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890341 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marktsteft | Marktsteft | Marktsteft () is a town in Kitzingen, in Bavaria, Germany. It is on the left bank of the Main, southwest of Kitzingen.
It was the birthplace (1885) of the well-known Second World War general Albert Kesselring. |
362406 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Jeong | Ken Jeong | Kendrick Kang-Joh "Ken" Jeong (born July 13, 1969) or Dr. Ken is an American stand-up comedian, actor and physician. He is known for his roles as Leslie Chow in The Hangover, The Hangover Part II, and in The Hangover Part III. He also starred as Ben Chang in Community.
Jeong was born in Detroit, Michigan on July 13, 1969. He studied at Duke University and at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jeong is married to Tran Ho. They have two daughters. |
683993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escambia%20County | Escambia County | Escambia County is the name of two counties in the United States:
Escambia County, Alabama
Escambia County, Florida |
411382 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20response | Frequency response | Frequency response is a measure of the range of bass, mid-range, and treble that your speakers can reproduce with clarity. The wider the frequency range, the more dynamic sound you'll hear.
Systems respond differently to inputs of different frequencies. Some systems may amplify frequencies of certain range and attenuate the other frequencies. The way that the system output is related to the input for different frequencies is called frequency response. Frequency response means a graph where can be seen how something changes in different sound frequency. It is typically used in loudspeakers. Also audio crossovers way to function can be shown with frequency response.
The frequency response will be represented by two numbers and measured in Hertz (Hz) which is the unit of measurement for one frequency cycle. The first number represents the lowest bass frequency while the second number indicates the highest high-frequency an audio product can produce. |
394745 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20chapel | Lady chapel | A Lady chapel is a small chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It can also be called Mary chapel or a Marian chapel. |
80501 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inn%20District%2C%20Switzerland | Inn District, Switzerland | Inn is a district of the canton of Graubunden, Switzerland. It has an area of 1,196.77 km2 and a population of 9,371 people (as of December 2004). |
337313 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Nakamura | Kiyoshi Nakamura | is a former Japanese football player.
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1971 births
Living people
Footballers from Shiga Prefecture |
152481 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Castle%2C%20Delaware | New Castle, Delaware | New Castle is a city in Delaware in the United States. It is next to the Delaware River in New Castle County, which is in the north part of the state. New Castle had 5,551 people in 2020. |
1007359 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Mac%20Sauce | Big Mac Sauce | "Big Mac Sauce contains only a few ingredients: Mayonnaise, pickle relish, onion, mustard, white vinegar, sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and paprika."
- the Daring Gourmet
"It tastes wonderful, and is the highlight of a midnight maccies trip" - Billy Clayton 2023
"A favourable addition to an already sublime sandwich" - Hayden Shepherd 2023
"An absolute culinary masterpiece" - Gilbert Turner 2023
Sauces |
1036552 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20Worth | Taylor Worth | Taylor Worth is an archer from Australia. Worth competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the 2020 Summer Olympics. He was born on 8 January 1991. |
679584 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna%2C%20Texas | Edna, Texas | Edna is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. |
994329 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger%20Zone%20%28song%29 | Danger Zone (song) | "Danger Zone" is a 1986 song by Kenny Loggins and was taken from the soundtrack Top Gun. It went to number 2 in the United States, number 6 in Switzerland, number 7 in Canada, number 12 in Germany and New Zealand, number 13 in Hungary, number 14 in Australia and number 45 in the United Kingdom.
1986 songs
Kenny Loggins songs
Hard rock songs |
763920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie%20McKenty | Katie McKenty | Katie McKenty (born 30 January 1996) is a New Zealand water polo player. She competed for the New Zealand women's national water polo team in the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.
She was educated at Takapuna Grammar School. She played for Hartwick College's women's water polo team. |
856707 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear%20My%20Song | Hear My Song | Hear My Song is a 1991 Irish British comedy movie directed by first time director Peter Chelsom and starring Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, Tara Fitzgerald, David McCallum, Shirley Anne Field, James Nesbitt, John Dair. It was distributed by Miramax Films. |
840456 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential%20Citizens%20Medal | Presidential Citizens Medal | The Presidential Citizens Medal is an award given by the President of the United States. It is the second-highest civilian award in the United States, behind the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It was created by executive order on November 13, 1969, by President Richard Nixon, it honors an individual "who has performed exemplary deeds or services for his or her country or fellow citizens."
Only United States citizens are eligible for the medal, which may be awarded posthumously.
Teachers Rachel Davino, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Rousseau, and Victoria Soto and school administrators Mary Sherlach and Dawn Hochsprung, who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting defending their students, were jointly awarded the 2012 Citizens Medal posthumously. |
608635 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20Hassan%20al-Bakr | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was the President of Iraq from 17 July 1968 to 16 July 1979. He was born in Tikrit, Ottoman Iraq on 1 July 1914.
He was a member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party. During his rule Iraq had high economic growth due to high international oil prices. Al Bakr slowing lost power to his cousin Saddam Hussein. |
802074 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr%20Sz%C3%A9kely | Vladimír Székely | Dr. Vladimir Szekely (January 11, 1941 - November 13, 2020) was a Hungarian electrical engineer. He was professor emeritus at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 2010, he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He published research results in 360 peer-reviewed papers listed in Web of Science. He was best known for his works relating to the electro-thermal phenomena simulation and test.
Szekely died on November 13, 2020 in Budapest at the age of 79. |
637035 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20and%20language%20integrated%20learning | Content and language integrated learning | Content and Language Integrated Learning, or CLIL, is an approach to foreign or second language education. Students learn both the foreign language and school subjects together at the same time.
Many people describe CLIL as having "Four C's." Usually they are: cognition, content, communication, and culture. Some people think "community" should replace culture.
CLIL comes from earlier approaches to language education such as bilingual education in Canada and Content-based Instruction in ESL and EFL around the world. CLIL has become very popular in primary and secondary education in Europe, especially Spain. But, it is becoming popular in many other countries, too. |
746774 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haut-Lomami | Haut-Lomami | Haut-Lomami is one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital is Kamina.
History
From 1966 to 2015, Haut-Lomami was administered as a district as part of the Katanga Province. |
779694 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto%20Brillantes | Sixto Brillantes | Sixto Serrano Brillantes, Jr. (August 14, 1939 - August 11, 2020) was a Filipino election lawyer. He was the chairman of the Commission on Elections from 2011 to 2015. He was appointed by President Benigno Aquino III on January 16, 2011. He was born in Manila.
On July 25, 2020 he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and was hospitalized in Manila. He died from the infection on August 11, 2020 at the age of 80. |
19875 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny | Penny | A penny (plural pence in the United Kingdom, plural pennies in Canada and the United States) is a coin used by several countries where people speak English. This includes United Kingdom, the United States, where a penny is worth one cent, and Canada, where "penny" is an informal term for one cent coins. Canada stopped minting the penny in 2012.
Popular Culture
In British and American culture, finding a penny is often thought to be lucky. A popular expression is "Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you'll have good luck." If someone asks you "A penny for your thoughts" They're wanting to know what you think. The phrase was first written in John Heywood's 1547 Dialogue Conteinying the Nomber in Effect of All the Proverbes in the Englishe Tongue, written when the penny was still a sterling silver coin. The possibly related American expression "my two cents" (meaning "my humble opinion") uses the low value of the penny to make fun of one's own thoughts in a funny way. In British English, to "spend a penny" means to urinate. The phrase does actually imply spending an actual penny: coin-operated public toilets commonly charged a predecimal penny, starting with the Great Exhibition of 1851. Around Decimal Day, British Rail introduced the "Superloo", better public toilets that charged 2p (roughly the equivalent of 6d.). |
436949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%9Bra%20Tich%C3%A1nkov%C3%A1 | Věra Tichánková | Vera Tichankova (7 December 1920 - 9 January 2014) was a Czech actress. She was born in Zarnovicka Hut, Nova Bana, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Tichankova studied at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague. She began her acting career in 1940 which lasted over seventy years. Vera Tichankova died on 9 January 2014, aged 93, in Prague, Czech Republic. She was survived by her husband, actor and playwright Jan Skopecek. |
898187 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudon%2C%20Tennessee | Loudon, Tennessee | Loudon is a city that is the county seat of Loudon County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 5,381 at the 2010 census. |
711197 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20S.%20Wherry | Kenneth S. Wherry | Kenneth Spicer Wherry (February 28, 1892November 29, 1951) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1943 until his death in 1951. He was the minority leader for the last two years. |
830486 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20of%20the%20Virgins | Blood of the Virgins | Blood of the Virgins () is a 1967 Argentine horror movie directed by Emilio Vieyra (who also stars) and starring Ricardo Bauleo, Rolo Puente, Gloria Prat, Walter Kliche. |
46681 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share | Share | Share may mean:
Sharing (or "To Share"); to make joint use of resources (such as food or money), or to "give something away"
Share (finance), a stock or other security such as a mutual fund
Share, the percentage of television sets in use tuned to a specific program--see Nielsen Ratings
SHARE (charity), the acronym of a major Cork-based charity
SHARE (computing), one of the oldest computer user groups
Share (newspaper), a Caribbean and Black Canadian community newspaper based in Toronto, Canada
Share (P2P), a Japanese P2P computer program. The successor to Winny.
