You know a game must be fun if it’s stuck around for eight centuries–and that’s how long folks have been playing lawn bowling (in some form or another). It was the invention of the lawn mower in 1830, allowing for smoothly cut bowling greens, that really popularized the sport. Our homepage features the balls called ‘woods,’ or ‘bowls,’ that competitors use during game play. The objective is to roll the grapefruit-sized balls toward a smaller ball called a ‘jack,’ and points are awarded to the players who come the closest. Fancy a game?
Let’s have a ball
Today in History
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Petrified Forest National Park
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Cordouan Lighthouse, France
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Castle Frankenstein in Darmstadt, Germany
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Salmon return to the Copper River
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New Year s Eve in Sydney, Australia
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International Surfing Day
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The fantastic winter fox
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Albion Falls, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Summer’s in home stretch
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White trilliums blooming in Ontario, Canada
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Cuban tody, Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba
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The lights of Paris
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A wild, craggy corner of the United States
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World Meteorological Day
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Tegallalang terrace farms in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
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Keyholes to the kingdom
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An Alpine fairy-tale castle
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It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball
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Can you see the family resemblance?
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Jerte Valley in bloom
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Dolomites
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Watch your step
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Paris is photo-ready this week
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May the Fourth be with you…
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Lunar eclipse
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Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
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The rainbow connection
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Looking back on 150 years of rail travel
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‘The memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever’
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Goats don t grow on trees