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816 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity | Scarcity | Scarcity in economics is the lack of various forms of capital. Scarcity can be used to describe an economic situation in economics, or it can be used to describe more general situations.
In economics, scarcity is the result of people having "Unlimited Wants and Needs," or always wanting something new, and having "Limi... |
818 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readability | Readability | Readability, or textual difficulty, means how easy or hard a text is to read. Research has shown that two main factors affect the ease with which texts are read.
How difficult the words are: this is lexical difficulty. Rare words are less well known than common words. Rare, difficult words are often longer than common,... |
819 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre | Theatre | Theatre (British English and also American English), or Theater (mostly American English), has several meanings.
The word comes originally from the Greek Theatron, meaning roughly, 'a place for viewing'. In American English, the word 'theater' can mean either a place where films are shown (this is also called a cinema... |
823 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test | Test | A test is a way of checking something to see if it is true, or false, or if it is edible or not. If something can be tested, or finishes the tests correctly, it is testable. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines a test as: "a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something"... |
827 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20horizon | Time horizon | A time horizon is a future point in time when something must be "done" (a "deadline") or will be "over" (a "time limit"). Either way, the matter will be closed when the time horizon is reached.
Common time horizons people use are:
end of day, usually meaning the working day;
the weekend;
end of month;
fiscal quarter;... |
828 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20limit | Time limit | A time limit is a time horizon that is imposed on everyone at once.
It may be used to try to achieve fairness in some system of ethics. For instance, if poor people and rich people are debating something, a time limit may be imposed so that the rich people cannot keep debating until the poor people have to go to wor... |
833 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan | Taiwan | Taiwan (Chinese: 臺灣 / 台灣), officially the Republic of China (ROC; Chinese: 中華民國; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó), is a country in East Asia. Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Republic of China (Taiwan) once governed all of China (from 1911 to 1949), but moved to the island of Taiwan after a Chi... |
838 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark | Trademark | A trademark (or trade mark) is a way for a business to help people identify the products that the business makes from the products made by another business. A trademark can be a name, word, phrase, symbol, logo, design, or picture. It can only be used on things made by the business that owns the trademark.
For exampl... |
845 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten%20Commandments | Ten Commandments | The Ten Commandments are a set of rules or laws. The Bible says that God gave them to the people of Israel. The commandments exist in different versions. One version can be found in the Book of Exodus of the Bible. Another version can be found in the Book of Deuteronomy. In the Book of Exodus, the mountain where they w... |
846 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table | Table | Table may mean one of these:
Table (furniture)
Table (information)
Periodic table
Lookup table |
847 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree | Tree | A tree is a tall plant with a trunk and branches made of wood. Trees can live for many years. The oldest tree ever discovered is approximately 5,000 years old and the oldest tree from the UK is about 1,000. The four main parts of a tree are the roots, the trunk, the branches, and the leaves.
The roots of a tree are us... |
848 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy%20%28Greek%20theatre%29 | Tragedy (Greek theatre) | In theatre, a tragedy as defined by Aristotle is a play that ends badly for the hero or heroine or others. A tragedy is usually about a person who has many good qualities, but also has one poor quality (called a "tragic flaw") that causes trouble for him, and maybe his family or friends.
Often in a tragedy, there is o... |
849 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy | Taxonomy | Taxonomy is a branch of science. It is about the laws and principles of classifying living things. From one type of taxonomy, many classifications might be produced.
Classification
The best-known kind of taxonomy is used for the classification of lifeforms (living and extinct). Each organism has a scientific name. Thi... |
851 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sun | The Sun | The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
The Sun may also mean:
Publications
United Kingdom
The Sun (United Kingdom), a current daily national tabloid
The Sun (1792–1806), a defunct British newspaper
The Sun (1893–1906), a defunct British newspaper
United States
The Sun (magazine), a monthly li... |
852 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple | Temple | A temple is a building where people go to practice their religion. In a temple people may perform religious rituals, ceremonies, and pray. Thus, a temple is a general term for a house of worship. Christians usually call their religious buildings churches.
