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DNA | DNA, Cell biology, Macromolecules | 180px|thumb|Chemical structure of DNA. The phosphate groups are yellow, the deoxyribonucleic sugars are orange, and the nitrogen bases are green, purple, pink, and blue. The atoms shown are: P=phosphorus O=oxygen =nitrogen H=hydrogen180px|thumb|right|DNA being copied DNA, short for deoxyribonucleic acid, is the molecul... | simple-english |
Karl Marx | 1818 births, 1883 deaths, 19th-century German philosophers, Former Christians, German atheists, German communists, German economists, German historians, German sociologists, Jewish atheists, Jewish German scientists, Jewish German writers, Jewish philosophers, Marxism, Writers from Rhineland-Palatinate, Eur... | Karl Marx's legacy is marked by his influential contributions to political theory and economics, particularly with his ideas on communism and class struggle. While his ideas have shaped various political movements, their interpretation and application have varied widely, sometimes leading to both positive and negative ... | simple-english |
Full English | #REDIRECT English language | simple-english |
Bread | Basic English 850 words, Breads | Bread is a type of baked food. It is mainly made from dough, which is made mainly from flour and water. Usually, salt and yeast are added. Bread is often baked in an oven. It can be bought all over the world. Bread can be toasted or used to make sandwiches. Bread can be made into many different foods, like pizza. There... | simple-english |
Shinto | Shinto | Shinto () is a form of Japanese animism. It has many kami, translated as gods or nature spirits. Some "kami" are just spirits of certain places, and some are the overall "kami" (like "Amaterasu", the Sun goddess). The word "Shinto" comes from the Japanese words "", shin—the word for spirit or god, and "", tō—the word f... | simple-english |
Volcano | Basic English 850 words, Volcanoes | A volcano is a mountain that has lava (hot, liquid rock) coming out from a magma chamber under the or did have in the past. Volcanoes are formed by the movement of tectonic plates. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's plates, e.g., in the East African Rift. Volcanoes are not ty... | simple-english |
Big Bang | Big Bang | The Big Bang is a physical theory about how the universe started expanding, and then made the stars and galaxies we see today. The Big Bang is the name that scientists use for the most common theory of the universe, from the very early stages to the present day. The most commonly considered alternatives are called the ... | simple-english |
Gmail | Google, E-mail | Gmail is a mailbox provider by Google. It is the largest email service worldwide, with 1.8 billion users. Users can receive emails up to 50 megabytes in size, including attachments, and can send emails up to 25 megabytes in size. Gmail supports integration with Google Drive, allowing for larger attachments. The Gmail i... | simple-english |
Astronomer | Astronomers, Science occupations | An astronomer is a scientist who studies astronomy. Observational astronomers work in observatories with telescopes to collect information from things in outer space such as planets, stars, or galaxies. Theoretical astronomers study the collected information, and use it to help us understand how the universe behaves. | simple-english |
Analysis | Philosophy, Research methods, Methodology, Analysis, Critical thinking skills, Rationalism, Reasoning, Abstraction, Scientific method | Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development. The word comes fro... | simple-english |
Foolishness | Knowledge, Basic English 850 words | Foolishness is when someone acts without wisdom or sense. A foolish decision is one made without careful reasoning or judgement. An act of foolishness is called folly. A person who shows foolishness may be called a fool. It is different to stupidity, which is the lack of intelligence. A fool's errand is a useless piece... | simple-english |
Aristotle | 384 BC births, 322 BC deaths, Ancient Greek philosophers, Ancient Greek writers, Polymaths | Aristotle (Stagira, Macedonia, 384 BC – Chalicis, Euboea, Greece, 7 March 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher. He was one of the most important philosophers in the history of Western civilization. Aristotle wrote many books, and some of those books survive. Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great when Alexander was a child.... | simple-english |
Carl Sagan | 1934 births, 1996 deaths, Agnostics, American astronomers, Deaths from pneumonia, Infectious disease deaths in the United States, Jewish American scientists, Jewish American writers, Pulitzer Prize winners, Scientists from New York (state), Writers from New York City, American Emmy Award winners | Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer. He was very interested in what extraterrestrial life on other planets would be like, which is known as SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence). Sagan was a science communicator, which meant he taught people about science.... | simple-english |
