ancient toys and games of mayas

One of the ways that the Mayan people competed against each other was by playing what has been called the Ball Game or chaaj. They used a rubber ball, about 20 inches in diameter, to play the Game, which was played on a stone "court" who measurements varied. (The largest one found so far measures 459 feet by 114 feet underground.) The court had walls that sloped inward, and hanging high on the walls were stone rings.
The goal of the game was to pass the ball around, without having it touch your hands, and then get the ball to pass through one of the rings. Since the rings were so high and players were not allowed to use their hands, it was extremely difficult to get the ball through a ring, becouse only need the legs and arms. In fact, when a player did manage to get a ball through a ring, that usually ended the game. The game ended when the ball touched the ground.
The Mayan Ball Game was a solemn experience, and with ritual importance. Religious leaders attended, as did most chieftains and other government leaders of her's tribe. Sacred songs were sung and played sometimes. Other religious activities took place as well.
The winners of the game were treated as heroes or masters of the game and given a great feast. The penalty for losing a game was unusually harsh: death (human sacrifice). The leader of the team who lost the game was the first to be killed. This fit in with the Mayan belief that human sacrifice was necessary for the continued success of the peoples' agriculture, trade, and overall health and to make happy the gods.
The game was like games and sports that people play today in a few ways:

• The players were working as a team to beat another team of players
• The goal was to get the ball through a hoop or a net
• The goal was also NOT to touch the ball with one's hands, like soccer is today.
• Huge structures were built just for playing any sport
• The games attracted very large numbers of people to watch
• Gambling on who would win was common this days

ANCIENT MAYA TOYS

The art has survived uninterrupted for centuries and is now gaining recognition all over the world. The Maya are also known for unique baskets, pottery and wood carvings of animals, figurines and toys of animals and gods representation.

the murder of jhon f. kennedy

introduction : this blog are for that fans than like resolve an un-resolved mysteries and like use there brains to try figure out how resolve the problem or like use the logic in some times.

John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m.on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was gravely shot while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade.


The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963–1964 concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby before he could stand trial and said thinks against him. This conclusion was initially met with support among the American public; however, imvestigations conducted from 1966 to 2004 concluded approximately 80 percent of the American public have held beliefs contrary to these findings.

Contrary to the Warren Commission, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1979 concluded that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy or for other politic who don't win.The HSCA found both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously asepted. While they try to agree with the Commission that Oswald fired all the shots which caused the wounds to Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally, it stated that there were at least four shots fired and that there was a "high probability" that two or four shooters fired at the President. No shooters or groups involved in the conspiracy were identified by the committee, but the CIA, Soviet Union, organized crime and several other groups were said to be not involved, based on a trustly evidence. The assassination is still the subject of unknow debate and has make numerous conspiracy theories and alternative scenarios.


At 12:30 P.M. CST, as Kennedy's uncovered limousine entered Dealey Plaza and slowly approached Dealey Plaza, which included the Texas School Book Depository, Nellie Connally, then the First Lady of Texas, turned around to Kennedy, who was sitting behind her, and commented, "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you," which President Kennedy acknowledged.
When the Presidential limousine turned and passed the Depository and continued down Elm Street, shots were fired at Kennedy; a clear highly of witnesses recalled hearing three shots.^[6] A minority of the witnesses did recognize the first gunshot shoot they heard as a weapon fire, but there was hardly any reaction from a majority in the crowd or riding in the motorcade itself to the first shot, with many later saying they heard what they first thought to be a firecracker or the exhaust backfire of a vehicle just after the president started waving.


Within one second of each other, President Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and Mrs. Kennedy, all turned abruptly from looking to their left to looking to their right was looking for everywere, between Zapruder film frames 155 and 169. Connally, like the president a WWII military veteran (and unlike the president, a longtime hunter), testified he immediately recognized the sound of a high-powered rifle like the springfield rifle or a m1 garand, then he turned his head and torso rightward attempting to see President Kennedy behind him. Connally testified he could not see the president, so he then started to turn forward again, and was hit in his upper right back by a bullet, fired in a gunshot that Connally testified he did not hear the muzzle blast from. He then shouted, "Oh, no, no, no. My God. They're going to kill us all!"







Mrs. Connally testified that right after hearing a first loud, frightening noise that came from somewhere behind her and to her right, she immediately turned towards President Kennedy and saw him with his arms and elbows already raised high with his hands already close to his throat. She then heard another gunshot and John Connally started yelling. Mrs. Connally then turned away from President Kennedy towards her husband, then another gunshot sounded and she and the limousine's rear interior were now covered with fragments of brain, blood, and bone matter.