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Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, [a] but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the expatriate officers of British India as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) [4] Its exact origin remains obscure.
William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1]
Before Jerry Garcia's death, "Box of Rain" was the last song ever performed live at a Grateful Dead concert, during the final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995. It was the first song played at the first Fare Thee Well show at Soldier Field on July 3, 2015.
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
Music Box Brazil, a Brazilian music television channel; musicbox (German TV channel) Music Box Italia, an Italian music television channel; The Music Box, a 1957 United Kingdom music variety show produced by Associated-Rediffusion; Music Box, a 1981 Canadian educational television series produced by Heather Conkie
National badminton teams (174 P) O. Badminton organizations (2 C, 10 P) P. Para-badminton (2 C, 1 P) Badminton people (2 C) R. Badminton records and statistics (1 C ...
Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...
Born in Guelph, Ontario, Purcell excelled at tennis and golf as a child. [1] He took up badminton in 1924, and rose quickly in Ontario's amateur ranks. Purcell won five consecutive Ontario championships from 1927 to 1931, and was the Canadian National Badminton Champion in 1929 and 1930.