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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 ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- as well as pan-Pacific national military war games and exercises such as RIMPAC and RSOI. ==Republic of Korea Armed Forces== The Constitution ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- enjoyed a variety of leisure activities, including games. Senet, a board game where pieces moved according to random chance, was particularly popular ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- 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 ...44 KB (6,123 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- ====Language games==== Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his later years, recognized religious language as a “language-game” of its own, having its ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...23 KB (3,744 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- Grace, Princess of Monaco, née Grace Patricia Kelly, (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
- runner who competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games. * Molly Spotted Elk, born on November 17, 1903, in the Penobscot reservation in Maine ...23 KB (3,545 words) - 07:18, 23 November 2022
- 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 ...49 KB (7,394 words) - 02:27, 2 May 2024
- 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 ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- of Apollo, and had charge of the Pythian games. Earlier arrangements, before the temple became dedicated to Apollo, are not documented. ...24 KB (3,809 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2023
- a plaza used for various social activities such as games, festivals, religious rituals, and public ceremonies. These plazas had many shapes—oval, rectangular ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- 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 == ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- badminton, swimming, and snooker. Board games such as go (known as wéiqí ... China has participated in the Olympic Games since 1932, although it ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 17:20, 4 October 2020
- In 1995, Harare hosted most of the Sixth All-Africa Games, sharing the event with other Zimbabwean cities such as Bulawayo and Chitungwiza. ...23 KB (3,136 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- theatre, film, television series, games, etc., although Propp applied it specifically to the fairy tale. In 1932, Propp became a member of Leningrad ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 23:03, 24 May 2023
- own flags, and, in the case of international games like the Olympics, fans will indicate their support for a player by waving the flag of his or ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- as the venue for various intercollegiate football games. Often it is the host of the Big 12 Football Title Game. On the last weekend in October, the ...46 KB (6,922 words) - 17:38, 14 May 2024
- over me." Alexander's “funeral games,” where his marshals fought ... viewpoint of a Persian eunuch), and Funeral Games (about the events following ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- to begin with the date of the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C.E., but many historians ... processions, choruses, dramas, and games held in honor of the gods ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- with a 4), Palm PDAs, the Leisure Suit Larry games. Some buildings skip floor 4 or replace the number with the letter "F," particularly ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- Jersey participates in its own right in the Commonwealth Games, in which shooting is a strong sport. Golf is also popular - Harry Vardon was ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- sections for cultural and artistic activities and games. In the secondary school, classes in art, music, and sport are always composed of mixed ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- in 1959. Six archers in five different Olympic Games won gold medals using Yamaha products. Yamaha, [http://www.global.yamaha.com/news/2002/20020201 ...25 KB (3,604 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Canon developed and released the “RC-701,” the company’s first still-video (SV) camera and a ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- Circus Maximus where the ancient Romans held their games. Known in the Middle Ages as the Palatium Neronis, it was constructed in the shape of a cross ...25 KB (3,946 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2022
- of Lake Placid, two-time site of the Olympic Winter Games, the Saranac Lakes, favored by the sportsmen who made the Adirondacks famous, and Raquette ...25 KB (3,782 words) - 05:58, 15 June 2023
- Real Madrid, founded in 1902, compete in La Liga and play their home ... also compete in La Liga and play their home games at the Metropolitano Stadium ...75 KB (11,270 words) - 17:52, 8 February 2024
- *Location-based games—The availability of hand-held GPS receivers has led to games such as Geocaching, which involves using a hand-held GPS ...54 KB (8,113 words) - 20:37, 29 December 2023
- and snowmobile racing, and traditional Arctic games. Hunting, fishing, hiking, and kayaking are popular not only to the local people, but are a draw ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
