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Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime

Monopoly is a better game with real money and crime What if the classic board game had better rules for simulating capitalism? March 3, 2018 at 03:22PM via Digg http://bit.ly/2I2anym

New Evidence on When Bible Was Written: Ancient Shopping Lists


New Evidence on When Bible Was Written: Ancient Shopping Lists
Notes requesting wine, flour and oil read like mundane, if ancient, shopping lists. But a new analysis of the handwriting suggests that literacy may have been far more widespread than previously known in the Holy Land around 600 BC, toward the end of the First Temple period. The findings could have some bearing on a century-old debate about when the main body of biblical texts was composed.

April 13, 2016 at 11:32AM
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