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25165 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25165 | Antigonid dynasty | The Antigonid dynasty was a Macedonian dynasty. The kings were part of the family of Alexander the Great's general Antigonus I Monophthalmus ("the One-eyed"). The dynasty ended when the Roman Empire conquered the area after the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC. |
25167 | 1671432 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25167 | Futurama | Futurama is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is in "New" New York City during the 31st century. The shows were first shown on Fox on March 28, 1999, until August 10, 2003.
In 2008, Comedy Central... |
25169 | 1530097 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25169 | Radar | A radar is a machine that uses radio waves for echolocation to find objects such as aircraft, ships, and rain.
The basic parts of a radar are:
By doing this, the radar can locate the object. Radar is used in many different ways. It can measure the speed and number of cars on a road, the amount of water in the air, and... |
25170 | 1458798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25170 | GameSpot | GameSpot is a website that was created in June 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein.
History.
In the beginning the website was mainly about PC games. Another similar site, videogamespot.com was created in December of the same year to talk about console video game systems. In 1997, videogamespot.com became ... |
25171 | 640235 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25171 | TV.com | TV.com is a popular website owned by the CNET Games & Entertainment family of websites, which also includes GameSpot, GameFAQs and MP3.com. The website replaced the popular TV Tome website.
The website has information about television (mostly English-language television in the United States, the United Kingdom, Can... |
25172 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25172 | 1159 | |
25174 | 373511 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25174 | Olive (color) | Olive is a color which looks like green or yellow. (when gray or black is added to yellow, the various shades of the color olive are produced). Some dark shades of olive can also be made by mixing a darker color (like brown) with green.
The most common place you will find the color olive is on an olive. It is the color... |
25175 | 3164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25175 | Olive(color) | |
25176 | 440188 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25176 | 400s | The 400s was a decade that started on 1 January 400 and ended on 31 December 409. |
25177 | 1639749 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25177 | South Asia | South Asia (or Southern Asia) is a region and the southern part of the continent of Asia.There are 8 countries that are generally included in this region. It is surrounded by (clockwise) West Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Southeastern Asia and the Indian Ocean. The Indian subcontinent makes up a large part of South... |
25178 | 10228897 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25178 | Thermodynamics | Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that studies the relations between heat, temperature, and energy. A branch of math called statistics is often used in thermodynamics to look at the motion of particles.
Thermodynamics is useful because it helps us understand how the world of the very small atoms connects to the lar... |
25179 | 1166 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25179 | Gamespot | |
25182 | 1338660 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25182 | Brookhurst, Wyoming | Brookhurst is a census-designated place in Natrona County, Wyoming, USA. About 205 people live there. |
25183 | 1237047 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25183 | Bollywood | Bollywood (बॉलीवुड), refers to the Hindi language movie industry in India.
The word is often used to describe Indian cinema as a whole, but more precisely it means Hindi language movies only. The term "Bollywood" combines Bombay (where most Hindi movies are made) and Hollywood (where most American movies are made).
Top... |
25184 | 3901 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25184 | Kingston | |
25185 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25185 | Dinah Washington | Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 24, 1924 - December 14, 1963) was an American R&B and jazz singer. She was an African American who was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and raised in Chicago. She died of an accidental drug overdose in Detroit. |
25186 | 293183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25186 | Robin Ward | Robin Ward (born Jacqueline McDonnell in 1941) was an American singer. She had a hit with her song "Wonderful Summer" in 1963. |
25187 | 1464674 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25187 | Adrenal gland | The adrenal gland is a gland in most mammals. It is near the kidneys. Its name tells its position ("ad" – "near", and "renes" – "kidneys"). The gland is made up of two types of tissues: the centrally located tissue is called the adrenal medulla and outside this lies the adrenal cortex.
The adrenal glands are known as s... |
25188 | 39458 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25188 | Chiswick | Chiswick is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It is most famous as the home of the artist William Hogarth. |
25189 | 1669142 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25189 | The Golden Girls | The Golden Girls was an American comedy television series. It ran from 1985 to 1992 on NBC. It was about a group of older women who lived in the same house in Miami, Florida. The series was produced by Paul Junger Witt.
Characters.
