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History of Sports
The history of sports teaches us a great deal about the changing society and about the nature of sport itself. It shows how society has transformed its practices and beliefs, thereby leading to changes in the rules in sports.
1,514 Questions
What are the two words that use all 5 vowels in the English language?
There are many more than just two. Three examples (often the most cited as "the two" or "the only", by some people) are abstemious, abstentious and facetious.
Where the letter Y is considered a vowel, the suffix '-ly-' can be added to any of these, and both order and containment of all vowels is maintained.
When was the 99th Kentucky Derby held?
May 7, 2005 was the date on which the 131st Kentucky Derby was held. The winning horse was Giacomo [foaled February 16, 2002]. The winning jockey was Michael Earl Smith [b. August 10, 1965]. The winning time was 2 minutes 02.75 seconds.
What was the first tennis ball made of?
Rubber balls were still centuries away, so the ball was a wad of hair, wool, or cork wrapped in string and cloth or leather, then in later years, hand-stitched in felt to look something like a modern baseball.
Soccer,Because A Lot Of People Watch Soccer And Cant Wait For The Fifa And Plus Players Have Practice Every Day Accept Sat And Sun
In British Columbia in New Westminster Hospital on June 28, 1981
Which players for Manchester united have been African?
Manchester United has had, over the past 30 or 40 years, a number of black players. The first one of note was Viv Anderson, but I do not know of any that were African, at least not by immediate descent, as it were. Oh, hang on, wasn't Quinton Fortune from South Africa.... & just to add to that I think Eric Djemba-Djemba is also from west africa, Senegal maybe.... Cameroon in fact !
What does the shape of the pentagon mean?
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Hurling, a stick and ball sport , loosely like field hockey, is one of Ireland's two main national sports. Hurling is the fastest field game in the world. The other major Irish sports is Gaelic Football, which to someone not familiar with it, could best be described as a cross between Soccer and Rugby, and is loosely related to Australian Rules Football. Camogie is the version of hurling played by women, and is similar to Hurling, but with some basic variations in the rules. There is a women's version of Gaelic Football, which also has some variations in the rules of Gaelic Football played by men. A game similar to cricket or baseball that Ireland has is called rounders. The other popular sports in Ireland are the more well known international sports like soccer, rugby, golf, horse racing etc.
Is the Kentucky Derby held in Kentucky?
Yes, the Kentucky Derby is held in Kentucky. It's held at the Churchill Downs racetrack in Louisville. The 2010 Derby represents the 136th running of the world-famous race.
Who did the Palestinian terrorists take hostage during the Munich Massacre in 1972?
11 Israeli athletes
Where were the Olympic games held in 1983?
The 1980 Summer Olympics were held in Moscow, Russia.
The 1980 Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York.
When did George Hancock invent softball?
i think he invented the softball because in the loden days there was barely anything to play so he probably thought why dont i make up my own game. sorry if this answer didnt help i tried my best
Top ten spectator sports in Britain?
Participation. 1. Football. 2. Swimming.* 3. Fishing. 4. Basketball. 5. Golf. 6. Rugby union. 7. Cricket. 8. Rugby league. 9. Snooker. 10. Tennis. * Many people would say swimming is an activity and not a sport in the sense of going swimming rather than swim racing.
When did Andrew clements start writing books?
he started by his teachers in highschool liking his poems
Cat Osterman is one that i know of I'm not quite sure how she became famous, but she is an excellant pitcher.
Who was the last white man in an 100meters olympic final?
Matic Osovnikar from Slovenia. He made finals in WC in Osaka 2007.
- 1804 AD. Sir George Cayley built several gliders, distinguished between lift and drag and formulated the concepts of vertical tail surfaces, steering rudders and rear elevators.
- 1883 John_Joseph_Montgomeryindependently built several gliders in the United States and used wind and water tables to formulate thoughts on lifting surfaces.
- 1891 First controlled flights, Otto Lilienthal of Germany. His gliders have many features in common with modern Hang_gliding; they were foot-launched and controlled by displacing the center of gravity, referred to as 'weight-shift'.
- 1891-1896. First soaring flights. Germany, near Berlin at Gross Lichterfelde. Otto Lilienthal.
- 1904, February 15. Jan_Lavezzariflew a double lateen sail hang glider off Berck beach, France.
