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Cuba | Healthcare by country, education by country, Cuba, Spanish-speaking countries, Caribbean Community, Current dictatorships
Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean Sea. The country is made up of the big island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud island (Isle of Youth), and many smaller islands. Havana is the capital city of Cuba. It is the largest city. The second largest city is Santiago de Cuba. In Spanish, the capital is called "La Haban...
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Cube | Platonic solids
A cube is a type of polyhedron with all right angles and whose height, width and depth are all the same. It is a type of rectangular prism, which is itself a type of hexahedron. A cube is one of the simplest mathematical shapes in space. Something that is shaped like a cube can be called cubic. Surface area of cube=6l^...
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Cost of living | Economic indicators
Cost of living is the amount of money it costs just to live in a certain place. It is measured using a list of things people need, like food and housing. Governments measure cost of living to give welfare (money or benefits for poor people) and to set minimum wage. When the cost of living is higher than people can pay,...
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December | Months
December (Dec.) is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, coming between November (of the current year) and January (of the following year). It has 31 days. With the name of the month coming from the Latin decem for "ten", it was the tenth month of the year before January and February were ad...
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Dublin | Dublin, County towns in Ireland
Dublin () is the capital city of the Republic of Ireland, and the biggest city on the island of Ireland. In 2022, there were over 2.13 million people living in the Greater Dublin Area. Dublin was built by the Vikings upon the river Liffey. The river divides the city into two parts, North Dublin and South Dublin. Many f...
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Dance | Dance, Non-verbal communication
Dance is a performing art. It is described in many ways. It is when people move to a musical rhythm. They may be alone, or in a group. The dance may be an informal play, a part of a ritual, or a part of a professional performance. There are many kinds of dances, and every human society has its own dances. Dancing is no...
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Dissolution of the monasteries | 16th century in England, Anglicanism, Protestant Reformation, History of the Church of England
frame|right|Modern drawing of one of Oliver Cromwell's visitors leaving a monastery. People think this could be Colchester Abbey, after it was ruined. The dissolution of the monasteries was an event that happened from 1536 to 1540, when English King Henry VIII took away the land and money that the nuns and monks of the...
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Data Device
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Deadline | time, Planning, Problem solving
A deadline is a time by which some task must be completed. Very often, it means a time limit that is set in place by an authority - for example, a teacher tells students that they must turn in their homework in by a certain time. This is so the teacher is able to report fairly to his or her principal that every student...
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Dutton's Speedwords | Constructed languages
Dutton Speedwords is a made-up language written by Reginald John Garfield Dutton. The idea of Dutton Speedwords is to make frequent words short, and very frequent words very short. Dutton Speedwords can be used as a second language for international communications. Dutton Speedwords is also a shorthand writing system ...
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Devil | Theology, Demons
In some religions and mythology, the Devil (also called the God of Darkness or Dark God) is an evil spirit, deity, demon, or other supernatural being that tries to create problems for people and distance them from God. In some cultures, the Devil is seen as the embodiment of evil. He is often depicted with red skin, ho...
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Diarrhea | Diseases and disorders of the digestive system
Diarrhea (DIE-uh-REE-uh), also spelled diarrhoea, happens when the body makes more watery feces than normal. Diarrhea can occur in humans as well as most other mammals. Diarrhea is not a disease. But it may be a symptom of a disease. The most common causes of diarrhea are: Viruses, like Norovirus (the most common cause...
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Dimension | Geometry, Algebra
Dimensions are the way we see, measure and experience our world, by using up and down, right to left, back to front, before and after (geometric dimensions), hot and cold, how heavy and how long (physical dimensions), as well as more advanced concepts from mathematics and physics. One way to define a dimension is to lo...
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Distance | Physical quantity, Mathematics, Geometry, Size
Distance is how far one thing is from another thing. It is also a measure of the space between two things. It can be measured along any path. Thus, someone who goes around in a circle has traveled a distance, even though his position has not changed. In geometry, the distance between two points A and B is sometimes wri...
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Depth | Physical quantity
In math, the distance between the nearest end and the farthest end of an object is its depth. For example, the depth of a box can be measured. When the distance between one end of the box and another end of the box is found, the box's depth was measured. For liquids, the distance between the top or surface of the liqui...
