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Where was baseball invented?

In England.

Baseball (originally spelled in two words: base ball) was invented in England. For the first time the name and description of the game appeared in 1744 in the collection "Dear Pocket Book". The book gained immense popularity and was republished in America in 1762.

Baseball is not based on the game of rounders, the first description of which does not appear until 1828, in the second edition of the Book for Real Boys. In the United States, rounders were first mentioned only in 1834, in Robin Carver's Book of Sports. As a source, the author referred to the "Book for Real Boys", but Carver called the game itself "base ball" or "goal ball" (From the English goal ("gate") and ball ("ball").).

In the first chapter of Northanger Abbey (1796), Jane Austen describes the young nude hero Katherine Morland as a girl who loves "cricket, baseball, horseback riding and outdoor games."

Baseball bosses eventually developed such a strong paranoia about the non-American origins of the game that in 1907 they decided on an unprecedented forgery. Baseball history report, commissioned by the Major League Executive Committee, puts forward the version that the ancestor of baseball was none other than Civil War hero General Abner Doubleday, who allegedly invented the game in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York .

Thus the legend was born. Despite ample evidence that ball and bat games have been played across America since the days of Puritanism, as well as the fact that Doubleday never visited Cooperstown and never mentioned baseball in his diaries, the fiction is firmly embedded in the souls. Americans. As one joker remarked, "Abner Doubleday didn't invent baseball - Abner Doubleday invented baseball."

And if anyone should be credited for inventing the modern take on America's favorite game, it's Alexander Cartwright, the Manhattan bookseller. He was a volunteer firefighter and in 1842 founded the New York baseball club "Knickerbocker" (named after the company that produced fire engines). He and his fellow firefighters played on the field between 47th and 27th streets. The rules of modern baseball, by the way, are based on the rules invented by them. Cartwright was also the first to draw a diamond field diagram.

In 1938, his name was officially inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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How did cutlery originate?

The way in which a person eats characterizes the degree of his civilization. Since ancient times, various devices have been invented to make it more convenient to eat. A tool resembling a spoon has existed since the Stone Age. Everyone knows that thousands of years ago the Egyptians invented spoons made of wood, stone, ivory and used them.

The Greeks and Romans used bronze and silver spoons. Many of them are beautiful, real works of art. In the Middle Ages, bone, wood, tin, tin were used to make spoons, and the rich could afford silver spoons.

Knives and forks have also come into use since ancient times. Some believe that the first fork was a stick with prongs, others attribute its appearance to an arrow. The first real fork was long, with two prongs, and was needed for cooking, especially when roasting meat.

The fork appeared on dining tables already in a new era. But even 300 years ago, knives and forks on the tables seemed ridiculous and funny. In England they were very rare. In France, they ate with their hands until the 300th century. The knife originated from a piece of bone or stone, sharpened on one side. It was one of the first inventions of man. The appearance of the knife on the tables also happened about XNUMX years ago.

Dishes for ancient people were objects of natural origin surrounding them. For example, a wide leaf served as a plate, the vessels were made from an empty gourd, and a coconut cut in half was a cup.

When people began to make dishes, pots, cups and plates appeared. Very often they were amazing in form and decoration. Many of them have survived to this day - antique Greek, Roman and Egyptian vases, bowls and vessels - masterpieces of art.

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