- 1905 LIFE magazine is showing a photograph of a hang glider where the pilot is hanging by tension in his arms (replacing tension of hanging seat or hang line of harnesses) while also freely moving feet on strut-stayed triangle control frame.Answers.com
- 1905 Aeronaut Daniel Maloney pilots a balloon-launched tandem wing Montgomery glider from a release thousands of feet above the ground to a landing at a predescribed location.
- 1908. In Breslau a gliding club member demonstrated cable-stayed triangle control bar for a hang glider that would be seen strongly and instructed again in 1929 by George A. Spratt.
- 1920. Soaring becomes organized sport at Wasserkuppe, Germany as the World War I Versailles treaty outlaws flying powered aircraft in Germany. Breslau gliding Klub with cable-stayed triangle control frame on a hang glider.
- 1921. Dr. Wolfgang Klemperer breaks the Wright Brothers 1911 soaring record with a 13-minute flight in Germany. Both flights used Ridge_lift.
- 1921. Gottlob Espenlaub demonstrates triangle control frame (A-frame_for_hang_gliders,_trikes,_and_ultralights) for hang gliders in Rhon, Germany.
- 1923. Platz Glider. Not foot-launchable by the pilot alone. Controlled by the pilot directly deforming the front canard wings. It was not a weight-shift hang glider but it was simple enough to be folded into a single length to be carried by Platz while riding a bicycle.Answers.com
- 1928. Austrian Robert Kronfeld proved that thermal lift could be used by a sailplane to gain altitude by making a short out and return flight.
- 1929. Aero towing becomes popular, the three forms of lift are becoming well known.
- 1929. George A. Spratt demonstrated the use of the triangular control frame for hang glider pendulum weight-shift control, mechanically similar to that used in 1908 in a hang glider in Breslau. [69]. Later in the 1930s he invented the Control Wing aircraft.
- 1933. Wave lift was discovered by Wolf Hirth and one of his students in Germany.
- 1948. Francis Rogallo invents the flexible wing (Rogallo wing).Answers.com
- 1956. Aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready invents the MacCready Speed Ring, used by glider pilots the world over to select optimum flight speed.
- 1957, October. Francis Rogallo released the flexible wing patent to the U.S.A. government and NASA, producing the Parawing, to be used as a deployable space capsule parachute/glider.
- 1960. Paresev(a.k.a: Parawing Research Vehicle, Paraglider Research Vehicle (formal).) This experimental spacecraft re-entry kite/glider made use of the Rogallo wing; design and manufacture by NASA at Dryden_Flight_Research_Center, flight tests made in early 1962 and inspired manufacture of Rogallo wing hang gliders. Eight pilots free-flighted hung glided in various versions of the wing and hung-seat arrangement.
- 1961. Ryan_XV-8. Flexible wing aircraft design & manufacture begins.
- 1961-1962. First documented foot-launch with a Rogallo flex wing hang glider: Barry Hill Palmer, California, U.S.A. Hang glider inspired from a photo of NASA's Ryan_XV-8.Answers.comAnswers.comAnswers.comAnswers.com
- 1961. Celebrity Jim Hobson (of Lawrence Welk Show fame) began experimenting with the Rogallo wing in model form, leading to the construction of a full size glider which he flew it at Dockweiler Beach on January 2, 1962. The glider frame was fabricated from aluminum and aircraft bolts supported by aircraft cable attached to hardware store eye bolts and turnbuckles.Answers.comA second larger hang glider was taken to Dockweiler Beach; it featured a 4 mil polyester film reinforced with fiberglass tape. Movies of August, 1962 flights were made.
- 1961. Engineer Thomas Purcell builds a 4.9 metres (16 ft) wide Rogallo airfoil glider with an aluminum frame, wheels, a seat and basic control rods.Answers.com
- 1962. Ryan_Aeronautical_Companypublicizes images of the Ryan_XV-8flexible wing aircraft.
- 1962. Mike Burns and Dick Swinbourne from Aerostructures, Sydney, Australia, design the Skiplane glider based on the Rogallo wing. It used pendulum weight-shift control and floats.
- 1963. John Dickenson, Australia. Making of the Ski Wing, an influential hang glider model encompassing a control frame and used weight-shift control.Answers.comAnswers.com
- 1963, September. First flight of the Ski Wing, towed behind a motor boat. The kite/glider was piloted by Rod Fuller and then John Dickenson. Grafton, NSW, Australia.Answers.com
- 1963. First release and land of a Ski Wing. Grafton, Australia. Pilot: John Dickenson.
