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• Charles soon came up with his own game, basing the board on the streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey. He approached Parker Brothers about producing the game and was rejected.

As Magie had, Darrow manufactured his new game independently, and experienced wild success during the Christmas season of 1934 at a Philadelphia department store, with a selling price of $2.

• When Parker Brothers observed the sales performance of Monopoly, they changed their mind and purchased the game’s copyrights from Darrow, along with granting him royalties. Parker Brothers introduced the game of Monopoly on November 5, 1935.

• Darrow was soon a millionaire, and gave up his heating contracting career, pursuing something he really loved – growing hothouse orchids.

• As the popularity of Monopoly grew and it became a nationwide craze, 70-year-old Elizabeth Magie stepped forward, angered at the millions Darrow was earning. She conducted interviews, holding her own game board up to photographers’ cameras to prove she was the original inventor. Parker Brothers agreed to buy the rights to her patent, along with two other games she had created, for a reported $500 and no royalties. She soon faded into obscurity, and died a widow in 1948.

• Less than a year after Parker Brothers released Monopoly, the company was making 35,000 copies of the game per week. In 1936, the game was licensed for sale outside the United States.

• The Monopoly board contains 22 streets, divided into eight color groups containing two or three streets. As players move around the board, they purchase property, varying from $60 to $400 in price. The goal is to drive the other players into bankruptcy. ...continued

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• A player must own all of a color group in order to build houses or hotels. Each game contains 32 houses and 12 hotels.

• There are four railroads on the game board – Short Line, Pennsylvania, B&O, and Reading.

The Short Line refers to the Shore Fast Line, which was a streetcar line that served Atlantic City. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads also served the City. The B&O, which stands for Baltimore and Ohio, did not serve this coastal beach city. Players collect $25 if they own one railroad, $50 for two, $100 for three, and $200 for all four.

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• In 2006, Hasbro released a special “Here and Now” Monopoly edition, designed to bring the game into the present. The game included playing pieces of McDonald’s fries, a Starbucks coffee cup, a New Balance sneaker, and a Toyota Prius. The railroads were replaced with airports, and other real estate from across the country, including Times Square and the White House, was exchanged for the Atlantic City properties.

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• On Nov. 9, 1938, German Nazis launch a campaign of terror against Jews in Germany and Austria. The violence was dubbed "Kristallnacht," or "Night of Broken Glass," for the countless smashed windows of 7,500 Jewishowned establishments. Some 100 Jews died, and hundreds of synagogues and homes were damaged.

• On Nov. 7, 1944, Franklin Roosevelt is reelected president of the United States for a record third time, defeating Thomas Dewey, the governor of New York, and becoming the only president in history to win a fourth term in office.

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• More recently, in 2016, Hasbro introduced a cashless version called Monopoly Ultimate Banking, which eliminates paper money and uses debit cards and an electronic banking unit that keeps track of everyone’s funds. Players scan their bank card to buy properties in this new special edition, and the amount is deducted from total available funds. The card is also scanned to pay rent when a player lands on property owned by an opponent.

• One of the yellow properties, Marvin Gardens, is actually a misspelling of the actual name. The correct spelling is Marven Gardens, referring to a housing development in Margate City, located two miles south of Atlantic City. It’s the board’s only property that is not located within Atlantic City. In 1995, Parker Brothers/Hasbro finally acknowledged the misspelling, and apologized to the area’s residents.

• Over the years, many players have developed their own “house rules,” rules that have been made up by players. A well-known example is that of the “Free Parking” space jackpot. All of the money collected from Income and Luxury taxes, and Chance and Community Chest is placed in the center of the board rather than in the bank. When a player lands on Free Parking, they take the money. There is no such official rule in the instructions. But then, according to a Hasbro poll, 68% of Monopoly players have never read the official rules all the way through.

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Because November 1 - 7 is National Fig Week, Tidbits is focusing on the very unusual strangler fig.

• As destructive as the strangler fig may seem to be, it is actually quite important to the ecology of tropical forests. The large hollow center provides shelter and breeding sites for bats, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, and birds. Several times a year, the tree bears small golden yellow figs, about 1/3-inch in diameter providing a sweet and juicy treat for parrots, toucans, hornbills, monkeys, gibbons, and bats. During certain seasons, the figs are the only source of food, and can comprise up to 70% of the diets of the rainforest animals. The trees flower almost continuously.

• The ficus aurea, or strangler fig is also known as the golden fig or banyan tree, a plant native to the southern Florida Everglades and the West Indies. The strangler is a parasite that begins its life as a tiny, sticky seed that lodges in the cracks and crevices in the bark of a host tree, deposited there by a bird, bat, or monkey. Oddly enough, the seeds will not germinate without passing through an animal’s digestive • The strangler fig is a member of the mulberry family.

Stranglers are far from the only figs in the rainforest tract. ecosystem. There are nearly 1,000 different species of • As it grows, the plant’s dangling roots grip its host, Ficus, found in every rainforest in the world. In Spanand its sprawling branches take in nutrients and waish, stranglers are called matapalo, which translates ter from the host tree. The favorite host is the cab“killer tree.” bage palm tree, also known as the Sabal palmetto, the official state tree of both Florida and South Caro- • Every species of fig has its own exclusive spelina. cies of tiny pollinating • As the large, dark green, leathery oval-shaped leaves wasp, each about 2 mm of the strangler fig continue to mature, they block long, which enters the out the light to its host. The roots are fast-growing plant through an openand aggressive. Once they reach the ground, they ing at the bottom of the develop their own underground root system, encirfruit. It seems that each cling the host tree, but independent of the host. As unique and specialized the roots grow thicker into an intricate latticework, wasp never gets into they squeeze the trunk of the host, completely robthe wrong fig! bing it of nutrients, making it impossible for sap to

• The Hindus regard the banyan tree, or Ficus • A nearly complete sheath develops around the host, religiosa as a sacred plant, because they believe that suffocating it, leaving a giant strangler fig with a holBuddha once meditated beneath one. low core and a “trunk” of a massive cylinder of roots.

