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Zapotec civilisation 
 In the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, there were Zapotec and Mixtec artisans who made jewellery for the Aztec rulers (tlatoanis), including Moctezuma II.
Zapotec civilisation 
 This can be proven by archaeological remains of a Zapotec neighborhood within Teotihuacan and a Teotihuacan style "guest house" in Monte Albán.
Zapotec civilisation 
 Other important pre-Columbian Zapotec sites include Lambityeco, Dainzu, Mitla, Yagul, San José Mogote, El Palmillo and Zaachila.
Zapotec civilisation 
 They were a well-advanced in civilization, living in large villages and towns, in houses constructed with stone and mortar.
Zapotec civilisation 
 They recorded the principal events in their history by means of hieroglyphics, and in warfare they made use of a cotton armour.
Zapotec civilisation 
 The well-known ruins of Mitla have been attributed to them and were claimed to be the tombs of their ancestors.
Zapotec civilisation 
 Two principal deities include Cocijo, the rain god (similar to the Aztec god Tlaloc), and Coquihani, the god of light.
Zapotec civilisation 
 The Zapotecs tell that their ancestors emerged from the earth, from caves, or that they turned from trees or jaguars into people, while the elite that governed them believed that they descended from supernatural beings that lived among the clouds, and that upon death they would return to such status.
Zapotec civilisation 
 The last battle between the Aztecs and the Zapotecs occurred between 1497 and 1502, under the Aztec ruler Ahuizotl.
Zapotec civilisation 
 At the time of Spanish conquest of Mexico, when news arrived that the Aztecs were defeated by the Spaniards, King Cosijoeza ordered his people not to confront the Spaniards so they would avoid the same fate.
Zapotec civilisation 
 In 1850 there was another rebellion against the local government of Oaxaca, followed in 1866 by one against the Royal French Army, during the French invasion of Mexico.
Zapotec civilisation 
 In recent times, there was an uprising against the local governor Manuel Zárate Aquino in the late 1970s.
Olmec 
 The Olmecs were a group of people who lived about 3000 years ago in what is today south-central Mexico.
Olmec 
 Because they were the first civilization, many later Mesoamerican civilizations used and repeated Olmec features and characteristics.
Olmec 
 The Olmec people discovered and made use of many natural resources in the area, including rubber and corn.
Olmec 
 Dozens of mysterious stone heads were discovered in the Olmec territory as well; archaeologists are still not sure what their purposes were.
Olmec 
 The height and weights of the heads vary, but the largest head is about twice the height of an average human male.
Olmec 
 They include seventeen heads found in the southern Mexican cities of La Venta, San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, Tres Zapotes, and Rancho la Cobata.
Olmec 
 The origins and meaning of the heads are mysterious, and they are the subject of much speculation among scholars and archaeologists.
Olmec 
 According to this theory, the basalt heads were sculpted roughly in the mountains and then either floated or dragged by thousands of people from the construction site to the Olmec cities.
Olmec 
 Perhaps the most notable features of the sculptures – and a clue as to their meaning – are the helmets worn by all the Olmec heads.
Olmec 
 These helmets, and the rubber balls found near the sculptures, may be evidence that the Mesoamerican ball game originated with the Olmec civilization.
Olmec 
 The Mesoamerican ball game was a team sport with profound religious and cultural significance for the indigenous people of Mexico and Central America.
Olmec 
 The Olmec heads were once thought to have represented Mesoamerican ball players who were sacrificed after losing a match.
Chichen Itza 
 Tourists, or visitors, were once able to climb some of the pyramids, but it was quite challenging because the steps are very steep and small.
Chichen Itza 
 The sounds in the ballcourt are remarkable: a whisper from one end can be clearly heard at the other.
Common sense 
 The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as, "the basic level of practical knowledge and judgment that we all need to help us live in a reasonable and safe way".
Common sense 
 It is quite possible for common sense to be wrong, and science often explains things in quite a different way from common sense.
Common sense 
 People lack any common-sense intuition of the universe at subatomic distances, or of speeds approaching that of light.
Common sense 
 Today it is well known that the Earth travels around the Sun but before the scientific revolution people thought that the Sun going around the Earth was common sense.
Common sense 
 According to the Simple English Wiktionary “Common sense is something that everybody knows and understands.”
Glam rock 
 It was made famous by acts such as David Bowie, Elton John, T. Rex, Alice Cooper, Slade, Gary Glitter, Queen and Sweet.
