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20638 | 1161309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638 | Jeremy Bentham | Jeremy Bentham (15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832) was an English, jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He is best known as one of the first people to be for utilitarianism, animal rights and gay rights.
Bentham was one of the most influential Classical liberals, partially through his writings but particula... |
20644 | 440188 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20644 | Dinosaur Comics | Dinosaur Comics is a comic by Ryan North. It shows dinosaurs who have adventures and talk about philosophy and some other topics. The art is the same every day, but the words are different. This comic is intended to be funny.
Things in the comic that are not true: |
20646 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20646 | Lucid dream | A lucid dream is essentially a dream in which the person is aware that he or she is in the dream. In a lucid dream, the person does not have to be in control of his or her surroundings for the dream to be lucid, and only being aware of the dream itself is sufficient condition for the dream to be described as lucid.
Th... |
20659 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20659 | My Fair Lady | My Fair Lady is a musical. It is based on George Bernard Shaw's play, "Pygmalion", and on the movie adaptation of the play starring Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard. The book and lyrics for the musical were written by Alan Jay Lerner. The music was written by Frederick Loewe.
Synopsis.
The common flower girl, "Eliza Doo... |
20660 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20660 | A Man for All Seasons | A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt about the life of Sir Thomas More that was first put on in 1960. It was made into a movie in 1966 that won the Best Picture Academy Award that year. It was also made into a TV movie in 1988. |
20662 | 1521690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20662 | Composite number | A composite number (or simply a "composite") is a natural number, that can be found by multiplying prime numbers.
For example, the number "nine" can be found by multiplying "three" by "three". Another example is the number "12", which is obtained by multiplying "3", "2" and "2".
All natural numbers (greater than one) c... |
20663 | 1386396 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20663 | Fundamental theorem of arithmetic | The Fundamental theorem of arithmetic (also called the unique factorization theorem) is a theorem of number theory. The theorem says that "every" positive integer greater than 1 can be written as a product of prime numbers (or the integer is itself a prime number). The theorem also says that there is only one way to wr... |
20666 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20666 | A Portuguesa | "A Portuguesa" (, meaning "The Portuguese") is the national anthem of Portugal, adopted in 1911. The music of the song was composed by a Portuguese composer and painter named Alfredo Keil. The words of the song were written by a poet named Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, in response to the 1890 British Ultimatum for Portug... |
20667 | 1444326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20667 | Welding | Welding is a way of heating pieces of metal using electricity or a flame so that they melt and stick together. There are many kinds of welding, including arc welding, resistance welding, and gas welding. The most common type is arc welding. Anyone who is near arc welding needs to wear a special helmet or goggles becaus... |
20670 | 1617448 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20670 | Stalking | Stalking means following something or somebody secretly. In the animal kingdom, predators often hunt by stalking, or by combining stalking with ambushing.
Someone who likes to watch other people is known as a voyeur. When this is continually done to a person it can have a bad effect.
Criminal stalking.
Stalking in a w... |
20671 | 1618275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20671 | Bill Cosby | William Henry Cosby Jr. (; born July 12, 1937) is an American former stand-up comedian, actor, author, producer, musician, and activist. He was also a regular star of movies and television. He was known for creating and starring in "The Cosby Show" and "The Cosby Mysteries".
In 2018, Cosby went to prison because of ma... |
20673 | 8749103 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20673 | Ham | Ham is pork that comes from a leg of a pig.
Ham can be dry-cured or wet-cured. Dry-cured ham is made by rubbing the meat with salt. Wet-cured ham is made with brine.
Types of dry-cured ham:
Ham is used in SPAM. |
20675 | 10134260 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20675 | Spam (food) | Spam is a canned meat food made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. It is made from pork shoulder meat and ham.
There have been many ideas about what the word "Spam" actually means. The Hormel Foods Corporation said the meaning of the name "is known by only some people". In some dictionaries "Spam" means "spiced ham", "sh... |
20676 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20676 | Mushroom | A mushroom (also called a toadstool) is the part of a fungi that is comparable to the fruit of a plant. Unlike plants, mushrooms do not use sunlight to generate energy for themselves. Some mushrooms are edible, and are used for cooking in many countries, such as China, Korea and Europe. Other mushrooms, however, are po... |
20678 | 527152 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20678 | Factorization | Factorization (also called factorisation and factoring) is taking a composite number apart into numbers that multiply together to get the original number. These smaller numbers are called factors or divisors. 1 is a factor of all numbers.
Prime factorization is breaking apart a composite number into prime numbers that ... |
20680 | 1464674 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20680 | Joint | A joint is the place where two or more bones make contact. They allow movement (except for skull bones) and give mechanical support.
