In 1925, Naismith visited an Indiana basketball state finals game along with 15, 000 screaming fans and later wrote, that while it was invented in Massachusetts, " basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

LARP does not have a single point of origin, but was invented independently by groups in North America, Europe, and Australia.

The origin of the name, ratified by the American Chemical Society, is in reference to the nuclear-physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, of the University of California, who invented the cyclotron particle accelerator.

Today, this theory is rejected by the majority of Polish historians, who consider the name Mieczysław to have been invented by Długosz to explain the origin of the name Mieszko.

The origin of the glide dates to 1951, when Parry O ' Brien of the United States invented a technique that involved the putter facing backwards, rotating 180 degrees across the circle, and then tossing the shot.

It also contains influences from Cockney rhyming slang and the King James Bible, the German language, some words of unclear origin, and some that Burgess invented.

The personal table fork was most likely invented in the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire where they were in common use by the 4th century CE ( its origin may even go back to Ancient Greece, before the Roman period ).

Pronunciation has shifted to a hard TH, consistent with the consonant's pronunciation in the multitude of words of Greek origin assimilated into English by scholars during the Enlightenment and invented by scientists and engineers during the scientific and technological boom of the 20th century.

The origin of the counterweight trebuchet is obscure, but it appears to have been invented somewhere in the Mediterranean basin in the twelfth century.

Despite its Taishan ( Toisan ) background, there are various colorful stories about its origin, which Davidson ( 1999 ) characterizes as " culinary mythology ": Some say it was invented by Chinese immigrant cooks working on the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century.

An urban legend claims this was the origin of the band's name, but according to band member Jorma Kaukonen, the name was invented by his friend Steve Talbot as a parody of blues names such as Blind Lemon Jefferson.

A more complex origin story was invented.

Old Irish cumal means " female slave ", and it is possible that a noble father was invented for Fionn to obscure an ignoble origin.

Anton de Bary invented the concept of symbiosis ; several Russian biologists promoted the idea ; Edwin Wilson mentioned it in his text The Cell ; as did Ivan Emmanuel Wallin in his Symbionticism and the origin of species ; and there was a brief mention by Julian Huxley in 1930 ; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking.

Most instruments are said to have a nonhuman origin, but some are believed invented by humans, e. g., the xylophone and the lamellophone.

The notion that meringue was invented in the Swiss town of Meiringen and improved by an Italian chef named Gasparini in the 18th century is contested ; the Oxford English Dictionary states that the French word is of unknown origin.

There are numerous accounts on the origin of the looped pretzels, as well as the origin of the name ; most agree that they have Christian backgrounds and were invented by monks.

Crystal radio was invented by a long, partly obscure chain of discoveries in the late 19th century that gradually evolved into more and more practical radio receivers in the early 20th century ; and constitutes the origin of the field of electronics.

The exact origin of the Sidecar is unclear, but it is thought to have been invented around the end of World War I in either London or Paris.

This may be less historical fact and more etiological myth, invented to explain the Servilian cognomen " Ahala "/" Axilla ", which means " armpit " and is probably of Etruscan origin.

The phrase is Persian in origin and Arabic tradition has it that the dish was invented by medieval Persian soldiers who used their swords to grill meat over open-field fires.

Many of these chants are ancient in origin, extending to pre-Christian times, while others are relatively modern, including several composed by Saint Mesrop Mashtots, who invented the Armenian alphabet.

Larsson's notes disprove the early theory that the unusual runes on the Kensington Runestone were invented on the spot by the supposed 1890s hoaxer ; but without a source for Larsson's rune rows ( for example an ancient book, or records from the hypothetical Masonic-type organisation ), it is not possible to give their origin any particular date range closer than " before 1883.

by means of an origin statement which refers to an actual address, the corresponding index word will be reserved.

For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

Perhaps the word may be included among those mysterious expressions discussed by Adolf von Harnack, “ which belong to no known speech, and by their singular collocation of vowels and consonants give evidence that they belong to some mystic dialect, or take their origin from some supposed divine inspiration .”

The origin of the word is uncertain.

The word " Accountant " is derived from the French word, which took its origin from the Latin word.

Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.

There is some confusion over the origin of this usage of the word akimbo.

The word is thought to have its origin in the Aramaic language, in which ibra ( אברא ) means " I have created " and k ' dibra ( כדברא ) which means " through my speech ", providing a translation of abracadabra as " created as I say ", thus its use in magic.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.

The word bronze is borrowed from, itself borrowed from ( compare Medieval ), whose origin is unclear.

The origin of the term is uncertain, and many researchers have different theories on how the word entered the English vocabulary.

The origin of the word bunyip has been traced to the Wemba-Wemba or Wergaia language of Aboriginal people of South-Eastern Australia.

Currently, the word " Bohemians " is sometimes used when speaking about persons from Bohemia of non-Czech or mixed ethnic origin, especially before the year 1918, when the Kingdom of Bohemia ceased to exist ; also when there is need to distinguish between inhabitants of the western part ( Bohemia proper ) of Czechia, and the eastern ( Moravia ) or the north-eastern part ( Silesia ).

This is pointed out, however, simply to make still clearer the meaning and origin of the word ; and section V will furnish a more detailed explanation of the formation of the Breviary.

The term " Casino " is of Italian origin, the root word being " Casa " ( house ) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion.

The word " cipher " in former times meant " zero " and had the same origin: Middle French as < span lang =" fr "> cifre </ span > and Medieval Latin as cifra, from the Arabic صفر ṣifr = zero ( see Zero — Etymology ).

The origin of the word " chicano " is disputed.

The computer game Deus Ex: Invisible War prominently featured the Omar, where " Omar " is a Russian translation of the word " Lobster " ( since the Omar are of Russian origin in the game ).

The word is of Latin origin ; during the Roman Republic, the census was a list that kept track of all adult males fit for military service.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.