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Constellation | Constellations | A constellation is a group of stars which make up imaginary outline or pattern in the night sky (the celestial sphere). Usually they are said to represent an animal, mythological person or creature in a shape. When seen, the group of stars seem to make a pattern. The word constellation comes from Latin: con-, meaning t... | simple-english |
Flood | Floods, Disasters, Natural disasters | A flood is an overflow of water. Floods are very hard to deal with. Floods are most commonly made due to an overflowing river, a dam break, snowmelt, or heavy rainfall. Less commonly happening are tsunamis, storm surge. The most deadly flooding was in 1931 in China and killed between 2,000,000 and 4,000,000 people. The... | simple-english |
Hell | Afterlife, Religious terminology | In many mythologies and religions, hell, or underworld is a place or state where souls of wicked people go after their life on Earth. It is often believed to be a place controlled by either God, or some lesser supernatural being such as Satan. It is a different place or state from heaven, where it is often believed th... | simple-english |
Brest (France) | #Redirect Brest, France | simple-english |
October 21 | Days of the year | 686 – Conon becomes Pope. 1096 – People's Crusade: The Turkish army heavily defeats the People's Army of the West. 1097 – First Crusade: The Siege of Antioch begins. 1209 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned by Pope Innocent III. 1392 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan abdicates the throne in... | simple-english |
112 (emergency telephone number) | Emergency phone numbers | The telephone number 1-1-2 (or 112) is the standard European Union (EU) emergency telephone number. It works in every country of the EU, for land lines and mobile phones. It is also used in some other countries as an emergency telephone number for both mobile and fixed-line telephones. 112 is also the international eme... | simple-english |
Government-in-exile | Governments in exile | A government-in-exile is a group of people who claim they are the real government of a country, but who live in another country. These were common during World War II, when the axis powers took over several countries, and the leaders of those countries escaped to safety in other countries. When the war ended, most were... | simple-english |
Stonehenge | Religious buildings, Archaeological sites in Wiltshire, World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom, Stone circles, Henges, Neolithic, Buildings and structures in Wiltshire, 4th millennium BC buildings and structures | Stonehenge is a prehistoric World Heritage Site of megaliths. It is eight miles (13 kilometres) north of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. The site was built between 3100 BC and 1550 BC. It was used until the Bronze Age. The monument is made of a henge, with standing stones in circles. It is likely the most important pr... | simple-english |
Granite | Igneous rocks | Granite is a kind of igneous rock, found on Earth but nowhere else in the Solar System. It is formed from hot, molten magma. Its colour can be dark or light grey, brown, or even pink, according to the proportions of its minerals. It is called a plutonic rock because it forms under ground. The magma is forced between ot... | simple-english |
1970 | 1970 | 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar. January 12 – The Nigerian Civil War ends. February 1 – The Benavidez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 236. February 14 – The Who record the iconic live rock album Live at Leeds. March 1 – Rhodesia dec... | simple-english |
Syracuse, New York | County seats in New York (state), Syracuse, New York | Syracuse is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is also the county seat of Onondaga County. Syracuse has a population of 148,620 Syracuse is sometimes called the "Salt City" because salt mining was once the main industry. Syracuse is named after Syracuse, Sicily, a city on the Italian island of Sicily. Syracuse is... | simple-english |
Syracuse | Syracuse might mean: Syracuse, Sicily, a city in Italy on the island of Sicily Syracuse, New York, an American city in the state of New York Syracuse Crunch, an ice hockey team from the city in New York Syracuse University, a university in the city in New York Syracuse, Kansas, an American city in the state of Kansas. | simple-english |
Soap opera | Soap operas, Television genres | A soap opera is a television or radio program that airs in episodic series. This means that each episode continues telling a story, which, in turn, tells more of the last episode's story. A single story on a soap opera can be told for weeks, months, or sometimes even years. In America, each soap opera airs every day, M... | simple-english |
