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High five. A high five between two U.S.

High five

Navy Sailors The high five is a celebratory hand gesture that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand each, about head-high, and push, slide, or slap the flat of their palm against the flat palm of the other person. Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. Clark Collis observes in Entertainment Weekly that the films also feature "a running gag involving garden fences.

Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy

"[9] Empathy. Empathy is the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being.

Empathy

One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience accurate sympathy or compassion. Ophiuchus. Ophiuchus /ɒfiˈjuːkəs/ is a large constellation located around the celestial equator.

Ophiuchus

Its name is from the Greek Ὀφιοῦχος "serpent-bearer", and it is commonly represented as a man grasping the snake that is represented by the constellation Serpens. Ophiuchus was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It was formerly referred to as Serpentarius /sɜrpənˈtɛəriəs/ and Anguitenens. Location[edit] Ophiuchus straddles the equator but lies predominately to its north. Gemini (constellation) Gemini is one of the constellations of the zodiac.

Gemini (constellation)

It was one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations today. Its name is Latin for "twins," and it is associated with the twins Castor and Pollux in Greek mythology. Gary Oldman. Face of Boe. Appearances within the series[edit]

Face of Boe

Tetris. Tetris (Russian: Те́трис, pronounced [ˈtɛtrʲɪs]) is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union.

Tetris

It was released on June 6, 1984,[1] while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow.[2] He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.[3][4] It is also the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US and published by Spectrum HoloByte for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four-element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W.

Golomb in 1953. Portal:Hellenismos. Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism. Hellenism (Greek: Ἑλληνισμός), or the Hellenic Ethnic Religion (Ἑλληνικὴ Ἐθνικὴ Θρησκεία), also known as Dodekatheism (Δωδεκαθεϊσμός), Olympianism, or Hellenic Neopaganism, refers to various reconstructionist movements that revive ancient Greek religious practices, emerging since the 1990s.

Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism

Hellenic Reconstructionism exists in Greece and in other countries. Leaders of the movement claimed in 2005 that there are as many as 2,000 adherents to the Hellenic tradition in Greece, with an additional 100,000 who have "some sort of interest".[1] No official estimates exist for devotees worldwide. There are no official naming practices for this religion, but there does seem to be an informal naming convention, based on academically accepted descriptive definitions, adhered to by groups and most individuals.

Additionally, subgroups use a variety of names to distinguish branches focusing on specific schools of thought, or modern traditions focusing on the public practices of individual city-states. Animal euthanasia. Animal euthanasia (from Greek, meaning "good death") is the act of humanely putting an animal to death or allowing it to die as by withholding extreme medical measures.

Animal euthanasia

Reasons for euthanasia include incurable (and especially painful) conditions or diseases,[1] lack of resources to continue supporting the animal, or laboratory test procedures. Euthanasia methods are designed to cause minimal pain and distress. Euthanasia is distinct from animal slaughter and pest control, which are performed for purposes other than an act of mercy, although in some cases the procedure is the same. In domesticated animals, this process is commonly referred to by euphemisms such as "put down", "put to sleep", or "put out of his/her/its misery". List of national animals. The Midnight Beast. Reception[edit] The Midnight Beast had 411,639 subscribers and 66,440,422 views combined on their YouTube channel, as well as 405,650 Facebook fans as of March, 2014.

The Midnight Beast

The group's songs often appear on iTunes music charts with their recent album reaching Number Two in the iTunes Music charts,[2] and their accompanying music videos routinely reaching over 1 million views on YouTube. Catullus 16. Charites. The Heroes of Olympus. The Heroes of Olympus is a pentalogy of young adult fiction novels by Rick Riordan which collectively form a sequel to Percy Jackson & the Olympians.[1] The final entry in the series, The Blood of Olympus, was published on October 7, 2014.[2] Plot[edit] Anna Chlumsky. Career[edit] 1989–1998: Early career[edit] 1999–2005: Hiatus from acting[edit] As a child Chlumsky considered working with horses or in paleontology. [citation needed] Once she reached adulthood, roles became scarce and she began to consider other careers. She attended the University of Chicago, graduating in 2002 with a BA in International Studies. Trial of Michael Jackson. People v.

Jackson (full case name: 1133603: The People of the State of California v. Michael Joseph Jackson) was a 2005 trial involving recording artist Michael Jackson. A 13-year-old boy that Jackson had befriended named Gavin Arvizo accused him of sexual abuse. Jackson was indicted for four counts of molesting a minor, four counts of intoxicating a minor in order to molest him, one count of attempted child molestation, and one count of conspiring to hold the boy and his family captive at his 2,700-acre (11 km2) Neverland Ranch, as well as conspiring to commit extortion and child abduction.

He denied all counts. Macaulay Culkin. Early life[edit] Culkin was the third of seven children, five boys and two girls: Shane (born 1976), Dakota (1978–2008),[8] Kieran (born 1982), Quinn (born 1984), Christian (born 1987), and Rory (born 1989). During Culkin's early childhood, the family lived in a small apartment; his mother was a telephone operator and his father worked as a sacristan at a local Catholic church.[9] Katy Perry. Flint, Michigan.

It's a Long Way to Tipperary. "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" is a British music hall song co-written by Jack Judge and Henry James "Harry" Williams.[1] Although there has been a long-standing controversy over authorship. It was originally penned as a ballad, it was the publisher, Bert Feldman, who suggested it should become a marching song. The Radio 1 Breakfast Show. The Radio 1 Breakfast Show is the flagship show on BBC Radio 1. Since 24 September 2012, it has been hosted by Nick Grimshaw, who took over from the show's longest-serving presenter to date, Chris Moyles. Alien (creature in Alien franchise) Necronom IV, Giger's surrealist print that formed the basis for the Alien's design. Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. Cthulhu. Gynecomastia. Gynecomastia /ˌɡaɪnɨkɵˈmæstiə/ is the benign enlargement of breast tissue in males.[1][2][a] It may occur transiently in newborns.

Half or more of adolescent boys have some breast development during puberty.[1][4] Gynecomastia may arise as an abnormal condition associated with disease, such as Klinefelter syndrome, metabolic disorders, as a side-effect of medication, or as a result of the natural decrease of testosterone production in older males.[1][5] In adolescent boys, the condition is often a source of psychological distress; however, 75% of pubertal gynecomastia cases resolve within two years of onset without treatment.[2] Signs and symptoms[edit]

Simple English Wikipedia. That's what she said. Maternal insult. Said the actress to the bishop. Chris Stark. Phil Lester. Philip Michael "Phil" Lester (born 30 January 1987) is an English YouTube vlogger and radio personality from Rossendale, Lancashire. He presents a Sunday night entertainment show for BBC Radio 1 with Dan Howell. Lester reached 1 million YouTube subscribers on 6 July 2013. Dan Howell. Gropecunt Lane. Unusual articles. List of Live Lounge cover versions. Dobby. Thylacine. Project Daedalus. James and Oliver Phelps. Dame Edna Everage. Bloop. Nicholas Barbon.

Thinking about the immortality of the crab. Münchausen syndrome by proxy. Icelandic Phallological Museum. Rorschach test. Mamihlapinatapai. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher. Interrobang.