Glam rock 
 Glam fans (usually referred to as the "glitter people") and performers distinguished themselves from the denim-clad hippie-hordes with sci-fi/mythological/Hollywood glamour/ambisexual-inspired costumes, which were perceived as glamorous by the press.
Glam rock 
 The music was characterised by languid, narcotic ballads and raunchy, high-energy Rolling Stones–influenced rock n‘ roll stylings.
Eddy Merckx 
 Baron Edouard Louis Joseph Merckx () (born June 17, 1945, Meensel-Kiezegem, Vlaams Brabant, Belgium) is a former Belgian professional road racing cyclist.
Eddy Merckx 
 Merckx, regarded as the greatest and most successful cyclist of all time, established several world cycling records, some of which remain unbroken to this day.
Eddy Merckx 
 Later that year he outsprinted Jan Janssen to become Professional World Champion at Heerlen, The Netherlands.
Eddy Merckx 
 In his Tour de France debut (first entry) in 1969, Merckx immediately won the yellow jersey (overall leader), the green jersey (best sprinter) and the red polka-dotted jersey ("King of the Mountains" - best climber in the mountain stages).
Eddy Merckx 
 No other cyclist has won the three jerseys in one Tour de France, and only Tony Romingerin 1993 and Laurent Jalabert in 1995 have been able to match this feat in any Grand Tour (cycling).
Eddy Merckx 
 Merckx was only 24, so would have won the white jersey (for best rider under 25 years of age) but the Tour de France did not give a white jersey until the 1970s.
Eddy Merckx 
 Over the next 25 years, only Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain were able to equal the five victories.
Eddy Merckx 
 Before that could happen, Merckx raced in the 1972 edition of the Giro d'Italia and beat the mountain racing expert Jose Manuel Fuente in the mountain stages.
Eddy Merckx 
 In 1973 Merckx rode in the Vuelta a España where he beat Luis Ocana and Bernard Thévenet and then went on to win the Giro d'Italia.
Eddy Merckx 
 Merckx's final victory in the Giro d'Italia in the 1974 edition was a tight battle between Merckx and two Italians.
Eddy Merckx 
 In the end, Merckx won by the very narrow margin of twelve seconds over Gianbattista Baronchelli and 33 seconds over Felice Gimondi.
Eddy Merckx 
 He also won the World Road Racing Championship a record three times in 1967, 1971 and 1974, and every Classic except Paris-Tours.
Eddy Merckx 
 The blackest day in Merckx's career was in 1969, when he crashed in a derny race towards the end of the season.
Eddy Merckx 
 Afterwards he said his riding was never the same, because he always be in pain, especially while climbing.
Eddy Merckx 
 He argued that there were no counter-experts nor counter-analysis and that foreign supporters hated him.
Eddy Merckx 
 Further, he stated that the stage during which he was allegedly using drugs was an easy one, so there was no need to use drugs.
Eddy Merckx 
 This incident was one of the reasons why Merckx thought his first Tour de France victory, later that year, his best ever win
Eddy Merckx 
 The end of his Tour-career came in 1975 (although he did compete in 1977 he finished 6th that year).
Eddy Merckx 
 Merckx held the yellow jersey for eight days, which raised his record to 96 days, but during stage 14 a French spectator punched him in the liver.
Eddy Merckx 
 Most stage victories in one Tour de France: 8, in 1970 and 1974 (shared with Charles Pelissier in 1930 and Freddy Maertens in 1976).
Eddy Merckx 
 The only cyclist to have won the yellow, green and red polka-dotted jersey in the same Tour de France (1969).
Eddy Merckx 
 The record was unbeaten until 1984, when Francesco Moser broke it using a specially designed bicycle.
Eddy Merckx 
 However, because of the more and more strange designs of the bikes and position of the rider, in 2000 the UCI said a "traditional" bike must be used.
Eddy Merckx 
 When Chris Boardman had another go at Merckx's reinstated record in 2000, he beat it by slightly more than 10 metres at sea level.
Eddy Merckx 
 But, Merckx had raced a full road season winning the Tour, Giro and four Classics, while Boardman was a time trial specialist who had retired from road racing and had prepared specially for the 2000 Hour Record.
Eddy Merckx 
 He was coach of the Belgian national cycling team during the mid-90s, and part of the Belgian Olympic Committee.
Eddy Merckx 
 As such, he has also figured as special advisor for the recent UCI addition "Tour of Qatar" since 2002.
