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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Uno was invented in 1971 by Merle Robbins, a barber from Ohio. Robbins had an argument with his son about the rules of the card game, Crazy Eighs, and decided to make his own game afterwards! When he finally showed his family what he's invented, they loved it and printed the game as a pack of cards!
The word ‘harvest’ is an old Norse word which means to ‘gather or pluck'. As people moved around to different cites, ‘harvest’ fell out of use and the city folk began to use ‘fall of the leaf’ which was shortened to just simply ‘fall’ – which is what is commonly used today.
The place with the longest name in Ireland is 'Muckanaghederdauhaulia', which means 'ridge shaped like a pig's back between two expanses of briny water'.
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Uno was invented in 1971 by Merle Robbins, a barber from Ohio. Robbins had an argument with his son about the rules of the card game, Crazy Eighs, and decided to make his own game afterwards! When he finally showed his family what he's invented, they loved it and printed the game as a pack of cards!
The word ‘harvest’ is an old Norse word which means to ‘gather or pluck'. As people moved around to different cites, ‘harvest’ fell out of use and the city folk began to use ‘fall of the leaf’ which was shortened to just simply ‘fall’ – which is what is commonly used today.
The place with the longest name in Ireland is 'Muckanaghederdauhaulia', which means 'ridge shaped like a pig's back between two expanses of briny water'.
Autumn, especially in poetry, has often been associated with sadness. The possibilities of summer are gone, and the doom of winter is on the horizon. Skies turn grey, the amount of daylight drops rapidly. Many people use it as a time of rest and reflection, just like animals use the colder seasons to hibernate.
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