Likely the most famous board game in existence, Monopoly has a rich history.
Sold in 80 countries and produced in 26 languages, it is very popular at many get togethers, and holidays. Parker brothers originally rejected the game due to design errors, when in 1934 Charles Darrow first presented it to the company. He had a friend print the game, and he sold 5000 copies to a local deparment store.
The people loved the game, and Mr. Darrow couldnt keep up with the demand, and went to talk to Parker Brothers again. Lucky for Parker Brothers, in my opinion.
Over 200 million MONOPOLY games have been sold worldwide.
More than five billion little green houses have been “built” since 1935.
A MONOPOLY game made by my friends at Alfred Dunhill, with gold houses and silver hotels, sold for $25,000.
The longest MONOPOLY game in history lasted 70 straight days.
The longest MONOPOLY game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
Its estimated that 500 million people have played Monopoly.
I have many fond memories of late night games of Monopoly myself, my brother and I up way past bedtime, quietly playing til the wee hours. Each of us attempting to pilfer the bank without the others knowledge. The “house rules” where we have 5 hotels to a property.
Theres many different styles of Monopoly, including Harley Davidson and Star Wars.
There is a spectrum of Gaia hypotheses, with a very wide range. One end says that organisms have greatly altered the earth in which they live. An even more intense theory is the earth is a organism unto itself and it has its own functions including a way to keep itself balanced and teeming with its own life, and balanced enough that the life will flourish. Scientists will often simply assume this to be natural evolution, that individual animals or organisms are the cause of the balance itself, through thier own concerns and not that of the good for all organisms. These indivdual reactions somehow give way to balance.
Even more potent a claim is that we are all a part of a single being. With this idea, everything we know as planetary, or within the planet, such as us, and life including plants and animals, are all the result of Gaia directly, the ever changing of a single organism. While most scientists refuse this idea, some embrace it, and it is thought to be a plausible happenchance.
By far the most extreme theory is that the Earth is a single entity, that the environment is actively working to make life better for its population. There has been zero evidence to actually support this. An understading of homeostasis shoots down this theory.
Liberty is the very center of freedom. Liberty is having the freedom of choice, sans any say so from any authority. Any regualtion that is remotely resrtictive denies liberty.
Privacy is the idea that noone will interject into actions you desire to be private. As an example eavesdropping on someones phone call would be a violation of that, becuz they are only speaking to that person on the phone.
Everytime privacy is stolen from us, we risk losing freedom then. Every small infringement could potentially be disastrous to what we understand to be freedom.
As Americans we beilve we have a right to privacy, and that our government will allow it. In fact, the Bill of Rights expresses this. Lets hope in the future that will be remembered.
This is a video made by a rapper named Remy, its funny, but if you played Warcraft its much, much funnier. Remy has his own site at goremy.com He is rising very quickly to celebrity status including his new cast position on channel 101, on sundays. The show is named “the fizz”. He is also interviewed on radio stations, was even on Fox News.
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