Share Foundation, a not-for-profit organization in Newfoundland
SHARE Foundation (El Salvador), an El Salvador justice organization
Share International, a new religious movement founded by the British painter Benjamin Creme
Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment, tracking space weather from Antarctica
Network share, a file storage area that is available over a computer network.
Plowshare, the cutting blade of plow (plough). |
141404 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinda%20Laash | Zinda Laash | Zinda Laash is a 1967 Pakistani Urdu feature movie, directed by Khwaja Sarfraz. Its produced by Abdul Baqi, a Lollywood movie starring by Asad Bukhari (Dr. Aqil Harker), Habib (Aqil's Brother), Deeba (Shabnam), Rehan (Vampire), Nasreen (Vampire bride).
Zinda Laash is also known as Dracula in Pakistan (USA title) and The Living Corpse (international title). It is the first movie in Pakistan to be X-rated. |
660967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%20County%2C%20Nebraska | Buffalo County, Nebraska | Buffalo County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, 50,084 people lived there. The county seat is Kearney. It was founded in 1855. |
6417 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond%2C%20Virginia | Richmond, Virginia | Richmond () is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. The population within the city limits was 204,214 in 2010, with an estimated population of 1,258,251 for the Richmond Metropolitan Area -- making it the third largest in Virginia.
Location
Richmond is at the fall line of the James River, south of Washington DC, east of Charlottesville, Virginia, and west of Williamsburg, Virginia. Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, the city is at the intersections of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288.
History
Richmond began as an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610-11. English settlers returned to found a permanent town in 1737. It became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780. During the Revolutionary War period, the city was known for Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in 1775 at St. John's Church, and the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson. During the American Civil War, Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America. The city entered the 20th century with one of the world's first successful electric streetcar systems.
Economy
Richmond's economy is primarily driven by law, finance, and government. It has federal, state, and local governmental agencies in its downtown. The downtown also has offices for legal and banking firms. The city is home to both the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, one of 13 federal appellate courts, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, one of 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. Dominion Resources, Carmax, Genworth Financial, and MeadWestvaco, Fortune 500 companies, along with Massey Energy and Universal Corporation, Fortune 1000 companies, are headquartered in the city. The historic sites in the area bring tourists. |
888824 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6hlau | Döhlau | Dohlau is a municipality in Upper Franconia in Hof in Bavaria in Germany. It is on the Saale River. |
230567 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel | Colonel | A colonel is a rank of officer in the military. It is usually the highest or second highest rank before General and Field Marshal, but many of the countries represents this post as the highest military officer like Gambia, Libya, Niger, Suriname etc. A colonel is usually in charge of a regiment.
The word comes from the Latin word columnella which means column, but it was first used in Italy as the name for the officer in charge of a column. It came into English from French. It is usually said like the word kernel. |
724538 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizy%2C%20Switzerland | Dizy, Switzerland | Dizy is a municipality in Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. |
795365 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Michielsgestel | Sint-Michielsgestel | Sint-Michielsgestel is a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. In 2019, 28,991 people lived there. |
480295 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Ailes | Roger Ailes | Roger Eugene Ailes (May 15, 1940 - May 18, 2017) was a Republican political operative. He worked for United States Presidents George H. W. Bush and Richard Nixon. He founded Fox News Network with Rupert Murdoch. He is the president of Fox News Channel. He was chairman of Fox Television Stations Group. Ailes became President of NBC's Cable News and Business Channel in 1993. While working for NBC, he created a cable talk channel called America's Talking in 1994. That channel later became MSNBC. In 1996 he left to join News Corporation, owned by Rupert Murdoch, and launch News Corporation's Fox News Channel. He is Chief Executive Officer of Fox News Network.
Ailes died at his Palm Beach, Florida on May 18, 2017 from subdural hematoma caused by a fall at the age of 77. |
1018060 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingersheim | Wingersheim | Wingersheim is a former commune. It is in Grand Est in the Bas-Rhin department in northeast France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Wingersheim-les-Quatre-Bans. |
440628 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudasj%C3%A4rvi | Pudasjärvi | Pudasjarvi is a town and municipality in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. It had 8,510 living there in January 2014. The municipalities next to it are Ii, Oulu, Posio, Puolanka, Ranua, Suomussalmi, Taivalkoski and Utajarvi. |
56969 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj%20Mahal%20%28musician%29 | Taj Mahal (musician) | Henry Saint Claire Fredericks, better known by the stage name Taj Mahal (born May 17, 1942), is an American blues musician. He has been performing and recording since 1964 and is still popular.
Selected discography
1968 - Taj Mahal
1968 - The Natch'l Blues
1969 - Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home
1971 - The Real Thing
1971 - Happy Just To Be Like I Am
1972 - Recycling The Blues & Other Related Stuff
1973 - Oooh So Good 'n Blues
1974 - Mo' Roots
1975 - Music Keeps Me Together
1976 - Satisfied 'N Tickled Too
1976 - Music Fa' Ya (Musica Para Ti)
1977 - Brothers (Soundtrack) 1977 - Evolution (The Latest)
1983 - Take A Giant Step
1986 - Taj
1991 - Mule Bone
1991 - Like Never Before
1993 - Dancing The Blues
1993 - An Evening of Acoustic Music
1993 - The Source by Ali Farka Toure (World Circuit WCD030 / Hannibal 1375)
1995 - Mumtaz Mahal (with V.M. Bhatt and N. Ravikiran)
1996 - Phantom Blues
1997 - Senor Blues
1998 - Sacred Island (with The Hula Blues Band)
1999 - Kulanjan (with Toumani Diabate)
1999 - Hippity Hop (Children's music)
2000 - Shoutin' In Key
2001 - Hanapepe Dream
2003 - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - Taj Mahal
2003 - Blues with Feeling
2004 - Musicmakers with Taj Mahal (Music Maker 49)
2004 - Etta Baker with Taj Mahal (Music Maker 50)
2005 - Mkutano Meets The Culture Musical Club Of Zanzibar 2005 - The Essential Taj MahalAwards
Taj Mahal has received two Grammy Awards (nine nominations) over his career.
1997 (Grammy Award) Best Contemporary Blues Album for Senor Blues2000 (Grammy Award) Best Contemporary Blues Album for Shoutin' in Key2006 (Blues Music Awards) Historical Album of the Year for The Essential Taj Mahal2008 (Grammy Nomination) Best Contemporary Blues Album for Maestro''
On February 8, 2006 Taj Mahal was designated the official Blues Artist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
452376 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody%20Gardot | Melody Gardot | Melody Gardot (born 2 February 1985) is a Grammy-nominated American musician. She has been influenced by other blues and jazz musicians, such as Judy Garland, Janis Joplin and Duke Ellington. She sings jazz music.
Gardot was born in New Jersey. She follows the teachings of Buddhism. |
445456 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Mitchell%20%28ice%20hockey%29 | Bill Mitchell (ice hockey) | William Richard "Bill" Mitchell (February 22, 1930 - April 1, 2014) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and coach. He played one in the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 1963-64 season for the Detroit Red Wings. He later coached some teams in Toledo, Ohio in the United States. He was born in Port Dalhousie, Ontario.
Mitchell died from kidney failure on April 1, 2014 in Perrysburg Township, Wood County, Ohio. He was 84 years old. He was outlived by his one daughter and two sons. |
692274 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reijo%20Taipale | Reijo Taipale | Reijo Toivo Taipale (9 March 1940 - 26 April 2019) was a Finnish pop singer. He performed mostly Schlager music, tango and ballads. He first became known in the music scene during the 1950s. Some of his famous songs include "Elaman virta", "Sateen hiljainen aani" and "Valon lapsi". He had over 30 albums to his name. He also released albums with Eino Gron in the 1970s. He was born in Miehikkala.