Simple English version of the GFDL | #redirect Wikipedia:Simple English GFDL | simple-english |
Matsuo Basho | 1644 births, 1694 deaths, Japanese poets | Matsuo Munefusa, known as Matsuo Bashō (, 1644 - November 28, 1694) was a Japanese poet. He is known as the greatest maker of haiku, a kind of poetry with 17 syllables. The Japanese written language was difficult to master, but haiku was easy for him to write. Matsuo's haikus included characteristics of nature and the ... | simple-english |
Colonisation | #REDIRECT Colonization | simple-english |
Colonization | Colonialism, Imperialism, International relations | Colonization is the act of the people of a country settling in another area or country to rule the place. An early example is the settlers who went from the cities of Ancient Greece to start new cities. In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. This is how the Europeans learned that North America and South ... | simple-english |
Choreography | Art, Dance, Entertainment, Popular culture, Choreographers | Choreography (dance-writing) is the art of making dances. It tells dancers how they should dance and move. The word has been used since the late 18th century to mean the art of composing dance. A person who does choreography is called a choreographer. A choreographer makes a dance based on music or a synopsis (a writin... | simple-english |
Electrical cell | Tools, Electricity | An electrical cell is a device used to generate electricity, or to make chemical reactions by applying electricity. A battery is one or more cells, connected. This cell is also known as electrochemical cell. Cells producing electricity The simple electrical cells were first developed in 1800s. They are also called gal... | simple-english |
Dry cell | Electronics, Physical chemistry, Batteries | Dry cells are a type of chemical cells. Dry cells are commonly used today in the form of batteries. Dry cells are used in many electrical appliances. They have to be thrown away after their chemicals are used. Secondary cells are rechargeable. They can be used again. Rechargeable battery | simple-english |
Vietnam War | Vietnam War | The Vietnam War (also known as the Second Indochina War, Vietnamese-American War or the American War in Vietnam) lasted from 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975. It was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea, and South Vietnam was set up by t... | simple-english |
Modified Mercalli scale | #REDIRECTMercalli intensity scale | simple-english |
Sahel | Geography of Africa, Biomes | The Sahel is a narrow belt of land in North Africa. It is a strip of land about 5500 kilometers long and 450 kilometres wide. It lies at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert The Sahel has a tropical semi-arid climate. It is between the dry desert land to the north and the forest areas to the south. The temperature i... | simple-english |
Chemical change | Chemical reactions | A chemical change (chemical reaction) is a change of materials into other materials with different properties. Chemical changes occur when a substance combines with another to form a new substance, or, chemical decomposition into two or more different substances. These processes are called chemical reactions. Burning ... | simple-english |
Physical change | Chemistry, Physics | A physical change is a type of change in which the form of matter is altered but one substance is not transformed into another. The size or shape of matter may be changed, but no chemical reaction occurs. All physical changes are reversible and their mass does not change. Some examples are changes of shape, changes of ... | simple-english |
Ronald Reagan | Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Congressional Gold Medal recipients, Recipients of the Order pro merito Melitensi, Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland), National Radio Hall of Fame inductees, 1968 United States presidential candidates, 1976 United States presidentia... | Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, spokesperson and actor. He was the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Before becoming president, he was the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. He was also the 9th and 13th president of the Screen Actors Gu... | simple-english |
United Nations | United Nations, 1945 establishments | The United Nations (UN) is an organization between countries established on 24 October 1945 to promote international cooperation. It was founded to replace the League of Nations following World War II and to prevent another conflict. When it was founded, the UN had 51 members. Now there are 193. Most nations are member... | simple-english |
