The Yo-Yo Is Older Than You Think

Its History Has Its Ups and Downs.

Attic Kylix

The yo-yo can be dated to ancient Greece to the 6th century BCE. The Attic kylix, ca. 440 BC, now residing at the Antikensammlung in Berlin (F 2549), shows a boy playing with a yo-yo. The toys were made out of wood, metal, and terra cotta and some were painted. Due to the nature of the materials, very few have survived.

Archaeological Museum of Schematari

Terra cotta can be smashed. Wood can rot and metal can be melted down for other purposes. The few examples that have survived show the skill and craft of the design and the artwork.

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1928 (28.167)

Done! Done and Gone

If you love a research paper, let it go.

That's that. I did one last proof read though my Ice Dragon research paper and E-mailed it off to the Pent coordinator. I'm doing it early so that I don't monkey with it and more, and possibly make it less readable. And to give the judges enough time to read it. 119 pages of The Ancient and Noble Art of Hunting with the Cephalopod will take a while to get through. 

Now I can concentrate on my other entries as I intend on entering the full Pentathon. This paper makes one, I have a scroll and documentation done. I might bake something (shock and awe, Caleb is going to bake something edible). I suppose I could brew something. I have time to come up with stuff.