Top 10 adopted cases for animals

1- Isabella, a golden retriever in Kansas who adopted 3 white Bengal tiger cubs and nursed them as her own. Zookeepers Tom and Allie Harvey brought the cubs home, and their dog Isabella stepped right up.

Tom Harvey and Keith Philpott

All-Time NBA Points Leaders

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1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 38,387 Points
Games: 1560, PPG: 24.6
Teams: Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers
Career: 1969 to 1989 (Championships: 6)
Rookie of the Year when he entered the league in 1969, Abdul-Jabbar would go on to win 6 NBA Championships.

2. Karl Malone - 36,928 Points
Games: 1476, PPG: 25.0
Teams: Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers
Career: 1985 to 2004 (Championships: 0)
Malone played in the NBA finals twice against the Chicago Bulls in 1997 and 1998.

3. Michael Jordan - 32,292 Points
Games: 1072, PPG: 30.1
Teams: Chicago Bulls, Washington Wizards
Career: 1984 to 2003 (Championships: 6)
Five times named the league's MVP, Jordan won 6 NBA Championships with the Chicago Bulls.

4. Wilt Chamberlain - 31,419 Points
Games: 1045, PPG: 30.1
Teams: Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers
Career: 1959 to 1973 (Championships: 2)
Chamberlain holds many NBA records, including a 100 point four quarter game in 1962.

5. Shaquille O'Neal - 27,721 Points
Games: 1126, PPG: 24.6
Teams: Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers
Career: 1992 to Present (Championships: 4)
First overall draft pick and Rookie of the Year in 1993, Shaq was also the 2000 NBA MVP.

6. Moses Malone - 27,409 Points
Games: 1329, PPG: 20.6
Teams: Buffalo, Houston, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Milwaukee, San Antonio
Career: 1976 to 1995 (Championships: 1)
Malone holds the league record for most games without fouling out at 1212 games.

7. Elvin Hayes - 27,313 Points
Games: 1303, PPG: 21.0
Teams: San Diego/Houston Rockets, Baltimore/Washington Bullets, Houston Rockets
Career: 1968 to 1984 (Championships: 1)
An All Star in his first 12 seasons, Hayes missed only 9 games in his 16 year career.

8. Hakeem Olajuwon - 26,946 Points
Games: 1238, PPG: 21.8
Teams: Houston Rockets, Toronto Raptors
Career: 1984 to 2002 (Championships: 2)
Olajuwon is the career leader for blocked shots and holds a number of other shot block records.

9. Oscar Robertson - 26,710 Points
Games: 1040, PPG: 25.7
Teams: Cincinnati Royals, Milwaukee Bucks
Career: 1960 to 1974 (Championships: 1)
Robertson played 14 years in the NBA and co-captained the 1960 U.S. Olympic Team to gold.

10. Dominique Wilkins - 26,668 Points
Games: 1074, PPG: 24.8
Teams: Atlanta Hawks, L.A. Clippers, Boston Celtics, San Antonio Spurs, Orlando Magic
Career: 1982 to 1999 (Championships: 0)
Wilkins set a single game NBA record by hitting 23 free throws in a row.
 

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All-Time NHL Points Leaders

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1. Wayne Gretzky - 2857 Points
Goals: 894, Assists: 1963, Games: 1487
Teams: Oilers, Kings, Blues, Rangers
Career: 1978 to 1999 (Stanley Cups: 4)
"The Great One" is arguably the best hockey player in the history of the game.

2. Mark Messier - 1887 Points
Goals: 694, Assists: 1193, Games: 1756
Teams: Oilers, Rangers, Canucks
Career: 1978 to 2004 (Stanley Cups: 6)
The "Moose" is considered by many to be one of the greatest leaders in professional sports.

3. Gordie Howe - 1850 Points
Goals: 801, Assists: 1049, Games: 1767
Teams: Wings, Whalers
Career: 1946 to 1971, 1973 to 1980, 1997 (Stanley Cups: 4)
"Mr. Hockey" dominated the National Hockey League over a span of five decades.

4. Ron Francis - 1798 Points
Goals: 549, Assists: 1249, Games: 1731
Teams: Whalers, Penguins, Hurricanes, Leafs
Career: 1981 to 2004 (Stanley Cups: 2)
Francis is a two-time Stanley Cup champion and three-time Lady Byng Trophy winner.

