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Snakes and Ladders is an ancient Indian board game regarded today as a worldwide classic. It is played between two or more players on a gameboard having numbered, gridded squares. A number of ladders and snakes are pictured on the board, each connecting two specific board squares. The object of the game is to navigate ones game piece, according to die rolls, from the start to the finish, helped or hindered by ladders and snakes, respectively. The historic version had root in morality lessons, where a players progression up the board represented a life journey complicated by virtues and vices.
The game is a simple race contest lacking a skill component, and is popular with young children.

a bed of shale over the seam

Russian composer (1804-1857)

normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived

the final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy

Hyoscyamine (also known as daturine or duboisine) is a naturally occurring tropane alkaloid and plant toxin. It is a secondary metabolite found in certain plants of the family Solanaceae, including henbane, mandrake, angels trumpets, jimsonweed, the sorcerers tree, and deadly nightshade. It is the levorotary isomer of atropine (third of the three major nightshade alkaloids) and thus sometimes known as levo-atropine.Brand names for hyoscyamine include Symax, HyoMax, Anaspaz, Egazil, Buwecon, Cystospaz, Levsin, Levbid, Levsinex, Donnamar, NuLev, Spacol T/S, and Neoquess.

Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.

throughout the entire extent

To follow the life style of the jet set.

An open-end fund is a type of mutual fund that continuously issues and redeems units or shares based on the net asset value (NAV), which changes daily. Investors can buy or sell shares directly from the fund at the end of each trading day at the NAV price. There is no limit to the number of shares the fund can issue, hence the name open-end. This makes the fund highly liquid, allowing investors to easily enter or exit. Open-end funds may invest in a variety of asset classes such as stocks, bonds, or other securities.

In plane geometry, a splitter of a triangle is a line segment having one endpoint at one of the three vertices of the triangle and the other at the opposite excircle tangency, thus bisecting the perimeter of the triangle.
The three splitters concur at the Nagel point of the triangle.

Sheepshead is a term that can refer to several things:

1. Fish: In aquatic terms, sheepshead is a common name for several species of fish, particularly the Archosargus probatocephalus, native to the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. They are known for their strong teeth similar to a sheeps.

2. Game: Sheepshead is also a trick-taking card game, popular in areas of the United States such as Wisconsin and parts of the Midwest. The game is also known as Schafkopf in Germany.

3. Species of Porgy: Sheepshead could also refer to California Sheepshead (Semicossyphus pulcher), a species of wrasse, one of the biggest type of fish native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.

4. Bay/Bridge/Island: It also could refer to geographical locations like Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York or Sheepshead Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, Sheepshead Bay Road, and Sheepshead Bay Bridge.

The exact definition depends on the context.

apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor

a major division of a long poem

A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.

Chronically refers to something that recurs frequently or persists for a long time, particularly in reference to diseases, conditions, or behaviors. It often implies a situation that is persistent and long-term.

Yerevan (UK: YERR-ə-VAN, US: -⁠VAHN, Armenian: Երևան [jɛɾɛˈvɑn] (listen), sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the worlds oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country, as its primate city. It has been the capital since 1918, the fourteenth in the history of Armenia and the seventh located in or around the Ararat Plain. The city also serves as the seat of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese, which is the largest diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and one of the oldest dioceses in the world.The history of Yerevan dates back to the 8th century BCE, with the founding of the fortress of Erebuni in 782 BCE by King Argishti I of Urartu at the western extreme of the Ararat Plain. Erebuni was designed as a great administrative and religious centre, a fully royal capital. By the late ancient Armenian Kingdom, new capital cities were established and Yerevan declined in importance. Under Iranian and Russian rule, it was the center of the Erivan Khanate from 1736 to 1828 and the Erivan Governorate from 1850 to 1917, respectively. After World War I, Yerevan became the capital of the First Republic of Armenia as thousands of survivors of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire arrived in the area. The city expanded rapidly during the 20th century while Armenia was a part of the Soviet Union. In a few decades, Yerevan was transformed from a provincial town within the Russian Empire to Armenias principal cultural, artistic, and industrial center, as well as becoming the seat of national government.
With the growth of the Armenian economy, Yerevan has undergone major transformation. Much construction has been done throughout the city since the early 2000s, and retail outlets such as restaurants, shops, and street cafés, which were rare during Soviet times, have multiplied. As of 2011, the population of Yerevan was 1,060,138, just over 35% of Armenias total population. According to the official estimate of 2022, the current population of the city is 1,092,800. Yerevan was named the 2012 World Book Capital by UNESCO. Yerevan is an associate member of Eurocities.Of the notable landmarks of Yerevan, Erebuni Fortress is considered to be the birthplace of the city, the Katoghike Tsiranavor church is the oldest surviving church of Yerevan and Saint Gregory Cathedral is the largest Armenian cathedral in the world, Tsitsernakaberd is the official memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide. The city is home to several opera houses, theatres, museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions. Yerevan Opera Theatre is the main spectacle hall of the Armenian capital, the National Gallery of Armenia is the largest art museum in Armenia and shares a building with the History Museum of Armenia, and the Matenadaran repository contains one of the largest depositories of ancient books and manuscripts in the world.

ak-krōō′, v.i. to spring or grow as a natural result (with from): to fall to any one by way of advantage (with unto, to). [O. Fr. acrewe, what grows up in a wood to the profit of the owner; acreistre—L. accrescĕre.]

Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include:
to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages
to reconstruct the pre-history of languages and to determine their relatedness, grouping them into language families (comparative linguistics)
to develop general theories about how and why language changes
to describe the history of speech communities
to study the history of words, i.e. etymology
Historical linguistics is founded on the Uniformitarian Principle, which is defined by linguist Donald Ringe as: Unless we can demonstrate significant changes in the conditions of language acquisition and use between some time in the unobservable past and the present, we must assume that the same types and distributions of structures, variation, changes, etc. existed at that time in the past as in the present.

equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords