British and World Marbles Championship tipcat. With the score level at 6 - 6, Good Friday was the date chosen for the final event. Marbles was chosen by the girl to be the deciding game, and Giles defeated Hodge. The championships are organized by the British Marbles Board of Control (BMBC) and the version of marbles played is "Ring Taw", known in the USA as "Ringer" and in Germany as "Englisches Ringspiel". Forty-nine target marbles are grouped closely together in 6 foot diameter (1.8 metre) raised concrete ring covered with sand, each of the target marbles being a coloured glass or ceramic sphere having a
Elgin Marbles while some others, such as Lord Byron, likened the Earl's actions to vandalism or looting. Following a public debate in Parliament and its subsequent exoneration of Elgin, he sold the Marbles to the British government in 1816. They were then passed to the British Museum, where they are now on display in the purpose-built Duveen Gallery. After gaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832, the newly found Greek state began a series of projects to restore its monuments and retrieve looted art. It has expressed its disapproval of Elgin's removal of the Marbles from the Acropolis and the