- #039;s soccer, lacrosse, and football games. Burr Gymnasium houses the university's basketball team, while The Pulse is the central exercise ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- to play cards, dreidel, chess or other table games. The Lubavitcher Rebbe was known to spend his Nittel Nachts sewing. Some spend the night ripping ...27 KB (4,071 words) - 21:38, 10 December 2023
- the birthplace of democracy, the Olympic Games, western literature, political ... to begin with the date of the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C.E., but most historians ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- well over 60,000 fans attending their football games, and the University of Oklahoma's football program ranked 13th in attendance among American ...50 KB (7,185 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- mental mechanism, can be observed among players in games, such as, for example, chess or go. In other studies, Paul Thompson and his colleagues ...26 KB (3,861 words) - 01:14, 12 April 2023
- part of healing rituals, initiation rituals, group games and tales, and pure entertainment. In addition to traditional instruments like the flute, floor ...27 KB (4,197 words) - 20:58, 14 April 2023
- given to the process to host the 2000 Olympic Games. ==America’s Cup challengers and defenders== {| class="wikitable" |- ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- The 2023 Pan American Games were held in Santiago Main Sport Venues: *Estadio Nacional (site of the 1962 World Cup final) 65,000 all-seated ...25 KB (3,606 words) - 18:44, 25 January 2024
- holds 85,157 people. During football games, it holds almost twice the ... ** Omaha Lancers – United States Hockey League (home games played ...48 KB (6,855 words) - 04:25, 11 March 2023
- of Korea. It features athletic events, folk games, music, dance, literary contests and Buddhist religious ceremonies. Other festivals include ...25 KB (3,647 words) - 14:22, 14 December 2021
- popular culture, such as movies, novels, video games, comics, art, and television programs. The Star Wars films include a number of archetypes ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- production services (DVDs, CDs, computer games) provided by BBC Multimedia. These are predominantly owned and operated by BBC Worldwide Ltd, ...29 KB (4,446 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- in the thick of heavy fighting. During the funeral games for Achilles, Odysseus competes with Ajax to win Achilles' weapons and armor. The Greeks ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- * Concerto for Orchestra, 1989 (Originally "Jubilee Games" from 1986, revised in 1989) === Choral music for church or synagogue === ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- clothing and accessories, shoes, videos and DVDs, games, airline tickets and electronic equipment. Cosmetics, nutrition products, and groceries are increasingly ...28 KB (4,204 words) - 00:40, 18 November 2022
- An important biennial event, the Arctic Winter Games, is held in communities across the northern regions of the world, featuring traditional ...53 KB (8,160 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- Legacy of Kain video game series, role-playing games such as Vampire: the Masquerade, and Kouta Hirano's Hellsing manga have been especially successful ...26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
- playing their proxy imperial, then Cold War games in Iran with little or no real concern for the welfare of the Iranian people. The Shah was ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- time, an exhibit called Pastimes, which dealt with games and leisure of the past. The exhibit became less popular when some coin-operated devices were ...29 KB (4,459 words) - 16:38, 10 December 2023
- Hockey Federation. It hosts the Pan-Armenian games. ==Notes== == References == * Agatʻangeghos, and Robert W. Thomson. History of the Armenians ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- in the state, with 5000 slot machines, 200 table games, and a poker room. However, the deteriorating economy caused the plans to be put on hold in October ...28 KB (3,984 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
- Hokkaidō |北海道||literally "North Sea Circuit" , formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- with many French staples such as food, music, games, and sometimes the recreation of famous French landmarks. ==Notes== ==References== ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 11:09, 20 September 2023
- oath-taking, plays, and maypole games. These last suggestions reveal Fox's Puritan leanings, which continued to influence Quakers for centuries ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- the human body encouraging exercise and games in the nude. Alexander the ... Temple funds were diverted to international games and dramas. In 167 B.C.E ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- "brainwashed consumers"), video games, religious groups, political groups, or other people. People have also come to use the terms ...29 KB (4,296 words) - 22:37, 20 November 2023
- much as a chess player who plays several games at once, renewing now this one, now the another" (Ricoeur 1983, 186). For Ricoeur, Marx ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- where he lived in Buckinghamshire. There are games, such as Splat the Rat and Guess the Number of Sweeties in the Jar, as well as tea, cakes, and orange ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 03:07, 15 December 2022
- employed in several of the popular films, video games, music (and even professional wrestling!). Movies dating back to the days of the silent ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- *Sells toys, electronics and video games *Sells household necessities *The "super-store" variant usually sells food products and has ...29 KB (4,395 words) - 09:47, 29 January 2024
