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Come an learn the Best Bowling Game in the world...the Ancient Sport of Bocce!
A QUICK HISTORY OF BOCCE
‘Bocce’ has been evolving for thousands of years.
Bocce's origins date back to 5000 BC, where evidence of Egyptian cave paintings depict Nile Delta boys playing something that resembles bocce (although who's to say it wasn't soccer, rugby, or something entirely different?).
The game caught on with the Romans and Greeks during those early days, with the resourceful players substituting coconuts, melons, carved wood, and bound rags for bocce balls. At one time, bocce was popular with the social elite, the game of Emperors and Senators— like something you'd picture the Windsors wearing their plaids and letting loose (with the exception of Prince Harry, who sheds the plaid altogether when doing his take on letting loose). As Roman rule spread far and wide, bocce turned up in ancient Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and as far east as Persia.
Bocce's Famous Faces
Among those who have dabbled in bocce are:
· George Wahington
· The ‘infamous’ Fanny, a spectator who would expose her backside to the losers of a bocce match (hence why Americans call the reara the ‘Fanny’ ).
· Sir Francis Drake
· Hippocrates
· Leonardo Da Vinci
· Queen Elizabeth
· Galileo
· Henry VIII
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