Eddy Merckx 
 In May 2004, he underwent an oesophagus operation to cure the constant stomach ache which he suffered since he was a young man.
Eddy Merckx 
 Merckx's mother asked the priest to celebrate the ceremony in French, a choice that ended up being a contentious issue in Belgium.
Eddy Merckx 
 They had two children: a daughter (Sabrina), and a son (Axel) who was a professional cyclist for Team T-Mobile.
Eddy Merckx 
 Despite this early incident, Merckx is a perfect ambassador to Belgium (because he does not support Flanders more than Wallonia, but supports the unity of the country).
Eddy Merckx 
 Because of this, he came 4th in the Walloon version of the "Greatest Belgian" contest in 2005, and third in the Flemish (3rd) version..
Eddy Merckx 
 Many of his former helpers have worked in his bicycle factory and join him during recreational bike tours.
Eddy Merckx 
 At the same time he has been quick to point out that cycling is unfairly treated when compared to other sports.
Eddy Merckx 
 In the 1990s, he became a friend of Lance Armstrong and supported him when he was accused of drug use, stating he "believed what Lance told him than what appeared in newspapers".
Eddy Merckx 
 After Armstrong won his third Tour de France, Merckx predicted he would go on to win as many as seven.
Eddy Merckx 
 Merckx was nicknamed "the cannibal" because he wanted to win every race he participated in, never "arranging" a race with another competitor.
Eddy Merckx 
 Other nicknames were "the Einstein of the two-wheelers", and, courtesy of Jacques Goddet, "Le Géant" (The Giant).
Eddy Merckx 
 Eddy Merckx has a  namesake who is a multiple Belgian Champion and world champion 2006 in three cushion billiards.
Eddy Merckx 
 While climbing Mont Ventoux in 1970 to a stage win, he pushed himself so hard that oxygen had to be administered.
Eddy Merckx 
 In the mid-seventies Merckx figured in some television commercials for cigarettes; an act for which he was criticized and which he now regrets.
Eddy Merckx 
 When the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Belgium in 2005, she met Merckx as a cultural representative of Belgium.
Eddy Merckx 
 In the French comedy Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) (1973) with Louis de Funès, de Funès' character hears a conversation between a kidnapper and his victim, a revolutionary.
Eddy Merckx 
 When the revolutionary says: "The revolution is like a bike ( http://likeabikes.com  ): When it doesn't move forward, it falls.",
Eddy Merckx 
 In 2000, the Belgian magazine Knack declared him to be "Belgian of the Century" and another four years later, the magazine Humo called him "the Greatest Belgian".
Eddy Merckx 
 Merckx cameoed as himself in several movies, of which the 1985 movie American Flyers, starring Kevin Costner, is the best known.
Eddy Merckx 
 Because he has admitted doing this publicly the city of Stuttgart, Germany did not want to invite him to the world cycling championships being held in the city in 2007
Monstera 
 Monstera deliciosa is sometimes also grown for its fruit, which tastes somewhere between a banana and a pineapple.
Monstera 
 This is the case for example in Portugal, on Madeira, Morocco, some parts of India and Malaysia as well as in Florida.
Vine 
 In the United Kingdom, the term "vine" applies almost exclusively to the grapevine, whereas the term "climber" is used for all climbing plants.
Vine 
 In the United States, all climbing plants are called vines or ivies or sometimes creepers (like the Virigina Creeper).
Vine 
 These may be divided into woody vines or lianas, such as wisteria, kiwifruit, and common ivy, and herbaceous (nonwoody) vines, such as morning glory.
Aerial root 
 The Banyan tree (also known as strangler fig) grows them downward from branches into the forwst floor.
Tropical wave 
 Tropical waves, or easterly waves, also known as African easterly waves in the Atlantic Ocean, are a type of atmospheric trough, an extended area of moderately low air pressure, leaning north to south, which move from east to west across the tropics creating areas of cloudiness and thunderstorms.
Tropical wave 
 West-moving waves can also form from the tail end of frontal zones in the subtropics and tropics and may be called to as easterly waves, but these waves are not properly called tropical waves; they are a form of inverted trough sharing many characteristics with fully tropical waves.
Tropical wave 
 All tropical waves form in the easterly flow along the southern side of the subtropical ridge or belt of high pressure which is north and south of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
Tropical wave 
 Tropical waves are normally carried westward by the prevailing easterly winds along the tropics and subtropics near the equator.
Tropical wave 
 They can lead to the formation of tropical cyclones in the north Atlantic and northeast Pacific Oceans.
