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Go (board game) 
 Rule 1 (the rule of liberty) is that every stone remaining on the board must have at least one open "point" (an intersection, called a "liberty") next to it (up, down, left, or right), or must be part of a connected group that has at least one such open point ("liberty") next to it.
Go (board game) 
 Rule 2 (the "ko rule") is that the stones on the board must never repeat the way the stones were the turn before.
Go (board game) 
 At the end of the game, the prisoners are usually deducted from the score of the player who lost them.
Go (board game) 
 You can place stones on any clear intersection you want, as long it isn't taken off right after, or the board looks the same all over as it did before.
Go (board game) 
 Players must make a move somewhere else on the board during a "ko fight" before they can re-capture a stone in the same position.
Go (board game) 
 In these three countries the game is an important part of the culture, like chess is in many western countries.
Go (board game) 
 They both have no luck or secret information, unlike some other classic games like backgammon (dice are rolled) or poker and other card games which also have secret information.
Go (board game) 
 There are many places to play Go on the Internet, as well as local clubs and national organizations in many countries around the world.
Go (board game) 
 A 2016 survey by the International Go Federation (IGF) found that there are over 20 million players around the world.
Gulf War 
 The Persian Gulf War, sometimes just called the Gulf War, was a conflict between Iraq and 34 other countries, led by the United States.
Gulf War 
 Operation Desert Shield brought troops to protect Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states that Iraq had not attacked.
Gulf War 
 Saddam Hussein declared the neighboring country of Kuwait to be siphoning Iraqi crude oil from across the border, and on August 2nd, 1990 the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait started.
Gulf War 
 On January 17, 1991 the US began the Persian Gulf War with a massive US led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm.
Gulf War 
 The attacks were assisted by newly developed weapons, including stealth aircraft, cruise missiles and smart bombs.
Gulf War 
 Operation Desert storm included a bombing campaign that targeted Iraqi aircraft, anti-aircraft systems, oil refineries, weapon factories, bridges, and roads.
Point of view 
 Wikipedia seeks a neutral point of view by including all relevant POVs, not just what one person thinks.
Sicily 
 Phoenician and Greek people colonized the island in the 8th Century BC and sometimes fought wars there.
Sicily 
 In later centuries, Saracens (who significantly impacted the Island genetically and culturally) fought against the Byzantine Greeks, and Normans ruled it for a few centuries.
Donkey 
 It is the tame animal that people use for transportation and other work, such as pulling a carriage or plowing a field.
Donkey 
 The mane is still and upright, almost always standing up, and the tail is more like a cow's, most of it covered with short body hair.
Donkey 
 Because their mane sometimes fly away, many donkeys wear their manes clipped short or shaved close to the neck.
Donkey 
 Hoof shapes are different as well, donkey hooves are smaller and rounder, with more upright pasterns.
Donkey 
 The donkey's voice is a very raspy kind, and it makes a loud "Ee - Aww" noise, known as braying (hence Eeyore in the Winnie-the-Pooh books).
Donkey 
 Although most people think donkeys are a gray color, sometimes they can have stripes, dark ear marks, as well as the "light points".
Donkey 
 This means that it has a white muzzle and white rings around its eyes, and a white belly and inner leg.
Donkey 
 Some, like the rare French donkey, has huge heads and ears, and very thick, shaggy curled black coat.
Donkey 
 The height at the withers ranges from 7.3 to 15.3 hands (31 to 63 inches, 79 to 160 cm), and the weight from 80 to 480 kg (180 to 1,060 lb).
Donkey 
 A roll is when fat bunches up and stays in a part of a donkey's body, and they usually happen on its neck or its hip.
