A game of tabula played by Eastern Roman Emperor | Byzantine Emperor Zeno ( emperor ) | Zeno in 480 and recorded by Agathias in 530 circa because of a very unlucky dice throw for Zeno, as he threw 2, 5 and 6 and was forced to leave eight pieces prone to capture.

A game of tabula played by Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno ( emperor ) | Zeno in 480 and recorded by Agathias in 530 circa because of a very unlucky dice throw for Zeno, as he threw 2, 5 and 6 and was forced to leave eight pieces alone.

The earliest description of tabula is in an epigram of Byzantine Emperor Zeno ( 476 – 481 ), given by Agathias of Myrine ( 527 – 567 ), who describes a game in which Zeno goes from a strong position to a very weak one after an unfortunate dice roll.

The game is not worth the ammunition it would cost.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Politics is an accelerating game.

The long-range objective of habitat management is to make it fully productive so as to support fish and game populations to contribute to the need for public use and enjoyment.

And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

But there is one small episode that a few New York fans who happened to sit in the cheap seats for one World's Series game in 1926 like best to recall.

`` Kelsey is very doubtful for the Rice game '', Meek said.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

it must play a game in which there never is a winner.

It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate the game of golf for any period of time attack their shots with a vehemence bordering on violence.

The effective tit for tat strategy is one game theoretic example.

This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.

The game Orphan Feast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website is loosely based on A Modest Proposal.

Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.

The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

The game is over when the player has lost all of his / her lives.

The maximum possible score in this game is 99, 990 points, after which it " rolls over " back to zero.

The Asteroids arcade machine is a vector game.

** Every infinite game in which is a Borel subset of Baire space is determined.

Although the game had " incredible role-playing potential ", the concept of role-playing rabbits can be viewed as bizarre, and as such at least one commentator believes that " most people thought it was stupid " when it was first released.

This game is thought to be a distant cousin of association football and is arguably one of the earliest codes of organised football.

Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes, playing in, made a miraculous over the shoulder diving catch after a long run, and doubled off Albert Pujols, who thought the ball would drop and was nearly at third base, to end the game.

In particular, early Aborigines are thought to have been fire-stick farmers using fire regularly and persistently to drive game, open up dense thickets of vegetation, and create fresh green regrowth for both humans and game animals to eat.

While rules are light to moderate, they allow depth of play, usually requiring thought, planning, and a shift of tactics through the game and often with a chess-or backgammon-like opening game, middle game, and end game.

This game is designed encourage students to justify their ( or in this case, someone else ’ s ) actions after they have done it, as opposed to thinking about something and then acting on the thought.

The film would not see a US release until 1992, two years after the game's Japanese release, so the game is often thought to be a standalone adaptation of Little Nemo, not related to the film.

In the 1970s and 1980s it was thought that leg spin would disappear from the game due to the success of West Indian and later Australian teams exclusively using fast bowlers.

He first asks the reader to perform a thought experiment: to come up with a definition of the word " game ".

* steering wheel-can be thought of as a 1D pointing device-see also steering wheel section of game controller article

Though he thought the game lacked quality, seeing it prompted Bushnell to assign the project to Alcorn.

A Eurogamer review described the game as " polished " and " stunning " and thought that it " was extremely well balanced and plays very well ".

The sprites were described as " detailed " by Nintendo Magazine System when the game was first reviewed and were thought to contribute to the " spectacular " graphics of the game as a whole.

" I thought it would carry into the end zone ", he explained after the game.

Leading 14-0 on 4th down with 4 yards to go, Shula could have tried for a conversion, but thought " What a hell of a way to remember this game " if they could end a perfect 17-0 season with a 17-0 Super Bowl final score.

Mumphord and Coach Don Shula were involved in a feud at the time and it is thought that Stuckey was given the starting job for this game because of Shula's and Mumphord's differences of opinion.

The Packers were favored to win the game by 14 points, largely because many thought the Patriots were a Cinderella team, and because of the recent dominance of the NFC in Super Bowl games.

Some buyers mistakenly thought the game was intended to depict the year 2300 in the standard Traveller universe using Traveller rules ; to disambiguate it from Traveller, the 2nd edition of the game was retitled to 2300 AD and this second edition introduced some cyberpunk rules and adventures.

In 2001, Metacritic quoted Worms World Party reviews with comments like " it's virtually nothing more than an expansion pack for Worms Armageddon " and, as ActionTrip's Dejan Grbavcic put it, " And I thought that only Eidos was impertinent enough to keep selling the same game with a slightly different name ...".