Some examples of temples from different religions:
Hinduism (Ma... |
853 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft | Theft | Theft is when one person or group takes from another persons or state any object, money, or information without permission. A person who has been convicted of theft may be called a thief. However, the practice of engaging in theft is also called stealing. There are many different types of theft, such as pickpocketing a... |
856 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom | United Kingdom | The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or simply the United Kingdom (UK) is a sovereign country in Western Europe. It is a constitutional monarchy that is made up of four separate countries: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth, NATO, th... |
858 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe | Universe | The Universe is all of time and space and its contents. It is made of many millions of billions of stars and planets and enormous clouds of gas separated by a big space.
Astronomers can use telescopes to look at very distant galaxies. This is how they see what the Universe looked like a long time ago. This is because ... |
872 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%20of%20measurement | Unit of measurement | Units of measurement give standards so that the numbers from our measurements refer to the same thing. Measurement is a process that uses numbers to describe a physical quantity. We can measure how big things are, how warm they are, how heavy they are, and many other features.
For example, the metre is a standard unit... |
876 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20customary%20units | United States customary units | U.S. customary units is the system of units of measurement used to measure things in the United States and U.S. territories. The system of Imperial units is similar and in some parts identical.
Length or distance units include the inch, foot, yard and mile.
Land units include square miles (2589998.47032 square meter)... |
882 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus | Uranus | Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Like Neptune, it is an ice giant. It is the third largest planet in the solar system.
The planet is made of ice, gases and liquid metal. Its atmosphere contains hydrogen (1H), helium (2He) and methane. The temperature on Uranus is near the top of its atm... |
884 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/University | University | A university is a higher learning institution. The word university comes from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning "community of teachers and scholars". Students can go to university to get an academic degree. Unlike the schooling they have done before, the courses at university are special... |
886 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value | Value | Value is how much something is worth. Often the best way to find the value of something is to use the price that it can be sold for. However Oscar Wilde wrote that 'people know the price of everything but the value of nothing'- in other words true value does not depend on money alone.
In math, a value is a number whic... |
887 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volap%C3%BCk | Volapük | Volapük (pronounced in English, in Volapük) is a constructed language created in 1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer. Schleyer was a Catholic priest from Germany. He felt that God had told him in a dream to make an international language. The name "Volapük" comes from the words "vol" (world) and "pük" (language). Volapük ... |
889 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary | Vocabulary | A vocabulary is a list of words.
The vocabulary a person uses is all the words that person knows and uses. In general, a person who is five knows about 4,000 to 5,000 words. Adults who have gone to college may know 20,000 words. A hearing vocabulary and reading vocabulary are bigger than a speaking vocabulary or writi... |
892 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable%20oil | Vegetable oil | Vegetable oils are triglyceride oils made from plants. They are used in food and for cooking. In past centuries they were much used as fuel in oil lamps. Some kinds of plant oils that people use are palm oil, maize, olive, peanut, rapeseed, soy, and sunflower.
Margarine is an artificial butter made from vegetable oil.... |
893 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb | Verb | A verb is a kind of word (part of speech) that tells about an action or a state. It is the main part of a sentence: every sentence has a verb. In English, verbs are the only kind of word that changes to show past or present tense.
Every language in the world has verbs, but they are not always used in the same ways. T... |
895 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume | Volume | This article is about physical object; for meaning from audio field, see loudness.
The volume of an object is a measure of the amount of space occupied by that object, and is not to be confused with mass. The volume of a mountain is much larger than the volume of a rock, for instance.
By convention, the word volume i... |
896 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus | Venus | Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Venus is the only planet in the Solar System that has a day longer than a year. The year length of Venus is 225 Earth days. The day length of Venus is 243 Earth days.
Venus is a terrestrial planet because it has a solid, rocky surface like other planets in the inner Solar Syste... |
897 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican%20City | Vatican City | Vatican City (; officially Vatican City State, ) is an independent sovereign state and the smallest country in the world by size, at 0.49 km². Its territory is completely surrounded by Italy and it is only one of three countries in the world that are enclaves of another country (the others being San Marino, also in Ita... |
898 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity | Velocity | Velocity is a measure of how fast something moves in a particular direction. To define it needs both magnitude and direction. If an object moves east at 9 metres per second (9 m/s), then its velocity is 9 m/s to the east.