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Dictionary | Dictionaries, Reference works
A dictionary is a type of book which explains the meanings of words or, more precisely, lexemes. The words are arranged in alphabetical order so that they can be found quickly. The word "dictionary" comes from the Latin "dictio" ("saying"). There are several types of dictionaries: dictionaries which explain words and h...
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Definition | Words
A definition in language explains what a word or phrase means. Defining means giving a definition. Other words with this meaning are description and explanation. They describe what a word means and explains to the person when and where it can be used. In mathematics, a definition is an exact way of saying what a mathem...
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Denmark | Denmark, European Union member states, Nordic countries, Current monarchies, 10th-century establishments in Europe
Denmark (), officially named the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the furthest south of the Scandinavian countries, to the northeast of North America, to the south of Norway and south-west of Sweden (which it is connected to by a bridge). It has a south border with Germany and a northea...
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Death | Basic English 850 words, Death
alt=|thumb|Death and his flowers, in Kuoleman puutarha, Hugo Simberg (1906) Death is the end of a life in an organism. All biological and living activity of the living thing stops, including the mind and the senses. The usual signal for death in humans and many other animals is that the heart stops beating and cannot b...
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Diesel-electric | Motors
A diesel-electric engine is a diesel generator, a diesel engine that drives an electric generator. The generator feeds electric power to an electric motor which turns a driveshaft. Its efficiency is higher than when an engine drives a shaft through gears. Most locomotives and many ships use diesel-electric drive. Man...
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Degree (geometry)
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Embassy | Diplomacy
A foreign embassy is the official office of one country in another. It is usually in the capital city of the other country. It is where the ambassador and other representatives of the home country work. Much of the diplomacy (talk) between the two governments happens there. They represent their country to the host gov...
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Europe | Europe, Laurasia
Europe is the western part of the continent of Eurasia, often thought of as its own continent. It is separated from Asia by the Ural Mountains in Russia and the Bosporus strait in Turkey. Europe is bordered by water on three sides. On the west is the Atlantic Ocean. To the north is the Arctic Ocean. The Mediterranean S...
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Encyclopedia | Encyclopedias
An encyclopedia is a collection, usually a book or website, of information. Some are known as encyclopedic dictionaries. An encyclopedia contains a lot of information on many subjects like math, science, English, Geography, etc. making it helpful for learning. All encyclopedias were printed, until the late 20th century...
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Earth science | Earth sciences
Earth science is an all-covering term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. Earth science may also be called geoscience. Geoscience is the study of the architecture of the Earth. It is a broader term than geology because it includes aspects of planetary science, which is part of astronomy. The Earth sciences in...
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Earth | Basic English 850 words, Earth
Earth has an atmosphere, which is a layer of gases that surrounds the planet. Most of the atmosphere is made of nitrogen and oxygen. There is also water vapor in the air, which forms clouds that cover much of the planet. The water vapor and other gases, like carbon dioxide, help trap energy from the Sun. It also blocks...
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Et cetera | Latin phrases
Et cetera means "and the rest" in Latin. It is typically used in English to continue a list longer than what can be written. The word et cetera is often written as etc.. It is also rarely written as &c, or &. It is the same as et ‒ formed by the joining of "e" and "t" into a single letter. "Jane has a lot of pets. She ...
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Experiments
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Experiment | Experiments
An experiment is a test of an idea or a method. It is often used by scientists and engineers. An experiment is used to see how well the idea matches the real world. Experiments have been used for many years to help people understand the world around them. Experiments are part of scientific method. Many experiments are ...
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Ethics | Ethics
Ethics is the study of good and bad behavior. It is one of the main parts of philosophy. Ethics tries to answer questions like: What actions are good? What actions are evil? How can we tell the difference? Are good and evil the same? How should we make hard decisions that might help or hurt other people? How do our act...
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E Prime | English language
E Prime (it means English Prime) defines a way of speaking English without using the verb "to be" in any way ("be, is, am, are, was, were, been, and being"). Instead, an E Prime speaker or writer uses different verbs like "to become," "to remain," and "to equal" or they might choose to rearrange the sentence to show th...
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English As A Second Language
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Einstein on the Beach | 1970s operas, 1976
Einstein on the Beach is an opera written by the minimalist composer Philip Glass and theater director and designer Robert Wilson. It was first acted for an audience in Avignon, France in 1976. It is a single act opera, about five hours long with no intermission. Because of the length and the minimalist (repetitive) na...
