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O
Uisage
The letter O is the fowert maist common letter in the Inglis leid. O is maist commonly associatit wi the Open-mid back roondit vowel, Mid back roondit vowel or close-mid back roondit vowel  in mony leids. This fairm is colloquially termed the "lang o" as in boat in Inglis, but it is actually maist eften a diphthong (realized dialectically onywhaur frae  tae ). In Inglis thare is a "short O" as in fox, which an aa haes several pronunciations. In maist dialects o Breetish Inglis, it is aither an open-mid back roondit vowel or an open back roondit vowel ; in American Inglis, it is maist commonly an unroondit back tae a central vowel  tae.
Common digraphs include 'oo', which represents aither, or ; 'oi' which teepically represents the diphthong , lik the pronunciation o 'oi' in "boil"; an 'ao', 'oe', an 'ou' which represent a variety o pronunciations dependin on context an etymology.
Ither leids uise O for various values, uisually back vowels which are at least pairtly open. Derived letters sic as Ö an Ø hae been creatit for the alphabets o some leids tae distinguish values that wur nae present in Latin an Greek, parteecularly roondit front vowels.
In the Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet, represents the close-mid back roondit vowel.
Sakhnin
Sakhnin (سخنين; or  Sikhnin) is a ceety in Israel's North Destrict. It is locatit in the Lawer Galilee, aboot 23 kilometres (14 mi) east o Acre. Sakhnin wis declared a ceety in 1995. Its population o 25,100 is Arab, maistly Muslim wi a sizable Christian minority. It is locatit on the steid o the auncient Jewish toun Sikhnin, which flourished durin the Roman conquest (2nt century CE). Sakhnin is hame tae the lairgest population o Sufi Muslims athin Israel, wi approximately 80 members.
Landmarks
There are mony auld hooses, caves an graves in the auld section o Sakhnin. In the hert o the auld toun there is a grave cried The Sheikh Ibrahim which is ane o the 66 graves in Israel an Palestine, who wis considered a saunt bi the locals. This grave/shrine uised tae be visitit bi mony weemen, licht candles inside it the shrine, an hang pieces o cloth on its waws askin for blessin.
Anither important steid, which lies in the Christian neighborhuid, is cried Rabbi Yihushua Di Sakhnin or Alsaddik in the local leid. He is buried in gigantic stane coffin. In the past, the local fowk wur scared wheniver they passed this grave durin the nicht, while ithers uised tae kiss its waws an ask the deid Rabbi tae heal them an their relatives acause it wis believed that the Rabbi uised tae heal fowk frae certain diseases.
Anither famous shrine is al Sheik Obeid's shrine, which is vera close tae the Shaknin's guesthoose. This shrine wis deticatit tae al Sheik Abdalla Ibrahim Khalaili. Weemen an aa uised tae visit this shrine, paint its waws wi henna, an hang pieces o cloth on the waws an then ask the Sheik tae fulfill their wishes. The last grave, which an aa became a shrine later, lies in the wastren cemetery o the toun an it is kent bi Sheik Ismael. This grave wis recently restored bi some volunteers.
Anither important steid in Sakhnin is cried The Cave o the Ten which is carved in the rocks. The shepherds uised tae uise its water for their cattle. It is no clear hou this cave got its name. Some fowk believe that it got its name acause o the number o fingers in a body's baith haunds. Anither version says that it got its name acause o the Ten Commandments. Anither important site, which lies in the sootheast o the toun, is cried The Spring which served as the main source o drinkin water for the fowk o Sakhnin decades ago.
History
Settlement at Sakhnin dates back 3,500 years tae its first mention in 1479 BCE bi Thutmose II, whose auncient Egyptian records mention it as a centre for production o indigo dye. Sargon II an aa makes mention o it as Suginin.
It wis mentioned as Sogane, a toun fortifee'd in 66, bi Josephus.
Kent as Sikhnin or Sikhni, meanin "hame o the labourers" in Aramaic, an Sukhsikha, meanin "produces oil" in Ebreu, the toun wis kent for Jewish scholars like the rabbi Joshua of Sakhnin in the periods o the Mishna an Gemara. His grave is kent in Arabic as Nabi as-Sideiq, an wis a focus o pilgrimage frae the Middle Ages through the present. The toun continued tae flourish as Hellenist Sogne intae the period o Roman conquest.
Annexed tae the Ummayad Caliphate efter the Battle o Yarmouk, it came unner brief crusader rule as Zakkanin till retaken bi Saladin an the Ayyubid Dynasty follaein the Battle o Hattin whaur it remained in Muslim haunds unner the Mamluks, Dhaher al-Omar, an the Ottomans, until Ottoman Sirie wis occupee'd bi the Breetish Empire efter Warld War I.
In 1596, Sakhnin appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya o Akka o the Liwa o Tabariyya. It haed a population o 66 Muslim hoosehaulds an 8 bachelors. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, cotton, an a water mill.
N
N (named en ) is the fowerteent letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
Sakhnin
History
In the late 1870s, Conder an Kitchener described Sakhnin as follaes. "A lairge veelage o stane an mud, amid fine olive-groves, wi a sma mosque. The water supply is frae a lairge puil aboot hauf a mile tae the sooth-east. The inhabitants are Muslims an Christians, an in 1859 numbered 1,100, an cultivatit 100 feddans, accordin tae Consul Rogers."
At the time o the 1931 census, Sakhnin haed 400 occupee'd hooses an a population o 1688 Muslims, 202 Christians, an 1 Jew.
