On this date (Feb 7) in 1935, the classic board game Monopoly was finalized and published by Parker Brothers. Since its creation, more than a billion people have played it, making it the most played commercially available board game in
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On this date (Jan 28) in the year 1754, the word serendipity was first coined. In a letter to Horace Mann, Horace Walpole said that he formed the word based on the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip,
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On this date (Jan 24) in 1972, Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in the jungles of Guam. He was a Japanese soldier who had been hiding in a cave since 1944, believing that World War II was still going strong. Yokoi
On this date – Special Edition – Reflections on MLK Day
On this date (Jan 17, 2011) most of America celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s sad that I still have to say “most of America” instead of saying “ALL of America”, but we do live in
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On this date (Jan 10) in 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense. On the surface, this work was a plain-spoken argument for independence from England, but a deeper read shows it to be a treatise about society in general. In