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This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages. We use Simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone, such as children and adults who are learning English. There are 284,289 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use. They have all been published under both the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 4.0 International License and the GNU Free Documentation License. You can help here! You may change these pages and make new pages. Read the help pages and other good pages to learn how to write pages here. If you need help, you may ask questions at Simple talk.

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Hurricane Vince was an unusual hurricane that began in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. It was part of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. The waters where it formed were thought to be too cold for tropical cyclones to exist. Vince was the 20th named storm and 12th hurricane of the season.

The storm that became Vince started out as an extratropical cyclone. It became a subtropical storm on October 8 to the southeast of the Azores. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) did not officially give the storm a name until the next day. Vince grew into a hurricane before beginning to weaken at sea. On October 11, it made landfall on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain. At that time, it was a tropical depression. It may have been the first storm to hit the area since a hurricane in 1842. Vince died out over Spain. However, it dropped rain in the country. What was left of the storm passed into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Rock Lee (Japanese: ロック・リー, Hepburn: Rokku Rī) is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Naruto. He was created by Masashi Kishimoto. Lee was created to be a symbol of human weakness. In the anime and manga, Lee is a ninja from the village of Konohagakure. Lee has been popular among the Naruto reader base. Many anime and manga publications have written about Lee's character. He was placed high in many polls done to see which character is more popular.

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... that Maho Beach (pictured), in Saint Martin island, is directly across an airport and airplanes can be about 100 feet above beach goers?

... that the works of American feminist author Susan Brownmiller is said to have helped create laws that made it easier to criminally charge rapists?

... that Russia got its name from a Medieval Latin name for the Kievan Rus'?

... that Dixy Lee Ray, the first female Governor of Washington, was also the youngest girl to summit Mount Rainier?

... that when Jack White created the riff for "Seven Nation Army", he wanted it used for a James Bond theme, however he decided to make it into a separate song because he thought that would never happen?

... that Academy Award-winning actor Gregory Peck said that he was almost offered the ambassadorship to Ireland by President Lyndon B. Johnson?

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