- Television (or TV) (from the Greek tele, meaning "far," and the Latin visio, meaning "sight") is a telecommunication system ...27 KB (3,983 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- * [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=61923 The chess games of Sergei Prokofiev] Four for posterity Category:Music Category:Art, music ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Oklahoma Culture and Heritage Program teaches hand games, powwow dancing and songs, horse care and riding, buffalo management, and Cheyenne and Arapaho ...31 KB (4,746 words) - 20:56, 9 December 2023
- hosts both first-class and international games. Soccer is popular in Wellington with the region represented at the interprovincial level by Team ...30 KB (4,384 words) - 20:30, 18 January 2024
- Williams was an enthusiast of both pen-and-paper role-playing games and video games, sometimes performing at consumer entertainment trade shows ...61 KB (8,753 words) - 02:22, 16 December 2022
- The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. The entire island of Ireland provisionally became ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- #039;s largest vanishing act. Several video games have used it as a setting, including Civilization II, Civilization IV, Rise of Nations: Thrones ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- using "Virgilianized" syntax, word games and a mixture of languages, including Ancient Greek, Italian, Latin, and Provençal. ...27 KB (4,102 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- succeeds in running MS-DOS, WordPerfect 5.1, DOS games, and moreJ. Hoeven, (2007). "Dioscuri: emulator for digital preservation." D-Lib Magazine ...34 KB (4,699 words) - 14:38, 29 January 2024
- and trap competitions are featured at the Olympic Games. Today, shotguns, loaded with buckshot or slugs, are increasingly used in deer hunting ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 14:26, 27 January 2023
- for ostriches to use in cooking and in venatio games. (Venatio was a form of entertainment in Roman amphitheaters involving the hunting and slaying ...28 KB (4,283 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- resorts, and competes in tennis and in the Olympic Games. ==Notes== ==References== * Armengol Vila, Lídia. 1989. Approach to the history of Andorra ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- football referee). He also enjoyed playing card games, particularly Solitaire or Patience. Both light and dark sides of his character were evident ...29 KB (4,378 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) ( ˈwʊdhaʊs ) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- * Book 23: Funeral games for Patroclus * Book 24: Achilles lets Priam have Hector's body back, and he is burned on a pyre ===The Odyssey=== ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- Olympic Committee sending a team to the Moscow games. In immigration policy, Fraser also surprised his critics. According to 1977 cabinet documents ...31 KB (4,378 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- manga, television series, and video games. A number of television series have been based on this tale. An 84-episode TV serial Romance of the ...29 KB (4,917 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- to their national football team in international games and in official broadcasts. == Geography == Côte d'Ivoire is a country of western ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- [[Image:Cyndi Lauper at Gay Games VII.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Cyndi Lauper.]] [[Image:Steviewonder2006.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Stevie Wonder.]] ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- activities, including the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The suspension was lifted in September 2014. == Politics == Fiji's head of state is the ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to its west and by Austria to its east ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- of language-games within which the parts of language function and ... made use of Wittgenstein's language games as a tool for emotional growth ...59 KB (9,088 words) - 02:40, 5 November 2022
- are official candidates for the Summer Olympic Games of 2020 ("Milan-Lombardy 2020"). ===Places of interest=== Milan is an artistic ...27 KB (3,967 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- ranging from television, movies and novels to video games. The concept of changing a planet for habitation precedes the use of the word "terraforming ...32 KB (4,766 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- Europe. It hosts Gaelic football and hurling games during the summer months, as well as international rules football in alternating years, as well as ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- Lennon rebounded in 1973 with Mind Games, which featured a strong title tune and some vague mumblings about a "conceptual country" ...28 KB (4,313 words) - 20:50, 1 May 2024
- Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. It became the 29th state when it joined the Union in 1846. Des Moines ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- the Girl"), one of a number of traditional games played on horseback.]] Before the Russian conquest, the Kazaks had a well-articulated culture ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- senior player after victorious home football games and its ringing also marks the start of the commencement ceremonies each May. The University ...33 KB (4,668 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- and clocks, jewelry, optical goods, toys and games, and cut flowers. Major markets are Europe and the United States. It imports meat, dairy products ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- Pozzuoli, near Naples) Nero ordered athletic games to be staged in honor of his guest. The Armenian king himself had an opportunity to display his ability ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- hobby is golf, and he plays only a couple of games a year. At the 2006 UN Correspondents' dinner in early December, after being elected Secretary ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- of the Nobel Prize and champions in the Olympic Games. Also, many award statuettes are plated in gold, such as those given at the Academy Awards, the ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 08:13, 24 January 2023
- culture and media, such as novels, films, video games, and television programming. Here are examples that use the Wise Old Man archetype: ...31 KB (4,736 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
- group of friends with whom he enjoyed board games, the manufacture of fireworks ... ceremony of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. ...67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- Havana was host to the 11th Pan American Games in 1991 and was host to the 1992 IAAF World Cup in Athletics. ==Places of interest== ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- as an announcer for Chicago Cubs baseball games. He received only the bare ... first president to open a summer Olympic games held in the U.S. ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- pipe (hookah). Sometimes they play board games, cards or chess. ... soccer and basketball teams. Men attend games at a stadium and they are ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- members. It also coordinates the annual Coast Salish Games for youth. The Artisan Outlet in Vancouver, Canada, offers employment for artisans of tribal ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- the body of a child through sport and physical games; assisting the child to develop habits of health; and to maintain regular medical well-child ...34 KB (4,978 words) - 07:57, 18 November 2022
- lifestyle, the courts for ritual ball games were constructed throughout the Maya realm and often on a grand scale. Enclosed on two sides by stepped ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- Japanese popular culture, including video games, anime, and manga, become ... dance, kabuki, noh, rakugo), traditions (games, tea ceremony, budō, architecture ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- France is the country of creation of the Modern Olympic Games, due to a French aristocrat, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, in the end of the nineteenth ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- contests were a part of the original Olympic Games. [[Image:Playing trumpet at temple. Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.jpg|thumb|350px|Playing trumpet ...34 KB (5,196 words) - 19:49, 28 June 2023
- And, according to what they themselves say, the games now in use among them and the Greeks were invented by the Lydians: these, they say, were invented ...35 KB (5,526 words) - 04:38, 22 March 2024
- sporting events, including the 1938 British Empire Games, 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Sydney is one of the most multicultural ...33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- defeated the New York Yankees 4 games to 3 in the World Series, becoming not only the city's first professional sports franchise to win ...30 KB (4,458 words) - 22:43, 28 March 2023
- statue in red crepe paper prior to Tech home games. The back of the horse faces in the direction of College Station, Texas, home of football rival Texas ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- poem describes the coronation and heroic games undertaken by all of the ... pens Pope attacks mercilessly in the heroic games section of the Dunciad are ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- This often put the figure in the role of a May King, presiding over games and processions, but plays were also performed with the characters ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 17:08, 16 August 2023
- slavery and limiting cockfighting and such games. To replace the slaves, he used a contingent of convicts, already sent to him from India. It ...33 KB (5,257 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist ...34 KB (5,358 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- will keep its promises, and the US will stop war games] CNBC, June 12, 2018. Retrieved January 15, 2021. In September, South Korean President ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- in conjunction with the Seoul Summer Olympic Games. His socially critical lyrics provoked the anger of the government and many of his concerts were ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- *Winnipeg hosted the Pan-American Games in 1967 and 1999, the only city other than Mexico City to have hosted the event twice. *Winnipeg has also ...32 KB (4,701 words) - 23:10, 17 May 2023
