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Every day an eagle (symbol of Zeus) would come and eat his liver.
Prometheus is immortal, so he never died, and his liver grew back every night.
But he still felt great pain.
Theoi Text, Theogony
Theoi Text, Works and Days
Theoi Text, Prometheus Bound
Theoi Mythology, Prometheus
Theoi Mythology, Pronoea
GML, Prometheus
Encyclopedia Mythica, Prometheus
Messagenet, Prometheus
Prometheus, a poem by Noevel (French)
Prometheus, a poem by Byron
In music, the pitch of a note means how high or low the note is.
In physics, it is measured in a unit called Hertz.
A note that is vibrating at 261 Hz will be caused by sound waves that vibrate at 261 times a second.
This will be Middle C on the piano.
Not all musical instruments make notes of a certain pitch.
Many percussion instruments like drums, triangles and cymbals are instruments used for rhythms.
They do not play tunes because they have no definite pitch (although often a definite pitch can just be heard when listening carefully.)
Some musicians have a sense of absolute pitch or pitch perfect.
This means that they always know what note is being played, even without comparing it to another note.
Having a sense of absolute pitch does not necessarily make someone a good musician, although it can be very useful.
Pitch is often confused with frequency.
Frequency is used as a scientific means for measuring and changing sound and its possible pitches, though pitch is used to describe a more psychological.
note (music)
scale (music)
wave (physics)
Pitch (music) Citizendium
A congregation is a group of people who have come together (congregated) for something, usually for religious worship.
In Christian churches the word “congregation” is often used to mean all the people in the main part of the church, but not the choir or the priests.
This term came from long ago after the church was first formed.
For example: the order of service might say that the choir will sing verse 1 of a hymn and "the congregation are asked to join in at verse 2".
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Technology, the use of the knowledge of tools and crafts
Skill, a learned ability to do something
The soursop, also known as the zuurzak, is the fruit of the tree Annona muricata.
The tree is from warm parts of the Americas.
At first it was only found in the Caribbean islands, parts of Central America and parts of South America.
Now it is grown in other warm and wet places, such as the Pacific Islands, Florida and Southeast Asia.
This fruit is large.
It has a spiky green skin, which is not eaten.
The inside of the fruit is white.
It contains a sweet but sharp-tasting juice.
The soursop contains black or brown seeds that are not eaten.
The fruit can be eaten raw, or it can be made into juice for drinking.
The juice is used to make candy and ice cream.
Some people use the soursop fruit or leaves as a medicine.
Although the fruit contains sugars and a lot of vitamins, it may not be good to eat a lot of it.
Scientists think that the soursop may make some people ill.
A pond-apple is a type of fruit.
It is not related to the apple.
They usually live near or in water.
Pore (skin), an opening in the surface of the skin
Stomata, a similar opening in a leaf
Vegetation means the plant life of a region or the plant community.
It means all ground cover by plants, and is the main element of the biosphere.
When you say vegetation you do not think of any species composition, life forms, structure, spatial extent, "naturalness", or any other specific botanical or geographic characteristics.
That is meant by flora which refers exclusively to species composition.
Vegetation can refer to a wide range of spatial scales.
Primeval redwood forests, coastal mangrove stands, sphagnum bogs, desert soil crusts, roadside weed patches, wheat fields, cultivated gardens and lawns; all are meant by the term vegetation.
Terrestrial Vegetation of the United States Volume I – The National Vegetation Classification System: Development, Status, and Applications  (PDF)
Federal Geographic Data Committee Vegetation Subcommittee
Vegetation Classification Standard  [FGDC-STD-005, June 1997] (PDF)
Mapping-related
USGS - NPS Vegetation Mapping Program
Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps
Free Vegetation Distribution Site – "free access to almost the entire Spot Vegetation ten daily synthesis archive"
Climate Diagrams
Climate Diagrams Explained
WBCS Worldwide Climate Diagrams
Player Killing (PKing) is a part of online gaming with real people.
It is when you kill another person's character.
Some other terms in pking are: PJing, which means pile jumping, or attacking someone when they are picking up the items dropped by a player they have just killed a player, Safer, which means someone who PKs safely (especially when eating or healing) and does not take risks, making it widely considered 'unfair' on the people trying to PK them and DD which means death dot, which is when people in a Player Killing team all stand in the same place as each other, making it appear to other players that there is only one person there.
However, "safing" varies in how other people perceive it.
It can be used to stay alive, however you usually lose a chance to hit when healing.
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The sebaceous glands are microscopic (tiny) glands in the skin which produce an oily/waxy substance, called sebum, to lubricate (oil) the skin and hair.
In people, these glands are found in greatest amounts on the face and scalp, joined near the top inside hair follicles or sweat pores.
However, they are in all skin areas except the palms and soles (undersides) of the feet.
There are different kinds of these glands and sebum.
In the eyelids, meibomian sebaceous glands emit a special kind of sebum into tears.
There are several related medical conditions, including: acne, sebaceous cysts, hyperplasia, sebaceous adenoma and sebaceous gland carcinoma (see section below: Diseases).
Washing skin or hair with plain detergent can cut the amount of sebum in oily skin.