The Young and the Restless | 1973 American television series debuts, 1970s American soap operas, 1980s American soap operas, 1990s American soap operas, 2000s American soap operas, 2010s American soap operas, 2020s American soap operas, American English-language television shows, American soap operas, Columbia Broadcas... | The Young and the Restless is a very popular American soap opera. The show is the highest-rated soap opera, which means that more people watch it than any other soap opera. It aired its first episode on March 26, 1973. It is set in fictional Genoa City, Wisconsin. In the beginning, the show was about the Brooks family,... | simple-english |
Georgia (U.S. state) | Georgia (U.S. state), 1788 establishments in the United States | Georgia is a state in the southeastern part of the United States. It is bordered by Florida to the south, Alabama to the west, Tennessee and North Carolina to the north, and South Carolina to the east. All of Georgia's coastline is on the Atlantic Ocean, which borders Georgia to the southeast. The capital of Georgia is... | simple-english |
Prem Rawat | 1957 births, Living people, Indian religious leaders, Hindu gurus | alt=Prem Rawat|thumb|Prem Rawat Prem Rawat (previously known as Maharaji) was born in Hardiwar, a small village at the bottom of the Himalayas in North India on December 10, 1957. Prem Rawat is a peace ambassador, who also is an international writer of many books about inner peace, an experienced pilot, a musician and... | simple-english |
Immanuel Kant | 1724 births, 1804 deaths, 18th-century German philosophers, 19th-century German philosophers, Continental philosophers, German academics, Prussian writers, People from former German territories, People from Kaliningrad, German philosophers | Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher born in Königsberg, East Prussia. Kant studied philosophy at the University of Königsberg, and later became a professor of philosophy. He called his system "transcendental idealism". Kant's writing about epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aes... | simple-english |
Aunt | Family | An aunt is relationship that describes a woman who is a sibling of a parent or is married to a sibling of a parent. Aunts are sometimes called Auntie or Aunty. A man is a nephew to their Aunt and a woman is a niece. An aunt is part of an extended family. The child of an aunt's is a cousin. Often the word aunt is used w... | simple-english |
Homer | Ancient Greek poets | Homer is the name of the Greek poet who wrote the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These are the earliest works of Greek literature which have survived to the present day, and are among the greatest treasures of the ancient world. They are a product of Mycenaean culture. The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan war... | simple-english |
Marquis de Sade | 1740 births, 1814 deaths, Bisexual people, French criminals, French LGBT writers, French novelists, French prisoners, LGBT criminals, Sex offenders, Writers from Paris | Donatien Alphonse François, Comte de Sade, (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), better known as the Marquis de Sade) was a French nobleman, writer and philosopher who was born in Paris. The de Sade family were French nobility, who came from Provence. Different members of the house held positions in the Church, and the Fren... | simple-english |
Eurozone | European Union | The Eurozone (also called Euro area or Euroland) is the set of countries in the European Union which have adopted the Euro (€) currency. The European Central Bank is responsible for managing the supply of money within the eurozone and political decisions are taken by the "euro group", which is a meeting of the politici... | simple-english |
Ordinal number | Number theory | Ordinal numbers (or ordinals) are numbers that show something's order, for example: 1th, 2th, 3th, 4th, 5th. Suppose a person has 5 different T-shirts, and then lays them in front of the person, from left to right. At the far left, there is the red T-shirt. Right of that is the blue one. Next to the blue is the green o... | simple-english |
Gnome | The word Gnome can mean different things: A Gnome is a creature of myth. Gnomes are elemental spirits of earth. Gnomes are tiny, shaped like humans, with long beards. A gnome is like a dwarf but smaller. Gnomes like gems and mining. The GNOME desktop is a desktop environment for computers running Unix and Unix-like c... | simple-english |
Republic | Forms of government | A republic is a form of government that has no monarchy and no hereditary aristocracy, and instead the head of state (the highest political authority) is an elected office It originates from Rome. In 509 BC, the Romans overthrew the Roman Kingdom and established a republic, a government in which citizens elected repres... | simple-english |
Martin Luther | Racism in Europe, 1483 births, 1546 deaths, Antisemitism, Christianity, German people, Protestantism, Martin Luther, Christian monks, German academics, Bible translators, German Lutherans, German theologians, Protestant Reformers, Protestant Reformation, Antisemitism in Europe, Antisemitism in Germany, ... | Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 ‒ February 18, 1546) was a German monk and theologian of Christianity credited with leading the Protestant Reformation, a movement that marked the start of Protestantism. Luther founded the Lutheran Church, the first large Protestant church. Martin Luther studied philosophy at the Unive... | simple-english |
