.
Working with inequalities.
Inequality in math is when two solutions or answers are compared by greater than or less than. It is when the two or yet many ... |
69121 | 1211848 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69121 | Chechnya | Chechnya (; ), officially the Chechen Republic (; ), is a federal subject in Russia. It is located in the Caucasus region of Western Asia. The capital is Grozny.
Most people in Chechnya are Muslims and are of ancient Hurrian roots who spoke a Caucasian language. Most Chechens belong to the Shafi`i school of Sunni Islam... |
69122 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69122 | WHAM! | |
69124 | 1667133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69124 | Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel | Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel is a mathematical paradox named after the German mathematician David Hilbert. Hilbert used it as an example to show how infinity does not act in the same way as regular numbers do.
The paradox.
Normal hotels have a finite number of rooms. Once every room has been assigned to a guest... |
69125 | 581219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69125 | Natural numbers | |
69126 | 581219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69126 | Real numbers | |
69128 | 581219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69128 | Rational numbers | |
69129 | 581219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69129 | Negative numbers | |
69132 | 9662194 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69132 | Opposite number | In mathematics, the opposite or inverse of a number formula_1 is an additive or a subtractive number formula_2 which, when added to formula_1, results in 0. The opposite of formula_4 is formula_5. For example, −7 is the opposite of 7, because formula_6.
Definition.
A number formula_7 is called an opposite or inverse n... |
69133 | 11600 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69133 | Additive inverse | |
69134 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69134 | Nth root | An "n"-th root of a number "r" is a number which, if "n" copies are multiplied together, makes "r". It is also called a radical or a radical expression. It is a number "k" for which the following equation is true:
We write the nth root of "r" as formula_3. If "n" is 2, then the radical expression is a square root. If i... |
69142 | 9755346 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69142 | Isle of Portland | The Isle of Portland is an island in Dorset in the south of England. Portland is south of the resort of Weymouth. 13,000 people live there. It is where the famous Portland limestone was originally found.
In 2012, the sailing in the Olympics took place on Portland and in Weymouth. |
69143 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69143 | Weymouth, Dorset | Weymouth is a resort town in Dorset on the south coast of England. 52,000 people live in the town. Thousands of tourists have holidays there, because it is by the sea. In summer it is sometimes sunny and warm and there is lots to do. The sailing in the 2012 Summer Olympics were held in Weymouth and on the Isle of Portl... |
69145 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69145 | Chrysanthemum | Chrysanthemums are a genus ("Chrysanthemum") of about 30 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, from Asia and northeast Europe. |
69146 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69146 | Chrysanthemums | |
69147 | 10183964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69147 | Flagship | A flagship is the ship used by the officer who commanded a group of naval ships. The term comes from the custom of the commanding officer to fly a special flag to show he was present.
Used in this way, "flagship" is normally a temporary name; the flagship is wherever the officer is flying his flag. However, admirals ha... |
69149 | 114482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69149 | Rubbish | |
69150 | 114482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69150 | Junk | |
69151 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69151 | Eurasian magpie | The Eurasian magpie or common magpie ("Pica pica") is a bird that lives in Europe, much of Asia, and northwest Africa. It is one of several birds in the crow family named as magpies.
In Europe, "magpie" is used by English speakers to call the European magpie; it is the only magpie in Europe outside the Iberian Peninsul... |
69153 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69153 | Neo-Nazi | |
69154 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69154 | Neonazism | |
69155 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69155 | Neonazi | |
69157 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69157 | Sui generis | Sui generis (pronounced or ) is a term from Latin. It can be translated to "Of (his/her/its) own kind". It basically means that something has VERY special characteristics. They are so special, that the thing cannot really be compared to anything else. It is used in various contexts. The term was invented by philosopher... |
69159 | 9336355 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69159 | Regular polygon | A regular polygon is a shape that can be drawn on a flat surface. It has sides that are all the same length, and its angles are all the same. In other words, a polygon which is both equilateral (which means all its sides have the same length) and equiangular (which means that all its angles are the same) is a regular p... |
69160 | 537230 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69160 | Uneven number | |
69161 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69161 | HH | |
69162 | 11132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69162 | John F Kennedy | |
69163 | 935234 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69163 | Straightedge and compass construction | Straightedge and compass construction, also known as ruler-and-compass construction, is drawing of lengths, angles or shapes using only a ruler and compass.
Some things cannot be drawn this way. For example, there are only 32 regular polygons with an uneven number of sides which are known to be constructible. It has b... |
69164 | 40158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69164 | Compass and straightedge | |
69165 | 114482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69165 | Chirp | |
69166 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69166 | Kemal Ataturk | |
69167 | 9305715 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69167 | Carnation | A carnation is a type of flower. It has been grown for so many years, yet we are not aware where it came from. |
69169 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69169 | Edward Kennedy | |
69170 | 1476056 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69170 | Air Force One | Air Force One is the official air traffic control call sign aircraft carrying the president of the United States. Air Force One is usually always referred to any aircraft the president and his staff travels on. The official name of the plane is the SAM 2900 and VC-25.
