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2009 PBA All-Star Weekend
The 2009 PBA All-Star Week was the annual all-star weekend of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)'s 2008–09 PBA season. This year's all-star game was totally different from the past All-Star games, as this year's event had 3 all-star games in different cities: Victorias, Negros Occidental (April 22), Panabo, Davao del Norte (April 24), and Quezon City (April 26). Wednesday events Mick Pennisi won the game's MVP honors. Friday events Jared Dillinger won the game's MVP honors. Sunday Skills Competition Held prior to the All-Star Game at the Araneta Coliseum on April 26. Obstacle Challenge Time in seconds. Three-point shootout Slam Dunk competition Imports division Locals division *did not participate due to injury. Dunk-off All-star game David Noel was named as the All-Star MVP. Rosters *will not play *will not play References See also *2008–09 PBA season {{DEFAULTSORT:All-Star Weekend 2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the Brahmi numerals, beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an Ascender (typography), ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