Noh | Japanese music, Theatrical forms, Japanese plays | Noh or No (Japanese:能 Nō) is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama. It started in the 14th century and continues today. Noh is made up of mai (dances), hayashi (music) and utai (words usually in songs). The performers use masks and dance slowly. Zeami and his father Kan'ami brought Noh to its present-day for... | simple-english |
Manga | Manga | A manga () is a Japanese comic book. Manga is drawn by a mangaka () (Japanese for cartoonist: an artist of comics). Manga is usually read from right to left. The word manga can be both singular and plural, and mean both the medium of comics or a single comic. It is a form of art that is used to draw comics and develop ... | simple-english |
Spree | Geography of Berlin, Rivers of Brandenburg, Rivers of Saxony | The Spree is a river in the north-east of Germany. It runs through the centre of Berlin. The river is long. | simple-english |
Liberalism | Liberalism | Liberalism is a type of political thinking about politics and government. It emphasizes the idea of freedom, and believes that the greatest countries are the ones that contain unconfined liberties. Classical liberals all believe that everyone equally deserves to be free to decide for themselves how to think, act, speak... | simple-english |
Zeno's paradoxes | Mathematical paradoxes, Philosophical problems, Logical paradoxes | Zeno's paradoxes are a famous set of thought-provoking stories or puzzles created by Zeno of Elea in the mid-5th century BC. Philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians have argued for 25 centuries over how to answer the questions raised by Zeno's paradoxes. Nine paradoxes have been attributed to him. Zeno constructed... | simple-english |
Mandrake Linux | #REDIRECT Mandriva Linux | simple-english |
Mandrake | Solanaceae | :For the Linux variant, see Mandriva Linux Mandrake is the common name of a number of plants in the Nightshade family, genus Mandragora. The roots often look like man or woman, or can be easily made to resemble them. The plant has been used in witchcraft for a long time. According to this literature, the plant shrieks ... | simple-english |
Debian | Linux distributions, Debian, X86-64 Linux distributions | Debian is a free operating system. It is a distribution of an operating system known as the GNU operating system, which can be used with various kernels, including Linux, kFreeBSD, and Hurd. In combination with these kernels, the operating system can be referred to as Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, and Debian G... | simple-english |
GNU | Operating systems, GNU project | GNU is the name of a computer operating system. The name is short for GNU's Not Unix. Richard Stallman leads the GNU Project. The popular Linux operating systems made using the Linux kernel have many GNU tools too. So, many projects and developers call the Linux-based operating systems GNU/Linux. The GNU project was st... | simple-english |
Serbia | Serbia, European Union candidate states, 2006 establishments in Europe | Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Србија / Srbija), is a country in Southeastern Europe, and a part of the Balkans. The capital city is Belgrade. To the north of Serbia is the country Hungary. To the east of Serbia are the countries Bulgaria and Romania. ... | simple-english |
Cancer | Medicine, Cancer, Oncology | Cancer is a type of disease where cells grow out of control, divide and invade other tissues. In a person without cancer, cell division is under control. In most tissues, healthy cells divide in a controlled way and copy themselves to create new healthy cells. With cancer, this normal cell division goes out of control.... | simple-english |
Photography | Photography | Photography is a way of making a picture using a camera. A person who makes pictures using a camera is called a photographer. A picture made using a camera is called a photograph or photo. Photography became popular in the middle 19th century with Daguerreotype. Later wet plate and dry plate methods were invented. Most... | simple-english |
Acronym | Acronyms, Abbreviations | An acronym is a word whose letters are the first letters of other words. People often create a short acronym that means the same thing as a much longer phrase (set of words). This is faster and shorter to say than the long phrase. COBOL - COmmon Business Oriented Language LASER - Light Amplification through Stimulated... | simple-english |
Radio wave | Radio technology, Electromagnetic radiation | Radio waves make up part of the electromagnetic spectrum. These waves are pieces of energy with differing wavelengths, somewhat similar to visible light waves, X-rays or gamma rays, except they are much longer. A radio wave, like other electromagnetic waves, is similar to an ocean surface wave or any other types of wav... | simple-english |
Bridge | Basic English 850 words, Bridges | A bridge is a structure to cross an open space or gap. Bridges are mostly made for crossing rivers, valleys, or roads. Nowadays most big bridges are made to carry vehicles but people have also walked across bridges for thousands of years. Bridges called highway overpasses carry a road over another road. Military bri... | simple-english |
Mysticism | Theology, Reality | Mysticism is the belief that people can directly experience God or true reality, rather than experiencing them only through books, rituals, or other people. People who practice these beliefs are called mystics. Mystics exist within most religions, though not all people who practice religions are mystics. Mystics may ex... | simple-english |
Ontario | Ontario, 1867 establishments in Canada | Ontario is a province of Canada that is in the eastern half of Canada, between Manitoba and Quebec. Ontario has the largest population of any province, with over 16 million in 2025, and is home to the largest city in Canada, Toronto, which is also the capital of the province. Ontario also has the second-largest land ar... | simple-english |
Manitoba | Manitoba, 1870 establishments in North America, 1870s establishments in Canada | Manitoba is a province of Canada that is roughly in the country's center. Manitoba is Canada's 6th-largest province, with an area of . It has the 5th-largest number of people, at 1,507,057 in 2025, and its people are called "Manitobans". Manitoba borders the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Ontario, the Canadian ... | simple-english |
Head of government | Heads of government | The head of government is the leader of the executive branch of a nation's government. This is not always the same person as the head of state. Common titles for heads of government include Premier or Prime Minister. In some countries such as the United States, the president is both the head of state and the head of g... | simple-english |
Saskatchewan | Saskatchewan, 1905 establishments in North America, 1900s establishments in Canada | Saskatchewan (; Canadian French: ) is a province in Canada. About 1.25 million people live in Saskatchewan. Most of its population lives in the southern part of the province. The primary industry in Saskatchewan is agriculture (farming). Saskatchewan is known for its wide horizons. The land is very flat in the south, ... | simple-english |
Classical music | Music genres, Classical music | Classical music is a very general term which normally refers to the standard music of countries in the western world. It is music that has been composed by musicians who are trained in the art of writing music (composing) and written down in music notation so that other musicians can play it. Classical music may also b... | simple-english |
SNAFU | Figures of speech, Acronyms | SNAFU or snafu is an acronym that the United States Military first used. Civilians now use it as well. It stands for Situation Normal: All (Fucked/Fouled/) Up. In modern times, it means a situation that was occurring normally but then suddenly began to go wrong. For example: The general's visit this week-end went well ... | simple-english |
Atlanta | Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, County seats in Georgia, State capitals in the United States, Olympic cities, 1837 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) | rect 77 195 115 259 Equitable Building (Atlanta) rect 116 117 168 293 Georgia-Pacific Tower rect 169 226 200 290 Centennial Tower (Atlanta) rect 296 95 339 315 191 Peachtree Tower rect 350 113 382 298 Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel rect 601 165 654 240 Atlanta Marriott Marquis rect 665 108 719 234 SunTrust Plaza rect 979... | simple-english |
Niccolò Machiavelli | 1469 births, 1527 deaths, 16th-century philosophers, Civil servants, Italian philosophers, Italian playwrights, Writers from Florence | Niccolò Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine Renaissance man, statesman, and writer. He was a diplomat and government official in the Medici period of the Florentine Republic. Machiavelli is best known for writing about political philosophy. He also wrote poetry, plays, carnival songs, history books... | simple-english |
Supply line | Military terminology | A supply line is a large line of military supply vehicles, usually in convoy format. The line is useful for transporting needed supplies (food, medical supplies, ammo) to the front line. Without the supply line, a deployed army far from home would not be able to fight for long, as supplies would soon run out. The enemy... | simple-english |
Michigan | Michigan, 1837 establishments in the United States | Michigan is one of the fifty states in the United States of America. It is the 11th largest state in the United States. It is made up of two peninsulas (connected by the Mackinac Bridge), the only state to be so. It borders the U.S. states of Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, and Illinois. Its borders with Minnesota... | simple-english |
