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157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
from the south, a Polish battalion threatened the Russian rear, but it was quickly hemmed in by Russian infantry, the Austrian "Karaczay" Dragoons and Cossacks and 230 men were forced to lay down their arms. An alert French staff officer, Pierre Edmé Gautherin brought the divisions of Rusca and... | 2,300 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
began when the "Levenehr" Dragoons and "Molchanov" Cossacks clashed with some French horsemen and drove them back. Starting at 5:00 pm, Förster slowly pressed back the right wing of Victor's division. Finally the French evacuated Gragnano and fell back across the Trebbia.
Salme's Advanced Guar... | 2,301 |
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outnumbered unit. Together, Ott and Fröhlich pushed Montrichard and Olivier back beyond the Trebbia by evening. That night in a bizarre operation, Rosenberg took two Russian grenadier battalions across the Trebbia south of Gossolengo. They somehow penetrated the French lines as far as Settima w... | 2,302 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
artillery, three French battalions mounted an extemporaneous attack at 9:30 pm, surprising an Austrian battalion. Melas called up reinforcements from his own and Förster's divisions while Prince Liechtenstein charged into the fray with the "Lobkowitz" Dragoons. The artillery of both sides opene... | 2,303 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
at the north end of the battleline and sent 12 artillery pieces to the west bank of the Trebbia to blast the French positions. Two French battalions crept forward to deal with the threat, but they were discovered and driven off by the murderously effective fire of two masked cannons. Also durin... | 2,304 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
good morale. He still believed his army was outnumbered but he hoped to preempt an Allied assault. In the south Rusca and Victor were directed to attack side-by-side near Casaliggio, supported by an outflanking move by Dombrowski via Rivalta. Montrichard was ordered to cross the Trebbia near Gr... | 2,305 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
of Canetto before they ran into the Russians. Accompanied in person by Suvorov, the Russians defeated their mostly Polish opponents with serious losses and forced them to retreat to the east bank. Rusca's initial advance was blunted by the fire of 14 artillery pieces belonging to Schveikovsky's... | 2,306 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
Grenadier Regiment. Suvorov appeared on the scene to rally his Russians. Rosenberg swung the left wing of Schveikovsky's division to face the northern edge of Rusca's breakthrough while Bagration hurried north to hit the southern edge. At the same time, Chasteler borrowed four battalions from F... | 2,307 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
but was hit by a devastating volley from an Austrian grenadier battalion. Montrichard's other units advanced in columns which were out of touch with each other. When Fröhlich's grenadiers and Förster's division counterattacked, Montrichard's division dissolved and its soldiers took to their hee... | 2,308 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
forward to check on the situation and found a crowd of Austrian troops running away from Olivier's assault. He immediately went back to his command and led two squadrons each of the "Lobkowitz" and "Levenehr" Dragoons and one squadron of the "Archduke Joseph" Hussars against Olivier's south fla... | 2,309 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
the far right flank. Moving in two bodies, the French force brushed aside the Austrian outpost line. The right thrust reached Ca' Pernici on the Po's south bank while the left thrust carried almost to Calendasco. Here Watrin paused because the noises from Olivier's fight were not encouraging. B... | 2,310 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
from the Mantua siege corps under the command of Colonel Kinsky unlimbered on the north bank of the Po. The Austrian guns proceeded to bombard their enemies, encouraging them in their decision to recross the Trebbia though the Austrians made prisoners of 300 French. The firing ended in the nort... | 2,311 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
were coming to his assistance, MacDonald issued the orders to retreat at 10:00 pm. As soon as the engineers bridged the Nure River, the artillery and wagon train were sent across, followed by the infantry starting about midnight.
## Nure River - 20 June.
Suvorov determined to finish with the ... | 2,312 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
admitted losing 254 killed, 1,903 wounded and 500 missing for a total of 2,657. Historian Christopher Duffy rounded these figures up to 6,000 Allied casualties. Digby Smith reported similar Allied losses, though he included three Russian generals wounded. From a total of 33,000 French, he estim... | 2,313 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
French and 7,000 Allied, but asserted that 5,000 French became prisoners during the retreat that followed. French General of Division Alexis Aimé Pierre Cambray was mortally wounded during the battle and died 2 July.
