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The purpose of Circular Chess is to position their chess pieces in order to checkmate the opponent's king, ending the game. The game uses the same pieces as shatranj. The king and the counselor on the inner ring, next to each other. The next ring has the elephants, the next ring has the knights, and the last ring has the rooks.
The Citadel Military College of South Carolina[5] (simply known as The Citadel) is a public senior military college in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Established in 1842, it is the third oldest of the six senior military colleges in the United States. The Citadel was initially established as two schools to educate young men from ...
Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut (Hebrew: מוֹדִיעִין-מַכַּבִּים-רֵעוּת Mōdīʿīn-Makkabbīm-Rēʿūt) is a city located in central Israel, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv and 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Jerusalem, and is connected to those two cities via Highway 443. In 2022 the population was 99,171. [1]
Machu Picchu[a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [9] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [10] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province [11] above the Sacred ...
The Middle High German cognate merminne, [3] (mod. German " meerweib "), "mermaid", is attested in epics, [ 11 ] and the one in Rabenschlacht is a great-grandmother; [ d ] this same figure is in an Old Swedish text a haffru , [ 15 ] [ 18 ] [ e ] and in Old Norse a sjó kona ( siókona [sic.]; "sea-woman").
Wonder Woman (Earth-Two) Princess Diana of Paradise Island —the Wonder Woman of Earth-Two—was a member of the All-Star Squadron and secretary (and later a member) for the Justice Society of America. As Diana Prince, she worked in the U.S. War Department as an assistant to intelligence officer Steve Trevor.
Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021. [10][11] It was first detected in Botswana and has spread to become the predominant variant in circulation around the world. [12]
The Russian MoD reported that Ukraine was counterattacking near Vovchansk and Starytsia. Ukrainian officials, including the head of the Kharkiv military-civil administration, Oleh Synehubov , stated that Ukraine was anticipating a Russian offensive towards Zolochiv.