- * Walters, Guy. Berlin Games--How Hitler Stole the Olympic Dream. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0719567831 ==External links== ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- quot; streak of 2,130 consecutive games played. Six former Orioles players have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Baltimore Ravens ...32 KB (4,493 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- Olympic gold medal in Atlanta's 1996 Olympic Games, through Jefferson Pérez, on the 20 km race-walk. There is flourishing activity in nontraditional ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- A kayak is a small, lightweight, human-powered boat. Long and narrow in shape, it typically has a deck that covers the hull. A paddler sits in ...36 KB (5,715 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- in numerous fantasy and horror-themed computer games. ==Notes== ==References== * Bunce, Fredrick W., ed. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Deities, Demi ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- from Persia and participated in the Olympic games. There he ran the stadion, the main event of the games. When his fellow runners questioned ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- In 2007, Elevator:2010 held the Space Elevator games which featured US$500,000 awards for each of the two competitions, (US$1,000,000 total) ...39 KB (5,875 words) - 15:17, 27 April 2023
- killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. A number of sources, including Mohammed Daoud and Benny Morris, have stated that Black September ...34 KB (5,106 words) - 09:50, 23 May 2023
- also used by some late-1970s to mid-1980s arcade games such as Asteroids. Vector displays for computers did not noticeably suffer from the display ...37 KB (6,021 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- during 1936, while Berlin hosted the Olympic Games, but from 1937, the intensity of his antisemitic words and actions began to increase again. ...34 KB (5,445 words) - 21:47, 6 May 2024
- New York City was the host of the 1998 Goodwill Games. ==Transportation== [[Image:Grand central chrysler.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Grand Central Terminal ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- local festivals, such as the Scottish Highland Games in Fergus and Maxville, Toronto International Carnival (one of North America's biggest cultural ...35 KB (5,025 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- though the Tigers play several neutral-site games at Kyoto's Nishi Kyogoku stadium every year, but Kyoto's high school baseball teams ...36 KB (5,281 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- took a bronze medal at the same Olympic Games. Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski are reigning world champions in ice dancing and figure skating ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- is a competition contact sport where two wrestlers or “rikishi” face off in a circular area. The sport is of Japanese origin and is surrounded ...39 KB (6,360 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- in such diverse media as Japanese animation, video games, and comic books (for example, Marvel Comics Thor). ==Notes== ==References== ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- pipes) and popular beverages are served. Card games and Tables are popular in the cafes, including (backgammon variants) and chess. ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- seen behind home plate at the team's games. Ken Gurnick, [https://www.mlb.com/news/larry-king-to-host-show-on-sportsnet-la/c-68363394 Larry ...42 KB (5,955 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- *In the NHL, MLB, and NBA, seven is the maximum number of games played in a playoff series. *Rugby Sevens, a variant of rugby union and rugby ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- actions proved pivotal in sealing, among other games, the 2007 ICC World Twenty20. Tinu Yohannan, son of Olympic long jumper T. C. Yohannan, count among ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- , the common English name for the Tokyo Metropolis|東京都|Tōkyō-to , is the most populous prefecture and city in Japan, and the center of ...39 KB (5,420 words) - 03:54, 1 May 2023
- Japanese cinema, animation, comics, and video games. ==Notes== [[Image:Elephant catching a flying tengu.jpg|thumb|200px|Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Elephant ...37 KB (5,598 words) - 02:59, 19 April 2023
- Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in Vietnam. Sports and games such as badminton, tennis, ping pong, and chess are popular with large ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- digital media. Active entertainment involves games in which individuals participate. Serious leisure behaviors involve non-professional pursuit of arts ...40 KB (5,552 words) - 21:51, 20 March 2023
- * Ford, Richard Thompson. [http://www.slate.com/id/2106753/ Name Games, Slate, September 16, 2004, the problems of defining African American ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- in rural areas, where high school football games often serve as prominent community gatherings. Though not as popular on a wider basis as the ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- regional dishes, as well as play various indoor games. At one time, these estaminets almost disappeared, but are now considered a part of Nord-Pas-de ...35 KB (5,382 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- During the first levels of education, playing games is used to foster social interaction and skills, basic language and mathematical skills are used ...43 KB (6,163 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- airplanes. At the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, Palestinian militants held ... Fridman won Israel's first [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medal at the ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- American city to host the Summer Olympics. The games themselves were marred by the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. Contemporary Atlanta is sometimes ...39 KB (5,622 words) - 06:05, 21 August 2023