The Austrians advanced into Piacenza where they found the wounded generals Ol... | 2,314 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
Bagration's Advance Guard came up and Chasteler deployed it for a full-scale attack on San Giorgio. Intense musketry held off the "Bagration" and "Miller" Jägers on the flanks but the combined grenadiers won a foothold in the village. Suvorov was forced to commit part of the divisions of Förste... | 2,315 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
mangled army was no longer a threat to northern Italy and marched the Allied army back west on the 23rd, hoping to catch Moreau between himself and Belegarde. Ott with 7,000 foot, 2,000 horse and 15 guns continued the pursuit. MacDonald ordered Montrichard's division to the east where it was us... | 2,316 |
157757 | Battle of Trebbia (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle%20of%20Trebbia%20(1799) | Battle of Trebbia (1799)
s back at Pistoia where it stayed for several days before marching to the west coast in early July. The still ailing MacDonald was shipped off to France and replaced in command by Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr. The garrisons in south and central Italy were picked off one-by-one by the Allies. Naple... | 2,317 |
20108 | Mick Doohan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan
Mick Doohan
Michael "Mick" Sydney Doohan, (born 4 June 1965) is an Australian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships. Only Giacomo Agostini with eight (seven consecutive) and Valentino Rossi with seven (five consecutive) have won more pr... | 2,318 |
20108 | Mick Doohan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan
Australian motorcycle Grand Prix to be held in the TT format at Mount Panorama before the race became a round of the World Championship the following year and moved to Phillip Island. He is one of the few 500 cc or MotoGP World Champions to have won a Superbike World Championship race.
He made his Grand Pr... | 2,319 |
20108 | Mick Doohan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan
to be on his way to winning his first world championship when he was seriously injured in a practice crash before the 1992 Dutch TT. He suffered permanent and serious damage to his right leg due to medical complications and, at one stage, faced amputation of the leg. At the time, Doohan was 65 points in the... | 2,320 |
20108 | Mick Doohan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan
in that year it was all he could do to just keep his ride at Honda. It was also during this time he switched to a left thumb-operated rear brake, as his right foot is no longer able to perform this function.
In 1994 however, he won his first 500 cc World Championship. Thereafter, until 1998, he dominated t... | 2,321 |
20108 | Mick Doohan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan
up to eight rivals on non-factory HRC Honda motorcycles Doohan's margin of superiority over them was such that in many races Doohan would build a comfortable lead and then ride well within his limits to cruise to victory. Although pure riding skill clearly played a large part in his success, the ability of ... | 2,322 |
20108 | Mick Doohan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan
Honda engineers had their head with Rossi willing to try more innovations).
One notable trait of Doohan's post-crash riding style was the use of a thumb-operated rear brake developed during 1993 owing to the reduced range of motion in his ankle. This was operated by a "nudge" bar similar to a personal wate... | 2,323 |
20108 | Mick Doohan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan
as a roving adviser to Honda's Grand Prix race effort. At the conclusion of the 2004 season, Doohan and Honda parted company.
In June 2011, Doohan made an appearance at the Isle of Man TT. Doohan completed a parade lap, and was most enamored by the thrill and spectacle of the Snaefell Mountain Course. He t... | 2,324 |
20108 | Mick Doohan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan
partner of eleven years, on Tuesday 21 March 2006, on Hamilton Island; the couple have two children, including racing driver and Red Bull junior Jack Doohan.
# Formula One.
After his success in Grand Prix motorcycle racing he got a chance to test a Formula One race car, the Williams FW19, at Circuit de Ca... | 2,325 |
20108 | Mick Doohan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan
Doohan's Motocoaster.
