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THE FOUNDING OF MODERN FOOTBALL (SOCCER)_-_THE FREEMASONS' TAVERN
The modern version of the sport of football, or soccer, was founded at the first meeting in the Freemasons' Tavern of the Football Association (FA) on 26th October 1863. At this, and subsequent meetings, the rules of football were unified from the variety in operation at a range of public schools, universities and regions, to create the association football that is now played around the world, from national leagues such as the Premier League and FA; continental championships such as UEFA and the Champions League , and FIFA and the World Cup. The Freemasons' Tavern has now been replaced by the Grand Connaught Rooms, where a Blue Plaque commemorates this event. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Founding_of_Modern_Football_-_The_Freemasons'_Tavern
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES - MUCH WENLOCK
Much Wenlock inspired the birth of the Modern Olympic Games. Dr William Penny Brookes set up the Wenlock Olympian Society in the Shropshire town in 1850, the society ran annual sporting competitions the Wenlock Olympian Games - open to all social classes. Brookes admired Greece's Athenian democratic ideals and its Olympic sporting games and ideals. In 1890 Brookes invited the French Baron, Pierre De Coubertin, to the Wenlock Olympian Games. De Coubertin went on to found the International Olympic Committee, and credited Dr William Penny Brookes with the rebirth of the Olympic Games. The London 2012 Olympic Games featured two mascots, one named Wenlock in recognition of the town's role in the creation of the Modern Olympic Games. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Birthplace_of_the_Modern_Olympic_Games_-_Much_Wenlock FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, LEA HURST, DERBYSHIRE
Childhood home of Florence Nightingale. Though born in Florence, her family returned to England, and Lea Hurst was the family home and later on their summer home, in the area from which the family made its fortune in lead-mining. After the Crimean War, Florence returned again to Lea Hurst. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Lea_Hurst,_Florence_Nightingale ARBEIA ROMAN FORT, HADRIAN'S WALL, SOUTH SHIELDS
Site of the Arbeia Roman Fort built in 160 AD to supply the fortifications of Hadrian's Wall. Sea access led to supplies and trade with the rest of the Roman Empire leading to a cosmopolitan mix of peoples entering Britain from lands such as Spain, Germany and North Africa. Archaeological remains of the fort with a stunning reconstruction - see what Roman life was like in Roman Britain. See on the Map-olah Map: WORMHILL - 'DRAGON Hill'
Anglo-Saxon 'Dragon Hill' (Wyrma's Hill) - the hill where the dragon may have been said to have lived can be seen on the road to Miller's Dale, were the coils in the ground surrounding this small hill created by the dragon's tail? Wormhill's church is dedicated to St. Margaret of Antioch who had links to dragons, was the dedication to protect this Derbyshire village from the dragon? Find Wormhill the Dragon Village on the Map-Olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Wormhill 1066 - THE LANDING OF THE NORMAN INVASION - PEVENSEY BAY.
Site of the landing of William Duke of Normandy's fleet of Norman forces prior to the Battle of Hastings, where the Anglo- Saxon Harold II was defeated and William became William I of England and thus William the Conqueror. The events are shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. Find Pevensey Bay in East Sussex, and step back to 1066, on the Map-Olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=1066_-_Pevensey_Bay_-_Norman_Invasion Robin Hood's Stone, in Allerton, Liverpool is a single standing stone, that once stood in a nearby field where Tudor Liverpudlians practised their archery.
Henry VIII had made it law that all men under sixty practise archery, and so fields were set aside with mounds to support targets, and where the archers stood to fire their arrows would also be placed a stone to allow the sharpening of arrows. The Robin Hood Stone is one of these stones, which has deep groves cut into its surface where the arrows were sharpened, though these may have begun with natural abrasions to the stone. It is likely that the stone had had an earlier human use, possibly as part of tumulus burial chamber, and has been moved from the location of the Calder Stones several times. The grooves on the stone do not go below the surface, where hollow cup marks were found on the stone. The Robin Hood link is uncertain, other than the link with archery. This is the Archers' stone of Archerfield Road. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Robin-Hood's_Stone_-_Liverpool Lyme Regis is famous for its Fossils, and Mary Anning was the pioneering female fossil hunter - the 'Princess of Paleontology', 1799 - 1847.
She discovered the first ichthyosaur (aged 12), first plesiosaur and first British pterosaur. Her range of scientific discoveries did not gain her the credit they deserved, in the male dominated scientific community at the time. She took on the family fossil business, selling samples to the King of Saxony, and for display at the forerunner to the New York Academy of Sciences, the Lyceum of Natural History. She is buried in St. Michael's church, where there is a window dedicated to her. In 2010 the Royal Society placed her in a list of the ten British women who had most influenced science. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Mary_Anning,_Fossil_Hunter Pevensey Bay, Site of the landing of William Duke of Normandy's fleet of Norman forces prior to the Battle of Hastings, where the Anglo- Saxon Harold II was defeated and William became William I of England and thus William the Conqueror.
The events are shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=1066_-_Pevensey_Bay_-_Norman_Invasion |
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