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A morally acceptable duel would start with the challenger issuing a traditional, public, personal grievance, based on an insult, directly to the single person who offended the challenger. The challenged person had the choice of a public apology or other restitution, or choosing the weapons for the duel. The challenger would then propose a place for the "field of honour". The challenged man had to either accept the site or propose an alternate. The location had to be a place where the opponents could duel without being arrested. It was common for the guardia to set aside such places and times and spread the information ...

See also:

Code duello, Code duello - Middle Ages, Code duello - Renaissance France, Code duello - Irish Code Duello, Code duello - Marquess of Queensberry

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Courtly love was a particular ideal and practice during the Middle Ages in Europe, which had its origins in courtly circles of Aquitaine, where William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, was one of the first troubadour poets, of Provence, where it was known as fin'amor of Champagne and ducal Burgundy. Courtly love was an aspect of a renewed pleasure in the refinements of the better kind of life, a first stirring of neopaganism in the "delightful understanding" or gai saber of Provençal poets, beg ...

See also:

Courtly love, Courtly love - Background, Courtly love - Stages of Courtly Love

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Nine ball is a contemporary variation of pocket billiards, with historical beginnings rooted in the United States and traceable to the 1920s. The game may be played in social and recreational settings by any number of players (generally one-on-one) and subject to whatever rules are agreed upon beforehand, or in league and tournament settings in which the number of players and the rules are set by the sponsors. During much of its history, nine ball has been known as a "money" game, in both professional and recreational settings, but today in major to ...

Including:

• Nine Ball - Play
• Nine Ball - The rack
• Nine Ball - The break
• Nine Ball - The lag
• Nine Ball - The push out
• Nine Ball - Called shots
• Nine Ball - Winning

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Yağlı Güreş is the Turkish national sport. It is commonly known as oil wrestling (sometimes as grease wrestling) because the wrestlers douse themselves with olive oil. The wrestlers are known as pehlivan, meaning hero, and wear a type of hand-stitched lederhosen called kisbet (sometimes kispet), which were traditionally made of water buffalo hide, but now also of calf leather. Unlike Olympic wrestling, oil wrestling matches may be won by achieving an effective hold of the kisbet. Thus, the pehlivan aims to con ...

Including:

• Yağlı güreş - History
• Yağlı güreş - Famous Wrestlers Pehlivans

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Chess is a board game and mental-skill game for two players. It is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks) and eight columns (called files), giving 64 squares of alternating colour, light and dark, with each player having a light square at the near right corner when facing the board. Each player begins the game with 16 pieces which can move in defined directions (and in some instances, limited range) and can remove other pieces from the board: each player's pieces comprise eight pawns, two knights, two bish ...

Including:

• Chess - Introduction
• Chess - History
• Chess - Gameplay
• Chess - Rules of chess
• Chess - Strategy and tactics
• Chess - Ways to play chess
• Chess - Modern chess
• Chess - Notation
• Chess - Chess and education
• Chess - Computer chess
• Chess - Chess variants
• Chess - Famous chess games
• Chess - History of chess
• Chess - World chess champions
• Chess - Chess literature
• Chess - Chess in the arts and literature

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Especially prevalent in medieval literature, Courtly love is a system of attitudes, myths, beliefs and rules which governed the real and imagined behavior of knights and their ladies as they pursued one another in a flirting and adulterous relationship which was supposed to flatter the lady and elevate, ennoble, and energize the knight. Courtly love - Background. Courtly love was a particular ideal and practice during the Middle Ages in Europe, which had its origins in courtly circles of Aquitaine, w ...

Including:

• Courtly love - Background
• Courtly love - Stages of Courtly Love

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Birmingham is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Jefferson County. Portions of the city are also located in Shelby County. Though pronounced differently, it is named after Birmingham, England. Birmingham was at the center of the American Civil Rights Movement throughout the 1960s. Birmingham is a city that features a mixture of Old South meets New South, according to tourists. In recent years Birmingham has been named by vario ...

Including:

• Birmingham Alabama - History
• Birmingham Alabama - Geography and Climate
• Birmingham Alabama - Geography
• Birmingham Alabama - Climate
• Birmingham Alabama - Government
• Birmingham Alabama - Economy
• Birmingham Alabama - Education
• Birmingham Alabama - Institutions of Higher Education
• Birmingham Alabama - Infrastructure
• Birmingham Alabama - Planning
• Birmingham Alabama - Transportation
• Birmingham Alabama - Utilities
• Birmingham Alabama - People and Culture
• Birmingham Alabama - Demographics
• Birmingham Alabama - Culture
• Birmingham Alabama - Attractions Events and Recreation
• Birmingham Alabama - Sports
• Birmingham Alabama - Media
• Birmingham Alabama - Other
• Birmingham Alabama - Notable Natives
• Birmingham Alabama - Sister cities

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Probably starting about the time of World War II, many modern poker games used community cards (also called "shared cards" or "widow cards"), which are cards dealt face up to the center of the table and shared by all players. In these games, each player is dealt privately an incomplete hand ("hole cards"), which is then combined with the community cards to make a complete hand. The set of community cards is called the "board" or the "widow", and may be dealt in a simple line or arranged in a special pattern; rules of each game determin ...

