Voltaire wrote more than 50 plays, dozens of treatises on science, politics and philosophy, and several books of history on everything from the Russian Empire to the French Parliament. Along the way, he also managed to squeeze in heaps of verse and a voluminous correspondence amounting to some 20,000 letters to friends and contemporaries.
About a ball. Around the Academy: Ball The balls are about the same size as a football-so if you haven't got a netball you can start off practising with one of those. The first netballs were made of leather, but in wet weather they became slippery and less easy to pass.So now they are made from rubber or a waterproof material which allows players to get a better grip. The balls are made up of panels which help improve the flight of the ball in the air.bout a ball. Around the Academy: Ball The balls are about the same size as a football-so if you haven't got a netball you can start off practising with one of those. The first netballs were made of leather, but in wet weather they became slippery and less easy to pass.
The game also became popular in the Pacific Island nations of the Cook Islands, Fiji and Samoa during the 1970s. Netball Singapore was created in 1962, and the Malaysian Netball Association was created in 1978. In Australia, the term women's basketball was used to refer to both netball and basketball. During the 1950s and 1960s, a movement arose to change the Australian name of the game from women's basketball to netball in order to avoid confusion between the two sports.