N
History o the fairms
Ane o the maist common hieroglyphs, snake, wis uised in Egyptian writin tae staund for a soond lik the Inglish ⟨J⟩, acause the Egyptian wird for "snake" wis djet. It is speculatit bi mony that Semitic fowk wirkin in Egyp adaptit hieroglyphics tae creaut the first alphabet, an that thay uised the same snake seembol tae represent N, acause thair wird for "snake" mey hae begun wi that soond. Houiver, the name for the letter in the Phoenician, Ebreu, Aramaic an Arabic alphabets is nun, which means "fish" in some o thir leids. The soond value o the letter wis —as in Greek, Etruscan, Latin an aw modren leids.
Uisage
N represents a dental or alveolar nasal in virtually aw leids that uise the Latin alphabet, an in the Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet. A common digraph wi 'n' is 'ng', which represents a velar nasal in a variety o leids, uisually poseetioned wird-finally in Inglis. Eften, afore a velar plosive (as in ink or jungle), 'n' alane represents a velar nasal. In Italian an French, 'gn' represents a palatal nasal. The Portuguese an Vietnamese spellin for this soond is 'nh', while Spainyie an a few ither leids uise the letter 'ñ'. In Inglis, 'n' is generally silent when it is precedit bi an 'm' at the end o wirds, as in hymn; houiver, 'n' is pronoonced in this combination when occurring wird medially, as in hymnal.
Sakhnin
History
Durin the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Sakhnin surrendered tae Israeli forces on Julie 18, 1948, durin Operation Dekel, but wis re-captured bi Arab forces shortly efterwards. It feenally fell athoot battle intae Israeli haunds in October 1948. In 1976, it became the steid o the first Land Day mairches, in which sax Israeli Arabs wur killed bi Israeli forces durin violent protests o govrenment confiscation o 5,000 acres (20 km2) o Arab-awned land near Sakhnin. An aa in 1976 three mair ceevilians wur killed durin clashes wi the polis, an in Jerusalem an the Aqsa Intifada in 2000 twa men wur killed.
Sports
In 2003, the ceety's fitbaa club, Bnei Sakhnin, became ane o the first Arab teams tae play in the Israeli Premier League, the top tier o Israeli fitbaa. The follaein year, the club wan the State Cup, an wis the first Arab team tae dae so; consequently, it pairticipatit in the UEFA Cup the follaein saison, losin oot tae Newcastle United. The team received a new hame wi the 2005 openin o Doha Stadium, fundit bi the Israeli govrenment an the Qatar National Oleempic Committee, whose caipital it is namit efter. The stadium haes a capacity o 5,000.
N
Uisage
'n' is the saxt maist common letter an the seicont-maist commonly uised consonant in the Inglis leid (efter 't').
In mathematics, the italic form (n) is the common seembol for a variable quantity, especially ane which represents an integer. \mathbb{N} is eften uised tae refer tae the set o natural nummers.
In statistics, the italic fairm (n) is uised tae denote the nummer o observations or replicates includit in a statistical sample.
In chemistry, N represents the element Nitrogen. In biochemistry, N is the ane-letter code seembol for the amino acid asparagine. It is an aa the seembol for the SI unit o force, the newton.
Sakhnin
Sports
Sakhnin is the hametoun o Abbas Suan an aw, an Israeli internaitional fitbawer who previously played for Bnei Sakhnin.
The ceety an their soccer team are the subject o the 2010 documentar film "After The Cup : Sons of Sakhnin United"
In 19 September 2008, Bnei Sakhnin played a game wi the Spainyie team Deportivo de La Coruña.
Geghard, Armenie
Geghard (Գեղարդ, Romanisit as Gekhard an aw; umwhile, Artiz) is a toun in the Kotayk Province o Armenie. The toun is best kent for the monastery o Geghard, a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid.
Nueva Concepción, Escuintla
Nueva Concepción is a municipality in the Escuintla depairtment o Guatemala.
Sports
Deportivo Nueva Concepción fitbaa club hae been playin in the seicont tier o Guatemalan fitbaa syne the 2001/2002 season.
Basque Kintra (greater region)
It comprises the Autonomous Commonties o the Basque Kintra (autonomous community) an Navarre in Spain an the Northren Basque Kintra in Fraunce.
Even tho they ar no necessarily synonyms, the concept o a single culturally Basque aurie spannin various regions an kintras haes been closely associatit since its vera inception tae the politics o Basque naitionalism. As such, the region is considered hame tae the Basques (Basque: Euskaldunak), their leid (Basque: Euskara), cultur an tradeetions. Nivertheless the aurie is neither linguistically nor culturally homogeneous, an the vera Basqueness o pairts o it, such as soothren Navarre, remains a vera contentious issue.
Phoneme
In spoken leids, a phoneme is a basic, theoretical unit o soond that disteenguishes wirds (that is, bi chyngin a phoneme in ae wird, the ootcome is anither wird that's meanin differs). The phoneme is a basic soond lith, that's lingueestic function is tae disteenguish the morphemes o a wird. Phonemes isna pheesical soonds, but abstractions. Phonemes is for ordinar seen as a faimlie o phones, that's seen as a single soond, an is pitten ower wi a common seembol. Phones that's phoneme instance variants, an represents the phonetic qualities o actual soond lithes, is kent as allophones. The basic soond unit comes oot throu phonemic analysis. Phonemic seembology is pitten atween slashes (//). A cuttit wey tae descrieve the notion o a phoneme is the wee-est differ atween wirds, that's ootcome is an unalike meanin.
