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  • he was buried again with full honors and funeral games were held every year. Pausanias, 3.14.1 "Descriptions of Greece," Tufts University ...
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  • Lebanon has hosted the Asian Cup and the Pan-Arab Games. The country was to host the Winter Asian Games in 2009. To meet the needs of these international ...
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  • as well as pan-Pacific national military war games and exercises such as RIMPAC and RSOI. ==Republic of Korea Armed Forces== The Constitution ...
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  • enjoyed a variety of leisure activities, including games. Senet, a board game where pieces moved according to random chance, was particularly popular ...
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  • Chennai served as the venue of the South Asian Games (SAF Games) in 1995. {{cite news | last=Thyagarajan | first=S | title = On the road to restoratio ...
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  • for an entire month with live plays, concerts, and games. A holiday on February 3 each year is the feast of Sveti Vlaho (Saint Blaise), the city's ...
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  • ====Language games==== Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his later years, recognized religious language as a “language-game” of its own, having its ...
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  • the attack on the team during the 1972 Olympic Games. * A sports team may wear black armbands, or affix a black stripe to their uniforms, for ...
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  • Grace, Princess of Monaco, née Grace Patricia Kelly, (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress ...
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  • runner who competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games. * Molly Spotted Elk, born on November 17, 1903, in the Penobscot reservation in Maine ...
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  • free. Of every pound (£) spent on Lottery games, 50 pence (p) goes to the ... of Great Britain at the 2008 Olympic Games in China. Major has criticised ...
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  • equation solvers, financial models, and even games. Most calculators of this type can print numbers up to ten digits or decimal places in full on the ...
    24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
  • under which it has competed at the Olympic Games since 1984, ... international events, such as the Olympic Games, where the PRC is also a ...
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  • of Apollo, and had charge of the Pythian games. Earlier arrangements, before the temple became dedicated to Apollo, are not documented. ...
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  • a plaza used for various social activities such as games, festivals, religious rituals, and public ceremonies. These plazas had many shapes—oval, rectangular ...
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  • Robert Solow—he started reading the Theory of Games (encountering thus the use of Bourbaki-proof fix points). Thereafter, in the summer of 1950, he ...
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  • and the Tatar köräş. It is an event in the Asian Games. There is an effort to include kurash in the Olympic games. ==Notes== == References == ...
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  • badminton, swimming, and snooker. Board games such as go (known as wéiqí ... China has participated in the Olympic Games since 1932, although it ...
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  • At about his third visit he brought up the games of interpretation which Laura Riding and Robert Graves had been playing [in A Survey of Modernist ...
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  • In 1995, Harare hosted most of the Sixth All-Africa Games, sharing the event with other Zimbabwean cities such as Bulawayo and Chitungwiza. ...
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