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You can think of modern bowling as a distant cousin of bocce. The Latin word bottia (ball) is the root of the Italian word boccia or bocce. During a game a ball is either rolled or tossed underhanded down a long lane with the aim of coming to rest near a smaller target ball called a pallino or boccino. Many people, such as Galileo and DaVinci, played bocce during the Renaissance, seeing its benefits to mind and body. It was also played by emperors, admirals, generals, poets, sculptors and scientists. Bocce was also exported to many countries by Italian migrants, and remains popular with bocce courts and clubs throughout the world. No one really knows how old bocce is. There were stone balls found in Turkey that date to 9,000 B.C. Some say bocce dates back to ancient Egypt (5,200 B.C.), but others argue that Greece was its birthplace around 600 B.C. When you really think about the simplest game a child can play – tossing a stone – you might think of bocce as the very first game man ever played. Even the child’s game of Marbles is based on bocce. Source: orderisda.org/culture/sports/italian-sport-the-history-of...

Peter Kingsford remembers H L Beales as his PhD supervisor in the 1940s: 'The viva was a curious event. I went to meet Beales in his room, to which be brought the other examiner, Professor Court from Birmingham, but found the room completely bare because the cleaners had been in. Beales collected three chairs from the corridor and we sat in a Kafkaesque trio as they shuffled through the thesis asking me several questions. My replies were stupid becuase I had a bad headache. Shortly after I had withdrawn, Beales came out and said that if, for the purposes of vanity or for getting a job, I wanted to call myself Dr I could now do so. I apologised for my stupid answers but he said 'We all get nerves on these occasions'. I saw Beales once more when he was giving a lecture in the Old Theatre chaired by the famous historian R H Tawney, a friend of Beales', who fell asleep until Beales woke him. He died at the age of ninety-nine, regretting, I was told by his widow, not to reach a hundred. A great teacher.' From Peter Kingsford's memoirs of his time at LSE, LSE Archives/Small LSE Deposits/157

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