House is a music genre characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 120 beats per minute. It is the oldest genre within electronic dance music and still one of its main pillars today. It is a direct descendant from disco music. It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago’s … Read more
Dominoes are small, flat, rectangular blocks used as gaming object. They are made of rigid material such as wood, bone, or plastic and are variously referred to as bones, pieces, men, stones, or cards. Like playing cards, of which they are a variant, dominoes bear identifying marks on one side and are blank or identically … Read more
Mountaineering, or alpinism, is the set of outdoor activities that involves ascending tall mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing and traversing via ferratas. Mountaineering differs from other outdoor sports in that nature alone provides the field of action—and just about all of the challenges—for the participant. Climbing mountains embodies the thrills produced by … Read more
French cuisine is a style of cooking derived from the nation of France. It evolved through centuries of social and political change. It has been influenced throughout the centuries by the many surrounding cultures of Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, in addition to its own food traditions on the long western coastlines of the … Read more
Rummy is any of a family of card games whose many variants make it one of the best-known and most widely played card games. Rummy games are based on a simple mechanism and a simple object of play. The mechanism is to draw cards from a stockpile and discard unwanted cards from the hand to … Read more
Reggae is a style of popular music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and quickly emerged as the country’s dominant music. Stylistically, reggae incorporates some of the musical elements of rhythm and blues (R&B), jazz, mento, calypso, African, and Latin American music, as well as other genres. Reggae scenes consist of two guitars, … Read more
Kiteboarding or kitesurfing is a sport that involves using wind power with a large power kite to pull a rider across a water, land, or snow surface. It combines aspects of paragliding, surfing, windsurfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and wakeboarding. Kiteboarding is among the less expensive and the more convenient of the sailing sports. Most power kites … Read more
Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine consisting of the ingredients, recipes and cooking techniques developed across the Italian Peninsula since antiquity, and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora. Italian cuisine has a great variety of different ingredients which are commonly used, ranging from fruits, vegetables, grains, cheeses, meats and fish. … Read more
Solitaire, also called patience is a family of card games played by one person. It was originally called (in various spellings) either patience, as it still is in England, Poland, and Germany, or cabale, as it still is in Scandinavian countries. Patience is thought to be German or Scandinavian in origin. According to one legend … Read more