List of Astronomers | #REDIRECT List of astronomers | simple-english |
List of historians | Historians, Lists of historians | This is a list of historians. The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialised. Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience. Herodotus, (485—... | simple-english |
Japanese | Japanese might mean: Anything related to Japan | simple-english |
Zeami | #REDIRECT Zeami Motokiyo | simple-english |
Marco Polo | 1254 births, 1324 deaths, Italian explorers, European geographers, People from Venice | Marco Polo was born in 1254 and died on January 8, 1324. He was an Italian trader and explorer. He was one of the first Europeans to explore Central Asia and East Asia. Many other explorers, including Christopher Columbus, looked up to him. He spoke four languages. Marco Polo was known for the book, Travels of Marco Po... | simple-english |
Herpes zoster | Diseases caused by viruses | Herpes zoster (also known as shingles or zona) is a disease in humans. The same virus that causes chickenpox also causes shingles. The symptoms are pain and a rash with blisters. The shingles vaccine reduces the risk of shingles. Antivirus medicine can reduce the seriousness and duration of shingles if started within 3... | simple-english |
A Brief History of Time | 1988 books, Science books | A Brief History of Time (1988) is a book written by the scientist and mathematician Stephen Hawking. The subject of the book is cosmology, the story of the universe. There are two other versions of this book: The Illustrated A Brief History of Time and A Briefer History of Time. The Illustrated A Brief History of Time ... | simple-english |
Black Holes and Baby Universe and Other Essays | #REDIRECT Stephen Hawking | simple-english |
Alexander Graham Bell | Scientists from Edinburgh, Royal Society of Arts, Scottish inventors, 1847 births, 1922 deaths, British inventors, Canadian inventors, Canadian engineers, American inventors, People from Nova Scotia, Naturalized citizens of the United States, Naturalized citizens of Canada, Electrical engineers | Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born British-Canadian-American teacher, scientist, and inventor. He was the founder of the Bell Telephone Company. In 1876, Bell was the first inventor to patent the telephone, and he helped start the Bell Telephone Company with others in July 1877. ... | simple-english |
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz | 1857 births, 1894 deaths, German academics, German physicists, Scientists from Hamburg | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist. He died from blood poisoning in 1894. | simple-english |
1850 | 1850 | The speed of light in water was observed to be slower than that in air. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne January 21 – Paul Vinzenz Busch, ringmaster (d. 1927) January 27 – Samuel Gompers, English-born labor leader (d. 1924) January 27 – Edward J. Smith, Captain of the Titanic (d. 1912) May 1 – Prince Arthur of... | simple-english |
1869 | 1869 | The Periodic table was developed. January 1 – Sigma Nu, First Anti-Hazing Honor/Social Fraternity January 4 – Tommy Corcoran, baseball player January 10 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic January 15 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect February 11 – Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum ... | simple-english |
1621 | 1621 | February 9 – Gregory XV is elected pope. February 17 – Miles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth Colony. March 16 – Samoset, a Wampanoag, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." March 22 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty wit... | simple-english |
1619 | 1619 | Johannes Kepler proposes his three laws of planetary motion. | simple-english |
1687 | 1687 | March 19 – The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. April 4 – King James II of England issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists. May 6 – Emperor Higashiyama succeeds Emperor Reigen on the thro... | simple-english |
1822 | 1822 | André-Marie Ampère discovered the attraction between current-carrying wires. The law of electric current and magnetic field was developed. The Sunday Times newspaper is first published in the United Kingdom. February 25 – Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, British royal (died 1916) April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant... | simple-english |
1824 | 1824 | Heat was discovered to be transferred from hot to cold objects. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals founded. Brauerei C & A Veltins brewery founded Thomas Jefferson University founded | simple-english |
1826 | 1826 | The first photograph was taken. John Adams second president, and third president Thomas Jefferson both died same day Independence Day. January 12 – William Chapman Rawlston, banker and financier January 26 – Louis Favre, Swiss engineer (d. 1879) February 16 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886) February 1... | simple-english |