- 1960s England. Tony Prentice designed and flew several non-Rogallo hang gliders.Answers.com
- 1966. Mike Burns and Dick Swinbourne (Aerostructures) begin commercial production of Dickenson's Mark V model.
- 1966. Early flex wing hang glider, Vista Del Mar. California,_U.S.A. by Richard Miller. His gliders, based on Barry_Hill_Palmerhang glider, were named Batso and Bamboo Butterfly. Their photos and plans were published in a few magazines during the 1960s. (See the Popularity section.)
- 1966. Irvin Industries start marketing a commercial version of the Rogallo Wing to sport Parachutingenthusiasts.Answers.com
- 1967, March. Bill Moyes and Bill Bennett taught to fly the Mark V hang glider by Mike Burns and John Dickenson.
- 1967. First foot-launch of a flexible without auxiliary power (no towing). Launched from a snowed mountain with snow skis.- Bill Moyes. Mt. Crackenback, Australia.Answers.comThe hang glider was a Mark V purchased from Aerostructures.
- 1969. Initial tether into headwind then released onto ridge to soar (32 minutes). Bill Moyes. NSW, Australia.Answers.com
- 1969. Tony Prentice. First flex wing hang glider foot-launch in the United_Kingdom.
- 1971. Foot-launch and soaring on ridge and thermal lift (1 hour). Dave Kilbourne. Mission Peak, California,_U.S.A. This seems to be the first foot-launch of a flexible wing not using skis.
- 1971. Alfio Caronti, first flexible wing launched in Italy.Answers.com
- 1972. Rick Poynter and Murray Sargeson introduce hang gliding to New Zealand at the 'Fly a Kite Day' in Auckland. The New Zealand Hang Gliding Association is formed as a result of this.
- 1973. Rock Poynter starts Pacific Sails in Auckland, New Zealand, manufacturing U.S. and Australian Hang Glider designs under license (Seagull III, Stinger), and developing competitive indigenous designs (Falcon, Lancer I, II, IV).
- 1974. Caril Ridley conducted high altitude flights soaring from a Maharaja's lookout tower near Sonar Hot Springs, India. The event got world wide coverage.
- 1976. Rudy Kishazy performs the first loop and series of loops at Grands Montets, France.Answers.com
- 1977. Jerry Katz first to soar 161 kilometres (100 mi).
- 1978. Terry DeLore from New_Zealandis crowned first World Hang Gliding Champion.
- 1983. Gérard Thévenot, the manufacturer of the Cosmostrike, introduced aerotowing, the use of weak links, parachute retrieval system of tow line and centre of thrust towing.
- 1992 The Exxtacy rigid wing hang glider, designed by Felix Ruehle.
- 1999 The ATOS rigid wing hang glider, designed by Felix Ruehle.
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When were the Minnesota Twins founded?
Date of Statehood: May 11, 1858
Before European settlement, Minnesota was populated by the Anishinaabe, the Dakota, and other Native Americans. The first Europeans were French fur traders who arrived in the 1600s. Late that century, the Ojibwe Indians migrated westward to Minnesota, causing tensions with the Sioux. Explorers such as Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, Father Louis Hennepin, Jonathan Carver, Henry Schoolcraft, and Joseph Nicollet, among others, mapped out the state.
The portion of the state east of the Mississippi River became a part of the United States at the end of the American Revolutionary War, when the Second Treaty of Paris was signed. Land west of the Mississippi River was acquired with the Louisiana Purchase, although a portion of the Red River Valley was disputed until the Treaty of 1818. In 1805, Zebulon Pike bargained with Native Americans to acquire land at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. The construction of Fort Snelling followed between 1819 and 1825. Its soldiers built a grist mill and a sawmill at Saint Anthony Falls, the first of the water-powered industries around which the city of Minneapolis later grew. Meanwhile, squatters, government officials, and tourists had settled in the vicinity of the fort. In 1839, the Army forced them to move downriver, and they settled in the area that became St. Paul. Minnesota Territory was formed on March 3, 1849.Thousands of people had come to build farms and cut timber, and Minnesota became the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858.
