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Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. These plates which float on and travel independently over the mantle and much of the earth's seismic activity occurs at the boundaries of these plates.

The seven major plates are the African plate, Antarctic plate, Eurasian plate, Indo-Australian plate, North American plate, Pacific plate and South American plate.

Volcanoes usually form along plate boundaries , where tectonic plates are either moving towards or away from one another. They may be convergent or divergent.

The purpose of defibrillation is to stop the chaotic, disorganized contraction of the cardiac cells. Defibrillation is a technique used in emergency medicine to terminate ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia. It uses an electrical shock to reset the electrical state of the heart so that it may beat to a rhythm controlled by its own natural pacemaker cells.

Roger Federer, a star tennis player won his 99th career title in his hometown, Switzerland.

Jim Laker was the first player to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings. Ten for 53 in the Australians 2nd innings of the 4th Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1956.

The only other bowler to achieve the feat is India's Anil Kumble, who took ten for 74 at Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla against Pakistan in 1999.

Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest extant religions. It is the ancient pre-Islamic religion of Iran that survives there in isolated areas and, more prosperously, in India, where the descendants of Zoroastrian Iranian (Persian) immigrants are known as Parsis, or Parsees.

The Iranian prophet and religious reformer Zarathustra flourished before the 6th century BCE more widely known outside Iran as Zoroaster is traditionally regarded as the founder of the religion.

Zoroastrianism contains both monotheistic and dualistic features. It likely influenced the other major Western religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.