The women were: |
25190 | 793 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25190 | Muppets | |
25191 | 1424781 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25191 | Bark | Bark is the covering of the stems of woody plants, like trees. Bark protects the tree. Bark of different plants and trees can look very different, it can be rough or smooth and can have different colors. It is the outer layer of tree trunks.
Most of the bark grows from the vascular cambium. Some outer parts of the bark... |
25192 | 293183 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25192 | Tartar | Tartar could mean: |
25195 | 10286744 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25195 | Cowboy | Cowboy is a broad term for men who work on ranches in North America. Etymologists trace the use of the term cowboy back to 1000 AD in Ireland. Being the oldest use of the word, in Irish it’s “ buachaill bó “. Other languages have used other words, such as "Boötes" in Ancient Greek The word "cowboy" was used in England ... |
25196 | 40117 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25196 | Janet Reno | Janet Reno (June 21, 1938 – November 7, 2016) was the United States Attorney General from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. She was the first woman to ever have this job.
Reno died on November 7, 2016 from complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 78. |
25206 | 111904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25206 | Dong | |
25208 | 10250126 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25208 | 1493 | |
25211 | 1011873 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25211 | 1285 | |
25214 | 1547780 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25214 | Alex Haley | Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an African-American writer. He also had Irish and, according to his own telling, some Cherokee ancestry. He was born in Ithaca, New York. He is best known for "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", which he helped Malcolm X write, and his book "", which... |
25215 | 631927 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25215 | Harold Robbins | Harold Robbins (born Harold Rubin; May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author. |
25216 | 7167 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25216 | Palatine | |
25217 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25217 | Black holes | |
25218 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25218 | Engines | |
25219 | 10369798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25219 | Baptism | Baptism is a rite or ceremony performed by Christians and Sikhs. It is done as a symbolic cleansing. For Christians it shows that the person being baptized has become a follower of Jesus, and it can represent the joining of the Christian family. For Sikhs, taking Baptism or Amrit Sanskar is most important and it repres... |
25220 | 824311 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25220 | List of ethnic groups in China | There are many people in China. They all have many different cultures, histories and beliefs. The Chinese government officially says there are 56 small groups of people. They are called "zú" or "mínzú" in China. Of these, almost all of them (about 90%) are Han people (汉族 : Hàn Zú). The rest, called "ethnic minorities",... |
25221 | 10175706 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25221 | Shang dynasty | The Shang dynasty (existed from 1600BC - 1046BC) was the second dynasty in China following the Xia dynasty. Most of what we know about the Shang Dynasty is from reading pictures on oracle bones and bronze objects. A dynasty is a series of rulers which are considered to be part of the same family because they are ruling... |
25223 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25223 | Tang of Shang | King Tang of Shang, in Chinese:" ", born Zi Lu, in Chinese:" " (1617 BC - 1588 BC) was the first king of the Shang dynasty in Chinese history. He fought Jie, the last king of the Xia dynasty.
He was the leader of his "tribe", or group of people, for more than 17 years. When he was a leader, he made many smart men offic... |
25224 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25224 | Baptise | |
25225 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25225 | Baptize | |
25226 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25226 | Baptised | |
25227 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25227 | Baptized | |
25228 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25228 | Baptising | |
25229 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25229 | Baptizing | |
25232 | 863768 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25232 | Bu Bing | King Bu Bing of Shang of China, in Chinese:"卜丙", born Zi Sheng, in Chinese:"子勝". He was the forth king of the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC - 1046 BC). He was the second son of King Tang.
In Records of the Grand Person, he was recorded as the second king of the Shang Dynasty. In that book he is given the name "Wai Bing", in ... |
25233 | 1590957 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25233 | New Year's Eve | New Year's Eve is the holiday before New Year's Day, on 31 December, the last day of the current year.
Today, Western countries usually celebrate this day with a party which ends with a group countdown to midnight. Party hats, noisemakers, fire crackers and drinking champagne are fairly common during this holiday.
Man... |
25234 | 1161309 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25234 | Chen dynasty | The Chen dynasty () was the fourth and the last of the southern dynasties in China. It was an ethnic Han dynasty.
The Chen dynasty 陳 (557-589) was the last of the Southern Dynasties 南朝 (420~589). It was founded by Chen Baxian 陳霸先 (r. 557-559).
