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Tap dance grew up in the United States, where African American dance met Irish jigs and English clogs. A pioneer was William Henry Lane, "Master Juba", who grew up in New York's Five Points in the 1830s and grafted African American rhythms onto jig dancing.
📍 Stockholm archipelago (Utö to Sandhamn), Sweden
Swimrun began with a bar bet in 2002 on the island of Utö in Sweden's Stockholm archipelago: four friends raced to Sandhamn, swimming from island to island and running across each one. In 2006 the challenge became the ÖtillÖ race, Swedish for "island to island".
📍 Argentina (Buenos Aires & the Litoral)
Cestoball, first called "pelota al cesto", was created in Argentina by physical-education pioneer Enrique Romero Brest, who put it into a 1903 school programme so girls could play a team sport. Its baskets stand on poles inside the court.
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📍 Netherlands
Sitting volleyball was first played in the Netherlands in 1956, a mix of volleyball and sitzball, a German game played seated with no net. The net hangs just 1.15 m high for men, and it joined the Paralympics in 1980 in Arnhem.
📍 Balsas River valley, Mexico
Corn was bred about 9,000 years ago from a wild grass called teosinte in Mexico's Balsas River valley. It was domesticated only once, then spread throughout the Americas.
📍 Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean
Hawaii's favourite lei flower is a newcomer there: plumeria is native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and the German doctor William Hillebrand brought it to the islands in 1860. Its other name, frangipani, comes from an Italian marquis's perfume.
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📍 Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
The world's first ski chairlifts opened in 1936 at Sun Valley, Idaho. A railroad engineer, Jim Curran, designed them by swapping the hooks of a banana-loading conveyor for chairs.