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- which is characterized by a witty style, games with words, simple vocabulary ... which is characterized by a witty style, games with words, simple vocabulary ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 10:37, 9 March 2023
- years. The 1947 team also won 17 straight games at one point during the season ... as a coach, Auerbach won 938 regular season games, a record that stood for ...21 KB (3,308 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- food stalls, entertainment, and carnival games to keep people entertained ... food such as takoyaki(octopus balls), and games, such as snatching goldfish ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- videos or playing massively multiplayer online games. [[Image:Star ... channels dedicated to broadcasting video games on TV as spectator sport ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- 2K Games, Inc. 2006. Stronghold legends. New York: 2K Games. He is portrayed as a young and heroic character, who in many ways could be seen as ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- during a series of summer exhibition games in 1964, organized because ... gentleman and sporting icon. With all its games at Wembley, England had got ...23 KB (3,813 words) - 05:17, 17 November 2023
- ==Olympic games film== She also went to Greece to film on the Games' original location. ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games. Additionally, Delphi was ... of this legend, the winners at the Pythian Games received a wreath of laurel ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- dynamite can be found in many cartoon-style computer games and is usually very powerful in contrast to other weapons in a particular game. ...6 KB (937 words) - 01:17, 16 January 2023
- * All Star Games: 12 * National League Rookie of the Year: 1956 ... 1812 runs batted in, and 2,943 hits in 2808 games played. At his retirement ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 05:08, 9 April 2024
- Numerous role-playing fantasy games incorporate goblins, following the traditions of the inherently evil and malicious, with varying coloring ...13 KB (2,074 words) - 15:53, 18 December 2022
- and Romans. There were various hockey-like games throughout Europe during ... within ten years. Entering the Olympic Games in 1928, India won all five ...33 KB (5,580 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- developing into a variety of related games. In the West, it became chess ... the Heian period. According to this theory, games such as xiangqi from China ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
- up to him. Williams opted to play in both games of the day's doubleheader ... of reaching base for the most consecutive games, 84. In addition, Williams ...17 KB (2,672 words) - 21:15, 28 October 2022
- she remained with her current strategy. For games in which players randomize ... by the experience of cooperation in earlier games allowing trust to build up ...41 KB (6,536 words) - 23:01, 30 November 2022
- more years and played in five Pro Bowl games before a severe Achilles ... records. Including non-conference games, he rushed for 824 yards ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- A number of games and past-times are popular within Chinese culture. The most common game is Mah Jong. The same pieces are used for other styled ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- taking him to watch professional hockey games at Madison Square Garden ... winner Tal, who won all four of their individual games. ...53 KB (7,890 words) - 08:45, 16 November 2023
- were magnificent and included spectacular games, ludi saeculares, and theatrical ... religion, together with the holding of games, was due to his insistence ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 03:50, 24 November 2022
- to him in most pedagogical ways: through games, conversation, exercises of solitary meditation, etc., but never through books. Music was played ...14 KB (2,276 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- scored 800 points in his first 16 games, finished with a season average ... Championships (1957,1958). In 48 Varsity games, Wilt scored 1,433 points ...36 KB (5,732 words) - 10:56, 15 May 2023
- to alter some of the rules for particular games. Other rules supplement the ... and when there is bad light. Some one-day games are now played under floodlights ...49 KB (7,998 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- Busan was the host city of the 2002 Asian Games and APEC 2005. It was also ... Pusan to declare bid to host 2020 Olympic Games. July 21, 2007. People's ...19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
- seasons, playing in 13 of the 15 All-Star Games held during those years. ... on September 17 at age 22 and playing in 10 games at Wrigley Field. He was ...48 KB (7,068 words) - 20:11, 27 April 2024
- == Modern Internet, television, movies and video games == ... Haiku also makes an appearance in several video games and online games ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- Texas League, in 1906. After losing several games as a pitcher, Speaker converted ... Speaker played in seven games for the Americans in 1907 ...47 KB (6,717 words) - 20:17, 28 April 2024
- (in the form of animated movies and video games) is perhaps the most well ... also used in most early video and computer games; and are still used for card ...34 KB (4,961 words) - 02:33, 8 January 2024
- modern fantasy literature and role-playing games, trolls are featured to the ... of fantasy, such as comic and role playing games (such as Dungeons and Dragons ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- the ISU. These include the Winter Olympic Games, the World Championships ... Figure skating is a very popular part of the Winter Olympic Games ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- of buyers and sellers participate in economic games, in reality it is far from that. He wrote: "[a]ny thing which makes buyers prefer one seller ...8 KB (1,083 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- the field for the final tournament. These games are held within the six FIFA ... in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games. The cumulative audience ...41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
- Rugby league is one of the few ball games where the ball cannot be ... will have two jersey designs, one for home games and a different design for ...29 KB (4,628 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- single defining characteristics common to all games. Just like members of the same family resemble each other, all games are more or less similar. Likewise ...16 KB (2,254 words) - 16:10, 15 October 2020