1827 | 1827 | People see individual particles of water move. February 5 – Peter Lalor, leader of miners rebellion at Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Australia March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven Book of Songs (poetry) – Heinrich Heine Herzog Theodor von Gotland (play) – Christian Dietrich Grabbe Hope Leslie – Catharine Maria Sedgwick Intrig... | simple-english |
1815 | 1815 | Fresnel developed the theory of light diffraction. Napoleon loses the Battle of Waterloo and is sent to Saint Helena. January 10 – John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891) February 15 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar (d. 1874) April 1 – Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (d. 189... | simple-english |
Deep house | Music genres, House music genres | Deep house is a type of house music. It has influences from disco music and jazz music. The BPM of deep house is usually 100 - 128. | simple-english |
Cytokine | Proteins, Immunology, Cell biology | Cytokines are a group of signalling molecules made by cells. They help to control the immune system and fight disease. They are similar to hormones and, as we learn more about each, distinctions between the two are fading. Cytokines carry signals locally between cells, and these signals have an effect on other cells. T... | simple-english |
Bristol | Unitary authorities, Bristol, Ceremonial counties of England, Port cities and towns of England | Bristol is a city and ceremonial county in England. It is home to nearly 430,000 people. The River Avon runs through it to the Severn estuary. It is between the counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset. In 1373, King Edward III ordered that it should be a county itself forever. However, it lost county status in 1974, t... | simple-english |
List of cities and towns in England | List of cities and towns in England may mean: List of cities in England List of towns in England | simple-english |
1858 | 1858 | Charles Darwin proposes the natural selection of species. A civil war between conservatists and liberals starts in Mexico. The British Empire or rule, begins in India after the surrender and exile of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II January 7 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language (d... | simple-english |
1899 | 1899 | 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, . January 1 – Queens and Staten Island join with New York City. June 19 - The United Kingdom and Egypt be... | simple-english |
Bright Eyes (band) | American rock bands, Indie bands, Electronic music groups, Musical groups from Nebraska, Musicians from Omaha, Nebraska, Musical groups established in 1995, 1995 establishments in the United States, 20th-century establishments in Nebraska | Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band. The people in the band are Conor Oberst, a singer-songwriter; Mike Mogis, a musician and producer; and other friends and session musicians from Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Many people think the band's songs are about Oberst, but Oberst has said that they are not. For example, one s... | simple-english |
Honeycomb | Bees | A honeycomb is a container made by bees out of wax that they produce. The bees make a honeycomb as a place to keep their honey. Bees make honey from nectar that they collect from flowers. After bees collect nectar from flowers, and make it into honey, the bees then put the honey in the small six sided areas of the hone... | simple-english |
Greek language | Greek language | The Greek language, also referred to as the Grecian language, is an Indo-European language that is the official language of Greece (Hellas) and Cyprus. It was first spoken in Greece and was also once spoken along the coast of Asia Minor (now part of Turkey) and in southern Italy. It also used to be widely used in Weste... | simple-english |
Kamishibai | Entertainment in Japan | Kami-shibai (Japanese: 紙芝居) is a storytelling performance with picture cards, and is a traditional Japanese entertainment for children. In Japanese "Kami" means paper and "shibai" means drama or enternainment. The performer tells a story and shows pictures from scene to scene. Kami-shibai is a bidirectional media which... | simple-english |
Murasaki Shikibu | 970s births, 1020s deaths, Japanese poets, Writers from Kyoto Prefecture | was a novelist, poet, and servant of the Imperial Court during the Heian period of Japan. She is well known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written around year 1003. Murasaki Shikibu is a nickname; her real name is unknown. Murasaki was born in Kyoto. She was born into the Fujiwara family. Her father, Fujiwara Tame... | simple-english |
