Beaver County, Oklahoma
Beaver County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, 5,857 people lived there. Its county seat is Beaver.
The county has a total area of 1,818 square miles. Beaver County is located in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
The area now known as Beaver County was part of Mexico from 1821 until 1836. Before that, it was part of New Spain. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the new state of Texas gave up the Oklahoma Panhandle. Between 1850 and 1890, the area did not belong to any state or territory. In 1886, a group of settlers in the area formed their own government, and named the Oklahoma Panhandle the Cimarron Territory. Many of these settlers were from Beaver City. The territory was never recognized by the United States government. The area was assigned to the new Oklahoma Territory in May 1890. The State of Oklahoma was formed in 1907.
Beckham County, Oklahoma
Beckham County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, 19,799 people lived there. Its county seat is Sayre.
The county has a total area of 904 square miles.
Blaine County, Oklahoma
Blaine County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, 11,976 people lived there. Its county seat is Watonga.
The county has a total area of 939 square miles.
Bryan County, Oklahoma
Bryan County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. In 2007, about 39,563 people lived there. Its county seat is Durant.
The county has a total area of 943 square miles.
Caddo County, Oklahoma
Caddo County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, 30,150 people lived there. Its county seat is Anadarko.
The county has a total area of 1,290 square miles.
Canadian County, Oklahoma
Canadian County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. In 2000, 87,697 people lived there. Its county seat is El Reno.
The county has a total area of 905 square miles.
Carter County, Oklahoma
Carter County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, 45,621 people lived there. Its county seat is Ardmore.
The county has a total area of 834 square miles.
Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Choctaw County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, 15,342 people lived there. Its county seat is Hugo.
The county has a total area of 801 square miles.
Cleveland County, Oklahoma
Cleveland County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. At the 2000 census, 208,016 people lived there. Its county seat is Norman.
The county has a total area of 558 square miles.
Coal County, Oklahoma
Coal County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, 6,031 people lived there. Its county seat is Coalgate.
The county has a total area of 521 square miles.
Comanche County, Oklahoma
Comanche County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2000, 114,996 people lived there. Its county seat is Lawton.
The county has a total area of 1,064 square miles.
English Football League
The English Football League (which was the Football League) is a football league in England and Wales. It was created in 1888 and was the top league in England until 1992 when the English Premier League was made. It is now a league for tiers 2-4 of English football.
Alexandra (Lykrophon)
Alexandra is a work by the Greek poet Lykophron, who is only known through this work. It was written between 196 and 190 BC. The work has 1474 lines, which are done in jambic trimeters. This is what most Greek tragedies were written in.
Paris left for Sparta, to abduct Helena, the wife of Menelaos. This was going to cause the Trojan War. Kassandra is left in the temple, guarded by someone instructed by Priamos, her father. The text is the report this guard gives to Priamos, about what Kassandra had said.
Kassandra (named ALexandra) first recalls how Herakles destroyed Troy. She then tells about the Trojan War. A large central part is devoted to how the Greek heroes return home. She tells about Odysseus, his travels, and how he went home to his wife Penelope. Penelope later kills him. Kassandra also tells how Aeneas successfully settled in Rome, and how Rome became a big empire. The final part of the poem is devoted to the "eternal war" between Europe and Asia, about the Persian Wars and Alexander the Great. Kassandra says that six generations after him, a relative will win over the Macendonians, which will end the warring. Kassandra's speech ends with resignation, as she cannot stop the events. The guard ends his speech with a blessing for the Trojans.
The dark language of the poem comes from its vocabulary, its use of special, and old forms of words. Of about 3000 words of the poem, 518 words are only known from this poem, 117 occur in this poem for the first time. The main problems with this poem are that the persons are usually not named. Rather they are described with what they did. Geographical places are similarly unnamed, and only described using places in them. Many scholars have tried to identify places and people, in some cases this is no longer possible though.
Football League Second Division
The Football League Second Division was the former 2nd division of English football. It was the 2nd division from 1892 until 1992, when the Premier League was created. It became the 3rd division after the founding of the Premier League replaced the Football League First Division as the 1st tier of football in England. It was replaced by the EFL League One in 2004.
Burmese boxing
Lethwei (; : ) or Burmese boxing is a full contact combat sport from Myanmar. Lethwei is considered to be one of the most brutal martial arts in the world, because headbutts are permitted and the fights are done bareknuckle (without gloves).
This famous method of fighting with the bareknuckle hands and with the uncovered feet came in the 3rd century when the monks had wanted to be trained and to defended themselves. It is a boxing "called martial" that borrows from the Burmese warriors all their array of particular plans for gaining success in the combat. It had come popular beginning of the 11th century under the king Anawratha, with combats among tribes with no rules and with a violence without common measure. The way of facing is special very much, much often taking a certain animal behaviour and is alike only of much distant to other Eastern methods.
In the way received from ancestors, the combat is judged by two referees and is done in a circle where every form of the blow and of the throw is permitted. The present time brought the rules as if the Eastern boxing, especially the gloves, the things that keep safe, the rounds and the ring. The technical part of the person who fights is much wide and the behaviours are produced by other methods of the combat de Burma. Many unusually interesting actions are happened, especially the flying techniques (jumping kick, knee strike and with elbow in flying), and techniques in walking of stairs (kicks and knee strike). In the past, a traditional Burmese Boxing was quite different from Thaing, for its brutal and rough side. Today, is not so, because is having good organization under the modern conditions, can be agradable see.
Nine traditional techniques are the parts of the method of the Burmese boxing. The technical description of the lethwei include three main parts, the weapons which are used, the goals which are aims and the distances of the combat. We meet:
From a point of view of particular plan for gaining succes in the combat, and in order to learn and remember, a part of laws is established. For example, we meet the following laws:
According to a customary way, the combat is performed in a circle. In the Burmese villages, still in 21st century, this fight has kept in existence its character received from ancestors. Only the appearance of an Eastern ring and of the divisions seems to be mark of the present times.