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Susie Dent
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Pall Mall in London is named after a game played there nearly 400 years ago, involving players attempting to strike a ball with a mallet through an iron ring that was suspended at the end of the long alley. The name is from the Italian pallamaglio, ‘ball mallet’.

Posted By: DrDublin, Dec 8, 11:17:08