In 2017 he was champion of the San Diego Open, the Irish Open and the Dubai World Championship. On July 19, 2020, he won the Memorial Tournament (Ohio) and reached the number one position in the PGA world golf rankings, ousting Rory McIlroy, thus becoming the twenty-fourth number one in history, the tenth European and the second Spaniard after Severiano Ballesteros.
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Jon Rahm is a new legend from Spain...
In 2017 he was champion of the San Diego Open, the Irish Open and the Dubai World Championship. On July 19, 2020, he won the Memorial Tournament (Ohio) and reached the number one position in the PGA world golf rankings, ousting Rory McIlroy, thus becoming the twenty-fourth number one in history, the tenth European and the second Spaniard after Severiano Ballesteros.
Saturday, August 05, 2023
World champions in chess 2023
Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君;
pinyin: Jū Wénjūn, born January 31, 1991 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese chess player,
current Women's World Chess Champion. In March 2017, Ju Wenjun became the fifth
woman to surpass an elo ranking of 2600.3 She has won the last four women's
world chess championships, in May 2018, November 2018, and 2020. Most recently,
Ju Wenjun defended her world champion title in 2023.
Ding Liren (Chinese: 丁立人; born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China on October 24, 1992) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. He is the current world champion, having defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2023 World Chess Championship. In August 2015, he became the second Chinese player, after Wang Yue, to reach the top ten of the FIDE rankings. . Ding is the Chinese player to have achieved both the highest FIDE ranking and the third highest Elo rating.
Monday, August 08, 2022
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher. The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film starts Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as the love interest throughout his life.
On Thanksgiving 1930, Benjamin meets seven-year-old Daisy, whose grandmother lives in the nursing home and they connect instantly. Later, he accepts work on the tugboat Chelsea captained by Mike Clark. Thomas Button introduces himself to Benjamin, but does not reveal his true identity. In Autumn 1936, Benjamin leaves for a long-term work engagement with the tugboat crew and travels around the world...
Friday, July 08, 2022
Black hole
A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, no particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light, can escape from it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. The boundary of no escape is called the event horizon.
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
The Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found on the continents of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Common characteristics of modern bears include large bodies with stocky legs, long snouts, small rounded ears, shaggy hair, plantigrade paws with five nonretractile claws, and short tails.
Sunday, May 08, 2022
Castling
Castling is a move in the game of chess in which a player moves the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and moves the rook to the square that the king has crossed. It is the only move in chess in which a player moves two pieces in the same move.
- Kingside castling (castling short) consists of placing the king on the king's knight's square (g1 for white and g8 for black) and the rook on the king's bishop's square (f1 for white and f8 for black).
- Queenside castling (castling long) consists of placing the king on the queen's bishop's square (c1 for white and c8 for black) and the rook on the queen's square (d1 for white and d8 for black).
Castling is permissible provided all of the following conditions hold:
- Neither the king nor the rook has previously moved.
- There are no pieces between the king and the rook.
- The king is not currently in check.
- The king does not pass through a square that is attacked by an opposing piece.
- The king does not end up in check. (True of any legal move.)
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Classical Athens
This system remained remarkably stable, and with a few brief interruptions remained in place for 180 years, until 322 BC (aftermath of Lamian War). The peak of Athenian hegemony was achieved in the 440s to 430s BC, known as the Age of Pericles. In the classical period, Athens was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, Athens was also the birthplace of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Aristophanes, Sophocles, and many other prominent philosophers, writers and politicians of the ancient world.
It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western Civilization, and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC on the rest of the then-known European continent. Hippias, son of Peisistratus, had ruled Athens jointly with his brother, Hipparchus, from the death of Peisistratus in about 527.
Following the assassination of Hipparchus in about 514, Hippias took on sole rule, and in response to the loss of his brother, became a worse leader who was increasingly disliked. Hippias exiled 700 of the Athenian noble families, amongst them Cleisthenes' family, the Alchmaeonids. Upon their exile, they went to Delphi, and Herodotus says they bribed the Pythia always to tell visiting Spartans that they should invade Attica and overthrow Hippias.
That supposedly worked after a number of times, and Cleomenes led a Spartan force to overthrow Hippias, which succeded, adn instated an oligarchy. Cleisthenes disliked the Spartan rule, along with many other Athenians, and so made his own bid for power. The result was democracy in Athens, but considering Cleisthenes' motivation for using the people to gain power, as without their support, he would have been defeated, and so Athenian democracy may be tainted by the fact its creation served greatly the man who created it.
The reforms of Cleisthenes replaced the traditional four Ionic "tribes" (phyle) with ten new ones, named after legendary heroes of Greece and having no class basis, which acted as electorates. Each tribe was in turn divided into three trittyes (one from the coast; one from the city and one from the inland divisions), while each trittys had one or more demes, depending on their population, which became the basis of local government.
The tribes each selected fifty members by lot for the Boule, the council that governed Athens on a day-to-day basis. The public opinion of voters could be influenced by the political satires written by the comic poets and performed in the city theaters. The Assembly of Ecclesia was open to all full citizens and was both a legislature and a supreme court, except in murder cases and religious matters, which became the only remaining functions of the Aeropagus.
Most offices were filled by lot, although the ten strategoi (generals) were elected. The silver mines of Laurion contributed significantly to the development of Athens in the 5th century BC, when the Athenians learned to prospect, treat, and refine the ore and used the proceeds to build a massive fleet, at the instigation of Themistocles. In 499 BC, Athens sent troops to aid the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor, who were rebelling against the Persian Empire.