Pepsin | Metabolism, Enzymes | Pepsin is an enzyme. It acts on proteins in the stomach, which has a low pH because of the Hydrochloric acid. It works best at a pH of about 1.5. It will not work at a pH above 6. It was the first animal enzyme to be discovered. Theodor Schwann discovered it in 1836. Pepsin is used to make cheese. | simple-english |
PH | Chemistry | pH is a scale of acidity from 0 to 14. It tells how acidic or alkaline a substance is. More acidic solutions have lower pH. More alkaline solutions have higher pH. Substances that aren't acidic or alkaline (that is, neutral solutions) usually have a pH of 7. Acids have a pH that is less than 7. Alkalis have a pH that i... | simple-english |
Tapeworm | Flatworms, Parasites | Tapeworms are the class Cestoda of segmented flatworms (Platyhelminthes).They are parasitic, which means that they need another larger creature as a host. Tapeworms live inside the intestines of vertebrate animals. This includes humans. When a vertebrate has a tapeworm, they may lose weight and become weaker. Tapeworms... | simple-english |
Gastric ulcer | #redirect peptic ulcer | simple-english |
Omnivore | Omnivores, Diets | An omnivore is an animal whose species gets its energy and nutrients from a diet made up of foods that include plants, animals, algae, fungi and bacteria. Many omnivores change their eating habits during their life cycle. They are sometimes called "life-history omnivores", because they are only omnivores if their whole... | simple-english |
Herbivore | Diets, Animals by eating behavior | Herbivores are animals that only eat plants. They are herbivorous animals. Most modern herbivores (such as deer, elephants, horses) are grazers with teeth that are adapted to grind grass. The main present-day vegetation in most continents is grassland. Some herbivorous animals do eat eggs and sometimes other animal pro... | simple-english |
Hindi | Hindi, 7th-century establishments in Asia, State symbols of Haryana | Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी), or simply Hindi (हिन्दी), historically known as Hindavi (हिन्दवी) or Rekhta (रेख़्ता), is an Indo-Aryan language. It is the biggest language in India and one of the official languages. Nearly half the people in India speak Hindi. The Devanāgarī script is used to write Hindi. ... | simple-english |
1870 | 1870 | 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar. Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) January 8 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930) January 15 – Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist February 7 – Alfred Adler, psycholo... | simple-english |
1871 | 1871 | 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar. January 2 – Amadeus I becomes King of Spain. January 18 – Germany becomes a unified country called the German Empire when states of the North German Confederation and south German... | simple-english |
1882 | 1882 | May 20 – Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. March 29 – The Knights of Columbus are set up. Edison builds first power station in the United States. January 6 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian poet and political figure (d. 1965) January 18 – A. A. Milne, British writer (d. 1956) January 25 – Virginia Woolf... | simple-english |
1941 | 1941 | 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar. January 6 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 – Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States Congress. January 19 – British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. Janu... | simple-english |
1945 | 1945 | 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. It was known for the end of World War II and the founding of UNO and UNESCO. January 27 - The Red Army liberates Auschwitz concentration camp. April 30 - Adolf Hitler committed suicide. May 12 – Rev. W. V. Awdry's children's book The Three R... | simple-english |
Bach | #REDIRECT Johann Sebastian Bach | simple-english |
Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770 births, 1827 deaths, Child prodigies, Classical era composers, 18th-century German composers, Ludwig van Beethoven, Musicians from Bonn, Romantic composers, German Roman Catholics, 19th-century German composers | Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 in Bonn – 26 March 1827 in Vienna; pronounced LUD-vig vahn BAY-TOH-ven) was a German composer. He wrote classical music for the piano, orchestras and different groups of instruments. His best-known works are his third (Eroica), fifth, sixth (Pastorale) and ninth (Choral) ... | simple-english |
Roald Amundsen | 1872 births, 1928 deaths, Norwegian people, Norwegian explorers, People with foods named after them, Missing people | Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer who focused on the poles. He led the first expedition to reach the South Pole and the first that could prove it made it to the North Pole. Amundsen was also the first man known to travel the Northwest Passage. When Amundsen was young, he decided he would use his life to explore t... | simple-english |