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English
English has multiple meanings: From or about the country England The Amish word for somebody who is not in their group Avoirdupois, a system of measurement sometimes called "English". English opening, a chess opening English, Indiana, the county seat of Crawford County
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Ethnic group | Ethnic groups
An ethnic group is a group of people who are considered to be the same in some or multiple ways. They may all have the same ancestors, speak the same language, or have the same culture, which could sometimes include religion. They often live in the same or surrounding area. Sometimes almost all of the people in one cou...
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ESL
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EAL
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Ebola virus | Viruses, Diseases caused by viruses, Zoonoses
Ebola virus or Ebola virus disease (EVD), often shortened to Ebola, is a very dangerous virus. It belongs to the family Filoviridae. Four different types of Ebola virus can cause a severe disease which is often fatal. Ebola infection causes hemorrhagic fever which starts suddenly. "Hemorrhagic" means that the victim wi...
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Ecology | Ecology
Ecology is the branch or aspect of biology that studies the biota (living things), the environment, and their interactions. It comes from the Greek oikos = house; logos = study. Ecology is the study of ecosystems. Ecosystems describe the web or network of relations among organisms at different scales of organization. ...
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Economics | Economics
Economics is the social science which studies economic activity: how people make choices to get what they want. It has been called "the study of scarcity and choice" (scarcity is when there is not a lot of something). Economics is about the choices people make. It also studies what affects the production (making things...
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Chemical element | Chemical elements, Nuclear physics
Chemical elements are commonly arranged in the periodic table. Where the elements are in the table tells us about their properties relative to the other elements. Chemical elements are given a unique chemical symbol. Chemical symbols are used all over the world. This means that, no matter which language is spoken, ther...
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Egypt | Egypt, Members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, 1922 establishments in Africa, North African countries
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean, located in North Africa and Western Asia. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north. To the northeast is the region of the Southern Levant comprising Israel and the Gaza Strip, which is part of Palest...
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Everything2 | American social networking websites, 1998 establishments
Everything2 or E2 is a website. It lets people make pages about many different things, and some people use it as a diary. E2 users create pages called nodes and add stuff in writeups. Only logged-in users can create writeups. Only the person who created the writeup or someone who the website owners (called "gods") c...
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Editor
An Editor is a person who makes edits (changes) to documents. More specifically the word editor can mean: a person who changes texts; see copy editing. a newspaper or magazine editor is a person who prepares articles for printing and sometimes chooses which articles to put in the newspaper. The main editor of a newspa...
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Ecological yield | Ecology
Ecological yield is the harvestable growth of an ecosystem. It is most commonly measured in forestry - in fact sustainable forestry is defined as that which does not harvest more wood in a year than has grown in that year, within a given patch of forest. However, the concept is also applicable to water, and soil, and ...
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Experience economy | Economics
The experience economy is the intangible service economy that customers experience directly. In moral purchasing, Natural Capitalism and other theories of how consumers make choices, they are actually choosing experiences or comprehensive outcomes of their choices. For instance to buy local is to choose a whole exper...
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Execution | Capital punishment
Execution or capital punishment is where state authorities kill someone for having committed an extremely serious crime, usually treason or especially terrible murders. In most countries where the death penalty is still provided for by law, using it is an option available to the sentencing judge: even if the jury or ju...
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Flesch Reading Ease | Reading
The Flesch Reading Ease (FRES) score says how easy something is to read. J. Peter Kincaid and others made this formula for the U.S. Navy in 1975. The FRES test works by counting the number of words, syllables, and sentences in the text. It then calculates the average number of words per sentence and the average number ...
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Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level
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Fog Index
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February | Months
February (Feb.) is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, coming between January and March. It has 28 days in common years, and 29 days in leap years. This was to make the calendar match to the rest of the world. In 1930 and 1931, February had 30 days in the Soviet Union because the governm...
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FAQ | Internet slang
FAQ is an abbreviation for "Frequently Asked Question(s)". The term is used for a list of questions and answers. All of the questions are supposed to be asked often and they all are about the same thing. Since the acronym was first used in written form, there are different ways it is said; both "fak" and "F.A.Q." are c...