The idea behind this is that speed doesn't tell us in which direction the object moves in a given... |
899 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20community | Virtual community | A virtual community is a group of people who share an interest, hobby or set of views.
The people in it may come from many different places.
They talk with each other using technology, such as the Internet, telephone calls, texting, video calls and email.
How virtual communities communicate
Virtual communities may u... |
905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Wide%20Web | World Wide Web | "The Web" redirects here. For other uses, see Web (disambiguation).
The World Wide Web ("WWW" or "The Web") is the part of the Internet that contains websites and webpages. It was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a new markup language called HTML. Websites... |
907 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki | Wiki | A wiki is a type of a website that lets anyone who can access the wiki create and change its pages. The word is sometimes used in Internet slang to mean Wikipedia. Wiki is short for WikiWikiWeb. Wikiwiki is a word from the Hawaiian language, meaning "fast" or "speed". Examples of wikis include Wikipedia, Everipedia,... |
908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website | Website | A website is a set of webpages that are joined. People look at websites with a computer of some kind, sometimes including the computer inside mobile phones and televisions. The websites are kept on computers called web servers.
Overview
There is almost always a single homepage which has links to other pages that are ... |
911 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word | Word | A word is something spoken by the mouth, that can be pronounced. In alphabetic writing, it is a collection of letters used together to communicate a meaning. These can also usually be pronounced. A logogram is also a word.
Some words have more than one meaning, for example 'spring' can refer to the season, the device... |
912 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20browser | Web browser | A web browser is a computer program application for reading pages of the World Wide Web. Since the late 1990s, most personal computers and mobile phones and other mobile devices have a browser.
Web browsers are used by people to find and look at websites on the Internet. The first web browser was created in 1990. Many... |
914 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web | Web | Web can mean several things
Spider webs are woven traps usually used by spiders to catch insects
Web is a common short name for the World Wide Web
Web is a word for the tissue (biological) between fingers and toes, such as the webbed feet of ducks and other waterfowl, or material with a similar purpose, such as betw... |
924 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webpage | Webpage | A webpage (or web page) is a document from the internet which can be seen with a web browser. Web pages each have a URL or address, which is how a page is found, and is different for every page. When a webpage is part of a larger group of pages managed by a company, person, or organization, it is part of a website.
... |
926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary | Wiktionary | Wiktionary is a project in the form of a wiki to develop an online dictionary so that English-speakers can look up the meanings for words in any of the languages which Wiktionary supports (which is most of them). Wiktionary is also a thesaurus, so you can compare meanings within a language. Wiktionary is run by the Wik... |
927 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Windows | Microsoft Windows | Microsoft Windows is an operating system for computers made by the United States-based company Microsoft. Windows is used by almost 90% of desktop and laptop computers.
History
The first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, came out on November 20, 1985. The newest version, Windows 11, came out October 5, 2021. Most pers... |
928 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window | Window | A window is an opening in a wall or roof of a building, in a car etc., to let air and light in. It is usually filled with a sheet of glass. There can be many different shapes and sizes, including rectangular, square, circular, or irregular shapes. Some windows include coloured glass. Windows are usually transparent so ... |
935 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine | Wine | Wine is an alcoholic drink. The word wine is usually used to talk about drinks made from the juice of grapes, although people sometimes call alcoholic drinks made from the juice of other fruits (such as plums or blackberries) "wine". This article only deals with wine made from grapes.
Different types of wine
There ar... |
937 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Width | Width | Width or breadth is the side-to-side length, measuring across the object at right angles to the height.
For example, the distance between the left side and right side of a chair is its width.
Related pages
Height
Depth
Physical quantity |
939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water | Water | Water () is a transparent, tasteless, odourless, and almost colourless chemical substance and covers over 70% of Earth's surface. No known life can live without it.
