1) " Chukka" -- As it applies to Timberland Chukka Boots This article is about the sport. For other uses, see polo shirt, polo neck, VW Polo, Polo (mint) and PoloRalph Lauren. Polo (also known as Cho-gan) is a team game played on a field with one goal for each team. Each team has three(enclosed arena) or four (fullsized grass field) players. Polo features successive periods called "chukkas", and riders score bydriving a ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. In this it issimilar to many team sports such as football and field hockey. The main difference is that the players play on horseback. History "Let other people play other things — the king of game is still the game of kings" This verse is inscribed on a stone tablet next to a polo ground in Gilgit, north of Kashmir, near the fabled silk route from China to the West. In one ancient sentenceit epitomises the feelings of the players today. Polo is arguably one of the most complex of games in the world. The precise origin of polo is obscure and undocumented andthere is ample evidence of the game's regal place in the history of Asia. No one knowswhere or when stick first met ball after the horse was domesticated by the ancient Iranian ( Aryan ) tribes of Central Asia before their migration to Iranian plateau; but it seemslikely that as the use of light cavalry spread throughout Iranian plateau, Asia Minor, China and the Indian sub-continent so didthis rugged game on horse back. However, many scholars believe that polo originated among the Iranian tribes sometime before Darius the Great ( 521 – 485 BC ) and his cavalry forged the Second Iranian Empire, the Achaemenid dynasty. Certainly it is Persian literature and art which give us the richest accounts of polo in antiquity. Ferdowsi, the most famous of Iranian poet-historian, gives a number of accountsof royal polo tournaments in his 9th century epic, Shahnameh (the Epic of Kings). Some believe that the Chi...
2) " Boots" -- As it applies to Timberland Chukka Boots Boots is the name of at least five different albums and singles : Bootd by Nancy Sinatra ( 1966 ) Bouts by Mighty Gabby ( 1984 ) Boofs by Condemned Eighty Four ( 2001 ) Boost by KMFDM ( 2002 ) oBots by Noe Venable ( 2003 ) It is also the name of a large chain of chemists in the UK - see Boits the Chemists. See also: boot Bots ...
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