Origin of Valetines

Growing up Valentine's Day was known as a special day for lovers to show how much they love each other. However, some don't know the dark origin of the festival with candy and why it's unknown. Valentine's Day is originated from the festival that celebrated the homicide of Christian martyrs. Which came along with other traditions that fit the description of being dark as well and evidence that shows what happened.

During the time of February 13-15, Romans were physically abusing women. This was one of the traditions that came with the Lupercalia festival. The author states, "The men sacrificed a goat and a dog then whipped women with the hides of the animals that were slain"(Seipel). Romans were known for being crazy while having even crazier traditions. This analyzes that the Lupercalia festival isn't as peaceful as one may have thought. Romans would drink during the festival which made it even worse. Also, women would "Line up for the men to hit them. They believed this would make them fertile"(Seipel). Not only does that sound idiotic, but it also verifies how dark the festival truly was. Buckle up because if you thought that was the only inhumane thing they did during the festival; then you're up for a ride.

Did you know that Valentine's Day was named after a Saint named Valentine? Well did you also know that he was a martyr? St. Valentine's decapitation and other martyrs was the original reason for the festival and why it was celebrated. Pamela Haag states, "There was no link between St. Valentine and love until the 14th century". It was a truly gory day that shouldn't have been celebrated. Thankfully, the holiday grew more towards love than the gore and brutality it initially was.

Thus, it makes you wonder what would've happened if Valentine's day wasn't lovey-dovey. It started as a crapfest but ended up a beautiful tradition that represents love.

Sources

“The Dark Origins Of Valentine’s Day.” NPR.Org, https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day. Accessed 16 Feb. 2020.

“The Gory Origins of Valentine’s Day.” Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-origins-valentines-day-180968156/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2020.

Evidence on being old

There are many sports in the world that people have found entertaining throughout the world. For years, running has been proclaimed as the oldest sport. It's depicted as the oldest sport because the first Olympics ever, had running as a sport. In actuality, Wrestling is the oldest sport there is and there's evidence that can back that up.

Wrestling was determined as the oldest sport with cave drawings showing people tussle with each other. The creator of the blog states, "The famous cave paintings in Lascaux, France, dating back to 15,300 years ago, depict wrestlers" (Simone). Cave drawings are dated back to almost 40,000 years ago. This shows that wrestling is the oldest sport there is just with cave drawings.

Also, evidence was found in japan; which makes sense because of sumo wrestling being a popular Japanese sport. The text stated, "A papyrus fragment was found with wrestling instructions on it, dating somewhere between 100 and 200 AD" (Simone). Japan is a contender for one of the oldest countries in the world. This explains how far wrestling dates back to and where it probably came from. No evidence has running showed running being a sport during ancient times.

If running was the oldest sport; there would be more evidence on it than just it simply being the first-ever Olympic sport. Wrestling has been shown in many ancient history drawings and even later depictions. "Works of art from 3000 BCE depict belt wrestling in Babylonia and Egypt, and the Sumerian Gilgamesh epic has a description of such wrestling" (Encyclopedia of Britannica). The Babylon Empire is one of the oldest empires ever the world. This Conveys that wrestling is indeed the oldest sport compared to running which only dates back to the Olympics.

In conclusion, there's not enough evidence that shows running being older than wrestling as a sport. However, if there was were portraits showing running, then it would've been a better debate between the two.

Sources

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Modern Wrestling.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., June 2020, www.britannica.com/sports/wrestling/Modern-wrestling.

“The 5 Oldest Sports” Catwiki, 13 Aug. 2019, https://www.catawiki.com/stories/4865-the-5-oldest-sports-in-the-world. 

Light bulb Inventors

Hopefully, if you were a good student and did a project on who invented a certain thing; you would've read somewhere that Thomas Edison was the inventor of the lightbulb. That information you looked up is false. Edison was not the creator of the light bulb. In truth, others tried to develop the lightbulb. He's far from being the "Inventor" of it. 

Before Edison, there were other inventors in the mix of the creation of the light bulb. First, there was Allesandro Volta, he contributed by giving the idea of creating light through electricity. However, the true inventor of the light bulb was Humphry Davy. He was the inventor of the first practical lamp which had the light bulb at the top of if it. He used voltaic piles(which was the first battery) to charcoal electrodes to give it charge. Sadly, it didn't sell well. Next, there was Joseph Swan & Warren De La Rue, instead, they both used a filament. Warren used a Platinum filament and Joseph used a carbonized filament both of those failed too. The credit of the invention of the light bulb had to be Humphry Davy.

One may argue that Edison did invent it because it was the only one that actually sold commercially and worked well enough. On the contrary, Humphry's version did work it just wasn't practical enough for homes and ran out of juice to quickly. Edison even slightly changed Swanson's creation by using a thinner filament. You could say that Warren, Swanson, and Edison innovated it though. They all innovated Davy's version of the Lightbulb by adding a figment to the lightbulb, but u could not say that Edison invented it.

To sum up, Edison was not the inventor of the lightbulb. Edison was the first to make the lightbulb a commercial success which is an achievement itself. To say he invented is stretching the truth which discredits all the other scientists that came before him with the invention of the lightbulb.