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Fold (geology) | Geology
230px|right|thumb|Very tight folds in New South Wales, Australia A fold is rock that is bent, instead of being broken, by its deformation. The term is used in geology when one or a stack of surfaces that were originally flat and level, such as sedimentary strata, are bent or curved as a result of high pressures and tem...
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Volcanism | Volcanology
Volcanism (or vulcan activity) is the eruption of magma onto the surface of the Earth. Magma under the crust is under very great pressure. When folding and faulting occur, cracks or fractures appear. These are lines of weakness. When these lines of weakness develop downward in the crust and reach the magma, they will r...
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Pacific Ocean | Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean and covers one third of the surface of the entire world. The body of water is between Asia and Australia in the west, the Americas in the east, the Southern Ocean to the south, and the Arctic Ocean to the north. It joins the Atlantic Ocean at a line drawn south from Cape Horn, in ...
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Antarctica | Antarctica, Gondwana, Uninhabited regions
Antarctica is the Earth's southernmost and the continent with the least people. It is on the South Pole. It is almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle. Around Antarctica is the Southern Ocean. It is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. About 99% of Antarctica i...
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South Pole | Geography of Antarctica, Physical geography
330px|thumb|right|1. South Geographic Pole2. South Magnetic Pole (2007)3. South Geomagnetic Pole (2005)4. South Pole of Inaccessibility The South Pole is the most southern point on the Earth. It is in Antarctica and is the center of the Southern Hemisphere. From the South pole, everywhere is North. Unlike the North Pol...
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Indian Ocean | Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the world's third-largest ocean, at . It is surrounded by Asia to the north, Australia and the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Southern Ocean to the south, and Africa and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It is named for the Indian subcontinent which projects into it. The Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea...
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Arctic Ocean | Oceans, Arctic
The Arctic Ocean is the ocean around the North Pole. The most northern parts of Eurasia and North America are around the Arctic Ocean. Thick pack ice and snow cover almost all of the ocean in winter and most of it in summer. An icebreaker and a nuclear-powered submarine can use the Northwest Passage through the Arctic ...
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Inuit | Native Americans, First Nations, Arctic
The Inuit are one of many groups of indigenous people in the Americas and live in very cold places in the Arctic: northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska. The word Inuit means "the people" in Inuktitut, their language. The people are sometimes called Eskimos, a word that likely comes from the Algonquin language and may...
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Aboriginal American
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Alaskan Native
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Basket | Basic English 850 words, Containers
A basket is a container. It is usually light in weight. Basket makers use a wide variety of materials to create a basket, such as bark, willow rods, leaves, wire, plastic, paper, and rope. There are three basic kinds of baskets—coiled, twined, or woven. A woven basket is made of spokes and weavers: the spokes run up...
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Software | Software, Computer science
Computer software, also called software, is a set of instructions and documentation that tells a computer what to do or how to perform a task. Software includes all different programs on a computer, such as applications and the operating system. Applications are programs that are designed to perform a specific operatio...
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Container | Containers
A container is an object used for holding something. People put things in a container. The use of shipping containers is called Containerization.
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South America | South America, Gondwana
South America is the continent to the south of North America. These two continents are separated by the Panama Canal. There are seven continents which make up the globe, South America being the 4th largest. South America includes 12 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru...
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Bed | Basic English 850 words, Furniture
A bed is an item of furniture that people sleep on. It normally has a soft mattress on a bed frame. Many beds also have bed sheets to cover the mattress and additional sheets for the people to sleep under. People also use a pillow under their heads. A bed comes in many different sizes including a single, double and ki...
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Asia | Asia
Asia is the largest continent on Earth by area and number of people. It is mainly in the northern hemisphere. Asia is connected to Europe in the west and Africa on the south, and separated from North America at the east. Sometimes Asia and Europe are combined to form a larger continent called Eurasia. Some of the oldes...
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Wall | Basic English 850 words, Walls
A wall is a vertical dividing surface. It divides space in buildings into rooms or protects buildings. It is usually made of stone or brick. Walls have two main purposes: to support the top part of buildings, and to divide space, giving protection from invasion, escape, and weather. Before powerful artillery was invent...
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Coordinated Universal Time | Time zones
Coordinated Universal Time (or UTC) is the standard time system of the world. It is the standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is, within about 1 second, mean solar time at 0° longitude. The standard before was Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). UTC and GMT are almost the same. In fact, there is no practical...
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Television | Television, Home appliances
Old portable television.|thumb A television set (also known as a television receiver or televisor or simply a television, TV set, TV receiver or TV) is a machine with a screen or set of lenses. Televisions receive broadcasting signals and change them into pictures and sound. The word "television" comes from the words t...
