what and where is the origin of badminton?
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"Modern badminton began as "poona" in India. In the 1860s it was\nadopted by British Army officers stationed in India. The\nofficers took the game back to England, where it became a success\nat a party given by the Duke of Beaufort at his estate called\n"Badminton" in Gloucestershire. The first badminton club in this\ncountry, the Badminton Club of New York, was formed in 1878."
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The Romans played a game called "harpastum" which was probably the origin of modern soccer.\nSource-SAMM
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Futbol - Soccer is a team game whose roots go back to ancient times. Forms of the game were played in such places and times as ancient Rome (harpastum), ancient Greece (harpaston), medieval Italy (calcio) and among the Mayans and Inuit eskimos to mention a few.\n\nThe most modern version of the game originated in England in the 12th century. So popular did the game become that English monarchs including Edward II and Henry IV forbade it among their subjects. They held the belief that the game took interest away from the military sport of archery. In spite of that, the game's popularity continued to grow. Read more at the site listed in sources.
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cricket wasnt discovered,its a sport u cant invent sports.cricket was invented in England.\nA basic form of the sport can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. The game seems to have originated among shepherds and farm workers in the Weald between Kent and Sussex. Written evidence exists of a sport known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300.\n\nIn 1598, a court case referred to a sport called Creckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the English language.
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Paddle tennis is a racquet sport invented in 1898 by Frank Beal. It is similar to tennis, but uses smaller paddles and a spongy ball. Like tennis, Paddle tennis is played in both singles and doubles, but each player is allowed only one serve. The game is best of three sets (first player or team to win two sets). Scoring is the same as in tennis.\n\nA somewhat similar game with the same name is played widely in the Spanish-speaking world, particularly Argentina. It is also called Padel.
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I was originally an english sport.
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The roots of the sport are from rugby and soccer (european football).  The form of the game played in the 1870's was a contact sport played with mostly soccer rules.
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Cricket's most likely birthplace is the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. The game was probably devised by children of the Weald's farming and metalworking communities. There is evidence to suggest that it survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th Century. The game's origin seems to have been in Norman or perhaps Saxon times (i.e., before 1066).\n\nPlaying on sheep-grazed land or in clearings, the original implements may have been a matted lump of sheep’s wool as the ball; a crook or other farm tool as the bat; and a gate (i.e., a wicket gate) or a treestump as the wicket. It is possible that the game was derived from the older sport of bowls by the introduction of a "batsman" to stop the ball reaching its target by hitting it away. There seems little doubt that the game had a rustic upbringing and it is significant that the Wealden counties and neighbouring Surrey were the earliest centres of excellence. Eventually, it spread north to London and west to Hampshire, the two places that cemented its popularity in the 18th century.\n\nAccording to some other theories, cricket originated outside England and was brought there by the Normans after 1066. As early as the 8th century, bat and ball games were played in the Punjab region of southern Asia — the ancestors of games such as gilli-danda and perhaps polo. Like the other great recreational import of the time, chess, these sports are believed to have migrated via Persia and through Constantinople into Europe. There are 8th and 9th century accounts of bat and ball games being played in the Mediterranean region, sometimes as church-sponsored events to promote community spirit. If the games reached France in this manner, it is reasonable to assume they would cross the Channel and be introduced in England. But all of this is speculation and there is general agreement among cricket historians that the sport did originate in south-east England.\n\nEarly references are few, far between and sometimes spurious. Some manuscripts from the 12th and 13th centuries show diagrams which have been interpreted as early forms of cricket, but there is no definite evidence to support these conjectures. In c.1183, Joseph of Exeter wrote an account of a community activity played by both sexes which he called cricks, but there is nothing to prove that it was a form of cricket. The evidence is circumstantial only.\n\nThe first clue we have which is reasonably convincing comes from the Royal Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I (aka Edward Longshanks) for 1299-1300. This records that £6 was paid out for the 15-year old Prince Edward to play creag and other games at Newenden in Kent. Although there is no evidence that creag was a form of cricket, it does at least seem a likely suspect, especially given the location.\n\nThere are no other references until 1597, not even to indicate commercial interest in the game by innkeepers or other entrepreneurs. Cricket, if it was played at all, did not have sufficient popularity to be subjected to any kind of specific sanction, unlike some other games. For example, a statute of King Edward IV in 1477–8 (17 Edw.IV c.3) made the playing of handyn and handoute illegal because it interfered with the compulsory practice of archery.\n\nIn 1597 there was a dispute over a school's ownership of a plot of land in which a 59-year old coroner, John Derrick, testified that he and his school friends had played kreckett on the site fifty years earlier. This is generally considered to be the first definite mention of cricket in the English language - the school was the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Mr Derrick's account proves beyond reasonable doubt that the game was being played c.1550.\n\nIn the following year John Florio, in his Italian-English dictionary defined the verb sgillare
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The Chinese played it thousands of years ago, but it really started in England, when a swimming club (believe it or not) was bored of just swimming up and down a swimming pool, they got a ball, went to the field and played football, they liked it and the club turned into a football club.
