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Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia - Cricket

Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in the centre of which is a hard, flat strip of ground some 22 yards long, called the pitch. At each end of the pitch stand a set of wooden poles called a wicket (traditionally made from the wood of the ash tree). A player from one team (the bowler) propels a hard, fist-sized ball from one wicket towards the other. A player from the opposing team (the batsman) attempts to defend the ball ...

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Cricket - Objective and summary

Cricket - Laws of cricket

Cricket - Players and officials

Cricket - The playing field

Cricket - Match structure

Cricket - Batting and scoring runs

Cricket - Bowling and dismissals

Cricket - Fielding and wicket-keeping

Cricket - Other roles

Cricket - History

Cricket - Forms of cricket

Cricket - Test cricket

Cricket - One-day cricket

Cricket - First-class matches

Cricket - Other forms of cricket

Cricket - International structure

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Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia - Pictogram

A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing an object or concept by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing whereby ideas are transmitted through drawing. It is the basis of cuneiform and hieroglyphs. Early written symbols were based on pictograms, pictures which resemble what they signify, and ideograms, pictures which represent words; it is commonly believed that pictograms appeared before ideograms. They were used by various ancient cultures all over the world since around 9000 BC and developed in ...

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Pictogram - Source

Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia II - Devil - Names of the devil

Devil - The original names. Originally, only the epithet of "the satan" or "the adversary" was used to denote the character in the Hebrew deity's court that later became known as "the Devil". The article was lost and this title became a proper name: Satan. There is no unambiguous basis for the Devil in the Torah, the Prophets, or the Writings. Zechariah 3:1--"And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and ha-satan standing at his right hand to resist him." This re ...

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Desert - Types of desert

Desert - Montane deserts

Desert - Desert features

Desert - Soils

Desert - Vegetation

Desert - Water

Desert - Mineral resources

Desert - List of deserts

Desert - Americas

Desert - Africa

Desert - Asia-Pacific

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Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia II - Cricket - Laws of cricket

The game is played in accordance with 42 laws of cricket, which have been developed by the Marylebone Cricket Club in discussion with the main cricketing nations. Teams may agree to alter some of the rules for particular games. Other rules supplement the main laws and change them to deal with different circumstances. In particular, there are a number of modifications to the playing structure and fielding position rules that apply to one innings games that are restricted to a set number of fair deliveries. See also:

Cricket, Cricket - Objective and summary, Cricket - Laws of cricket, Cricket - Players and officials, Cricket - The playing field, Cricket - Match structure, Cricket - Batting and scoring runs, Cricket - Bowling and dismissals, Cricket - Fielding and wicket-keeping, Cricket - Other roles, Cricket - History, Cricket - Forms of cricket, Cricket - Test cricket, Cricket - One-day cricket, Cricket - First-class matches, Cricket - Other forms of cricket, Cricket - International structure

Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia - Gravel

Gravel is rock that is of a certain grain size range. In geology, gravel is any loose rock that is at least two millimeters in its largest dimension (about 1/12 of an inch), and no more than 75 millimeters (about 3 inches). Sometimes gravel is restricted to rock in the 2-4 millimeter range, with pebble being reserved for rock 4-75 millimeters (some say 64 millimeters). The next smaller size class in geology is sand, which is 0.02 mm to 2 mm in size. The next larger size is cobble, which is 75 (64) milli ...

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Gravel - Types of gravel

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Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia II - History of Brittany - Iron Age

A variety of tribes are mentioned in Roman sources, like the Veneti, Armoricani, Osismii, Namnetes and Coriosolites. Strabo and Poseidonius describe the Armoricani as belonging to the Belgae. Armorican gold coins have been widely exported and are even found in the Rhineland. Salterns are widespread in Northern Armorica, for example at Trégor, Ebihens and Enez Vihan near Pleumeur-Bodou (Côtes-d'Armor) and the island of Yoc'h ...