Donkey 
 If the neck roll of fat gets too heavy, it will fall or "break over" to one side and never recover its balance again.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 In the sixth book Harry begins his sixth year at the magical school Hogwarts with his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 During the year he has help in his worst class by the mysterious Half-Blood Prince (also known as Severus snape), he has his first romance and learns several very important facts about his enemy, Voldemort.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 The film, based on the book, was to be released on 21 November 2008, but on 14 August 2008, it was announced that the film would be pushed back to 17 July 2009.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 Voldemort is a very bad man who does not like half-blood or Muggle (non-magical) wizards and witches.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 Slughorn was the former professor of Potions over at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 When school starts, the first thing Slughorn does is recreate his old Slug Club, filled with people who have power or a good name.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 Harry finds a book with the Prince's name on it and finds that it has many helpful tips for making potions.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 His friend Hermione is mad that Harry is getting credit for information that he does not really know.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 In flashback, Harry learns that Voldemort was the product of an unhappy witch and a Muggle father that never loved him.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 Soon afterwards, she goes to an orphanage and gives birth to Voldemort, naming him Tom Marvolo Riddle, and dies shortly afterwards.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 Since then, no professor has held the Defense Against the Dark Arts job for more than a year and Dumbledore thinks it is because of this meeting.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 Before Harry's sixth year started, Dumbledore visited the old Marvolo home and found a ring and destroyed it but lost his hand as a result.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 They find the locket and go back to Hogwarts, where they find that the Death Eaters and Malfoy have attacked.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 When Harry tries to use some curses he found in the Half-Blood Prince's book, Snape fights back and then declares that he is the Half-Blood Prince.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 Later, Hermione says this is true, having found a newspaper article about a girl named Eileen Prince (a witch) marrying a man named Tobias Snape (a Muggle), making Snape a half-blood wizard.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
 Harry opens the locket, only to find that someone named R.A.B was there earlier and found and destroyed the Horcrux.
Persian language 
 It is also spoken by many people in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and other neighbouring countries and by immigrants from Central Asia in Russia.
Persian language 
 Persian has many dialects and is officially called Farsi in Iran, Dari and Farsi in Afghanistan and Tajiki in Tajikistan.
Persian language 
 The literary language of each country is a little different, but people from each country can understand one another when they have a conversation.
Persian language 
 The Persian alphabet used in Iran and Afghanistan is similar to the Arabic alphabet, but since Persian in a different family from Arabic, their vocabulary and grammar are very different.
Persian language 
 Since the 1930s, in the countries that were in the Soviet Union, like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Persian has been written in the Cyrillic alphabet, like Russian.
Persian language 
 Persian is a very old language, and linguists use names for three different versions of Persian that were used in three different times.
Persian language 
 Old Persian was spoken in the first Persian Empire, under the Achaemenid kings, including Cyrus and Darius the Great.
Persian language 
 The second Persian empire was ruled by the Sassanian kings from the 2nd century AD until the Muslim conquest of Iran by the Arabs in the 7th century and spoke Middle Persian, or Pahlavi.
Persian language 
 New or Modern Persian is spoken today and was first written down in the 9th century, during the Samanid Empire, which was the first Muslim Persian kingdom and was based in Central Asia.
Persian language 
 The earliest writers of New Persian included poets like Rudaki, and Ferdowsi, who wrote an epic, a very long poem, called the Shahname, translated as the Book of Kings in English.
Persian language 
 After Arabic, it was the second most common written language in Muslim countries, especially in the East.
Copenhagen 
 In the 1960s, more than 700,000 people lived in Copenhagen Municipality, and today there are 528,000 inhabitants in the municipality.
Nepali language 
 It is believed to have originated from the ancient Sanskrit language from which it takes many words.
Nepali 
 Nepali language or Gorkhali – the official language of modern Nepal as well as parts of India and Bhutan
9th century 
 800 – 909: Rule of Aghlabids as an independent Muslim dynasty in North Africa, with their capital at Tunis.
9th century 
 802: Jayavarman II of the Khmer people in Cambodia founds the Khmer empire and make the Angkorian dynasty.
9th century 
 803: Construction on the Leshan Giant Buddha in Tang Dynasty China is complete, after 90 years of rock-carving on a massive cliff-side.
9th century 
 811: Battle of Pliska fought between a Byzantine force led by emperor Nicephorus I and a Bulgarian army commanded by Khan Krum.
9th century 
 815: The 30-year Treaty of 815 between Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire end the battles between the two countries.
9th century 
 830: House of Wisdom, a library and translation institute, made by al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph, in Baghdad to transfer the knowledge of Greeks, Persians, Indians, etc.