Lakes, oceans, seas, and rivers are made of water. Precipitation is water that falls from clouds in the sky. It may be rain (liquid) if it is warm, or it ... |
940 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Want | Want | A want is a wish or a desire for something. If a person would like to have something, but can choose not to have it, that thing is wanted or can be called a want. To want is not the same as to need, which is when someone must have something.
People often talk about needing a thing, when they really just want it. Wants... |
942 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/War | War | War is a situation or a period of fighting between countries or groups of people. A war generally involves the use of weapons, a military organization and soldiers. War is a situation in which a nation enforces its rights by using force. Not every armed conflict is a war. A fight between individuals, between gangs, dru... |
943 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish | Yiddish | Yiddish is a language used by some Jews. At first, it was a dialect of German that Jews began to use in Europe about 1000 years ago. It was and still is used in the United States, especially in New York City, and other countries that now have Jews.
Most Yiddish words come from German, but many words are also from Heb... |
944 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year | Year | One year is about 365 days long (except in a leap year). It is the time it takes the Earth to go completely around (orbit) the sun once. A year is actually almost 365.25 days long, but a calendar has 365 days, except in a leap year, which has 366 days.
The year starts on January 1 and ends on December 31 in the Gregor... |
945 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/You | You | You is a second-person English pronoun. The word can be singular or plural. It is what a person says when he or she is addressing another person in second person. Sometimes, just using the English letter "u" is acceptable, and "ur" for the words "you're" and "your". This is very informal, and is mostly used in texting.... |
946 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard%20%28disambiguation%29 | Yard (disambiguation) | A yard is a unit of length in some measuring systems.
Yard can also mean:
Yard (land), an open space around a building. For instance, the space around a school is called a school yard. A yard is used by humans and their pets. If there is wild space next to it, like forest land, swamp land, a beach or a lake, this wil... |
949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20language | Chinese language | The Chinese language is the group of languages used by Chinese people in China and elsewhere. It forms part of a language family called the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
Chinese includes many regional language varieties, the main ones being Mandarin, Wu, Yue and Min. These are not mutually intelligible and many of... |
950 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero | Zero | Zero (0) is a special number. If there are zero things, then there is nothing at all. For example, if a person has zero hats, that means they do not have any hats.
Symbol
The symbol for the number zero is "0". It is the additive identity of common numbers. This means that if a number is added to 0, then that number w... |
954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoology | Zoology | Zoology is the science of studying animal life. It is part of biology. The word is pronounced Zō-ölogy, not Zoo-ology. Animal life is classified into groups called phyla, of which there are at least thirty.
Zoologists are scientists who study animals. They may work in laboratories, or do field research. The methods ... |
955 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc | Zinc | Zinc, sometimes called spelter, is a chemical element. It is in the group of metals called the transition metals. It is sometimes considered a post-transition metal. Its symbol on the periodic table is "Zn". Zinc is the 30th element on the periodic table, and has an atomic number of 30. Zinc has a mass number of 65.38.... |
956 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra | Zebra | Zebras are mammals of the family Equidae. Zebras are African horses. They are in the same genus as the common horse, Equus caballus, and donkeys. Zebras are known for having many black and white stripes. There are three main species of zebra, Grevy's Zebra, the Plains Zebra, and the Mountain Zebra.
Species
Genus Equu... |
957 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo | Zoo | A zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is a place where many different species types of animals are kept so that people can see and watch them.
Modern zoos try not only to be for people's entertainment, but for education, research, and the conservation and protection of animals. Many zoos are centers where rare ... |
1586 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright | Copyright | Copyright is a law that gives the owner of a work (for example, a book, movie, picture, song or website) the right to say how other people can use it. Copyright laws make it easier for authors to make money by selling their works. It is one part of a group of laws about intellectual property (the others being trademark... |
1718 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic%20of%20China | Republic of China | {{Infobox country
| native_name = <div class="center">Chunghwa Minkuo'ㄓㄨㄥㄏㄨㄚˊㄇㄣˊㄍㄨㄛˊZhōnghuá Mínguó</div>
| conventional_long_name = Republic of China
| common_name = Taiwan
| image_flag = Flag of the Republic of China.svg
| alt_flag = A red fla... |
1831 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20English | Simple English | Simple English might mean:
Simple English Wikipedia gives information about a certain subject using fewer words and simpler grammar than the normal English Wikipedia.
