The first commercially produced card was created in 1861 by John P. Charlton of Philadelphia, who patented a postal card, selling the rights to Hymen Lipman, whose postcards, complete with a decorated border, were labeled " Lipman's postal card.

In Greek mythology, Hymen () was a god of marriage ceremonies, inspiring feasts and song.

Hymen was supposed to attend every wedding.

At least since the Italian Renaissance, Hymen was generally represented in art as a young man wearing a garland of flowers and holding a burning torch in one hand.

Hymen was mentioned in Euripides's The Trojan Women, where Cassandra says:

According to a later Romance, Hymen was an Athenian youth of great beauty but low birth who fell in love with the daughter of one of the city's wealthiest men.

The assemblage was captured by pirates, Hymen included.

He was highly demanding and bad-tempered, unable to maintain longstanding partnerships with his librettists, with the exception of Louis de Cahusac, who collaborated with him on several operas, including Les fêtes de l ' Hymen et de l ' Amour ( 1747 ), Zaïs ( 1748 ), Naïs ( 1749 ), Zoroastre ( 1749 ; revised 1756 ), La naissance d ' Osiris ( 1754 ), and Anacréon ( the first of Rameau's operas by that name, 1754 ).

In either case, as was natural, the main burden of the song consisted of invocations of blessing and predictions of happiness, interrupted from time to time by the ancient chorus of Hymen hymenaee.

Their last recorded material to be released was two tracks on the 2006 Hymen Records compilation Travel Sickness.

Frederic Hymen Cowen conducted ; the National Anthem was sung by Emma Albani and a choir of 300 voices assembled at short notice by Newman ; Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise followed, with Albani, Margaret Hoare and Edward Lloyd as soloists.

Such a torch is associated with the Greek god of marriage Hymen.

Aristophanes ' Peace ends with Trygaeus and the Chorus singing the wedding song, with the repeated phrase " Oh Hymen!

* The American author O. Henry humorously referred to a book by " Homer KM " with the character " Ruby Ott " in his short story " The Handbook of Hymen.

Cupid Rekindling the Torch of Hymen, a sculpture by George Rennie ( sculptor and politician ) | George Rennie

" Valerie's Hymen ," where Moore discussed cutting out his wife's hymen with a carving knife, and " Lady Vera Fart Teller ", wherein Moore elaborates on a visit to a fortune teller who could tell his future by examining his farts.

Frederic Hymen Cowen's Pauline ( 1876 ), Arthur Goring Thomas's Esmeralda ( 1883 ), Alexander Mackenzie's Colomba ( 1883 ) and The Troubabour, and Charles Villiers Stanford's The Canterbury Pilgrims ( 1884 ) were commissioned by the company.

Pauline in 1876 ( Frederic Hymen Cowen ), Esmeralda in 1883 ( Arthur Goring Thomas ), Colomba in 1883 and The Troubabour ( Alexander Mackenzie ), and The Canterbury Pilgrims in 1884 ( Charles Villiers Stanford ) were five of the operas commissioned by the company.

( Hymen, in fact, is the Greek word for membrane.

Drawing of pencil with an attached eraser from its patent applicationOn 30 March 1858, Hymen Lipman received the first patent for attaching an eraser to the end of a pencil.

* Hymen ( Egoist Press, 1921 ) with H. D.

Hymen also appears in the work of the 6th-to 7th-century Greek poet Sappho ( translation: M. L.

Hymen disguised himself as a woman in order to join one of these processions, a religious rite at Eleusis where only women went.

* Leonhard Schmitz, " Hymen.

* Hymen-Location, Pictures, Surgery, Repair and Broken Hymen Complete information on Hymen.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown.

Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

A Catholic priest recently recounted how in the chapel of a large city university, following Anglican evensong, at which there was a congregation of twelve, he celebrated Mass before more than a hundred.

Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.

St. Ambrose was also traditionally credited with composing the hymn Te Deum, which he is said to have composed when he baptised St. Augustine of Hippo, his celebrated convert.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

Aldine Press was the printing office started by Aldus Manutius in 1494 in Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine editions of the classics ( Latin and Greek masterpieces plus a few more modern works ).

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

His arrival was celebrated by a massacre of 80, 000 Latins in Constantinople, especially the Venetian merchants, which he made no attempt to stop.

The wedding was celebrated at Torgau, the palace of the Queen of Poland, on 14 October 1711.

Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha ( Treasury of Amara ), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the " Tripartite ".

Alfonso had been betrothed to Maria of Castile ( 1401 – 1458 ; sister of John II of Castile ) in Valladolid in 1408 ; the marriage was celebrated in Valencia on 12 June 1415.

" " The Day of the LORD " was widely celebrated and highly anticipated by the followers of God.

His sister was Janet Anderson, the mother of the celebrated James Gregory.

Of his brothers, Dioscorus followed his father's profession in Tralles ; Alexander became at Rome one of the most celebrated medical men of his time ; Olympius was deeply versed in Roman jurisprudence ; and Metrodorus was a distinguished grammarian in Constantinople.

The week was simultaneously celebrated in a number of states in the country.