Joints have cartilage in between them, which help to make the movement flexible. Joints are described structurally and functionally. Structural classification is how the bones connect to ... |
20681 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20681 | Articulation | |
20682 | 1161309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20682 | Hosni Mubarak | Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020), commonly known as Hosni Mubarak (), was an Egyptian politician. He served as President of Egypt from 14 October 1981 to 11 February 2011.
Mubarak became the vice-president of the Republic of Egypt after moving up the ranks of the Egyptian Air Force. Then he... |
20683 | 16695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20683 | Euclid | Euclid of Alexandria () (about 325 BC–265 BC) was a Greek mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt and worked at the Library of Alexandria. Little is known about this person, but people think he lived there when Ptolemy I was Pharaoh. It is not known where and when he was born.
The Elements.
Euclid collected togeth... |
20684 | 95417 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20684 | 9 May | |
20689 | 8659445 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20689 | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe is part of France in the Caribbean Sea. It is made up of five islands. The capital is Basse-Terre.
Arawak native Americans first lived on the islands. Most died when Europeans came. Guadeloupe was first governed by the French Company of the American Islands. It was then taken over by England, given to Swede... |
20690 | 10249801 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20690 | 1770 | |
20691 | 40158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20691 | Compact discs | |
20693 | 5990399 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20693 | Nashville | |
20694 | 10249980 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20694 | 1616 | |
20695 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20695 | Lou Reed | Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American rock musician. He was originally from Long Island, New York and spent most of his life in New York City. He is remembered for being in the Velvet Underground, although he also released solo work. He was friends with artist Andy Warhol.
Early life... |
20696 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20696 | Bisexual | |
20698 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20698 | Sexuality | |
20699 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20699 | Albany | Albany can be any of the following: |
20700 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20700 | Annapolis | |
20701 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20701 | Albany, ny | |
20702 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20702 | Augusta | Augusta may refer to: |
20703 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20703 | Augusta, me | |
20704 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20704 | Austin | |
20705 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20705 | Austin, tx | |
20706 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20706 | Bay City | |
20707 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20707 | Bay city, mi | |
20708 | 293183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20708 | Berkeley | Berkeley could mean: |
20709 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20709 | Bismarck, nd | |
20710 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20710 | Berkeley, ca | |
20711 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20711 | Boise | |
20712 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20712 | Boise, id | |
20713 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20713 | Carson City | |
20714 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20714 | Carson city, nv | |
20715 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20715 | Central Point | |
20716 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20716 | Central point, or | |
20717 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20717 | Chantilly | |
20718 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20718 | Chantilly, va | |
20719 | 365486 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20719 | Charleston | Charleston might mean: |
20720 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20720 | Charleston, wv | |
20721 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20721 | Chino Hills | |
20722 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20722 | Chino hills, ca | |
20723 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20723 | Coden | |
41112 | 9811887 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41112 | Roman Britain | Roman Britain ("Britannia") was the party of Great Britain in the Roman Empire from AD 43 to 409 or 410.
History.
The first invasion was led by Julius Ceasar , in the days of the Roman Republic. He defeated the dominant Catuvellauni tribe in 54 BC near Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire.
Their capital was taken over by t... |
41113 | 10249490 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41113 | 990 | |
41114 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41114 | 1073 | |
41125 | 1719 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41125 | Den Haag | |
41127 | 1719 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41127 | Jenissei | |
41140 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41140 | Bixente Lizarazu | Bixente Lizarazu (born 9 December 1969) is a former French football player. He is one of the most successful football players in the world. He won the FIFA World Cup in 1998 and the European Football Championship in 2000. He has also won the UEFA Champions League (2001) and was champion of the Bundesliga (both with Bay... |
41142 | 223446 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41142 | Shetland | Shetland (or the Shetland Islands) is an archipelago, the furthest out part of Scotland in the United Kingdom.
The islands are between the Faroe Islands and the Orkney Islands. They are about 50 miles to the northeast of the Orkney Islands. They are about 100 islands in the group. People live on 16 of them.