9th century 
 Also The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing which is one of the book of algebra is written by Al-Khwarizmi who worked there.
9th century 
 They split the Carolingian empire into three divisions; East Francia was given to Louis the German, West Francia to Charles the Bald and Middle Francia to Lothair I.
9th century 
 A defensive wall, commissioned by Pope Leo IV, is built around what came to be called the Leonine City.
9th century 
 He sees the making of porcelain, the Islamic mosque built at Guangzhou, the granary system of the city, and how its municipal administration worked.
9th century 
 863: The Chinese author Duan Chengshi describes the slave trade, ivory trade, and ambergris trade of Somalia in East Africa.
9th century 
 868: Ahmad ibn Tulun breaks away from the Abbasid Caliphate and establishes the independent Tulunid dynasty.
9th century 
 893: Council of Preslav - Vladimir-Rasate is dethroned and succeeded as Prince of Bulgaria by Simeon I. The capital is moved from Pliska to Preslav.
9th century 
 Laguna Copperplate Inscription, Kavi script, inscribed in Luzon, Philippines, dated Saka year 822 (900)
Zambia 
 It shares its borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.
Zambia 
 Zambia is a melting pot of culture and diversity yet to be appreciated with at least 72 spoken languages.
Zambia 
 Its motto is One Zambia, One Nation and its national anthem is Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free.
Zambia 
 The first president was Kenneth Kaunda, who ruled Zambia for 27 years with his party Child Grooming INC.
Zambia 
 Kenneth Kaunda lost the elections and gave away his power in an orderly manner to his successor Frederick Chiluba, a former union leader.
Zambia 
 The latest presidential election was in 2021, which was won by Hakainde Hichilema against Edgar Lungu.
Zambia 
 In 1969, Zambia was making a lot of money because of the copper deposits that were mined in Copperbelt province.
Zambia 
 When copper became cheaper in the 1970s, the economy got worse because people in Zambia were not making as much money from selling copper.
Benin 
 Because Benin was colonized by France and is still close to it, the official language of Benin is French.
Benin 
 Benin is a member of the United Nations, the African Union, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone, La Francophonie, the Community of Sahel-Saharan States, the African Petroleum Producers Association and the Niger Basin Authority.
Benin 
 It was called the Slave Coast by white people from as early as the 17th century, because of the large number of slaves shipped from Porto-Novo, Cotonou, and other ports to European colonies in the Americas.
Benin 
 Benin is bordered by Togo to the west, Burkina Faso and Niger to the north, Nigeria to the east, and the Bight of Benin to the south.
Benin 
 Reserve du W du Niger and Pendjari National Park attract tourists who want to see elephants, lions, antelopes, hippos, and monkeys.
Benin 
 The main rainy season is from April to late July, with a shorter less strong rainy period from late September to November.
Benin 
 The main dry season is from December to April, with a short cooler dry season from late July to early September.
Benin 
 In the 2010 census, 27.2% of the population of Benin were Christian, 24.4% were Muslim, 17.3% practiced Vodun, 6% other traditional local religious groups, 1.9% other religious groups, and 6.5% have no religious affiliation.
Benin 
 Fish and chicken are the most common meats used in southern Beninese cuisine however Beef, goat, and bush rat are also eaten.
Benin 
 The northern provinces use beef and pork meat which is fried in palm or peanut oil or cooked in sauces.
Benin 
 Couscous, rice, and beans are commonly eaten, along with fruits such as mangoes, oranges, avocados, bananas, kiwi fruit, and pineapples.
Dominican Republic 
 The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola; the other country on the island is Haiti.
Dominican Republic 
 In the 19th century France, Spain and Haiti controlled it at various times, and later it was independent.
Dominican Republic 
 The country has a tropical climate but modified by elevation and the trade winds (winds that come from the northeast, from the Atlantic Ocean).
Dominican Republic 
 The island of Hispaniola was discovered by Christopher Columbus on December 5th,  1492, but the first time that he saw part of the present Dominican Republic was on January 4th, 1493 when he saw a headland that he named Monte Cristi ("Mountain of Christ").
