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...college" football is said to have been "founded" by one Gerrit Smith Miller, who organized the Oneida Club, at Boston, in 1862. Rugby football, prototype of the U. S. game, was "founded" by one William Webb Ellis, a Rugby School student, in 1823. Reads a tablet on the playing field at Rugby, England: "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis who, with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game...
...crossed Smith Sound to Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Island, with dog team three times. There we landed the National Geographic Society's memorial tablet in commemoration of 'Starvation Camp', the site of the disaster of the ill-fated Greely Arctic Expedition of 1881. All in all, we covered 2,000 miles with dog team...
...earthenware tablet, long buried in the Middle Eastern section of the Prussian State Museum, has been found to contain the musical notation for a religious hymn. This notation has been deciphered by Dr. Kurt Sachs, Curator of the Collection of Instruments at the Berlin High School for Music. The tablet comes from ancient Assur, capital of Assyria, and was inscribed in cuneiform characters about the year 800 B. C. It contains three columns: The first is the mysterious music; the second, in archaic Sumerian, an account of the creation of Man from the blood of the gods; the third...
...Captain John Ericsson, Swedish inventor of the Monitor, a tablet was unveiled in Franklin Street, on the site of the house in which he lived...
...London, a bronze tablet in honor of Sir Christopher Wren, presented by the Architectural League of New York, was unveiled in St. Paul's Cathedral by the Earl of Crawford...