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Surfing video. The Eisbach (German, 'ice brook') is a 2-kilometre-long (1.2 mi) canal, part of Munich City Streams in Munich. It flows through the Englischer Garten park, and is a side arm of the Isar River. An artificial wave has been created on one section, which is popular among river surfers.
Munich has produced the best river surfers and was the first location that created a true surfing community around an inland river wave. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The scene has around 1,000 active surfers, while 10,000 in Munich will have tried it at some point.
The original 8-foot-deep (2.4 m) Tidal Wave pool at New Jersey's Action Park cost three lives in the 1980s, and kept the lifeguards busy rescuing patrons who overestimated their swimming ability. On the first day they officially opened their wavepool, it is said up to 100 people had to be rescued. [12]
Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling, and usually are sold together in a set as a deck of cards or pack of cards. The most common type of playing card in the West is the French-suited , standard 52-card pack , of which the most widespread design is the English pattern , [ a ] followed by the Belgian-Genoese pattern . [ 5 ]
Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage is a skateboarding and surfing game published by LJN for the Nintendo Entertainment System in February 1988. The game shares its name with the world famous surfboard manufacturer, Town & Country Surf Designs, and features the company's mascot characters, known as "Da Boys".
Playing cards (Spielkarten) originally entered German-speaking lands around the late 1370s. The earliest cards were probably Latin-suited like those used in Italy and Spain. [1] After much experimentation, the cards settled into the four aforementioned suits around 1450. [2] Closely related Swiss playing cards are used in German-speaking ...
The history of the playing card museum began in 1923 in Altenburg in Thuringia. On the initiative of Julius Benndorf, editor of the Altenburger Skatkalender (pseudonym Benno Dirf), and with the help of Carl Schneider, director of the United Stralsund Playing Card Manufacturers (later ASS), a one-room playing card museum called the Skatheimat (home of Skat), was added to the local history ...
On 16 November 1832, the brothers Bernhard and Otto Bechstein, in the residential town of the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, had been granted permission to manufacture German and French playing cards in the name of the Duchy and the Ducal Saxon Altenburg Playing Card Company (Herzogliche Sächsische Altenburger Concessionierte Spielkartenfabrik) was founded.