Christopher Columbus | 1451 births, 1506 deaths, Deaths from heart failure, Disease-related deaths in Spain, Italian explorers, People from Genoa | Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian trader, explorer, and navigator. The consensus view is that he was born in Genoa in the year 1451, the son of a weaver named Domenico Colombo and a seamstress named Susanna Fontanarossa. Many alternative theories on his origins exist, but are dismissed by the majority of ... | simple-english |
GNU General Public License | Software licences | The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a computer software copyleft license. This license lets the user of the software use a program in many of the same ways as if it were public domain. They can use it, change it, and copy it. They can also sell or give away copies of the program with or without any changes they mad... | simple-english |
Triangle (disambiguation) | In geometry, a triangle is the flat shape formed by joining three points (not in a straight line) with straight line segments. A triangle is a three sided polygon. In music, a triangle is a musical instrument that is made from a metal tube. It is in the shape of a triangle. It is open at one corner, and when it is hit ... | simple-english |
Square | Polygons, Basic English 850 words | A square is a shape with four equal sides and four corners that are all right angles (90 degrees). The diagonals of a square also cross at right angles. The angle between any diagonal and a side of a square is 45 degrees. A square has rotational symmetry of four. It has four lines of regular symmetry. A square with ver... | simple-english |
Leonardo Da Vinci | #REDIRECT Leonardo da Vinci | simple-english |
Computer hardware | Computer hardware | Computer hardware or hardware means the physical parts that make up a computer. Central processing unit (CPU) Random-access memory (RAM) Power supply unit (PSU) Graphics processing unit (GPU) Peripheral equipment Hardware needs software to tell it what to do. Without software, the hardware cannot be used. | simple-english |
Meat | Meat | Meat is animal flesh which is used for food. Most often, it is used to describe skeletal muscles and fats that are found with it. Types of meats include beef, veal from cattle, pork, ham, bacon from pigs, mutton from sheep, venison from deer, fish, insects, poultry from chickens, ducks, turkeys. The word meat is also u... | simple-english |
Anders Celsius | 1701 births, 1744 deaths, Astronomers, Meteorologists, Swedish scientists, People from Uppsala | Anders Celsius (27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744) was a Swedish astronomer. Celsius was born in Uppsala in Sweden. Much of his work was in what was later called Geodesy. He is more famous for developing the Celsius temperature scale when he worked on meteorology (a science about weather conditions). It later bec... | simple-english |
Tuvalu | Tuvalu, Current monarchies, Commonwealth realms, Least developed countries, 1978 establishments in Oceania, Archipelagos, English-speaking countries | Tuvalu is a small island country in the Pacific Ocean. In the past, it was the Ellice Islands. It was part of Gilbert and Ellice Islands with Kiribati. It is a monarchy. Tuvalu is getting smaller. If the sea level keeps rising at the same rate, this country will be covered by water in about 50 years. The most important... | simple-english |
Java | Java | Java () is one of the Sunda Islands of Indonesia. The area is 132,000 square km. It is the world's 13th largest island. Around 140 million people live there, which is half the people in Indonesia and more than on any other island in the world. Most of them speak the Javanese language and many also speak other languages... | simple-english |
James Watt | 1736 births, 1819 deaths, British mechanical engineers, British inventors, Members of the Lunar Society, Scottish mathematicians, People from Greenock, Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | James Watt (19 January 1736 25 August 1819) was a Scottish mathematician and engineer. He did not invent the first steam engine, but he did modify it to work better. There were other patented steam engines (such as the Savery and Newcomen steam engines) in use by the time Watt started his work on them. His major contr... | simple-english |
1267 | 1267 | February 16 – King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile sign the Badajoz Convention, figuring out the border between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Leon, and ensuring Portuguese sovereignty over Algarve. May 27 – Treaty of Viterbo: Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople gifts the P... | simple-english |
