A is the first letter of the English alphabet. The small letter, a, is used as a lowercase vowel. When it is spoken, ā is said as a long a, a diphthong...

A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet with a tilde diacritic over the letter A. It is used in Portuguese, Guaraní...

Ä (lowercase ä) is a letter used in some languages. It is just an "a" with an umlaut. It evolved from the letter Å (lowercase å). Ä is one of the 4 extra...

International Phonetic Alphabet, a ring below a letter is used for voicelessness. Diacritics Project — All you need to design a font with correct accents Archived...

Å (or å) is a letter used in the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish languages. It is an A with an overring. Å came from the Old Norse vowel á. Ǻ In...

Ă (uppercase: Ă, lowercase: ă) is a letter in the Latin alphabet. It is made by adding a small mark called a breve (˘) to the letter A. This letter is...

Ą (lowercase: ą) is a letter in the Latin alphabet. It is formed by adding an ogonek (“little tail”) to the letter A. It is used in several languages,...

The Serie A is the top tier football league in Italy. This league was born on May 8, 1898: in this day was played the first championship, with only four...

Find A Grave is a website that has a database of cemetery records. It was started by Jim Tipton, in 1995 to help people who wanted to visit the graves...

A-side and B-side are words used in music. They used to mean the two different sides of vinyl records and cassettes. Singles were released on these from...

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A is a football league in Brazil. América Mineiro Atlético Mineiro Atlético Paranaense Bahia Chapecoense Corinthians Cuiabá...

Los Angeles (L.A.), officially the City of Los Angeles, is the largest city in California, in the United States. There are many ethnicities of people...

A country is a distinct territory with defined borders, boundaries, people and government. Most countries are sovereign states while others make up one...

A Bachelor of Arts or BA is a college degree. It takes three years to get it in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Estonia, England, Wales, Northern Ireland...

A journalist is a person who works in journalism to report the news. They may work on their own ("freelance") or for a newspaper, a radio or television...

A Bug's Life is a 1998 movie made by Pixar. It follows the conflict between ants and grasshoppers in the world of insects. It is a retelling of a fable...

A city is a place where many people live close together. A city has many buildings and streets. It has houses, hotels, condominiums, and apartments for...

A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division. It was set up in 1962...

This is a list of sovereign states. Disputed countries and dependencies are listed at the bottom.  Afghanistan –  Albania –  Algeria –  Andorra –  Angola...

This is part of the list of United Kingdom locations: a list of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's locality and geographical coordinates...

address) is a label which is used to identify one or more devices on a computer network. An IP can be compared to a postal address. An IP address is a long string...

Chordates, phylum Chordata, are a phylum of animals which have a notochord. The group includes vertebrates, with some closely related invertebrates. Phylum...

lists. Input of data means to read information from a keyboard, a storage device like a hard drive, or a sensor. The computer processes or changes the data...

made a standard set of rules for the game in 1824. The game has a black-and-white ball and originated in China, from its army. The players had a very...

A movie or film is a type of visual art that uses images and sounds to tell stories, express ideas, or teach people something. Most people watch movies...

A town is usually a place with a lot of houses, but not a city. As with cities, there is more than one way to say what a town is in different countries...

WWE Hell in a Cell was a yearly professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event made by WWE. The first event took place in 2009, replacing...

Binomial nomenclature is a way of naming and categorizing species in biology. "Binomial nomenclature" means "two-part name" or "system of two-part names"...

A village is a place where people live, normally in the countryside. It is usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town or city. In some places...

year of the Lord”), shortened as AD or A.D., is used to refer to the years after the birth of Jesus. AD is also a shorthand for Christian Era. Likewise...

Holozoa is a clade: a group of plants or animals with a common ancestor. It has all of the organisms close to animals. An example of a well-known holozoan...

Filozoa is a clade (a group of plants or animals with a common ancestor) that is in the Opisthokonta clade. It includes animals, and their close single-celled...

Opisthokonts are a superkingdom of the Eukaryota. This group has both the animals and the fungi, as well as all the living things closely related to each...

A political party is an organized group of people or bodies who seek to capture political power through an election in order to run the affairs of a country...

Eumetazoa is a clade which includes all major animal phyla except for sponges, and a few other groups of animals, such as the Placozoa. The Eumetazoa...

which are bilaterally symmetrical. They have front and a back end, an upside and downside, and a left and right side. Most animals are bilateral. Deuterostomia...

started in 1899 by two Englishmen, Herbet Kilpin and Alfred Edwards after a heavy drinking session in the Fiaschetteria Toscana tavern in Milan. Herbet...

Amorphea are part of a taxonomic large group that contains protists, like Amoebozoa and Obazoa. The ISP, or the International Society of Protistologists...

Obazoa is a clade (a group of plants or animals that share an ancestor). It is a Unikont. Unikonts are one of the five superkingdoms in the classification...

A vertebrate is an animal with a spinal cord surrounded by cartilage or bone. The word comes from vertebrae, the bones that make up the spine. Animals...

Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791; pronounced MOHT-sart) was a composer, instrumentalist, and music teacher. His full baptised name was Johannes...

A Hard Day’s Night was a 1964 album by The Beatles, released on 10 July of that year. It was the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, starring the...

the Republic of Türkiye, is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula...

A genus is a rank in the biological classification (or taxonomy). It is above species, and below families. A genus can include more than one species. When...

ParaHoxozoa is a proposed group within taxonomy. It would be a clade, above phylum but below a kingdom. It would include the Bilateria, the Placozoa and...

called transpiration. A plant needs sunlight, carbon dioxide, minerals from the soil and water to make food by photosynthesis. A green substance in plants...

that is a secondary feature.p182 The fertilized angiosperm ovule develops into a seed, and the ovary develops into the fruit. The fruit is often a way to...

known where life exists. One big reason life can exist here is that Earth has a lot of water on its surface, being the only planet in our Solar System with...

all vetebrates are part of this group. All Euteleostomi have a skeleton made of bone, and a skull. In the case of several fish related to the sturgeon,...

history of popular music. The group were a main part of the creation of 1960s counterculture. They began as a skiffle band, and were influenced by 1950s...

usually in a foam nest. After hatching they are tadpoles, which live in the water and have gills. The tadpoles change into adults in a process called...

to Donald Glaser at Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Donald A. Glaser Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from...

dogs, messenger dogs, hunting dogs, herding dogs, or rescue dogs. A baby dog is called a pup or puppy. Dogs are sometimes known as "human's best friend"...

(漢字) Hiragana is a Syllabary, meaning each character represents a syllable or vowel. Each character is a comprised of either a vowel, a consonant-vowel...

footprints were made in the mud of a tropical lagoon, and no animal of that time could have made the tracks except a tetrapod. The find strongly suggests...

A video game is an electronic game played on a video screen (normally a television, computer monitor, or built-in screen when played on a handheld machine)...

offices have regional offices for the provinces. The regions do not have a separate local government, except for the Muslim Mindanao and Cordillera regions...

Sunderland were disqualified from the FA Cup after beating Middlesbrough 4–2 in a third qualifying round replay, Middlesbrough protested that Sunderland had...

A pixel (short for picture element) is a single point in a picture. On the monitor of a computer, a pixel is usually a square. Every pixel has a color...

city of Russia. The city is on the Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population of around 13 million people in the city limits, over 17 million...

A writer can mean anyone who makes a written work or who writes, but the word more usually means people who write creatively or as a job, or those who...

A river is a stream of water that flows through a channel on the surface of the ground. The passage where the river flows is called the riverbed and the...

