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Doughnuts in a display case at a coffee shop. A doughnut (sometimes spelt donut in American English; both (/ ˈ d oʊ n ə t /) is a type of pastry made from leavened fried dough. [1] [2]: 275 It is popular in many countries and is prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty vendors.
The Spanish Figure Skating Championships (Spanish: Campeonato de España de Patinaje sobre Hielo) are held annually to crown the national champions of Spain. Skaters compete in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, and novice levels, although not every discipline is held every year due to a lack of participants.
Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across an ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates. People skate for various reasons, including recreation (fun), exercise, competitive sports, and commuting .
In 1990, an ice rink opened at Baku's Heydar Aliyev Sports and Concert Complex but within a few years it was unable to maintain the ice surface due to a poor-quality cooling system. A 2019 report stated that Azerbaijan still had no functioning ice rink. [ 1 ]
An unusually icy spectacle transformed the Lake Michigan shoreline in one Wisconsin town. Ice donuts lined the lake's edge in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, on Tuesday following an Arctic outbreak this ...
Ice skating in Graz in 1909 Medieval bone skates on display at the Museum of London German ice skates from the 19th century, the boot came separately. According to a study done by Federico Formenti, University of Oxford, and Alberto Minetti, University of Milan, Finns were the first to develop ice skates some 5,000 years ago from animal bones. [2]
Jumps were viewed as "acrobatic tricks, not as a part of a skater's art" [7] and "had no place" [8] in the skating practices in England during the 19th century, although skaters experimented with jumps from the ice during the last 25 years of the 1800s. Hops, or jumps without rotations, were done for safety reasons, to avoid obstacles, such as ...
Krispy Kreme vs. Dunkin' Doughnuts are a beautiful thing: We've basically invented a way to eat dessert for breakfast — and though it seems like every U.S. city has its own favorite local ...