Also, water temperature over  can keep sebum melted during a wash.
Locations and morphology
Sebaceous glands are often found in hair-covered areas, where they are connected near the top of hair follicles (see image at top).
The glands deposit sebum on each hair, and bring it to the skin surface along the hair shaft.
The structure consisting of hair, hair follicle, arrector pili muscle, and sebaceous gland is known as a pilosebaceous unit.
Sebaceous glands are also found in non-haired areas (glabrous skin) of the eyelids, nose, penis, labia minora, and nipples.
Here, the sebum travels along ducts which end inside sweat pores near the surface of the skin.
At the rim of the eyelids, meibomian glands are a specialized form of sebaceous gland.
They secrete a form of sebum (known as meibum) onto the eye, which slows the drying of tears.
Sebum
Sebaceous glands produce the oily, waxy substance called sebum (Latin, meaning fat or tallow) that is made of fat (lipids), wax, and the leftover dead fat-producing cells.
In the glands, sebum is produced within specialized cells and is released as these cells burst; sebaceous glands are thus classified as holocrine glands.
Sebum has no odor, but its bacterial breakdown can produce a bad odor.
Sebum is the cause of some people experiencing "oily" hair,
as in hot weather or if not washed for several days.
Earwax is partly composed of sebum.
Sebum can be washed using plain detergent, to dissolve the waxy material in the skin.
Also, water for washing should be over  to keep the sebum molten.
It is commonly believed that sebum acts to save skin from drying or to waterproof hair and skin.
But some scientists have contended that "low levels of sebaceous gland activity are not correlated with dry skin", and it may serve little or no purpose in modern humans.
The substances in sebum vary between species.
In people, the lipid content is as follows:
Isotretinoin
SMT D002
Spironolactone (suitable for females only)
Changes during development
The sebaceous glands of a human fetus in utero secrete a substance called Vernix caseosa, a "waxy" or "cheesy" white substance covering the skin of newborn babies.
The activity of the sebaceous glands increases during puberty because of heightened levels of androgens.
In males, sebaceous glands begin to appear predominantly on the penis, on the shaft and around the rim of the penile head during and after puberty.
This is however normal, not to be confused with an STD.
Sebaceous glands are involved in skin problems such as oily skin, acne, and keratosis pilaris.
In the skin pores, sebum and keratin can create a hyperkeratotic plug called a "microcomedo" which can block a pore and cause pimples.
The prescription medicine isotretinoin significantly reduces the amount of sebum produced by the sebaceous glands, and is used to treat acne.
The extreme use (up to 10 times doctor-prescribed amounts) of anabolic steroids by bodybuilders, for muscle gain can also cause acne.
The sebaceous gland is stimulated due to some steroid conversion into dihydrotestosterone.
This event may cause serious acne on the face, neck, chest, back and shoulders.
Importance to other animals
Histology at Boston University: 08801loa - "Integument: scalp".
MeSH name: Sebaceous+Glands.
A micro-organism or microbe is an organism which is microscopic, which means so small that people cannot see them with the naked eye.
The study of microorganisms is called microbiology.
Micro-organisms include bacteria, fungi, archaea, protists and viruses, and are among the earliest known life forms.
The first of these four types of micro-organisms may either be free-living or parasitic.
Viruses can only be parasitic, since they always reproduce inside other living things.
Most micro-organisms are unicellular organisms with only one cell, but there are unicellular protists that are visible to the human eye, and some multicellular species are microscopic.
Micro-organisms live almost everywhere on earth where there is liquid water, including hot springs on the ocean floor and deep inside rocks within the earth's crust.
Such habitats are lived in by extremophiles.
Micro-organisms are critical to nutrient recycling in ecosystems, because they act as decomposers.
Because some micro-organisms can also take nitrogen out of the air, they are an important part of the nitrogen cycle.
Pathogenic, or harmful, microbes can invade other organisms and cause disease.
Free-living micro-organisms
Free-living microbes get their energy in many different ways.
Some use photosynthesis, like plants do.
Some break down natural chemicals in their environment.
Others feed on things that were once living, such as fallen leaves and dead animals, causing them to breakdown or decay.
Some fungi and bacteria cause food to decay.
Moldy bread or fruit, sour milk, and rotten meat are examples of decayed food.
In nature, decayed materials mix with soil, providing essential nutrients for plants to use.
Without this process, the nutrients in the soil would run out.
These types of organisms are called decomposers.
They are the natural recyclers of living things on our planet.
Microbes also help us make some of our foods, such as bread, cheese, yogurt, beer, and wine.
They feed on the sugar in grain, fruit, or milk, giving these foods a special texture and taste.
Parasitic microbes
Some microbes, often called germs, cause illness or disease.
They are parasites which live by invading living things.
Chickenpox, mumps, and measles are all caused by viruses.
Some bacteria are also germs.
They cause many infectious diseases including tuberculosis and tetanus.
Certain bacteria cause tooth decay.
It is possible to protect humans against some harmful microbes by storing and preparing food properly, cleaning the teeth, washing hands, and by avoiding close contact with ill people.
Comensalism
All animals seem to have bacteria and protozoa living in or on them without doing much harm.
