Crab soccer (American English) or crab football (British English) is an informal sport for two teams. Players try to kick an inflated ball into a goal to score points. The game can be played with a regular soccer ball, but is often played with a cage ball. At the end of the game, the team with more points wins. Unlike …

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Coral bleaching is a phenomenon in which corals lose their distinctive colour because they expel the onecelled organisms which live with them in a symbiotic relationship. If a coral is fully bleached, it will turn entirely white, and die unless the stress on the coral is reduced, allowing the symbiotic organisms to return to the coral. Worldwide, coral bleaching began …

Coral, which people often collect as decoration, is the hard, dried skeleton composed mainly of calcium produced by colonies of small animals very similar to anemones. The polyps of living coral live in tiny cups in the skeleton and are continually adding to its mass. The coral grows into a variety of shapes. Some species produce numerous branches and in …

The word confessionalism occurs in the fields of religion, politics and poetry, each having a different meaning. In religion, particularly in Christianity, confessionalism refers to the belief that a truly religious person should accept the entire teaching of the religion, both its values and rituals. It lays a lot of emphasis on religious dogma and does not allow for alternative …

Collateral Debt Obligation (CDO) is the cause of the sub-prime crisis and recession. European banks and investors bought sub-prime housing loan portfolios from original US lenders to diversify their investment portfolio before the sub-prime crisis. At that time, it seemed a lucrative investment avenue. These are known as Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS). Most of these loans were bought as part …

Cliff diving is the act of diving from a high cliff into a river, lake or ocean below the cliff. It has been practised as an unorganized activity both for recreation and other purposes. It is an organized sport, with large-scale competitions held in several places of the world. Cliff diving is classified as an extreme sport because of the …

Chi-x Europe Limited has received recognition as a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is authorized to provide services to firms throughout Europe. Established in response to clients’ demands for a faster, cheaper and higher capacity alternative to trading, Chix is the first order-driven, pan-European matching engine and central limit order book. It is up …