Air Force One is one of the most recognizable symbo... |
69172 | 11132 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69172 | Slovak Republic | |
69174 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69174 | Incubus | In the Middle Ages, people in Europe believed that Incubi (one Incubus, several Incubi) were male demons. There were also female demons, called succubi. They lay on sleeping people, to have sexual intercourse with them. They would also do this to make other incubi. While they had sex with their victim, they drained its... |
69179 | 1668327 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69179 | Commonwealth realm | A Commonwealth realm is a country in the Commonwealth of Nations which has King Charles III as monarch. They include his home country of the United Kingdom and many of its former colonies or territories. As of 2023, there are 15 commonwealth realms:
In each of the countries outside the UK, the King appoints a Governor-... |
69180 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69180 | Pen-name | |
69181 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69181 | Commonwealth Realm | |
69182 | 10339967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69182 | Dashiki | A Dashiki is a loose fitting, brightly coloured garment associated with African culture. It is also associated with the counterculture of the 1960s in the United States. The most popular styles cover the top half of the body. It originated in West Africa. A common form is a loose-fitting pullover garment, with an ornat... |
69188 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69188 | Colorado Avalanche | The Colorado Avalanche are an American ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL). They play their home games at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado. They play in the Central Division of the Western Conference. The team has won the Stanley Cup championship three times: in 1996, 2001, and in 2022. |
69189 | 1430335 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69189 | Battle of Midway | The Battle of Midway was an important naval battle of World War II, between the United States and the Empire of Japan. It took place from 4 June 1942 to 7 June 1942. This was about a month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, and six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The United States Navy defeated a Japa... |
69190 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69190 | Minnesota Wild | The Minnesota Wild are a ice hockey team based in St Paul, Minnesota
The Wild joined the NHL in 2000. Their home is the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul. |
69193 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69193 | Strategic bomber | |
69194 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69194 | Bomber aircraft | |
69195 | 1161309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69195 | Ghassanids | Ghassanids, are an Arab clan who came to the Levant from Yemen before Islam. Ghassanids were Christians. Some of them remain Christians until modern days especially in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. The Ghassanids were a puppet of the Byzantine Empire during the Byzantine-Sassanid wars during the war th... |
69197 | 8862322 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69197 | Boeing B-29 Superfortress | The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a heavy bomber aircraft with four engines used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, and by other countries' military after that. The name "Superfortress" came from its famous previous model, the B-17 Flying Fortress.
The B-29 Boeing Model 345 was one of the biggest air... |
69198 | 114482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69198 | B-29 Superfortress | |
69199 | 114482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69199 | B-29 | |
69203 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69203 | Sewing | Sewing is stitching cloth, leather, furs, or other materials, using a needle and thread. Sewing can be done on a sewing machine, or by hand.
"Plain" sewing is mostly done to make or mend clothing and household furnishings such as curtains, sheets, upholstery, and table linens. It is also used for sails, bellows, skin b... |
69205 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69205 | Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands | |
69206 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69206 | CNMI | |
69211 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69211 | Saipan | Saipan (IPA: in English) is the largest island and capital of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a chain of 15 tropical islands which are part of the Marianas archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean (15°10’51”N, 145°45’21”E) with a total area of 115.39 km² (44.55 sq mi). At the 2020... |
69214 | 48456 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69214 | Knitting | Knitting creates flexible fabric by looping thread or yarn together using two or more knitting needles or a knitting machine.
Types of knitting.
Flat knitting.
Flat knitting, which is usually done on two straight needles, makes a length of cloth and is used to create things like blankets, scarves, and the backs, fronts... |
69216 | 1354292 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69216 | Yarn | Yarn is a long, continuous length of fibers that have been spun or felted together. Yarn is used to make cloth or different wearable accessories including shoes, hats, scarfs, etc. by knitting, crocheting or weaving. Yarn is sold in a shape called a skein to prevent the yarn from becoming tangled or knotted.
Yarn can b... |
69217 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69217 | Royal Australian Navy | The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the navy of Australia. It is part of the Australian Defence Force. It was created in 1901, and was formed out of the Commonwealth Naval Forces to become the small navy of Australia. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom continued to defend Australia in the Pacific Ocean until World War... |
69219 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69219 | RAN | |
69220 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69220 | Takijirō Ōnishi | was a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, who came to known as the father of the "kamikaze". |
69221 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69221 | Takijiro Onishi | |
69223 | 1463501 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69223 | Torpedo | The torpedo, is an explosive projectile weapon that moves by itself (using a propeller), launched above or below the water surface, that goes underwater toward a target, and made to explode when it hits a target or is near to it. Torpedoes may be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters, aircraft, land etc.... |
69225 | 233259 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69225 | Undercarriage | In aviation, the undercarriage or landing gear is the structure (usually wheels) that supports an aircraft and allows it to move across the surface of the Earth when it is not flying. |
69226 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69226 | Landing gear | |
69227 | 10470949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69227 | Seven Years' War | The Seven Years' War was a worldwide military conflict that lasted from 1756 to 1763 and involved most of the great powers in Europe. The war was made up of two conflicts. One was fought mostly between Great Britain and France. The other had Prussia fight its enemies: France, Austria, Russia, and Sweden.
An important c... |
69230 | 9620 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69230 | Mérida | |
69234 | 11137 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69234 | Melbourne City | |
69238 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69238 | Battlefield 2 | Battlefield 2 is a first-person shooter developed by Digital Illusions CE and published by EA Games.
By playing online the players can gather points for the global ranking. If a player has enough points, he is promoted to the next higher rank and can unlock new weapons and awards.
The storyline takes place in Middle- a... |
69240 | 1788 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69240 | Bf2 | |
69242 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69242 | Battlefield (series) | The Battlefield series consists of the following first-person shooter games that were developed by Digital Illusions CE, and published by Electronic Arts: |
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