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shortest player on the court. Point guards are expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that it gets to the right player...

is designated Coast Guard Two. As of 2022[update], there has never been a Coast Guard One flight. Coast Guard Two was activated on September 25, 2009,...

Horse Guards, known as the King's Life Guard (called the Queen's Life Guard when the monarch is female). An infantry contingent, typically one of the...

In military organizations, a colour guard (or color guard) is a detachment of soldiers assigned to the protection of regimental colours and the national...

of the guards and forwards came to be differentiated, and today each of the five positions is known by a unique name and number: point guard (PG) or...

The shooting guard (SG), also known as the two, two guard or off guard, is one of the five traditional positions in a regulation basketball game. A shooting...

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October...

assigned to being prisoners or prison guards. Critics have questioned the validity of these methods. Those volunteers selected to be "guards" were given...

The Praetorian Guard (Latin: cohortes praetoriae) was an elite unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents...

States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's...

The guard is a ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their...

surfer while paddling out to the break, or legs while sitting atop one's board. Rash guards also offer some protection from the sun (measured by its Ultraviolet...

been placed on the Guard's non-ceremonial roles and has seen enhanced training in unarmed combat and small arms. Recruits to the guards must be unmarried...

phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted. According to a Red Guard leader, the movement's aims were as follows: Chairman Mao has defined...

Japan Coast Guard (JA722A). Japan Airlines Flight 516 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New Chitose Airport near Sapporo, Japan, to Haneda Airport...

point-and-click adventure game borrowed heavily from the plot of Guards! Guards! A secret monastic order plots to overthrow the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and install...

Rubber guard is a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu technique, which involves the practitioner ‘breaking down’ the posture of the opponent to enter into rubber guard, while...

the National Guard's general policy regarding mobilization was that Guardsmen would be required to serve no more than one year cumulative on active duty...

quarter guard is a small detachment of troops that can be used as a ceremonial guard which may be mounted at the entrance of a military unit to pay compliments...

to control and limit the ways or angles through which an opponent may find an opening in one's guard to counterattack or get past a block or guard. This...