Caenorhabditis elegans | Nematodes, Model organisms | Caenorhabditis elegans is a species of roundworm or nematode. It is important because much research has been done on its genetics and development. C. elegans is about 1 mm long. The worms are not parasites, they are free-living. They live in soil and feed on bacteria. C. elegans is a model organism, used to study anima... | simple-english |
Saxe-Weimar | States of the Confederation of the Rhine, States of the Holy Roman Empire, Thuringia, Weimar | Saxe-Weimar () was a duchy in Thuringia, Germany. The chief town and capital was Weimar. Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Gotha were the two original Ernestine Duchies. They both gradually shrank in size as land in Thuringia was divided among sons.. In 1741 Duke Ernest Augustus I of Saxe-Weimar inheritated the Duchy of Saxe-Eisena... | simple-english |
Oldham | Oldham, Greater Manchester | Oldham is a town in the North West of England. It is to the north-east of Manchester. It is part of Greater Manchester. Oldham was part of Lancashire until 1 April 1974. There were riots in Oldham in May 2001. It is the centre of the Borough of Oldham. Oldham Council achieved dubious notoriety in 2009 when in ran up a ... | simple-english |
Pakistan | Pakistan, 1947 establishments in Asia, English-speaking countries, Federations, Members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Commonwealth member states, Borders of Pakistan | Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān), is a country in South Asia. It shares its border with other countries India, Iran, Afghanistan and China (disputed with India). Pakistan has the fifth largest population (243.4 million) in the world and has a total land area of .o... | simple-english |
New Zealand | New Zealand, Commonwealth realms, English-speaking countries, Australasia, Gondwana, Current monarchies | New Zealand (known as , in the Māori language) officially Commonwealth of New Zealand) is an island country in Oceania. It is a sovereign state in the south-western part of the Pacific Ocean. It is made up of two large islands (the North Island and the South Island) and many smaller islands. New Zealand was one of the ... | simple-english |
South Korea | Asia, East Asia, South Korea, 1945 establishments in Asia | South Korea is a country in the southern part of the Korean peninsula, in East Asia. The capital city of South Korea is Seoul. The official name of South Korea is the Republic of Korea in English, 대한민국 (Daehan Minguk) in Korean writing (Hangeul), and 大韓民國 in Chinese characters (Hanja). About half of the country's peopl... | simple-english |
Republic of Ireland | Republic of Ireland, European Union member states, English-speaking countries, 1949 establishments in Europe | Ireland ( ) is a European country on the island of Ireland. It shares a border with Northern Ireland (which is part of the United Kingdom). The country is sometimes called the Republic of Ireland to distinguish it from the island. It is a member of the European Union. The republic's capital is Dublin. Cork is the secon... | simple-english |
Vietnam | Vietnam, 1975 establishments in Asia | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (or just Vietnam) () is a country in Southeast Asia. The neighboring countries are Cambodia, China, and Laos. The capital is Hanoi. The most populous city is Ho Chi Minh City. There are about 99,497,680 people living in Vietnam. Vietnam was united under a communist government. In 1986,... | simple-english |
Lance Armstrong | 1971 births, 2000 Summer Olympics, American adoptees, American cyclists, Olympic bronze medalists for the United States, Doping cases in cycling, Living people, Sportspeople from Texas, Tour de France cyclists, People from Plano, Texas | Lance Edward Armstrong (born September 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas, USA) is an American former bicycle rider. He used drugs which helped him in competition. In 2012 the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) took away all his titles from 1998 to 2006. In 2012, he was also banned forever from cycling competitions. Before his titles... | simple-english |
Ton | The common ton or short ton, defined as 2,000 pounds avoirdupois (1000kg) The long ton, defined as 2,240 pounds (1 016 kg) The ton or tonne, called a metric ton in the United States, is defined as 1,000 kilograms (2,204 pounds). This unit is also called a "mega-gram" (1 000 000 g) but "tonne" is more convenient. | simple-english |
Phoebe (moon) | Saturn's moons | Phoebe is a moon which goes around (orbits) the planet called Saturn. It takes eighteen months for Phoebe to go all the way around Saturn. It is half made out of rock, and half made out of ice. The ground on Phoebe is black, which means that it is very dark when seen from Earth. Phoebe does not have any air, and there ... | simple-english |
Three Peaks Challenge | Mountain climbing | The Three Peaks Challenge is a challenge (a hard task or job) which involves climbing three British mountains (a peak is the top of a mountain) in less than 24 hours. The three mountains are the highest of each of the three countries in the island of Great Britain. Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in Scotland (1344&nb... | simple-english |
Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania, 1787 establishments in the United States | Pennsylvania is one of the 50 states in the United States of America. It is in the northeastern part of the country. It has a border with the Canadian province of Ontario on the north, Ohio on the west, West Virginia on the south and west, Maryland and Delaware on the south, New Jersey on the east, and New York and Lak... | simple-english |
Box | Basic English 850 words, Containers | A box is a container used to put things in. It is mainly a cuboid (square) shape, but it can be other shapes too. Boxes are usually made out of cardboard, wood, plastic or metal. Many boxes are made of cardboard, and a lot of them are made. They are primarily used for packaging, commercial goods or storing goods and ma... | simple-english |
Philippines | Philippines, 1946 establishments in Asia, Archipelagos, English-speaking countries | The Philippines is an island country in Southeast Asia in the Pacific Ocean. It has 7,641 islands. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila. Spain (15211898) and the United States (1898–1946) colonized (controlled) the country and Palau, which is on the eastern side of the Philippine Sea. The Philippines and East ... | simple-english |
Fawlty Towers | 1975 British television series debuts, 1979 British television series endings, 1970s British sitcoms, 1970s British workplace comedy television series, BBC television sitcoms, British workplace comedy television series, Television series about marriage, Torquay, British English-language television shows | Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom. It was broadcast by the BBC in two series, one in 1975, the other in 1979. Only twelve episodes were ever broadcast. However, the show is still liked by millions of people. Fawlty Towers has influenced other comedies. It is set in a hotel in the coastal Devon town of Torqua... | simple-english |
Custom | Customs, Past | A custom (also called a tradition) is a common way of doing things. It is something that many people do, and have done for a long time. Usually, the people come from the same country, culture, or religion. Usually, they do not know when the custom started. Many customs are things that people do that are handed down fro... | simple-english |
Fort Ouiatenon | Buildings and structures in Indiana, 1717 establishments, 18th-century establishments in North America | Fort Ouiatenon was the first fortified European settlement in what is now the U.S. state of Indiana. It is about three miles southwest of modern-day West Lafayette. Fort Ouiatenon was originally constructed by the French government in 1717 as a military outpost to protect against Great Britain's western expansion. Its ... | simple-english |
Chennai | Chennai, 1661 establishments in Asia, 17th-century establishments in India, 1660s establishments in England | Chennai (formerly known as Madras) is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a population of about 7 million people. Almost 10% of all of the people in the state live in Chennai. The city is the fourth largest city of India. It was founded in 1661 by the British East India Company. The city is on th... | simple-english |
Mumbai | Mumbai, 1507 establishments, 16th-century establishments in India | Mumbai is a natural harbour on the west coast of India, and is the capital city of Maharashtra state. Mumbai is India's largest city, and one of the world's most populous cities. It is the financial capital of India and a global city. Many billionaires live there. The city is the second most-populous in the world. It ... | simple-english |
Bangalore | Bangalore | Bangalore (English pronunciation: ˈbæŋɡəlɔər, bæŋɡəˈlɔər), officially known as Bengaluru (), is the capital city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is famous for its information technology industry and so it is called the Silicon Valley of India. Today, as a large and growing city, Bangalore has many of the most well... | simple-english |
New Delhi | New Delhi | New Delhi () is the capital of India. It is also a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). In traditional Indian geography, it is in the North Indian zone. The city has an area of about . New Delhi has a population of about 9.4 million people. Delhi and New Delhi are often used as if they mean the same t... | simple-english |
Edmund Hillary | 1919 births, 2008 deaths, Beekeepers, Deaths from myocardial infarction, Explorers, Mountain climbers, People from Auckland, University of Auckland alumni | Sir Edmund Percival Hillary , (born 20 July 1919, died 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. He and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb Mount Everest. They got to the top on 29 May 1953. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth. During his teenage years, Hillary had a... | simple-english |
