Historical Dictionary of Bowling
Loggats, kayles, quilles, skittles, half-bowl and ninepins were all early forms of games in which the goal was to knock down small standing objects from a distance by rolling or throwing another object at them. Archaeologists have found items from Egypt around 5200 B.C. that included small stone balls and narrow pins that were possibly used for a game. Additional research has disclosed that Polynesians played a similar game, using small elliptical balls and round flat stone disks, and, like modern-day bowling, a sixty-foot throwing distance. The Historical Dictionary of Bowling contains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an…
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Weitere Autoren: Hartman, Eric R.
- ISBN: 978-0-8108-8022-1
- EAN: 9780810880221
- Produktnummer: 22972626
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 506 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'751 KB
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By John Grasso and Eric R. Hartman
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