A phoneme micht weel represent a wheen categorically phonetically seemilar or phonologically sib soonds. The sibness micht no be phonetically obvious, whit is itsel, ane o the kinches wi this conceptual scheme.
Trujillo
Trujillo mey refer tae:
Municipality o Kamnik
The Municipality o Kamnik (Občina Kamnik) is a municipality in northren Slovenie. The seat o the municipality is the toun o Kamnik. The day it is pairt o the Central Slovenie statistical region. In terms o aurie, it is the 15t municipality in Slovenie.
Trujillo
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Guerrero Municipality, Tamaulipas
Guerrero is a municipality locatit in the Mexican state o Tamaulipas.
Djibouti (ceety)
The Ceety o Djibouti (جيبوتي,Ville de Djibouti) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o the Republic o Djibouti, a naition in the Horn o Africae. It lies on a peninsula that divides the Gulf o Aden frae the Gulf o Tadjoura.
Djibouti ceety haes the same status as the kintra's five regions. The metropolitan territory borders the Arta Region tae the sooth an wast, an the Gulf o Tadjourah/Gulf o Aden tae the north. Accordin tae a 2009 Census, the ceety is hame tae 475,322 fowk.
The Ethio-Djibouti Railways (umwhile the Imperial Railway Company of Ethiopia) runs frae the ceety tae Addis Ababa. The ceety is an aa hame tae the Djibouti-Ambouli Internaitional Airport. Northwast o the ceety centre lies the ceety's port, uised for internaitional trade, for fishin, an for traivel bi ferry tae the ceeties o Obock an Tadjoura.
Ane traivel writer describes Djibouti as haein an identity problem, writin, "it is the sedentary caipital o a nomadic fowk, an African ceety designed like a European settlement an a kynd o French Hong Kong in the Red Sea." Features o Djibouti Ceety include beaches alang its eastren shore an the lairge Central Mercat, the naitional stadium Stade du Ville, the Presidential Palace an Hamoudi Mosque.
History
Foondit as a seaport in 1888 bi the Spaniard Eloi Pino, Djibouti became the caipital o French Somaliland in 1891, replacin Tadjourah. It remained the caipital for the succeedin colonial govrenment o French Territory o the Afars an the Issas, as well as for the independent kintra o Djibouti.
Allophones
In phonetics, an allophone is ane amang mony seemilar phones that's ocht the same phoneme. A phone is a soond that's soond swaw haes a definite shape, altho a phoneme is a basic group o soonds that disteenguishes wirds (i.e. chynging ae phoneme in ae wird brings forrit anither wird); speakers o a parteecular leid perceives a phoneme as a single kenspeckle soond in that leid. Fae this, an allophone is a phone thocht on as a member o the ae phoneme.
Djibouti (ceety)
Climate
Djibouti is generally vera het an dry throughoot the course o the year. Featurin an arid climate, the ceety sees on average 131 mm (5.16 in) o precipitation per year. Temperatures range frae vera warm durin the months o December, Januar an Februar tae extremely het in Julie, whaur temperatures routinely exceed 49 °C (120 °F).
Allophones
Ilka allophone is uised in a speceefic phonetic context. No aw phonemes haes signeeficantly differin allophones, but thare's aye a wee differ in soondin fae the ae bit speak tae the neist. An examplar is in Japanese that haes nae disteenction atween /l/ an /r/, an sae thir twa soonds gets guddelt by Japanese speakers acause thir soonds isna thocht on as sindry phonemes. Hooivver, in Scots thir twa soonds is thocht on as twa sindry anes, sae thay're baith thocht on as sindry phonemes. In some byleids o Inglis, "daurk" or velarised l is conseedert juist a kin o /l/, but in some ither leids, thir twa soonds differs.
Scots vouel lenth rule
The Scots Vouel-Lenth Rule, kent as Aitken's Law forby, efter Professor Jack Aitken, wha first pit it ower in a mensefu mainer, descrieves hou vouel lenth in Scots is condeetiont bi its environs. (Phonetics in IPA.) The rule affects aw vouels in central dialects, tho in dialects ootwi central Scotland some vouels bides unaffectit.
See forby
IPA chairt for Scots
Kansas
Kansas is a U.S. state locate in the Midwastren Unitit States. It is namit efter the Kansas River whilk rins through it, whilk in turn is namit efter the Kansa Natif American tribe, whilk indwellt the aurie. The tribe's naim (natively kką:ze) is aften said tae mean "fowk o the wind" or "fowk o the sooth wind," though this wis likely no the term's oreeginal meanin. Residents o Kansas are cried "Kansans."
Kenderes
Kenderes is a toun in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok coonty, Hungary.
Location, geografie
The toun is locatit alang Route 4, halfway atween the ceeties o Debrecen an Szolnok. It lees in the Great Hungarian Plain, thus its geografie is defined bi flat expanses. The toun is primarily surroondit bi agricultural zones. The estate centred on the Baroque manor hoose passed in the nineteent century tae the Hódosy an Borbély faimilies afore it wis bocht bi the Horthy faimily. Miklós Horthy, Regent o the Kinrick o Hungary frae 1920 tae 1944, wis born here an reburiet here efter the Revolutions o 1989, the dissolution o the Warsaw Pact an the athdrawal o Roushie/Soviet troops. His will statit that he wis no tae be returned thare till "the last Roushie sodger has left.". The dounset wis grantit toun richts in 2004. The toun haes a population o 5329 fowk, wi a densitie o 47.9 /km². The majority o the inhabitants is ethnically Hungarian.