The Sarcopterygii is a class of fish. They are lobe-finned fish, like the lungfish and coelacanths. They are a clade of bony fish which first appeared...

A Master of Arts (Latin:Magister Artium) is a postgraduate academic master's degree given by universities and colleges in many countries. Often called...

States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts. There is no Federal statute saying a person or organization must accept...

lobe-finned fish, and include the ancestors of the tetrapods. The Rhipidistia are a subgroup of Sarcopterygii which includes the lungfish (Dipnoi) and the tetrapodomorphs...

Tetrapodomorpha is a clade of vertebrates. It is a subclass of the Sarcopterygii which includes tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) and their more fish...

A president is the leader of a country which is a republic. A president is usually elected directly through a vote by the citizens or indirectly by legislatures...

The Italian language is a Romance language spoken in Italy. Other countries that use Italian as their official language are San Marino, Vatican City and...

Dinosaurs are a group of Archosaur reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. Dinosaurs eventually gave rise to birds. Dinosaurs were the most powerful land animals...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play by William Shakespeare. The exact date the play was written is unknown. It is generally accepted that the play was...

The amniotes are a taxonomic group of animals: all the tetrapods except the amphibians. They are the land vertebrates which lay cleidoic eggs. Two super-groups...

Insects are a class in the phylum Arthropoda. They are small terrestrial invertebrates which have a hard exoskeleton. Insects are the largest group of...

Criminal Division under the George W. Bush administration. He was previously a litigation partner with the law firm King & Spalding. In December 2024, Wray...

he was most noted as the Collector of Customs for the Port of New York, a job he got from his political friendships. Arthur was the first president...

A bass guitar (also called an electric bass or bass) is a string instrument which is related to the electric guitar. The bass guitar is shaped like an...

Saint-Christophe-à-Berry is a commune. It is in the region Hauts-de-France in the Aisne department in the north of France. This short article about a place or...

/kæn'zəs/) is a state in the Midwestern United States. The name of the state comes from the Kansa Native Americans, whose name comes from a Siouan-language...

Arthropods (Greek language for "joint-legged") are a large group of invertebrate animals. Insects, spiders, crabs, shrimp, millipedes, and centipedes...

A mountain is a large natural rise of the Earth's surface that usually has a "summit" (the name for a mountain's top, which can also be called a peak)...

tears and leaks. A stroke is when there is a lack of blood flow to the brain. There are two types of strokes. One is when there is a blood clot blocking...

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played on a field by two teams against each other. In baseball, a player on one team throws a small round ball at a player...

23, 2011) was an American mathematician. He won a Nobel Prize. He made a mathematical method to find a molecular structures based on the X-ray patterns...

Communism is an idea in politics based on equality, that seeks a world without different social class groups. They say that things like factories, tools...

Jesus (or Jesus Christ, or Jesus of Nazareth) was a Jewish preacher and reformer of religion and the central figure of Christianity. In Christian tradition...

Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-American chemist. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of electron transfer...

honoring productions on Broadway in New York. To get the Tony Award, a show must play in a "Broadway" theater, which is said by its size, not its geographical...

Animation is a way of making a movie from many images that don’t move. The images are put together one after another, and then played at a fast speed to...

iron the metal. For the tool called iron, see ironing. Iron is a chemical element and a metal. It is the most common chemical element on Earth (by mass)...

waves is called a transmitter, while a machine that "picks up" the signals is called a receiver or antenna. A machine that does both jobs is a "transceiver"...

Bias means that a person prefers an idea and possibly does not give equal chance to a different idea. Bias can be influenced by a number of factors, such...

Cricket is a sport. It is an outdoor bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players on a large, grassy field. At the centre of the field is a rectangular...

Ambrose Powell Hill, Jr. (1825–1865) was a career United States Army officer from Virginia who resigned and served as a Confederate States Army general and...

historians often get a Master's degree or PhD. A Master's degree student spends most of their time in the classroom. A PhD student needs to write a long research...

A Goofy Movie is a 1995 American animated musical comedy movie. It was released in theaters on April 7, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures. The movie has characters...

writer or illustrator. A book can be a text that is a part of a larger collection of texts. A section of a text may be published as a book so that it only...

A stage name is a name an entertainer (such as a movie star or a musician) uses instead of their real name. Famous examples include actress Marilyn Monroe...

microorganisms. Bacterial cells do not have a nucleus, and most have no organelles with membranes around them. Most have a cell wall. They do have DNA, and their...

Foundation. Thomas A. Steitz Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thomas A. Steitz. "Inquisitiveness of Milwaukee native leads to a Nobel Prize", The...

political bodies. The parliament has an upper house, the House of Lords, and a lower house, the House of Commons. At its head is the monarch, King Charles...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made up of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares in each row and column. Each...

or low. If they do this in a way that uses notes of a scale then they make tunes, called songs. A song, very broadly, is a musical piece, produced by...

A Christian (/ˈkrɪstʃən, -tiən/ (listen)) is a person who believes in Christianity, an Abrahamic monotheistic religion. Christianity is mostly about the...

Marriage is a contract by which two people agree to live together as a couple for an extended period of time or for the rest of their lives, often with...

a degree which a person gets from a university by finishing a doctorate program. In many areas of study, the PhD / DPhil is the highest degree that a...

including Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. On January 1, 1982 CNN launched a 24-hour sister newscast channel with no talk shows or commentary shows called...

eudicotyledons are a group of flowering plants. They are one of two major clades, the non-magnoliid dicots. Their sister group is the Magnoliids, a much smaller...

of plants, the bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants. Only a few embryophytes are water plants. They don't include the algae. They include...

(1): 1961 "BOARD OF DIRECTORS". A.S. Roma Website. Retrieved 23 August 2019.[permanent dead link] "Players and Staff". A.S. Roma. 5 October 2020. Archived...

from March 1881 to his assassination. Before he became president, he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1881. He was the...

Divorce is a process where a marriage is ended in the eyes of the law; after a couple divorces, they are no longer married. When a divorce happens, the...

Seed plants are a group of plants. Gymnosperms and angiosperms form the group. Their seeds have three parts: (1) an embryo, (2) a supply of nutrients...

Peter Andreas Grünberg (18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist. He won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering giant magnetoresistance...

Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (which was once just called Star Wars) is a science fiction movie. It is the first film made in the Star Wars saga, but...

A tree is a tall plant with a trunk and branches made of wood. Trees can live for many years. The oldest living tree found is about 5,000 years old. The...

Manipur (Meitei: Kangleipak) is a state within the Republic of India. It has area of 22,347 km2 (8,628 mi2). In traditional Indian geography it falls...

Quintanilla III is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, most known for his works for his sister, Selena. A.B. Quintanilla III, became a member of Kumbia Kings...

The Bahamas (officially called Commonwealth of The Bahamas) are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. The country's capital, Nassau, is on New Providence...

Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family...

A male horse is a stallion, and a female horse is a mare, while the general term for a young horse is a foal. A young female horse is a filly, and a young...

Photography is a way of making a picture using a camera. A person who makes pictures using a camera is called a photographer. A picture made using a camera is...

tenth Secretary of Commerce (1945–1846). In 1948, he ran for president as a member of the Progressive Party because he thought that President Harry S...

its peak centuries before that of ancient Rome. This list covers the letter A. For the main list, see: List of Latin phrases. William Blakestone. Book 3...

Entre A Mi Mundo (English: Enter My World), was the fourth studio album by Mexican-American Tejano pop singer, Selena. The album was released on May 6...