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Flaming
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Flame (disambiguation) | Basic English 850 words
A flame is the part of a fire that can be seen. Flame might also mean: Flaming (internet) - Insult sent over the internet on purpose Flame retardant, a kind of material that resists heat and flame. Flame Nebula, a star in Orion's Belt Calgary Flames, Canadian ice hockey team Atlanta Flames, original name of the Calgary...
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Financial capital | Factors of production, Finance
Financial capital is a form of capital. It is things that have value, but do not do anything by themselves. They are only valuable because people value (want) them. For example, money is a form of financial capital. You cannot do anything with money but it still has value. Financial capital is used to pay for things, t...
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Fecund universes | Cosmology
Fecund universes is a multiverse theory of Lee Smolin. It relies on models of our universe and statistics from astrophysics but is more correctly a theory of cosmology. In this theory, collapsing stars, or black holes, are always creating new universes with slightly different laws of physics. Because these laws are o...
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Food | Basic English 850 words, Foods
Food is what people, plants and animals eat to live. Every organism needs energy to carry on with the process of living which comes from food. Food usually comes from animals and plants. It is eaten by living things to provide energy and nutrition. Food contains the nutrition that people and animals need to be healthy....
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Fine | Punishments, Money
If someone is found guilty of a crime, their punishment may be to pay a fine, a certain amount of money. In many countries, fines can be ordered by police, court judges and some government officers. When agreeing to a contract with a business, a customer may agree to certain rules. If the customer breaks the rules, the...
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Frying | Cooking methods
Frying is cooking food in hot butter or vegetable oil or other fat. We can fry food in a small amount of fat in a pan or in a lot of oil in a pot. Some restaurants use deep frying to fry a large amount of food in a lot of oil, especially when cooking fast food like french fries, doughnuts, and chicken nuggets. Fried fo...
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Fish | Basic English 850 words, Fish, Animals
Fish (plural: fish or fishes) are a group of animals which live in water and respire (get oxygen) from their gills. As a group, they are much older than other vertebrates. The first fish developed about 500 million years ago. Shell fish such as the crab or lobster are actually small, boneless creatures that live in the...
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Foot (human) | Basic English 850 words, Feet
:Foot is also the name of a unit of measurement. See foot (unit). A foot (one foot, two or more feet) is a body part on the end of a leg. It is used when walking. It is also important for balance: it helps people stand straight. People also use it to kick, in both fighting and sports, football being an example. People'...
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France | France, European Union member states, Former good articles, French-speaking countries, G8 nations, G7 nations
France ( or ; ), officially the French Republic (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It also includes various departments and territories of France overseas. Mainland France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is sometimes referred t...
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Finland | Finland, European Union member states, Nordic countries, Members of NATO, 1917 establishments in Europe
Finland (Finnish: Suomi) is a country in Northern Europe and is a member state of the European Union and NATO. Finland is one of the Nordic countries and is also part of Fennoscandia. Finland is located between the 60th and 70th latitudes North. Its neighbours are Sweden to the west, Norway to the north, Russia to the ...
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Fruit | Basic English 850 words, Fruits, Plant anatomy
In botany, a fruit is a plant structure that contains the plant's seeds. To a botanist, the word fruit is used only if it comes from the part of the flower which was an ovary. It is an extra layer round the seeds, which may or may not be fleshy. However, even in the field of botany, there is no general agreement on how...
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Farm | Farms, Basic English 850 words
A farm is a piece of land used to grow crops and/or raise animals. People who grow these plants or raise these animals are called farmers. This work is called farming. Land that is used to grow plants is called farmland. Land that is used to feed animals with its grass is called pasture. Land that can be used to gro...
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Geography | Geography
Geography (from Greek: , geographia, literally "earth description") is the study of earth and its people. It is one of the social sciences. Its features are things like continents, seas, rivers and mountains. The 'inhabitants' of Earth are all the people and animals that live on it. Its phenomena are the things that h...
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Goodness
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Grammar | Grammar, Linguistics terminology
Grammar is the study of words, how they are used in sentences, and how they change in different situations. The Ancient Greeks used to call it grammatikē tékhnē, the craft of letters. It can have any of these meanings: The study of a language: how it works, and everything about it. This is background research on langua...
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Great Lakes | Great Lakes, Lakes of Canada, Geography of Ontario, Lakes of the United States
The Great Lakes are five large lakes in east-central North America. They hold 21% of the world's surface fresh water. The five lakes are: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. Four of the Great Lakes are on the border between Canada and the United States of America. The other, Lake Mich...