Taipale died of dementia in Helsinki on 26 April 2019. He was 79. |
261862 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Torrio | Johnny Torrio | John "Papa Johnny" Torrio, also known as "The Fox" (February 1882 - April 16, 1957) was an Italian-American mobster who helped make the criminal empire known as the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s. Torrio would later give the Chicago Outfit to Al Capone. He also thought of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and later became an to the Genovese crime family.
He was shot several times in 1925. He died of a heart attack in Brooklyn in 1957. |
791950 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Gymnastics%20Championships | European Gymnastics Championships | The European Union of Gymnastics organises European Gymnastics Championships for each of the following gymnastics disciplines:
Events
Current
European Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Defunct |
168025 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Jones | Craig Jones | Craig '133' Jones also known as 133 (or 133 mHz), The Silent One, or by his number #5, (born on February 11, 1973), is an American musician. He is best known as the sampler and keyboard player of the metal band, Slipknot. |
825865 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%3A%20Portrait%20of%20a%20Dog | Brian: Portrait of a Dog | "Brian: Portrait of a Dog" is the seventh episode and the season finale of the first season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 16, 1999. It was written by Gary Janetti. Michael Dante DiMartino is the director of the episode.
Story
Due to an unusual heat wave striking Quahog, the Griffin family is very hot and need money to get an air conditioner. Peter Griffin wants to put his dog Brian in a dog show with a prize of $500. Brian does not want to be in the dog show, but Peter makes him go anyway. Brian does some tricks at the dog show. He gets tired of being the "stereotype of the 'good dog'". He gets angry and leaves the show.
When they get home, Peter has to pay a fine for not putting Brian on a leash. Brian gets very angry at Peter and leaves the family. The people of Quahog act bad to Brian. He tries to sleep at a bus stop but is told to leave. The Griffin family replaces Brian with a cat. The cat is very violent and causes trouble to the family. Brian is not allowed to go in restaurants or shops. He tries to run from the police after using a drinking fountain. He attacks a man and is taken by the police.
Brian is put in an animal shelter and will get a lethal injection. Peter starts making an appeal for him. Brian learns as many facts about the law as he can. He tries to defend himself, but the council thinks that it is foolish to listen to a dog. Peter tries to say his appeal, but instead bribes the council and gives everyone $20. Brian is now respected by the town of Quahog.
Production
"Brian: Portrait of a Dog" was written by Gary Janetti and directed by Michael Dante DiMartino. It is the first episode that Janetti wrote. Mary Scheer, Dick Van Patten, Joey Slotnick, Rachael MacFarlane, Lori Alan, Butch Hartman, and Wally Wingert are guest stars in the episode.
Reception
Ahsan Haque from IGN said that the episode was made very well. He thought the jokes were great and that this was one of the best episodes of Family Guy. Robin Pierson of The TV Critic thought that the episode was different from the other episode of the first season. He said that the story is more serious and that it was surprising to see more of Brian as a character. |
548367 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Fredericksburg | Battle of Fredericksburg | The Battle of Fredericksburg (December 11, 1862 - December 15, 1862) was a major battle in the American Civil War fought at Fredericksburg, Virginia. The battle saw almost 200,000 men engaged--more than any other Civil War battle. It involved the first major opposed river crossing in the history of the United States.
Background
After the Maryland Campaign and the bloody Battle of Antietam, the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee retreated south into Virginia. Lee's rearguard action at the Battle of Shepherdstown convinced Union General George B. McClellan not to follow him too closely. McClellan, after asking twice for more reinforcements, decided it was safer to stay put and defend Maryland. On October 6, President Abraham Lincoln instructed McClellan to go after the Confederates in Virginia. Although he had 100,000 men he complained he did not have enough troops and supplies to cross into Virginia. Finally, at the end of October, by which time Lee's army was rested and resupplied, McClellan slowly moved his army south. But he did not engage them. Lincoln waited until after the elections of 1862 before replacing McClellan. The President had already planned to replace McClellan for some time. Before the autumn of 1862 he had offered command of the Army of the Potomac to Ambrose Burnside twice. Burnside turned Lincoln down both times. Finally, on November 7, Lincoln replaced McClellan as Burnside reluctantly accepted the job.
Now in command, on November 14, Burnside sent a corps to the area of Falmouth across from Fredericksburg. This was in preparation for a move against Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. Reports placed Lee's army scattered between Culpepper, Virginia and Winchester, Virginia blocking any Union advances south.
The Battle
Opening
Burnside's plan, approved by Lincoln, was to move the army south to attack Richmond. He decided to move via Fredericksburg. That way he could depend on the Union Navy to keep him supplied instead of overland supply which could be attacked by Confederate cavalry. He would also sidestep the Confederate army and get between them and Richmond. His main base was the landing at Aquia Creek. His plan was to use pontoon bridges to cross the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg. But the pontoon bridges were two weeks late in arriving. So the Army of the Potomac sat across the river and waited. This delay gave Lee ample time to gather his forces to oppose Burnside, who had now lost the advantage of surprise. During the early morning hours on December 11, soldiers assembled the pontoon bridges so the army could cross. The confederates fired on them causing delays in completing the bridges. Burnside's 150 artillery pieces opened fire from Stafford Heights. The shells did extensive damage to the town but did not drive off the Confederates. Finally the bridges were completed late that evening. More than 120,000 Union troops poured across the bridges into Fredericksburg. Lee continued to give token resistance to allow General Stonewall Jackson's corps time to get in place and complete a Confederate line some three miles long.
Burnside had depended on an unopposed crossing of the river. Now, Lee had time to get his army in place. Winter weather would soon make the roads very difficult to use and end any campaigns until spring. Burnside needed to break through Lee's line.
On December 12, the morning was cold and foggy. Burnside sent more troops into the town but did nothing to organize an attack. Instead, his men wasted the day looting and vandalizing houses and shops.
December 13th
Burnside waited until the morning of December 13 to issue his orders. He directed General William B. Franklin's division to attack Jackson's Corps. Then General Edwin Vose Sumner's division was to attack Marye's Heights. But Burnside's orders were unclear on several points. In his orders to Franklin, he ordered the attack with "a division at least". Without taking time to clarify, Franklin sent just one--General George G. Meade's division of 4.500 men. They were to attack Jackson's line about a mile away. Two small Confederate cannon were on the road perpendicular to Mead's advancing troops. Even though he had orders to disengage, Major John Pelham kept up the shelling for over an hour. Finally, when Pelham ran out of ammunition he withdrew the cannons. Meade continued his march on Jackson's position. When Meade's division came to within , Jackson's hidden 14 artillery pieces opened fire cutting down many of Meade's soldiers. Union artillery opened fire on the Confederate guns and an artillery duel started that lasted for an hour. Meade's troops found a gap in Jackson's line in the woods and exploited it. A South Carolina brigade at first mistook Meade's troops for retreating Confederates and did not fire on them. This allowed the Union troops to get deep within Jackson's line. When Jackson learned of this he ordered a counterattack and drove the Union troops back to their own lines.
Burnside waited at his headquarters to hear that Meade had successfully driven Jackson back. When no word of this came, he ordered the attack on Marye's Heights to go ahead anyway. Artillery on top of Marye's Heights and nearby hills would prevent any assault on the Heights. But Sumner ordered a series of attacks all afternoon with the Confederate artillery raining down shells on them. Finally, at dusk the attacks were called off. One after another, three divisions had tried to scale Marye's Heights and all had failed. Nearly 3,000 men were lost in just an hour but the attacks continued with no effect. As Lee watched the destruction of Sumner's divisions he remarked, "It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it." Of the 12,600 Federal casualties almost two-thirds were lost assaulting Marye's Heights. In turn, the Confederates lost about 5,000 men during the battle.
Aftermath
Despite winning what seemed like a lopsided battle, Lee lost men and equipment he could not afford to lose. Burnside's losses, although great, were soon replaced. Lee suffered 5,300 casualties defending Fredericksburg. Union losses were more than double. Burnside lost about 12,600 Union soldiers; killed, wounded, or missing. The Battle of Fredericksburg was depressing news to the North. But it had no lasting impact on the war. It was a boost to Confederate morale however. The spring would see a new campaign against Richmond. In January 1863, Burnside was replaced as commander of the Army of the Potomac by General Joseph Hooker. But Like Burnside, Hooker would be replaced after a single disastrous battle--the Battle of Chancellorsville. But following the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Army of the Potomac engaged in what came to be called the Mud March, an aborted attempt at a winter campaign. |
352967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanju%20Pradhan | Sanju Pradhan | Sanju Pradhan (born 15 August 1989) is an Indian professional athlete. He is best known as an Association football or soccer player. |
771882 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Anderson%20%28fighter%29 | Megan Anderson (fighter) | Megan Anderson (born 11 February 1990) is an Australian mixed martial artist. She fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is the former Invicta FC featherweight champion. Of her 16 MMA fights, she was won 11 bouts and lost five.
