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rugby football rugby football
rugby football. William Webb Ellis is credited with inventing rugby in 1823 by picking up the ball while playing football at Rugby School and running with it. The claim is much disputed but there is little doubt that rugby developed at public schools out of a large-scale, few-rules, mauling scrum... Read more
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rugby game that originated (1823), according to tradition, on the playing fields of Rugby, England. It is related to both soccer and American football . The game is said to have started when a Rugby School student named William Webb Ellis playing soccer picked up the ball and ran downfield with... Read more
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
MOSELEY, HENRY GWYN JEFFREYS (b. Weymouth. Dorsetshire, England, 23 November 1887; d. Gelibolu, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, 10 August 1915) physics. Like his friends Julian Huxley and Charles Galton Darwin. Harry Moseley came from a family long distinguished for its contributions to science. His... Read more
Carol Moseley-Braun Carol Moseley-Braun
Carol Moseley Braun 1947– Politician, lawyer Entered Illinois State Politics Thomas Appointment Sparked Senate Run Candidacy Helped by Opponents’ Fighting Primary Victory Seen as Powerful Symbol Won Election Despite Controversy Reelection Thwarted By Mistakes Became Educator and... Read more
Stirling castle Stirling castle
Stirling castle, which stands on a dolorite hill over 400 feet above sea level, occupies an important strategic position controlling the main ford of the river Forth; it is thus a link between the Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland. The castle is of unknown age, but from the time of Alexander ... Read more
fives fives
fives. The game of fives, in a rough form, certainly dates back to Tudor times, though the derivation of the name is unclear. The essential ingredients are a hard ball, gloves to protect the hands, which are used instead of rackets, and a wall or court. Its modern form derives from versions played... Read more
Rugby (England) Rugby (England)
Rugby town (1991 pop. 59,039), Warwickshire, central England. An important railroad junction and engineering center, Rugby is the seat of one of England's most esteemed public schools. Rugby School was founded in 1567 under the terms of the will of Laurence Sheriff, a wealthy Rugby-born London... Read more
Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic Athletic Association
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), founded 1884 by Michael Cusack (1847–1906). Cusack, a teacher and one‐time enthusiast for cricket and rugby, had become disillusioned with the social exclusiveness of existing sporting bodies and the association of sport and gambling, and was also... Read more
George Joachim Goschen George Joachim Goschen
Goschen, George Joachim, 1st Viscount (1831–1907). A front-rank and long-serving politician in his day, Goschen is now remembered chiefly in one phrase. He was the grandson of a Leipzig publisher: his father settled in London as a merchant in 1814. Goschen was sent to Rugby and Oxford to get... Read more

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