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The Cynic philosopher Diogenes, pictured by Gérôme with the large jar in which he lived; when strangers at the inn were expressing their wish to catch sight of the great orator Demosthenes, Diogenes is said to have stuck out his middle finger and exclaimed "This, for you, is the demagogue of the Athenians."
"The Name Game" is a song co-written and performed by Shirley Ellis [2] as a rhyming game that creates variations on a person's name. [3] She explains through speaking and singing how to play the game. The first verse is done using Ellis's first name; the other names used in the original version of the song are Lincoln, Arnold,
The first of these to unambiguously depict the paper fortune teller is an 1876 German book for children. It appears again, with the salt cellar name, in several other publications in the 1880s and 1890s in New York and Europe. Mitchell also cites a 1907 Spanish publication describing a guessing game similar to the use of paper fortune tellers. [20]
The game antakshari (ant means end, akshar means letter), played in India, Pakistan and Nepal also involves chaining, but with verses of movie songs (usually Bollywood songs). In Russia, a game similar to the Word chain is called Words (Russian: слова), or "A Game of Cities" ( Игра в города ) if played using city and town names.
Bird Word Mahjongg. Solve mahjongg word puzzles in this solitaire word building game from the creators of Lost Island Mahjongg. With over 100 different puzzles and virtually unlimited letter ...
flipping) is a popular variant of the game. It is played between at least two players, who each have a ddakji. The goal of the game is to flip the ddakji of the other player(s) before one's own is flipped. Players play rock paper scissors to determine turn order.
The 1827 book Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest, being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of popular toys and sports [11] featured the thaumatrope and warned against inferior copies.
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