Anderson was born on the Gold Coast, Queensland. She lives in the US state of Missouri. |
583705 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Japanese%20general%20election | 2014 Japanese general election | The 2014 Japanese general election (Japanese: Di 47Hui Zhong Yi Yuan Yi Yuan Zong Xuan Ju Dai-yonjunanakai Shugiin giin sosenkyo, literally: the 47th House of Representatives general election) was the 47th general election in Japan which took place on 14 December 2014. The election also led to the appointment of Shinzo Abe as Prime Minister of Japan.
Results
Below are the election results. |
705243 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery%20in%20the%20United%20States | Slavery in the United States | Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human slavery in the United States. Slaves were mostly Africans and African Americans. Slavery existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Slavery existed in British America from early colonial days. Slavery was legal in all Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It lasted in about half the states until 1865. This was when it was banned in the entire country by the Thirteenth Amendment.
By the time of the American Revolution (1775-1783), slaves had been institutionalized as a racial caste. The caste associated with African ancestry. When the United States Constitution was ratified in 1789, a small number of free people of color were able to vote. This was because they were men who owned property. During and shortly after the Revolutionary War, abolitionist laws were passed in most Northern states, and there was a movement created to end slavery. Slave states tried to extend slavery into new Western territories. They wanted to do this to keep their share of political power in the country. Southern leaders also wanted to annex Cuba as a slave territory. The United States became split over the issue of slavery. It was split into slave and free states. The Mason-Dixon line divided the country. The line divided (free) Pennsylvania from (slave) Maryland.
While Jefferson was president, Congress prohibited the importation of slaves, effective 1808. Although smuggling (illegal importing) through Spanish Florida was common. Slave trading within the United States, however, continued at a fast pace. This was because there was a need for labor due to the creation of cotton plantations in the Deep South. New communities of African-American culture were created in the Deep South. There were 4 million slaves in the Deep South before they were set free.
Colonial America
The first Africans came to the New World with Christopher Columbus in 1492. An African crew member named Juan Las Canaries was on Columbus's ship. Shortly after, the first enslavement happened in what would later be the United States. In 1508, Ponce de Leon created the first settlement near present-day San Juan. He started enslaving the indigenous Tainos. In 1513, to supplement the decreasing number of Tainos people, the first African slaves were imported to Puerto Rico.
The first African slaves in the continental United States came via Santo Domingo to the San Miguel de Gualdape colony (most likely in the Winyah Bay area of present-day South Carolina). It was created by Spanish explorer Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon in 1526.
The colony was almost immediately disrupted by a fight over leadership. During the fight, the slaves revolted, and they ran away from the colony to hide among local Native Americans. De Ayllon and many of the colonists died shortly after from a sickness. The colony was abandoned. The settlers and the slaves who didn't run away went back to Haiti, from where they came.
On August 28, 1565, St. Augustine, Florida was created by the Spanish conquistador Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles. He brought three African slaves with him. During the 16th and 17th centuries, St. Augustine was the where a lot of the slave trade in Spanish colonial Florida happened. It was the first permanent settlement in the continental United States to have African slaves.
60 years later, in the early years of the Chesapeake Bay settlements, colonial officials found it difficult to convince people to come and work for them. This was because the weather and environment of the settlements was very harsh. There was a very high chance that people would die. Most people came from Great Britain as indentured laborers. They signed contracts that said they would pay with work for their transportation, their upkeep, and their training, usually on a farm. The colonies had agricultural economies. These people were often young people who wanted to become permanent residents. In some cases, convicted criminals were sent to the colonies as indentured laborers, rather than being sent to prison. These people were not slaves, but they were required to work for four to seven years in Virginia to pay for the cost of their transportation and maintenance. Many Germans, Scots-Irish, and Irish came to the colonies in the 18th century, settling in the backcountry of Pennsylvania and further south.
The first 19 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. They were brought by English privateers who had seized them from a captured Portuguese slave ship. Slaves were usually baptized in Africa before sending them. As English custom then considered baptized Christians exempt from slavery, colonists treated these Africans as indentured servants. The African indentured servants joined about 1,000 English indentured servants already in the colony. The Africans were freed after a period of time. They were also given the use of land and supplies by their former masters.
There were no laws about slavery in Virginia's early history. However, in 1640, a Virginia court sentenced John Punch, an African, to slavery. This was because he tried to run away from his service. He ran away with two white people. The two white people were sentenced only to one more year of their indenture, and three years' service to the colony. This is the first legal sanctioning of slavery in the English colonies. It was one of the first legal distinctions made between Europeans and Africans.
In 1641, Massachusetts became the first colony to allow slavery through law. Massachusetts passed the Body of Liberties. It banned slavery in many cases, but it allowed slaves to be held if they were prisoners of war, if they sold themselves into slavery or were bought somewhere else, or if they were sentenced to slavery as punishment by the government. The Body of Liberties used the word "strangers" to refer to people bought and sold as slaves; they were generally not English subjects. Colonists believed this term referred to Native Americans and Africans.
During most of the British colonial period, slavery existed in all the colonies. Slaves in the North usually worked as house servants, artisans, laborers, and craftsmen. Most were in cities. Many men worked on the docks and in shipping. In 1703, more than 42 percent of New York City households had slaves. New York City had the second-highest proportion of slaves of any city in the colonies after Charleston, South Carolina. Slaves were also used as agricultural workers in farming communities. This included areas of upstate New York and Long Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey. By 1770 there were 397,924 Blacks in a population of 2.17 million. They were not spread out evenly. There were 14,867 in New England where they were 2.7% of the population; 34,679 in the mid-Atlantic colonies where they were 6% of the population (19,000 were in New York or 11%); and 347,378 in the five southern colonies where they were 31% of the population.
The South developed an agricultural economy. It relied on commodity crops. Its planters quickly got more slaves. This was because its commodity crops were labor-intensive.
Revolutionary Era
While there were some African slaves that were kept and sold in England, slavery in Great Britain had not been allowed by statute there. In 1772, it was made unenforceable at common law in England and Wales by a legal decision. The big British role in the international slave trade continued until 1807. Slavery continued in most of Britain's colonies. Many rich slave owners lived in England and had a lot of power.
In early 1775 Lord Dunmore, royal governor of Virginia, wrote to Lord Dartmouth. He wrote he was going to free slaves owned by Patriots in case they rebelled. On November 7, 1775, Lord Dunmore issued Lord Dunmore's Proclamation which declared martial law. He promised freedom for any slaves of American patriots who would leave their masters and join the royal forces. Slaves owned by Loyalist masters, however, were not going to be freed by Dunmore's Proclamation. About 1500 slaves owned by Patriots ran away and joined Dunmore's forces. Most died of disease before they could do any fighting. Three hundred of these freed slaves made it to freedom in Britain.
Many slaves used the war to run away from their plantations. They would run into cities or woods. In South Carolina, nearly 25,000 slaves (30% of the total enslaved population) ran away, migrated, or died during the war. In the South, many slaves died, with many due to escapes. Slaves also escaped throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic, joining the British who had occupied New York.
Slaves and free blacks also fought with the rebels during the Revolutionary War. Washington allowed slaves to be freed who fought with the American Continental Army. Rhode Island started enlisting slaves in 1778. Rhode Island promised money to owners whose slaves enlisted and lived to gain freedom. During the course of the war, about one fifth of the northern army was black. In 1781, Baron Closen, a German officer in the French Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment at the Battle of Yorktown, estimated the American army to be about one-quarter black. These men included both former slaves and free blacks.
In the 18th century, Britain became the world's biggest slave trader. Starting in 1777, the Patriots made importing slaves illegal state by state. They all acted to end the international trade. However, it was later reopened in South Carolina and Georgia. In 1807 Congress acted on President Jefferson's advice and made importing slaves from other countries a federal crime, as the Constitution permitted, starting January 1, 1808.
1790 to 1860
"Fancy ladies"
In the United States in the early nineteenth century, owners of female slaves could freely and legally use them as sexual objects. This is similar to the free use of female slaves on slave ships by the crews.
