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Until 1887, the sport was played in England under the rules that prevailed in British India.

The sport would later resurface in England during the early 16th century in the form of bare-knuckle boxing sometimes referred to as prizefighting.

In Europe, these games included Irish sport of hurling, the closely related Scottish sport of shinty, and versions of field hockey, including " Bandie ball ," played in England.

James II of England came to the Netherlands in exile, and he fell for the sport.

When he went back to England, this " new " sport was introduced to the British aristocracy, and was soon enjoyed by people from all walks of life.

The sport has recently found popularity in the North West of England following it's profile being raised by former long distance runner, Gareth Owen.

The association between the St Mary's Church of England Cricket Club and the establishment of the North Melbourne Football Club is believed not to be formal, rather a general gathering to play some competitive sport.

Offshore powerboat racing was first ' recognized ' as a sport when, in 1904, a race took place from the south-eastern coast England to Calais, France.

During the early part of the 20th century, under the leadership of Harry Payne Whitney, polo changed to become a high-speed sport in the United States, differing from the game in England, where it involved short passes to move the ball toward the opposition's goal.

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century.

The code was originally known as " rugby football "; it was not until after the schism in England in 1895, which resulted in the separate code of rugby league, that the sport took on the name " rugby union " to differentiate it from the league game.

In the nineteenth century, whippet racing was a national sport in England, more popular than football.

* November – According to tradition, William Webb Ellis invents the sport of Rugby football at Rugby School in England.

The game made its way to England and was sold as Snakes and Ladders, then the basic concept was introduced in the United States as Chutes and Ladders ( an " improved new version of England's famous indoor sport ") by game pioneer Milton Bradley in 1943.

The Amateur Athletic Association ( AAA ) was established in England in 1880 as the first national body for the sport of athletics and began holding its own annual athletics competition – the AAA Championships.

Racewalking finds its roots in the sport of pedestrianism which emerged in the late 18th century in England.

The history of water polo as a team sport began as a demonstration of strength and swimming skill in late 19th century England and Scotland, where water sports and racing exhibitions were a feature of county fairs and festivals.

The sport was very popular during the Middle Ages throughout Europe, known as bowls or lawn bowling in England, and as boules in France.

** Later, Submarine Products Ltd in Hexham in Northumberland, England designed round the Cousteau-Gagnan patent and made sport diving breathing sets accessibly cheap.

Hooliganism had affected the sport for some years, and was particularly virulent in England.

King Henry III of England banned the playing of the game by his archers, and in the 14th century, Charles IV and Charles V of France also forbade the sport to commoners.

The sport is controversial, particularly in the UK, where it was banned in Scotland in 2002, and in England and Wales in November 2004 ( law enforced from February 2005 ), though shooting foxes as vermin remained legal.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

It would be interesting to know how much `` integration '' there is in the famous, fashionable colleges and prep schools of New England.

It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

Like most major works of synthesis, The History Of England is informed by the positive views of a first-class mind, and this is surely a major work.

namely, is the idea that there were Saxon mercenaries in England at all reasonable??

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

The work is executed in England ( by hand ) and can be worked in any desired design and color.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

One of my favorites is A. armata, a species very common in England, where it is sometimes referred to as the lawn bee.

In 1918 the New England Telephone Company began erecting a building to house its operations on the corner of U. S. Rte. 7 and what is now Memorial Avenue at Manchester Center.

The Barker index is published for the Barker Index Committee by W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 4 Petty Cury, Cambridge, England.

Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.

Now again in 1961, in England, there is perhaps nothing in the religious sphere so popularly discussed as Christian unity.

but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the present religious state of England.

Now, in 1961, the Catholic population of England is still quite small ( ten per cent, or 5 million ) ; ;

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

That day is perhaps today, 1961, and it seems no longer very meaningful to call England a `` Protestant country ''.