Posted by admin on Jul 22, 2010 in Articles | Comments Off
Many speculations were made as to the origin of the hockey and ice hockey who invented it. Known as a successful game in Canada that does not prove its origin in the country. He has even, somehow posted a great debate of where the game really began.
View the history of a similar sport has gained in Asia. Egyptian painting found in a site excavated the grave of Kheti. The 2000 BC drawings illustrated men holding curved sticks with a ball that is very similar to ice hockey as a sport. May it really Egyptians who invented hockey?
However, other results show that the Egyptians is not the only one who has the same idea of sport. In 514 BC, a game with the image of hockey in modern times has been to play in Greece. Who invented hockey and where it comes from? Its still uncertain. It could be the Persians, who has played as well or maybe it came from the Arabs, or perhaps Ethiopia, or it could even be the Mexicans, the Aztecs. All of these cultures and countries have documents that tell us, an athletic team that played with curved sticks and a ball was.
Only then will the Middle Ages that Europe under different names recognized and played the sport in different styles. French say Crosse, the Scots gave him the name of Shinty, and call the Irish Hurling. Before that call, the Romans Paganica. In 1527, France, the word of hockey is a reference to a crook they call derived hiccup. What has been found in the records in Ireland learned. There were even stories that the concept of hockey was actually the name of a Colonel Hockey Windsor, Nova Scotia, where it was in a way that hockey is closed from there. But the real answer to the question of who’s invented ice hockey is still a mystery?
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Posted by admin on Jun 29, 2010 in Articles | Comments Off
Hockey is a winter sport at most loved in the world, and is a national obsession in some countries, like Canada. The popular belief that hockey was invented in Montreal, but is this really the case? In a word – no. The truth is we really do not know who is hockey, or whether it was invented invented. We know it’s popular since at least 1700, and it may have arisen even before that time.
The word “hockey” could come from at least two sources. Many people think it is from Old French word “hiccup discharge,” literally a shepherd’s crook, “the” thinking (of the shape of the hockey stick, but it can also from the Middle Dutch word “come Hokke,” mean what can “Goal” if routinely used. We know that show similar to the 16th century Dutch painting a hockey game or report that on the frozen canals, which will be played today in front of the establishment and inventiveness in Canada.
The British in May
Hockey and lacrosse were popular in Europe, and many people believe that British soldiers stationed in Canada, created in the 1700s a modern form of hockey against boredom and the long, cold war, Canadian winters. There are other pictures that played this new form of entertainment in Nova Scotia, and also show in Virginia in the United States during this period. So we really do not know who to refine invent ice hockey, only helped.
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