"Fancy" was a code word that meant the girl or young woman was able to be used for or trained for sexual use. Sometimes, children were also abused like this. The sale of a 13-year-old "nearly a fancy" is documented.
Furthermore, females who were able to become pregnant were supposed to be kept pregnant, so they could make more slaves to sell. The differences in skin color found in the United States make it obvious how often black women were impregnated by whites. For example, in the 1850 Census, 75.4% of "free negros" in Florida were described as mulattos, of mixed race. Nevertheless, it is only very recently, with DNA studies, that any sort of reliable number can be provided, and the research has only begun. Light-skinned girls, who contrasted with the darker field workers, were preferred.
Blacks who owned slaves
Some slave owners were black. An African former indentured servant who settled in Virginia in 1621, Anthony Johnson, became one of the earliest documented slave owners in the American colonies. This was documented when he won a civil lawsuit to own a man named John Casor. In 1830, there were 3,775 black slave owners in the South. They owned a total of 12,760 slaves. 80% of the black slave owners lived in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. |
811371 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abri%C3%A8s-Ristolas | Abriès-Ristolas | Abries-Ristolas is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department and Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region in southeastern France.
It was created in 2019, when Abries and Ristolas merged.
Geography
Abries-Ristolas' surroundings are very hilly as the commune is in Queyras National Park. The Guil river goes through the Abries-Ristolas commune.
The commune borders Italy.
Transport
Road
The D947 and D947T roads pass through Abries-Ristolas. |
17956 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20China%20tiger | South China tiger | The South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) is an almost extinct subspecies of the tiger. There are now 20-30 of them left in the wild and 60 left in captivity. It is one of the world's ten most endangered animals and the most endangered of the six surviving tiger subspecies. The South Chinae tiger is also known as the Chinese, Amoy, or Xiamen tiger.
Description
It can be distinguished from other tiger subspecies by its narrow face, its longer nose, more intense orange colour, short fur, longer legs, and shorter stripes which are spaced far apart from each other compared to other tiger subspecies. The South China tiger has the least amount of stripes out of all the tiger subspecies, and is the second smallest tiger.
A male South China tiger is around 2.3 to 2.65 m (91 to 104 in) long, and weighs 130 to 175 kg (290 to 390 lb). Females are smaller and are around 2.2 to 2.4 m (87 to 94 in) long, and weigh 110 to 115 kg (240 to 250 lb). The smallest length of the skull in males is 318 to 343 mm (12.5 to 13.5 in), and in females 273 to 301 mm (10.7 to 11.9 in).
Behaviour
The South China tiger is a carnivorous predator, hunting its prey by stalking it until the South China tiger has the opportunity to catch it off guard. South China tigers usually hunt large mammals like deer, wild boar, cattle and goats.
The South China tiger is found on mountains, and in temperate, upland forests of southern-China.
Reproduction
Females are pregnant for around 3 to 4 months before giving birth to around 5 cubs. Newborn South China tiger cubs weigh about 1 kg (2 lb) and are blind and helpless. The mother feeds them milk for about 2 months and then the South China tiger cubs are introduced to meat. South China tiger cubs depend on their mother for the first 18 months and then they start hunting on their own. |
374888 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Muranaga | Kiyoshi Muranaga | Kiyoshi K. Muranaga (February 16, 1922-June 26, 1944) was a United States Army soldier. He received the Medal of Honor because of his actions in World War II.
Early life
Muranaga was born in California to Japanese immigrant parents. He is a Nisei, which means that he is a second generation Japanese-American.
He was interned with his family at the Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado.
Soldier
Muranaga joined the US Army in May 1943.
Muranaga volunteered to be part of the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This army unit was mostly made up of Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland.
Muranaga was killed on the first day of action for the 442nd in Italy.
For his actions in June 1944, Muranaga was awarded the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC). In the 1990s, there was a review of service records of Asian Americans who received the DSC during World War II. Muranaga's award was upgraded to the Medal of Honor. In a ceremony at the White House on June 21, 2000, his family was presented with his medal by President Bill Clinton. Twenty-one other Asian Americans also received the medal during the ceremony, but only seven of them were still alive. Without help from others, he engaged an artillery gun using a mortar.
Medal of Honor citation
Muranaga's Medal of Honor recognized his conduct in frontline fighting in central Italy in 1944.
On June 26, 1944, Muranaga was in charge of shooting his squad's mortar weapon. He was trying to destroy an enemy artillery gun. Muranaga was able to fire three shells before being killed.
The words of Muranaga's citation explain:
Private First Class Kiyoshi K. Muranaga distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 26 June 1944, near Suvereto, Italy. Private First Class Muranaga's company encountered a strong enemy force in commanding positions and with superior firepower. An enemy 88mm self-propelled gun opened direct fire on the company, causing the men to disperse and seek cover. Private First Class Muranaga's mortar squad was ordered to action, but the terrain made it impossible to set up their weapons. The squad leader, realizing the vulnerability of the mortar position, moved his men away from the gun to positions of relative safety. Because of the heavy casualties being inflicted on his company, Private First Class Muranaga, who was a gunner, attempted to neutralize the 88mm weapon alone. Voluntarily remaining at his gun position, Private First Class Muranaga manned the mortar himself and opened fire on the enemy gun at a range of approximately 400 yards. With his third round, he was able to correct his fire so that the shell landed directly in front of the enemy gun. Meanwhile, the enemy crew, immediately aware of the source of mortar fire, turned their 88mm weapon directly on Private First Class Muranaga's position. Before Private First Class Muranaga could fire a fourth round, an 88mm shell scored a direct hit on his position, killing him instantly. Because of the accuracy of Private First Class Muranaga's previous fire, the enemy soldiers decided not to risk further exposure and immediately abandoned their position. Private First Class Muranaga's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army. |
657208 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%20County%2C%20Iowa | Lucas County, Iowa | Lucas County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,634. The county seat is Chariton.
The county was founded in 1846 and named for Robert Lucas, a governor of the territory. |
398489 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive | Additive | In chemistry, an additive is a substance that is added to a mixture or compound to change the properties of that mixture or compound. Food additives are used to improve food.
Additive properties depend on the total contribution of the atoms in the molecule or on the sum of the properties of the components in a solution (molecular weight, mass of a solution). |
735750 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby%20County%2C%20Missouri | Shelby County, Missouri | Shelby County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri. The county seat is Shelbyville. In 2020, 6,103 people lived there. |
639531 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alectrosaurus | Alectrosaurus | Alectrosaurus is a theropod dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus, Alioramus and Tarbosaurus. It lived in Mongolia and China in the Late Cretaceous period, about 90-70 million years ago. Alectrosaurus as a genus existed for about 9 million years. |
295218 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Teigl | Georg Teigl | Georg Teigl (born 9 February 1991 in Vienna, Austria) is a footballer from Austria. He plays for RB Leipzig and the Austrian Under 21 national team. He is a defender.
Career
He began playing football with SV Gablenz and then went to SKN St.Polten. In 2009 he was chosen by Red Bull Salzburg where he played in the second squad. He made his debut on 14 July 2009 against FC Wacker Innsbruck. Although the team was relegated by the OFB to the Regionalliga West (3rd stage) he stayed with Red Bull Salzburg.
His first match in the first team was on 16 April 2011 in Graz against SK Sturm, where he came on in minute 46 for Jakob Jantscher. In this match he gave the assist for Alan's goal (3:0). Also in his second match against SV Kapfenberg he made an assist for Roman Wallners (4:2). On 21 July 2011 he made his European Cup debut against the Latvian team Liepajas Metalurgs. In January 2014 he went to RB Leipzig. For the 2016/17 season Teigl went to Bundesliga side FC Augsburg. After Teigl was not considered in the first half of the 2017/18 season, he moved to Eintracht Braunschweig in the 2nd Bundesliga on loan. <rewf>Web Archiv</ref> Due to Braunschweig's relegation to the 3rd division, the loan ended after the 2017/18 season and Teigl returned to Augsburg. In the following two seasons he made nine more Bundesliga appearances for Augsburg.
In September 2020 he returned to Austria and joined FK Austria Wien. In three years he made 61 Bundesliga appearances for the club. After the 2022/23 season he left the club and joined the Second league club FC Admira Wacker Modling for the 2023/24 season.
International
He played 14 matches for the Austrian Under 19 and Under 21 teams. |
848568 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Seminoles | Black Seminoles | The Black Seminoles or Afro-Seminoles are black Indians associated with the Seminole people in Florida and Oklahoma. They are mostly blood descendants of the Seminole people, free blacks and of escaped slaves (called maroons) who allied with Seminole groups in Spanish Florida. Many have Seminole lineage, but due to the stigma of having dark skin, they all have been categorized as slaves or freedmen.
