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...Edward III of England banned the sport in 1366 because it was distracting his soldiers from archery practice. Bowling dates back at least to the Pharaohs, although for the first few thousand years, the game remained pretty much unchanged. You rolled a ball made of stone or wood or rubber at a bunch of pins and hoped for the best...
...three main Kashmir militant groups?Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hizbul Muja-heddin and Jaish-e-Mohammad?have also used the earthquake to stage a comeback there. Ex-guerrillas now deploy their motorized rubber boats, on which they had trained for commando maneuvers, to ferry passengers across the Neelum River where bridges have collapsed. Immediately after the quake, militants were first on the scene in many villages, getting there far quicker than the Pakistani army, and they applied their expertise in first aid to save injured people pulled from fallen buildings. Their knowledge of the saw-backed ranges along the Line...
...Hamlet” last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. With no auditions or rehearsals, the students brandished impromptu props like a plastic skull, originally a Halloween decoration, that stood in for “Poor Yorick” and a blown-up rubber glove with a hand-drawn face that impersonated the ghost of Hamlet’s father. Actors drew parts randomly from a bowl, before each scene, to give them the opportunity to play more than one role. In a room laced with glowing Christmas decorations, the actors took the stage in front...
...they have an uncanny resemblance to living creatures—the beak-like pincers, myriad appendage, rubber tubing tail—it’s no accident: next time he sees one of them, it’s drinking water from a river. For the rest of the video, the robot creatures track him through his bedroom, the London Underground, and onto a rooftop, eventually driving him insane...
...with that phrase, the Malkin Athletic Center was transformed into a rowdy elementary school gym, ready to play host to the second-ever Harvard Dodgeball Tournament. Light-hearted invective and lewd witticisms flew across the basketball court with as much charge as the seven-inch rubber-covered foam Nerf balls. Tempers rose and egos clashed—but for the second year in a row, athletic prowess and strategy won the day for Dunster House. The tournament, well on its way to becoming a beloved Harvard tradition, offered the chance for each upperclass House, as well as University Hall...