Washington, D.C. is home to a lot of impressive architecture. Did you know that one of the gargoyles of the National Cathedral is Darth Vader?
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The board game Sorry! is a westernized version of the Indian game Pachisi, which goes back to at least the 16th century! The goal of the game is to impede the progress of your opponents. The earliest version of the modern game was trademarked in 1929.
Much like cats and dogs, foxes can be both friendly and interested in humans. Archeologists have found a 16,500-year-old grave in Jordan in which a man is buried with his pet fox. This is 4000 years before the earliest known grave of a human and their dog!
The youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize was Malala Yousafzai, who was just 17 when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. The oldest recipient was John B. Goodenough, who was 97 years old when he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019!
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The board game Sorry! is a westernized version of the Indian game Pachisi, which goes back to at least the 16th century! The goal of the game is to impede the progress of your opponents. The earliest version of the modern game was trademarked in 1929.
Much like cats and dogs, foxes can be both friendly and interested in humans. Archeologists have found a 16,500-year-old grave in Jordan in which a man is buried with his pet fox. This is 4000 years before the earliest known grave of a human and their dog!
The youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize was Malala Yousafzai, who was just 17 when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. The oldest recipient was John B. Goodenough, who was 97 years old when he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019!
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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