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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 286,399 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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A baseball uniform is a kind of clothing that baseball players wear. They do this to show which of the two baseball teams they play for. Most baseball uniforms have the names and uniform numbers of players who wear them on the uniform somewhere, usually on the backs of the uniforms to tell different baseball players from each other. Baseball shirts, pants, shoes, socks, caps, and gloves are parts of baseball uniforms. Most uniforms have different logos and colors to tell which team is which.

Baseball uniforms were first worn by the New York Knickerbockers Baseball Club in the 1800s. Their uniforms were pants made of blue wool, white flannel shirts and straw hats. Since then, the uniforms have gone through many changes. More items, ideas, and many other improvements were done and added to baseball uniforms over the years. The style of baseball uniforms also changed, little by little over time.

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The 2009 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on January 22, 2009 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. It was the 22th Royal Rumble event held by WWE. The event featured the Royal Rumble match as the main event, which Randy Orton (pictured) won. 450,000 paid to see the event.

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... that lettuce (pictured) was one of the first plants brought to America by Christopher Columbus?

... that before entering politics, President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian was a heart surgeon?

... that within one day of Donald Trump's attempted assassination in Pennsylvania, his campaign raised over $2 million for his supporters who were hurt or killed in the shooting?

... that Ecuadorian news anchor Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros holds the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a television news broadcaster" for his 56-year-career?

... that Potsdam was meant to be "a picturesque, pastoral dream" which would remind its people of their relationship with nature and reason?

... that in 1983, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to address the Alabama Legislature?

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