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Earth Science
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Sociology | Sociology
Sociology is a social science that studies societies and how humans act in groups. (A society is the community of people living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations.) There are many subfields. For example, criminology examines criminal behavior and crime. People who study...
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Sky | Physics, Chemistry, Atmosphere, Basic English 850 words, Sky
The sky is the appearance of the atmosphere around the surface of the planet from our point of view. We see many objects that are actually in space such as the Sun, the Moon, and stars because they are in the sky. On a clear day the sky appears blue. At night, it appears from very dark blue to black. The deepness of th...
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ZhongWen
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Tone language | Tonal languages
A tonal language or tone language is a language in which words can differ by tones (like pitches in music) in addition to consonants and vowels. Many languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Hmong, Meitei, Punjabi, Yorùbá, Igbo, Luganda, Ewe, Lingála, Cilubà, and Cherokee are tonal. Other langua...
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Tonal language
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Dollar | Currency
A dollar is a type of currency. Many countries have named their money the dollar, so it is important to say which dollar is being talked about. The symbol for the dollar is a capital letter S, pierced by one or two vertical lines ($). The dollar is named after the thaler. The thaler was a large silver coin first made i...
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Encyclopædia
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Encyclopaedia
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Beer | Beer
:Beer is also the name of a place in Devon, England - Beer (Devon) Beer is a type of alcoholic drink. It is made with water, hops, barley (types of cereal grains), and types of yeast (a fungus that produces alcohol). A process called fermentation turns sugar into alcohol, using yeast. Another product of the fermentatio...
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IP address | Domain names, Computer networking, Information technology
An IP address (short for Internet Protocol address) is a label which is used to identify one or more devices on a computer network. An IP can be compared to a postal address. An IP address is a long string of numbers written in binary. Since such numbers are hard to communicate, IP addresses are usually written as a ...
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Eurasia | Laurasia, Eurasia
Eurasia is the combined landmass of Europe and Asia in the northern part of Earth. It has the Atlantic Ocean on its west, and the Pacific Ocean to the east. The Arctic Ocean is to its north, and the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean to its south. It is the largest of the continents. Its name comes from adding the "Eur" fr...
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North Pole | Arctic, Physical geography
The North Pole is the point that is farthest north on Earth. It is the point on which axis of Earth turns. It is in the Arctic Ocean and it is cold there because the sun does not shine there for about half a year and never rises very high. The ocean around the pole is always very cold and it is covered by a thick sheet...
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Plural | Grammar
In linguistics, noun phrases have grammatical number. Plural is one kind of grammatical number. In English, plural noun phrases are counted as more or less than one (e.g., 32 degrees, no bananas, 0.5 liters, 1.2 grams, two times, three fish, 20 mothers). In contrast, a singular noun phrase usually refers to something t...
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Alexander Gode | American linguists, American translators, People from Bremen (state), 1906 births, 1970 deaths
Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode-von Aesch, or simply Alexander Gode (October 30, 1906 – August 10, 1970), was a German-American linguist, and translator. He helped create the auxiliary language Interlingua.
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Oceania | Oceania
Oceania is a large geographical region in the Pacific Ocean. It is made up of 14 countries in the surrounding area. It is often listed as one of the continents in the world. The term "Oceania" does not have one single agreed definition. The widest definition of Oceania includes the entire region between continental Asi...
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Southern Ocean | Southern Ocean, Geography of Antarctica, Antarctica
The Southern Ocean, also called the Antarctic Ocean, is the ocean around the continent of Antarctica. The fourth-largest sea by area, at 20,327,000 km², it has a coastline 17,968 km long and is surrounded by the waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Since the 1770s, geographers have discussed it...
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Catalan language | Languages of Spain, Andorran culture, Romance languages, Catalonia
The Catalan language is a Romance language spoken in Catalonia, Valencian Community, the eastern part of Aragon, the Balearic Islands, a small zone of Murcia (all of them in Spain), Andorra, North Catalonia (in France) and the Italian city of L'Alguer. Together, those places are often called the Catalan Countries. The ...
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Australasia (team)
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Corset | Underwear
A corset is a body covering undergarment (clothes worn under others). It is made in many forms. A tight-lacing corset is a common form used today. "Stays" are an old form, which were used from about 1500 to after 1860 An orthopaedic corset supports the back of an injured person.
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Pop music | Pop music
Pop music is a type of popular music. The term "pop music" can be used for all kinds of music that was written to be popular. The term "pop music" was used from about 1880 onwards, when new kinds of music became popular. styles of pop music in the 2020s (today) include rock music, electronic dance music and hip hop. Di...
