Mastodawn

Proper ball games for decent people? Not all ball games are equal; some are more equal than others.

The Venetians played a ball game (or maybe two different) which was called football, or kicking ball, but it was more rugby-ish, but also not really.

Venetian Stories podcast Aug 6

Playing at ball

The ancient Venetians enjoyed their well-known sports such as human towers, bull fights and fights on bridges using fists or sticks, not to speak of chickens on a pole, squashing cats bareheaded, and tearing the heads off geese while jumping in a canal.

These were, however, mostly entertainments and games for the lower classes.

Decent people, and nobles, engaged in more exotic activities, such as tennis, football and other ball games.

One such ball game, usually just called giuocar al pallone — playing at ball. It is a game, which probably originates in the Middle Ages.

#1500s #1700s #BallGames #Sports #Venezia #Venice

Venetian Stories podcast Jul 23

The Plague Stone of Poveglia

The island of Poveglia in the Venetian lagoon is one of the most haunted in the world.

This has been well-known since the early 2000s, when an American TV station decided that insufficiently interesting historical facts objectively shouldn't prevent them from getting an adequate audience for their advertisers.

The stepping stone for the TV station to that invented story, was, in fact, a stone.

#1700s #Plague #PlagueIslands #Poveglia #Venice

@eevisritu Jul 10

☆ Ruovesi, Pirkanmaalla on mukavan kesäinen paikka. Etenkin rakennusbongareille. Tässä kuvia vain museoalueelta. Aikamoinen keskittymä aittoja, latoja ym. ☆
(Edelliset selittelemättömät postaukseni tältä aamulta myls Ruovedeltä.)
#museo #ruovesi #lato #aitta #1700s #1800s #vanhatrakennukset #tuulimylly

Dave Winer Apr 28

Harvard University and the American Revolution. harvard.edu

Timeline

1600s: Our early origins Back to top 1700s: Harvard and the American Revolution Back to top 1800s: A century of growth Back to top 1900s: A century of

Harvard University

Venetian Stories podcast Apr 23

The 1600s and 1700s were a period of slow decline for Venice, until the Republic of Venice fell to Napoleon in 1797.

Hannah Howe Mar 17

My 7 x great grandfather John Bevan reporting that “things are well” in the Haverford Township, Philadelphia, 5 February 1734. The Bevan branch of my family were founders of the Welsh Tract in Pennsylvania.

#SocialHistory #History #FamilyHistory #FamilyTree #Genealogy #1700s

Hannah Howe Mar 8

Llysworney, Glamorgan, 1780, a scandal in the village - 27 April, Mary baseborn daughter of Richard John and his servant maid Elizabeth John was baptised, one of only four baptisms in Llysworney that year.

#FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #History #SocialHistory #Wales #1700s #Genealogy