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William Morgan (born 1774 – disappeared c. 1826) was a resident of Batavia, New York, whose disappearance and presumed murder in 1826 ignited a powerful movement against the Freemasons, a fraternal society that had become influential in the United States.
William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1] He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S. [2]
Mar 7, 2019 · Mary Bellis. Updated on March 07, 2019. William Morgan invented volleyball in 1895 at the Holyoke, Massachusetts, YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) where he served as Director of Physical Education. Morgan originally called his new game of Volleyball, Mintonette.
Today the FIVB estimates that volleyball is the most popular team sport in the world. Morgan left the YMCA in 1900 to pursue various careers in business. He died on December 27, 1942. In 1985 he became the inaugural member of the Volleyball Hall of Fame.
Dec 19, 2018 · Updated: May 9, 2023 | Original: December 19, 2018. In the early morning hours of September 12, 1826, a Batavia, New York stoneworker named William Morgan went missing from the local jail....
William Morgan (born c. 1545, Caernarvonshire, Wales—died Sept. 10, 1604, St. Asaph, Flintshire) was an Anglican bishop of the Reformation whose translation of the Bible into Welsh helped standardize the literary language of his country.
Nov 17, 2015 · Silent home movie clip featuring William Morgan as a child. American comandante William Morgan went to Cuba to help Fidel Castro return the country to a democracy. Instead, four years...
May 15, 2015 · Illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. To this day, nobody knows the true fate of Capt. William Morgan. A failed businessman and citizen of generally low repute, Morgan was abducted from his home, in ...
William Morgan (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1930s for Wales, and Wigan; Sack Morgan (William Lee Morgan), American baseball player; William James Morgan aka Jimmy Morgan (1922–1975), English footballer and Royal Marines Commando; Willie Morgan (born 1944), Scottish footballer
May 29, 2022 · Fidel Castro. CIA. One of the Cuban Revolution’s most colorful characters was William Morgan, a former circus performer from Toledo, Ohio, who became a commander in the rebel forces. But Morgan's final act was his most brazen: he became a counterrevolutionary for the CIA.
