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#121436 01/27/04 06:08 PM
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I have watched the Olympics on TV, but never heard this mentioned:
Halma
Hal"ma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to leap.] (Greek Antiq.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.


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Hence, presumably, the name of the board game, since the pieces "leap" over each other.

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board game

is there another name for this, as I've never heard of this one?



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Speaking of board games, does anyone here have the Scrabble dictionary? Is a word as rare as halma included in it? I really am going to order the Scrabble dictionary because I wonder so often which words have been excluded. May do so today since we have still another ice day--at least ice on the roads day off from school.


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From a Maryland college newsletter:
"At the 8th international conference of the European Committee for Sport History in Olympia, Greece, September 27 Hugh Lee will present a paper entitled “Gilbert West and the Revival of the Olympic Ideal”; he will also preside over a paper session the preceding day. A week later—on October 4—he will speak on “The Halma: A Standing or Running Jump” at a conference entitled “Onward to the Olympics. "


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