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Andrew Carnegie - Formative influences

Andrew Carnegie - The Carnegie family in Scotland

Andrew Carnegie - Immigration to America

Andrew Carnegie - Early career

Andrew Carnegie - 1850-1860: A 'self made man'

Andrew Carnegie - 1860-1865: Carnegie during the U.S. Civil War

Andrew Carnegie - Postwar years 1865-1880: Carnegie the investor

Andrew Carnegie - 1880-1890: Carnegie the scholar and activist

Andrew Carnegie - Carnegie the industrialist

Andrew Carnegie - 1885-1900: Building an empire of steel

Andrew Carnegie - 1901: The formation of U.S. Steel

Andrew Carnegie - 1901-1915: Carnegie the philanthropist

Andrew Carnegie - Later personal life

Andrew Carnegie - Controversial aspects of Carnegie's life

Andrew Carnegie - 1892: The Homestead strike

Andrew Carnegie - Carnegie and the Johnstown Flood

Andrew Carnegie - Philosophy

Andrew Carnegie - Writings

Andrew Carnegie - Trivia

Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia II - Monkey D. Luffy - History

When Luffy was young he met a band of pirates led by a kindly pirate named Red-Haired Shanks. Luffy befriended that band of pirates and from that moment on wanted to become a pirate as well. During his time spent with Shanks, Luffy ate a Devil Fruit (known as the Gum-Gum, or Rubber Fruit) and unwittingly turned himself into a Rubber man capable of stretching, inflating, or bouncing back impact based attacks. Because Luffy didn't know the nature of the fruit they remained friends, but after that Luffy seemed to be even more defensive ...

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Compost - Decomposers

Compost - Compost ingredients

Compost - Composting techniques

Compost - Microbes and heating the pile

Compost - Other ingredients

Compost - Composting systems

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Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia II - Fish farming - Systems of fish farming

The main systems of fish farming are treated below. Fish farming - Integrated recycling systems. One of the largest problems with freshwater aquaculture is that it can use a million gallons of water per acre (about 1 m³ of water per m²) each year. Extended water purification systems allow for the reuse (recycling) of local water. The largest-scale pure fish farms use a system derived (admittedly much refined) from the New Alchemists in the 1970s. Basically, large plastic fish tanks are placed in a ...

Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia - Krishna Janmaashtami

Krishna Janmaashtami, also known as "Krishnaashtami", "Gokulaashtami", "Srikrishna Jayanti", "Sree Jayanthi" or sometimes merely as "Janmaashtami", is a Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu. Krishna Janmaashtami - Date. Krishna Janmashtami is observed on the eighth day of the dark half (Krishna Paksha) of the month of Bhadrapadha in the Hindu calendar, when the Rohini Nakshatram is ascendent. The Hindu ca ...

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Krishna Janmaashtami - Date

Krishna Janmaashtami - Rituals

Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia II - Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto II arc

After this failed attempt to retrieve Sasuke, Naruto learns that circumstances have granted him a 2 and a half-year window to prepare himself to face Orochimaru (who had to switch bodies prematurely and now has to wait 3 years before executing his original plan of transferring into Sasuke) and defend himself against additional kidnap attempts from the shady organisation Akatsuki (who, according to Jiraiya's information sources and for reasons unknown, halt their plans to attempt capturing Naruto for three years). Naruto takes this opportunit ...

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Cairns Queensland - Geography

Cairns Queensland - Urban Layout

Cairns Queensland - Climate

Cairns Queensland - Government

Cairns Queensland - Economy

Cairns Queensland - Communications

Cairns Queensland - Transport

Cairns Queensland - Roads

Cairns Queensland - Public Transport

Cairns Queensland - Rail

Cairns Queensland - Airport

Cairns Queensland - Sea port

Cairns Queensland - Education

Cairns Queensland - Schools

Cairns Queensland - Health

Cairns Queensland - Sport & Recreation

Clay Dictionary: Encyclopedia II - Redneck - History

“Rednecks” are largely descendants of the Ulster-Scots and Lowland Scots immigrants who travelled to North America from Northern Ireland and Scotland in the late 17th and 18th centuries. The Ulster-Scots had historically settled the major part of Ulster province in northern Ireland, after previous migration from the Scottish Lowlands and Border Country. The "Celtic Thesis" of Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney holds that they were basically Celtic (as opposed to Anglo-Saxon), and that all Celtic groups (Scots Irish, Scottish, Welsh and ...

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Buddhism in China - History of Buddhism in China

Buddhism in China - Relation to Confucianism and Daoism
Buddhism in China - Local interpretation of Indian texts
Buddhism in China - Buddhism gains political traction in the north
Buddhism in China - Monks and rulers join forces

Buddhism in China - Modern Chinese Buddhism
Buddhism in China - Reference

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