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Arrondissement of Sélestat-Erstein | The arrondissement of Sélestat-Erstein is an arrondissement of France in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. Its capital is the city of Sélestat. | 20231101.simple_565731_0 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrondissement%20of%20S%C3%A9lestat-Erstein |
Thirty Years' War | Firstly, the Peace of Augsburg (1555), which was signed quickly by Charles V, stopped the fighting between the Lutherans and the Catholics in Germany. | 20231101.simple_58629_2 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty%20Years%27%20War |
Edmund Phelps | Professor Cowen and Berkeley's Professor Brad DeLong both said the choice of Phelps was a good noe, and Harvard Professor Gregory Mankiw said it was "a wonderful choice". | 20231101.simple_101398_17 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Phelps |
Pregnancy | When the woman's egg and the man's seed come together, it makes one cell called a zygote. The zygote grows into an embryo, which grows into a fetus. When the fetus is ready, the baby is born. | 20231101.simple_13241_3 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy |
Centripetal force | In this formula, think that the centripetal force and the centripetal momentum are the same thing because they are both measured in Newtons. | 20231101.simple_2902_3 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal%20force |
Braidwood, New South Wales | The town was named after Dr Thomas Braidwood Wilson. He had been a surgeon on the ships taking convicts to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania). He was first given land in Van Diemen's Land in 1824, but changed it for land near Lake George in 1825. He was also given of land in the 'new country' on Monkittee and Flood creeks. In 1833 the government took back the western end of Wilson's land for a future village. They gave him more land at the eastern land in return. Wilson moved to the district in late 1836 with his wife and family. He became a community leader. He built the first courthouse in 1837-38. In 1840 Wilson asked the government to build a road from Braidwood to Huskisson for faster and cheaper shipping of wool to Sydney. Wilson and Col. John Mackenzie, supplied the materials and men to make the Braidwood to Nerriga section. In 1841 there were 141 people living at Braidwood Farm. Wilson lost all of his money because of a drought in the late 1830s. He died in November 1843. His land was sold for £2,000 to John Coghill, who now owned most of the land on the south, east and north of the town. Wilson still owned land on a hill north of the town and was buried there in 1843. | 20231101.simple_191533_3 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidwood%2C%20New%20South%20Wales |
2020 | February 13 — NASA publishes a detailed study of Arrokoth, the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft, which New Horizons passed by on its journey through the Kuiper Belt. | 20231101.simple_178089_15 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020 |
Spam (food) | Spam was used a lot in World War II, as there wasn't proper meat. Because of that, spam was used as a rationed item. | 20231101.simple_20675_2 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam%20%28food%29 |
Oldenburg (city) | Oldenburg (Low Saxon: Ollnborg, Low Saxon spelling: Ollenborg) is a city in the north of Germany, in the state of Lower Saxony. It was formerly the capital of the old Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. | 20231101.simple_32690_0 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldenburg%20%28city%29 |
New York City English | Some New York area people say tawk for talk (which sounds like toak, producing a « trumpet effect »). | 20231101.simple_534870_2 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20City%20English |
2023 Singaporean presidential election | Tan Kin Lian highlighted the importance of having an independent candidate. He wanted voters to vote for him as he is "truly independent". | 20231101.simple_1041037_8 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Singaporean%20presidential%20election |
José Nenínger | José Nenínger is a handball player from Cuba. José competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was born on 26 July 1958. | 20231101.simple_1030657_0 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Nen%C3%ADnger |
Cypher | To encipher or decipher, you need the "key". In encryption, a key specifies the particular transformation of plaintext into ciphertext, or vice versa during decryption. | 20231101.simple_85822_5 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypher |
Elaine Welteroth | Welteroth was born in Newark in California, United States. Welteroth holds bachelor's degree in journalism from California State University, Sacramento. | 20231101.simple_830663_1 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Welteroth |
Chapter house | In a cathedral, the chapter is always chaired by the Dean, whose job it is to run (manage) the cathedral. Members of the chapter will include Canons, who may include top lay officials as well as priests. It is a management group for the cathedral. | 20231101.simple_261437_1 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter%20house |
Inside Story (Grace Jones album) | Inside Story is the eighth studio album by Jamaican singer Grace Jones, released on November 14, 1986 by Manhattan Records, it was her only album to be released on that label. | 20231101.simple_518671_0 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20Story%20%28Grace%20Jones%20album%29 |
Orientalism | Discourse: Discourse is a system of society. It produces knowledge and meaning. This production then creates processes that shape the things they talk about. | 20231101.simple_899534_16 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism |
George Church | He has been advisor to 22 companies. He co-founded Codon Devices, a biotech startup dedicated to synthetic biology. It produces DNA sequences to order. He co-founded LS9, which is focused on biofuels or renewable petroleum technologies. | 20231101.simple_308099_6 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Church |
Anglo-Norman language | The Anglo-Norman hub - a project to produce an Anglo-Norman dictionary. Contains articles and corpus texts. | 20231101.simple_48125_1 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman%20language |
Wow! signal | In a 2017 Super Bowl commercial from Avocados From Mexico spoofing conspiracy theories such as the moon landing hoax, Area 51, and subliminal advertising, the base of a stone monolith carries the inscription "6EQUJ5". | 20231101.simple_846516_26 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21%20signal |
Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery | The southwestern part of the cemetery is Kidron Valley necropolis continuing the cemetery from southwest in the Kidron Valley. a part of the Arab village of Silwan was built over this part of the cemetery. | 20231101.simple_408539_1 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20of%20Olives%20Jewish%20Cemetery |
Darya Chultsova | Together with Katsyaryna Andreeva, Katsyaryna Barysevich, and others, on August 12, 2021, she got the . | 20231101.simple_831849_14 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darya%20Chultsova |
Masaccio | In recent years there have been four interesting discoveries. During a minor cleaning in 1904 two slabs of marble near the altar were moved. Underneath were the bright colours that showed what the frescoes should look like. Examination of the areas where two windows had been changed showed the plans for two paintings that had been destroyed. The final discoveries in the chapel itself were two painted roundels with little angel faces in them, one by Masaccio and one by Masolino. | 20231101.simple_57905_19 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaccio |
List of minor planets: 115001–116000 | | 114023 Harvanek || || || October 29, 2002 || Apache Point || SDSS || MAR || align=right | 2.0 km || | 20231101.simple_913137_1 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor%20planets%3A%20115001%E2%80%93116000 |