- and Moor playing chess, from The Book of Games of Alfonso X, c. 1285]] While the Muslim conquest of much of Spain and memory of the Battle of ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- economy and preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing resulted in an openness to innovation and the hiring of internationally-known foreign ...41 KB (6,198 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- and Carlos were immediately ejected from the games by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). Subsequently, the International Olympic Committee ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
- World Series champions. The team plays its home games at Fenway Park. Built in 1912, it is the oldest sports arena or stadium in active use in the ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- By 1980, when part of the Moscow Olympic Games were also held in Tallinn (the Olympic Regatta), Russification and state-orchestrated immigration ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- * Olympic Games medal winner diver Hailiang Xiao is from Wuhan. * Chang-lin Tien, former Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- The men were eating and playing games in carefree fashion, completely unaware that an entire Confederate corps was less than a mile away. What ...40 KB (6,273 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- the 1980 Summer Olympics. The 1994 Goodwill Games were also held here. ... played for the team. They play their home games at Ice Palace Saint Petersburg. ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- over all other races. Olympia, the movie about the games and documentary propaganda films for the German Nazi Party were directed by Hitler's personal ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- Fenn wrote and designed a series of readers and games for middle-class children and Richard Lovell Edgeworth began one of the first systematic studies ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- (discontinued in 1995), handheld maze games, cleaning, and road leveling devices in cars. * Mercury compounds have been used in antiseptics, laxatives ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- The 1968 Olympic Games brought about the construction of large sporting ... Mexico City is the first Latin American city to host the Olympic Games ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
- and the television series Babylon 5. Many video games also use this element, such as Red Faction and the Zone of the Enders series. Mars (and its ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- held on 17 March but this was switched to games being played in Autumn. *The Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup, Munster Schools Rugby Senior Cup ...52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
- Tasmania where Launceston regularly hosts home games of Hawthorn in the AFL. However, in 2008 the Tasmanian Government submitted a proposal to the AFL ...42 KB (6,077 words) - 04:33, 27 February 2023
- defensive maneuvers (rules, repetitive games). When there is disturbance in the family during the first genital phase (such as death of a parent ...46 KB (6,384 words) - 01:27, 12 April 2023
- depicts a group of aristocrats playing games of intrigue and amorality. ... fantasy novels, role-playing computer games, and the surrealists. ...82 KB (12,058 words) - 20:51, 27 February 2023
- Bungie Studios uses this language in some of its games (Halo 2). Gene Roddenberry took the name of Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek from the Swahili ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- * difficulty playing reciprocal games (e.g. peek-a-boo) * hyper- or hypo-sensitivity to or unusual response to the smell, texture, sound, taste ...54 KB (7,201 words) - 21:42, 17 January 2024
- III team in 1969, continuing to play its home games at the new Stagg Field. The Maroon football team has won the University Athletic Association ...51 KB (7,192 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- Such tasks often resemble specially designed games and activities that are both enjoyable for the child and scientifically useful, and researchers ...53 KB (7,102 words) - 01:28, 12 April 2023
- and introduced the playing of athletic games on Sundays, despite protest from conservatives in the surrounding area who promoted the tradition ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- out this plan had never worked even in Japanese war games, and painfully aware of American strategic advantages in military productive capacity, Yamamoto ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- and pearls, fortifications, painting, music, games, amusements etc.Thapar, (2003), 393. While the book omits topics of a particular hierarchy of ...49 KB (7,018 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- Events such as rugby, Olympics, Commonwealth Games, [https://www.t20worldcup.com/ Cricket World Cups] and FIFA World Cups have enabled specialist travel ...101 KB (14,057 words) - 17:18, 7 May 2024
- *In most earlier video games, three lives were commonly given to players at the start. *The television VHF channel most often used for hooking ...42 KB (5,963 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta and has received numerous honours and awards. ==Life== Lightfoot was born ...65 KB (9,151 words) - 15:55, 15 May 2023