Wright brothers | American aviators, American inventors, Sibling duos, Businesspeople from Dayton, Ohio | The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), designed, built, and flew the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air airplane on December 17, 1903. They had been experimenting for many years with gliders and other vehicles before their fir... | simple-english |
Thomas Alva Edison | #redirect Thomas Edison | simple-english |
Charles Darwin | 1809 births, 1882 deaths, Charles Darwin, Darwin family, Agnostics, Alumni of the University of Cambridge, British abolitionists, British zoologists, Deaths from heart failure, English botanists, English evolutionary biologists, English geologists, English naturalists, English science writers, People b... | Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He is famous for his work on the theory of evolution. Darwin's book On the Origin of Species was published in 1859. In this book, he put forward much evidence that evolution had occurred. He also proposed natural selection as the way ev... | simple-english |
Adam Smith | 1723 births, 1790 deaths, 18th-century British philosophers, British economists, Scottish scientists, Scottish writers, Fife | Adam Smith (baptise date 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist, who is called the Father of Modern Economics. He wrote two classic books, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The Wealth of Nations His book, An Inquiry into the N... | simple-english |
Isaac Newton | 1643 births, 1727 deaths, English mathematicians, English physicists, English science writers, Fellows of the Royal Society, People buried in Westminster Abbey, Presidents of the Royal Society, British theoretical physicists, Writers from Lincolnshire | Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He is well known for his work on the laws of motion, optics, gravity, and calculus also, he presents his theory of universal gravitation and three laws of motion. Newton built the first practical reflectin... | simple-english |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749 births, 1832 deaths, 18th-century German philosophers, 19th-century German philosophers, German autobiographers, German poets, Writers from Frankfurt | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German writer, poet, novelist, and playwright. He also worked as an actor, administrator, scientist, geologist, botanist, and philosopher. He influenced many 19th century writers and thinkers. His contributions to science include his work in botany and... | simple-english |
Afganistan | #REDIRECT Afghanistan | simple-english |
Pythagoras | 580s BC births, 496 BC deaths, Presocratic philosophers, Ancient mathematicians, Geometers | alt=|thumb|263x263px|Graphical demonstration of the Pythagorean theorem Pythagoras of Samos was a famous Greek mathematician and philosopher ( ). He is best known for the proof of an important Pythagorean theorem, This is about right angle triangles. He started a group of followers called the Pythagoreans, who lived li... | simple-english |
Socrates | Socrates, 460s BC births, 399 BC deaths, Ancient Greek philosophers, Executed people | Socrates (399 BC-470 BC) was one of the most famous Greek philosophers. He showed how argument, debate, and discussion could help people to understand difficult issues. Most of the issues he dealt with only seemed to be political. They were actually moral questions about how life should be lived. Socrates had so much i... | simple-english |
Dante Alighieri | 1265 births, 1321 deaths, Italian poets, Medieval poets, Writers from Florence, 13th-century Italian writers, 14th-century Italian writers | Dante Alighieri (), known simply as Dante (, , ; c. 1265 – September 14, 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages/Early Renaissance. His central work, the Commedia (Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In Italian ... | simple-english |
Virginia Woolf | 1882 births, 1941 deaths, Bisexual people, British crime victims, British feminists, English LGBT people, English novelists, English playwrights, Feminist writers, LGBT feminists, LGBT novelists, People with bipolar disorder, Suicides by drowning, Suicides in the United Kingdom, Writers from London, Wr... | Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English modernist writer, essayist and feminist. She was born into a well-known family in London. Her father, Leslie Stephen, was a Victorian scholar. Her mother, born in India, was a favourite model of the Preraphaelite artists. Her sister, Vanessa Bell... | simple-english |
March 28 | Days of the year | 37 – Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. 193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax was assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. 364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens as co–Em... | simple-english |
January 25 | Days of the year | 41 – The Roman Senate confirms Claudius as Emperor, after the murder of Caligula the previous day. 1348 – A strong earthquake strikes northern Italy. 1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. 1515 – King Francis I of France is crowned. 1533 – Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn. 1554... | simple-english |