Michelangelo | 1475 births, 1564 deaths, 15th-century Italian painters, 16th-century Italian painters, Italian architects, Italian sculptors, Italian poets, Polymaths, 16th-century Italian writers | Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Along with Leonardo da Vinci, he is often called a "Renaissance Man" which means that he had great talent in many areas. Michelangelo lived an extremely busy life, creating a gr... | simple-english |
Leonardo da Vinci | 1452 births, 1519 deaths, Italian inventors, Italian mathematicians, Italian architects, Italian sculptors, Botanists, People from Florence, 15th-century Italian painters, Anatomists, Polymaths | Leonardo Da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath who lived during the Renaissance. He is famous for his paintings. He was also a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. Leonardo wanted to know everything about nature, and wante... | simple-english |
1844 | 1844 | February 27 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti. The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray May 22 – Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926) July 4 – Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor (d. 1907) August 6 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900) June 27 – Joseph Smith, Jr, founder ... | simple-english |
1902 | 1902 | 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar. July 11 – Arthur Balfour becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom September 1 – A Trip to the Moon, the first science fiction movie, premières. Marie and Pierre Curie discover... | simple-english |
1895 | 1895 | Roentgen discovers X-rays Marconi invents the wireless telegraph China and Japan sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki José Paulino Gomes was born on 4 August in march of 1895 the english invaded the Australian indigeonous August 4 José Paulino Gomes, Brazilian supercentenarian (d. 2023) August 24 – Abdul Rahman of Negeri Se... | simple-english |
1796 | 1796 | An English doctor invents a vaccination against smallpox. January 7-Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales July 26 - George Catlin, American painter December 27 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu | simple-english |
1879 | 1879 | 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar. Thomas Edison invents the light bulb. Rutherford B. Hayes State of the Union Address. The Anglo-Zulu War took place. March 14 – Albert Einstein, German scientist (died 1... | simple-english |
1769 | 1769 | 1769 (MDCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar. James Watt invents an engine driven by steam August 15 – Napoleon | simple-english |
1807 | 1807 | Robert Fulton builds the steamship | simple-english |
1885 | 1885 | Benz builds the first single-cylinder engine for car. John K Starley creates the first genuine bicycle, the Rover. John Boyd Dunlop invents the pneumatic tire. W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado The Times reports that "A lady well known in literary and scientific circles" has been cremated by the Cremation Soc... | simple-english |
1837 | 1837 | Samuel Morse invents the electric telegraph. Michigan becomes the 26th state. March 18 - Grover Cleveland, twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States (d. 1908) | simple-english |
Platinum | Transition metals, Catalysts, Precious metals, Native element minerals | Platinum is a chemical element. It has symbol Pt and atomic number 78. Platinum is a soft, heavy, white metal. It is a precious metal and a transition metal. Its name comes from the Spanish word meaning "little silver". Platinum is part of the platinum group of elements. It is on group 10 in the periodic table of elem... | simple-english |
List of rock types | Rocks, Science-related lists | Sorted by name; initial letter means Igneous, Sedimentary or Metamorphic rocks. I Andesite – an intermediate volcanic rock M Anthracite – a form of hard coal S Banded iron formation – a fine grained chemical sedimentary rock composed of iron oxide minerals S Bauxite – the main ore of aluminium. It is mostly aluminium o... | simple-english |
List of minerals | Minerals, Science-related lists | This is a list of minerals. Agate a variety of quartz Alabaster a variety of gypsum or calcite-rich rock Alexandrite a variety of chrysoberyl Allingite a synonym of ambe Amazonite a variety of microclin Amber fossilized resin Amethyst a variety of quartz Amosite asbestiform grunerite Amphibole (mineral group) Analcite ... | simple-english |
Mineral | Minerals, Natural resources | Minerals are substances that are formed naturally in the Earth. Minerals vary in composition, from pure elements and simple salts to very complex silicates with thousands of known forms. In contrast, a rock sample is a random aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids, and has no specific chemical composition. Most of th... | simple-english |
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