James Naismith The Man Who Invented Basketball potx

... On another occasion, Naismith was with his grandfather when they went off into a fi eld. Naismith had a small sickle, and his grandfather a scythe, and they worked to trim the fence row. The ... Renaissance man: not only his documentation of the events surrounding his invention of basketball, but many, many other items showing the man I remembered and loved. Seventy years...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:20

... of theirs. "They had tried it many times, they said, but nothing had been on the spot at that time and they had rotated nothing but the air above it from the one time to the other, and the ... projec- tions on either side. They rolled out over the field very fast and then I cried out as I saw them rising from the ground into the air. Mother of God, they were flying! The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... access to the books and was the only person in the bank who could have faked the figures and transferred the money from The Man Who Knew 106 one account to another without being found out. There ... and they were in themselves all the proof which the police The Man Who Knew 109 would require to obtain a conviction against him. He was obviously the man who...

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... lived their entire lives on the starships, raised their families there, and never set foot outside their own Enclave during their landings on Earth. They grew to despise Earthers, and the Earthers ... sons who will take the death of their brother ill. They'll want revenge on Gerald Samsson, if only for the sake of their good names, and thus our two houses will be 22 sundered an...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... came, and the first blossoms began to show, the lizards would gather at the base of the mountain to give thanks for all that they had. they thanked the birds and they thanked the lakes and they thanked ... into the heart of the forest until they came to the outskirts of a small community. tela explained to forbin that they had reached the base of the revolutionaries. th...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:00

... the recommendation of Lefty O’Doul, who was now advising Shoriki, the newspaper owner changed the name to the To- kyo Yomiuri Giants (at the time O’Doul played for the New York Gi- ants). Other ... in Tokyo at the helm of the Yo- miuri Giants, and the Nisei became an informal adviser to the team. The offi ce door opened and Shoji Yasuda, the chain-smoking gen- eral m...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 22:20

... impor- tant in the development of the game. From 1898 to 1937, Naismith was the chairman of the school’s physical educa- tion department, and he was also the coach of the Kansas basketball team ... induced many members to terminate their YMCA membership and hire halls to play the game, thus paving the way to the professionaliza- tion of the sport. 7 The History of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:20

... controlled the flow and levels of 2/3 of the rivers of the Earth; humans had already harvested to the limit or exhausted 2/3 of all marine fisheries; and humans contributed half of the nitrogen ... in the surface temperature and affects weather and climate. Weather is the continuously changing condition of the atmosphere; climate is any long-term change in the patterns of...

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