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GNU Free Documentation License | Software licences
The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for open content such as software. It was made by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. It was initially created for use with software documentation, but can be applied to other types of works as well, such as Wikipedia....
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GFDL
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Glass | Glass, Basic English 850 words
Glass is a hard material that can be made in many shapes. It is usually transparent, but it can also be made in colours. Glass is mainly made of silica; glass made of silica only is called silica glass. Glass used to make windows and bottles is a specific type called soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silicon dioxi...
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God | Gods and goddesses
God is a being or spirit worshipped as a deity. God is considered to be the creator of the universe in some religions. Theists believe that God created everything that exists and has ever existed. Some theists think God is immortal (cannot die) and has power without limits. Deism is the belief that God exists, but God...
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Ghost | Occult, Afterlife
In folklore a ghost, phantom, or spirit, is thought to be the soul of a dead person, usually one who tries to scare alive people. Scientists say that there is no proof that ghosts are real, but many people believe that they are. There are a lot of stories about ghosts in books and movies. Sometimes the ghost is the spi...
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Green | Basic English 850 words
Green is a color between the yellow and blue colors in the rainbow. Green is a primary color (a color that can be mixed with another color) of light. The others are red and blue. Green and blue are next to each other on the spectrum, and there are languages which do not distinguish between them. Examples are old Chines...
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God's eye view | Social sciences
God's eye view is a name for a point of view where the speaker or writer assumes they have knowledge only God would have. It appears several ways: In religion, when an institution claims to speak for a divine being. In writing, when a writer leaves the point of view of the main actor to start writing about things they ...
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Google | Google, 1998 establishments in the United States, Companies listed on NASDAQ, Mountain View, California, American search engines, Companies based in California
Google is an American multinational corporation from the United States. Known for creating and running one of the largest search engines on the World Wide Web, also known as the (WWW). Every day more than a billion people use it. Google's headquarters (known as the "Googleplex") is in Mountain View, California, part of...
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Gallon | Imperial units, Units of volume
A gallon is a volumetric unit of measurement. People have used many different gallons throughout history. Only two gallons are still commonly used, which are the imperial and U.S. liquid gallon. 1 imperial gallon is 4.5 litres and 1 U.S. liquid gallon is 4.4 litres Petrol, also known as gasoline, is sold by the imperia...
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Government | Basic English 850 words, Government
A government is a group of people that have the power to rule in a territory, according to the administrative law. This territory may be a country, a state or province within a country, or a region. There are many types of government, such as democratic, parliamentary, presidential, federal or unitary Governments make ...
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Galaxy | Galaxies
A galaxy is a group of many stars, with gas, dust, and dark matter. The name 'galaxy' is taken from the Greek word galaxia meaning milky, a reference to our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Gravity holds galaxies together against the general expansion of the universe. In effect, the expansion of the universe takes place betw...
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Geometry | Geometry
Geometry (from Ancient Greek: Γεωμετρία (romanized: Geometria (English: "Land measurement") derived from Γη (romanized: Ge; English: "Earth" or "land") and also derived from Μέτρον) (romanized: Métron; English: "A measure")) is a branch of mathematics that studies the size, shapes, positions and dimensions of things. W...
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Graph theory | Graph theory
Graph theory is a field of mathematics about graphs. A graph is an abstract representation of: a number of points that are connected by lines. Each point is usually called a vertex (more than one are called vertices), and the lines are called edges. Graphs are a tool for modelling relationships. They are used to find a...
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Goatee | Facial hair
A goatee is a beard formed by a tuft of hair under the chin, resembling that of a billy goat. Information on goatees
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Herm | Islands of the Channel Islands
Herm is the smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public. Herm is only 1 miles long. Cars are banned from the small island just like its Channel Island neighbour, Sark. Unlike Sark, bicycles are banned too. The sandy white beaches make Herm a walker's paradise. Population: 60 (2002).
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History | Basic English 850 words, History
History is the study of past events. People know what happened in the past by looking at things from the past including sources (like books, newspapers, scripts and letters), buildings and different types of artifacts (like pottery, tools, coins and human or animal remains.) Libraries, archives, and museums collect and...
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Health | Health, Basic English 850 words
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Physical health is about the body. Mental health is about how people think and feel. Social health talks about how people live with other people. It is about fam...
