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The Customs and Traditions of the Philippines are strongly influenced by the culture of Spain, Mexico and the Roman Catholic religion. Each year, Filipinos from around the country hold major festivities known as Barrio Fiesta which commemorate the patron saints of the town, villages and regional districts. The festival season is celebrated with church ceremonies, street parades in honor of the patron saints, fireworks, beauty and dance contests for generations of old and new, and cockfighting tournaments. Culture of the ...

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Ivory is a hard, white, opaque substance that is the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals such as the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, mammoth, etc. Prior to the introduction of plastics, it was used for billiard balls, piano keys, buttons and ornamental items. The word "ivory" was traditionally applied to the tusks of elephants. Plastics have been viewed by piano purists as an inferior ivory substitute on piano keys, although other recently developed materials more closely resemble the feel of real ivory. Ivory - Struc ...

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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in the USA has a 1 petabyte hard disk store and a 6 petabyte robotic tape store, both attached to the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid network. (Source: Electronics Weekly, December 11, 2002) The Internet Archive Wayback Machine contains approximately 1 petabyte of data and is currently growing at a rate of 20 terabytes per month. (Source: Internet Archive FAQ) The Internet Archive also acquired an additional ...

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Snooker is played on a rectangular 6' by 12' (about 1.83m by 3.66m) table (often referred to as 'Full Size' as smaller same ratio tables can be used) with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. At one end of the table (the 'Baulk End' ) is the so-called 'baulk line', which is 29 inches from the baulk end cushion. A semicircle of radius 11½ inches, called the "D", is drawn behind this line, centred on the middle of the line. On the baulk line, looking up the table from the 'baulk end', the yellow ball (2 poi ...

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Down House was originally built as a farmhouse around 1650, and it was extended in 1778. Down House - The Darwins move in. Darwin, moved from London to the suburbs in the midst of labour riots, buying the house for £2,200 from the Rev. James Drummond, who had asked for £2,500. They moved in on the 14th September, 1842. The Darwin family then consisted of Charles, his wife Emma and their children William Erasmus (b. 1839) and Anne (b. 1841). Emma was heavily pregnant with Mary Eleanor, who was to be born on 23 Sep ...

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Persimmons tend to be light yellow-orange to dark red-orange in colour and vary from 2-8 cm in diameter according to species. The calyx often remains attached to the fruit after picking. They may be spherical, acorn or pumpkin-shaped depending on the variety. They are eaten fresh, dried, cooked and canned. They are high in glucose and protein, and also have various medicinal and chemical uses. There are generally two types of fruit, those that are astringent until extremely ripe and ...

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Teeth and tusks have the same origins. Teeth are specialized structures adapted for food mastication. Tusks, which are extremely large teeth projecting beyond the lips, have evolved from teeth and give certain species an evolutionary advantage. The teeth of most mammals consists of a root and the tusk proper. Teeth and tusks have the same physical structures: pulp cavity, dentine, cementum and enamel. The innermost area is the pulp cavity. The pulp cavity is an empty space within the toot ...

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Ivory, Ivory - Structure, Ivory - Teeth and tusks, Ivory - Availablity, Ivory - Types of ivory

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Culture of the Philippines - Major festivals. The Black Nazarene procession in Quiapo and Manila. The Fiesta del Santo Niño de Cebu (Festival of the Child Jesús) and Sinulog in the Visayas and Mindanao region. The Ati-Atihan Carnival, also in Visayas region. The Peñafrancia Festival in Naga City, Bicol Region. Except for the Peñafrancia Festival which is celebrated on the thrid Saturday and Sunday of September, all are celebrated ...

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Due to the rapid decline in the populations of the animals that produce it, the importation and sale of ivory in many countries is banned or severely restricted. Much of the decline in population is due to poachers during and before the 1980s. Since the worldwide ivory trade ban in 1989 there have been ups and downs in elephant populations, and ivory trade as bans have been placed and lifted. Many African countries including Zimbabwe and South Africa claim that ivory trade is necessary—both to stimulate their economies and reduce elephant ...