PAIS Alliance
PAIS Alliance—Alianza PAIS (Patria Altiva i Soberana, "Prood an Sovereign Fatherland"; "país" means "kintra" an aw)''—is a socialist poleetical movement in Ecuador led bi the incumbent Preses o Ecuador Rafael Correa.
Dromedary
The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) ( or ), cried the Arabian camel or the Indian camel an aw, is a muckle, even-taed ungulate wi ane hump on its back.
Léopold de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke o Bouillon
Léopold de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke o Bouillon (Jacques Léopold Charles Godefroy; 15 Januar 1746 – 7 Februar 1802) was a member o the Hoose o La Tour d'Auvergne, the Sovereign Dukes o Bouillon. He was the last Duke o Bouillon succeeding his faither in 1792. Jacques wis the last Duke o Bouillon, an following the Napoleonic Wars the duchy wis absorbed intae the Grand Duchy o Luxembourg. The Princes o Guéméné today claim the Duchy of Bouillon aa their own due tae the mairiage of Marie Louise (his aunt) an Jules de Rohan, Prince o Guéméné. He has nae known descendants. He wis a cousin o The Coont o Marsan an the Prince o Luxin. During the French Revolution he wis kent aa citoyen Léopold La Tour d'Auvergne (citizen Léopold La Tour d'Auvergne)
Mairiage
He mairit Princess Hedwig o Hesse-Rotenburg in Carlsburg on 17 Julie 1766 but had no children. She wis a sister o The Princess o Condé, Princess o Carignano, an Queen Polyxena o Sardinie.
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City (also kent as Oklahoma Ceety in Scots) is the caipital ceety o the U.S. state o Oklahoma an the coonty seat o Oklahoma Coonty. Wi a population o 591,967 at the 2011 census, it is the maist populous ceety in the state. It haes a laund aurie o 1,608.8 km².
Askola
Askola is a municipality o Finland. It is locatit in the Uusimaa region. The municipality haes a population o 0 an covers an aurie o undefined km2 o which undefined km2 is watter. The population density is undefined PD/km2. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Thare ur twa main settlements in the municipality: Askola's kirk village an Monninkylä.
Politics
Results o the Finnish parliamentary election, 2011 in Askola:
Elissa Steamer
History
Steamer began skeitchbuirdin in 1989, turnin pro in 1998 when she wan the weemen's street section at Slam City Jam 1998. She wan the same section in 1999. In 2003 she wis votit Female Skater of the Year bi Check it Out Girls magazine. She wis the first female pro street skater. She haes appeared in several videos includin Welcome to Hell (Toy Machine), Jump Off a Building (Toy Machine), Baker Bootleg 1 & 2 (Baker), *FM1 & 2 (Rob Hoovis), an Bootleg 3000 (Bootleg). Steamer livit on Ricardo Avenue an uised tae practice skatin in the pairkin lot o Allen Park Elementary in Fort Myers. She attendit Fort Myers Heich Schuil.
Steamer currently lives in San Francisco, Californie.
Video gemes
Steamer appeared as a playable character in the first 5 games in the Tony Hawk series. She wis the first female pro tae appear in the series.
Guayas Province
Guayas is a coastal province in Ecuador. It is bordered tae the wast bi Manabí, Santa Elena, an the Paceefic Ocean (as the Gulf o Guayaquil); tae the east bi Los Ríos, Bolívar, Chimborazo, Cañar, an Azuay; tae the north bi Los Ríos an Bolívar; an tae the sooth bi El Oro an the Paceefic Ocean.
Amagasaki
History
Durin the Edo period, the Amagasaki Domain haed its admeenistrative heidquarters at Amagasaki Castle here.
Guayas Province
Wi a population o ower 3 million fowk, it is the maist populous province in Ecuador. It is the fowert lairgest province in the kintra in terms o aurie. The lairgest ceety o Ecuador, Guayaquil, is locatit athin the province.
Amagasaki
Notable residents
Amagasaki is the hometoun o comedy duo Downtown starns Masatoshi Hamada an Hitoshi Matsumoto. It is an aa the hometoun o Formula 1 driver Kamui Kobayashi, Chiyu, the bassist o SuG, author Koushun Takami an Heath, bassist o X Japan. Toshiaki Nishioka, a umwhile warld champion boxer, is an aa frae this aurie.
Guayas Province
Geography
Guayas' natural terrain is vera diverse. The province haes nae elevations, except for the Coastal Range, which stairts in Guayaquil an goes tae Manabí. The auries wast o the Coastal Range are desertic, wi an average temperatur o 23 °C. The auries east o the range belang tae the Guayas Watershed. They are quite humid an fertile, especially in the north o the province, wi an average temperatur o 30 °C in the humid saison (December–Mey) an 25 °C in the dry saison (Juin–November).
Morpheme
In lingueestics, a morpheme is the wee-est pairt o a wird that cairies ocht that gies a semantic unnerstaundin. Morphemes is, for ordinar, a kenspeckle pittin thegither o phonemes (as the lowse furm haund or the bund form s in haunds) haein nae wee-er meaninfu members.
Guayas Province
Hydrography
The maist important river in the province is the Daule River, which flows frae the north tae join the Babahoyo River tae form the Guayas river. The province is pairt o the lairgest river basin in Sooth Americae wast o the Andes Muntains.
