When they began sailing across the Atlantic to the New World in the 1600s, British American colonials brought with them memories of games played for centuries in England & on the European con...
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When they began sailing across the Atlantic to the New World in the 1600s, British American colonials brought with them memories of games played for centuries in England & on the European con...
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When British American colonials began sailing across the 17C Atlantic to the New World, they brought with them memories of games played for centuries in England & on the European continent.�...
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British publisher John Newbery (1713-1767) was the 1st to create books specifically for children. His work reflected the changes in attitudes about children during the 18C. Newbery published a...
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British publisher John Newbery (1713-1767) was the 1st to create books specifically for children. His work reflected the changes in attitudes about children during the 18C. Newbery published a...
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British publisher John Newbery (1713-1767) was the 1st to create books specifically for children. His work reflected the changes in attitudes about children during the 18C. Newbery published at...
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British publisher John Newbery (1713-1767) was the 1st to create books specifically for children. His work reflected the changes in attitudes about children during the 18C. Newbery published at...
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British publisher John Newbery (1713-1767) was the 1st to create books specifically for children. His work reflected the changes in attitudes about children during the 18C. Newbery published a...
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Game of Ur. (British Museum) The Royal Game of Ur is a Sumerian version of the ancient Middle Eastern game generically called The Game of Twenty Squares. Gaming boards for the Game of Ur ...
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British publisher John Newbery (1713-1767) was the 1st to create books specifically for children. His work reflected the changes in attitudes about children during the 18C. Newbery published ...
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Prisoner’s Base This English game of chase and tag that was banned in the 1300s by King Edward III. Object of the Game: The team with the most prisoners at the end of the time limit win...
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Congress Spring, Saratoga, 1849 The mineral springs in upstate New York were valued by Native Americans for their medicinal properties. In 1767, the Mohawks revealed the location of High ...
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Johann Mongles Culverhouse (Dutch-born American painter, 1825-1895) Croquet Croquet is, like pall mall, trucco, jeu de mail & kolven, clearly a derivative of ground billiards, which was po...
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Drie. Bird's Eye View of the City of Charleston, South Carolina. 1872. American Memory, Library of Congress The Preservation Society of Charleston tells us that throughout the 19C, Charlestoni...
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By the early 19th century floating baths were established in every city of any importance including Boston, Salem, Hartford, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, and Savannah...
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The Early Days of Bath by Jeanne Mozier THE WARM MINERAL WATERS OF BERKELEY SPRINGS WERE ALREADY KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE COLONIES FOR THEIR CURATIVE VALUE WHEN 16-YEAR-OLD GEORGE WASHINGTON CA...
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John Adams by Contemporary artist Tim Campbell of Keene, New Hampshire President John Adams(1735-1826) wrote, I SPENT MY TIME AS IDLE CHILDREN DO IN MAKING AND SAILING BOATS AND SHIPS UPON T...
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Early bathhouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas by Harper’s Weekly, 1878 Hot Springs, Arkansas – Home of Healing Waters TODAY HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, LOCATED ALONG THE OUACHITA RIVER IN TH...
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Thomas Jefferson by Contemporary artist Tim Campbell of Keene, New Hampshire Thomas Jefferson & his daughter at Warm Springs. Virginia's Warm Springs is in present-day Bath County. The W...
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George Washington by contemporary artist Tim Campbell For centuries, people visited the Berkeley Springs area in the northeast corner of what is now West Virginia, to enjoy the health bene...
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REV. HENRY MUHLENBERG (1711-87) REPORTED THAT LARGE CROWDS OF MEN & BOYS STRIPPED NAKED SPLASHING AND PADDLING IN THE DELAWARE RIVER AT PHILADELPHIA. AMONG EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS, WILLIAM PENN'S...
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At spring water bubbles up from an underground source producing both hot & cold waters that could include magnesium, calcium, sodium, zinc, iron, lithium, lime, alkalis, hydrogen sulfide, carbon...
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The Indians of the Americas in the New World considered hot springs as sacred places and believed in the healing powers of the heat and mineral waters. Montezuma(1466-1520) the great Aztec le...
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1400s Leukerbad Open-Air Bath People across the globe have used geothermal hot springs and mineral waters for bathing and for improving their health for many thousand of years. Based on ar...
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Ben Franklin by Contemporary artist Tim Campbell of Keene, New Hampshire Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) wrote about both the art & utility of swimming. He was an accomplished & enthusiastic s...
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