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1929 drawing of grandfather, grandmother, and Kolobok by artist Конончук Сергій Пилипович, Kononchuk Serhii Pylypovych (1912—1941) Kolobok is translated from Ukrainian as "small round bun", [8] or from Russian as round dough, [7] though it has also been thought to reference the Eastern European Bread, kalach, [2] or possibly a round palt (based on the Swedish food item ...
Some local rules require the catcher to throw the ball at the ground while saying "out". If a player from the batting team is caught between two bases at the end of the batting round, they move back to either the last visited base or first base (depending on the local rules) and the catching team scores a point.
La Tavola Ritonda [1] (The Round Table) is a 15th-century Italian Arthurian romance written in the medieval Tuscan language. It is preserved in a 1446 manuscript at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence (Codex Palatinus 556). It was translated into English as Tristan and the Round Table by Anne Shaver in 1983. [2]
A batter who hits a ball extremely hard and far might be said to crush the ball, as if he had destroyed the baseball or at least changed its shape. Related expressions are crunched the ball or mashed the ball. Indeed, a slugger is sometimes described as a masher. Illustration: "Though the 25-year-old has impressed with two homers in five games ...
This game of ball-playing was also practised among the Kurnai, the Wolgal (Tumut river people), the Wotjoballuk as well as by the Woiworung, and was probably known to most tribes of south-eastern Australia. The Kurnai made the ball from the scrotum of an "old man kangaroo", the Woiworung made it of tightly rolled up pieces of possum skin. It ...
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
Cycle-ball, early 20th century. Cycle-ball, also known as "radball" (from German), is a sport similar to association football played on bicycles. The two people on each team ride a fixed gear bicycle with no brakes or freewheel. The ball is controlled by the bike and the head, except when defending the goal.
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