"A Day in the Life" is a song by the English rock group The Beatles. It is the last song on the group's 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...

terrorists. The foundation of modern terrorism is the work of Sergey Nechayev, a Russian radical who developed strategies for carrying out terrorism, which...

Zero (0, ⁰) is a unique number. If there are zero things, then there is nothing at all. For example, if a person has zero hats, that means they do not...

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It borders Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. To the south is the Pacific...

"Factsheets: The U.S. Air Force". Retrieved April 7, 2006. Find a grave memorial of a World War II "WASP" {Women Air Service pilot} This short article...

The 2006 FIFA World Cup was a football (soccer) sporting event that was held in Germany from June 9 to July 9, 2006. 32 teams took part from many countries...

athletics. Athletics is a collection of sport events that includes running, jumping and throwing. Track and field events take place in a sports stadium, either...

Squamata, ancestors of snakes and lizards, are a monophyletic group - descended from a single ancestor. It is a sister group to the Tuatara. Judged by their...

Fire is a chemical reaction that gives off light and heat. Fire happens when a material rapidly oxidizes, or loses electrons, and gives off a great amount...

A drum is a musical instrument. It is played with the hands, sometimes using a drum stick (a stick for hitting a drum). A collection of drums and cymbals...

sometimes called spelter, is a chemical element. It is in the group of metals called the transition metals. It is sometimes considered a post-transition metal...

named after Jordan River, which passes on its western borders. Jordan is a country that combines different Arab cultures and dialects. Natural borders...

The A.V. Club is an entertainment news website. It has articles about popular culture for example television and movies. It is part of Great Hill Partners...

Cladotheria (also called Zatheria) is a clade of mammals—that means a group of mammals who all evolved from the same ancient creature. Cladotheria has...

The A-train is a family of many trains originally designed and built by Hitachi Ltd. for use on the railway system in Japan. The A-train family is trains...

Kissinger; May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023), pronounced /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/, was a German-American political scientist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Peace...

"Eight Days a Week" is a 1965 song by The Beatles. It is from their fourth studio album Beatles for Sale. It topped the single charts in the United States...

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Ajax Amsterdam, AFC Ajax, or simply Ajax) is a football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands. They play in the Eredivisie, which...

A virus is a tiny parasite. Viruses reproduce inside other living things; they are not free-living. A virus makes copies of itself inside another organism's...

A lake (from Latin: lacus) is a large body of water (larger and deeper than a pond) within a body of land. As a lake is separated from the ocean, it is...

a legislature, even if it is not a real parliament. A "parliament" is a type of legislature which has a Prime Minister. A parliament is a lot like a congress...

Art is a creative activity. It produces a product, an object. Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, performing subjects, and...

Cattle is a word for certain mammals that belong to the genus Bos. Cattle may be cows, bulls, oxen, or calves. Cattle are the most common type of large...

A fossil is the remains or trace of an ancient living thing. Fossils of animals, plants, or protists occur in sedimentary rock. In a typical fossil, the...

Serie A title wins twice. In 1983, he became the first Barcelona player to receive a standing ovation from Real Madrid fans at the Santiago Bernabéu, a feat...

known as amino acids, which are joined in a sequence by peptide bonds. Every sequence of amino acids becomes a specific final shape, allowing living things...

other words, A = 1 2 b h {\displaystyle A={\tfrac {1}{2}}bh} . The area of a circle: A = π r 2 {\displaystyle A=\pi r^{2}} The area of a flat object is...

A celebrity is a person who is well known and gets lots of public attention, or attention from other people. A person whom the public knows such as a...

A circle is a round, two-dimensional shape. All points on the edge of the circle are at the same distance from the center. The point on the side. Mathematicians...

Golf is a game played in an open field where the golfer plays his golf ball into a hole by using different types of clubs (golf instruments). The book...

Florence, Tuscany, and was founded in 1926. Fiorentina have won the Serie A twice, first in 1955/56 then again in 1968/69, as well as winning six Coppa...

A website is a set of webpages that are joined. People look at websites with a computer of some kind, which can sometimes be the computer inside a mobile...

Texas A&M University is a public university in College Station, Texas. It is a large university, with about 65,000 students. It was founded in 1871. It...

A fungus (plural: fungi) is a type of living organism that includes yeasts, molds, mushrooms and others. Fungi are a category of organism as large and...

A keyboard instrument is an instrument that is played by pressing the keys of a keyboard. In a keyboard, the notes are arranged with naturals (usually...

A flower is the reproductive part of flowering plants. Flowers are also called the bloom or blossom of a plant. Flowers have petals. Inside the part of...

The 1998 FIFA World Cup was a football sporting event that was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. 32 teams took part from many countries. France...

Archived from the original on 2016-10-01. Retrieved 2016-09-28. "Christopher A Sims". Thomson Reuters website. Archived from the original on October 17,...

Lizards are a group of reptiles. Together with snakes, they make up most of the order Squamata. There are about 6,000 species, which live all over the...

have nine World Series championships, most recently in 2018. The Red Sox are a member of Major League Baseball's American League East Division and of the...

A house is a building that is made for people to live in. It is usually built for a family (parents and their children). It is a "permanent" building that...

A Coruña (Galician: [ɐ koˈɾuɲɐ]; Spanish: La Coruña [la koˈɾuɲa]; historical English: Corunna) is the most northwestern Atlantic-facing province of Spain...

games at a stadium called the Vitality Stadium. They started in 1899 and have had Harry Redknapp as a manager and his son Jamie Redknapp as a player. They...

The following is a list of the 652 communes of the Nord département, in France. (CUDL) Communauté urbaine de Lille Métropole, created in 1966. (CUD) Communauté...

A Christmas Carol is a 2009 American 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy-drama Christmas movie. It was directed and written by Robert Zemeckis. It stars...

becoming a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1959. He was elected as a Member of...

a clade of ecdysozoans that consist of Dinocaridida, "Lobopodia", Onychophora, and Tactopoda. Most members of this group have claws and legs, and a segmented...

In ecology, predation describes a relationship and actions between two creatures. A predator catches, attacks, and eats its prey. Predators may or may...

A ship is a large vehicle used to travel on water. It is bigger than a boat. Most are cargo ships, which carry most of the world's international trade...

Jules A. Hoffmann (born 2 August 1941) is a Luxembourg-born French biologist. He is a research director and member of the board of administrators of the...

and TV shows online with a computer, game console, smartphone, tablet or Internet-connected TV. Netflix originally started as a DVD sales and rental by...

Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee, a state in the United States of America. Cities larger than it are Nashville - the capital and largest...

The Afternoon of a Faun (French: L'après-midi d'un faune) is a modern ballet. It was choreographed by Nijinsky to a short symphonic work by Claude Debussy...

There are many types of matches in professional wrestling. A singles match, also known as a regular match, is between two wrestlers. The first person to...

A DVD (which means Digital Versatile Disc or a Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc capable of storing up to 4.7 GB of data, more than six times what...

diversity. That may be why there is no word in English for the phylum as a whole. "In an evolutionary sense, mollusks are plastic material". They have...

better than others. It means judging or treating people badly for belonging to a certain race or ethnic group. Racism can affect many parts of society, like...

The Royal Air Force (acronym: RAF) is the air force of the United Kingdom. The RAF began in 1918 when the Royal Flying Corps (pronounced core) and the...

A cathedral is a Christian church that is the office of a Bishop or Archbishop. As cathedrals serving as the office, they are central church of a diocese...

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist. In 1902, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Pieter...