Doohan helped design an Intamin Motorbike Launch Roller Coaster, named Mick Doohan's Motocoaster. The ride is located at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
# Honours.
Doohan was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1996 and received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000. H... | 2,326 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam
In 1981, the series was re-edited for theatrical release and split into three movies. The characters were designed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and Kunio Okawara was responsible for the mechanical designs, including the eponymous giant robot, the RX-78-2 Gundam. The first movie was rele... | 2,327 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
the anime, leading to the creation of a prolific and lucrative media and toy franchise. The series is famous for revolutionizing the giant robot genre due to the handling of mobile suits as weapons of war as well as the portrayal of their pilots as ordinary soldiers, as opposed to the previous style ... | 2,328 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
every space colony and lunar settlement. Zeon, though smaller, has the tactical upper hand through their use of a new type of humanoid weapons called mobile suits. After half of all humanity perishes in the conflict, the war settled into a bitter stalemate lasting over 8 months.
The story begins wit... | 2,329 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
accidentally finds the Federation's new prototype arsenal—the RX-78 Gundam, and manages to beat back Zeon forces. Scrambling everything they can, the "White Base" sets out with her newly formed crew of civilian recruits and refugees in her journey to survive.
On their journey, the White Base members... | 2,330 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
Baoa Qu to defeat the Zeon forces, Amuro engages on a final one-on-one duel against Char due to both blaming the other for Lalah's death. Having realized he forgot his true enemy, Char stops fighting to kill the last surviving Zabi member, Kycilia Zabi. Amuro then reunites with his comrades as the wa... | 2,331 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
to ally with Char (who is given a red Gundam), but finally having to battle him after he takes control of the Principality of Zeon. The original concept found expression in a series of novels written by Tomino soon after the show's conclusion, and elements of the storyline weaved themselves into "Zet... | 2,332 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
story to make viewers confront the tragic realities of war. The director was unwilling to discuss the message of his work, expecting the viewers to reach their own conclusion. Additionally, he commented he "packed his frustrations" when making "Gundam".
Tomino met mechanical designer Kunio Okawara w... | 2,333 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
for the anime series Gundam, it was actually a salvaged design from the anime "Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3". The idea of having a space carrier from Tomino is partly inspired by the earlier science fiction anime "Space Battleship Yamato", in which he claimed to be a fan of. It was intended to be i... | 2,334 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
in the real world, since it would be a sitting duck from fighter aircraft. Tomino still held a grudge 10 years after the show aired and stated in an interview in "Newtype" 1989 April issue that the imaginary enemies of Gundam are Sunrise, sponsors and television stations.
Tomino compares the machine... | 2,335 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
as a common setting. In order to explain how could such a young man as Amuro pilot the Gundam, the team came up with the idea of making him a Newtype.
# Media.
## Anime.
In February 1980, "Mobile Suit Gundam" was aired in Italy, the first country to broadcast the show outside Japan. "Mobile Suit G... | 2,336 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
English-dubbed version of "Mobile Suit Gundam", premiering on Cartoon Network's Toonami weekday afternoon after-school action programming block across the United States on Monday, July 23, 2001. The series did not do as well as "Wing" but the ratings were high enough for the whole series to be aired ... | 2,337 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
2002.
On Saturday, June 8, 2002, the series was given another chance by Cartoon Network on their late-night Adult Swim block, but it was again pulled before completing its run because of low ratings.
On May 30, 2006, Bandai Entertainment re-released the English dub of the TV series in a 10 volume D... | 2,338 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
announced that they would re-release "Mobile Suit Gundam" with both the original Japanese audio and the English dub. Only one episode out of the 43 episode will not be dubbed, at the request of Yoshiyuki Tomino. Bandai released Gundam in two sets in the summer of 2011. The first set was released on S... | 2,339 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
July 25, 2015, UK anime distributor Anime Limited announced they will release Mobile Suit Gundam in cooperation with Sunrise for the first time in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray.