Simple English Wiktionary
Basic English, created by Charles Kay Ogden, which only contains some words
Learning English, by the Voice of America broadc... |
1934 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison | Prison | A prison or jail is a building where people are forced to live if their freedom has been taken away. The main use for prisons is as a punishment for breaking the law. Those who break the law and are convicted (found guilty) in court can receive a prison sentence, which is an order to spend an amount of time in prison.... |
1935 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico | Mexico | Mexico (; official name: United Mexican States , ) is a country in North America. Mexico is south of Texas, California and other American states. Guatemala and Belize are south of Mexico. Mexico is between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
People living in Mexico or who are from there are called Mexicans. Most... |
1936 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20Ocean | Atlantic Ocean | The Atlantic Ocean is the world's second largest ocean. It covers a total area of about . It covers about 20 percent of the Earth's surface. It is named after the god Atlas from Greek mythology.
Geologic history
The Atlantic formed when the Americas moved west from Eurasia and Africa. This began sometime in the Cret... |
1937 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury | Mercury | Mercury may mean:
Mercury (mythology), the Roman god
Mercury (planet), the first planet from the Sun in our solar system
Mercury (element), the chemical element or atom
Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program by the United States' NASA
Mercury (programming language), a programming language
Mercury automob... |
1938 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20%28element%29 | Mercury (element) | Mercury, also known as quicksilver or hydrargyrum (pronounced hai-DRAR-jər-əm), is a chemical element. Its symbol on the periodic table is Hg, and its atomic number is 80. Its atomic mass is 200.59.
The symbol Hg stands for its Latinized Greek name hydrargyrum, meaning watery or liquid silver.
History
No one has th... |
1942 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa | Africa | Africa is the second largest continent in the world. It makes up about a fifth of the world's land. It is surrounded by large areas of water. There are 54 fully recognised and independent countries in Africa, and 14.7% (1.216 billion) of the world's population lives there. It is thought to be the continent where the fi... |
1943 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter | Butter | Butter is a dairy food. It is made by moving the cream from whole milk for a long time. The fat in the milk separates from the liquid. The fat is butter.
Butter is often put on on bread, as a main ingredient in biscuits, as a shortening agent in some baking and cooking recipes, and for frying foods.
Often, butter is ... |
1949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20War | Cold War | The Cold War was the tense fighting between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union (also called the USSR) and its allies between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet Union. It is called the "Cold" War because the Americans and the Soviet Union never actually fought each other directly. Inst... |
1961 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland%20China | Mainland China | Mainland China, also called the Chinese Mainland, is the part of China not including the Republic of China controlling Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu, and the Pescadores. The term also excludes Hong Kong and Macau.
In the Qing Dynasty (Manchu Dynasty), all of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu, the Pesca... |
1968 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20city | Capital city | A capital city, or capital town or capital, is a city or town, specified by law or constitution, by the government of a country, or part of a country, such as a state, province, or county. It usually serves as the location of the government's central meeting place and offices. Most of the country's leaders, embassy and... |
1970 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate | Climate | Climate means the usual condition of the temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, and other meteorological patterns in an area of the Earth's surface for a long time. In simple terms, climate is the average condition for about thirty years. Climate and weather are different: weather is the day to da... |
1971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold%20%28geology%29 | Fold (geology) | Rock often deforms in such a way that it bends instead of breaking. This is called a fold. The term fold is used in geology when one or a stack of originally flat, level surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, are bent or curved as a result of pressure and high temperature. The basic cause is likely to be some aspect of ... |
1972 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism | Volcanism | 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 wi... |
1975 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Ocean | Pacific Ocean | The Pacific Ocean is the body of water 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 is the largest named ocean and it covers one-third of the surface of the entire world. It joins the Atlantic Ocean at a line drawn south from C... |
1976 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica | Antarctica | Antarctica is the Earth's southernmost continent. 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 is covered by ice. This ice ave... |
1977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Pole | South Pole | 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 Pole, which is covered by sea and flat sea-ice, the South Pole is on a mountainous continent called Antarctica. Antarctica has not always ... |
1978 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Ocean | Indian Ocean | The Indian Ocean is the ocean 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 river Indus and Ancient India on its north shore. The Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf and the R... |
1980 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic%20Ocean | Arctic Ocean | 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 this ocean in winter, and most of it in summer. An icebreaker or a nuclear-powered submarine can use the Northwest Passage through the Arctic... |
1983 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit | Inuit | The Inuit are one of many groups of First Nations who live in very cold places of northern Canada, Greenland, the Arctic, and Alaska.