Dominican Republic 
 From Monte Cristi, Columbus went east along the north coast of the island and on 6 January, after visiting the Samaná Bay, he went back to Spain.
Dominican Republic 
 In his second trip to America, he founded the first European city in the continent, La Isabela, near the present city of Puerto Plata.
Dominican Republic 
 Later, Bartholomew Columbus founded the city of Santo Domingo, the oldest permanent European city in the Americas.
Dominican Republic 
 Because Cuba was closer to the continent, many people moved there from Hispaniola, and then to the continent.
Dominican Republic 
 By the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, Spain gave the western third of the island to France and kept the eastern part, and so the island had two different colonies: the French Saint-Domingue and the Spanish Santo Domingo.
Dominican Republic 
 In 1795, France got the whole island but they could only control the eastern part because Haiti became independent very soon.
Dominican Republic 
 On 1 December 1821, the Spanish lieutenant governor José Núñez de Cáceres declared the independence from Spain.
Dominican Republic 
 The new country had the name Estado Independiente del Haití Español ("Independent State of Spanish Haiti").
Dominican Republic 
 The Haitian occupation ended on 27 February 1844, when the inhabitants of the eastern part of the Hispaniola made a new country named República Dominicana ("Dominican Republic").
Dominican Republic 
 That war ended in 1865 when the Spanish left and the Dominican Republic was again an independent country.
Dominican Republic 
 After the death of Trujillo, Juan Bosch was elected in 1962 and became, in 1963, the first elected president since 1930.
Dominican Republic 
 In 1965, there was a civil war between those that wanted Bosch back on power and those that were opposed to him.
Dominican Republic 
 The Executive branch is made up of the President, the Vice President and the Ministers who are called Secretaries of State.
Dominican Republic 
 The Legislative branch makes the laws and is made up of the Congress, which is in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.
Dominican Republic 
 The Congress is divided into two groups: the Senate, with 32 members (one for every province and one for the National District), and the Chamber of Deputies with 178 members.
Dominican Republic 
 The Judicial branch is made up of the courts of the country, including the Supreme Court of Justice.
Dominican Republic 
 It is a conservative party founded in 1964 by Joaquín Balager, who was President of the Republic from 1966-78 and 1986-96.
Dominican Republic 
 PLD: the Dominican Liberation Party (Spanish: Partido de la Liberación Dominicana) was somewhat socialist when it was founded in 1973; currently it's a liberal party.
Dominican Republic 
 Cordillera Central (in English, "Central mountain range") that continues into northern Haiti where it is called Massif du Nord.
Dominican Republic 
 The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this chain; Pico Duarte, with 3,087 m, is the highest.
Dominican Republic 
 Llano Costero del Caribe (in English, "Caribbean Coastal Plain") is in the southeast of the country.
Dominican Republic 
 The four most important rivers of the Dominican Republic are Yaque del Norte, Yuna, Yaque del Sur and Ozama.
Dominican Republic 
 Rainfall varies greatly; eastern regions, like the Samaná Peninsula, get an average of over 2,000 mm in a year, but less than 500 mm fall in the southwest (Hoya de Enriquillo).
Dominican Republic 
 The Dominican Republic has a total population, estimated for July 2009, of 9,650,054 inhabitants, for a density of 236.30 inhabitants per km².
Dominican Republic 
 About 64% of Dominicans live in cities and towns and 87% of people that are 15 years old or more can read and write.
Dominican Republic 
 The two largest cities are Santo Domingo (the capital city) with 1,817,754 inhabitants, and Santiago, in the Cibao Valley and with 908,250 inhabitants.
Dominican Republic 
 Mulatto Dominicans: They are mainly descendants of Southern Europeans and West Africans, but they have a little Indigenous Taino ancestry.
Dominican Republic 
 Mestizo Dominicans: They are mainly descendants of Southern Europeans and Indigenous people of the island of Hispaniola; some of them have a little West & Central African ancestry.
Dominican Republic 
 Black Dominicans: They are descendants of West Africans that were brought over as slaves to work mostly on sugar cane plantations.
Dominican Republic 
 Most of the African ancestry of Dominicans can be traced back to the West African countries of Ghana, Cameroon, and Angola.
