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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).
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.
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 ...
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 ...
A house, as a dream symbol, is a prolific collective symbol that has great personal meaning. Water, as a dream symbol, can represent emotions, hidden beliefs and thoughts that influence waking ...
The BWF World Championships, aka the World Badminton Championships, is a badminton tournament organized by the Badminton World Federation. [1] It's the most prestigious badminton competition, offering the most ranking points , along with the Summer Olympics badminton events introduced in 1992. [ 2 ]
Two people playing jianzi A traditional jianzi A group playing jianzi in Beijing's Temple of Heaven park. Jianzi (Chinese: 毽子; pinyin: jiànzi), [Note 1] is a traditional Chinese sport in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their bodies apart from the hands, unlike in similar games such as peteca and indiaca.
In "Teenage Dream," Olivia is basically saying "I'm sorry that I couldn't always be your teenage dream," potentially reflecting on the years she's grown since and what it means to bid that era of ...