Amagasaki
Railways
A commuter train derailed on the Fukuchiyama Line near Amagazaki on Aprile 25, 2005, resultin in mair nor 100 dead an 550 injured. See Amagasaki rail crash for details.
Morpheme
Scots example: The wird wanchancy haes three morphemes, the (negatory) bund morpheme wan, the lowse morpheme chance an y. Wan is a prefix an y is a suffix. The baith is affixes.
Amagasaki
Politics o Amagasaki
On the 22 o November, 2010 Kazumi Inamura acame the first popularly electit Greens Japan Mayor as well as the first popularly electit female mayor o the ceety wi 54% o the vote.
Guayas Province
Roads
The inter-provincial roads are an aa numbered wi the naitional seestem. Even routes travel north-sooth; odd routes travel east-wast. The inter-provincial roads that cross the province are the follaein:
Waterford
Waterford is a ceety in Ireland. It is in the Sooth-East o Ireland an is pairt o the province o Munster. The ceety is situatit at the heid o Waterford Harbour. It is the auldest an the fift maist populous ceety athin the Republic o Ireland. It is the aicht maist populous ceety on the island o Ireland. Waterford City and County Council is the local govrenment authority for the ceety. Waterford is kent for Waterford Crystal, a legacy o the ceety's umwhile gless makkin industry.
Amagasaki
Economy
Amagasaki is a major pairt o the Hanshin Industrial Region. Local businesses include manufacturers such as Osaka Titanium Technologies. The value o manufactured guids shipments in Amagasaki wis 1,288 billion yen in 2004. See an aa Hanshin Industrial Region.
Guayas Province
Spaingie conquest an unthirldom
Guayaquil wis foondit on August 14, 1534 (its foundation is celebrated on Julie 25). Durin the Spaingie conquest, Guayaquil became ane o the maist important ports in Sooth Americae. The ceety became free on October 9, 1820, an the Guayaquil Depairtment (ane o the oreeginal subdiveesions o Ecuador) wis foondit suin efterwards. It consistit on the Manabí Province, an the Guayaquil Province, which wis later renamed Guayas. The Guayaquil Province includit the territory o what nou is Peruvian Tumbes, an the day's Los Ríos an El Oro. The provinces wur separatit frae Guayas in 1860 an 1884, respectively.
Waterford
Twinnin
Waterford is twinned wi the follaein places:
Guayas Province
Urbanization
In recent decades, there haes been a massive exit frae landwart auries tae the main ceeties (especially Guayaquil). This haes creatit a problem in Guayaquil, as maist o the migrants muive tae municipal auries, creatin shantytouns, wi nae services like water or electricity.
Mariestad Municipality
The present municipality wis formit in 1971, when the Ceety o Mariestad wis amalgamatit wi fower surroondin rural municipalities.
1985 Warld Snooker Championship
The 1985 Warld Snooker Championship (kent as the 1985 Embassy Warld Snooker Championship for the purpose of sponsorship forby) wis a ranking professional snooker toornament that teuk place frae 12 tae 28 Apryle 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The event wis organised bi the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), and wis the ninth consecutive World Snooker Championship tae be held at the Crucible the first event takkin place in 1977. A five-roond qualifying event for the championship wis held at the Preston Guild Hall frae 27 tae 31 Mairch for 87 players; 16 of whom reached the main stage, whaur thay met the 16 invited seedit players. The toornament wis broadcast in the United Kingdom bi the BBC, and wis sponsored bi the Embassy cigarette company. The tot prize fund for the event wis £250,000, the heichest prize pool for ony snooker toornament tae that date; the winner received £60,000.
The defendin champion wis Englishman Steve Davis, who haed previously won the Warld Championship three times. Davis met Northren Irishman Dennis Taylor in the final which wis a best-of-35- match; Davis teuk an early 8–0 lead, but Taylor battled back intae the match and drew level at 17–17 forcing a deciding frame. The final frame wis contested ower the final, wi the player able tae the ball winnin the Warld title. Efter baith players missed, Taylor potted the black tae win his sole Warld Championship. The match, eften referred tae as the "black ball final", is commonly considered tae be the best-kent match in the history o the sport and a reason for the surge in popularity in snooker o the 1980s and 1990s.
Canadian Bill Werbeniuk scored the championship's heichest, a 143, in his first-roond match. Thare war 14 compiled during the championship, wi 10 mair in qualifying matches. This wis the first professional snooker championship tae introduce a ban on performance-enhancing substances, wi aw players in the main stage haein tae undertake drug tests. The final atween Davis and Taylor holds the record for the maist-viewed broadcast in the United Kingdom o a programme shawn efter midnight, wi a peak of 18.5 million viewers for the match's final frame, braking the existin records for the maist-viewed sporting event and BBC2 programme.
Overview
The World Snooker Championship is a professional toornament an the offeecial world championship o the gemme of snooker. Developed in the late 19t century bi Breetish Airmy soldiers stationed in Indie, the sport wis popular in the United Kingdom afore spreading tae Europe an the Commonwealth. The sport is nou played warldwide, especially in East and Southeast Asian nations sic as Cheenae, Hong Kong and Thailand.
