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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 August 2024. Genre of seated tabletop social play The board game Monopoly is licensed in 103 countries and printed in 37 languages. Young girls playing a board game in the Iisalmi library in Finland, 2016 Board games are tabletop games that typically use pieces. These pieces are moved or placed on a ...
This 16th-century fish stall shows many traditional fish products. The term fish processing refers to the processes associated with fish and fish products between the time fish are caught or harvested, and the time the final product is delivered to the customer. Although the term refers specifically to fish, in practice it is extended to cover ...
Pearl hunting. Pearl hunting, also known as pearl fishing or pearling, is the activity of recovering or attempting to recover pearls from wild molluscs, usually oysters or mussels, in the sea or freshwater. Pearl hunting was prevalent in the Persian Gulf region and Japan for thousands of years. On the northern and north-western coast of Western ...
The trading card game Magic: The Gathering has released a large number of sets since it was first published by Wizards of the Coast. After the 1993 release of Limited Edition, also known as Alpha and Beta, roughly 3-4 major sets have been released per year, in addition to various spin-off products. Magic has made three types of sets since Alpha ...
Antikythera wreck. The Antikythera wreck (Greek: ναυάγιο των Αντικυθήρων, romanized: navágio ton Antikythíron) is a Roman-era shipwreck dating from the second quarter of the first century BC. [1][2] It was discovered by sponge divers off Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900.
The ancient Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta Olympia[1]) were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held at the Panhellenic religious sanctuary of Olympia, in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin.
A maritime archaeologist with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program in St. Augustine, Florida, recording the ship's bell discovered on the 18th century "Storm Wreck." Maritime archaeology (also known as marine archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with the sea, [1] lakes ...
Preppy retailer J. Crew is bringing back its iconic catalog that once featured models on sailboats, at picnics and in the mountains — wearing J. Crew shorts, swimwear, sweaters and jackets, of ...