5. Marcel Dionne - 1771 Points
Goals: 731, Assists: 1040, Games: 1348
Teams: Wings, Kings, Rangers
Career: 1971 to 1989 (Stanley Cups: 0)
Dionne has the third highest all-time points-per-game ratio of 1.31 points per game.

6. Steve Yzerman - 1755 Points
Goals: 692, Assists: 1063, Games: 1731
Teams: Wings
Career: 1983 to 2006 (Stanley Cups: 3)
Yzerman was the longest serving captain for any single team in the history of the NHL.

7. Mario Lemieux - 1723 Points
Goals: 690, Assists: 1033, Games: 915
Teams: Penguins
Career: 1984 to 1994, 1995 to 1997, 2000 to 2006 (Stanley Cups: 2)
"Super Mario", despite injuries and illness, is one of the best hockey players to have ever played the game.

8. Joe Sakic - 1641 Points
Goals: 625, Assists: 1016, Games: 1378
Teams: Nordiques/Avalanche
Career: 1988 to 2009 (Stanley Cups: 2)
Sakic played his entire 20 year NHL career with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise.

9. Jaromir Jagr - 1599 Points
Goals: 646, Assists: 953, Games: 1273
Teams: Penguins, Capitals, Rangers
Career: 1988 to present (Stanley Cups: 2)
Jagr is the current captain for the New York Rangers, and holds numerous NHL and team records.

10. Phil Esposito - 1590 Points
Goals: 717, Assists: 873, Games: 1282
Teams: Hawks, Bruins, Rangers
Career: 1963 to 1981 (Stanley Cups: 2)
Phil Esposito was the first NHL hockey player to reach 100 points in a single season.
 

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All-Time Classic Board Games

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Backgammon
Players: 2
Type: Race
The first of two players to remove their pieces after moving them around the board wins the game of Backgammon. Rolls of the dice enable movement in opposite directions to either avoid or hit an opponent piece back to Start.

Chess
Players: 2
Type: Strategy
Chess is a fiercely competitive and complicated strategy-based game where intellect and tactical memory play a large role in the effort to Checkmate an opponents King, or leave it without an opportunity to evade capture.

Checkers
Players: 2
Type: Strategy
Checkers is a classic strategy-based board game. On diagonal movement of pieces within designated color, the game is won by capturing all opponent pieces, jumping over them until none remain.

Clue
Players: 3-6
Type: Mystery
Players are considered the suspects of a murder on a board divided into four rooms in a mansion. Clues to the mystery are revealed by suggestion until an accusation is made to determine who the criminal is.

Go
Players: 2
Type: Strategy
Also known as Weiqi, Igo, or Baduk, Go is played on a grid with black and white pieces with the goal to increase your own territory, while decreasing your opponents, by removing opponent pieces as they are surrounded on the board.

Monopoly
Players: 2-8
Type: Real Estate
Controlling real estate is the goal in a game of Monopoly. Turns around the board allow a player the opportunity to acquire property or be forced to pay a fee when landing on property owned by an opponent.

Risk
Players: 2-6
Type: War
World domination determines the winner in the classic game of Risk. Player strategy, and luck based on the roll of the dice, dictates battles within wars declared between opposing nations on the board.

Scrabble
Players: 2-4
Type: Word
Scrabble is a game that awards points for forming words from letter tiles given to a player on each turn. Each letter is assigned a point value, and words must be created on the board adjoined to words that already exist on the board.

Sorry!
Players: 2-4
Type: Race
By sliding around the board in pursuit of opponents, a player wins the game of Sorry by attempting to get all of his or her pieces, or pawns, from Start, into the safety zone, and then into Home.

Trivial Pursuit
Players: 2-24
Type: Trivia
In the effort to correctly answer questions in six categories, such as Science, Sports, and Entertainment, a Trivial Pursuit player wins the game by acquiring Pie pieces for each category.
 

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Best Selling Books of All-Time

Year Published: 100 BC - 100 AD
Original Language: Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic
Many copies of The Holy Bible have been freely given away during missionary work.

2. Quotations from Chairman Mao - Authored by Mao Zedong
Book Sales: 800,000,000

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