Historically, the Black Seminoles lived mostly in distinct bands near the Native American Seminole. Some were held as slaves, particularly of Seminole leaders, but the Black Seminole had more freedom than did slaves held by whites in the South and by other Native American tribes, including the right to bear arms.
Today, Black Seminole descendants live primarily in rural communities around the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Its two Freedmen's bands, the Caesar Bruner Band and the Dosar Barkus Band, are represented on the General Council of the Nation. Other centers are in Florida, Texas, the Bahamas, and northern Mexico. |
425010 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun%20Quisling | Vidkun Quisling | Vidkun Quisling (18 July 1887 - 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian politician. He was involved in the German invasion of Norway during World War II. On 9 April 1940, with the invasion in progress, he seized power of the country. In 1942 with the help of he Nazis he became Prime Minister.
His government helped the Nazi German government to find Jews, who were then killed. In 1945, when Germany lost the war, Vidkun was put on trial for high treason. He was found guilty, and then executed by firing squad. Today, the name "quisling" is still used as a way of calling someone a traitor. |
980012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Salinas | Andrea Salinas | Andrea Salinas (born December 1969) is an American Democratic politician. In 2017, she was elected as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives. She is the U.S. representative for Oregon's 6th congressional district since 2023. |
946279 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers%20%281961%20movie%29 | Bootleggers (1961 movie) | Bootleggers () is a 1961 Soviet comedy movie directed by Leonid Gaidai. It stars Yuri Nikulin, Georgy Vitsin, and Yevgeny Morgunov. |
1028933 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Marsh | Sidney Marsh | Sidney Marsh is a retired wrestler from Australia. Sidney competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born on 31 August 1939. |
789781 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20Byerly | Kathleen Byerly | Kathleen M. Bruyere (nee Donahue, previously Byerly; 5 February 19443 September 2020) was an American military captain in the United States Navy. She was one of the twelve women named by Time magazine as Time Person of the Year in 1975.
In May 1975, she became the first female officer in the Navy to became the flag secretary to an admiral commanding an operational staff.
In 1977, Byerly was one of six officers who sued the United States Secretary of the Navy and the United States Secretary of Defense over their being restricted from serving on combat aircraft and ships. This led to the 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act being struck down as unconstitutional.
Byerly was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She died of cancer on 3 September 2020 in San Diego, California at the age of 76. |
290322 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20James%20Audubon | John James Audubon | John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 - January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, described, and put in catalogues the birds of North America. His Birds of America is a collection of 435 life-size prints. It is still a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists are measured.
Audubon was born in Saint Domingue (now Haiti). He was the illegitimate son of a French sea captain and plantation owner and his French mistress. He was raised by his stepmother in Nantes, France. Early interests included birds, nature, drawing, and music. In 1803, at the age of 18, he was sent to America to escape conscription into Napoleon's army. He lived on the family-estate at Mill Grove, near Philadelphia. It was here that he hunted, studied and drew birds. He married Lucy Bakewell. The couple became the parents of two sons, Victor Gifford and John Woodhouse. A daughter died in infancy.
Audubon set up a dry goods business on the western frontier in Henderson, Kentucky. He continued to draw birds as a hobby. He was quite successful in business, but hard times hit. In 1819 he was briefly jailed for bankruptcy. Audubon had few prospects. He set off with his gun, his artist's materials, and a young assistant to paint America's birds. Floating down the Mississippi River, he lived a rugged hand-to-mouth existence in the South. His wife earned money as a tutor to rich plantation families. In 1826 he sailed with his partly finished collection of bird drawings to England. "The American Woodsman" was an overnight success.
Audubon found a printer for the Birds of America, first in Edinburgh, then London, and later collaborated with the Scottish ornithologist William MacGillivray on the Ornithological Biographies - life histories of each of the species in the work.est comfort. The last print of his monumental work was issued in 1838. By this date, Audubon was famous. He traveled America several more times in search of birds, and settled in New York City. He made one more trip to the West in 1843 for his work of mammals, the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. It was largely completed by his sons. The text was written by his long-time friend, the Lutheran pastor John Bachman (whose daughters married Audubon's sons). Audubon spent his last years in senility and died at age 65. He is buried in the Trinity Cemetery at 155th Street and Broadway in New York City.
The National Audubon Society writes: "Audubon's story is one of triumph over adversity; his accomplishment is destined for the ages. He encapsulates the spirit of young America, when the wilderness was limitless and beguiling. He was a person of legendary strength and endurance as well as a keen observer of birds and nature. Like his peers, he was an avid hunter, and he also had a deep appreciation and concern for conservation; in his later writings he sounded the alarm about destruction of birds and habitats. It is fitting that today we carry his name and legacy into the future".
Values of the Birds of America
In December 2010, The Economist magazine estimated that, adjusted for inflation, five of the ten highest prices ever paid for printed books were paid for copies of Birds of America. Of the 119 copies known to survive, only eleven are held in private collections.
On 6 December 2010, a complete copy of the first edition was sold in London at Sotheby's for PS7,321,250 (about $11.5 million). The winning bid was a record auction price for a printed book and was placed by a London-based art dealer, who outbid three others during the auction. According to the provenance details reported by the auction house, the copy's original owner was Henry Witham of Durham, listed as subscriber #11 in Audubon's Ornithological biography. |
44729 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian%20language | Serbian language | Serbian is a South Slavic language spoken by Serbs, primarily in Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and some parts of neighboring countries. It is also spoken by many Serbs in diaspora, mainly in Central European countries, North America and Australia. The language is European and south Slavic. This language got a complete makeover in the mid-1800s by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadzic; when it was modernized from the times of Middle Ages, when "Old Serbian" was still spoken. Total number of speakers worldwide today is estimated to be more than 12 million. |
685790 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20Again%20%28The%20Notorious%20B.I.G.%20album%29 | Born Again (The Notorious B.I.G. album) | Born Again is the first posthumous album by The Notorious B.I.G., by Bad Boy Records and Arista Records. It was on released on December 7, 1999. It was going to be his third studio album, releasing sometime in 1998, but he died in early 1997. It debuted #1 on The Billboard 200 during it's first week. Then certified Double-platinum on January 14, 2000. |
856840 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahvaz | Ahvaz | Ahvaz () is a city in southwestern Iran. It is the capital of Khuzestan Province. In the year 2016, about 1,350,000 people lived there. In 2018, 30 people were killed in a mass shooting. The city is majority Arab with a significant Persian minority. |
963732 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellisburg%2C%20New%20York | Ellisburg, New York | Ellisburg is a town in Jefferson County, New York. In the 2010 US Census, 3,474 people lived in Ellisburg. The town is in the southwestern corner of Jefferson County and is south of Watertown. The town of Ellisburg is inside the village. |
76718 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Picasso | Marie Picasso | Marie Picasso (born 24 April 1979) is a Swedish reality show star, model and singer who rose to fame in 2002 when she was a housemate on Big Brother. She later got a job as a game show host on TV4 leading two different game shows. In 2007 she entered Idol 2007 where she is currently in the top 10 of the Swedish version of Pop Idol. Picasso won Pop idol on 7 December 2007 in Globen Arena in Stockholm with 51,3% of the votes and she won over the first runner up Amanda Jenssen. Her debut single is called "This Moment". |
190340 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds%20Rhinos | Leeds Rhinos | Leeds Rhinos (used to be Leeds RLFC) are a Rugby League team in Leeds, West Yorkshire. They play in Super League and last won it in 2015.
History
The Rugby Union club, Leeds St John's formed in 1870, however in 1895, when many teams broke off to form Rugby League, the club also switched codes. The club played as Leeds RLFC until 1995, when they changed their name to 'Leeds Rhinos'. This was done to mark the start of the Super League. Many other clubs made similar name changes. Leeds Rhinos have won the Super League in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015.
Stadium
Leeds Rhinos play at the Headingley Carnegie Stadium, which has both Rugby and Cricket grounds. The rugby stadium has a capacity of 22,500. The stadium is located in the Headingley district of the city and is near both Headingley and Burley Park railway stations.