All that remains of the host is that hollow center. The • One Ficus tree in India, The Great Banyan, has over 1,000 roots and covers an area of 4.675 acres. It’s strangler fig can reach a height of 70 feet with a wide about 250 years old, and is believed to be the largest spreading crown. It may take several decades for the Ficus tree in the world. fig to completely kill the host tree. flow, resulting in its death.

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• If you look closely at the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's famed masterwork, you might notice that the famously enigmatic subject is entirely lacking in eyebrows.

• It may not come as a surprise that when scorpions mate, it's a rather violent affair. When the act is completed, the female stings her partner to death, then eats him.

• In 1993, voters in San Francisco voted on a ballot measure to determine whether police officer Bob Geary would be allowed to walk his neighborhood beat while carrying his ventriloquist's dummy, known as Brendan O'Smarty.

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• We’ve been coloring our lips since prehistoric times, when women used readily available natural resources, such as crushed berries and the juice of fruits and plants. Around 2600 BC, Sumerian Queen Shub-ad blended white lead and crushed red rocks to paint her lips. The fact that it was poisonous didn’t seem to deter her. Five thousand years ago, women in Mesopotamia ground precious gems into dust and applied it to their lips and eyelids.

• Ancient Egyptians made their lipstick out of dye extracted from seaweed, along with iodine and bromine mannite, which produced a deep purple shade. Unfortunately, the bromine was a dangerous toxin which frequently led to death, resulting in the coining of the term the “kiss of death.”

This steered the Egyptians to a new formula of red carmine dye from cochineal insects, beetles, and ants, along with red ochre, a natural earth pigment containing iron.

• Cleopatra of Egypt used lipstick regularly and especially favored red lipstick made of beeswax, crushed ants or carmine, with fish scales added for shine. The concoction not only colored her lips, it also protected them from the harsh Egyptian sun and desert wind.

• During the 1500s, English Queen Elizabeth I popularized the look of a stark white face and bright red lips. At a time when pastors were condemning lip painting as the “devil’s work,” the Queen regularly painted her lips with crushed insects, tree sap, egg white, and fig milk.

• First lady Martha Washington mixed beeswax, lard, sugar, almond oil, ground raisins, extract from the alkanet plant, and balsam to create her cherry-colored lips. ...continued

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• Paris perfumers introduced the first modern lipstick in 1884, made of deer tallow, castor oil, and Dell. beeswax, and wrapped in silk paper Answer: and applied with a brush. The first metal cylinA VERY LARGE NUMBER der containers were introduced in 1915, but the •familiar Edwardswivel-up Kasner was a mathematician.

In 1938 tube didn’t hit the stores unhe was asked to come up with a name for a tilvery 1923, patented by the Nashville James large number: numeralinventor one, followed Mason, Jr. by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young nephews they would • Film stars what suchname as Greto Garbo,suggest.

Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn • Nine-year-old Milton suggested aMonroe name out of the funnies.

A of cartoon strip character boosted popularity red lipstick.

By the namedVogue Barneymagazine was very declared popular. Milton chose 1930s, that lipstick Barney’s last name for the number. was “the most important cosmetic for wom•en.”

Kasner announced the new name for the bebig During World War II, lipstick colors number in his next book, altering the spelling. came political, such as the popular Victory Red •shade.

Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed new internet engine.

Other • New Jersey achemist Hazelsearch Bishop created the search engines searched each webpage and first long-lasting, non-smearing in hera ranked them according to how lipstick many times kitchen and it hit the stores in 1950, immedispecific term appeared on them, but Page and ately all the rage.engine The first flavored Brinbecoming designed their search to search for lipstick debuted manufactured by the specific term in and1973, then find out how many Bonne dubbed “Lipback Smackers.” links Bell thereand were that led to that page, which resulted in a better search engine.

• Today’s lipsticks contain a variety of ingredi•ents, Theyincluding decidedbeeswax, they needed a name Vitathat oil, emollients, reflected how many websites the search min E, collagen, amino acids, aloe vera, and engine was searching. They took the name sunscreen. Fish scales are still an ingredient, of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only which provide a it shiny filmso that doesn’t they misspelled slightly, it ended upsmear being easily. spelled exactly the same way the cartoon character Barney spelled his name. lipstick What’s • Ninety percent of women saylast wearing it called?

(Answer at bottom of page) makes them feel better, and the average woman COMPUTER FACTS will use about 9 lbs. of lipstick in her lifetime. shows that 40% women own more •AInpoll 1981 Bill Gates said,of“640 kb of memory than 20totubes of lipstick.

The average female ought be enough for anybody.” lipstick anywhere from twoperformance to 14 times •applies Moore’s Law states that computer a doubles day, and it’s estimated that most ingest up every 18 to 24 months, and ever since thisofhas been true. to1971, 87 mg lipstick every day, about four lbs. over the average lifetime.

Lipstick is the • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple weremost all commonly shoplifted item. started in garages.

Answer: Google, from googol.

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