The Ecdysozoa (including Cycloneuralia) are a group of protostome animal phyla. This is a taxon above the level of phylum. It includes the Arthropoda...

and Jammu in 1800s and later leased to British eventually liberated after a planned liberation movement led by Gilgit Scouts. It borders Azad Jammu and...

Avemetatarsalia (meaning "bird toes") is a clade name established in 1999 for all crown group archosaurs that are closer to birds than to crocodiles....

"Baby, You're a Rich Man" is a 1967 song by The Beatles and was released as a B-side to All You Need Is Love. It went to number 1 in Australia and number...

A judge is a person who is in control of a court of law. The way to become a judge depends on each country. In some countries, judges must work with the...

Chlorine (chemical symbol Cl) is a chemical element. Its atomic number (which is the number of protons in it) is 17, and its atomic mass is 35.45. It...

La Jolla, California. His father, Ernest Beutler, a hematologist and medical geneticist, was also a Professor and Department Chairman at Scripps. Beutler...

"A Boy Like That" is a popular Broadway song. "A Boy Like That" (originally "A Boy Like That/I Have A Love") was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen...

"A Hard Day's Night" is a 1964 song by The Beatles and is the title track to their third studio album A Hard Day's Night. It was taken from the 1964 movie...

Lawrence is a city in Douglas County in the state of Kansas in the United States. It is in the northeastern part of the state, near Kansas City. It is...

A mosque is a place where Muslims worship. The word mosque comes from the Arabic word masjid. A larger, 'collective', mosque is called a masjid jāmi. Larger...

Eritrea is a country on the eastern coast of Africa. Its official name is The State of Eritrea. Eritrea is located on the coast of the Red Sea. It is...

and snow of winter in middle and high latitudes. Some nations do not have a time of the year which has temperatures too different than in other seasons...

Pregnancy is when a female has an unborn baby (a prenatal foetus) inside of her. Humans give birth to live young. Almost all mammals give birth to live...

Chinese: 朝鲜战争) took place between 25 June 1950 and 27 July 1953. It was a civil war fought between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), and the Democratic...

"to gnaw"), are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower...

A woman is an adult female human. The plural of "woman" is "women". Young human females are called "girls". The word "women" is sometimes used to refer...

The order Carnivora is a animal group of mammals. The group is divided into the "cat-like" Feliformia and the "dog-like" Caniformia. Animals of the order...

A vowel is a particular kind of speech sound made by changing the shape of the upper vocal tract, or the area in the mouth above the tongue. A vowel letter...

better known by his ring name AJ Styles or A.J. Styles, and even by his nickname The Phenomenal (One), is a retired American professional wrestler. He...

minor groups become incertae sedis. This is a Latin term meaning "of uncertain placement" and used for a taxonomic group when its broader relationships...

in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He won the Prize for studying what happens when trading in markets...

University Press. 1999. Media related to Albert A. Michelson at Wikimedia Commons This short article about a person from the United States can be made longer...

Dicondylia is a clade that includes all insects except Archaeognatha. They also have a mandible attached to the head capsule. Engel, Michael S.; David A. Grimaldi...

Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas is a 2004 American Christmas movie. It was directed by Matthew O'Callaghan. Segments of the anthology movie were directed...

Society is a society for science and scientists. It was founded in 1660 by Charles II. It is the oldest society of its kind still in existence. A Royal Charter...

name for a village or hamlet, which is part of a bigger comune. Very often, frazioni have some infrastructure, such as a school, a post office or a church...

Macedonian language (Macedonian: Македонски јазик, romanized: Makedonski jazik) is a Eastern South Slavic language spoken mainly in North Macedonia and other parts...

owner's strength. A few troops in a castle could defend themselves against a much larger army. The most common method for taking a castle would be to...

a short distance. Some sleep in trees (if there are trees around). A male chicken is called a rooster or a cock. A female chicken is called a hen. A young...

A pianist is a person who plays the piano. A pianist can play music for piano alone or play together with other musicians in an ensemble or orchestra....

East Los Angeles (Spanish: Este de Los Ángeles), also called East L.A., is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County...

Venice, a city in Italy, is the capital of the Veneto region, which is in the north-east of the country. The population of the 'Comune di Venezia', which...

number is about 137.3. It is a metal. Barium is part of a group of elements known as the alkaline earth metals. It is a silvery metal that easily turns...

A gun (also called a firearm) is a weapon used to shoot one or more metal projectiles called bullets. Guns made of wood or bamboo are thought to have been...

Artificial intelligence (AI or A.I.) is a computer program or a machine that is able to learn and mimic human cognition. Sometimes, AI is used to talk...

a capitalist by owning the means of production and by directing the economy. Socialists believe that capitalists owning the means of production is a form...

According to the WHO, a drug is a substance that can change how a living organism works. Food is usually not seen as a drug, even though some foods may...

to 2004. It used to be thought that each gene on DNA coded for a single protein in a continuous strip. In 1997 Sharp and Roberts independently found...

(/ˌpɪsəˈriːdiːz/; Greek: Χριστόφορος Αντωνίου Πισσαρίδης; born 20 February 1948) is a British-Cypriot economist. He is the School Professor of Economics & Political...

other ways. One example specifies a number of atoms of a certain substance (at a certain temperature). One kilogram is a little more than 2.2 pounds. One...

punishment, is when a government or state executes (kills) someone. Usually (but not always) this is punishment for committing a serious crime. If a crime can be...

as in college. A young person who cannot be classed as a student is called a pupil. Usually, students will learn from a teacher or a lecturer if at university...

The rosids are a large clade of flowering plants. It includes about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms. The rosids are divided into...

Gospels and in the early chapters of the Acts of the Apostles. Peter was a fisherman that Jesus called to follow Him. He was one of the "inner circle"...

their environment. They undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli and reproduce. Through natural selection...

Encyclopædia"), previously published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a popular encyclopædia which since 2011 is published as an online encyclopædia...

Neoptera is a classification group that has almost all of the winged insects, mostly those that can flex their wings over their abdomens. This is in contrast...

A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a territory that is not fully independent or sovereign, and also not fully part of a independent...

Gilgat-Baltistan Azad Jammu and Kashmir FATA Balochistan Punjab Sindh Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ICT Afghanistan Iran China India Arabian Sea Before 2001 "Districts...

"With a Little Help from My Friends" (originally titled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It was on...

A liquid is a form of matter. It is settled between solid and gas. Liquid has an almost-fixed volume, but no set shape. Every small force makes a liquid...

Dinosauromorpha are a clade of archosaurs that includes dinosaurs and other closely related animals. Birds are the only surviving dinosauromorphs. The...

Theropods ('beast foot') are a group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs. Although they were primarily carnivorous, a number of theropod groups evolved herbivory...

parts of the computer, almost like how a brain controls a body. The CPU is an electronic machine that works on a list of computer things to do, called...

Walt Disney Pictures is a movie studio from the United States that makes family-friendly movies with a G or PG rating from the Motion Picture Association...

A. Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a social activist who fought for labor rights for African-American communities during the 20th century...

A pilot is a person that drives a transport vehicle such as an airplane, spacecraft, or boat. All types of pilots must pass tests and obtain a license...

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It has about 280,000 people. Durham has two universities, Duke and NC Central. It is northwest of...

A banana is the common name for a type of fruit and also the name for the herbaceous plants that grow it. These plants belong to the genus Musa. They...

The 1990 FIFA World Cup was a football (soccer) sporting event that was held in Italy from 8 June to 8 July 1990. 24 teams took part from many countries...

