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The playground was the only part of the school day that children ran themselves, and what they built there was remarkably consistent between schools that had never met. Here…
Card games spread along the same routes as trade and armies, mutating at every border. Here are seventeen, and what is known about where each came from.
1. Whist -…
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Before video games, there was the penny arcade, a bright, noisy hall of coin-operated amusements found at boardwalks, fairs, and city storefronts, where a handful of coins bought…