Charles Darrow developed Monopoly in 1933. When he sold the game to Parker Brothers, the cards were handwritten, and the houses were made from wooden molding scraps.
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The first ever science documentary got stuck straight into the most important topic – cheese. Made in 1903, Cheese Mites showed audiences what a piece of stilton looked like beneath a microscope. The scientist reveals a veritable smorgasbord of mites, in his words “crawling and creeping about in all directions, looking like great uncanny crabs, bristling with long spiny hairs and legs”. The year was 1903, and early cinema goers were shocked and thrilled by the images, stilton manufacturers were appalled, and sales of cheap microscopes soared.
Scrabble is still an enormously popular game. Currently, it has been produced in 29 different languages, and not to mention the digital and app versions which are downloaded and played daily. In Great Britain, 53% of all homes have a Scrabble set!
The earliest known precursor of sunglasses was invented in prehistoric times by the Inuit. They made snow goggles out of walrus ivory that had two narrow slits that reduced the wearer’s exposure to sunlight and protected them from going snow-blind.
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The first ever science documentary got stuck straight into the most important topic – cheese. Made in 1903, Cheese Mites showed audiences what a piece of stilton looked like beneath a microscope. The scientist reveals a veritable smorgasbord of mites, in his words “crawling and creeping about in all directions, looking like great uncanny crabs, bristling with long spiny hairs and legs”. The year was 1903, and early cinema goers were shocked and thrilled by the images, stilton manufacturers were appalled, and sales of cheap microscopes soared.
Scrabble is still an enormously popular game. Currently, it has been produced in 29 different languages, and not to mention the digital and app versions which are downloaded and played daily. In Great Britain, 53% of all homes have a Scrabble set!
The earliest known precursor of sunglasses was invented in prehistoric times by the Inuit. They made snow goggles out of walrus ivory that had two narrow slits that reduced the wearer’s exposure to sunlight and protected them from going snow-blind.
Halle Berry, who got her big break in Spike Lee’s romantic drama ‘Jungle Fever’ in 1991, was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. Her father, Jerome Berry, was a hospital attendant, and her mother, Judith Berry, a psychiatric nurse. The actor’s net worth is estimated at 80 million!
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