Mariestad Municipality
Twin towns — sister ceeties
Mariestad Municipality is twinned wi:
1985 Warld Snooker Championship
Overview
The Warld Championship features 32 professional players who compete in ane-on-ane single-elimination matches, played ower several. It is organised bi the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). The players are selected bi a combination o the Warld snooker rankins and a pre-toornament qualification roond. The first Warld Championship, in 1927, wis won bi Joe Davis in a final at Camkin's Hall in Birmingham, England. Syne 1977, the toornament haes been held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. The 1984 championship wis won bi England's Steve Davis, who defeatit fellae countryman Jimmy White 18–16 in the final; this wis Davis' third championship haein won in 1981 and 1983 forby. The winner o the 1985 championship received a prize of £60,000 frae a tot of £250,000, the heichest prize pool for ony snooker event tae date.
The toornament wis the first snooker event tae featur drug tests for the participants, as mandated bi the WPBSA on 9 Apryle 1985; the tests war proposed bi WPBSA buird member Barry Hearn. The event wis broadcast bi the BBC in the United Kingdom, wi ower 90 oors of coverage. The estimatit cost for the fortnight's broadcast wis reportedly £3 million. The championship wis sponsored bi the Embassy cigarette company.
Format
The championship wis held frae 12 tae 28 Apryle 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, the ninth consecutive time that the toornament wis held at the venue. It wis the last rankin event o the 1984-85 snooker season on the World Snooker Tour. Thare war a tot of 103 entrants frae the tour, an the competeetion's main draw haed 32 participants. A five-roond knockout qualifying competeetion wi 87 players, which wis held at Preston Guild Hall atween 27 and 31 Mairch, produced the 16 qualifying players who progressed intae the main draw tae play the tap 16 seeds. The draw for the toornament wis made at the Savoy Hotel in Lunnon.
Sax umwhile world champions participated in the main toornament at the Crucible: Ray Reardon (1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, and 1978), Steve Davis (1981, 1983, an 1984), John Spencer (1969, 1971, and 1977), Alex Higgins (1972 and 1982), Cliff Thorburn (1980) and Terry Griffiths (1979). Four players debuted at the Warld championship, aw throu the qualifying event: Dene O'Kane, Eugene Hughes, Tony Jones, and Wayne Jones.
Prize fund
The event haed a tot prize fund of £250,000, an increase of £50,000 in the tot prize pool frae the previous year, an the winner received £60,000, an increase of £16,000 frae the previous year. The prize for the winner wis the heichest of ony snooker event until the follaein year's championship. The brakdown of prize money for the toornament wis:
Tournament summary
Qualifying roonds for the event war played frae 27 tae 31 Mairch at the Preston Guildhall. Thare war five knockout roonds, wi 87 players. The first qualifying roond consisted of seiven matches, bringin the nummer of remainin players tae 80. The seicont tae fift qualifying roonds haed 16 matches each, wi the winners o the earlier roond meetin the 16 higher-ranked players who haed been seedit intae the next roond. The 16 winners frae the fift roond met ane o the tap 16 seeds in the first roond o the competeetion proper.
First round
Top seed, defendin champion Steve Davis won his match against Neal Foulds 10–8 tae reach the seicont roond. Anly two unseedit players won thair first-roond matches, wi Patsy Fagan defeatin 12t seed Willie Thorne 10–6 and John Parrott defeatin 13t seed John Spencer 10–3. Spencer wis diagnosed wi myasthenia gravis shortly efter the toornament; it affected his vision, an he won anly two matches aw season. Efter bein defeatit twice during the season bi Eugene Hughes, sax-time champion and fift seed Ray Reardon won 10–9 against Hughes on a deciding frame.
A law-scoring match atween ninth seed Alex Higgins and Dean Reynolds did nae see a brak of ower 30 pynts in the first three frames. Reynolds won juist the fift frame o the openin session wi Higgins leadin 8–1, who eventually won 10–4. John Virgo led tenth seed Tony Meo 5–4 efter the first session, but won juist ane frame in the seicont session tae lose 6–10. In a press conference efter the match, Virgo said: "I don't think Tony played well enough to beat me. It was the run of the balls that beat me. That's the way it has been for me for six years. I can't explain it. I practise hard. I play well, but sometimes that is not enough. You need a lot of luck in this game and I didn't get any at all."
Awtho fowert seed Kirk Stevens defeatit Ray Edmonds 10–8, snooker pundit Clive Everton said that his standard of play wis nae that o a tap-fower player and Edmonds "made [Stevens] work". In a slow first session, Rex Williams and aicht seed Terry Griffiths played seiven (insteid o the planned nine) frames; Griffiths led 6–1 efter three oors 38 minutes, and eventually won the match 10–3. Bill Werbeniuk (seedit 14t) haed nae won a single match aw season, but defeatit Joe Johnson 10–8 and scored a 143 brak in the tenth frame – the third-heichest brak at the championship tae date.
A Daily Star series of articles aboot drug abuse frae within the championship wis based on statements reportedly bi Silvino Francisco. Francisco trailed 1–8 efter his first session against 11t seed Dennis Taylor, and lost the match 2–10. Francisco and Warld Snooker chairman Rex Williams held a press conference. Williams said that thare wis no evidence of drug uise in the sport; Francisco apologised tae Kirk Stevens (the player named in the Daily Star articles) and said that the statements in the article war a "total lie".
Third seed Cliff Thorburn defeatit Mike Hallett, 10–8; 15t seed Doug Mountjoy defeatit Murdo MacLeod, 10–5; 16t seed David Taylor defeatit Dene O'Kane 10–4, an saxt seed Eddie Charlton defeatit John Campbell in an aw-Australian tie.