In both American TV showings and on the international DVD and Blu-ray release, episode 15 ("Cucruz Doan's Island") was cut out... | 2,340 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
him to depict his story in a more sophisticated, adult, and detailed fashion. Along with this adaptation came several major changes to the story. For example, Amuro is already a member of the Federation military at the time of the initial Zeon attack on Side 7, and the main characters in the Federati... | 2,341 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
by a Rick Dom's beam bazooka. This occurs as Char's unit attempts to warn him about Gihren's intention to destroy the fortress and take the Federation's offensive fleet along with it. Char and the crew of "Pegasus II" ("White Base"), along with handpicked men under Kycilia Zabi's command, make a deep... | 2,342 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
there were no officially recognized romanizations of character and mecha names, and a variety of different spellings were being used in the English-language fan community. In the original three novels, therefore, Mr. Schodt wrote the name "Char" as "Sha." "Sha" is a transliteration of the Japanese pr... | 2,343 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
"Jion" as "Zeon," instead of "Zion," which was in use in some circles. Some North American fans, already attached to particular spellings, took great umbrage at Schodt's renditions, forgetting that in the original Japanese most character and mecha names are written in "katakana", and that there were,... | 2,344 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
translation of the books, which had been out of print for nearly a decade. What had been a three volume set in the 1990 Del Rey edition was re-released by Stone Bridge Press as one single volume of 476 pages (with a vastly improved cover design), titled "Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Con... | 2,345 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
in 1981 Tomino reworked the footage into three separate compilation movies. The first two movies, "Mobile Suit Gundam" and "Mobile Suit Gundam: Soldiers of Sorrow", were released in 1981. The third movie, "Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space", was released in 1982.
Each of the three movies is la... | 2,346 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
Core Booster support fighters, and Hayato receives a RX-77 Guncannon at Jaburo to replace the disadvantaged RX-75 Guntank. The third movie also includes a substantial amount of new footage expanding on the battles of Solomon and A Baoa Qu.
The first "Gundam" film, upon release on 22 February 1981, d... | 2,347 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
1982's fourth highest-grossing Japanese film, with a distribution income of and a total box office gross of . Collectively, the trilogy grossed at the Japanese box office.
In 1998, the three compilation movies were first released directly to VHS subtitled into English as part of Bandai's AnimeVillag... | 2,348 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
members rerecorded their lines with the exception of those who were deceased. The 20th anniversary release was digitally remastered and many of the sound effects were replaced, most notably the futuristic gun sounds being replaced by louder machine gun sound effects. Also, the music soundtrack, while... | 2,349 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
2010, Bandai Entertainment re-released the 20th anniversary version of the trilogy under their Anime Legends label. As with the TV series, the movies will be re-released in North America under Sunrise themselves with distribution from Right Stuf Inc.
The trilogy of films were distributed on DVD in t... | 2,350 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
Manga.
There have been two manga series based on "Mobile Suit Gundam". The first one is "Mobile Suit Gundam 0079" by Kazuhisa Kondo. It was published in "Dengeki Comics" from 1985 to 1986 in a total of twelve "tankōbon" volumes. Viz Media later published its first nine volumes between 2000 and 2003.... | 2,351 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
there is a popular parody yonkoma manga titled "Mobile Suit Gundam-san", which was written and drawn by Hideki Ohwada and serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's "Gundam Ace" magazine since 2001. This manga was adapted into an anime in 2014. Ohwada also created a spinoff manga, , which follows Yoshiyuki Tomi... | 2,352 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
mobile suits from the original "Gundam" series. Of these, the following have been released in North America:
- "Gundam Battle Assault, Gundam Battle Assault 2"
- ""
- ""
- ""
- "" ("Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight" in Japan and Australia)
- "" ("Mobile Suit Gundam: True Odyssey" in Japan)
... | 2,353 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
The One Year War"
- "" (also referred to as "Ace Pilot")
- Gundam Battle (series)
- SD Gundam G-Generation (series)
- ""
- ""
# Reception.
"Gundam" was not popular when it first aired, and in fact came close to being cancelled. The series was originally set to run for 52 episodes but was cut d... | 2,354 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
introduction of their line of Gundam models, the popularity of the show began to soar. The models sold very well, the show began to do very well in reruns and its theatrical compilation was a huge success. Audiences were expecting another Super Robot TV show, and instead found "Gundam", the first wor... | 2,355 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
series revolutionized mecha anime, introducing the new Real Robot genre, and over the years became synonymous with the entire genre for many. As a result, for example, parodies of mecha genre commonly feature homages to "Mobile Suit Gundam", thanks to its immediate recognizability.