They are sometimes called Eskimos, a word which likely comes from the Algonquin language and may mean "eater of raw meat" which is a fallacy many believe due to misinformation. The term... |
1986 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket | Basket | 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 u... |
1987 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software | Software | 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... |
1988 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container | Container | A container is an object used for holding something. People put things in a container. The use of shipping containers is called Containerization.
Types of container
Bottle
receptacle
Box
Can
Tin
Jug (container)
Jar
Pan
Tub
Carton
Packet
Barrel
Vessel
Crate |
1989 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20America | South America | South America is the continent to the south of North America.<ref>"South America . ', 6th ed. 2001–6. New York, Columbia University Press": "fourth largest continent ..., the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere." Archived from the original 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2017-03-24</ref> These two continent... |
1992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed | Bed | A bed is a piece 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... |
1994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia | Asia | Asia is a large region on Earth mainly in the northern hemisphere. Asia is connected to Europe in the west, forming a continent called Eurasia, though sometimes it is viewed as a separate continent from Europe. Some of the oldest human civilizations began in Asia, such as Sumer, China, and India. Asia was also home to ... |
1996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall | Wall | 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 inven... |
1998 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated%20Universal%20Time | Coordinated Universal Time | 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 practic... |
1999 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television | Television | 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 tele (Greek for far away) and vi... |
2002 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology | Sociology | Sociology is the study of societies and how humans act in groups. Sociology is a social science. People who study sociology are called sociologists. A society is the community of people living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations.
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès in 1780 was fir... |
2004 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky | 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 the... |
2012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone%20language | Tone language | A tone language, or tonal language, is a language in which words can differ in tones (like pitches in music) in addition to consonants and vowels.
Many languages, including Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Hmong, Punjabi, Sylheti, Chittagonian, Yorùbá, Igbo, Luganda, Ewe, and Cherokee are tonal. Other languages, includ... |
2017 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar | Dollar | 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 ($).
History
The dollar is named after the thaler. The thaler was a large silver coin fi... |
2020 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/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... |
2024 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20address | IP address | An IP address (short for Internet Protocol address) is a label which is used to identify one or more devices on a computer network, such as the internet. It can be compared to a postal address. An IP address is a long
number written in binary. Since such numbers are difficult to communicate, IP addresses are usually wr... |
2025 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia | 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... |
2028 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Pole | North Pole | 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... |
2029 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural | Plural | 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... |
2031 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Gode | Alexander Gode | 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.
American linguists
American translators
German people
1906 births
1970 deaths |
2032 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania | Oceania | Oceania is a name used in geography for the region made up of Australia, Polynesia, Melanesia, and several other island nations in the surrounding area. It is often listed as one of the continents of the world.
The term "Oceania" does not have one single agreed definition. The widest definition of Oceania includes the... |
2033 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Ocean | Southern Ocean | The Southern Ocean is the ocean around Antarctica. It means the waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans around the continent of Antarctica. Since the 1770s geographers have discussed its limits. Nowadays, sixty degrees south latitude is often accepted. Some people call this ocean the Antarctic Ocean.
The to... |
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