Sometimes, as with herbivores, the microorganisms are vital to the digestion of food.
The human gut has more organisms living inside it than there are cells in the human body.
Microbe News from Genome News Network
BBC News, 28 September, 2001: The microbes that 'rule the world' Citat: "... The Earth's climate may be dependent upon microbes that eat rock beneath the sea floor, according to new research....The number of the worm-like tracks in the rocks diminishes with depth; at 300 metres (985 feet) below the sea floor, they become much rarer..."
BBCNews: 16 January, 2002, Tough bugs point to life on Mars Citat: "...This research demonstrates that certain microbes can thrive in the absence of sunlight by using hydrogen gas..."
BBCNews: 17 January, 2002, Alien life could be like Antarctic bugs
Microbe fixes nitrogen at a blistering 92 C
Amoeba (plural = amoebae) is a well known genus of unicellular organism, a protist.
One of its most common species, the Amoeba Proteus, is about 0.2 to 0.3 mm large.
The amoeba was first discovered by August Von Rosenhof in 1757.
It is a genus of protozoa that moves with false feet, called pseudopodia.
The amoeba is a member of a whole group of amoeboid eukaryotic protists called Amoebozoa.
They are heterotrophs, eating bacteria and other protists.
The pseudopodia (false feet) are extensions of the organism's cell membrane.
They are used by the amoeba for phagocytosis (active food/nutrient intake) and motility (self-propelled movement).
Amoebae are often found within freshwater, typically on vegetation in decay in still or slow moving water, or in the benthic zone of some lakes.
However, they are common organisms of study because it is easy to keep them in a laboratory.
They are used to study protozoa and to demonstrate cell structure and function.
Wikibooks: compare size of cells
Amoeba info
The word laboratory is also used for other places where the work done or equipment used are like those in scientific laboratories.
a film laboratory or photographic laboratory
a computer lab
a medical lab
a clandestine lab for making illegal drugs
Last of the Conquerors is a 1948 novel by African-American novelist William Gardner Smith.
It concerns African-American GI's serving in United States occupied Germany after World War II.
The protagonist, Hayes Dawkins, has an affair with Ilse, a white German woman.
He and Ilse fight against racist Army officers and policies to sustain a relationship that some white soldiers condemn (although there are also many friendly whites who help them).
Last of the Conquerors shows post-Nazi Germany as more racially tolerant than the United States.
While this  may or may not be correct, Smith's novel gives an opinion of the Marshall Plan claiming that American society should be a model for the world, while African-Americans continued to deal with racism.
The novel begins on  a homecoming US troopship, as the Statue of Liberty comes into view, the reaction from the US troops is somber and wary,  resigned, but not at all glad to be home from the war.
They are "colored" troops.
After experiencing life in a society (recently liberated Germany), where racial prejudice was not a big factor, they steel themselves for dealing with a still very divided America.
An eyeopening look inside a (now hopefully past) society and its impact on those forced to deal with  the unremitting pressure of distrust and hate.
A profound reading experience.
1948 books
id Software is an American video game company.
They are most famous for their first-person shooter games.
They started in 1991.
Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
Spear of Destiny (1992)
Doom (1993)
Doom 2 (1994)
Heretic (1995)
Full 3D Games
Quake (1996)
Quake 2 (1998)
Quake 3 (1999)
Doom 3 (2004)
Quake 4 (2006)
Official id Software website
"A Chat With id Software ", a GameSpy interview with people at id Software
Heretic is a first-person shooter video game made by ID Software for computers.
It is like Doom, but it takes place in a fantasy world.
The monsters are mostly not human.
The player has the ability to look up and down, which they could not do in Doom.
The weapons are also fantasy weapons.
It uses the same base as Doom and Doom 2.
It has two sequels: Hexen and Heretic 2.
Official Heretic website from Raven
Official Heretic website from id Software
In biology, locomotion is the self-powered movement of limbs or other anatomical parts by which an individual moves itself from place to place.
Locomotion No.
1 is the name of an early steam railway locomotive, even older than Stephenson's Rocket.
Robot locomotion
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion is a 2004 computer game by Chris Sawyer.
Locomotion is a 1981 arcade game by Konami.
Locomotion (puzzle game) is a 1992 puzzle game by Andre Wuthrich published by Kingsoft.
Music by Gunnar Gaubatz (info from Gamebase database)
"The Loco-Motion" is a 1960s hit song, originally performed by Little Eva, and its accompanying dance.
"Locomotion" is a museum in the town of Shildon, County Durham, England.
"Locomotion" was a cable TV channel in Latin America.
Locomotion is a young adult novel in poetic form by Jacqueline Woodson.
Locomotion is a 9-piece horn band based in Connecticut (USA).
Started in June 1987, the band plays clubs, weddings, fairs, fund raisers, and private functions of all types.
Locomotion is a 6-piece soul band based in Wiltshire (UK).
Started in 1993, this band also plays clubs, weddings, fairs, fund raisers, and private functions of all types.
A meerkat (Suricata suricatta) is a small mammal that lives in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa.
Despite its common name, it is more closely related to the mongoose family than to cats.
