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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Known as the “Red Snake” for its unique red-colored bricks, the “Great Wall of Gorgon” was a 121-mile wall that extended from the southern coast of the Caspian Sea to the Elburz Mountains in what is now Iran. It was once thought to have been the work of Alexander the Great.
Sandy Island, a land mass no larger than Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean, was discovered by James Cook in 1876. When a team of Australian scientists went to survey the island in 2012, they found that there was no island at all! They believe that Cook might have spotted a mass of floating volcanic stone and gas.
Not all stars are gigantic. Neutron stars have a radius of about 10 km (6 mi), but they might have a mass that is a few times the size of our Sun. These dense stars, born from core-collapsing supernova star explosions, also rotate at incredible speeds – an estimated 600-712 rotations per second!
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Known as the “Red Snake” for its unique red-colored bricks, the “Great Wall of Gorgon” was a 121-mile wall that extended from the southern coast of the Caspian Sea to the Elburz Mountains in what is now Iran. It was once thought to have been the work of Alexander the Great.
Sandy Island, a land mass no larger than Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean, was discovered by James Cook in 1876. When a team of Australian scientists went to survey the island in 2012, they found that there was no island at all! They believe that Cook might have spotted a mass of floating volcanic stone and gas.
Not all stars are gigantic. Neutron stars have a radius of about 10 km (6 mi), but they might have a mass that is a few times the size of our Sun. These dense stars, born from core-collapsing supernova star explosions, also rotate at incredible speeds – an estimated 600-712 rotations per second!
No one can say that Whitney Houston wasn’t phenomenally talented. She sang back up for Chaka Khan, Lou Rawls, and Jermaine Jackson when she was just 19 years old! Houston was also a highly sought-after model. She was the first woman of color on the cover of Seventeen and Glamour magazines.
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