- Site, and bids for a Winter Olympic Games, are an attempt to claim ... During the 2007 Asian Winter Games, which were held in Changchun, ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- Senate House; he refused. After the last Olympic Games in 393 C.E., Theodosius cancelled the games, and the reckoning of dates by Olympiads soon came ...21 KB (3,189 words) - 18:01, 30 April 2023
- also have facilities for playing informal games of adult sports, such as ... Children have devised many playground games and pastimes. However ...16 KB (2,295 words) - 08:03, 24 November 2022
- was the supreme contest of the Olympic Games. The ancient Romans borrowed ... Plato was known for wrestling in the Isthmian games. This continued ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- warriors was only one part of the game. Games could be played on a pitch ... ball had to pass through. These lacrosse games lasted from sun-up to sun ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 22:41, 30 April 2023
- coverage of both the summer and winter Olympic Games. Goldenson would also set ratings records in the airing of mini-series such as Roots, and made for ...8 KB (1,119 words) - 20:12, 25 October 2022
- As the youngest runner in the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich he was passed with 150 m remaining in the 5000 m race by eventual winner Lasse ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- has participated in every summer Olympic Games and every Commonwealth Games. Australia has hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- For the season, Berg batted .187 and made 21 errors in 47 games, his ... batting over .300. Berg played in only 41 games, batting .221. ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- tales, fantasy fiction, and role-playing games, and recently were made popular ... and fairy tales. The popular role-playing games Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 15:51, 24 September 2020
- The term originated when most console games were distributed on cartridges ... ROM images of commercial games usually contain copyrighted software ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- celebrated with various traditions of food, games, special prayers, and gift ... ==Hanukkah games== ===Dreidel=== Dreidel [[Image:Dreidel 001.jpg|thumb ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- A toy or plaything is an object that is used primarily to provide entertainment. Simple examples include toy blocks, board games, and dolls. ...41 KB (6,246 words) - 04:50, 1 May 2023
- used to be sung by the victors in the Olympic games.Greek rhetors credited him with the invention of iambic poetry and its application to satire. ...8 KB (1,240 words) - 06:18, 12 August 2023
- world today. Several popular modern board games, including Chess, Parcheesi ... == Traditional board games == [[Image:Shatranj.jpg|thumb|200px|left ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- of Minneapolis, Minnesota organized outdoor games as exercise for firefighters; ... landmark biomechanical study on pitching during the games. ...50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- Athens hosted the first modern Olympic Games. It also hosted the most ... successful bid to stage the 2004 Olympic Games. The Greek Government, aided ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- however, such as role-playing and video games, include the banshee among their mythical creatures. ==Notes== == References == * Briggs, Katharine ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 07:29, 20 September 2023
- 1936 and 1956. In a career spanning 570 games, Feller pitched 3,827 innings ... during World War II. Feller became the first pitcher to win 24 games ...63 KB (9,620 words) - 14:15, 10 May 2024
- .325 batting average and 15 home runs in 70 games. Killebrew spent most of ... Killebrew finished the season with 38 games played in Indianapolis and ...60 KB (8,819 words) - 14:18, 10 May 2024
- establishes that in certain zero sum games involving perfect information ... and extended the minimax theorem to include games involving imperfect information ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- ; the rest are from odes on victors in the games, hyporchemes, dirges, hymns to the gods and other varieties. ==Ethics== In addition to his gifts ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- ==Computer games== in the way it updated text adventure games by adding color graphics ...24 KB (3,558 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- ==Video games== * 1988 The Scoop, published by Spinnaker Software and ... * 2005 And Then There Were None, the Adventure Company, AWE Games ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 06:43, 16 June 2023
- Coming 36 years after Hitler's propaganda Olympic Games of 1936 ... The participation of an Israeli team in an Olympic Games held in Germany ...51 KB (8,065 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- were killed at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and also when her country ... Following the 1972 Munich murders at the summer Olympic Games, Meir ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- series feature pixies. Many role-playing and video games that incorporate European medieval mythology, such as dragons and knights, often include pixies ...8 KB (1,284 words) - 06:21, 24 November 2022
- to the team, and fans often wear Uncle Sam hats to games or other functions. In music, rock group Grateful Dead featured a skeletal Uncle Sam ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- medical software, databases, and computer games. Businesses are probably ... examples include office suites and video games. Application software is ...20 KB (2,988 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- nearly 500 years, with the last recorded games being held there as late ... sea battles. Accounts of the inaugural games held by Titus in 80 C.E. ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- as apple bobbing, and various divination games often concerning future romance ... ===Games=== [[Image:Apple bobbing.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|Apple bobbing.]] ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- has recently diversified into cinema, video games, and finance. Panasonic& ... (digital music and movies on demand, games, interactive moving maps ...25 KB (3,633 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- shows at special events such as football games or at marching band competitions. ... and competitions, such as American football games. They often perform a field ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 03:09, 6 November 2022