A group of meerkats is called a "mob" or "gang", and usually all of the meerkats are relatives.
How meerkats act
Meerkats live in burrows in the ground.
They are active during the day, except when hot during the afternoon sun.
They also live in large family groups.
The group is led by a female and a male.
The meerkats are often all family.
They get rid of fleas in each other's fur to become friends, which is called "grooming".
Sometimes if a minor member is in trouble with the leader it will groom the leader to try and calm them down.
The meerkats help each other.
When the family is eating or playing together, one meerkat acts as a sentry, and looks out for predators.
If he or she sees one, then he gives a chirp and the group runs to a burrow to be safe.
Also, when pups are looking for food, adults bring them food and teach them how to eat it.
Before pups start looking for food with the group, they are babysat by older members at the burrow to protect them from danger.
Sometimes a female who never gave birth will produce milk for the pups.
Meerkats can share their burrows with many different animals, such as other mongooses and sometimes squirrels who live on the ground.
Sometimes even a snake will share the burrow with a meerkat.
Despite the family bond of meerkats, sometimes a female might kill another female's pups.
The leader might also kick out some females from the group.
Males sometimes leave the group for a short time to look for females in other groups to mate with.
Meerkats have many different chirps that they use for different reasons.
They have a different chirp for being friends, anger, and for warning of an animal that will eat them.
Eating behavior
Meerkats eat mostly insects, but they also eat lizards, snakes, spiders, birds, plants, eggs and other small mammals.)
Like all members of the mongoose family, meerkats cannot be hurt by some venoms, and they eat scorpions (including the stinger) and some snakes, without fear of illness, poison or death.
They have no extra body fat, so they must look for food every day and eat food every day.
When the meerkat group is eating, a guard will stand up and look for any animals that might eat its family.
If the guard sees an animal, it gives a loud chirp and the family will run to a hole to be safe.
Many animals eat meerkats.
Most eagles, hawks, and falcons will eat them.
Baby meerkats, called "pups" are sometimes also eaten by snakes.
Jackals and other big animals that eat meat will sometimes eat meerkats.
When pups are looking for food, they will cry loudly and an adult will come and feed them.
At first the adult gives the pup a dead animal, then when the pup is older, the adult will bring a live animal but will hurt it so the pup can kill it easier.
Then the adults start bringing live animals that are healthy, and when the pup gets the hang of eating these, the adults stop bringing food.
The meerkat body
The meerkat weighs about one and a half pounds and the meerkat is ten to fourteen inches long.
The meerkat uses its tail to balance because it stands up on its back legs to look for predators.
Round the eyes are black patches which lessen the bright light that comes into its eyes.
Meerkats have long claws that help them dig and fight.
The back of the meerkat is furry and it has stripes to help it not be seen by predators.
The front side is black and has no fur because it needs to get warm in the morning to be ready for the day.
Meerkats also have ears that can open and close.
They close in order to keep sand out when they are burrowing.
Having children
The meerkat is old enough to have children at one year.
Meerkats can have one to seven babies at one time.
Four is the most common.
Meerkats can give birth at any time of the year but like to give birth in spring and summer because there is more food.
Female meerkats can have up to three litters in one year.
When the babies are born they are pink and have no hair.
Their eyes and ears are closed.
When they are three weeks old, the mother allows them to get out of the burrow.
By this time their eyes and ears have opened and they have light brown fur.
The babies cannot be left alone so one of the other meerkats besides the mother stays behind to watch them.
After the mother mates with the father, the babies develop for eleven weeks.
Then she gives birth in a burrow.
She feeds the babies milk until they start looking for food with the rest of the group, which is when they turn one month old.
The leader of the group is a girl and her mate is the male leader.
This pair do not allow other minor members of their family to have babies.
If a female does, then the leader kicks her out and sometimes the leader kills her grandchildren.
Most of the meerkats in a group are either the leader's brothers and sisters or children.
David Macdonald (Photography by Nigel Dennis):  Meerkats.
London:  New Holland Publishers, 1999.
Animal Diversity – Meerkat
Learn About Meerkats
Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy.
About 130,000 people live in Ferrara.
The city was owned by the Este family during medieval times.
The current mayor is Tiziano Tagliani.
Modena is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.
About 190,000 people live in Modena.
It is the city of engines since the factories of the famous Italian sports car makers Ferrari, De Tomaso, Lamborghini, Pagani, and Maserati.
Worms is a video game where the player controls little cartoon worms who fight with weapons.
There are many games in this series.
It has guns and other weapons, but is not very violent because it is all cartoons.
Worms series
Official Worms 2 website
Official Worms Armageddon website
Official Worms World Party website
Official Worms 3D website
Official Worms Forts website
Official Worms 4: Mayhem website
Official Worms website  – information on older releases
Sega Genesis games
Diablo is a fantasy role playing computer game.
It was created by Blizzard Entertainment in 1997.
It has magic spells and demons in it.
You can be 3 different characters.
It was a very popular game.
Sequels of the game, Diablo II and III, were made.
Diablo IV, which is not yet ready, might come out in 2022.
Diablo Immortal, which is also not yet ready, is designed to be played with touchscreen.