The series was th... | 2,356 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
LD, DVD, etc.). The first DVD box set sold over 100,000 copies in the first month of release, from December 21, 2007 to January 21, 2008. As part of the 30th Anniversary of the Gundam series, the company officially announced a project on March 11, 2009 called "Real-G", a plan to build a 1:1 real size... | 2,357 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
of the series' critical response has been owed to the setting and characters. John Oppliger observes that the characters of Amuro Ray, to whom the young Japanese of that time could easily relate, and Char Aznable, who was "simply [...] fascinating", made a major contribution to the series' popularity... | 2,358 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
rather than evil creatures. However, the animation has been noted to have notoriously aged when compared with series seen in the 2000s.
Mecha anime creator Shoji Kawamori attended Keio University in the same years as "Macross" screenwriter Hiroshi Ōnogi and character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, wher... | 2,359 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
on "Pacific Rim".
American musician Richie Kotzen, former guitarist from Poison and Mr. Big, released an album called "Ai Senshi ZxR" in 2006 in Japan. The album consisted of covered music from the Gundam series and original songs. American musician Andrew W.K. also released an album called "Gundam ... | 2,360 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
(sides) are based on the O'Neill cylinder design for space habitats. The Gundam franchise was a major contributing factor to the fame of the O'Neil cylinder in Japan.
## Gundam-themed rides.
"Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu" was an amusement park attraction at the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park located ... | 2,361 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
characters were hand-drawn cel animation, similar to the style current "Gundam" video games are done in. All of the character designs for Gundam the Ride were done by Haruhiko Mikimoto. The ride's characters make a cameo appearance in the video game "Encounters in Space" while the player (playing as ... | 2,362 |
20113 | Mobile Suit Gundam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam
ing his way through the "Dolos".
The ride closed on January 8, 2007 and replaced with "Gundam Crisis Attraction" The main feature of this attraction is a full size 1:1 Gundam model, lying flat inside the venue. Instead of sitting in a movable cockpit and watching a CG movie, it requires participants... | 2,363 |
20124 | Mancala | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mancala | Mancala
Mancala
Mancala is one of the oldest known games to still be widely played today. "Mancala" is a generic name for a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually t... | 2,364 |
20124 | Mancala | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mancala | Mancala
are:
- Ali Guli Mane or Pallanguzhi, played in Southern India.
- It is also called Omanu Guntalu in Telugu, played in rural areas of Telangana, India.
- Bao la Kiswahili – played in most of East Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros, Malawi, as well as some areas of DR Congo and Burundi.
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in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
A notable subtype of mancala are the Southeast Asian mancalas like the Malaysian "congkak", Indonesians "congklak" or "dakon", and Filipino "sungka", among others. They differ from other mancala types in that the player's store is included in the placing of the seeds. The most com... | 2,366 |
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while some names are used for more than one game. Almost 200 modern invented versions have also been described.
# History.
Evidence of the game was uncovered in Israel in the city of Gedera in an excavated Roman bathhouse where pottery boards and rock cuts were unearthed dating back to between the 2nd and 3rd... | 2,367 |
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a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge'ez to refer to both Gebet'a (mancala) and "Sant'araz" (modern "sent'erazh", Ethiopian chess).
The similarity of some aspects of the game to agricultural activity and the absence of a need for specialized equipment present the intriguing possibility that it could date to ... | 2,368 |
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found by modern scholars generally resemble games common to the Roman world, rather than anything like Mancala.
Some historians believe that Mancala is the oldest game in the world based on the archaeological evidence found in Jordan that dates around 6000 BCE. The game might have been played by ancient Nabata... | 2,369 |
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played today. Mancala has also been found in Serbia and in Greece ("Mandoli", Cyclades). Two Mancala tables from the early 18th century are to be found in Weikersheim Castle in southern Germany.
The United States has a larger mancala-playing population. A traditional mancala game called Warra was still played ... | 2,370 |
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Mancala. This distribution has been linked to migration routes, which may go back several hundred years. There is evidence that the game was played in Egypt more than one thousand years B.C. It spread from Egypt through other parts of Africa, probably with traders moving up and down the Nile.. Excavations in Le... | 2,371 |
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meaning literally move," said the lead archaeologist, thus referring to the explanations provided by Irving Finkel, an expert on ancient games in the British Museum.