Dracohors is a group in taxonomy, the system scientists use to put living things in groups. It is below a phylum but above an order. It is a clade. The...

1365-3113.2006.00341.x. S2CID 83714402. A. Nel; et al. (2007). "The earliest holometabolous insect from the Carboniferous: a "crucial" innovation with delayed...

Kashmir, (Urdu: آزاد جموں و کشمیر پاکستان) also just called Azad Kashmir is a self-governing Pakistani region. In terms of land area it is bigger than Trinidad...

A&E Networks (stylized as A+E NETWORKS) is an American multinational broadcasting company. It is owned by the Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney...

come from their personal characteristics like appearance, a physical defect, or a word with a similar pronunciation to their names. They are different...

A shrub or bush is a category of plants. A tree usually has one stem, which at some height has branches. A shrub can have multiple stems from the bottom...

v t e UK railway stations A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...

An enzyme is a protein molecule in cells which works as a biological catalyst. Enzymes speed up chemical reactions but do not get used while doing so,...

name published in the book; it was attributed to "a Bostonian." Poe joined the army using the name Edgar A. Perry and falsely claimed to be older than he...

Monocotyledons are a class of flowering plants (angiosperms), whose embryo (seed) store only one cotyledon. The APG II system recognises a clade called "monocots"...

Through the Years/A Traves de los Años is a album by American singer Selena. The album contained an unreleased song called "Feelings". The song was recorded...

The WWE Championship is a professional wrestling world championship in WWE for the men of the SmackDown brand. It is the first world title of WWE. The...

A train (or rail train) is a set of railway cars (also called vehicles) that are tied together with or without a locomotive. Trains are used to carry people...

unrounded vowel is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is in English. For example, it is the al in balm, and in some dialects the a in bath. The vowel...

Queen are a British rock band. They formed in Baselstone, England in 1970. They are among the most commercially successful bands in history. They have...

Serbo-Croatian is the name of a South Slavic language, which is spoken in modern-day Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. After the...

Millwall FC and Barnsley FC. Football League Championship List of Leeds United A.F.C. players "San Francisco 49ers Enterprises Become Minority Investor". Leeds...

A vehicle is a machine to move people and things. A vehicle is not alive. A horse can move people and things, but it is an animal, not a machine or a...

Alegrense is a football club which plays in Brazil. World championship : 1 1983 Copa Libertadores da América : 3 1983 1995 2017 Série A : 2 1981, 1996...

System of a Down is an American metal band. Formed in 1994 in Los Angeles, California with four members of Armenian descent, Serj Tankian (lead vocalist...

The close-mid central unrounded vowel is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is in the Cardiff dialect of English. The vowel height is close-mid...

language is an important advantage which only humans have. Other primates have a pattern of calls and gestures, but not language as we know it. Primates have...

American politician and the senior United States Senator from New Jersey. He is a member of the U.S. Democratic Party. He has been in office since 2013. Before...

The 1986 FIFA World Cup was a football sporting event that was held in Mexico in 1986. 24 national teams took part. Argentina won the trophy after beating...

Fascism is a far-right form of government where most of the country's power is held by one ruler or a small group, under one political party. Fascist states...

Rape is usually defined as having sexual intercourse with a person who does not want to, or cannot consent. Consent is when someone agrees of their own...

but on 1929 was created a round-robin tournament with 18 clubs by Leandro Arpinati, fascist politician, the same year of Serie A. From 1933 to 1935, Serie...

or when there is a solar eclipse. Less is known about Mercury than about other planets of our Solar System. Even with telescopes only a small, bright crescent...

A helicopter (also often used: chopper or heli) is a kind of flying machine or aircraft. A helicopter lifts up off of the ground and moves because of its...

vowel), is a type of vowel. It is an i in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It sounds like the English word meet. It is also called a long-e in American...

A bus is a large wheeled vehicle meant to carry many passengers along with the bus driver. It is larger than a car or van, but smaller than the average...

television channel and the flagship property of the Cartoon Network, Inc., a sub-division of the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks division of Warner Bros...

Bentonville is a city in the US state of Arkansas. Walmart. Governor Asa Hutchinson. This short article about a place or feature in the United States can...

Pack, a rugby team called the Hartford Wanderers and a United Football League team called the Hartford Colonials. From 1979 to 1997 Hartford had a National...

Abertawe), officially the City and County of Swansea (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Abertawe), is a city and county in Wales. It is Wales' second largest city and the...

The tenuis bilabial click is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not a sound in English....

The voiced bilabial fricative is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English but is similar to the v in have, and it is in Spanish too...

number-one songs and 69 top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Swift was declared a billionaire by Forbes in 2023, becoming the first musician to reach billionaire...

States secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head of the Department of the Navy, a military department within the United States...

The voiced velar fricative is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is in the Scouse dialect of English. The phonation is voiced. This means that...

WWE Raw, also known as Monday Night Raw, is a professional wrestling television program made by WWE. It is broadcast every Monday since January 11, 1993...

(sometimes called a conlang) is a language that has been made by a person or small group, instead of being formed naturally as part of a culture. Some constructed...

see loudness. The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: volume. The volume of an object is a measure of the amount of space occupied by that...

The glottal stop (or glottal plosive) is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨ʔ⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol...

a unit of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company. Launched on April 18, 1983, under the name The Disney Channel as a premium...

The Vuelta Ciclista a España (also Vuelta a España, or simply Vuelta) is a long-distance bicycle race. The first race was in 1935. The Tour de France and...

In England, a civil parish is a unit of local government. Civil parishes are the lowest tier of local government, below districts and counties. It is...

"Do You Want to Know a Secret" is a 1963 song by The Beatles and taken from their debut studio album Please Please Me. It went to number 2 in New Zealand...

An organism is any individual living thing. It is easy to recognize a living thing but, not so easy to define it. Obviously, animals and plants are organisms...

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country (a sovereign state or a dependent territory)...

Division A (in the past known as the Belgian First Division and Belgian Pro League, and as the Jupiler Pro League for sponsorship reasons) is a men's football...

The London Underground is a form of public transport in London. It is a rapid transit system that uses electric trains. It is the oldest underground railway...

A voiced retroflex flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

the second time that Brazil hosted the World Cup and the fourth time that a South American country hosted the FIFA tournament. Germany won the tournament...

The Invasion was a wrestling storyline in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) that began after the WWF bought World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It...

A retroflex consonant is a sound made with your tongue curled back. English has one retroflex consonant called a retroflex approximant. It is a common...

the dromedary (one hump) and Bactrian (two humps) camels. The camelids, as a family, include the "New World" camelids: the llama, the alpaca, the guanaco...

A personal computer (PC) is the common name for a type of computer that is most popular in offices and homes. The first PC called the "IBM PC" was made...

The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonant. Some spoken languages use it. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic...

The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference...

A.S. Monaco F.C. is a football club which plays in Monaco. It plays in the French football league system, and currently plays in the Ligue 1. Ligue 1 :...

number of 21 on the periodic table. Scandium is a metal in a group known as the transition metals. It is also a rare earth metal. What this means is that there...

American animation studio that is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast. It is based...

Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game made and published by Mojang Studios. More than 350 million copies of the game have been sold as of 2025. This makes...

A uvular consonant is a sound made with the back of your tongue against the uvula. English has no uvular consonants. This short article about science...

Survivor Series, also known as Survivor Series: WarGames since 2022, is a yearly professional wrestling pay-per-view and livestreaming event made by WWE...

could speak Scottish Gaelic and a bit of Latin. Macdonald had four siblings. He was the third of five children. "'A key player in Indigenous cultural...