At the 2018 conference, the presenter asked the following rhetorical question,
Jarulf's Guide to Diablo and Hellfire - According to Blizzard  , "the definitive in-depth guide to Diablo."
New, well-preserved finds such as Alxasaurus in 1993 and Beipiaosaurus in 1996 provided details about the bird-like pelvis, feet and skulls of primitive members.
This helped confirm they belonged to the same group of theropod dinosaurs as Therizinosaurus and that therizinosaurs were, more specifically, advanced, herbivorous maniraptoran theropods.
Their fossils were first found in the late 1940s in Asia.
They were named in 1954 after more bones were found.
It was a thought to be a carnivore and herbivore; it had very long claws - they were about 3 ft long.
The feeding habits of Therizinosaurus are unknown, since no skull material has ever been found that could indicate its diet.
However, like other therizinosaurs, it was probably primarily herbivorous.
There are multiple possible functions that could have been served by the claws of Therizinosaurus, such as defense against predators (e.g. the contemporary Tarbosaurus) and in intraspecific fighting, such as fighting for territory or for mating, or to pull leafy tree branches towards its mouth.
The claws may have served all these functions.
Therizinosaurs  (or segnosaurs) are  a clade of theropod dinosaurs which appear to be herbivorous.
Therizinosaur fossils have been found in Cretaceous deposits in Mongolia, the People's Republic of China and Western North America.
Various features of the forelimbs, skull and pelvis show they are theropods and maniraptorans, close relatives to birds.
Early finds were incomplete, and showed strange anatomy with features typical of theropods, prosauropods and ornithischians.
This led some scientists to think that segnosaurs were a late-surviving suborder of primitive dinosaurs.
It was not until the mid-1990s, that their true identity as herbivorous descendants of the carnivorous theropods became generally accepted.
Alxasaurus was discovered, and had more typical theropod features; and Therizinosaurus was recognized as a member of the segnosaur group.
The connection between the therizinosaurids and other theropods was made clear when primitive members of the group, such as Beipiaosaurus (1999) and Falcarius (2005) were discovered.
The scientists who described Falcarius noted that it seemed to represent an intermediate stage between carnivorous and herbivorous theropods, a sort of "missing link" between predatory maniraptorans and plant-eating therizinosaurs.
Prunes are dried plums.
They look like very large raisins, but they are in the genus Prunus.
plums
How to make aamras
Hexen is a first person shooter video game.
It is a sequel to the computer game Heretic, created by ID Software and Raven Software.
The player can choose to play as a fighter, a cleric (knight), or a mage (wizard).
Each character can use 4 different weapons.
The monsters are like the monsters in Heretic, but there are a few new ones.
This game uses a better design and plays much better than Heretic.
In Hexen, doors can open forward instead of just going up, you can jump, glass can break when you shoot it, and monsters can make things happen when they die, like making an item.
There is also more of a story in Hexen.
Official Hexen website from Raven
Official Hexen website from id Software
Official website for the Deathkings of the Dark Citadel expansion
Ratchet & Clank is a series of video games.
As of 2013, there are 13 separate video games.
In addition to the games, the characters are featured as action figures, in a manga, comic series and as cameo appearances in several other video games.
An animated film has been announced for release in 2015.
The main characters of the series are Ratchet and Clank.
Ratchet is a lombax, a type of alien made up for the game.
Clank is his robot friend.
They travel in space ships through the universe on many adventures.
In each game, Ratchet and Clank must work together to fight evil or bring cruel rulers to justice.
The series is noted for using unique and extreme weapons and devices.
Because of the popularity, the developer Insomniac Games added this feature to its other video games.
Ratchet and Clank was released on November 4, 2002 in North America.
Ratchet & Clank (2002)
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (Ratchet & Clank 2: Locked and Loaded in Europe)
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Ratchet & Clank 3 in Europe)
Ratchet Deadlocked (Ratchet Gladiator in Europe)
Secret Agent Clank
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus
Ratchet & Clank (2016)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
The Insomniac Games official website
Official page (redirects to Sony site)
The Ratchet & Clank series at NeoSeeker
Diablo II is a fantasy action role-playing  computer game.
The game was created by Blizzard Entertainment.
It sold more than 1 million copies in the first two weeks after its release.
It has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
The developer is remaking the game, with graphical improvements et cetera, known as  Diablo 2: Resurrected .
Storyline and quests
The game is divided into 4 acts.
Each act is one part of the story.
There are up to six quests in each act that must be completed before the player can go to the next act.
The last quest is always the one where the player has to beat a boss.
The bosses for each act are:
Act I: Andariel
Act II: Duriel
Act III: Mephisto
Act IV: Diablo
Characters Classes
The game has five different types (or classes) of characters to chose from.
Each character has a set skill tree, which is listed below.
Amazon - A bow and javelin using female character.
She is good at attacking from a distance.
Barbarian - A male fighter who is good with all weapons.
Necromancer - A male magic user who uses the undead as his weapon.
Paladin - A male holy warrior that uses both magic and weapons in a fight.
Sorceress - A female magic user who uses the powers of Lightning, Fire and Ice.