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General semantics | Branches of philosophy, Reality
General semantics is a philosophy that deals with how people react to things that happen around them based on meaning. It was created by Alfred Korzybski during the 1920s and early 1930s. The goal of general semantics is for people to know that when we simplify something, either mentally or in language, that simplifica...
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Semiotics | Language, Semiotics, Linguistics terminology
Semiotics (or semiology) is a theoretical framework for the study of the meaning of language, signs and symbols. It was first developed in the early 20th century, separately, by the Swiss Ferdinand Saussure and Charles Sanders Peirce of the U.S.A. Semiotics can be described as both a science and a technique. It is a sc...
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Nitrogen | Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a nonmetal chemical element. The atmosphere contains more than 78 percent of nitrogen. It has the chemical symbol N and atomic number 7. Its stable inside typically contains 14 nucleons (7 protons and 7 neutrons). It has 5 electrons in its outer shell. Nitrogen is a colorless odorless gas at normal temperat...
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Association football | Association football, Summer Olympic sports
:For the American sport, see American football. For other sports known as football, see Football Association football, or soccer, is a sport played between two teams. In the United States, Canada and Australia, it is called soccer. In most other English-speaking countries, it is called football. Association football is...
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Spamming | E-mail, Internet communication
Spamming is when one person or company sends an unwanted email to another person. Spam emails are the computer version of unwanted "junk mail" that arrives in a mailbox, such as advertising pamphlets and brochures. Spam emails are usually sent to try to get the person to buy something or do something else that will cau...
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Votes for deletion
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Earthquake | Earthquakes, Plate tectonics
San Francisco, California earthquake, sometime in 1906 An earthquake is when Earth's tectonic plates shake and move Earth's surface. Strong earthquakes damage buildings. Disturbances in the Earth cause earthquakes. Different tectonic plates are slowly moving. When they get stuck, tension builds up in them. Earthquakes ...
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Color | Basic English 850 words, Color, Vision
Color (or colour in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is a property of light. The following are the most common color names: Primary colors can be mixed to make other colors. Red, yellow, and blue are the three traditional primary colors. The primary colors for television screens and computer monitors are...
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Creative Network
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Contact Network
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Scurvy | Vitamin deficiencies
Scurvy is a disease (sickness). It is caused by not eating enough vitamin C. But scurvy can be prevented. It has many symptoms. People who have scurvy get spots on their skin, especially on their legs. Their teeth may loosen and/or fall out. They may bleed from the mouth, nose, and gums (mucus membranes). A person with...
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Ion | Ions
An ion is an electrically charged atom or molecule (group of atoms). It is "charged" so it will move near electricity. Atoms are made from positively charged protons, negatively charged electrons, and uncharged neutrons. Ions are charged because they have an unequal number of protons and electrons. Making an ion from a...
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IMHO
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Cognitive science | Interdisciplinary fields, Cognition
Cognitive science studies how people make their ideas and what makes thoughts logical. It is often seen as the result of several different scientific fields working together. These fields are psychology (a study of the mind), neuroscience (biological study of the brain), computer science (the creation of programs and c...
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Moons
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Anthropology | Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of human beings in the past and present. The word anthropology has two roots: [ anthrop- ] and [ -ology ]. Anthrop- means “about human beings,” and -ology means “a type of science." Anthropology is a type of science about human beings. A person who studies anthropology is called an anthropolog...
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Education | Basic English 850 words, Education
Education is about learning skills and knowledge. It also means helping people to learn how to do things and support them to think about what they learn. It is also important for educators to teach ways to find and use information. Education needs research to find out how to make it better. Through education, the knowl...
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Army | Basic English 850 words, Army
The army is the part of a country's military that fights on the ground. People in the army are called soldiers. Many modern armies have vehicles such as tanks, airplanes, and helicopters to help soldiers fight on the ground. A soldier may be a volunteer and so choose to serve, or he may be forced by the government to j...
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Net jargon
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Theology | Theology
Theology is the study of one or more religions (‘Theo-’ means God in Greek and ’-logy’ is study, which makes it ’God study’ or ’study of God’). Somebody who studies theology is called a theologian. Books or ideas about theology are called theological. Theology may be studied for many reasons. Some people study theology...
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Work | Basic English 850 words
Work can mean different things depending on how the word is used. Work (physics), something that happens when a force is applied to an object and a resulting movement takes place
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Romania | Education by country, Romania, European Union member states, 1859 establishments in Europe
Romania (old spelling: Rumania, Roumania; , ) is a country in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It is north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube River. Western Romania is circled by the Carpathian Mountains. Romania also has a border on the Black Sea. Most of the Danube Delta is found inside Romania. Romania sha...