Tropical wave 
 A tropical wave is usually preceded by an area of sinking, intensely dry air, sloping as a northeast wind.
Tropical wave 
 With the passage of the trough line, the wind turns to the southeast, the humidity suddenly rises, and the atmosphere destabilizes, producing widespread showers and thunderstorms, sometimes severe.
Tropical wave 
 A notable exception to the general characteristic of widespread precipitation behind a tropical wave occurs in the Atlantic.
Tropical wave 
 Periodically, a surge of intensely dry air known as the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) is entrained behind a tropical wave, resulting in cloudless or nearly cloudless skies as convection is limited by the dry layer inversion.
Tropical wave 
 Also, any dust which may be present within the SAL reflects solar radiation, slightly cooling the atmosphere below it.
Tropical wave 
 Tropical waves in the Atlantic Ocean form from disturbances which drift off the continent of Africa onto the Atlantic Ocean.
Tropical wave 
 The clockwise circulation of the large transoceanic high-pressure cell or anticyclone centered near the Azores islands impels easterly waves away from the coastal areas of Africa to North America.
Tropical wave 
 About 60% of Atlantic tropical cyclones originally form from tropical waves, while about 85% of intense Atlantic hurricanes (Category 3 and greater) form from tropical waves.
Tropical wave 
 If a tropical wave is moving quickly, it can have strong winds of over tropical storm force, but is not considered a tropical storm unless it has a closed circulation.
Tropical wave 
 It has been suggested that eastern Pacific Ocean tropical cyclones are formed out of tropical waves that come from North Africa as well.
Tropical wave 
 During the summer months, tropical waves can go northward as far as the desert southwest of the United States, producing spells of intensified shower activity surrounded within the current monsoon area.
Agar 
 You can grow bacteria on agar plates: that is how bacteria are laid out for testing in hospital pathology departments.
Agar 
 The word "agar" comes from the Malay word agar-agar, a word which is used for "red algae", where the jelly comes from.
Australian Air Force Cadets 
 It was created to give training to young men (ages 14 to 20) who were interested in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
Cable 
 A communication cable is made of many wires or optical fibers twisted together to make a larger wire.
Cable 
 There are many kinds of cables, including coaxial cables which block out radio or magnetic interference from other wires or cables, by having one wire inside an insulated tube surrounded by a second wire, acting as a metal tube along the same axis.
Cable 
 Electrical cables are usually made of copper, because electricity moves well through copper, but it is not as expensive as silver or other better conductors.
Yellow jersey 
 The Yellow jersey (French: Maillot jaune [majo ʒoːn]) is the jersey worn by the leader of many multi-day (or stage) bicycle races, originally and most notably the Tour de France.
Yellow jersey 
 It allows the rider who was in the overall lead at the end of the previous day to be easily identified.
Yellow jersey 
 Because the Tour de France was the first to use a coloured jersey to identify the leader many newer races have chosen the same colour, for example the Tour of Germany.
Yellow jersey 
 The race's original sponsor was the sports newspaper (La Gazzetta dello Sport) which printed on pink paper, like many European sports newspapers.
Yellow jersey 
 In front of the press and spectators They are presented a special one that zips up at the back to make the presentation easier.
Yellow jersey 
 They will sometimes also autograph many copies of the jersey that are given out to VIPs with the race and their team.
Green jersey 
 In road bicycle racing, and especially the three Grand Tour stage races Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana, the Green jersey is the name given to a cycling jersey worn by the leader in a subsidiary competition.
Green jersey 
 For example, while the overall race leader in the Tour de France will wear the yellow jersey, or "maillot jaune", the green jersey ("maillot vert") will be worn by the leader in the points competition for sprinters.
Green jersey 
 In the Vuelta a Espana, the green jersey is worn by the "King of the Mountains", the leader in the competition for the best climber.
Green jersey 
 The Giro d'Italia also used a green jersey for its "King of the Mountains" from 1974 to 2011, but that jersey was changed to a blue jersey,  starting in 2012.
Green jersey 
 The following events use the "green jersey" to signify the current leader and/or final winner of the overall classification by time
Green jersey 
 The following events use the "green jersey" to signify the current leader and/or final winner of the overall classification by points (often known as the sprinters competition):
Green jersey 
 The following events use the "green jersey" to signify the current leader and/or final winner of the overall classification of the best climber :
Green jersey 
 Giro d'Italia (Italian: known as the maglia verde) – Used from 1974 to 2011; a blue jersey (maglia azzurra) is now used instead.