The islands... |
41143 | 16695 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41143 | Salt evaporation pond | A Salt evaporation pond (or saltern pond) is a man-made shallow pond. Usually it is located near the sea. The ponds can be filled with salt water. The water is then left to evaporate. The salt is left behind, and can be harvested. Such ponds also provide a habitat for several kinds of animals. Most of these animals are... |
41145 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41145 | Saltern pond | |
41147 | 1618275 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41147 | Salinity | Salinity is a scientific term. Scientists use it to tell how much salt there is in water. Salinity is measured by the amount of sodium chloride found in 1,000 grams of water, if there is 1 gram of sodium chloride in 1,000 grams of water solution it is 1 part per thousand. This is written as 1‰. |
41150 | 4580 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41150 | Ethyl alcohol | |
41151 | 70336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41151 | Food preservation | Food preservation is about the ways and means which help to preserve food. Food spoils from bacteria if it is not treated. For thousands of years, humans have used methods of preserving food, so that they can store food to eat later. The simplest methods of preserving food, such as drying strips of fish or meat in the ... |
41152 | 1673408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41152 | Clapham Junction railway station | Clapham Junction railway station is a train station in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is on St. John's Hill in the south west of Battersea. It is served by London Overground, Southern and SWR.
The station.
The services.
All services to Waterloo and many services to Victoria and Croydon stations pass ... |
41153 | 1542442 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41153 | Adenosine triphosphate | Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a special molecule that all living things use to get energy for their activities. You can think of it like a rechargeable battery for cells. Each ATP molecule is built from three main parts: a base called adenine, a sugar called ribose, and three phosphate groups linked in a row. The bon... |
41154 | 1477024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41154 | Shrimp | Shrimp are crustaceans. Shrimp are mainly found in three groups: Caridea, Procarididea, and Dendrobranchiata. There are thousands of species, and usually there is a species adapted to any particular habitat. Any small crustacean which resembles a shrimp tends to be called one.
Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic an... |
41156 | 1070632 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41156 | Prawn | Dendrobranchiata is a suborder of decapod crustaceans, and contains shrimp and prawn.
Dendrobranchiata are commercially fished and are used for cooking. The difference between prawns and shrimp is usually that prawns are larger than shrimps. Prawns are crustaceans similar in appearance to shrimps, but they can be disti... |
41157 | 693482 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41157 | Lee Redmond | Lee Redmond (February 2, 1941 – December 14, 2023) is a woman from the Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. She is famous for having the longest fingernails in the world.
She has not cut her fingernails since 1979. The combined length of her fingernails are 7 meters and 51 centimeters long (24 feet, 8 inches) . She has... |
41158 | 248920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41158 | Martin Amis | Sir Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was a Welsh novelist. His best known novels include "Money" (1984), "London Fields" (1989), "Time's Arrow" (1991) and "The Information" (1995).
Affected by several writers including his father Sir Kingsley Amis, Amis's style of writing has affected a generation of wr... |
41159 | 586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41159 | Xi Shun | Bao Xishun (also known as Xi Shun; born November 2, 1951) is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest living man. He is tall. The last time he was measured was on January 15 of 2005. On August 7, 2007 Leonid Stadnyk was measuring and was found to be taller than him. In September 2005 he made his fir... |
41160 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41160 | Crab | Crabs are a form of decapods (having eight walking legs and two grasping claws), along with lobsters, crayfish and shrimps. Crabs form an order within the decapods, called the Brachyura. Their short body is covered by a thick exoskeleton.
They are an extremely successful group, found all over the world. They are basica... |
41163 | 1171648 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41163 | Gran Colombia | Gran Colombia was a Centralist country formed after New Granada declared independence in 1819, initially made up of New Granada and Venezuela. The rebels, led by Simon Bolivar, defeated the Spanish Empire, but then fought among themselves. In 1831, Venezuela and Ecuador, being the eastern and southern part of the count... |
41166 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41166 | Nail (anatomy) | A nail is a hard part of the body at the tip of the fingers and toes, of which most people have ten. Toenails and fingernails are similar, except that toenails grow four times more slowly. Only certain mammals have nails: mostly, they are found in primates. They are made of the same kind of material (keratin) as the cl... |
41167 | 2133 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41167 | Schleußingen | |
41169 | 1507217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41169 | Crustacean | Crustaceans are a subphylum of arthropods with 67,000 described species. They are part of the phylum Arthropoda. Crustaceans include crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. They are relatives of insects. If the Arthropods are regarded as a superphylum, then the insects and crustacea would be phyla (see ... |
41171 | 1507217 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41171 | Motile | An organism is called motile if it can move on its own. Most organisms are motile. Organisms that cannot move themselves are called "sessile". |
41172 | 10458928 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41172 | Maria Montessori | Maria Montessori was an Italian educator and doctor. She was born on 31 August 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy.
Maria Montessori created the first Montessori school. It was a method of education that respected the natural development of the child. Its main feature was to allow a maximal independence to every child. Another... |
41176 | 1444326 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41176 | Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III | Jacob de Gheyn III is a famous painting.
It was painted by Rembrandt in 1632 and is the most stolen painting in the world. It has been stolen and recovered from galleries at least four times, making it the world's most stolen painting.