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Argon | Noble gases
Argon is a chemical element. Its symbol is argon is Ar and its atomic number is 18. It is part of the noble gas group. It is an odorless and tasteless gas. Argon is the third-most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere. The name "argon" is from the Greek word ἀργός meaning "lazy" or "inactive" because it does not react...
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Trade | Trade
To trade is to willingly give things or services and get other things or services in return. For example, a person giving a thing must find another person who wants to get that thing. The giver gets something back in return. A trade is sometimes also called an "exchange" or a "swap". An early type of trade is barter. B...
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European Union | European Union, 1952 establishments in Europe, G7 nations, G8 nations
The European Union (abbreviation: EU) is a union of 27 member countries in Europe on the landmass of Eurasia. It was created by the Maastricht Treaty in 1993. It is a unique political organization; in some ways, it acts like a federation, and in other ways, it acts like a confederation. (Political scientists call the ...
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Greece | Greece, European Union member states
Greece ( or ), officially the Hellenic Republic ( ), historically known as Hellas (), is a country mostly located in Southeastern Europe with small island territories in Asia. Its capital city is Athens. It borders Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea is to the Ea...
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Sweden | Sweden, European Union member states, Nordic countries, Current monarchies
Sweden () is a Nordic country in the part of Europe called Scandinavia. Its neighbors are Finland and Norway. It is a developed country. It is famous for its welfare state. People who live in Sweden are called Swedes. The population of Sweden is about 10 million people. Sweden's capital city is Stockholm, which is also...
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Capital
Capital city (also called capital city or political capital), a city or town that contains the government of a country, state, or other area Capital (economics), how much real money a company or person has that they can use Capital (architecture), the top part of a pillar or column Capitalization, another word for "upp...
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Albert Einstein | 1879 births, 1955 deaths, Albert Einstein, German Nobel Prize winners, German physicists, Jewish American academics, Jewish American scientists, Jewish German academics, Jewish Nobel Prize winners, Naturalized citizens of the United States, Nobel Prize in Physics winners, People from Ulm, Refugees fro...
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born Jewish scientist. He worked on theoretical physics. He is most famous for the theory of relativity. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for theoretical physics. His most famous equation is E=mc^2 in which E is for Energy, m for mass, c is the speed...
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Euro | Currency of Europe, European Union
Euro or € is the currency of the countries in the eurozone. One euro is divided into 100 cent (officially) (singular) or "cents" (unofficially). Because of the number of different languages in the European Union, there are different, unofficial, names for this unit (the French call them "centimes" and the Spanish "cént...
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Currency | Currency
Currency is a unit of money used for buying and selling goods and services, commonly backed by a country or a union of countries. Some currencies are "pegged" or "fixed" to something, like another currency. These currencies have a constant value compared to what it is pegged to. For example, the Cape Verdian escudo is ...
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Mercure
Mercure may refer to: MERCURE, an atmospheric dispersion modeling CFD code developed by Électricité de France Mercure Hotels, a chain of hotels run by Accor French ship Mercure (1783) Dassault Mercure, a French airliner built in the 1970s
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Radio telescope | Telescopes
A radio telescope is a type of antenna used for radio astronomy. The majority look like a huge satellite television dish. Stars shine, and the light can be seen with an ordinary telescope, but they also give off radio waves. Scientists with radio telescopes receive these radio waves and use computers to learn about ...
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Light year | Units of length, Astronomical distances
A light year (symbol: ly) is the distance that light travels in empty space in one year. Since the speed of light is about 300,000 km per second (about 186,000 miles per second), then a light year is 9.46 trillion kilometers (about 5.87 trillion miles), for AU, one light year is 63,241 AU. A light year is not a length...
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Homepage
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Korea | Korea, Divided regions, 918 establishments, 1948 disestablishments in Asia, 10th-century establishments in Asia
Korea is a peninsula in northeast Asia, Korean Peninsula. Korea became a country (or state) in 918. In 1948, it split into two countries: North Korea and South Korea. North and South Korea and their allies fought against each other in the Korean War. People have lived in Korea for about 15,000 years. In the past, some...
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English as a second language | English language, Language education
English as a second language is a common phrase which has related acronyms, including ESL, which means "English as a Second Language". This is most often used in a country where English is the primary language EFL, which means "English as a Foreign Language". This is most often used in a country where English is not th...
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Switzerland | Switzerland, German-speaking countries, French-speaking countries, Italian-speaking countries, Federations
Switzerland (; ; ; ; Swiss German: Schwiz) is a country in Western Europe. Switzerland is a federation of 26 cantons. The official name of Switzerland is Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation). This is Latin and is not often used except for official state documents. When it was founded in 1291, Switzerland was a...