A nation is a group of people who share the same culture, history, language or ethnicity. The word can also be used for the population of a country. The...

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas is a 1999 direct-to-video animated Christmas anthology comedy fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation...

Unicode characters. A close vowel, also called a high vowel, is a type of vowel. It is used in many spoken languages. When you say a close vowel, your tongue...

use of a specific genre is important for a successful transfer of information (media-adequacy). Critical discussion of genre perhaps began with a classification...

sounds that sound like a hiss. In linguistics, a sibilant is a fricative that is louder than other fricatives. For example, [s] is a sibilant and [f] is...

Nauru, (English: /nɑːˈuːruː/ (listen) nah-OO-roo) is a island nation in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Kiribati, 300 kilometres (190 mi)...

A major (or the key of A) is a major scale with a base note of A. Its key signature has three sharps. Its relative minor is F-sharp minor. The key of A-major...

A tornado is an area of fast spinning winds made by a strong rotating thunderstorm that touches the ground. Tornadoes can be anywhere between a few hundred...

stable. Stable elements are made up of atoms that stay the same. Even in a chemical reaction, the atoms themselves do not ever change. In the 19th century...

A tap or flap consonant is a sound produced by striking one articulator against another. This short article can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia...

Wiktionary has a definition for: peace. Peace is a time without any fights or wars. In a larger sense, peace (or peacefulness) can mean a state of harmony...

Cetartiodactyla is a proposed superorder of mammals Containing the orders Artiodactyla and Cetacea. Right now, Cetartiodactyla is just a synonym. Some artiodactyls...

Glass is a hard material that can be made in many shapes. It is usually transparent, but it can also be made in colours. Glass is mainly made of silica;...

a sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨ɱ⟩. It is only phonemic in one language: Kukuya. It is a...

A-League Men, known before the 2021–22 season as the A-League, is a soccer league which is the top division in Australia and New Zealand. It was established...

pull carts and sniff out landmines. Pig races exist. Pigs need a warm, clean area under a roof to sleep, and they should not be crowded. They need to be...

The Libertarian Party is a political party in the United States, founded in 1971. The current Chairwoman of the Libertarian National Committee is Angela...

A valley is a type of landform. A valley is a lower part in the land that sits between two higher parts which might be hills or mountains. Valleys often...

A sphere is a round, three-dimensional shape. All points on the edge of the sphere are at the same distance from the center. The distance from the center...

Profanity is a word or action that is impolite, inappropriate, offensive, or taboo. The adjective is profane. Different words can be profane to different...

a world-wide hit for the band. It was followed up by songs like "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "Paint It Black". In the 1967 they experimented with a psychedelic...

called clades. A clade (Greek = branch) is a group of organisms with a common ancestor and all its descendants (and nothing else). Such a clade is monophyletic...

A coronation is a ceremony that gives a monarch regal or royal power or recognizes that power. The power is symbolized by putting a crown on his or her...

Ocala is a city in Marion County, Florida. In 2020, the number of people recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 63,591. It is the county seat of Marion...

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels and eight movies by British author J. K. Rowling. It is named for its main character and hero, Harry...

examples of hand tools. A power tool is powered by another source of energy like electricity. A power tool is otherwise similar to a hand tool. Most power...

A choir or choral group is a collection of people who sing together. They typically rehearse together with a leader and perform concerts or sing during...

Some of her most famous albums are Like a Virgin, True Blue, Like a Prayer, Ray of Light and Confessions On a Dance-Floor. She has won seven Grammy awards...

Scrotifera is a group of living things in the class Mammalia. It is a proposed clade, meaning that not all scientists use it when they talk about how...

A library is a place where many books are kept. Most libraries are public and let people take the books to use in their home. Most libraries let people...

The 1978 FIFA World Cup was a football sporting event that was held in Argentina in 1978. Argentina won the trophy after beating Holland 3 - 1 in the...

Ornithischia is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds. The name Ornithischia...

Get a Horse! is a 2013 American animated comedy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by Lauren MacMullan. Combining black-and-white...

A mango is a type of fruit. The mango tree is native to South Asia, from where it has been taken to become one of the most widely cultivated fruits in...

Lend a Paw is an animated short movie. It was produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions. It was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was released...

University and A&M College is a public university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; it belongs to the Louisiana State University System of higher education as a land-grant...

A (A, a) is the first letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. It came from the Greek alpha. A long time ago, it was called azǔ and stood for the number 1. It...

Ministers. The Prime Minister and the other most powerful Ministers belong to a group known as the Cabinet, who are the most important decision makers in...

In Your House was a series of professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming shows first made by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now...

eat insects. They catch their prey in several ways. Some build a spider web, and some use a thread of silk that they throw at the insect. Some kinds of spiders...

A minor (usually shortened to Am) is a minor scale based on A, which is made up of the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and A. The harmonic minor scale raises...

A concentration camp (or internment camp) is a place where a government forces people to live without trial. Usually, those people belong to groups the...

A runway (also abbreviated to RWY) is a strip of land on an airport, on which aircraft can take off and land. Runways may be a man-made surface (often...

A boat is a vehicle used to travel on water. It is smaller than a ship and can be lifted out of the water and carried on a ship. Some boats have sails...

A picture, also called an image, is a group of coloured points on a flat surface that looks the same as something else. For example, a picture can look...

A potato is a vegetable, the Solanum tuberosum. It is a small plant with big leaves. The part of the potato that people eat is a tuber that grows under...

and plural. A male deer is called a stag or buck, a female deer is called a hind or doe, and a young deer is called a fawn, kid or calf. There are about...

Canada) is the ice hockey team for Canada. The team is run by Hockey Canada, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. From 1920 until 1963 Canada...

The Qing Dynasty or the Qing Empire (Chinese: 清朝; pinyin: Qīng cháo) was a dynasty of rulers of China from 1644 to 1912. The dynasty was founded by the...

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama movie about the mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. It is set in Massachusetts...

named: about 40% of all known insects. There are an estimated 800,000 to a million living species. Beetles live almost everywhere, though not in the...

wolf (Canis lupus) is a mammal of the order Carnivora. It is sometimes called the grey wolf. It is the ancestor of the domestic dog. A recent study found...

can mean any citrus tree that produces fruit for people to eat. Oranges are a very good source of Vitamin C. Orange juice is an important part of many people's...

Pittsburg is a city in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. It is in Southeast Kansas near the Missouri state border. It is the biggest city in Crawford...

Cooking is a process to make food ready to eat by heating it. Cooking is often done in a kitchen using a stove or an oven. It can also be done over a fire (for...

Sharks are a superorder of fish. This superorder is also known by its scientific name Selachimorpha. Like other Chondrichthyes, sharks have skeletons...

Osborne County (standard abbreviation: OB) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2020, 3,500 people lived there. The county seat is Osborne. Osborne...

A system-on-chip (short-form SoC) is a kind of electronic integrated circuit (IC or computer chip). What is special about system-on-chips is that they...

A prostitute is a person, most of the time a woman, who has sex with people for money or another kind of payment. Prostitution is sometimes called the...

An autobiography is a biography in which the author writes about his or her own life. It is a self-written account of one's own life. It is one of the...

A district (zilā) is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory. As of 2021[update] there are a total of 736 districts, up from the 640...

mostly means something (a company, language, or organization) involving more than a single country. The term international as a word means involvement...

with a brother and sister to care for and support. He got used to working for the neighbors for a small quantity of resources or a few pennies a day even...