- race, which was first staged at the 1896 Olympic Games. ==Historical sources== The main historical source of the battle comes from Herodotus, ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- boycotting of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games by many Western countries in protest at Soviet actions. The Soviet invasion led to a protracted conflict ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- racing occurs during the Duan Wu festival. Board games such as International Chess, Go (Weiqi), and Xiangqi (Chinese chess) are also common and have ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- * The 1990 Goodwill Games. * The APEC leaders conference in 1993. * The World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999, marked by street ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- his way to Harlem, New York. His schooling in con games, dope peddling, and other petty crimes soon began. By the time he was 18, Malcolm Little was ...49 KB (7,838 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- *Olympic Games: Hasely Crawford won the first and only Olympic gold medal for Trinidad and Tobago in the men's 100 m dash in the 1976 Summer ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- songs are about family members, and about chores, games, and other activities as well. It usually includes anything in a child's daily life. A ...48 KB (7,395 words) - 15:33, 11 November 2022
- event and, in 1997, it hosted the fourth National Games of India. The Sports Authority of India, the premier sports institute in the country, and the ...50 KB (6,914 words) - 20:25, 4 January 2024
- not yet achieved qualification. Georgia's home games are played at the Boris Paichadze Stadium in Tblisi. Rugby is considered the second ...46 KB (6,605 words) - 20:12, 4 September 2023
- first modern pentathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. ... other civilian competitions at the Olympic Games. Each man did his best and ...100 KB (15,023 words) - 13:47, 12 November 2022
- |url-status=live |title=Athens 2004 Olympic Games Tickets |publisher=www.olympic ... which was also used for gladiatorial games. Although the initial complex ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- Cypriots argue that all these are diplomatic games to justify Turkey's expansionist objective by ultra nationalist Turkish militants. ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- * 18. De Spectaculis (On the Games) * 19. De Idololatria (On Idolatry) * 20, 21. De cultu Feminarum, lib. I & II (On Women's Dress) ...57 KB (8,333 words) - 20:17, 31 January 2024
- earliest attempts at settling the rules of card games), but, like Pilgrim's Progress, its main business is guiding the individual. ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- The city had two special buildings for the ball games. The players hit the ball with their hips. They had to pass the ball through a stone ring. ...52 KB (8,358 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- *Loewe, Michael. 1990. "The Juedi Games: a re-enactment of the battle between Chiyou and Xianyuan," in Thought and Law in Qin and Han ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- cleanse ourselves? What lustrums, what sacred games shall we have to devise? Is not the magnitude of this deed too great for us? In Nietzsche’s ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- In 1991, Havana hosted the Pan American Games, which involved construction of a stadium and accommodation for the athletes; Castro admitted that ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- the aesthetics of several forms. Role-playing games are sometimes seen as a performing art with an aesthetic structure of their own, called role ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Olympic Games, although it changed its official name in these functions from "Hong Kong" to "Hong ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- numbers of Pashtuns. Children engage in various games including a form of marbles called buzul-bazi, played with the knuckle bones of sheep. Although ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- Niyazov banned playing of video games, listening to car radios, performing opera and ballet, smoking in public, and even growing facial hair ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- Blazing Angels or Resident Evil? Can Violent Video Games Be a Force for Good?] Review of General Psychology 14(2) (2010): 68–81. Retrieved June 19, 2020. ...62 KB (8,789 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- pid=65398 Humphrey Bogart] Chess Games. * [http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/B/BogartHumphrey-HMenken-MPhillips-MMethot-LaurenBacall.shtml Genealogy ...51 KB (8,176 words) - 12:20, 4 February 2023
- holiday typically include parades and football games. The holiday is meant to honor the "First Thanksgiving," which was a harvest feast held ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- social interaction. People play some of those games today, others have yet to be identified.Alexandra Mack, "The temple district of Vitthalapura ...55 KB (7,789 words) - 20:20, 3 May 2023