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It started as local games played in towns in England, just as something to do on a warm afternoon. The sport grew and spread to the British colonies, particularly Australia where the climate is great for the sport.\nThe first international games were test matches, but unlimited length - They played until everyone was out. As international games became more common, there were problems organising transport between countries so test matches were limited to 5 days, so travel arrangements and tours could be more easily arranged.\nThe one day game was brought in around 1880, as a way of bringing more fans to the sport which had lost support to other games like football (soccer) and rugby. This worked for some time, and even more recently the Twenty20 game has been introduced, whereby each team only has 20 overs to get as high a score as possible.\n\nOver time the rules have changed, making the sport more exciting, for example the powerplay rule in ODI, the outlawing of Bodyline bowling after the England used bodyline against australia to force the batsmen to move out the way of the ball so they couldn't hit it.
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Cuju was the “true origin of modern football” and was popular in Linzi during the Spring and Autumn period (770 BC to 476 BC). \n\nThe small town of Linzi was the capital of the ancient state of Qi from 479 AD to 502 AD. \n\n“China is thought to have nurtured the earliest form of football, a sport known as cuju or 'playing a ball with the foot',” FIFA said last year in a report on its official website. \n\n\nThe German city of Hamburg will showcase the ancient game of “cuju” to back China's claim that it is the origin of football during this year's World Cup, state media quoted Chinese officials as saying on Friday. \n\nOfficials from Linzi, a town in the eastern province of Shandong, will exhibit replicas of a 2,300-year-old ball, the gate used in the game, and stone carvings and pottery depicting cuju matches, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Ma Guoqing, curator of the Linzi Cuju Museum, as saying. \n\nThe exhibition in Hamburg, which is one of the host cities for World Cup matches, will run from the end of this month until the end of November and is part of a world soccer culture show to coincide with the World Cup in Germany. \n\n\nDelegates from Linzi were invited in 2004 and 2005 to the centenary year celebrations of FIFA, the World Cup organisers and governing body of international football.
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Holyoke, Massachusetts. That is where the sport was originated in 1885.
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Badminton is a racket (or racquet) sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles).\n\nPlayers at opposite ends of the court aim to hit a shuttlecock, more informally called a shuttle, over the net so that it lands inside the marked boundaries of the court, and aim to prevent their opponents from doing the same. Unlike a tennis ball, the shuttlecock flies with a lot of drag, and will not bounce significantly. The shuttlecock is always volleyed, and a rally ends as soon as it touches the ground. Badminton racquets have long shafts, to make it easier to impart a great deal of momentum to overcome the drag. The racquets are also much lighter than tennis racquets, because the shuttlecock is light. Badminton is one of the fastest sports in the world with shuttles reaching speeds of up to 332 km/h (206 mph), faster than the speed of the Eurostar train. Fu Haifeng of China set the official record July 3, 2005.\n\nMore info:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton
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i like playing badminton. but i enjoy watching basketball and football.
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The game of cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century to the present day, with international matches played since 1844, although the official history of international Test cricket began in 1877. During this time, the game developed from its origins in England into a game which is now played professionally in most of the Commonwealth of Nations.\n\nNo one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence, much of it circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century.
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Hi,\n\nI can talk for hours on badminton if you wish.. I have lots of craze for this game.. and have played so many years.. I wish to contribute something for your project.\n\nYou can contact me if you wish. \n\nemail ID - vannamuthu_n@yahoo.com\n\nI play in Chicago, IL
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Derivation of the name of "cricket"\nA number of words are thought to be possible sources for the term cricket, which could refer to the bat or the wicket. In old French, the word criquet meant a kind of club which probably gave its name to croquet. Some believe that cricket and croquet have a common origin. In Flemish, krick(e) means a stick, and, in Old English, cricc or cryce means a crutch or staff (though the hard "k" sound suggests the North or Northeast midlands, rather than the Southeast, where cricket seems to have begun).\n\nAlternatively, the French criquet apparently comes from the Flemish word krickstoel, which is a long low stool on which one kneels in church which may appear similar to the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket, or the early stool in stoolball. The word stool is old Sussex dialect for a tree stump, and stool ball is a sport similar to cricket played by the Dutch