Contemporary Examples. 1  Well, maybe the abdication was a bigger deal, but still, a Harry video will be huge, and a major nightmare for the palace. 2  Bergoglio is 76 years oldânine years younger than Benedict at the time of his abdication. 3  abdication brought her to the throne, but it will not be the way she leaves it.
Lacrosse was invented by Native North Americans. Its name was dehuntshigwa'es in Onondaga (men hit a rounded object), da-nah-wah'uwsdi in Eastern Cherokee (little war), Tewaarathon in Mohawk Langauge (little brother of war), and baaga`adowe in Ojibwe(knocking about of balls).
A special Commission of 1907 concluded that baseball had been invented by the Civil War hero Abner Doubleday (1819-1893), in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. But it was actually Alexander Joy Cartwright (1820-1892) of New York who established the modern baseball field (1845).