Every time the painting has been recovered anonymously and as a consequence nobody w... |
41178 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41178 | Fame | Fame or Famous may refer to: |
41179 | 1663157 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41179 | Toy Story | Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated fantasy adventure movie. It was the first Disney/Pixar animated movie; Pixar made the movie while Disney packaged it and sold it to movie theaters. It was released on November 22, 1995. "Toy Story" was shown again in American cinemas on October 2, 2009 ( with "Toy Story 2"... |
41184 | 40158 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41184 | Maria Esther | |
41185 | 581219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41185 | Metres | |
41189 | 687081 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41189 | María Capovilla | María Esther de Capovilla (September 14, 1889 – August 27, 2006) was an Ecuadorian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person between May 29, 2004, aged 114 years 258 days, and her death from pneumonia on August 27, 2006, aged 116 years 347 days. Following Capovilla's death, Elizabeth Bolden became the ... |
41190 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41190 | Gopher | |
41192 | 1566408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41192 | Wart | Warts are growths on the skin. Very often they resemble solid blisters.
Usually, applying pressure to a wart causes pain. Warts are caused by viruses in the HPV family. As there are many types of viruses in the HPV family, there are also many types of wart. In most cases, warts are not dangerous, but may cause a lot o... |
41193 | 209999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41193 | Suffocation | |
41195 | 86802 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41195 | Ming Kipa | Ming Kipa is a Nepalese Sherpa girl who (as recorded in the 2009 Guinness Book of Records) was the youngest person to climb Mount Everest until 2010. She reached the summit on May 24, 2003 when she was 15 years old, with her brother Mingma Gyula and her sister Laphka. Nepalese law does not allow climbers under 16 to cl... |
41197 | 1161309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41197 | Sun Tzu (mathematician) | Sun Tzu or Sun Zi was a Chinese mathematician of the third century CE.
His interests were in astronomy. He tried to develop a calendar and for this he investigated Diophantine equations. He is best known for authoring "Sun Tzu Suan Ching" (pinyin: "Sun Zi Suan Jing"; literally, "Sun Tzu's Calculation Classic"), which c... |
41198 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41198 | Sergey Karjakin | Sergey Karjakin (born 12 January 1990 in Simferopol) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster.
He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for the youngest grandmaster in history, at the age of twelve years and seven months.
On 25 July 2009 Karjakin adopted Russian citizenship and afterwards played for Rus... |
41203 | 3317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41203 | Sound energy | |
41206 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41206 | Yusuf Islam | Yusuf Islam (born 21 July 1948) is an English singer. He sang many of his early songs when he called himself Cat Stevens. He was born as Georgiou to a Swedish mother and Greek Cypriot father. He became a Muslim in 1977. After two years, he took the name of Yusuf İslam. He has sold over 60 million albums around the worl... |
41209 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41209 | Malay language | Malay is an Austronesian language predominantly spoken by Malay people in northeastern of Sumatra to the Riau Islands and its surroundings; which includes Singapore and Malay Peninsula, as well as the western and northernmost coast of Borneo (especially in Pontianak and Brunei).
Writing system.
Malay is normally writte... |
41211 | 10481028 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41211 | Timothy Dalton | Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a British actor. He is famous for playing fictional spy James Bond in two movies in 1987 and 1989. He also voiced the hedgehog Mr. Pricklepants in "Toy Story 3". He currently is a Major Frontrunner for the role of Aslan for Netflix's New adaptation of Narnia.
National identi... |
41220 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41220 | Euzebiusz Smolarek | Euzebiusz Smolarek (born 9 January 1981) is a Polish football player. He plays for ADO Den Haag and Poland national team.
In 2004, he came to Dortmund with Bert van Maarwijk, who is his trainer. Before that, he played for Borussia Dortmund and under van Maarwijk with Feyenoord Rotterdam. He is also in the Poland nation... |
41221 | 814900 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41221 | Bushido (rapper) | Bushido is a German rapper. He was born in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, 28 September 1978 and raised in Berlin. His real name is Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi. Bushido left the record company Aggro Berlin in 2001. Now he has his own record label ersguterjunge and insults his old label, for example in the song "Sonnen... |
41228 | 1244711 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41228 | National Party of Australia | The National Party of Australia is the third biggest political party in Australia. It was first called the Country Party when it started in 1920 and then became the National Country Party in 1975. In 1982 it became the National Party.
The National Party represents the interests of people who live in rural areas, that i... |
41229 | 5317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41229 | Country Party | |
41230 | 5317 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41230 | Country Party of Australia |
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