Owned by house borough and they acquired the company in 1991 and for years this gentle man invented the game at the height of the Great Depression and in one of americas darkest hours he goes into his basement and makes this game and put Atlantic Center property to the vacations during better times. Heres the original monopoly. The patent from 1935 you can see it looks like what we know as monopoly today, the board, the properties. This is a version of the story that has been on the website for years. Some people believe that tarot was the inspiration for the monopoly characters. The problem is the story is not exactly true. The actual game originated with a woman. So, who was she . Prior to inventing her game she had a patent for a typewriter gadget. She was an outspoken feminist. She had a lot of views on this and her father was this gentle man who wasnt just an influential newspaper owner that had traveled with Abraham Lincoln during the debate and was around for the founding of the
And our children. Two studies in two very different places both measuring hazardous exposures, provide a better understanding of the unseen risks that we all take every day and the consequences those risks have on our health. Located in the far northeastern corner of oklahoma the town of picher has a unique landscape. Just steps away from homes schools, and playgrounds sit manmade mountains. Since the turn of the last century through the 1970s, the abundant underground resources of lead and zinc ore were mined to supply among other things material for ammunition used during world war ii. But along with the lead and zinc came tons of mining waste, creating these mounds, called chat piles, that have always been a fixture in this community. Woman ive lived here my entire life and the chat piles were our friends. Thats where your birthday parties were where you had wiener roasts. Where you had Highschool Football bonfires. All those kinds of activities were where we gathered. Narrator but
Disappearing honey bee. The american soldier held in afghanistan for nearly five years has been freed. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was 23 when he was captured by the taliban in 2009. Now, 28, he was handed over to a u. S. Special Operations Team this morning. In exchange for his release, five detainees from guantanamo guantbay were transferred to the custody of qatar. Randall pinkston is joining us. Tell us more about sergeant burgdahls case. He was a private first class when he held infell into the happened near the border with pakistan. Tonight, he is finally, on his way home. Freedom came. Officials say at 10 30 a. M. Eastern time saturday, special Operations Forces with support from multiple helicopters and overhead surveillance and intelligence executed the operation. The exchange took place in eastern afghanistan. 19 Taliban Forces were present, but there was no confrontation, no gunfire. Defense Officials Say bergdahl was able to walk to u. S. Forces and communicate with them. He is
Along with fellow columbia whoent zoe ridolfistarr, was also Sexual Assaulted by a classmate. She is a lead complainant and the title ix complaint against club the university. As calls mount for nfl commissioner Roger Goodell to resign over his handling of Domestic Abuse cases, we will speak with the wife of a former nfl player. When she reported being abused, the league pressured her to keep quiet. She will tell her story. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration launched what it calls the first strikes of its expanded military campaign against the islamic state. The pentagon says u. S. Warplanes bombed isis positions south of baghdad in support of iraqi forces under fire. The u. S. Had carried out previous strikes under the stated mission of safeguarding u. S. Personnel, helping refugees, and protecting infrastructure. The strikes in iraq come as the u. S. Won pledges to fight isis at
Says she was raped on campus by fellow student has launched an unusual act of protest. Emma sulkowicz has bowed to carry a dorm room mattress with her everywhere on campus as long as he remains on campus. Emma joins us in the studio along with fellow columbia whoent zoe ridolfistarr, was also Sexual Assaulted by a classmate. She is a lead complainant and the title ix complaint against club the university. As calls mount for nfl commissioner Roger Goodell to resign over his handling of Domestic Abuse cases, we will speak with the wife of a former nfl player. When she reported being abused, the league pressured her to keep quiet. She will tell her story. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Obama Administration launched what it calls the first strikes of its expanded military campaign against the islamic state. The pentagon says u. S. Warplanes bombed isis positions south of baghdad in support of iraqi fo