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The Badminton Library was published in three different formats: [1] The standard trade edition: octavo, bound in brown illustrated cloth. The deluxe edition: octavo, bound in half blue Morocco, gilt titles to the spines and bright orange boards with a gilt coat of arms to the upper board, top page edges gilt.
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
In Homer's Odyssey, the Land of dreams is located spatially in an imaginal landscape closely situated to the realm of the dead. It lies past the stream of Oceanus, which represented the boundary in cosmic space, beyond which the real world ends and the land of phantasy and ghosts begins. Book 24 of the Odyssey opens with a description of the ...
Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks , made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...
A dream world is sometimes invoked in dream visions such as The Book of the Duchess and Piers Plowman. [3] The Cheshire Cat vanishes in Wonderland. One of the best-known dream worlds is Wonderland from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as well as Looking-Glass Land from its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. Unlike many dream ...
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, [120] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.
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The literal meaning of the title is Dongjing (Eastern Capital, that is, Kaifeng), meng (dream), Hua (the ancient land of perfection) lu (record).. The allusion is to the Yellow Emperor's dream of the land of Hua Xu, "a sphere of perfect joy and harmony," where people knew no fear, selfishness, avarice, or pain.