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Sleeping Dogs was the 20th-best-selling title of 2012 in the UK [91] and the best-selling original game. [92] According to NPD Group, Sleeping Dogs was the sixth-best-selling game in the United States in August 2012 [93] at 172,000 units. [94] PC sales for Sleeping Dogs were not counted, as it is only available by download in the US. [95]
Death of Osama bin Laden: . President of the United States Barack Obama announces in a special TV broadcast that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group Al-Qaeda and the most-wanted fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was killed on May 2 (Pakistan Standard Time) during an American military operation in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, Pakistan and that ...
A deliberately uncomfortable experience, [162] it involves the initiate sleeping on a mat on the floor, often with a stone for a pillow. [290] They wear a white tunic, [291] and a specific salt-free diet is followed. [292] It includes a lav tèt ("head washing") to prepare the initiate for having the lwa enter and reside in their head. [293]
A small single-story building where over 285,000 companies, or over 15% of all companies in the United States, are legally based. Crush, Texas: A temporary "city" established as the site of an 1896 publicity stunt, a staged train wreck. The wreck unexpectedly caused two deaths and numerous injuries among spectators. Crazy Horse Memorial
Mazar-i-Sharīf (/ m ə ˈ z æ r i ʃ ə ˈ r iː f / mə-ZARR-ee shə-REEF; Dari and Pashto: مزار شریف), also known as Mazar-e Sharīf or simply Mazar, is the fifth-largest city in Afghanistan by population, with the estimates varying from 500,000-680,000.
Sleep can follow a physiological or behavioral definition. In the physiological sense, sleep is a state characterized by reversible unconsciousness, special brainwave patterns, sporadic eye movement, loss of muscle tone (possibly with some exceptions; see below regarding the sleep of birds and of aquatic mammals), and a compensatory increase following deprivation of the state, this last known ...
The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, lit. ' Pilgrimage of Compostela '; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), [1] or the Way of St. James in English, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
London is an ancient name, attested in the first century AD, usually in the Latinised form Londinium. [36] Modern scientific analyses of the name must account for the origins of the different forms found in early sources: Latin (usually Londinium), Old English (usually Lunden), and Welsh (usually Llundein), with reference to the known developments over time of sounds in those different languages.