Convenient to use than the imperial system, because its plan is the same as that of the number system.

In deciding upon a unit of measurement, it is possible to pick anything. For example, the average height of a man could possibly have been a unit of mea...

Mathematics is the science that deals with number, quantity, and form. Without a knowledge of mathematics, our whole modern way of life would be impossible!

For example, we would have no good houses, because men who build houses must know how to me...

All kinds of claims have been made about the invention of playing cards. Some people think they originated with the Egyptians; others give the credit to the Arabs, or Hindus, or Chinese.

We do know that playing cards were first used fo...

Like so many other things having to do with cards, the game of bridge has an ancient history. It belongs to the "whist family" of games.In the whist type of game there are always four players; two against two as partners. A full 52-card pack is dealt o...

Billiards, or pool, seems to be a game that leads a kind of double life. For many years in the big cities a pool hall was a place where decent people would never be found. Yet billiards has been a popular game with the aristocracy of the world. Some of the f...

In the United States by the way, skis were the accepted way to travel in winter in the mining camps as far back as 100 years ago! It seems that the idea of rolling a round object in order to knock of standing objects occurred to man as one of the first ways to...

You may think that skiing is a modern sport, but iris actually one of the oldest forms of travel known to man! The word itself comes from the Icelandic word scidh, which means snowshoe or piece of wood.

Some historians claim that ski­ing goes back to t...

Some games are invented spontaneously, and some games develop over long periods of time. Tennis has an ancient history. The Greeks and Romans had ball games which later became a French game called jeu de paume;this was probably the ancestor of modern tennis. ...

From September to November, every Saturday afternoon is American football time in the United States. In thousands of stadiums all over the country, millions of people gather to watch schools and colleges play. In fact, American football is the country’s leadi...

Probably the greatest honor that could come to an athlete is to win the gold medal at the Olympic Games. But did you know that the idea of having Olympic Games is more than 2,500 years old?

According to Greek legend, the Olympic Games were...