Origins of football

One of the oldest known soccer ball, found in the rafters of a bedroom in Stirling Castle and dating from around the time Mary QueenIncoming World Cup in Russia will (like all previous) be a world-wide event with billions of people watching final match. Clearly, football is a global phenomenon and is likely only to get bigger and bigger as the internet and social media make it easier for people on...

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30-year-old Roman man who was crushed by a stone block during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, in Pompeii

 After the discovery of the first complete remains of a horse, the Regio V excavation in Pompeii has unearthed the skeletal remains of a man captured at a dramatic moment of death. He was attempting to flee the eruption of Vesuvius when he was struck by a massive stone that crushed his thorax and pinned him to the ground for 2,000 years.Preliminary examination of the remains and context indicate...

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