To increase a characters level in Diablo II, the player must run the character around killing the monsters that appear in the different areas.
Once a monster is defeated, it sometimes drops items or coins.
When a monster is killed, it will not come back until the game is saved and started again.
Each character has a certain amount of experience that they needs to gain before they can become the next level.
This number depends upon what level the character is.
The higher the level, the more experience is needed to level.
Each character gets 5 points each level to increase their attributes.
Players usually decide what to increase by what character class they are.
Necromancers and Sorceresses tend to get more Energy than Strength and Defense, while Barbarians and Paladins tend to get the opposite.
Each character gets 1 skill point each level to spend on a particular skill.
Many players choose only one part of the skill tree to train in.
That is the only one they put their skill points into.
Others put their points into more than 1 of the skill trees listed above per character.
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Expansion
Adds Druid and assassin classes
Adds Act 5
The Arreat Summit , official Strategy Guide
DiabloII.net - Diablo, Hellfire, Diablo II Fansite
He was declared a holy martyr that means canonised as Saint Edward the Martyr in 1001.
That seemed fair as Edward was thought to be a very good Christian who died for his faith and it was thought that the murderers were "irreligious" men.
Motive and details of his murder
Edward's stepmother, Queen Elfrida was against his accession to the throne as she wished her son, Ethelred, to become king instead.
However, Edward was supported by more people - including St Dunstan - and was confirmed by the Witan.
King Edward was said to be "a young man of great devotion and excellent conduct.
He was completely Orthodox, good and of holy life.
Moreover, he loved above all things God and the Church.
He was generous to the poor, a haven to the good, a champion of the Faith of Christ, a vessel full of every virtuous grace."
On King Edward's accession to the throne, there was a great famine in the land and violent attacks were stirred up against monasteries by a prominent noblemen who wanted the lands which his father King Edgar had endowed to them.
Many of these monasteries were destroyed, and the monks forced to flee.
However, the King stood firm together with archbishop Dunstan to defend the Church and the monasteries.
For this, some of the nobles decided to remove him and replace him with his younger brother Ethelred.
On March 18 978, the king was hunting with dogs and horsemen near Wareham in Dorset.
Then he decided to visit his young brother Ethelred who was being brought up in the house of his mother Elfrida at Corfe Castle, near Wareham.
He arrived alone at the castle.
When still on his horse Elfrida offered Edward a glass of mead, and when he was drinking it, he was stabbed in the back by one of the queen's party.
Ethelred himself was then only ten years old, so was not responsible for the murder.
An other tale comes from Henry of Huntingdon who tells that Elfrida herself committed the murder:
History of his relics
The story of the relics of St Edward began at the moment of his death (martyrdom).
Immediately following the murder, the body of the murdered king slipped from the saddle of his horse and was dragged with one foot in the stirrup until it fell into a stream at the base of the hill upon which Corfe Castle stands (From that time people thought that the stream had healing properties - particularly for the blind).
The queen then ordered that the body be quickly hidden in a hut nearby.
Within the hut however, there lived a woman blind from birth whom the queen supported out of charity.
During the night, a wonderful light appeared and filled the whole hut and struck with awe, the woman cried out: "Lord, have mercy!"
and suddenly received her sight.
At this she discovered the dead body of the king.
The church of St. Edward at Corfe Castle now stands on the site of this miracle.
At dawn the queen learned of the miracle and was troubled and again ordered the disposal of the body, this time by burying it in a marshy place near Wareham.
But a year after the murder a column of fire was seen over the place where the body was hidden, lighting up the whole area.
This was seen by some of the inhabitants of Wareham, who raised the body.
Immediately a clear spring of healing water sprang up in that place.
Accompanied by what was now a huge crowd of mourners, the body was taken to the church of the Most Holy Mother of God in Wareham and buried at the east end of the church.
This took place on February 13 980.
Because of a series of following miracles, the relics were brought to the abbey at Shaftesbury.
When the relics were taken up from the grave, they were found to be whole and not destroyed.
The transport of the relics was done in a great  procession on February 13 981 and arrived at Shaftesbury seven days later.
There the relics were received by the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey and were buried with full royal honours on the north side of the altar.
On the way from Wareham to Shaftesbury, a further miracle had also taken place; two crippled men were brought close to the bier and those carrying it lowered the body to their level, and the cripples regained full health at once. (
This procession and these events were re-enacted 1000 years later in 1981).
In 1001, the tomb in which the saint lay was said regularly to rise from the ground.
King Ethelred was filled with joy at this and instructed the bishops to raise his brother's tomb from the ground and place it into a more fitting place.
As the tomb was opened a wonderful fragrance issued from it - such that all present "thought that they were standing in Paradise".
The bishops then took away the sacred relics from the tomb, and placed them in a casket in the holy place of the Saints together with other holy relics.
This elevation of the relics of St. Edward took place on June 20 1001.
St. Edward was officially glorified by the All-English Council of 1008, presided over by St. Alphege, archbishop of Canterbury (who was later also martyred by the Danes in 1012).
King Ethelred ordered that the saint's three feast days (March 18, February 13, and June 20) should be celebrated throughout England.
Shaftesbury Abbey was rededicated to the Mother of God and St. Edward.