Second round
The seicont roond, frae 18 tae 22 Apryle, wis played as aicht best-of-25-frames matches. Steve Davis led David Taylor 3–0 and 6–3 afore winnin seiven o the aicht frames in the seicont session tae win 13–4, scoring century braks in the aicht (100) and eleventh (105) frames. Alex Higgins and Welshman Terry Griffiths war tied 5–5 efter ten frames. Griffiths pulled ahead during the seicont session, leadin 10–6, an won three o the first fower frames o the final session tae win 13–7. John Parrott led Kirk Stevens 6–2 efter the first session and eventually won, 13–6.
Ray Reardon and Patsy Fagan war tied efter the first session, 4–4, afore Reardon pulled ahead 7–5. Reardon the final  of frame 13 tae lead 8–5, and pulled ahead 12–9 afore braking his  in frame 22. Wi anly a few shots left tae play tae win the match, Reardon borrowed Fagan's cue for the veectory. In an aw-Canadian seicont-roond match, Cliff Thorburn defeatit Bill Werbeniuk 13–3 wi a. Two umwhile event finalists, Dennis Taylor and Eddie Charlton, met in the seicont roond; Taylor defeatit Charlton, 13–6. Seivent seed Jimmy White overcame Tony Meo, despite bein tied 10–10, tae win 13–11. In the final match, Tony Knowles defeatit Doug Mountjoy 13–6.
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Name
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1985 Warld Snooker Championship
Quarter-finals
The quarter-finals war played as best-of-25-frames matches in three sessions on 23 and 24 Apryle. Terry Griffiths led Steve Davis efter winnin the first fower frames o the match, but finished the first session at 4–4. Davis won the seicont session tae lead 10–6, but and lost frame 17. Griffiths committed a, allouin Davis tae win the frame and (eventually) win 13–6 tae reach his fowert Warld Championship semi-final. John Parrott won the first fower frames of his semi-final against Ray Reardon forby, an led 5–3 efter the first session. Parrott extendit his lead tae 9–5 in the seicont session, but missed two in successive frames tae lead bi anly 9–7 efter the session. Reardon won aw five frames o the third session (seiven in a row) tae lead 12–9, an Parrott won the next three frames tae force a deciding frame. Wi ane reid left on the table, Parrott led bi seiven pynts; Reardon Parrott, an won a  tae win the match wi a brak of 31.
Due tae slow play, anly sax o the aicht frames o the openin session atween Dennis Taylor and Cliff Thorburn war played. Taylor teuk a lead of 4–0, afore endin the session at 4–2. The session wis cried interestin bi Clive Everton of The Guardian, houiver, due tae the "high quality of the tactical play." The seicont session wis lang-winded an aw, wi the match adjourned at 1:21a.m. (efter nine oors and 45 minutes of play); Taylor led 10–5, wi a frame still tae be played. Resuming the match, Taylor won three straucht frames tae win 13–5 and reach his fift semi-final. Thorburn said efter the match that baith players war at fault for the slow play: "I wasn't the only one playing safe. If I had played well, this would have been the longest match ever." Thare wis anly ane brak of ower 50 in the entire match, made bi Taylor in the final frame.
Seicont seed Tony Knowles played Jimmy White, an led 5–3 efter the first session. Knowles made a brak of 137 during the session, but missed the black; it wad hae been the toornament's heichest brak. He retained his lead throu the seicont session, despite twice bein a pot away frae bein tied; the session finished 9–7. Returning tae the match, Knowles won the next two frames but White won a re-spotted black in frame 19. Knowles handled the pressure better nor White, an won 13–10.
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1985 Warld Snooker Championship
Semi-finals
The semi-finals, baith played as best-of-31-frames matches, war played in fower sessions on 25 and 26 Apryle. Reigning champion Steve Davis defeatit Ray Reardon, playin juist three sessions for a 16–5 veectory. Awtho Reardon haed won previous matches wi strong play, Davis'  creatit opportunities throughout the match. Janice Hale of Snooker Scene magazine wrote that the match haed "an air of inevitability", wi Davis in full control. Reardon wis the auldest Warld Championship semi-finalist, but failed tae play at the level he haed played against Parrott. In winnin, Davis reached his third straucht Warld-championship final. He compiled his 100th century brak at the Crucible, a 106 brak in frame 13.
Tony Knowles played Dennis Taylor in the seicont semi-final. As the higher-seedit player, Knowles expected tae win; he failed tae exhibit the form he haed earlier in the toornament, houiver, an fell bi the same score as Reardon. Awtho Knowles won the first two frames, he won juist three mair frames during the match. Taylor led 10–5 efter the seicont session, an won sax frames in a row tae win the match in three sessions. Efter the match, Knowles wis unable tae understand how he haed lost tae a lawer-seedit player. Taylor said that he saw Knowles get "angry" during the match, houiver, an the player haed "thrown his cue" at a few shots. Knowles lost the follaein year's event in the semi-finals tae eventual champion Joe Johnson an aw.
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1985 Warld Snooker Championship
Final
The final wis played atween Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor on 27 and 28 Apryle 1985 as a best-of-35-frames match ower fower sessions. This wis Davis' fowert Warld final, haein won the title in 1981, 1983 and 1984; and Taylor's seicont, haein lost 16–24 tae Terry Griffiths in the 1979 final. Davis and Taylor haed met at the Warld Championship on two previous occasions, wi Taylor winnin thair first roond encounter in 1979 and Davis winnin the semi-final in 1984.
