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Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [3] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [4]
The official San Diego Zoo YouTube account left a now-pinned comment on the video in 2020, stating that they felt honored being featured in the first-ever YouTube video. [23] As of October 22, 2024, it is the most-liked comment on the platform, with 3.9 million likes.
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] He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S. [2]
James Zern, a YouTube software engineer, revealed in April 2011 that 30 percent of videos accounted for 99 percent of views on the site. [107] Live streaming was introduced in April 2011, initially rolled out to select users and later expanded. [108]
Whether or not the sport of badminton was re-introduced from British India or was invented during the hard winter of 1863 by the children of the eighth duke in the Great Hall (where the featherweight shuttlecock would not mar the life-size portraits of horses by John Wootton, as the tradition of the house has it), [7] it was popularised at the house, hence the sport's name.
Despite a career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation which sometimes interfered with his avocation, Alston is the only male player to win each of the sport's three basic events, singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, at both the U.S. National Badminton Championships (closed to foreign competition) and the U.S. Open Badminton Championships (open to foreign competition).
Liem was born on 28 February 1956 in Kudus Regency, Central Java. [3] His parents were Ng Thian Poo and Oei See Moi from Putian, Fujian. [4] He was the only son among his parents' eight children.