Shaftesbury was apparently renamed "Edwardstowe", only reverting to its original name after the Reformation.
Many miracles were recorded at the tomb of St. Edward, including the healing of lepers and the blind.
During the sixteenth century, under King Henry VIII, monasteries were dissolved and many holy places were demolished, but St. Edward's remains were hidden so as to avoid desecration.
In 1931, the relics were recovered by Mr. Wilson-Claridge during an archaeological excavation; their identity was confirmed by Dr. T.E.A. Stowell, an osteologist.
In 1970, tests performed on the relics suggested that the young man had been knifed in the back whilst riding his horse and had then been dragged along the ground by the terrified animal with his foot caught in a stirrup.
In about 1982, Mr. Wilson-Claridge donated the relics to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which placed them in a church in Brookwood Cemetery, in Woking, Surrey.
The St. Edward Brotherhood of monks was organized there as well.
The church is now named St Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church.
Orthodox Christians recognize Edward and other Westerners whose sainthood was declared before the formal split between Orthodox and Catholics in the 11th century.
Edward the Martyr at Find A Grave
960s births
970s deaths
Angel is a spin-off from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Angel has a darker feel than Buffy, and at times did better in the U.S. Nielsen Ratings than Buffy.
The series was created by Buffy'''s creator Joss Whedon along with David Greenwalt.
It first aired in October of 1999.
Like Buffy, it was produced by Whedon's production company, Mutant Enemy.
The series tells the story of the vampire Angel.
Angel had his soul returned to him as punishment for killing a gypsy girl.
This made him tormented by all the bad things he had done.
During the first four seasons of the show, he works as a private detective in a fiction version of Los Angeles, California.
There, he and a variety of others work to "help the helpless" and "save the souls" of those who had lost their way.
This usually meant fighting evil demons or humans that worked with demons (the law firm Wolfram and Hart).
He also had to fight his own violent nature. (
Not all "demons" in the Angel universe are evil beings.)
The fifth season saw Angel taking over as the person in charge of the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart.
This was done to try to fight evil from the inside.
Several years before the Angel first showed on television, writer Joss Whedon created the idea behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer to change the Hollywood formula of "the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror movie."
Whedon was not happy with the way that the Buffy idea was first done in the 1992 movie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,.
He was given the chance to do the story better with the television series of the same name.
The early years of the series were about the life of Buffy Summers, a high-school aged vampire slayer, and her group of friends in Sunnydale (a fictional small town in California).
The supernatural parts in the series took the place of the real problems that are a part of adolescence and young adulthood.
The character Angel was first seen in the first episode.
He became a regular cast member during the second/third seasons.
In the fictional universe created by Buffy (the Buffyverse), Angel was born in 18th century Ireland.
After being turned into a soulless immortal vampire, he became very well known for the evil things he did.
Over 100 years later, Angel killed a gypsy girl.
Her family punished him by returning his soul.
He felt a very large amount of guilt for what he had done over all those years.
Angel eventually began on a path of redemption.
He hoped that he might make up for his past by doing good deeds.
In the Buffy third season final episode, Angel leaves Sunnydale for Los Angeles to continue his path of redemption without Buffy.
Whedon believed that "Angel was the one character who was bigger than life in the same way that Buffy was, a kind of superhero."
While the main idea behind Buffy was "High school as a horror movie" in small-town America, Greenwalt and Whedon wanted to make Angel into a different "gritty, urban show".
Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt created a short video, often called the "Unaired Angel pilot" for the WB Network.
The idea for the series was a new version of the old detective genre.
On Valentine's Day, 2004, the WB Network said that Angel would not be brought back for a sixth season.
Joss Whedon posted a message on a popular fan site, The Bronze: Beta, in which he showed his surprise.
He said he was "heartbroken".
Fans  created letter-writing campaigns and online petitions.
They tried to get other networks, UPN mainly (the network that picked up Buffy), to pick up the show.
Angel's final episode, "Not Fade Away", aired on the WB May 19, 2004.
Angel (David Boreanaz) – Vampire over two hundred years old.
He was known as Angelus during the time he was causing evil across Europe.
He was cursed with a soul which gave him a conscience and guilt for the centuries of murder and torture he had done.
Angel moves to L.A. in search of redemption.
Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter) – At Sunnydale, Cordelia was a shallow cheerleader.
She is changed by the loss of her parents' financial support and her not becoming a star in L.A. She joins Angel Investigations to help Angel.
Allen Francis Doyle (Glenn Quinn) – He was born to a human mother and a demon father in Dublin, Ireland.
He became a messenger for the Powers That Be.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Alexis Denisof) – His failure as a Watcher and being fired from the Watchers' Council led Wesley to hunt demons.
He joined Angel and went on to lead Angel Investigations.
Charles Gunn (J. August Richards) - He grew up in a part of Los Angeles where the police were afraid to go.
Gunn grew up fighting vampires.
He did not trust Angel at first but eventually joins the group.
Winifred "Fred" Burkle (Amy Acker) – A young Texan physicist, she is trapped in a world where humans are enslaved by demons for five years.
Angel saved her and brought her back to L.A.
