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Wargaming in the Classroom: An Odyssey
By James Lacey: “Several years ago, as a new professor at the Marine Corps War College, I spent a huge amount of time putting together the best presentation on Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War
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Popular Mechanics: 10 Strategy Board Games You Should Be Playing
By Carl Davis “March 30 is International Tabletop Day, a celebration of board games. But for geeks this weekend marks something even more important: The return of Game of Thrones, which also happens to
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PJ Media: Why Roleplaying Game Companies Like Licensing Existing Properties
By Moe Lane: “Recently, British roleplaying game (RPG) company Cubicle 7 announced that they will be making a D&D Fifth Edition RPG based off of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (LotR) series. This
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The Telegraph: The Ides of March – The assassination of Julius Caesar and how it changed the world
Caesar’s death paved the way for the Roman empire after a bloody cycle of civil wars, and secured him the hallowed immortality he always craved By Dominic Selwood “Spurinna was a haruspex. His calling
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Washington Post: Google just mastered a game that vexed scientists — and their machines — for decades
By Matt McFarland January 27 “Artificial intelligence took a historic step forward Wednesday when a Google team announced that it taught a machine to master the ancient Chinese game Go, a feat researchers have
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PJ Media: 4 Mentally Stimulating Board Games to Challenge Your Teens on Family Game Night
BY BRIAN BOYER DECEMBER 22, 2015 “At a certain point in your children’s lives, the simplicity of Chutes and Ladders and the redundancy of Connect 4 start to set in. As teenagers, they’re already toiling away at
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Popular Mechanics: The World’s 20 Most Impressive Fortresses
Mighty military strongholds from ancient castles to modern innovations. By tim-newcomb “A fortress protects and gives military personnel a safe harbor from the enemy. But not all fortresses were created equal. And they certainly
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PJ Media: Why Are There New Editions of Tabletop Roleplaying Games?
BY MOE LANE “When you first get into the exciting and dynamic hobby of tabletop, pencil-and-paper roleplaying games (RPGs), you are likely to notice two things, at some point. First, the game that you
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Houston Chronicle: International Copyright Laws for Board Games
by Hall Harris , Demand Media “No single method can protect a board game in its entirety from copyright infringement. Instead, a board game inventor can create a patchwork of protection from various intellectual
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Popular Mechanics: Why the A-10 Warthog Is Such a Badass Plane
How a slow, simple airplane became an icon. “General Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, chief of the Air Force’s Air Combat Command, said earlier this week that he would deploy A-10s to Incirlik Air Base in
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