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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

Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, wasn't black. But here's why so many people think he was.


Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, wasn't black. But here's why so many people think he was.
Whitney was white. He is not a mysterious figure. He was born in 1765 in Massachusetts to a wealthy farming family, he went to Yale, he married Jonathan Edwards’ granddaughter, and he died in 1825.

February 5, 2017 at 05:08PM
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