Connor (Vincent Kartheiser) – Connor is born in Los Angeles, California.
He was a "miracle", a human child born of two vampires, Angel and Darla.
He was taken to a hell dimension.
He spent his childhood and much of his adolescence there.
He came back to L.A. as an angry young man.
Lorne (Andy Hallett) – Lorne was a demon.
Lorne lived in L.A. as the host of a Caritas, a violence-free demon-friendly karaoke bar.
He can see into people's souls when they sing.
His full name is Krevlorneswath of the "Deathwok Clan".
Spike (James Marsters) – A vampire who roamed Europe with Angel in the late 19th century.
He joins the team after getting back his own soul.
Illyria (Amy Acker) – One of the Old Ones.
She was one of the first demons who ruled the area that now includes  California.
Long ago, Illyria's corpse was placed in a stone sarcophagus.
Her powers were taken away and put in jewels on her coffin.
Illyria came back by infecting the body of a human (Winifred Burkle).
Harmony Kendall (Mercedes McNab) – At high school, she was a member of Cordelia Chase's popular clique, the "Cordettes".
During her graduation, she is turned into a vampire.
She kept her "bubbly" personality, and many of her bad personality traits.
This made her very bad as a vampire.
She decided to get a job with evil law firm Wolfram and Hart as a secretary.
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All Things Philosophical on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (includes Angel content)
Corfe Castle is a small village and ruined castle dating back to the 11th century.
It is in a gap in the Purbeck Hills, five miles south of Wareham, in Dorset, England.
The oldest surviving structure on the castle site dates to the 11th century, although there are good reasons to suppose that there was a stronghold there before the Norman Conquest.
Edward the Martyr was killed at the site on March 18, 978.
The castle was besieged in the English Civil War.
After it was captured it was partly demolished (slighted).
Corfe Castle Website
Corfe Castle information at the National Trust
Sources on Corfe Castle
The stirrup is a ring with a flat bottom fixed on a leather strap, usually hung from each side of a saddle to create a footrest for the rider on a riding animal (usually a horse or a mule), suspended by an adjustable strap from the saddle for use as a support for the foot of a rider of a horse when seated in the saddle and as an aid in getting up.
Château-d'Œx is a commune in Vaud canton Switzerland.
The other members of its canton have birds in their flags.
Sir John Major  (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997.
He served as a member of the Cabinet under Margaret Thatcher as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1987–1989), Foreign Secretary (1989) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1989–1990).
Major was born at St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children in St Helier, London, in England and left school at the age of 16.
He became a Conservative councillor in 1968.
At the 1979 general election, Major was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdonshire (Huntingdon after 1983).
After holding several cabinet positions, Major was elected to replace Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister and party leader.
On taking office, he saw British action in the Gulf War (1991) and his party's narrow re-election in the 1992 general election.
After this, the Conservatives under Major became unpopular because of the "Black Wednesday" stock market crash in late 1992 and how they became divided over the issue of European Union.
Beaten at the 1997 general election, Major stood down as Prime Minister for Tony Blair of the Labour Party, and was replaced as Conservative leader by William Hague.
He stood down as an MP at the 2001 general election.
Major married Norma Johnson (now (Dame) Norma Major ) on 3 October 1970.
She was a teacher, and a member of the Young Conservatives.
They became engaged after only ten days.
They have two children; a son, James, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
They have a holiday home on the coast of north Norfolk, near Weybourne.
People from Surrey
For other meanings of the word "canon" see canon.
A canon is a piece of voices (or instrumental parts) that sing or play the same music starting at different times.
A round is a type of canon, but in a round each voice, when it finishes, can start at the beginning again so that the piece can go “round and round”.
Perhaps the most well-known canon is the Pachelbel Canon written by Johann Pachelbel.
Different types of canon
There are different kinds of canon.
Canons can be described according to distances between the entries of the voices.
If the second voice starts one bar (one measure) after the first voice, this is called a “canon at the bar”.
If it starts after only half a bar, it is called a “canon at the half-bar”.
It is even possible to have very close canons, e.g. “canon at the quaver (eighth note)”.
Olivier Messiaen wrote a 3 part canon at the quaver in his ''' for violin and piano.
The pianist’s right hand (playing chords), his left hand and the violinist are the three parts.
Canons can also be described according to the intervals between two voices.
If one voice starts on a C and the next voice starts the same tune on an F above this is a “canon at the fourth” (because the interval (distance) from C to F is called a “perfect fourth”).
If the second voice has the tune upside down (inversion) this is called “canon in inversion”.
If the second voice has the tune at half the speed (each note being twice as long) this is a “canon in augmentation” or an “augmented canon”.
The opposite is a “canon in diminution”.
“Strict canon” means a canon where each voice imitates the first voice exactly all the way through the piece.
If this does not happen (i.e. if it starts off as a canon but then becomes freer) it is “free canon”.
A canon may start off sounding like a fugue, but fugues have their own form and rules.
Canons in the history of music
Canons were already popular in the 14th century when composers enjoyed writing music for several voices in which each voice has a share of melody (this is called polyphonic music.)
Composers like Guillaume de Machaut wrote canonic music.