Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive…
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Thematic: Sport
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve one’s physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from…
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Thematic: Sport – Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men’s competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport‘s governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it…
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Thematic: Firefighting
Firefighting is the act of attempting to prevent the spread of and extinguish significant unwanted fires in buildings, vehicles, and woodlands. A firefighter suppresses fires to protect lives, property and the environment. Firefighters typically undergo a high degree of technical training.[1][2] This involves structural firefighting and wildland firefighting. Specialized training…
View More Thematic: FirefightingMorocco
The Morocco, or since 1957, officially the Kingdom of Morocco (Royaume du Maroc) , formerly Sherifian Empire, is a unitary state regionalized located in North Africa. Its political regime is a constitutional monarchy . It’s administrative and political capital is Rabat and its largest city, as well as its economic…
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French Morocco
The French Protectorate of Morocco (Protectorat français au Maroc), also known as French Morocco, was the French military occupation of a large part of Morocco established in the form of a colonial regime imposed by France while preserving the Moroccan royal regime known as the Sherifian Empire under French rule.…
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Easter Island
Easter Island (Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. It is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. The island is most famous for its…
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Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The literal meaning of the term “Honduras” is “depths” in Spanish. The name could either refer to the bay of Trujillo as an anchorage, fondura in the Leonese dialect of Spain, or to Columbus’s alleged quote that “Gracias…
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. Denmark proper, which is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The unified kingdom…
View More DenmarkThematic: Marine Biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on…
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