Including:

• Community card poker - Texas hold 'em
• Community card poker - Pineapple and Crazy Pineapple Tahoe
• Community card poker - Double-board hold'em
• Community card poker - Omaha hold 'em
• Community card poker - Manila
• Community card poker - Pinatubo
• Community card poker - Home games
• Community card poker - East Village
• Community card poker - Cincinnati
• Community card poker - Council Bluffs
• Community card poker - Iron cross
• Community card poker - Chowaha
• Community card poker - Tic tac toe
• Community card poker - Lame-brain Pete
• Community card poker - Six-pack
• Community card poker - Bel-Aire
• Community card poker - Horseshoes
• Community card poker - Ad hoc variants

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Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict is a first-/third-person shooter video game part of the Unreal series of games. It was developed by Epic Games and published by Midway Games for an April 18, 2005 release on the Xbox game console. It is a direct sequel to the 2002 game Unreal Championship, which itself is a console version of its PC counterpart Unreal Tournament 2003. Unreal Championship 2, to a much larger degree than its predecessor, is specifically designed from the ground up for the Xbox conso ...

Including:

• Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict - Gameplay
• Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict - Introduction
• Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict - Rosters
• Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict - Weapons
• Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict - Changes to Unreal Gaming

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Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the remaining player or players with the best combination of cards. Poker can also refer to video poker which is a single-player game seen in casinos much like a slot machine. In order to play, one must learn the basic rules and procedures of the game, the values of the various combinations of cards (see hand), and the rules abou ...

Including:

• Poker - History
• Poker - Game play
• Poker - Computer players
• Poker - Quotations

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A code duello is a set of rules for a one-on-one combat, or duel. Code duellos regulate "fair fights" and thus help prevent vendettas between families and other social factions. They assure that non-violent means of reaching agreement have been exhausted and that harm is limited by both limiting the terms of engagement, and providing medical care. Finally, they assure that the proceedings have a number of witnesses. The witnesses assure grieving members of factions of the fairness of the fight, and help provide testimony if leg ...

Including:

• Code duello - Middle Ages
• Code duello - Renaissance France
• Code duello - Irish Code Duello
• Code duello - Marquess of Queensberry

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In sports, a Cinderella refers to a team or player who advances much further in a tournament than expected, any of them are lower seeds during tournaments or playoffs. Cinderellas tend to gain much media and fan attention as they move closer to the championship game at the end of the tournament. The term comes from the popular fairy tale Cinderella, and its idea that one can unexpectedly achieve success after a period of obscurity. Cinderella sports - Recent Examples of Cinderellas. Ci ...

Including:

• Cinderella sports - Recent Examples of Cinderellas
• Cinderella sports - Football
• Cinderella sports - Basketball
• Cinderella sports - Baseball
• Cinderella sports - Hockey

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The World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC) is a high profile annual English-language debating tournament for high school-level teams representing different countries. Six countries participated at the first tournament, staged in Australia in 1988. Since then, the WSDC has grown to embrace teams from over 50 countries, with around 30 taking part each year. WSDC debates use a special format known as the 'World Schools Style'. This is a combination of the British Parliamentary and Australian formats, designed to meet t ...

Including:

• World Schools Debating Championships - Aims of the World Schools Debating Championships
• World Schools Debating Championships - Past Championships
• World Schools Debating Championships - Future Championships

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Breakdancing, also known as breaking and b-boying by its practitioners and followers, is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement in the South Bronx of New York City during the early 1970s. Breakdancing is one of the four original elements of hip hop, the others being rapping, DJing, and graffiti. Breakdancing - Etymology. Breakdancing was never an actual term used by the original practitioners. The term was popularized in the 80's when it became more of a media phenom ...

Including:

• Breakdancing - Etymology
• Breakdancing - Dance
• Breakdancing - Style vs technique
• Breakdancing - Battles
• Breakdancing - Breakdancing as a Folk Dance
• Breakdancing - Music
• Breakdancing - Fashion
• Breakdancing - Media
• Breakdancing - Myths
• Breakdancing - Video clips
• Breakdancing - Sources

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Zawisza Czarny z Garbowa (Zawisza the Black from Garbów, also known as The Black Knight), (c.1379 in Garbów, Poland - 1428 in Golubac, Serbia), Sulima Coat of Arms, was a famous Polish mediæval knight and diplomat. Zawisza Czarny was a famous Polish knight, winner of many tournaments, a symbol of a knight and a model of all knightly virtues. His father was Biernat from Garbów, mother is unknown. His nickname certainly comes from his appearance and not like later believed from a black armor. He ...

