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The word yo-yo probably comes from the Ilocano term yóyo, or a cognate word from the Philippines. [1] [2]Boy playing with a terracotta yo-yo, Attic kylix, c. 440 BC, Antikensammlung Berlin (F 2549) A 1791 illustration of a woman playing with an early version of the yo-yo, which was then called a "bandalore" Lady with a yo-yo, Northern India (Rajasthan, Bundi or Kota), c. 1770 Opaque ...
The Yo-Yo intermittent test is aimed at estimating performance in stop-and-go sports like football (soccer), cricket, basketball and the like. It was conceived around the early 1990s by Jens Bangsbo , [ 1 ] a Danish soccer physiologist, then described in a 2008 paper, "The Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test". [ 2 ]
Yo! Noid, known in Japan as Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru, [a] is a platform video game developed by Now Production and published by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System.The game was first released in Japan on March 16, 1990, and was localized in the United States to promote the Noid, the mascot of Domino's Pizza.
Prehistorik Man, like its predecessor, takes place in a fictionalized Stone Age.In the middle of the night, greedy dinosaurs steal all the food from a small village. With winter coming and the village inhabitants facing starvation, the Village Chief summons Sam, a young and agile villager, and tasks him with obtaining food to help the village survive the impending winter.
Yo-Yo Ma [a] (born October 7, 1955) is a French-American cellist. [1] Born to Chinese [ 2 ] parents in Paris , he was regarded as a child prodigy there and began to study the cello with his father at age four.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is a 2014 action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Australia, with assistance from Gearbox Software and published by 2K. It is the third game in the Borderlands series , and is a spin-off set after 2009's Borderlands and before 2012's Borderlands 2 .