- city to have hosted the modern Olympic Games three times, having previously ... England's anthem in the Commonwealth Games), "Jerusalem," ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- in the top rankings at the Olympic Games. During the Soviet era the team placed first in the total number of medals won at 14 of its 18 appearances; ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- films, books, television, music, and electronic games. The media can have tropical cyclones that are entirely fictional, or can be based on real events ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- graphics card technology, driven by the computer games industry. Another novel use of DRR's is in identification of the dead from old radiographic ...61 KB (9,364 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- Mexico City hosted the XIX Olympic Games in 1968, making it the only Latin American city to do so. The country has also hosted the FIFA World ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- programs, films, newspaper strips, and video games. With the success of his adventures, Superman helped to create the superhero genre and establish its ...61 KB (9,123 words) - 13:55, 28 April 2023
- the team's projects and regularly attended its games, often choosing to sit in the open stands with fans. Bush's role with the Rangers gave ...61 KB (9,229 words) - 08:20, 23 January 2023
- fleets that engaged in cat-and-mouse games; this tradition today continues, on a much-reduced scale. The Soviet Union suffered the loss of at ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- 1956 [http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/innovations_uk.asp?OLGT ... Olympic delegation defected after the games. The events in Hungary ...73 KB (10,504 words) - 12:26, 4 February 2023
- New York Yankees for playing in 2,130 consecutive games. Cooper was reluctant to play the seven-time All-Star, who had died only the previous year from ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- recently they reached the finals of the Asian Games in 2006, defeating former World Cup semi-finalists South Korea in 2006 and eventually losing to Qatar ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- of Hero City. In 1980, it hosted the Summer Olympic Games. In 1991 Moscow was the scene of a coup attempt by the government members opposed to ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- Arabia has participated in the Summer Olympic Games and in international competitions in volleyball and other sports. The Saudi Arabia national football ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian Federation became an independent country. Russia was the largest of the ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- were away from their posts at war games. ===French Resistance=== The various factions and circuits of the French Resistance were included in the ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- compete in football events at the Olympic Games. Rugby football differs internationally ... bronze medals at five consecutive Olympic Games as well as numerous wins ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- nature occurred during the Olympic games of 416 where "he entered seven teams in the chariot race, more than any private citizen had ever ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- at the schools' home football games. South Carolina does have several minor league professional teams that play baseball, and hockey. ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- in 1892. Paris also hosted the 1900 and 1924 Olympic Games, and was venue for the 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups. Although the starting point and ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- her the first head of state to open two Olympic Games in two countries. For the London Olympics, she played herself in a short film as part of the ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- Spain and the Habsburg family in European power games. Freed from French opposition, Spain reached the zenith of its might and territorial reach in ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- Ukraine is a regular participant in the Olympic Games, both summer and winter. ==Notes== ==References== * Chirovsky, Nicholas L. Nineteenth and ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- commanders left their posts to attend war games in Rennes, and men in many units were given leave.Ford and Zaloga, 131. Marshal Erwin Rommel ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- to advertisements, anime, and video games. The realities of life in modern Japan, which include intensely urbanized areas in which millions of ...78 KB (11,609 words) - 09:53, 1 April 2024
- At the Commonwealth Games, the Northern Ireland team uses the Ulster Banner as its flag and Danny Boy is used as its National Anthem. The Northern ...84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
- At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, Palestinian militants held hostage and killed members of the Israeli delegation. Agents of Israel’s ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- Tehran was the first city in the Middle East to host the Asian Games in 1974, and continues to host and participate in international sporting events. ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- bronze medals in the European, World and Olympic Games competitions. Francis Obikwelu in the 100 m and the 200 m, had silver in the 2004 Summer Olympics ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- heritage cannot be made on the basis of political games played by the government".title=İnsanlık mirasına dair kararlar iktidarın politik oyunlarına ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
- been one of the strongest contenders in the Olympic Games. In the 2004 Summer Olympics, Germany finished sixth overall, whereas in the 2006 Winter Olympics ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
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