Posted October 7th, 2011 by Brenna Lowe
The festivities of the present- day U.S. & many other countries date back to an essay penned by Julia Ward Howe in the 1870s, & later when Anna Jarvis promoted setting an official celebration in the early 1900s.
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Posted January 15th, 2010 by Ross Everett
Decades before mixed martial arts became popular in the United States, events matching fighters of different fighting disciplines were very common in Japan. They weren’t called “mixed martial arts” at the time, but that’s essentially what they were.There’s an entire history of pro wrestlers fighting specialists from other martial arts (particularly judo) that were leaving out, but during the’70′s Antonio Inoki began to put the concept of “mixed martial arts” on the map with his matches against fighters from other disciplines.
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