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Ivory, Ivory - Structure, Ivory - Teeth and tusks, Ivory - Availablity, Ivory - Types of ivory

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The most important event in professional snooker is the Embassy World Championship, held annually since 1927 (except between 1958 and 1963). The tournament has been held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield (England) since 1977. However, due to the fact that Tobacco companies are no longer allowed to sponsor sporting events after 2005, the World Snooker Championship will have another sponsorship deal. Talk about the whereabouts of the event, which is usually in Sheffield, have confirmed that it will stay there for several more ...

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Snooker, Snooker - History, Snooker - Governing body, Snooker - The game, Snooker - Tournaments, Snooker - Notable players, Snooker - Snooker equipment, Snooker - Glossary, Snooker - Results

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Sipa and cockfighting are the national sports in the Philippines. Other popular recreational sports include boxing, billiard, basketball, chess, ten-pin bowling and soccer. Boxing, billiard, basketball and soccer are popular among Filipinos, with virtually every barangay or barrio in the country having at least one boxing ring , billiard table, basketball court and soccer field. The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) was founded in 1975. The sports where the Filipinos have gained enormous international success are boxing, billiar ...

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The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), founded in 1968 as the Professional Billiard Players' Association, is the governing body for the professional game. Its subsidiary, World Snooker, organises the professional tour. The organisation is based in Bristol, England. It must be said that the world governing body has been racked by in-fighting for a number of years. The amateur game is governed by the Internationa ...

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Snooker, Snooker - History, Snooker - Governing body, Snooker - The game, Snooker - Tournaments, Snooker - Notable players, Snooker - Snooker equipment, Snooker - Glossary, Snooker - Results

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The game of billiards dates back to the 15th century but snooker is a more recent invention. In the late 19th century billiards games were popular among British army officers stationed in India and players used to experiment with variations on the game. The most commonly accepted story is that, at the officers' mess in Jubbulpore in 1875, Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (no relation to the later Prime Minister) suggested adding coloured balls to a billiards game. The word 'snooker' was army slang for a first-year cadet. This came to be used ...

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Snooker, Snooker - History, Snooker - Governing body, Snooker - The game, Snooker - Tournaments, Snooker - Notable players, Snooker - Snooker equipment, Snooker - Glossary, Snooker - Results

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Filipinos cook a variety of national food influenced by both Castillian-Mexican and Asian cuisines such as: Adobo typically pork, slow-cooked in soy sauce, vinegar, crushed garlic, bay leaves, and black pepper corns lechon (whole roast pig) lechon baka (roast cattle) chorizo sausages asado menudo chicharon torta empanadas adobong baboy adobong manok tsokolate (chocolate) polvoron pan de sal (breadrolls) m ...

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Main Article: Superstitions of the Philippines and Philippine Mythology Before the coming of the Spaniards and the introducing of Roman Catholicism, the indigenous inhabitants were adherents of animism, or the worship of nature. As in Roman Catholicism, their pre-Hispanic beliefs consisted of a hierarchy of gods, goddesses, and spirits which bear resemblance to that of Roman Catholicism, which is why the latter has been accepted easily by the inhabitants. Bathala was the supreme God of the Tagalogs, represented by the arawSee also:

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Though persimmon trees belong to the same genus as ebony trees, persimmon tree wood has a limited use in the manufacture of objects requiring hard wood. Most notably D. virginiana, the lightly coloured, fine-grained wood of which is used for some of the best golfclub heads and billiard cues and historically for the shuttles used in the textile industry. Like other plants of the genus Diospyros, older persimmon heartwood is black or dark brown in color, which is in stark contrast with the sapwood and younger ...

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Persimmon, Persimmon - Fruit, Persimmon - Species, Persimmon - Storage, Persimmon - Nutritional Information, Persimmon - Wood, Persimmon - Events, Persimmon - Company

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