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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.
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📍 Eastern United States (New York to the South)
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.
📍 Western Russia
In gorodki, "little towns" in Russian, players hurl a heavy bat to knock wooden pins out of a square called the "town". This old Russian game was a favourite of Peter the Great and Leo Tolstoy, yet it only got written rules in 1923.
📍 Altenburg, Germany
Germany's national card game was invented around 1810 in Altenburg, south of Leipzig, by members of a local Tarock club. They blended the local game Schafkopf with Tarock and l'Hombre, using a pack of just 32 cards.
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📍 Iceland
Icelandic horses descend from ponies brought by Norse settlers more than 1,000 years ago. Today no horse may be imported into Iceland, and one that leaves can never come back. Many can do an extra-smooth gait called the tölt.
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📍 Croatia (Habsburg Military Frontier)
The necktie goes back to the knotted neck scarves of Croatian soldiers serving in France during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Parisians copied them and named them 'cravates', after 'Croates'. Croatia now celebrates Cravat Day on 18 October.
📍 Mountains of northern Greece & Albania
The conker tree of British playgrounds is a Balkan native: wild horse chestnuts survive only in a few mountain forests of northern Greece, Albania and nearby. Everywhere else, it was planted.