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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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.
Omega Centauri is the largest known “globular cluster” in the Milky Way. Globular clusters are high concentrations of stars grouped together by gravity. Omega Centauri contains approximately 10 million stars, with a mass of four million suns!
Abstract Expressionism started during the Great Depression. Artists were more concerned with the process of art making than with the finished product itself. Most of these artists lived in New York City and met through a project while painting murals in government buildings.
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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.
Omega Centauri is the largest known “globular cluster” in the Milky Way. Globular clusters are high concentrations of stars grouped together by gravity. Omega Centauri contains approximately 10 million stars, with a mass of four million suns!
Abstract Expressionism started during the Great Depression. Artists were more concerned with the process of art making than with the finished product itself. Most of these artists lived in New York City and met through a project while painting murals in government buildings.
Jenga may sound like a made up word, but it's not! It actually comes from the Swahili word 'kujenga' which means 'to build'! The name was chosen because the game has its origins in Africa and because the whole point of the game is to continue building an ever more precarious tower from wooden blocks.
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