# Etymology.
The word "mancala" (منقلة) comes from the Arabic word "naqala" (نقلة) meaning literally "to move". No one game exists with the name... | 2,372 |
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placing a certain number of seeds, prescribed for the particular game, in each of the pits on the game board. A player may count their stones to plot the game. A turn consists of removing all seeds from a pit, "sowing" the seeds (placing one in each of the following pits in sequence) and capturing based on the ... | 2,373 |
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directly across. Once captured, the player gets to put the seeds in his/her own bank. After capturing, the opponent forfeits a turn.
## Equipment.
Equipment is typically a board, constructed of various materials, with a series of holes arranged in rows, usually two or four. The materials include clay and othe... | 2,374 |
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are placed in and transferred about the holes during play.
Board configurations vary among different games but also within variations of a given game; for example Endodoi is played on boards from 2×6 to 2×10. The largest are Tchouba (Mozambique) with a board of 160 (4×40) holes requiring 320 seeds; and En Gehé... | 2,375 |
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sides of the board, although moves often are made into the opponent's side. With a four-rank board, players control an inner row and an outer row, and a player's seeds will remain in these closest two rows unless the opponent captured them.
## Objective.
The objective of most two- and three-row mancala games ... | 2,376 |
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a certain minimum number of seeds.
In a process known as "sowing", all the seeds from a hole are dropped one-by-one into subsequent holes in a motion wrapping around the board. Sowing is an apt name for this activity, since not only are many games traditionally played with seeds, but placing seeds one at a tim... | 2,377 |
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seed, are immediately re-sown from the hole. The process usually will continue until sowing ends in an empty hole. Another common way to receive "multiple laps" is when the final seed sown lands in your designated hole.
Many games from the Indian subcontinent use "pussa kanawa laps". These are like standard mu... | 2,378 |
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exact requirements for capture, as well as what is done with captured stones, vary considerably among games. Typically, a capture requires sowing to end in a hole with a certain number of stones, ending across the board from stones in specific configurations, or landing in an empty hole adjacent to an opponent'... | 2,379 |
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cala games have led to psychological studies. Retschitzki has studied the cognitive processes used by awalé players. Some of Restchitzki's results on memory and problem solving have recently been simulated by Fernand Gobet with the CHREST computer model. De Voogt has studied the psychology of Bao playing.
# Se... | 2,380 |
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Apollo
Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: , "Apollōn" ( ); ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and... | 2,381 |
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Delphi ("Pythian Apollo"), Apollo is an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle.
Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius. Yet Apollo is also a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague with his arrows.
Apollo i... | 2,382 |
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lyre is a common attribute of Apollo.
As the protector of young, Apollo ("kourotrophos") is concerned with the health and education of children. He presides over their passage into adulthood.
Apollo is an important pastoral deity. He is the patron of herdsmen and shepherds. Protection of herds, flocks and crop... | 2,383 |
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"averter of evil". As the patron of seafarers, he is also the god of foreigners, the protector of fugitives and refugees.
In Hellenistic times, especially during the 5th century BCE, as "Apollo Helios" he became identified among Greeks with Helios, Titan god of the sun. In Latin texts, however, there was no con... | 2,384 |
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generally not found in the Linear B (Mycenean Greek) texts, although there is a possible attestation in the lacunose form "]pe-rjo-[" (Linear B: ]-[) on the KN E 842 tablet.
The etymology of the name is uncertain. The spelling ( in Classical Attic) had almost superseded all other forms by the beginning of the c... | 2,385 |
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animals" and later "assembly within the limits of the square." Apella () is the name of the popular assembly in Sparta, corresponding to the "ecclesia" (). R. S. P. Beekes rejected the connection of the theonym with the noun "apellai" and suggested a Pre-Greek proto-form *"Apalun".
Several instances of popular ... | 2,386 |
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Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric ("apella"), which means "assembly", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation ("sekos"), "fold", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds. In the ancient Macedonian language ("pella") means "stone," and ... | 2,387 |
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simply "the son of Enlil", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.