Jane Austen | 1775 births, 1817 deaths, Disease-related deaths in Hampshire, English novelists, Jane Austen, Writers from Hampshire, 19th-century novelists, 18th-century novelists | Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist. She wrote many books of romantic fiction about the gentry. Her works made her one of the most famous and beloved writers in English literature. She is one of the great masters of the English novel. Her greatest selling book is Pride and Prejudice. ... | simple-english |
Charlotte Brontë | 1816 births, 1885 deaths, Disease-related deaths in Yorkshire, English novelists, English poets, Writers from Yorkshire | Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet. She first published her works, including Jane Eyre, under the pseudonym (false name) of Currer Bell. In 1846, Charlotte encouraged her sisters to print Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. They did not sell well. Her first novel, The ... | simple-english |
Emily Brontë | 1818 births, 1848 deaths, Deaths from tuberculosis, Disease-related deaths in Yorkshire, English novelists, English poets, Infectious disease deaths in England, Writers from Yorkshire | Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was a British writer and poet. She is most famous for her only novel Wuthering Heights (published in 1847). She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Brontë had two sisters, Charlotte and Anne, who were also writers. Her brother, Branwell, was a painter. She co-wrote t... | simple-english |
Anne Brontë | 1820 births, 1849 deaths, Deaths from tuberculosis, Disease-related deaths in Yorkshire, English novelists, English poets, Infectious disease deaths in England, Writers from Yorkshire | 170px|thumb|Anne Brontë painted by her sister Charlotte Anne Brontë (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English writer and poet. She is best known for writing Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). Anne was born on 17 January 1820 in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of Patrick a... | simple-english |
Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens, Unitarians, People buried in Westminster Abbey, Writers from Portsmouth, 1812 births, 1870 deaths, 19th-century novelists | Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and a social critic who is regarded as one of the great English writers of the 19th century. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England. a naval pay clerk, and Elizabeth Barrow (1789–1863). His first book was Sketches by Boz in 1836, a collectio... | simple-english |
Portsmouth | Portsmouth, Port cities and towns of England | City of PortsmouthFile:EnglandPortsmouth.pngGeographyStatusUnitary, City (1926)RegionSouth East EnglandCeremonial CountyHampshireArea- TotalRanked 319th40.25 km² Portsmouth is a city in the south of England, in the county of Hampshire. About 280,536 people live there (As Of 2017). It is a port and is the home of the Br... | simple-english |
HMS Victory | British warships, Portsmouth | HMS Victory is the oldest ship still in use. It is in Portsmouth, England with the HMS Warrior and the remains of the Mary Rose, a ship belonging to Henry VIII of England. Her most famous captains are Horatio Nelson, who died on the ship during the Battle of Trafalgar, and Samuel Hood. HMS Victory Royal Navy website P... | simple-english |
HMS Warrior (1860) | British warships, Portsmouth | HMS Warrior was the first battleship with a hull made of iron. It was built in response to the French ironclad warship Gloire. It is in Portsmouth, England with the HMS Victory and the remains of the Mary Rose, a ship belonging to Henry VIII of England. | simple-english |
Mary Rose | British warships, Portsmouth | The Mary Rose was a ship which belonged to Henry VIII of England. She sank in 1545 in battle with a French fleet. In 1979, the Mary Rose Trust was formed. In 1982 the Mary Rose Trust managed to get the Mary Rose out of the sea. In 1994, they started to preserve her. The remains of the Mary Rose are currently in Ports... | simple-english |
Mary Tudor | The name Mary Tudor can refer to either: Mary Tudor, Queen of France | simple-english |
1603 | 1603 | April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England March 18 – John IV of Portugal March 24 – Elizabeth I of England | simple-english |
April 28 | Days of the year | 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius. 1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem. 1220 – The foundation stone is laid for Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England. 1253 – Nichiren Buddhism is founded. 15... | simple-english |
Mutiny on the Bounty | History of the United Kingdom, Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789 | The Mutiny on the Bounty has become a famous story, leading to many books, movies, and songs. The HMS Bounty was a small, three masted, fully rigged, sailing ship. The Bounty became famous when the crew (seamen) mutinied (took over) the ship on 28 April 1789. The captain of the Bounty was named William Bligh. The ship ... | simple-english |
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