Mascot
The club mascot is Ronnie the Rhino, who was introduced when the club changed names. As well as making appearances at the stadium on match days, Ronnie also travels around schools in Leeds promoting sport and healthy living. Ronnie has been popular with children who attend games, emphasizing the club's intention to cater for families. |
815223 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel%20Grossfeld | Muriel Grossfeld | Muriel Evelyn Grossfeld (nee Davis October 7, 1940 - January 17, 2021) was an American gymnast. She won a team gold medal at the 1963 Pan American Games. She competed in all artistic gymnastics events at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics. Grossfeld was born in New York City.
Grossfeld died on January 17, 2021 at the age of 80. |
972604 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem%20of%20the%20Karelo-Finnish%20Soviet%20Socialist%20Republic | Anthem of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic | The "Anthem of the Karelo-Finnish SSR" was the anthem of Karelia (now a federal subject of Russia) from
1945 to 1956, when it was demoted to an ASSR.
Lyrics
Finnish original
Translations |
152698 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy%2C%20Florida | Quincy, Florida | Quincy is a city in Gadsden County, Florida in the United States. |
773507 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant%20Governor%20of%20Michigan | Lieutenant Governor of Michigan | The lieutenant governor of Michigan is the second-ranking official in U.S. state of Michigan, behind the governor. The holder of this office is given the courtesy title of the Honorable for life. They are also the leader of the Michigan State Senate.
The current lieutenant governor is Garlin Gilchrist, a Democrat, who has held the office since January 1, 2019. They are elected alongside the candidate for Governor of Michigan in the general election. |
64726 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Aiello | Danny Aiello | Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr. (June 20, 1933 - December 12, 2019) was an Italian-American actor. He was in many movies. These include Once Upon a Time in America, Ruby, The Godfather: Part II, Hudson Hawk, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Moonstruck, Leon: The Professional, Two Days in the Valley, and Dinner Rush. He is most famous for his role in the 1989 Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing.
Aiello was nominated for a "Best Supporting Actor" Academy Award in 1990 for his role as Sal, the pizzeria owner. He won an Emmy Award in 1981.
Aiello was born in New York City. He died on December 12, 2019, at the age of 86 at a hospital in Saddle River, New Jersey. He had an infection caused by medical treatment. |
190939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondhand%20Serenade | Secondhand Serenade | Secondhand Serenade is an American rock/emo solo project started by John Vesley. Vesley is the singer, guitarist and pianoplayer. Secondhand Serenade is most famous for the song "Fall For You". This song was in the top 40 for many charts. |
823336 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha%27s%20tree%20frog | Bertha's tree frog | Bertha's tree frog (Dendropsophus berthalutzae) is a frog that lives in Brazil. It lives on the east coast of the country, not far from the Atlantic Ocean.
This frog lays eggs on leaves over bodies of water. When the tadpoles hatch from their eggs, they fall off the leaf into the water. |
81904 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20gharial | False gharial | The false gharial or Malayan gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii) is a fresh-water reptile. It looks like a crocodile with a very thin and long snout, like that of the gharial. That is where the name of the species is from.
It has long been classed in the family Crocodylidae. However, recent immunological studies show it is more closely related to the gharial than was originally thought. So now classed in the family Gavialidae, after all.
The animal is native to six river systems in Sumatra and Malaysia. It can also be found in Borneo, Java, Vietnam, Thailand (not seen since 1970), and possibly Sulawesi. Fossils finds in southern China indicate that, at some point in the past, the species occurred there.
The false gharial, like all other crocodilians, lays eggs. It is a mound nester. Females usually mature at 2-3 m. Mated females will lay a clutch of 30-60 eggs in a mound of dry leaves or peat. Once the eggs are laid, and construction of the mound is completed, she abandons her nest. Unlike most other crocodilian species, the young receive no parental care and are at risk of being eaten by predators like wild boar, mongooses, big cats such as tigers and leopards, civets, and wild dogs. The young hatch after 90 days and are left to look after themselves.
The false gharial is threatened with extinction throughout most of its range. The drainage of its freshwater swamplands and clearance of surrounding rainforests removes its habitat. The animal is hunted frequently for its skin and meat and the eggs are often taken for human consumption. However, positive steps have been taken by the Malaysian and Indonesian governments to prevent its extinction in the wild. |
902689 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Mir%C3%B3 | Antonio Miró | Antonio Miro (18 March 1947 - 3 February 2022) was a Spanish fashion designer. Miro was born in Sabadell, Spain. He was a costume designer in the 1979 Spanish drama Caniche. In 1986, he create a fashion company Antonio Miro. He was one of the founders of the Association of Fashion Creators of Spain. Miro also designed the costumes for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Miro died on 3 February 2022 in Barcelona, Spain from a heart attack, at the age of 74. |
942602 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20and%20radio%20stations%20in%20Metro%20Cebu | List of television and radio stations in Metro Cebu | The following are the lists of television and radio stations broadcasting in Cebu City in the Republic of the Philippines. |
925850 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Amigo%20Vallejo | Carlos Amigo Vallejo | Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M. (23 August 1934 - 27 April 2022) was a Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and priest. He was the Archbishop of Seville in the Roman Catholic Church from 1982 until 2009. He was born in Medina de Rioseco, Spain.
He took part as a cardinal elector in the papal conclave in 2013 which elected Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis.
Amigo Vallejo died on 27 April 2022 in Guadalajara, Spain from heart failure after having lung surgery to treat pulmonary edema, aged 87. |
958964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburg%20mijn%20Vaderland | Limburg mijn Vaderland | "Limburg, mijn Vaderland" ("Limburg, my Fatherland") is the anthem of two regions, Dutch Limburg and Belgian Limburg.
Lyrics
Most of the time only the first verse is sung, plus the second one sometimes. The fourth verse is not sung in Belgium because it talks about the strong ties between the Netherlands and the House of Orange-Nassau. |
25391 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1580 | 1580 | Events
March 1 - Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. They are published later the same year.
June 11 - Juan de Garay founds Buenos Aires.
June 25 - Publication of the Book of Concord, a collection of Lutheran confessional documents.
July 12 - Publication of the Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed Bible in a Slavic language.
September 26 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe
1580-1764 First session of Jewish Waad (Sejm of 4 countries) in Lublin, Poland. 70 delegates of Jewish local kahals met to discuss taxations and other issues important to Jewish communities.
Portugal loses independence to Spain following the death without heirs of king Henry of Portugal. The Habsburg rule would last until 1640.
Yermak entered Siberia with a band of 1636 men. Russia begins the conquest of Siberia.
Khorasan Wars were fought between Abbas the Great and his father king Mohammed Khodabandeh. |
392739 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Town%2C%20Oslo | Old Town, Oslo | Old Town is a part of the city of Oslo, Norway. It is the original town settlement of Oslo. The Norwegian royal family previously lived here. Here were also several churches and the home for the Bishop of Oslo. Today there are still ruins left of the old town, protected in parks. |
129996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20thinking | Lateral thinking | Lateral thinking is a term invented by Edward de Bono, a Maltese psychologist, physician and writer. It first appeared in the title of his book The Use of Lateral Thinking, published in 1967. De Bono explains lateral thinking as methods of thinking about changing concepts and perception. Lateral thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic. |
989402 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwear%20as%20outerwear | Underwear as outerwear | Wearing underwear as outerwear is a fashion trend. Celebrities, sports and media made it popular. It began as a practical and comfortable variation of clothing, such as the T-shirt and the sleeveless shirt. Later, this lead to fashion statements that were seen as controversial and provocative. 21st century versions include the display of thongs and bras in women's clothing, and the display of underpants under low-slung pants in men. The idea of wearing underwear as outerwear is not new. The display of undergarments was already popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
1019720 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey%20Belladonna | Joey Belladonna | Joey Belladonna (born Joseph Bellardini; October 13, 1960) is an American singer. He is best known as the singer for Anthrax. Anthrax is an American thrash metal band. Belladonna has been nominated for six Grammy Awards.
Belladonna was the singer for Anthrax from 1984 to 1992. After 1992, John Bush was the band's singer. Belladonna joined the band again in 2010. The band made new music with him. Belladonna has also been in other bands. He made a band named Belladonna. He makes his own music in this band. As of 2023, the band has made five albums. |
5012 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario | Ontario | Ontario is a province of Canada. It is in the eastern half of Canada, between Manitoba and Quebec. Ontario has the most people of any province, with 13,150,000 in 2009, and is home to the biggest city in Canada, Toronto, which is also the capital of the province. In the eastern part of the province, placed on the border with Quebec, is Ottawa, the capital of Canada, located on the Ottawa River.
