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Games People Play
Can we get a moment of silence in remembrance of the iron Monopoly token? (insert moment of silence here) As you may have read, Hasbro is retiring the iron after a heated online election, and it’s...
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Hop to it!
Ale. Lager. Porter. Stout. Light or dark, hoppy or malty. How do you like your brew? If you’re American, chances are that you like it cold. And we’ve got you covered! Beer’s got a very solid spot in...
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Calling Attention to Cell Phones
On April 3, 1973 something quite revolutionary happened. A fellow named Martin Cooper used a handheld mobile phone to call a colleague. It might not seem like shocking behavior to us today, but...
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Play Ball
48 years ago today, the world’s largest air conditioned room (as it was called by The New York Times) was put into use for the first time. Players experimented with the use of orange balls for the...
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Spam. Spam. Spam.
Today’s a great day to give your email’s spam filter its due props: on April 12, 1994, the fist incident of mass commercial spamming occurred. We’re not talking green eggs & spam here, but rather...
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The Hull Truth
On this day in 1912, the RMS Titanic sunk, and, well, the rest is history. Here’s some information you The Titanic was famously equipped. But did you know that the ill-fated ship even had its own...
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License to Collect
On April 25, 1903, New York became the first state to issue automobile license plates. Don’t let that little bit of trivia mislead you, though: while the first plates were issued 110 years ago today,...
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Ad of the Week: Element #2
Because we sell anything and everything, we often get ads for the interesting, the unusual and the extremely specialized. One of the best parts of working here is that we learn so much about so many...
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Finding Lyric
Guten Morgen! We’ll hope you’ll excuse the Teutonic outburst, but we saw this Plott Hound and just couldn’t help ourselves. You can find Lyric on page 79 of this week’s issue; she’s Griffin Pond...
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Building Tensions
On May 6, 1889 the Paris Exposition opened. Its headlining act? A nifty 984′ metal tower that had just been completed. And that tower (the one we know as the Eiffel Tower) was the world’s tallest...
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Ad of the Week: Cigar Store Indian
Because we sell anything and everything, we often get ads for the interesting, the unusual and the extremely specialized. One of the best parts of working here is that we learn so much about so many...
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Peddling Pedals
There are approximately 100 million of them manufactured every year. Fifteen of them can be parked in the space taken up by one car. And they’re frequent flyers in our Sports category. We are, of...
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Cover Territory
It’s one of the most sought after items that we list. And it’s probably also the most frequently misspelled; not too surprising, since the word’s French and is used by most Americans in no other...
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Got game?
If you were like us in 1980, you certainly did. That game involved dots, cherries and a coven of ghosts, and only about 10 folks have ever achieved the arcade version’s maximum score of 3,333,360....
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Istanbul (or Constantinople?)
Today’s the anniversary of the 1453 fall of Constantinople. But was it Istanbul? Or Constantinople? (And, hey – how did Constantinople get the works? Guess that’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.)...
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Have A Ball!
Or even better? Have 6 of ‘em! It all began on March 7, 1972 when the Pennsylvania Lottery introduced its first game: it cost 50¢ to enter the weekly drawing and the grand prize was one million...
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Game Plan
It started out as a playing card company in 1889. And over the years, business ventures included a TV network, a taxicab company and even a line of instant rice products. But it took a plumber and a...
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You Have The Right To Remain Silent
Really, you do. And we make it pretty easy to place ads without saying a word. Maybe you do your best work late at night. Or perhaps you just aren’t a person who’s comfortable talking on the phone. No...
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Cool it!
That’s likely a rather unnecessary order, as you’ve probably been soaking up the air conditioning for at least the past week. We certainly have been! And although cool air on command in a wonderful...
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Forgettable? Regrettable (And Avoidable)
This man does not look happy. Thoughtful. Serious. Pensive, maybe, but not really happy. Then again, you’d look less than charmed if you were largely forgotten. The fellow pictured above is Millard...
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