British degree abbreviations Wikipedia ~ Degree abbreviations are used as an alternative way to specify an academic degree instead of spelling out the title in full such as in reference books such as Whos Who and on business degree titles have more than one possible abbreviation with the abbreviation used varying between different universities

Reiki Wikipedia ~ Reiki 霊気 ˈ r eɪ k iː is a form of alternative medicine called energy practitioners use a technique called palm healing or handson healing through which a universal energy is said to be transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient in order to encourage emotional or physical healing Reiki is a pseudoscience and is used as an illustrative

Grandmaster chess Wikipedia ~ Grandmaster GM is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization from World Champion Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain Once achieved the title is generally held for life though exceptionally it may be revoked for cheating The abbreviation IGM for International Grandmaster is also sometimes used particularly in older literature

Judo Wikipedia ~ The early history of judo is inseparable from its founder Japanese polymath and educator Kanō Jigorō 嘉納 治五郎 Jigoro Kano 1860–1938 born Shinnosuke Jigorō 新之助 治五郎 Jigorō ShinnosukeKano was born into a relatively affluent family His father Jirosaku was the second son of the head priest of the Shinto Hiyoshi shrine in Shiga Prefecture

Scottish clan Wikipedia ~ A Scottish clan from Gaelic clann primarily meaning children and secondarily meaning kindred a clan as an extension of this see also cinneadh is a kinship group among the Scottish people Clans give a sense of shared identity and descent to members and in modern times have an official structure recognised by the Court of the Lord Lyon which regulates Scottish heraldry and coats of arms

Loch Ness Monster Wikipedia ~ Christopher Cairney uses a specific historical and cultural analysis of Adomnán to separate Adomnáns story about St Columba from the modern myth of the Loch Ness Monster but finds an earlier and culturally significant use of Celtic water beast folklore along the way

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Wikipedia ~ Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyll Hyde Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or simply Jekyll Hyde It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the evil

Cincinnati Masters Wikipedia ~ The Cincinnati Masters currently sponsored by the Western Southern Financial Group and called the Western Southern Open is an annual outdoor hardcourt tennis event held in Mason near Cincinnati Ohio USA The event started on September 18 1899 and is the oldest tennis tournament in the United States played in its original city

The Master and Margarita Wikipedia ~ The Master and Margarita Russian Мастер и Маргарита is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalins regime A censored version was published in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967 after the writers death The manuscript was not published as a book until 1967 in Paris A samizdat version circulated that included