The role of Apollo as god of plague is evident in the invocation of Apollo Smintheus ("mouse Apollo") by Chryses, the Trojan priest of Apollo, with the purpose of sending a plague against t... | 2,388 |
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before palatalization, syncope, and the pre-Lydian sound change *y "" d. Note the labiovelar in place of the labial /p/ found in pre-Doric "Ἀπέλjων" and Hittite "Apaliunas".
A Luwian etymology suggested for "Apaliunas" makes Apollo "The One of Entrapment", perhaps in the sense of "Hunter".
## Greco-Roman epith... | 2,389 |
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only a few occur in Latin literature.
### Sun.
- Aegletes ( ; Αἰγλήτης, "Aiglētēs"), from , "light of the sun"
- Helius ( ; , "Helios"), literally "sun"
- Lyceus ( ; , "Lykeios", from Proto-Greek *) "light". The meaning of the epithet "Lyceus" later became associated with Apollo's mother Leto, who was the pa... | 2,390 |
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"Lykoktonos"), from , "wolf", and , "to kill"
### Origin and birth.
Apollo's birthplace was Mount Cynthus on the island of Delos.
- Cynthius ( ; , "Kunthios"), literally "Cynthian"
- Cynthogenes ( ; , "Kynthogenēs"), literally "born of Cynthus"
- Delius ( ; Δήλιος, "Delios"), literally "Delian"
- Didymaeus... | 2,391 |
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()
- Delphinius ( ; , "Delphinios"), literally "Delphic", after Delphi (Δελφοί). An etiology in the "Homeric Hymns" associated this with dolphins.
- Epactaeus, meaning "god worshipped on the coast", in Samos.
- Pythius ( ; , "Puthios", from Πυθώ, "Pythō"), from the region around Delphi
- Smintheus ( ; , "Smi... | 2,392 |
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; , "Iātros"), literally "physician"
- Medicus (Roman) ( ), "physician" in Latin. A temple was dedicated to "Apollo Medicus" at Rome, probably next to the temple of Bellona.
- Paean ( ; , "Paiān"),physician, healer
- Parnopius ( ; , "Parnopios"), from , "locust"
### Founder and protector.
- Agyieus ( ; , "A... | 2,393 |
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from , "to aid"
- Genetor ( ; , "Genetōr"), literally "ancestor"
- Nomius ( ; , "Nomios"), literally "pastoral"
- Nymphegetes ( ; , "Numphēgetēs"), from , "Nymph", and , "leader", for his role as a protector of shepherds and pastoral life
### Prophecy and truth.
- Coelispex (Roman) ( ), from Latin "coelum",... | 2,394 |
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Musagetes ( ; Doric , "Mousāgetās"), from , "Muse", and "leader"
- Musegetes ( ; , "Mousēgetēs"), as the preceding
### Archery.
- Aphetor ( ; , "Aphētōr"), from , "to let loose"
- Aphetorus ( ; , "Aphētoros"), as the preceding
- Arcitenens (Roman) ( ), literally "bow-carrying"
- Argyrotoxus ( ; , "Argyroto... | 2,395 |
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of Apollo, called Amazonius () with image of the god said to have been dedicated by the Amazons.
## Celtic epithets and cult titles.
Apollo was worshipped throughout the Roman Empire. In the traditionally Celtic lands, he was most often seen as a healing and sun god. He was often equated with Celtic gods of si... | 2,396 |
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Apollo Cunomaglus ('hound lord'). A title given to Apollo at a shrine at Nettleton Shrub, Wiltshire. May have been a god of healing. Cunomaglus himself may originally have been an independent healing god.
- Apollo Grannus. Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo.
- Apollo Maponus. A god kno... | 2,397 |
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especially of the eyes.
- Apollo Virotutis ('benefactor of mankind?'). Apollo Virotutis was worshipped, among other places, at Fins d'Annecy (Haute-Savoie) and at Jublains (Maine-et-Loire).
# Origins.
The cult centers of Apollo in Greece, Delphi and Delos, date from the 8th century BCE. The Delos sanctuary wa... | 2,398 |
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was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil. Walter Burkert discerned three components in the prehistory of Apollo worship, which he termed "a Dorian-northwest Greek component, a Cretan-Minoan component, and a Syro-Hittite component."
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