For many years the Dodo and the Rodrigues Solitaire were placed in a family of their own, the Raphidae ( formerly Dididae ), because their exact relationships with other pigeons were unresolved.

FreeCell Pro, the enhanced Windows-based Solitaire implementation by Adrian Ettlinger and Wilson Callan ( formerly freeware, later licensed under GPL ), first integrated Don Woods ' solver and later on used Fish's Freecell Solver and Holroyd's Patsolve.

As the Dodo and Rodrigues Solitaire are in all likelihood part of the Indo-Australian radiation that produced the 3 small subfamilies mentioned above with the fruit doves and-pigeons ( including the Nicobar Pigeon ), they are here included as a subfamily Raphinae, pending better material evidence of their exact relationships.

* Townsend's Solitaire ( Myadestes townsendi ), a medium-sized thrush, and the solitaire native to North America

As well as the tortoises and the Dodo, thirteen additional species of birds became extinct among there were extincts Réunion Flightless Ibis, Broad-billed Parrot, Red Rail, Rodrigues Rail, Rodrigues Solitaire and the related dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ), in Mauritius, could swallow fruits from ocotea species, as several contemporary sources state that the dodo used gizzard stones.

François Leguat was the first to refer to the bird as the " Solitaire " ( referring to its solitary habits ), but it has been suggested that he borrowed the name from a tract mentioning the Réunion Solitaire.

Until 1995, it was assumed to have been a relative of the Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ), it was thus classified as a member of the didine pigeons ( subfamily Raphinae ) and called the " Réunion Solitaire " ( Raphus solitarius ).

The third consecutive Billboard Top 25 hit from Sedaka's Back was the uptempo rocker " That's When the Music Takes Me " ( US pop No. 25, US AC No. 7 ), originally from the 1972 " Solitaire " album.

* Black Box: Rules and Solitaire Games ( instruction manual ), Parker Brothers, 1978

*" Solitaire " ( Neil Sedaka song ) ( 1972 ), a song also covered by the Carpenters

* Solitaire ( bird ), a bird group in the thrush family

* French ship Solitaire ( 1774 ), a ship captured by the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Solitaire

* Solitaire ( ship ), a pipe-laying ship

* Solitaire ( film ), a 2008 film by Frank D ' Agostino

* Solitaire ( comics ), an Ultraverse character

* Solitaire ( James Bond ), a Bond girl in Live and Let Die

* Solitaire ( audio drama ), a Doctor Who audiobook

* Solitaire ( Windows ), a computer game

* Solitaire ( cipher ), a cryptographic algorithm

Additional variations on ASL include Deluxe ASL ( DASL ), which was a short-lived experiment in fusing miniature wargaming with ASL ; Historical ASL ( HASL ), which used historically accurate maps, usually in a campaign setting where the outcome of one scenario affected the setup of following scenarios ; Solitaire ASL ( SASL ) with many rules changes for fog of war and command to enhance solitaire play ; and the ASL Starter Kits ( ASLSK ), a series of stand-alone introductory kits.

Solitaire games are designed to be played by one player.

Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself or with other people.

* Sorcerer's Solitaire by Walker Vaning

Solitaire Chess is a chess puzzle produced by ThinkFun.

Examples are The Solitaire Mystery, where the protagonist receives a small book from a baker, in which the baker tells the story of a sailor who tells the story of another sailor, and Sophie's World about a girl who is actually a character in a book that is being read by Hilde, a girl in another dimension.

Solitaire included guest appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Brian Setzer, Billy Zoom and Josh Freese, as well as members of Royal Crown Revue.

* Bowling Solitaire, a one-player game by Sid Sackson that simulates ten-pin bowling.

* Solitaire Dice, by Sid Sackson

Solitaire games also by their nature attempt to recreate fog of war using random dice rolls, card draws, or flowcharts to determine events, for example Ambush !.

His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, which has been cited as an inspiration by radical environmental groups, and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire.

The Rodrigues Solitaire laid a single egg, that was incubated in turn by both sexes.

First mentioned during the 17th century, the Rodrigues Solitaire was described in detail by François Leguat ( leader of a group of French Huguenot refugees who were marooned on Rodrigues in 1691 – 1693 ).

Later study of skeletal features by Alfred and Edward Newton indicated that the Solitaire was morphologically intermediate between the Dodo and ordinary pigeons, but differed from them in its unique wrist-knob.

Others believed it was a species similar to the Rodrigues Solitaire, as it was referred to by the same name, or even that there were white species of both the Dodo and Solitaire on the island.

Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself.

*" Solitaire / Unraveling ", a 2001 song by Mushroomhead on XX

*" Solitaire ", a song by Deep Purple on The Battle Rages On ...

*" Solitaire ", a song by Kamelot on Ghost Opera

* Ash ( ballet ), by Peter Martins ( 1991 )

The ballad probably derives its name from medieval French dance songs or " ballares " ( from which we also get ballet ), as did the alternative rival form that became the French Ballade.

The first ballet dance academy was the Académie Royale de Danse ( Royal Dance Academy ), opened in Paris in 1661.

These include the half toe loop ( ballet jump ), half loop, half flip, walley jump, split jump ( there are two kinds of split jump, Russian split, performed in a position that is similar to that of a straddle split and ladies split performed in the position of the more traditional split, facing the direction of your front leg ), waltz jump, inside Axel, and one-foot Axel.

Ludwig Minkus was celebrated for his harp cadenzas, most notably the Variation de la Reine du jour from his ballet La Nuit et le Jour ( 1881 ), the elaborate entr ' acte composed for Albert Zabel from his ballet Roxana ( 1878 ), and numerous passages found in his score for the ballet La Bayadère, which in some passages were used to represent a veena which was used on stage as a prop.

On the human level, experiments attempt the ideal soldier (“ Labyrinth ”), the ideal worker ( Falling Free ), the ideal spy ( Ethan of Athos ), and even the ideal underwater ballet ( Diplomatic Immunity ).

He advocated that opera seria had to return to basics and that all the various elements — music ( both instrumental and vocal ), ballet, and staging — must be subservient to the overriding drama.

Diaghilev then commissioned Prokofiev to compose the ballet Chout ( The Fool, the original Russian-language full title was Сказка про шута, семерых шутов перешутившего ( Skazka pro shuta, semerykh shutov pereshutivshavo ), meaning " The Tale of the Buffoon who Outwits Seven Other Buffoons ").

However the Symphony appeared to prompt Diaghilev to commission Le pas d ' acier ( The Steel Step ), a ' modernist ' ballet score intended to portray the industrialisation of the Soviet Union.

In 1943 Prokofiev joined Eisenstein in Alma-Ata, the largest city in Kazakhstan, to compose more film music ( Ivan the Terrible ), and the ballet Cinderella ( Op.

In the 1970s and 80s, Ft. Lauderdale swimming champion Charkie Phillips revived water ballet on television with The Krofftettes in The Brady Bunch Hour ( 1976 – 77 ), NBC's The Big Show ( 1980 ), and then on screen with Miss Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper ( 1981 ).

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.