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The yo yo is considered the second oldest toy in history. It has been around
for over 2500 years.

In ancient Greece, the toy was made of wood, metal and terra cotta. The Greeks
decorated the two halves of the yo-y with pictures of their gods.

Around 1800, the yo-yo moved into Europe from the Orient. The British called the
yo-yo the bandalore, quiz or the Prince of Wales toy. The French used the name
incroyable or l'emigrette.

The word yo-yo is a Tagalog word, the native language of the Philippines, and
means 'come back.' In the Philippines, the yo-yo was a weapon for over 400
hundred years. Their version was large with sharp edges and studs and attached
to thick twenty-foot ropes for flinging at enemies or prey.

People in the United States started playing with the British bandalore or yo-yo
in the 1860s. It was not until the 1920s that Americans first heard the word
yo-yo. Pedro Flores, a Philippine immigrant, began manufacturing a toy labeled
with that name. Flores became the first person to mass-produce yo-yos, at his
small toy factory located in California.