Awtho Taylor scored a brak of 50 in the first frame o the match, Davis won aw seiven frames o the openin session tae lead 7–0. Restarting the match, Davis teuk the aicht frame and wis leadin in frame nine but missed a on the  which wis later considered the turning pynt o the match. This error allowed Taylor tae win his first frame, followed bi sax mair o the nine frames played in the seicont session, tae trail 7–9 overnight. On the seicont day, Taylor tied the match at 11–11 and 15–15, but wis never ahead at ony pynt; Davis won the next two frames tae lead 17–15, needing ane mair frame tae win the championship. Taylor clinched frame 33 and then made a brak of ower 50 tae tie the match, forcing a deciding frame.
The deciding frame lasted ower an oor, finishing efter midnight Greenwich Mean Time. Davis led 62–44, wi juist the last fower balls tae play; Taylor required aw fower tae win the match. He potted difficult shots, leaving the black ball tae determine the winner. Wi the black, baith players attempted tae the ball. The first real opportunity fell tae Taylor, wi a lang pot tae the corner. He missed the shot, an the ball left Davis wi a ; accordin tae commentator Jim Meadowcroft, "That was the biggest shot of his life". Davis stepped up tae the table and again missed the shot, leaving Taylor a mid-range shot. Ted Lowe said, "This is really unbelievable" afore Taylor potted the shot and won the match. The final atween Davis and Taylor attracted 18.5 million viewers on BBC2, finishing at 12:23 a.m. efter Taylor the last black tae win the title. The viewership wis the heichest for ony broadcast efter midnight in the United Kingdom, an the maist-viewed show on BBC2.
Efter potting the final ball, Taylor raised his ; awtho he haed nae been ahead at ony pynt during the gemme, he "waggled" his finger and kissed the winner's trophy. Taylor said in a 2009 interview that it wis aimed at "his good friend" Trevor East, whom he haed told he wad win. At a press conference afterwards, he said that the match wis the "best he had ever been involved in [his] life". Taylor dedicated the Warld championship tae his late mither who haed died the previous year. Unwilling tae play snooker, he haed withdrawn frae the 1984 International Open. His faimily and friends persuaded him tae play again in the Grand Prix event, whaur he won his first professional title bi defeatin Cliff Thorburn in the final.
Century breaks
Thare war 14 century braks in the championship. Bill Werbeniuk's 143 against Joe Johnson in the first roond wis the jynt third-heichest brak in the championship's history, tied wi his brak in 1979 and Willie Thorne's in 1982. Anly Cliff Thorburn's maximum break in 1983 and Doug Mountjoy's 145 in 1981 war higher. Tony Knowles missed the black on a brak of 137 that wad hae scored a 144 in his seicont-roond match wi Jimmy White.
Qualifying stages
Thare war ten century braks in the qualifying stages; the heichest wis made bi Danny Fowler in his roond-of-64 10–0 whitewash of Jim Donnelly.
Legacy
Returning tae Northren Ireland, Taylor received a veectory parade afore 10,000 fowk in a Land Rover across his home toun of Coalisland. He wis loaned mayoral robes on the day of his veectory parade, an wis accompanied bi his wife and three childer. Taylor later signed a five-year contract wi promoter Barry Hearn as his manager. Media covering the toornament cried Steve Davis a "bad loser" for his silence and ane-wird responses tae questions frae David Vine at a press conference efter the event. Taylor's veectory remains the maist-viewed BBC2 program of aw time, an wis the maist-viewed sporting event in the United Kingdom tae date. The press conference wis later the basis for a Spitting Image skit on Davis.
The toornament final wis recreated and redistributed bi the BBC in various forms. At the 2010 World Snooker Championship, tae celebrate 25 years efter the event, the final frame wis replayed atween Taylor and Davis wi commentary bi John Virgo. The frame wis played as an exhibition, wi baith players attemptin tae re-creaut the shots on the final black ball. The final (an the championship) war examined in the BBC documentary, When Snooker Ruled the World. Anither ane-oor BBC documentary on the final, Davis v Taylor: The '85 Black Ball Final (featurin interviews wi Taylor's friends and faimily in Northren Ireland), wis presented bi Colin Murray.
During the 2015 World Snooker Championship, Davis presented Celebrity Black Ball Final on the BBC in which celebrities played the final two shots o the match; guests included Rebecca Adlington, Joey Essex, Russell Watson, Richard Osman and Josh Widdicombe. A 2017 BBC poll foond the final the Crucible's "most memorable" moment. The match received ower hauf the vote, wi Ronnie O'Sullivan's 1997 maximum brak finishing seicont.
Davis again lost the next year's final, this time tae qualifier Joe Johnson. He won three mair titles, in 1987, 1988 and 1989. Taylor never reached the final again, losin in the first roond tae Mike Hallett o the follaein year's event, fawin tae the "Crucible curse".
Qualifying
Five roonds of qualifying war played for the event atween 27 tae 31 Mairch at the Preston Guildhall.
1st Qualifying Roond
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Background
A dochter o François Joseph de Choiseul, Marquis o Stainville an his wife Marie Louise Bassompierre. She wis a sister o Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke o Choiseul, a minister o Louis XV.
Duchess o Gramont
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Daith
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Fuirsday
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Bi some conventions (see ISO 8601), the Fuirsdays o a towmond determine the hantlin o the weeks: week 1 is the week at his in it the first Fuirsday o the towmond, an sae on.
In the Inglis warld, some haes taen up an acronym for Fuirsday, akin tae Fryday's T.G.I.F., an says "So Happy It's Thursday", or S.H.I.T.
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