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LOL | Internet slang
LOL, or lol, is an internet slang term that means "laugh(ing) out loud". It is commonly mistaken for "lots of love." LOL is often used in messages meaning "That is really funny." It also means mute in Persian and is a native Dutch word (not an acronym) which means "fun" ("lollig" means "funny"). In Welsh, lol means non...
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Btw
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Toronto | Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario. It is found on the northwest side of Lake Ontario behind New York City and Chicago. With a 2021 population of 2,794,356 people, Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth-most populous city in North America. Even more people live in the regions aro...
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English numerals | Numbers
Here are some words for small numbers. Words in bold are irregular. + 0 zero 1 one 2 two 3 three 4 four 5 five 6 six 7 seven 8 eight 9 nine 10 ten 11 eleven 12 twelve 13 thirteen 14 fourteen 15 fifteen 16 sixteen 17 seventeen 18 eighteen 19 nineteen 20 twenty 30 thirty 40 forty 50 fifty 60 sixt...
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United States dollar | Currency of the United States, Currency of North America
The United States dollar (or American dollar) is the official currency (money) of the United States of America. It is also used in some other countries outside the US. It is the standard currency for international markets selling goods such as gold and oil (petrol). When writing, the symbol for the American dollar is t...
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US dollar
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Fluid ounce | Imperial units, Units of volume
A fluid ounce is a unit of volume in both the imperial system of units and the U.S. customary units system. However, the two measures are not quite the same: The Imperial fluid ounce is (1/160) of an imperial gallon or 8 fluid drams, about 1.734 cubic inches or exactly 28.413 07425 ml (as specified legally in The Units...
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Shape of the universe | Geometry, Cosmology
The shape of the Universe cannot be discussed with everyday terms, because all the terms need to be those of Einsteinian relativity. The geometry of the universe is therefore not the ordinary Euclidean geometry of our everyday lives. According to the special theory of relativity, it is impossible to say whether two dis...
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Meteor shower | Meteor showers
A meteor shower is an event when many meteors seem to come from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel paths. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them burn up and never hit the Earth's surface. A met...
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Cat | Cats
Cats, also called domestic cats (Felis catus), are small, carnivorous (meat eating) mammals, of the family Felidae. Cats have been domesticated (tamed) for nearly 10,000 years. Some of the most popular breeds of this mammal include the Siamese, Japanese Bobtail, Abysinnian, Cornish Rex, American Shorthair, Ragdoll, Aeg...
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Engineering | Engineering
Engineering is the use of science and math to design or make things. People who do engineering are called engineers. They learn engineering at a college or university. Engineers usually design or build things. Some engineers also use science, mathematics, and other skills to solve problems in technology. There are...
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Communication | Communication
Communication is when information is passed from a sender to a recipient using a medium. There are different media that can be used: Visual communication (using body language or gestures) Communicating with sounds (like human language, but may also be the barking of a dog) Communication using touch Communication can be...
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Miracle | Theology, Philosophy of religion
A miracle is an amazing, beneficial event that goes (or at least seems to go) against natural laws. Some people say that a miracle is always an act brought about by God or other supernatural force (such as an angel). Others say that there can always be another explanation for it. And thirdly, some say the event is myt...
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UTC
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IRL
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Kami | Gods and goddesses of Japan, Shinto
Kami (神) is a Japanese word for the spirits that are worshipped in the Shinto religion. Not all of Kami are gods of the personified type. Instead, they have to do with phenomena and events like the growth of trees, or rain, or wind, or rock called Iwakura, or other aspects of Nature; it is believed that these kami live...
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Cardboard | Paper
Cardboard is a heavy type of paper, notable for its stiffness and durability. It was first invented in China some time in the 15th century, and is used for a wide variety of purposes. One of its more common uses is as a packaging material. Cardboard boxes were first produced commercially in 1817 in England. Corrugated ...
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Volcanic activity
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Igneous activity
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English language | English language
English is a language that started as the language of the Anglo-Saxons, in England. It is in the Germanic language family (the same family as German, Dutch, Swedish and others), but it was influenced a lot by Old French so many words are similar to words in Romance languages (such as French, Spanish, or Romanian). Engl...
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Trier | Cities in Rhineland-Palatinate
Trier is a city at the Moselle River in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. The population is about 100,000. Trier is famous for some Roman buildings like the Porta Nigra and others. It is famous as the birthplace of Karl Marx. Trier is also famous for the wine of the wine-growing-region Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. The districts of...
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Turkey | Turkey, European Union candidate states
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; I...
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