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Power ups

Super Mario Kart contains eight different power ups that can be used by players during races, they are picked up by driving over question mark tiles on the track. Green shells cause a player to lose coins and spin if hit, red shells do the same but home on to the player in front. Mushrooms give players a quick boost of speed whilst stars cause a player to be temporarily invulnerable and cause other players to spin if they hit them. The feather power up allows player's to make one large jump which can be used to take short cuts on the tracks and the lightning power up causes every other player to shrink slowing them down. the coin power up gives the player an additional two coins whilst the banana power up causes any player who hits it to spin and lose coins.

In addition to the player's power ups each character has a super power that they use when controlled by the computer. Mario and Luigi are able to activate the star power up at any time, Koop Troopa throws shells at oponents and Donkey Kong Jr. can throw bananas. The Princess and Toad both drop mushrooms which shrink anyone who comes into contact with them whilst Bowser throws exploding bombs which cause players to slow down and bounce around if hit. The eggs left by Yoshi cause players to spin adn lose coins.

Amazonfail is a term coined by the readers and writers of blogs in reference to a 2009 instance when online retailer Amazon.com appeared to remove the sales ranking for gay and lesbian books. ^[1]

References

^ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/13/blogs-and-twitter-coin-amazonfail

Sovereign entities not at their official English name

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British Isles

The term "British Isles" refers to an archipelago is islands off the coast of Western Europe, the largest two of which are Great Britain and Ireland.
The term "British Isles" is often misused when referring to non-synonymous entities including the sovereign state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the two major islands of Great Britain and Ireland or solely Great Britain.
The term "British Isles" is also used when - whilst accurate - another term (for example describing a political rather than geographic entity) might be more appropriate.
The article British Isles is about the archipelago of islands off the coast of Western Europe, it is not about the term "British Isles" which is covered to some degree at British Isles naming dispute.
The article Negro is about the term "Negro", it is not about people of black ancestry which is covered at Black people.
The article Far East is about the term "Far East", it is not about the areas of Asia described by the term which are covered at East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
The article Land of Israel refers to an area in Asia as defined by the Hebrew Bible, the article on the modern state that occupies a similar area is located at Israel, other articles covering the area from different perspectives exist at various locations including Palestine.
"British" is an adjective that generally refers to things associated with the island of Great Britain or the sovereign state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which wholly occupies the island.
The state of Republic of Ireland, also known as the "Republic of Ireland" is an independent sovereign entity, not under the control of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or any other state or organisation.
The island of Ireland - including the territory that currently makes up the independent state of Ireland - and its people have previously been under both direct and indirect rule by governments based on the island of Great Britain, (British governments).
Many lives were lost in the process of establishing an independent Irish state.
The term "British Isles" is controversial.
The controversy arises from the fact that the whole island of Ireland including the Republic of Ireland is effectively being described as "British", which may be seen to imply British rule in the Republic of Ireland or some other official relationship.
Wikipedia is not censored, and "may contain content that some readers consider objectionable or offensive, even exceedingly so". However, "Words... that would be considered offensive... should be used if and only if their omission would cause the article to be less informative, relevant, or accurate, and no equally suitable alternatives are available".
Because of the controversy several alternatives to the term "British Isles" have been proposed, these include the terms, "These Isles", "The British Isles and Ireland", "Anglo-Celtic Isles", "Pretanic Isles" among others.
Whilst the term may be falling out of favour and is certainly becoming increasingly controversial "British Isles" is still the primary term used to refer to the archipelago by many media and academic organisations in many countries.
Wildlife and weather patterns have little respect for the borders of political/national entities.
Whether or not there is a common culture between the islands and their peoples is something - along with the reasons why - that should be discussed in the article about the archipelago.

Major population centres of the British Isles
Population centre	Population
(London metropolitan area)	(12-14 million)
Greater London Urban Area	8.5 million
Greater Manchester Urban Area	2.5 million
West Midlands conurbation	2.3 million
West Yorkshire Urban Area	2.1 million
Greater Glasgow	1.7 million
Greater Dublin Area	1.6 million
South Yorkshire	1.2 million
Tyne and Wear	1.1 million

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