Games and fun for kids from UK museums, galleries, heritage and science centres Why SOPA is unconstitutional The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Corynne McSherry looks at the revised version of the Stop Online Piracy Act that is going to markup today, and finds that it does not address the substantive First Amendment issues raised by scholars who've weighed in since its introduction. First, both bills would still result in the censoring of non-infringing speech. That is because they allow for the blocking of entire websites – even though the site may contain a great deal of perfectly legal speech. This is your last chance to call your lawmaker before the markup begins. The Internet Blacklist vs.
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Museum Box Homepage More people died playing football than SWORD-FIGHTING in Tudor times Seven recorded football deaths between 1500 and 1575Archery the most dangerous sport with 56 people killedTwo of the Tudor footballers to die were accidentally stabbed with a knife during a tackle By Rob Cooper Updated: 17:39 GMT, 16 December 2011 It's known as the beautiful game, but in Tudor times football should perhaps have been called the dangerous game. Modern Premier League stars may dive and feign injuries, but in the 16th century more people died playing it than sword-fighting, a historian has discovered. Seven footballers were killed after clashes in English villages between 1500 and 1575, new research has revealed. Violent clash: Football matches were more like American Football matches - but without the padding. Records show the sport was more violent with physical clashes and contact resulting in people being badly injured and accidentally crushed. The game involved dozens of players competing against one another. Matches would spring up on an ad-hoc basis across the country.
Gifted Chat British Museum - Welcome to the British Museum The map as history Antiquity – The Greek world - Mycenaeans - colonization – the Hellenistic kingdoms – a city-state: Athens – Athenian democracy - the Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries – Alexandria, a Hellenistic city – the Greco-Persian wars - Marathon - Salamina – The Peloponnesian war – the Athenian Empire – the conquests of Alexander the Great – Issus – Gaugamela Ancient Greece played a major role in the development of Western civilization and laid down the foundations of democracy. This series evokes Crete and Mycenae, colonization and Greek cities, wars between Persia and the Athenian empire, Sparta and the Peloponnesian war, Alexander's conquests and the Hellenistic kingdoms. In an evolving geographic area, its two thousand years of history have inspired our imagination. The evolving Greek world The Greek world was an ever-changing geographical reality throughout three million years before Christ. Geography of Greece Greece is dominated by two main geographical features: sea and mountains. Colonization Mycenae