Chen Baxian 陳霸先 (posthumous title Emperor Wu of the Chen 陳武帝, r. 557-559) in... |
25235 | 10249323 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25235 | Fighter aircraft | Fighter aircraft are small military planes that are made to fight other airplanes. They are often fast, having aerodynamic shapes (shapes that make them move through air easily) and very powerful engines for their size.
Fighters may carry many different kinds of weapons, including missiles, machine guns, and bombs. Fi... |
25236 | 9436547 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25236 | Aircraft carrier | Aircraft carriers are warships that carry airplanes and other aircraft like helicopters. They are used by navies to allow aircraft to fight along with naval warships. Aircraft carriers are usually very large, carrying hundreds or thousands of sailors and tens or hundreds of aircraft.
The top of an aircraft carrier is c... |
25238 | 1530097 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25238 | Edward Kasner | Edward Kasner (1878–1955) was an American mathematician. He is famous for creating the word googol and the word googolplex.
Kasner went to Columbia University and received his Ph.D. (a degree (measure) of learning) in 1899.
Around 1920, Kasner decided to make a good, catchy name for a very big number (one, followed by ... |
25239 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25239 | Bay of Bengal | The Bay of Bengal is a bay in the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, west of the Malay Peninsula and east of India. It looks like a triangle. It is called the "Bay of Bengal", because to the north are the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh. It is an extended part of the Indian Ocean, but part... |
25240 | 966595 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25240 | Malay Peninsula | The Malay Peninsula (Malay: "Semenanjung Tanah Melayu") is a big peninsula in Southeast Asia. The place is divided into three political parts. This includes: |
25247 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25247 | Jubilee line | The Jubilee line is a line on the London Underground. It runs from Stanmore in north-west London to Stratford in east London. The colour of the Jubilee line on tube maps is grey.
History.
The line opened on 1 May 1979, taking over one of the Bakerloo Line's two branches to relieve the main part of the line. To the Bake... |
25253 | 9916562 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25253 | Medical emergency | A medical emergency is an injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to a person's long-term health or life. It needs to be treated immediately. Doctors that are trained in emergency medicine are taught how to react to medical emergencies, and often have to resuscitate patients.
Response.
Calling emergency servic... |
25254 | 1539758 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25254 | Southeast Asia | Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia, is the southeastern part of Asia. There are 11 countries in this region. All the countries in Southeast Asia are a part of ASEAN, except East Timor. Some of the countries are mostly on the Asian mainland; they were formerly called Indochina. The others are only on islands. All of th... |
25256 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25256 | Southeastern Asia | |
25263 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25263 | 17 August | |
25264 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25264 | World war ii | |
25266 | 1540039 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25266 | Sprint | Sprints are short running races in athletics. They are events in which runners will not have to "pace themselves", but can run as fast as possible for the entire distance. These are often some of the more popular events in the Olympic Games. The most common distances are 60 meters, 100 meters, 200 meters ,400 meters an... |
25267 | 1174418 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25267 | Boxer (dog) | The Boxer is a breed of dog. Boxers were originally bred for fighting, but today they are one of the most popular dog breeds in the United States. They are so popular that over-breeding is a concern.
The average lifespan of a healthy Boxer is 9–11 years.
History.
The Boxer was originally bred in Germany for bull-baiti... |
25270 | 10499896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25270 | American Graffiti | American Graffiti is a 1973 American teen comedy-drama movie directed by George Lucas. This was Lucas' second movie and made him very well known. It is about what happens to a group of teenagers one night in August 1962 in Modesto, California, while they are driving around town and listening to radio DJ Wolfman Jack.
I... |
25275 | 10441 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25275 | Lake Vostok | Lake Vostok is the biggest of the seventy lakes in Antarctica that are under sheets of ice. It is at 77° S 105° E. It is under Russia's Vostok Station. It is 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) under Antarctica's surface.
The lake was found by Russian and British scientists. They used radar to find it.
