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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During World War II, the British government used an interesting method to recruit code breakers to help with the deciphering of the German Enigma machine: they published a particularly difficult crossword puzzle in the Telegraph. Those who could solve it were traced down and, after a thorough background check, invited to join the team.
The founders of Google met by chance. Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, was assigned to show Larry Page around the prestigious campus when Page visited to see if he wanted to attend. Page, who was 22 at the time, had just finished earning a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan.
When Spanish people came to Vegas in the 19th century, they found wild grass everywhere, so it was named ‘Las Vegas’, which is a Spanish term for ‘the meadows’.
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During World War II, the British government used an interesting method to recruit code breakers to help with the deciphering of the German Enigma machine: they published a particularly difficult crossword puzzle in the Telegraph. Those who could solve it were traced down and, after a thorough background check, invited to join the team.
The founders of Google met by chance. Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, was assigned to show Larry Page around the prestigious campus when Page visited to see if he wanted to attend. Page, who was 22 at the time, had just finished earning a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan.
When Spanish people came to Vegas in the 19th century, they found wild grass everywhere, so it was named ‘Las Vegas’, which is a Spanish term for ‘the meadows’.
The stripes on a tiger are like fingerprints on humans. Each one has its own individual pattern, which scientists photograph and use to keep count of the animals and track their population numbers.
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