- and his decision was made well before the Olympic Games began. Liddell spent the intervening months training for the 400 meters race, an event in which ...8 KB (1,362 words) - 19:25, 13 February 2024
- became a part of the Far Eastern Games. *1916-1919 In 1916, in the ... was added to the program of the Olympic Games in 1964. The sport is now ...62 KB (10,612 words) - 21:01, 3 May 2023
- or modal particles. For example, "We go to the games" can be modified to give "We should go to the games," and "We can go to ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- dollars) home in Houston in 1958. In 113 games in 1940 he hit .311, while ... in his hitting ability. During 87 games with Springfield, Musial ...74 KB (10,809 words) - 20:06, 28 April 2024
- Buenos Aires has been a candidate city for the Summer Olympic Games ... Buenos Aires hosted the 1951 Pan American Games - the first and was ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- Hayashi) competed in the annual castle games for status and the position ... (120!)2 = 4.5×10397 different (no-capture) games, for a total of about 9.3×10567 ...59 KB (9,909 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- series of movies. Today's computer games also make extensive use of ... television, and video sequences on computer games make photorealistic animation ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 00:25, 8 January 2024
- all but two (one win and one tie) of the 12 games they played in the 1958 season ... One of the most famous games in the history of football was the NFL ...16 KB (2,531 words) - 20:23, 3 May 2023
- However, the games were often difficult for the USF squad. Russell ... rejoining the Celtics, Russell played 48 games, averaging 14.7 points per ...74 KB (11,022 words) - 16:07, 31 October 2023
- ===Southeast Asian Games=== The Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as the SEA Games, is a biennial ...43 KB (5,937 words) - 05:04, 18 August 2023
- in the United States from early bat-and-ball games played in Britain and is known as the "national pastime" of the United States, although ...67 KB (11,273 words) - 11:05, 20 September 2023
- connections both to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls ... It had close connections both to various field (lawn) games such as ...64 KB (9,860 words) - 20:09, 29 April 2023
- The Pythian Games that were held every four years at Delphi, were ... E., the Ludi Apollinares ("Apollonian Games") were also instituted ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- books, radio, television, movies, video games, board games, roleplaying ... Eyes of Heisenberg and the Deus Ex computer games, or spacepunk including the ...54 KB (7,938 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- events, such as the First and the Ninth Asian Games, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4389563.stm India to bid for 2014 Asian Games] BBC South ...33 KB (4,788 words) - 09:20, 28 January 2024
- Band performs at football and basketball games as well as University functions ... has hosted more NCAA Tournament basketball games than any other facility. ...31 KB (4,374 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
- friends. It is a day for watching football games, parades, and television ... Princeton University in 1876. Professional games are traditionally played ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- form and violent nature, are much employed in video games and other products of market-directed culture. ==Notes== ==References== *Apollodorus ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- often waived for age group or high school games if such a facility is unavailable ... ball is different for men's and women's games. ...54 KB (9,243 words) - 23:17, 3 May 2023
- fashion], [http://www.eswapnow.com books, videos, games, music], and [http://www.swapitshop.com online trading for kids and teenagers]. Interestingly ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 10:59, 20 September 2023
- for whom the Gandharvas dance, sing and play games in Svarga ("the good kingdom"), his glorious abode atop the mythical Mount Meru. They ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- Frinceton" t-shirts are worn at games.Ramesh Nagarajan, [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2002/02/12/sports/4318.shtml The rivalry ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- building of theaters and promoted athletic games. He also banned the killing ... ==== Nero the artist and the Olympic Games ==== [[Image:As-Nero-Ara ...39 KB (6,311 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- jumping to drum line cadence. At most pre-games they act out a skit as well ... off the field in a snake line after home games and performs the song "sonic ...19 KB (2,980 words) - 22:02, 24 February 2024
- yet to equal that of UAE. The 15th Asian Games brought further liberalization ... and within Qatar. For the 15th Asian Games in Doha in 2006, it established ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- with whom he began to write about the history of games. Cushing died on April 10, 1900, after he choked to death on a fishbone, while on a research ...10 KB (1,434 words) - 05:03, 9 April 2024
- Seoul hosted the 1988 Olympic Games as well as the 1988 Paralympic Games, serving as well as one of the host cities of the 2002 FIFA World Cup ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- The speed of an object is the rate of motion of the object, or the rate at which the object changes its position. It is usually expressed as ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- ===Games and activities=== Wei-pang conducted research on traditional games among men, women, and children ...32 KB (4,726 words) - 17:31, 9 November 2022
- Brisbane hosted the 1982 Commonwealth Games, 1988 World's Fair ... Brisbane staged the successful Commonwealth Games during 1982, and ...24 KB (3,443 words) - 02:23, 22 November 2023
- ===Sports and games=== Hearkening back to its British occupation, the country's most loved sport is cricket. Local, regional, and international ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- to defeat the New York Yankees four games to three in the 1926 World Series. *His career .358 batting average is the highest by a right-handed ...9 KB (1,520 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- used for love, mental clarity, and good luck in card games. In addition, Persian magi are known to have prized agate rings in their work and beliefs ...9 KB (1,311 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- account, Gunther outmaneuvers her in three warlike games with the help of Siegfried (who is equipped with an invisibility cloak). First, Brünnhilde ...18 KB (2,858 words) - 16:28, 30 April 2020
