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The reward for sending an opponent's piece to the nest is a free move of twenty spaces that may not be split between pieces. [3] The reward for landing a piece in the home space is a free move of ten spaces that may not be split between pieces. [3]
The show faced a lawsuit when King Features Syndicate filed a case arguing that Sunil Agnihotri had copied the idea of The Phantom comic strips for the Betaal series. [4] [5] However, the court ruled that only the unique expression of an idea could be protected, not the idea itself.
Parchís board. Parchís is a Spanish board game of the original from the Cross and Circle family. [1] It is an adaptation of the Indian game Pachisi.Parchís was a very popular game in Spain at one point as well as in Europe and north Morocco - specifically Tangiers and Tetouan, and it is still popular especially among adults and seniors. [2]
Large ancient garden version – Fatehpur Sikri – India; marked squares can just be made out under the shadows of the onlookers. Louis Rousselet wrote: The game of Pachisi was played by Akbar in a truly regal manner. The Court itself, divided into red and white squares, being the board, and an enormous stone raised on four feet, representing ...
Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel (Serbian Cyrillic: Хазарски речник, Hazarski rečnik) is the first novel by Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, published in 1984.
The etymology of the word "Hazara" is disputed, with differing opinions on its origin. The first mention of the Hazaras appears Baburnama, written by the founder of the Mughal Empire, Babur, in the early 16th century and particularly referring some prominent Hazara tribes such as the Sultan Masudi [56] and Turkoman Hazaras.
The General in His Labyrinth (original Spanish title: El general en su laberinto) is a 1989 dictator novel by Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.It is a fictionalized account of the last seven months of Simón Bolívar, liberator and leader of Gran Colombia.
The name of the palace that is Hazarduari, in which Hazar means "thousand" and Duari means "the one with doors"; thus, the total sums up to "the one with a thousand doors". The palace earlier known as Bara Kothi has been named so as the palace has in all 1000 doors, of which 100 are false. They were built so that if any thief or robber tried to ...