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Popular Mechanics: The 50 Best New Board Games
Order a pizza, invite over one to three friends, and try out the best new board games. By William Herkewitz Oct 23, 2019 “Sure, the classic board games like Monopoly, Risk, and Battleship are still
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Universe Today: Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously, Especially One Specific Concept
By MATT WILLIAMS, UNIVERSE TODAY 25 SEP 2019 “It’s hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little
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Vice: Scientists Are Discovering Long-Lost Rules for Ancient Board Games
You can play reconstructions of ancient board games thanks to these scientists and their algorithms. By Matthew Gault “Cameron Browne doesn’t see games the way you and I do. “I [deconstruct] them into their mechanisms,”
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Kotaku: Truck Carrying Gaming Dice Spills Onto Highway, Rolls A Perfect 756,000
“On Friday, September 13, a truck bound for the Georgia-based tabletop and video game company Trivium Studios took a turn too sharply, spilling 216,000 gaming dice onto Interstate 75 in Atlanta in what could
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Weapons and Warfare: “Thwarting Japanese Torpedo Planes”
“At his ornate palace in downtown Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito, impeccably attired in formal clothing, was ready to receive a delegation of generals, admirals, and top government officials. Formal dress was reserved for special occasions.
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Popular Mechanics: The U.S. Officially Begins Building Its New Missile Submarine
The Columbia-class submarines will serve more than 40 years and carry hundreds of nuclear warheads to sea at a time. By Kyle Mizokami May 29, 2019 “A U.S. shipyard has cut first steel for the first
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RealClear Defense: Rare Color Footage Brings D-Day Memories Alive, 75 Years On
By Jeffrey Schaeffer & Julian Styles WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy-five years ago, Hollywood director George Stevens stood on the deck of the HMS Belfast to film the start of the D-Day invasion. The resulting black-and-white films —
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Popular Mechanics: “Cold Blue” Shows the B-17 Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
The hero of WWII is the star of a brand-new kind of documentary. By Chuck Thompson May 16, 2019 “The B-17 “Flying Fortress” is one of the most iconic aircraft of World War II. Built
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Medium: The Long Way Around
This Plane Accidentally Flew Around the World After Pearl Harbor, the crew of Pan Am flight 18602 was forced to do the impossible By John Bull “The morning of 6th January 1942 was going
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Real Clear Defense: “Russian Navy Ever Less Capable of Supporting Putin’s War Plans”
By Paul Goble “The Russian navy, the Military-Maritime Fleet (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot—VMF), always a poor relation to the Russian Land Forces given geography and national traditions, has been contracting in size since 1985. Now, as Izvestia announced last
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