Counter-Strike Source is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Valve Corporation. The game normally involves 2 teams, one called 'Terrorists' or 'T' for short and 'Counter Terrorists' or 'CT' for short. The two teams have different guns and objectives. For example, Terrorists can use the AK-47 and Counter Terrorists can use the M4A1.
The game started off as a modification of "Half-Life", called "Counter-Strike". Its popularity grew enough that Valve made it into a retail game. "Counter-Strike: Source" is essentially the same game on the Source engine. It remains one of the most popular online shooter games in the world. The game has real-life weapons. Most of them are still used today.
There are two officials modes, bomb-defusal and hostage rescue. The aim of the game generally is to kill the opposing force and carrying out other objectives such as defusing bombs and rescuing hostages.
These changes called modifications or "mods" for short, are created by the game's players generally and are not regarded as official changes. There are many mods such as Warcraft, Deathmatch, Gungame, Zombie Survival, and surf.
Silver (color)
Silver is the color of the metal silver. It is a grayish-white color.
The first written use of "silver" as a color name in English was in 1481.
Pyromania
Pyromania is an impulse control disorder involving and obsession with fire and explosives. Pyromaniacs frequently set fire to things. They get pleasure or relief from seeing things burn. Pyromaniacs are often convicted of arson. When children have pyromania, later in life they usually are diagnosed with a mental disorder. Pyromaniacs set fire to relieve stress and it gives them pleasure and relief.
Oscar de la Hoya
Oscar de la Hoya (born February 4, 1973), also known as the "Golden Boy", is a former boxer. He is Mexican-American. He won a gold medal for the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
San Salvador Island
San Salvador Island, also known as Watling Island, is an island in the Bahamas, that is said to have been found by Christopher Columbus during his first trip to the New World. It has a population of about 1,000 people, and it is a very good tourist spot.
Jane Roberts
Jane Roberts (May 8, 1929 – September 5, 1984) was an American author, psychic and trance medium who "channeled" a spirit named Seth. The publication of the Seth books established her as an important person in the world of the paranormal. She wrote short stories, novels and children's books.
Pound (currency)
The pound (£) is the currency used by Egypt, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey and the United Kingdom where it is called Pound sterling. Centuries ago, it was one Troy Pound (mass) of silver coins.
Attraction
In general, an attraction is when two things are drawn to one another.
Alb-Donau-Kreis
Alb-Donau (Alemannic German: "Alb-Donau-Krois") is a rural district or county (Landkreis) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The history of the region is linked with the history of Ulm and the Swabian Alb.
The district of Alb-Donau was established in 1973 by joining the former districts of Ulm and Ehingen.
The city of Ulm is surrounded by the district. The government of the county is in Ulm, even though Ulm is not a part of the districztIt is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau district, although it is not part of the district.
The district is named after the Danube River (German "Donau") and the Swabian Alb ("Schwäbische Alb") mountains. The Danube enters the district in the southwest, runs through the southern parts of the district and leaves eastwards to Ulm. North of the Danube banks the hills of the Swabian Alb rise. The hill chain extends from southwest to northeast parallel to the course of the Danube River and is continued on either side of the district. An affluent of the Danube, the Iller River, forms the southeastern border of the Alb-Donau district, before it meets the Danube in Ulm.
Freddy Cannon
Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon (born December 4, 1940) is an American singer. He was most famous in the early 1960s. His hit records include "Abigail Beecher", "Tallahassee Lassie", and "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans".
One of Cannon's hits, "Palisades Park", was written by Chuck Barris, who later created "The Dating Game" and "The Gong Show". Cannon also appeared in the movies "Just for Fun" and "Village of the Giants".
Hudson Bay
The Hudson Bay is a bay that goes into East-central Canada. It is the fourth largest sea in the world with an area of 316,000 square miles (819,000 square kilometres). The northern and western shores belong to Nunavut, the southern shore is split between Manitoba and Ontario, and the eastern shore belongs to Quebec. It is connected with the Atlantic Ocean through the Hudson Strait, which is in the northeast of the bay, and with the Arctic Ocean through the Foxe Channel in the north part of the bay.
It was named for the English explorer Henry Hudson, who, in 1610 on the ship "Discovery", found the bay and clamed it for England.
La fanciulla del West
La fanciulla del West, meaning "The Girl of the Golden West", is an opera by Puccini. The opera is three acts long. It was based on the play "The Girl of the Golden West" by David Belasco. The first showing of the opera was at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 1910.
Kora (instrument)
The kora is a 21-string harp-lute used mostly by peoples in West Africa.
Gao Region
The Gao Region is in eastern Mali. The region's capital city is Gao.
Kayes Region
The Kayes Region is in eastern Mali.
Kayes is divided into 7 cercles:
Kidal Region
The Kidal Region is a region in Mali.
Kidal Region is divided into 4 cercles that contain 11 municipalities:
Koulikoro Region
The Koulikoro Region is a region in western Mali. It is the second administrative area of Mali and covers an area of . Its capital is the city of Koulikoro.
Mopti Region
The Mopti Region is a region in Mali.
Mopti is divided into 8 cercles that contain a total of 108 municipalities:
Ségou Region
The Ségou Region is a region in Mali.
Sikasso Region
The Sikasso Region is a region in Mali. Sikasso is the capital of the region. It is the second largest city in Mali. Because of people fleeing the violence in Côte d'Ivoire the city is growing quickly.
Other important towns are Bougouni and Koutiala.
Tombouctou Region
The Tombouctou Region (also spelled Timbuktu) is a region in Mali.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019) was an African-American author. She was the second child in her working-class family.
She normally wrote about racial discrimination (racism, mainly the dislike of blacks). She won awards for writing some books and she changed African-American history. She was perhaps the most successful mainly story-writing African woman in the world.
She was a famous writer and she got her good writing by the people she looked up to. They were B.W.Jones and A.I.Vinson. Her first novel ("The Bluest Eyes") is the story of a girl ruined by a racist society and its violence and she had son named slade who she wrote this book with dreaming emmett. One of her books, "Beloved", was made into a movie in 1998. This movie starred Oprah Winfrey.
Morrison died at a hospital in The Bronx, New York City on August 5, 2019, from problems caused by pneumonia, aged 88.
Bret Michaels
Bret Michael Sychak, better known as Bret Michaels (born March 15, 1963 in Butler, Pennsylvania), is the lead singer of the glam metal band Poison. He also starred on VH1's reality television program Rock of Love 2. He is also a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice.
Jacques Arcadelt
Jacques Arcadelt (also called Jacob Arcadelt) (born probably in Liège, 1504 or 1505; died Paris, 14 October 1568) was a Franco-Flemish composer in the Renaissance period. He was an extremely popular composer of madrigals and chansons.