Ontario also has the second largest land area, with 1,076,395 km2; only Quebec is larger by size. (Nunavut and Northwest Territories are also larger, but are called territories and not provinces). The province has one of the longest borders with the United States and there are several border crossings including the one at Niagara Falls. Along this border are 4 large lakes called Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior. They each are partly in Ontario and partly in the United States, and the border runs through them, but not Lake Michigan, which is entirely in the United States. These five lakes are together are called the Great Lakes.
There are a number of symbols that represent the province of Ontario. The flag is red with the British Union Jack in the top left corner and the provincial shield is on the right hand side of the flag. The provincial bird is the loon, and the provincial flower is the trillium. It has three flower petals and it is usually white but some times is pink or purple.
History
Ontario became part of Canada when it was created in 1867. Before 1840, it was known as Upper Canada, which was a colony in the British Empire. Between 1840 and 1867 it was known as Canada West. The government of Ontario sits at Queen's Park in Toronto. The leader of the government is called the Premier, and the current Premier is Doug Ford. There is also a Lieutenant Governor who represents the Queen, and the current Lieutenant Governor is Elizabeth Dowdeswell.
Geography
Ontario is very large, so sometimes people break it into two. The two parts are called Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. Most of the people in Ontario live in the south, and that is where the big cities are. The big cities in Southern Ontario are Toronto and the rest of the Greater Toronto Area, Ottawa and the National Capital Region, Hamilton, London, Windsor, and Sarnia. The cities in the north are smaller. In the far north of Ontario hardly any people live at all, and there are no roads or railways making it difficult to even get to those places.
Much of Ontario gets lots of snow in the winter. In the summer, it can get very hot in the south parts. In some big cities, there is smog in the summer. |
269382 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita | Amanita | The genus Amanita contains a species of basidiomycete mushrooms, including some of the most toxic known. It is found worldwide.
This genus is responsible for approximately 95% of the fatalities resulting from mushroom poisoning, with the death cap accounting for about 50% on its own. The most potent toxin present in these mushrooms is amanitin, of which at least eight versions are known.
Species
Amanita abietum
Amanita abrupta
Amanita albocreata
Amanita bisporigera
Amanita caesarea
Amanita jacksoni
Amanita muscaria
Amanita ocreata
Amanita pantherina
Amanita phalloides
Amanita verna
Amanita virosa
Notable species
Fly agaric
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric, is a psychoactive fungus. It is known as the fly agaric for its ability to kill houseflies when combined with milk. The reason for this is that flies are attracted to the milk because it is so sweet. When they drink the milk they feel the effects of the mushroom and begin to get intoxicated.
Death cap
Amanita phalloides, commonly known as the death cap, is a deadly poisonous fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Widely distributed across Europe, A. phalloides forms ectomycorrhizas with various broadleaved trees. In some cases, death cap has been accidentally introduced to new regions with the cultivation of non-native species of oak, chestnut, and pine. The large fruiting bodies (mushrooms) appear in summer and autumn; the caps are generally greenish in color, with a white stipe (stem) and gills (underneath the cap).
One mushroom, if eaten, may destroy the liver and cause death. There is no antidote.p211
Toxins
Their major toxic mechanism is the inhibition of RNA polymerase II, a vital enzyme in the synthesis of messenger RNA (mRNA), microRNA (miRNA), and small nuclear RNA (snRNA). Without mRNA, essential protein synthesis, and hence cell metabolism, grind to a halt and the cell dies.
The liver is the principal organ affected, as it is the organ which is first encountered after absorption in the gastrointestinal tract, though other organs, especially the kidneys, are susceptible.p217 The RNA polymerase of Amanita phalloides is insensitive to the effects of amatoxins, so the mushroom does not poison itself. |
137936 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peypin | Peypin | Peypin is a commune of 5,097 people (2004). It is found in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in the Bouches-du-Rhone department in the south of France. |
105119 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Kelly | Ruth Kelly | Ruth Maria Kelly (born May 9, 1968) is now an economist working for the HSBC Bank. She was a British politician and had been a Cabinet Minister.
She was the Member of Parliament for the Bolton West constituency in the United Kingdom from the 1997 general election to the 2010 general election
She is a member of the Labour Party. |
353149 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes%20La%C3%ABrtius | Diogenes Laërtius | Diogenes Laertius was a historian. He wrote a history of Greek philosophy, in ten volumes. Very little is known about him as a person. Probably he lived in the 3rd century BC. The last philiosopher found in this work is a student of Sextus Empiricus. Sextus Empiricus lived in the 2nd century. Diogenes Laertius does not list many Roman philiosphers. He also does not talk about Middle Platonism, which must have been popular during that time. |
65789 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Habsburg | House of Habsburg | The House of Habsburg was a family of dukes, kings, and monarchs that was very important in European history. It first ruled parts of Switzerland in the 13th century and then ruled Austria, later Austria-Hungary, for more than 600 years. It ruled owned Spain and the Netherlands for a while, the Holy Roman Empire from about 1280 to 1806 and the Kingdom of Sardinia until the mid-19th century.
A treaty was made in Vienna in 1515 between the king of Poland and duke of Lithuania from the Jagiellon dynasty and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, the duke of Austria from the Habsburg family. It stated that if the Jagiellon kings of Bohemia and Hungary died without a male heir, Maximilian and his heirs would take over the territory.
The senior branch of the House of Habsburg became extinct in the 18th century, when Charles II of Spain died in 1700 and was replaced by the House of Bourbon. Charles had mental and physical handicaps, which were probably caused by inbreeding between relatives in the royal houses of Continental Europe. Marriages of close relatives had occurred for the five generations before him. He was the son of Philip IV, who married his sister's daughter.
The remaining branch went extinct in the male line in 1740 with the death of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and completely in 1780 with the death of his eldest daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria. It was succeeded by the Vaudemont branch of the House of Lorraine, which styled itself formally as House of Habsburg-Lorraine (German: Habsburg-Lothringen), but it was often referred to as simply the House of Habsburg.
The last empress was Zita of Bourbon-Parma, who died in Switzerland in 1989. She had ruled with her husband, Charles I of Austria, from 1916 to 1918.
The current head is Karl Habsburg-Lothringen. |
779231 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomka%20and%20His%20Friends | Tomka and His Friends | Tomka and His Friends () is a 1977 Albanian World War II drama movie directed by Xhanfise Keko and stars Enea Zheku, Zehrudin Dokle, Genc Mosho, Sotiraq Cili. |
280219 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20County%2C%20Florida | Martin County, Florida | Martin County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida, and was formed on June 13, 1915. As of 2020, 158,431 people lived there. Martin County's seat is Stuart. The county is named after John W. Martin. The state park Jonathan Dickinson State Park is in this county. |
322226 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20parliamentary%20expenses%20scandal | United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal | The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal in the United Kingdom. It was caused by leaked expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years. The Daily Telegraph leaked the claims in 2009. The claims showed that MPs had misused the expenses system to gain money. This made the British public very angry. The scandal made lots of MPs leave or be sacked, and it made them apologise and pay money back. Some people were prosecuted and put in prison. |
763591 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaim%C3%AD%20Gonz%C3%A1lez | Thaimí González | Thaimi Gonzalez (born 6 November 1995) is a Cuban water polo player. She was a member of the Cuba women's national water polo team at the 2019 Pan American Games and 2019 World Aquatics Championships. |
647986 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saara%20Kuugongelwa | Saara Kuugongelwa | Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila (born 12 October 1967) is a Namibian politician. She has been the fifth Prime Minister of Namibia since 21 March 2015. She is a member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). She has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 1995 and was Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2015. She is the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Namibia. |
134938 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTG | JTG | Jayson Anthony Paul (born December 10, 1984) is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name JTG. He is best known for his time working with the WWE. During his time there, he was a member of the tag team Cryme Tyme along with Shad Gaspard.
His last match was on the September 20, 2013 episode of Superstars where he lost against Santino Marella. On June 12, 2014, JTG was released from his WWE contract.
Championships
Ohio Valley Wrestling
OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (2 times) (with Shad Gaspard)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
He was ranked #84 of the top 500 singles wrestlers by PWI in the PWI 500 in 2010. |
45131 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D | 2D | 2D or two-dimensional objects have two measurements: width and length, like a square. 2D objects do not have depth, like 3D objects.
The simplest 2D shape is a triangle. A 2D object can have any number of sides, making shapes such as pentagons and hexagons. The sides can bend to make different angles. 2D objects can even have sides that go through each other.
Two dimensional space is a mathematics tool, and it has many kinds of uses in computer science, geometry, the making of software, and also in paper. |