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Harbor | Basic English 850 words, Ports and harbours
A harbor (American English) or harbour (British English) is a place where ships may shelter. Some harbors are used as ports to load and unload ships. The port will have quays or piers where the ships may be tied up and a transport system for taking goods inland. Often railway and road transport will be used. Goods also...
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Hawaii | Hawaii, 1959 establishments in the United States
Hawaii () is a U.S. state and the only U.S. State that is in Oceania, about southwest of the U.S. mainland. It is the most recent state to join the United States, becoming a state on August 21, 1959. It is the only state made only of islands. Hawaii is also the name of the largest island. The capital and largest city ...
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Honolulu | Honolulu, State capitals in the United States, 1907 establishments in North America, 1900s establishments in Hawaii, County seats in Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is also the largest city in Hawaii and it has the most important harbor. It is on the south-east shore of the island of Oahu. Honolulu means "sheltered harbor" in the Hawaiian language. No one knows for sure when Honolulu was first settled or when the name w...
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Hawaiʻi (island) | Islands of Hawaii
The Island of Hawaiʻi is the largest U.S. Hawaiian Island, and it is the farthest south. It is also called the "Big Island." Its area is 4,038 sq. miles (10,458 km2). The widest part of the island is 93 miles (150 km) across. The Big Island has more than half (~62%) of the total land area of State of Hawaii. It is part...
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Hawaii Ponoi | Culture of Hawaii, Hawaiian anthems, Historical anthems
"Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī" (; "Hawai's Sons") is the state song of Hawaii. The words were written by King David Kalakaua, the music by Prof. Henry Berger, the Royal Bandmaster. "Hawai`i Ponoi" was also the anthem of the Kingdom of Hawai`i and the Territory of Hawai`i. Hawaiian originalIPA transcriptionEnglish translationHawaii's...
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Healing | Health, Tissues
Healing is a process that happens in the body. Through healing, cells are able to repair damaged tissue. There are two different ways healing can happen: The damaged tissue is replaced with tissue of the same kind. This is called regeneration. The damaged tissue is replaced with scar tissue. This is called repair Most ...
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History of Australia | History of Australia
People have lived in Australia for over 65,000 years. The first people who arrived in Australia were the Aboriginals and the Torres Strait Islanders. They lived in all parts of Australia. They lived by hunting, fishing and gathering. Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders invented tools like the boomerang, spear, and ...
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History of Spain | History of Spain
Spain is a country in Europe. People have lived on the Iberian Peninsula for about 500,000 years. Neanderthal man came about 200,000 years ago. Modern humans first came about 40,000 years. Thousands of years ago Iberians and Celts lived there, and the Phoenicians made a few cities there to get tin and silver to trade. ...
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Height | Physical quantity, Size
Height is the distance between the lowest end and highest end of an object. For example, it is said the bottom of the foot is a person's lowest end, and the top of the head is a person's highest end. If the distance between the bottom of a person's foot and the top of that person's head is 64 inches, then that person's...
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Historian | Historians, Writing occupations
A historian is someone who studies history. Historians use written sources to understand past events and societies. Professional historians often get a Master's degree or PhD. A Master's degree student spends most of their time in the classroom. A PhD student needs to write a long research paper known as a thesis to g...
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Human body | Anatomy
The human body is the body of a person. It is the physical structure of a person. The body is a thing that can be hurt or killed. Its functions are stopped by death. You need your muscles and your joints to move. Study of the human body alt=|thumb|Stomach-colon-rectum diagram numbered Some people study the human body. ...
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Hydrogen | Hydrogen, Refrigerants
Hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant element in the universe. It is the simplest element and the first in the periodic table. It has the chemical symbol H and atomic number 1, which means it has just one proton in its nucleus. Hydrogen also has a standard atomic weight of 1.008. Hydrogen is a colorless, odorless,...
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Helium | Helium
Helium is a chemical element. It has the chemical symbol He, atomic number 2, and atomic weight of about 4.002602. There are 9 isotopes of helium, only two of which are stable. These are 3He and 4He. 4He is by far the most common isotope. Helium is called a noble gas, because it does not regularly mix with other chemic...
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Home page | Websites, Web design
The home page of a website is the document that a web server sends to another computer's web browser application when it has been contacted without a request for specific information. That is, when one enters only a domain name in the Address box without specifying a directory or a file, the home page is usually the f...
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