Rainbow jersey 
 From the bottom up the colours are: green, yellow, black, red and blue, the same colours that appear in the rings on the olympic flag.
Rainbow jersey 
 There are different jerseys for each discipline (road racing, track racing, cyclo-cross, BMX, and the types of mountain biking).
Rainbow jersey 
 A cyclist must wear the jersey when competing in the same discipline, category and speciality that he is world champion for.
Rainbow jersey 
 For example, the world road race champion would wear the jersey while competing in stage races and one-day races, but would not during time trials.
Rainbow jersey 
 Similarly, on the track, the world individual pursuit champion would only wear the jersey when competing in other individual pursuit events.
Rainbow jersey 
 They can still put their names on the world champion's jersey, but probably smaller because there is less space.
Rainbow jersey 
 A world champion who is leading a stage race wears the race-leader's jersey, not the world champion's, but only while he is the leader.
Derny race 
 A Derny is a motorised bicycle designed and built for motor-paced cycling events (e.g.: motor-paced races in six-day and Keirin racing) or motor-paced road races.
Derny race 
 The rider of the derny usually sits upright, this makes it easier for the cyclist by reducing wind resistance.
Escopetarra 
 The name is a  combination of the Spanish words escopeta (meaning shotgun/rifle) and guitarra (meaning guitar).
Escopetarra 
 At a gathering after the El Nogal Club bombing in Bogotá, he noticed a soldier holding a gun like a guitar and got the idea for it.
Escopetarra 
 López made five escopetarras, four of which were given to Colombian musician Juanes, Argentine musician Fito Páez, the United Nations Development Program, and the city  government of Bogotá, while one was kept for himself.
Escopetarra 
 Juanes later sold his escopetarra for US$17,000 at a Beverly Hills fundraiser held to help victims of anti-personnel mines, while the escopetarra given to the UN was exhibited at the June 2006 of the UN Conference on Disarmament.
Escopetarra 
 After they are turned into guitars, he plans to give them to popular musicians such as Shakira, Carlos Santana, and Paul McCartney, as well as political figures such as the Dalai Lama.
Escopetarra 
 However, a member of the Dalai Lama's staff rejected López' offer, saying it is not appropriate to give a weapon as a gift; López has said he will try to explain his purpose more clearly.
Sylvère Maes 
 Sylvère Maes (born August 27, 1909 in Zevekote – died December 5, 1966 in Ostend) was a Belgian cyclist, who is most famous for winning the Tour de France in 1936 and 1939.
Maurice Garin 
 He became a naturalized French citizen only in December 1901, when he was already a champion cyclist, winner of the second Paris-Roubaix.
Henri Cornet 
 Henri Cornet (born Henri Jardry 4 August 1884 - 18 March 1941) was a French cyclist who won the second Tour de France in 1904.
Henri Cornet 
 The race was spoiled by many problems including irate spectators throwing nails on the road in the final stage that forced Henri Cornet to ride the last 40 kilometres with two flat tyres.
Henri Cornet 
 There were a lot of complaints about cheating, the top four finishers were disqualified by a special committee of the French cycling union.
Henri Cornet 
 Although his overall time was three hours behind the first place rider, race officials declared Henri Cornet the winner in November 1903, when he was 19 years and 3 months old.
Henri Cornet 
 Such was the commotion over the 1904 race that Tour founder Henri Desgrange said it was probably the last time the race would ever be run.
Henri Cornet 
 The race winner Maurice Garin was suspended from competition for two years (he retired), and the second place finisher was banned for life.
Henri Cornet 
 nine cyclists were excluded because of illegal use of cars or trains and all of the stage winners were disqualified because of illegal agreements about allowing people to win.
Henri Cornet 
 He won the 1906 Paris-Roubaix race, but could not start the 1906 Tour de France, and had to abandon it again in 1907, but did manage 8th place finish in 1908.
Henri Cornet 
 A special timed lap run at a velodrome racetrack in Paris, the event was not counted as an official stage or towards the overall classification.
Paris-Roubaix 
 Paris-Roubaix is a famous single-day professional bicycle road race held in northern France starting in Compiègne and finishing in Roubaix, near the Belgian frontier.
Paris-Roubaix 
 Théo Vienne and Maurice Perez got the idea to run the race and in 1896, the sports newspaper Le Vélo worked out original route between Paris and Roubaix.