Dominican Republic 
 Most of the European ancestry of Dominicans comes from the Canary Islands and Southern Spain, while many others descend from Portuguese, Galicians, Asturians, and French people.
Dominican Republic 
 Indigenous Dominicans: They are mainly descendants of the Taino people that have survived to the first century of European colonization, slavery or epidemic deseases.
Dominican Republic 
 They just have a different genetic origin than most Dominicans, but they share the same culture with mulatto and mestizo Dominicans.
Dominican Republic 
 Most of them have their origins in the Central Mountain Range, the Mountain Range of Neiba and some valleys at the North and South regions.
Dominican Republic 
 The national capital Santo Domingo de Guzmán is in the Distrito National that is like a province and elects one Senator.
Dominican Republic 
 The Dominican Republic has a mixed economy based mainly on agriculture, services (including tourism and finance), trade and money sent from the many Dominicans that live in other countries (United States, Europe).
Dominican Republic 
 Agricultural production (mainly sugarcane, with smaller amounts of coffee, cacao, and tobacco) was the main economic activity but now is in third place after tourism and manufacturing in zonas francas ("free zones" where the industries do not pay taxes and all the production is sent to other countries).
Dominican Republic 
 The Dominican Republic suffers from poverty, with 83.3% of the population living below the poverty line in 2012.
Dominican Republic 
 The culture of the Dominican Republic, like in other Caribbean countries, is a mix of Taíno, African and European (mainly Spanish) cultures.
Dominican Republic 
 There are not many Taíno traditions in the modern Dominican culture; many places keep their Taíno names: Dajabón, Bánica, Haina, Yaque, Samaná, etc.
Dominican Republic 
 Also many objects, plants and animals have a Taíno origin and their names have been included in other languages; for example: canoa (canoe, a small boat), hamaca (hammock, a simple bed), maíz (maize, corn), yuca (cassava, that comes from the Taíno word casabe, a kind of cassava bread eaten in the Caribbean), and batata (sweet potato).
Dominican Republic 
 That mix of different traditions created a culture that is known as Creole (in Spanish: Criolla), common to all countries in the Caribbean, Louisiana and some parts of South America and Central America.
Dominican Republic 
 In the Dominican Republic, only Spanish is spoken, however; there are 3 major languages that are also spoken such as Haitian Creole, Samana English, and the West African Yoruba language known as Lucumi spoken by few.
Dominican Republic 
 There is a local dialect or patois which is spoken by all Dominicans - see Dominican Spanish Creole.
Dominican Republic 
 In the Chinese Dominican comunnity (composed around 60 000 people) elder generations keep talking in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese Chinese.
Dominican Republic 
 They are Catholic festivities in honor of the Patron saints of the towns and villages; it is a Spanish tradition to associate every town with a Catholic saint.
Dominican Republic 
 The festivities includes church services, street parades, fire works, dance contests and other activities.
Dominican Republic 
 Dominican Voodoo or Santeria is also practiced in large numbers as well as Dominican Palo, Dominican Kongo religion, and others.
Dominican Republic 
 African culture has the strongest influence in Dominican culture, especially in language, religion, food, and music.
1856 
 December 28 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924)
Navassa Island 
 Navassa Island, or La Navase in Haitian Creole, is a small island without anyone living on it in the Caribbean Sea.
Navassa Island 
 The United States government claims the two-square-mile island as a territory of the United States, and it is under control of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Navassa Island 
 Some sailors sailing with Christopher Columbus named Navassa  in 1504, because no fresh water could be found there.
Navassa Island 
 A captain named Peter Duncan gave it to the U.S. in the late 1850s, for the purpose of guano mining.
Navassa Island 
 With the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, Navassa became important again, because of a lighthouse being built there.
Navassa Island 
 In 1996, Navassa's light was put out of use, and the island was transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Navassa Island 
 Navassa became a U.S. insular area in October 1857, when a representative of the Baltimore Fertilizer Company took possession of the island in the name of the United States pursuant to the Guano Act of August 18, 1856 (Title 48, U.S. Code, sections 1411-19).