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Random Thoughts & Interesting Things. CRAG (1A: Handhold on a free solo climb) A free solo climb is one done without ropes or other safety equipment, and is as dangerous as it sounds.
Hand of 10 Spanish-suited cards, Mexican pattern. Conquian is played by two or more players with Spanish playing cards or a 40-card pack of French playing cards either by removing the courts or by removing the 8s, 9s and 10s. The two-player game is sometimes called Colonel to distinguish it (see below).
Pato is Spanish for "duck", as early games used a live duck inside a basket instead of a ball. [3] Accounts of early versions of pato have been written since 1610. [2] The playing field would often stretch the distance between neighboring estancias (ranches). The first team to reach its own casco (ranch house) with the duck would be declared ...
Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net.
This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas. It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan, Aymara, Carib, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Taíno, Tarahumara, Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear).
Any number of people can play the Hand Game, but each team (the "hiding" team and the "guessing" team) must have one pointer on each side. The Hand Game is played with two pairs of 'bones', each pair consisting of one plain and one striped bone. ten sticks are used as counters with some variations using additional count sticks such as extra stick or "kick Stick" won by the starting team.
A ranch hand is a manual laborer on a ranch, such as a cowboy. Ranch Hand may also refer to: Operation Ranch Hand, a US Air Force operation during the Vietnam war; Ranch Hand Truck Accessories, an American manufacturer of heavy duty truck accessories; Rossi Ranch Hand, a Mare's Leg-style handgun
Le Jeu de L'Hombre (1695).. Ombre takes its name from the Spanish phrase originally used by the player who declared trumps: Yo soy el hombre, i.e.,"I am the man". It appears to be merely an alteration of the game Primero and it is to be presumed that it was invented prior to the publication of the Dictionary of Sebastián de Covarrubias in 1611, although it makes no mention of it. [14]