The rat is a medium-sized rodent. Rats are omnivores, they eat different types of food. Most rats are in the genus Rattus. There are about 56 different...

A person who plays the cello is called a “cellist”. The cello is a very popular instrument. It belongs to the string family. It has many uses: as a solo...

Indian corn (called corn in some countries) is Zea mays, a member of the grass family Poaceae. It is a cereal grain which was first grown by people in ancient...

A cartoon is a type of visual art that is usually drawn based on real things. Cartoons are sometimes animated. The word cartoon has meant a lot of different...

provided. The 1924 London Traffic Act used the Bassom Scheme. It was named after A.E. Bassom of the Metropolitan Police who made it. Changing and short lines...

To Kill a Mockingbird is an American novel written by Harper Lee. It was published in 1960. The book was a great success. It won the Pulitzer Prize. The...

Pointe à la Hache (/ˌpɔɪnt lə ˈhæʃ/ POYNT lə HASH) is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United...

A patent gives an inventor the right to stop other people making or using their invention. If someone makes or uses that invention without being allowed...

This is a list of religions and spiritual traditions. Some entries are written more than once. A group of monotheistic traditions often grouped together...

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit. It is presented each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

A battery converts chemical energy into electrical energy by a chemical reaction. Usually the chemicals are kept inside the battery. It is used in a circuit...

Horton Hears a Who!, also referred to as Horton for short, is a 2008 American computer-animated musical adventure comedy movie based on the Dr. Seuss book...

Rush County (standard abbreviation: RH) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2020, 2,956 people lived there. The county seat is La Crosse. La Crosse...

The Los Angeles Chargers are a professional American football team in Los Angeles, California. They are currently part of the Western Division of the...

(or ecological system) is a large community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) and non-living components in a particular area. The living...

June 4, 1887) was a U.S. representative from New York and the 19th vice president of the United States. This short article about a person from the United...

A galaxy is a group of many stars, with gas, dust, and dark matter. The name 'galaxy' is taken from the Greek word galaxia meaning milky, a reference...

The 1970 FIFA World Cup was a football sporting event that was held in Mexico in 1970. 16 teams took part from many countries. Brazil won the trophy after...

Basic English (British Academic Scientific International Commercial) is a controlled language used to explain complex thoughts. It has 850 words chosen...

a box is three-dimensional; it is solid, and not thin like a piece of paper. It has volume, a top and bottom, left and right (sides), as well as a front...

A skull, or cranium, is a set of bones that make up the head of a vertebrate and keep in place all body parts in the head. It supports the structures...

a period or full stop , is a comma ? is a question mark ! is an exclamation mark ' is an apostrophe or single quote mark " is a quotation mark : is a...

A federal district is a specific administrative division in some federal countries. These districts may be under the direct jurisdiction of a federation's...

Neustadt an der Waldnaab is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany. The district is located in the mountains of the Upper Palatine Forest. "Gemeinden...

Sonny with a Chance is a Disney Channel original series that ran from February 8, 2009 to January 2, 2011. The show's previous title in the beginning...

Wiktionary has a definition for: farmer. A farmer is a person who grows crops and raises animals to be used as food. This has been a common job for people...

A tribe is a group of people who live and work together in a shared geographical area. A tribe has a common culture, dialect, religion, customs, traditions...

Hendricks (September 7, 1819 – November 25, 1885) was a U.S. representative and senator from Indiana, a governor of Indiana, and the 21st vice president of...

A ceremony is an activity performed at a special time, usually in a formal setting. Some ceremonies are done to celebrate an event or rite of passage...

Florida. Bloom is best known for his work with WWE as Prince Albert, Albert and A-Train from 1999 to 2004, and as Lord Tensai and Tensai from 2012 to 2014....

A ritual (or a rite) is a set of actions people do. In a ritual, the actions are important because every action stands for something. Each ritual of a...

Ellsworth County (county code EW) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2020, 6,376 people lived there. Its county seat is Ellsworth. Ellsworth...

release) is a video game console created by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Wii U and was released on March 3, 2017. The Switch is a hybrid console...

stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Her albums are The Fame, The Fame Monster, Born...

This is a complete list of towns in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of 2022[update], there are 189 incorporated towns. Some of them...

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: sovereignty. Sovereignty is the right of a government to have complete control over its area. The idea...

despot in modern times is used to describe an absolute ruler of a country (other than a king). A dictator uses force and fear to keep themself, their friends...

In rail transport, a locomotive or a rail tractor is the part of a train that makes the train move. Locomotives are typically bigger and stronger than...

Osnabrück is a city in Germany in the state of Lower Saxony. It is around 1,200 years old. The castle dates back to the 19th century. The city was founded...

The following is a list of National Hockey League arenas including past, present, and future arenas: § Underwent extensive renovations from 2018 to 2021...

A mouse (plural mice) is a small rodent, which is a kind of mammal. It has a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding...

Gender is a word that is used to talk about how people express masculine (traits most people think of as male) or feminine (traits most people think of...

where he wrestles on the Raw brand. Before joining the WWE, Mizanin was a cast member on MTV's The Real World: Back to New York and its spinoff series...

A-Show A wrestling event where generally a company's biggest "draws" perform. A-Team A group of a wrestling promotion's top stars who compete at a given...

A fly (plural: flies) is an insect of the order Diptera. The Diptera is a large order of advanced flying insects. Their most obvious difference from other...

My Life as a Teenage Robot, also referred to as simply Teenage Robot or MLaaTR, is a 2002 American animated comedy television series. It was created by...

Channel 4 is a television channel that broadcasts to the United Kingdom. It started on 2 November 1982. On 10 December 2010, Channel 4 started a HD version...

This is a list of all countries by Human Development Index as included in a United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report (released...

This is a list of notable people born in, or notable for their relations with the U.S. state of Georgia. 2 Chainz, rapper 21 Savage; born in London, rapper\...

singer Michael Jackson. It is a partial list only. It includes singles released physically (those that could be bought at a record shop) and other singles...

In biology, mimicry is when a species evolves features similar to another. Either one or both are protected when a third species cannot tell them apart...

Galicia or Galiza is a nationality in Spain that became a Spanish autonomous community in 1978. It is in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It shares...

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is a strong stimulant drug that is made from coca leaves. It is often used recreationally and is illegal in most countries. Cocaine is usually a white...

The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a vegetable/botanical fruit, or specifically, a berry (but not a fruit as ordinary people use the word). Tomatoes...

Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, official Landkreis Neustadt a.d.Aisch-Bad Windsheim) is a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria, Germany. Towns: Bad Windsheim...

A parody is a special piece of art. Parodies make fun of another piece of art by mocking it. The parody is an imitation of the original, but exaggerating...

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip is a 1940 American animated short movie produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The movie was directed...

Graham County (county code GH) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2020, 2,415 people lived there. Its county seat is Hill City. Hill City is...

Chanute (/ʃəˈnuːt/) is a city in Neosho County, Kansas, United States. It was created on January 1, 1873. It was named after railroad engineer and aviation...

A meteor is what you see when a space rock falls to Earth. It is often known as a shooting star or falling star and can be a bright light in the night...

feathers. Some people have their pet birds clipped. This is a procedure where a vet or a groomer cuts a certain amount of feathers to prevent the bird from flying...

Mülheim an der Ruhr (Low German and Low Franconian: Mölm, Ripuarian: Müllem) is a city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, belonging to the Ruhr...

Magnetism is a force that attracts (pulls closer) or repels (pushes away) objects that have a magnetic material like iron inside them (magnetic objects)...

