Tuesday, November 13, 2007

My favourite player

Michael Jordan is a retired American professional basketball player. Widely considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time, he become one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984 and quickly emerged as one of the stars of the league. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the foul line at Slam Dunk Contests, earn him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness." Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five NBA MVP (Most Valuable Player) awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star MVPs, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He had the NBA record for highest career regular season scoring average with 30.1 points per game, as well as averaging a record 33.4 points per game in the playoffs. In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press's list of athletes of the century. (more...)

The Country of NADGIB

Cambodia has an area of 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 sq mi), sharing an 800 kilometre (500 mi) border with Thailand in the north and west, a 541 kilometre (336 mi) border with Laos in the northeast, and a 1,228 kilometre (763 mi) border with Vietnam in the east and southeast. It has 443 kilometres (275 mi) of coastline along the Gulf of Thailand.

The most distinctive geographical feature is the lacustrine plain, formed by the inundations of the Tonle Sap (Great Lake), measuring about 2,590 square kilometres (1,000 sq mi) during the dry season and expanding to about 24,605 square kilometres (9,500 sq mi) during the rainy season. This densely populated plain, which is devoted to wet rice cultivation, is the heartland of Cambodia. Most (about 75%) of the country lies at elevations of less than 100 metres (330 ft) above sea level, the exceptions being the Cardamom Mountains (highest elevation 1,813 m / 5,948 ft) and their southeast extension the Dâmrei Mountains ("Elephant Mountains") (elevation range 500–1,000 m or 1,640–3,280 ft), as well the steep escarpment of the Dângrêk Mountains (average elevation 500 m / 1,640 ft) along the border with Thailand's Isan region.

The highest elevation of Cambodia is Phnom Aoral, near Pursat in the centre of the country, at 1,813 metres (5,948 ft).

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

My favourite team


By beating the Turks of the Besiktas in Anfield (8-0), Reds of Liverpool not only restarted in running in skills in it A group but they also broke the record of the broadest victoire in Champions League. The team of Rafael Benitez made better than Arsenal which had triumphed versus Slavia Prague 7 - 0 during the previous day a champions league, on October 23rd, in Emirates Stadium. Better also than Juventus Turin which had also beaten Olympiakos 7 - 0 in 2003. The international Israeli Yossi Benayoun so signed a triplet, the Dutch Ryan Babel and Peter Crouch achieved double. To note that if Liverpool holds the record of most splits of purposes, the most prolific three parties in purposes of the history of the Champions League being carried off by three French clubs: Monaco faced The Corogne (8-3, November 5th, 2003), Paris SG against Rosenborg (7-2, on October 24th, 2000), and Lyon faced with Werder Brême (7-2, on March 8th, 2005).