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The best characterization of hamiltonian graphs was given in 1972 by the Bondy-Chvátal theorem which generalizes earlier results by G. A. Dirac and Oystein Ore. It basically states that a graph is hamiltonian if enough edges exist. First we have to define the closure of a graph. Given a graph G with n vertices, the closure cl(G) is uniquely constructed from G by adding for all nonadjacent pairs of vertices u and v with degree(v) + degree(u) ≥ n the new edge uv. Bondy-Chvátal theorem (1972) A graph is ha ...

See also:

Hamiltonian path, Hamiltonian path - Definition, Hamiltonian path - Examples, Hamiltonian path - Notes, Hamiltonian path - Bondy-Chvátal theorem

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After the failure of the Third Crusade, there was little interest in Europe for another crusade against the Muslims. The Fourth Crusade was the last of the major crusades to be directed by the Papacy, before the Popes lost much of their power to the Holy Roman Empire and other secular monarchs. The later crusades were directed by individual monarchs, and even the Fourth quickly fell out of Papal control. In 1198, Pope Innocent III called for a new Crusade, which was largely ignored among European leaders. The Germans were struggling a ...

See also:

Fourth Crusade, Fourth Crusade - Background, Fourth Crusade - Attack on Zara, Fourth Crusade - Diversion to Constantinople, Fourth Crusade - Further attacks on Constantinople, Fourth Crusade - Final capture of Constantinople; outcome

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The descriptions below assume a familiarity with the general game play of poker, and with poker hands. For a general introduction to these topics, see Poker, Poker hand, Poker probability, and Poker jargon. Texas hold 'em - Play of the hand. Play begins with each player being dealt two cards face down. These cards are the player's hole cards. These are the only cards each player will receive individually, and they will only (possibly) be revealed at the showdown, making Texas holdem a closed poker g ...

See also:

Texas hold 'em, Texas hold 'em - Rules, Texas hold 'em - Play of the hand, Texas hold 'em - Betting structures, Texas hold 'em - The showdown, Texas hold 'em - Examples, Texas hold 'em - Sample showdown, Texas hold 'em - Sample hand, Texas hold 'em - Kickers and ranks, Texas hold 'em - Starting hand terminology and notation, Texas hold 'em - Texas hold'em in popular culture, Texas hold 'em - Hold 'em as a spectator sport, Texas hold 'em - Bibliography

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In a game of Magic, two players are engaged in a duel. A player starts the game with twenty "life" points and seven cards in their hand. If a player is reduced to zero life, that player loses the game. The object of Magic is to be the last surviving player. Players fight each other by casting spell cards by drawing upon mana, or magical energy, from Land cards. There are two basic types of spells: those which become a "permanent", which stay on the table once they have been playe ...

See also:

Magic: The Gathering, Magic: The Gathering - History, Magic: The Gathering - Awards, Magic: The Gathering - Game play, Magic: The Gathering - Deck construction, Magic: The Gathering - The colors of Magic, Magic: The Gathering - Variant rules, Magic: The Gathering - Organized play, Magic: The Gathering - Constructed, Magic: The Gathering - Limited, Magic: The Gathering - Product information, Magic: The Gathering - Secondary market, Magic: The Gathering - Artwork, Magic: The Gathering - Storyline, Magic: The Gathering - Controversial aspects, Magic: The Gathering - Expense, Magic: The Gathering - Luck vs. skill, Magic: The Gathering - Net decking, Magic: The Gathering - Demonic themes, Magic: The Gathering - Gambling, Magic: The Gathering - Patent, Magic: The Gathering - Notable players

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Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Hewitt might well have followed in the footsteps of his Australian rules football-playing father. Instead, he became one of the youngest winners of an Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament when, as an almost unknown youngster, he won the 1998 Adelaide Invitational, defeating Andre Agassi in the semifinals. Only Aaron Krickstein winning Tel Aviv in 1983 and Michael Chang winning San Francisco in 1988 w ...

See also:

Lleyton Hewitt, Lleyton Hewitt - Tennis career, Lleyton Hewitt - Awards, Lleyton Hewitt - Titles 26, Lleyton Hewitt - Singles 24, Lleyton Hewitt - Singles Finalist 12, Lleyton Hewitt - Performance Timeline, Lleyton Hewitt - Other facts about Hewitt

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