July 29 (UPI) --Joan Anderson, a largely unknown Australian woman who spent decades unacknowledged for introducing the world to the now-iconic hula hoop, has died. Anderson, who moved to the United ...

Joan Anderson: she took the craze of bamboo hoops from Australia to America but she and her husband were misled over the Hula Hoop® trademark - Riess Hill ​Joan Anderson, who has died ...

Some version of the Hula-Hoop has been around for millennia, but the popular plastic version was introduced by Wham-O in the 1950s and quickly became a fad. Now, researchers have taken a closer look ...