A base is a substance that can accept a hydrogen ion (H+) from another substance. A chemical can accept a proton if it has a negative charge, or if the...

as Canada, the Premier could be title of a regional government of a province or other local division. When a colony is first allowed to elect its own...

(July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was an American politician and businessman. A liberal Republican, he was the 41st vice president of the United States from...

L.A.S.K. Linz is a football club which plays in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. They are playing in the First League, the second division in Austria's...

Highways, most of them are not grade separated, which means drivers must use a specially made group of ramps to get to the road. They mostly are along roads...

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: hero. A hero is a real person or fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity...

Pfaffenhofen is a rural district (Landkreis) in Bavaria, Germany. The district is in the Hallertau Plains between the Isar and Danube rivers. The Danube...

is a good quantifiable measurement of a person's obesity. However, it is a poor predictor in people who are very athletic, because a person with a higher...

Italian polymath. Galileo was originally going to be a doctor but became a tutor instead. He was a professor of mathematics and natural science in Padua...

List A cricket (also known as List A) is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight...

A trademark (or trade mark) is a way for a business to help people identify the products that the business makes from the products made by another business...

A parliamentary system of government means that the executive branch of government has the direct or indirect support of the parliament. Parliamentary...

Vitamin A (also known as retinol, vitamin A1) is a fat-soluble vitamin, a group of organic chemicals including retinal and several carotenoids. The human...

A tram (tramcar, streetcar or trolley) is a passenger vehicle that is like a light train. It carries people to places within a city. Because a single tram...

creatures. Male mammals, including humans, have two testicles, supported in a sac of skin below the penis called the scrotum. Along with the penis, testicles...

as the Walt Disney Pictures Television Animation Group. This was part of a reorganization of The Walt Disney Company after Michael Eisner became CEO...

Antisemitism is the bias, prejudice or discrimination against Jews. A synonym of antisemitism is Judeophobia, preferred by those considering "antisemitism"...

acted, directed, scripted, and produced many of them. Charlie Chaplin was a performer for almost 70 years. He started working when he was 5, and worked...

Hyderabad (pronounced (/ˈhaɪdərəbɑːd/ (listen) HY-dər-ə-baad)) is the largest city and capital of the state of Telangana. At over 12.2 million, it has...

A proton is part of an atom. They are found in the nucleus of an atom along with neutrons. The periodic table groups atoms according to how many protons...

a species of insect that live together in large colonies. They are in the family Formicidae. it is an authentic animal for organisation. Ants are a lot...

freely or do not require a prescription are called over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. It is easy to buy OTC drugs. A doctor must give a prescription for powerful...

Cretaceous. Flowering plants became dominant in the Cainozoic era. Conifers were a main food of herbivorous dinosaurs, and their resins and poisons no doubt...

For the Wikipedia essay, see "What is a troll?". For other uses see Troll (disambiguation) A troll is someone who tries to make people angry by saying...

Teleost bones are constructed from a scaffolding of struts, which makes them strong without adding weight. Teleosts have a movable jaw and changes in the...

Oriental Orthodoxy is a group of six Eastern Christian Churches that accept only the first three ecumenical councils (the First Council of Nicaea, the...

John A. Roche (August 12, 1844 – February 10, 1904) was an American politician. He was the mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1887–1889). He was a Republican...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a type of virus called a Lentivirus, which means "slow virus". This is a kind of retrovirus. It infects the human...

Swansea City AFC are a Welsh football (soccer) team who have played in the English Premier League since 2011. Before being promoted to the Premier League...

are a large species of deer. Some authorities put the American moose in a different species, Alces americanus. A male moose is called a bull, a female...

A black hole is a place in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape from it, even light. This idea comes from Albert Einstein's general...

Shooting is when a rifle, shotgun or other weapons which fire a projectile, such as bows or crossbows, are fired. Even the firing of artillery, rockets...

Jehovah's Witnesses is a religious group with more than eight million members around the world. They believe that God (who they call Jehovah) will end...

"If I Were a Boy" is a song by American singer Beyoncé, written by Toby Gad, BC Jean and Beyoncé Knowles for her third studio album, I Am... Sasha Fierce...

Inaugural Address Second Inaugural Address Michael A. Bilandic at Find a Grave This short article about a person from the United States can be made longer...

A portrait is a painting or a photograph of a person's face and its expression. The purpose of a portrait is to show the likeness, personality, and even...

certain common characteristics. This indicates they evolved from a common ancestor and so form a clade. Carroll, Robert 2009. The rise of amphibians: 300 million...

The common pipistrelle is a successful example. Most of the rest are fruit-eaters (fruit bats). A few species suck blood, and a few large ones are carnivorous...

A computer mouse is an input device which is used with a computer or a laptop. For the mice most commonly used today, moving that mouse along a flat surface...

A triangle is a shape, or a part of two dimensional space. It has three straight sides and three vertices. The three angles of a triangle always add up...

Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy movie based on the Middle Eastern folk tale "Aladdin" from "One Thousand and One Nights" which was...

Illinois from a heart disease, aged 48. Men of Affairs: a gallery of cartoon portraits, Chicago Evening Post, 1906; page 154. "Fred A. Busse Dead". The...

the nucleus of an atom. Unlike protons, which have a positive charge, or electrons, which have a negative charge, neutrons have zero charge which means...

Robbins lived her first two years in Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood of New York City, in a two-story house on Roosevelt Avenue between 149th and 150th...

A palace is a place with a grand and imposing building that is the official residence of a king or queen, a head of state such as a president, ruler,...

A hare (Lepus), also known as a jackrabbit, is a mammal of the order Lagomorpha, in the same family as the rabbit. They are larger than rabbits and have...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is an ongoing series of books written by Jeff Kinney. There are twenty books in the main series (excluding an unreleased book). The...

a crime in which someone tricks somebody else to get unfair or unlawful gain. Frauds are almost always about money, either directly or indirectly. A fraudster...

A sword is a hand-held weapon made for cutting. It is often made of metal. It has a long blade, and a handle called a hilt. Often there is some form of...

civilisation) comes from the Latin word civis meaning someone who lives in a city. The Romans usually wanted conquered people to live in towns. When people...

A truck (North American and Australian English) or lorry (British English) is a motor vehicle designed to transport freight, carry specialized payloads...

pronunciation: [kluβ aˈtletiko ˈβoka ˈʝunjoɾs]) is professional football club in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. They play their home games at La...

A Coruña is a city on the north coast of Spain. It is a municipality of Galicia, Spain, and the second-largest city in Galicia. It is the 17th largest...

A grandparent is the parent of a person's father or mother. Grandparents have always been important members of a family. The role of a parent is often...

1967 until his death. Ebert was born on June 18, 1942 in Urbana, Illinois to a Catholic family. Ebert and Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel helped make...

Bears (singular: bear) are a group of large mammals found all over the world in many different habitats. They form the family Ursidae, in the suborder...

adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun. Nouns are words that name a place, a person, a thing, or an idea. An adjective is a word that gives...

most succcessful club in Argentina, with 36 league titles. River Plate has a very strong rivalry with Boca Juniors, mainly because both teams are from...

tenant means "holding". A lieutenant is someone who takes the place of a superior when that person is not available. It can also mean a deputy position to...

are five types of kernels: A micro kernel - A kernel which only contains the basic functionality; A monolithic kernel - A kernel which contains many device...

based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. The club plays their home games at a stadium called the Kirklees Stadium. "Viewing Platform For Away Supporters"...