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Like most other Asian countries, Korea had its own native Martial Art systems that developed as a need for protection of individuals, villages, and Kingdoms which controlled shifting territories during feudal times. Evidence of Korea's earliest combative systems dates back to around the 1st century B.C. Some of these systems became labeled as "Subak" and "Tae Kyon."
Two thousand years later, during the Japanese annexation, and occupation of Korea (1910 - 1945), Korean culture, language, and history was being destroyed and displaced with the "Japanization" of Korea. Korean Martial Arts was also banned, but survived in secret. With the liberation of Korea at the end of WWII in 1945, Koreans began to restore their national identity by once again teaching native Korean language, and history in their public schools. The practice of Martial Art was also revived.
Taekwondo was created as a modern day form of self defense, exercise, and sport, as well as for personal development and enlightenment for the individual. As a country, Taekwondo was necessary for training of soldiers for combat, regaining national pride, and promotion of a popular sport to obtain international recognition and identity as an independent nation.
Detailed Answer:
Taekwondo is a martial art created by the efforts of several key Korean Martial Art figures during the post World War II era. One of the earliest pioneers was Won Kuk Lee, who founded the first official Martial Art school run by a Korean. He called his school Chung Do Kwan (School of the Blue Wave). In his youth, Won Kuk Lee had been introduced to the methods of Tae kyon, one of Korea's native fighting skills which employed kicking as a primary weapon. In the early 1940s Lee traveled to Japan and studied Shotokan Karate under the renowned expert, Gichin Funakoshi.
After the liberation of Korea at the end of World War II in 1945, many Black Belts of the Chung Do Kwan began opening Kwans (schools) under various names. Each school was teaching a myriad of self defense systems (Chinese, Japanese, and native Korean). One of Grandmaster Lee's students at the Chung Do Kwan, Choi Hong-Hi, had also been introduced to Tae Kyon as a youth, and later trained in Shotokan Karate under Sensei Funakoshi. Choi quickly rose through the ranks of the Korean military, and eventually became a Major General. He taught his own interpretation of Chung Do Kwan and Shotokan to Korean soldiers in the military school he called Oh Do Kwan.
During the 1950's a large number of Kwans were operating in Korea without any structure, leadership, or organization. Korea was beginning to regain its cultural identity that was nearly wiped out by the Japanese oppression. The practice and re-birth of Martial Art was becoming very popular, and it was decided among the leaders of the original Kwans that there needed to be unity in instruction, a clear curriculum based on native Korean Martial Art systems, and a new name to represent the national Korean Martial Art.
At a meeting in April of 1955, several Kwan directors, prominent historians and political leaders gathered and voted on ballots submitted. The ballot containing the term "Tae Kwon" ("Tae" meaning to smash with the foot, and "Kwon" to strike with the hand or fist) which closely resembled the native term Tae Kyon (kicking method) was chosen. It is debated among those who were present at this meeting as to who originally coined the name "Taekwon-do," but it is widely accepted that it was General Choi Hong Hi who submitted the ballot. Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee, founder of the Chung Do Kwan, said that several of his students consulted a Korean dictionary to arrive at this term. Nevertheless, the subsequent system of Taekwondo was created as a group effort that took more than a decade to agree upon the widespread use of the name, and an official curriculum.
Therefore, the art of Taekwondo was created for the rejuvenation of ancient Korean Martial Art, and to bring the various modern schools of self defense together under a united leadership. It was gradually restructured to remove the Japanese Karate influences that were prevalent in the early teachings of the Kwan founders. Taekwondo became more solidified in the 1960's when Kwans united in the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA) and the sport began to emphasize the differences between Karate and Taekwondo tournament rules. This strategy supported Taekwondo's preference toward kicking, and facilitated a widespread molding of the structure, and physical attributes of techniques to support this philosophy.
The motivation behind the development of Taekwondo (besides individual gain) was to revive and preserve native Korean culture and traditions, establish a successful business market based on Korean Martial Art, unite modern Korean Martial Artist in a joint effort to improve the standards of teaching, testing, and promoting Black Belts, while also removing the influences of the hated Japanese oppressors. Taekwondo was first and foremost created as a means of self defense and deadly unarmed combat in war, and has been widely taught as a form of exercise, and sport entertainment.
Who were important political people in the 1970s?
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Who invented toenail clippers?
The first finger & toe nail clippers where invented in the year of 1896 by the inventor Chapel Carter.
