Search results for "Games" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- 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
- 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 (2,395 words) - 04:06, 24 May 2024
- 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
- 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
