Rugby Football believed to have originated in 1823 when William Webb Ellis took the football in his hands and ran with it to the goal post, has matured in to a game of skills and masculine power. Although this is not confirmed as one hundred percent true, the story is given credence due to the fact that the Rugby World…
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A Sri Lanka Holiday In Galle Staying At The Amangalla
Sri Lanka holidays are becoming more popular, and the number of package holidays to Sri Lanka are once again on the increase. Sri Lank is a beautiful island with much to see and do from beautiful beaches on the south west coast, to historic places like the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy. You can visit working tea plantation or…
The Most Romantic Hotel In Sri Lanka Is Taprobane Island And Should Be In Your Top 10 Destinations
The most romantic hotel in Sri Lanka is undoubtedly Taprobane Island, and you must take the opportunity to stay there for a few days during your vacation in Sri Lanka. Taprobane is an amazing place, and incredibly romantic, not the least of its charms is that you can only get to it by wading through the sea. The 2.5 acre…
Sports Team Darrel Hair
The Australian cricket umpire Darrel Hair, resident in the United Kingdom is a person who seems to love controversy. He began by no-balling Sri Lanka’s ace spinner Muttiah Muralitharan seven times for ‘throwing’ in the Melbourne Test in 1995. Umpire Darrel Hair described the spinner’s action as diabolical, prompting the Sri Lankans to complain to the ICC that he had…
Playing Cricket Traditional Style
It was the great efforts of Late Gamini Dissanayake, President of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, President’s Counsel, and Cabinet Minister in President J R Jayawardena’s United National Party (UNP) Government, that made Sri Lanka gain full ICC membership on the 21st of July 1981. Although Sri Lanka was knocking at the doors of ICC for…
Sri Lanka Casinos
Sri Lanka’s casinos are among the very few that are legal in South Asia. In fact, the whole country is rather more laid back and unstuffy about such things than anywhere else in the region. This is probably an influence of the majority religion, Buddhism, which pays much less attention to what other people ought to do than to what…