He also recalled watching rugby players toss a ball into a box in a gymnasium. He had the idea of nailing up raised boxes into which players would attempt to throw a ball. When boxes couldn't be found, he used peach baskets. According to Alexander Wolff, in his book 100 Years of ...
Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria in the seventh century BC, is considered by historians to be the first great librarian. His House of Tablets wasdivided into two sections: one, an archive of government documents, business records, and correspondence; the other, a collection of literature and scholar...
entrance (propylon); the council building (bouleuterion) the open-air theatre; the gymnasium (palaestra); the hippodrome (horse racing); the stadium (athletics); and the monumental tomb (mausoleum). But of all these buildings, it is the temple that best captures the qualities of Greek ...
At the top of the agenda, though, was the need for a coach. Mike Kelly, the previous year’s coach, had been hired by the University to oversee the new gymnasium in Old Main’s north wing (see UT’s First Gymnasium) and teach physical training classes. The Council took a chance and...
History of the University of Arkansas Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas is the flagship campus of the U of A System, the primary institution of higher education in the state and a national leader in applied research. Today, the university is among the 2 percent of public ...
Moreover, we should note that cities in Ancient Rome were less provincial and far more powerful than Greek city-states, so that its art invariably played a more functional role - not least because Roman culture was actually a melange of different beliefs and customs, all of which had to be...
His own guards immediately rose upon him; they dragged him from the palace to the gymnasium, and there put him to death.Though the Romans had already seized the smaller kingdom of Cyrene under the will of Ptolemy Apion, they could not agree among themselves upon the wholesale robbery of ...
The ancient Greeks may have loved sports because males grew up participating in them. As Lunt notes, every Greek city had its own gymnasium, where local males took off their clothes and competed in the nude at various sports, such as wrestling and foot races. “The Greeks valued physical an...
Since the first Olympic Games debuted in Athens, Greece in 1896, the gathering of the world’s dominant athletes has become a global event. But with historic discrimination and fewer opportunities for elite training, Black athletes faced immense challenges to compete. Nonetheless, starting in the ...
Cricket:The game of cricket originated in south-east England sometime in the late 16th century. By the 18th century, it had become the national sport, making inroads globally in the 19th and 20th centuries. The prototype for the modern cricket bat featuring a willow blade and a cane handle ...