The lake consists of fr... |
25276 | 3164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25276 | Loofah | |
25277 | 1521690 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25277 | Infrared | Infrared (IR) radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation (a wave with electricity). The wave is longer than light which humans can see and shorter than microwaves. The word "infrared" means "below red". It comes from the Latin word "infra" (meaning "below") and the English word "red". (Infrared light has a freque... |
25278 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25278 | Electromagnetic waves | |
25279 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25279 | Infra-red | |
25280 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25280 | Infra red | |
25281 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25281 | Infrared radiation | |
25282 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25282 | Infrared light | |
25283 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25283 | Infra-red radiation | |
25284 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25284 | Infra red radiation | |
25285 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25285 | Infra red light | |
25286 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25286 | Infra-red light | |
25289 | 656019 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25289 | Municipalities of Republika Srpska | In 1994, the "Law on Territorial Organization and Local Self-Government" was created. It made the Republika Srpska into 80 parts, called municipalities. However, because of the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1996, there are now 63 parts. |
25291 | 314522 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25291 | Republika Srpska | "This page is not to be confused with the page of Republika Srbija which redirects to Serbia"
Republika Srpska (Serbo-Croatian: Република Српска / Republika Srpska) is one of the two parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other part is the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and there is also a special city that is not... |
25292 | 1498485 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25292 | Kenneth Branagh | Sir Kenneth Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor, movie director and television producer. He played Hamlet. He has directed and acted in many Shakespeare adaptations. He has acted alongside popular actors including: Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Michael Keaton, Maggie Smith and Alan Rickman. He is also kno... |
25295 | 22027 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25295 | Sculpture | Sculpture is a type of art. It must be three-dimensional (meaning it must have height, width, and depth like a cube). There are many kinds of sculptures from different parts of the world, like China and India, or from different time periods, like the Renaissance and modern times. The pictures below are of sculptures: |
25296 | 1566408 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25296 | Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | Charles V (24 February 1500 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1519, King of Castile and Aragon from 1516, and Lord of the Low Countries as Duke of Burgundy from 1506.
Philip the Handsome (son of Maximilian I of Austria and Mary of Burgundy) and Joanna the Mad (daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabell... |
25297 | 10216269 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25297 | Renaissance | The Renaissance is a period in European history that followed the Middle Ages and ended in the 17th century. "Renaissance" is a French word for “cultural rebirth.” During this period, there was a “rebirth” of classical learning. People started relearning the teachings of scholars from Ancient Greece, Rome, and other an... |
25298 | 3164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25298 | Similar | |
25299 | 3164 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25299 | Rubber tree | |
25307 | 1458798 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25307 | Lava | Lava is magma, hot molten rock that flows through holes in the Earth's crust and onto the surface. Like magma, lava can be either viscous (~thick) or fluid (~thin). Blocky lava is so thick and slow that it barely moves along the ground. Other types of lava, like "pahoehoe", "aa", and "pillow lava", are thinner and flow... |
25308 | 1572762 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25308 | Greenwich Village | Greenwich Village is an area on the western part of southern/downtown Manhattan. It is sometimes called "The Village". The Village is mainly residential.
Greenwich Village is bordered by Broadway to the east, Hudson River to the west, Houston Street to the south and 14th Street to the north.
Originally, Greenwich Villa... |
25353 | 1041406 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25353 | Yoshiki | is a Japanese musician. He is a co-founder of the Japanese band rock X Japan. He also founded an independent record label Extasy Records. X Japan ended in 1997. They got back together in 2007 and are currently touring worldwide.
Yoshiki's solo career includes two classical studio albums: "Eternal Melody" (1993), and "... |
25359 | 532461 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25359 | Aragon | Aragon is an autonomous community in the northeast of Spain. In the various dialects of Spain it is: in ; in ; in .
Aragon covers the area of the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. It is named after the Aragón river, a tributary of the Ebro.
Aragon has three provinces (from north to south): Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel. Its ca... |
25360 | 1438187 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25360 | Aragonese language | The Aragonese language is a Romance language spoken in the north of Aragon by 10,000 people.
It is similar to nearby languages: Spanish, Catalan and Occitan. Also, many Aragonese words are similar to Basque words.
History.
Aragonese, which developed in parts of the Ebro basin, can be traced back to the High Middle Ages... |
25361 | 2077 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25361 | Tom Skeritt | |
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25365 | 10249270 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25365 | 251 | 251 (CCLI) was . |
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