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Year 1530 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. /a>
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1. History of Judo in the Olympics
August 10, 2008
Judo is one of the many martial arts forms and is an offshoot of a much older martial art, jujitsu. Jujitsu began in the 1530’s, and by the mid-1800’s there were over seven hundred different jujitsu systems. In 1882, Dr. Jigoro Kano, then the President of University of Education in Tokyo, Japan, combined the best and most effective techniques from the numerous forms of jujitsu to form the marital art known as judo. Originally, judo was practiced in feudal Japan as a fighting method. For years, judo students have enjoyed learning this martial art for reasons of fitness, conditioning, knowl... (read more)
Author: Tony Hackerott
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2. Bingo: The History of Britain's Favourite Flutter
April 16, 2008
The roots of Bingo can be traced way back to the year 1530, when an Italian, state run lottery called "Lo Gioco del Lotto d'Italia" first began. Over a century later, the French adopted a similar game, one version of which used a playing-card grid of numbers. A caller would reach into a bag and draw out wooden tokens which were marked 1 - 90, and the first player to cover over all the numbers on their card would be marked the winner. This was the first lottery-style bingo game to be seen, the craze spread and soon was very popular all over Europe. The Bingo that we know today was develop... (read more)
Author: Andrew Regan
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3. 11 Days/ 10 Nights Kenya Flying Safari
April 01, 2008
DAY 1: NAIROBI - SAMBURU 0600 hrs - You will be picked from your Hotel and transferred to the Wilson Airport. Flight to Maasai Mara takes off at 0745 hrs. You arrive at Samburu airstrip 0845 hrs. You are met at the airstrip and enjoy a game drive en-route to Samburu Serena Lodge or its equivallent. After lunch at the lodge, you have an early afternoon free, before going for an afternoon game drive, from 1530 hrs till dusk. Samburu National Reserve is a wildlife heaven. Here you will spot Africa's big cats - lions, cheetahs and the elusive leopard. Some animals are unique to this norther... (read more)
Author: Stephen Muiruri
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4. The Bingo Game - How, Where and When It Come About
November 11, 2006
The world has a new pastime. And it goes something like this. You have a few numbers written on cards (Bingo cards, to use the jargon) in your hand. There is another person who will rattle off numbers arbitrarily and you have to tick off the corresponding numbers in your numbered cards. You do this till you have marked numbers in a particular order and then you say "Bingo". You win. Bingo. Yes, this is the name of the game that has taken the world by storm.
Bingo has quite an ancient lineage. Its predecessor is the Lotto, or "Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia", a game that originated in Ital... (read more)
Author: Gordon Jacobs
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5. The Brief History Of Bingo
September 20, 2006
Bingo originated from a lottery in Italy at the beginning of the 16th century. When Italy was unified in 1530, the country-wide lottery named Lo Gioco del Lotto d'Italia was born. Lo Gioco Del Lotto d'Italia, now called Lotterie Nazionali, is still played in Italy every Saturday and it has become an important revenue source for the Italian government.
At some point it migrated from Italy to France where it became very popular among the wealthy upper-class under the name of Le Lotto in the late 1700’s. The initial Le Lotto cards had three rows and nine columns with five numbers and four b... (read more)
Author: Bob Acton
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