#history

#history

Madden combed through this sparse record, confirming the oldest-known dice and establishing an unbroken, previously hidden lineage of chance-based games dating back at least 12,000 years, 6,000 before any counterpart in the Old World.

Nintendo was founded in 1889, the same year the Eiffel Tower opened in Paris, starting as a manufacturer of Japanese playing cards.

Iceboxes were large lined, insulated wooden cupboards built to store ice, food, and drinks. The ice would usually be placed on the upper shelf, with the food and drinks below, and the cool air from the melting ice would help to keep everything nice and chilled.

The first In-N-Out was just around the corner from the Snyder's home in Baldwin Park, California, and it was in that home's garage that Harry tinkered his way to the invention of the modern drive-thru by building a two-way speaker box.

The word ketchup was first documented centuries ago, but it was advertised as more of an ingredient than a condiment, and the primary components were anything but tomatoes.

The In-N-Out coin dates back to 1958, when founder Harry Snyder began handing them out to promote his chain, which had only a few locations at the time.

"I'd definitely consider it as the biggest game in my football career," Burnley defender Axel Tuanzebe told Sportsworld on BBC World Service, while former captain Gabriel Zakuani labelled it "the biggest game in our history."

"I think Marbella is a little misunderstood and is often viewed as simply an ostentatious resort destination. It is still an authentic coastal town, and it's one of few places on the Spanish peninsula where you can experience so much diversity and vibrancy year-round."

Ireland were cannibalised by their own emotions as the irrepressible energy slowly lapsed with fatigue.

Salesperson David Matthews expressed that it hasn't quite sunk in yet that Sunday marks their last day of operations, stating, 'I've been mostly postponing me being sad until after I'm gone.'

The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a simpler way to send phone calls across copper telephone lines.

Zheng Yi Sao, born around 1775, grew up in Guangdong and married a pirate, demanding equal control of the Red Flag Fleet as a condition of their union.

New Orleans is a city that knows how to have a good time - after all, its unofficial motto is "Laissez les bons temps rouler," which translates to "Let the good times roll." The LGBTQ+ community knows how to have a good time too, and queer people have long played a key role in the Big Easy's biggest party of the year, Mardi Gras, which falls next Tuesday.

Nobody knows for certain when luge the French word for sled started, since nobody surely took note of the first time someone slid feet-first down a slope. Some say the 15th century, with evidence that there were races in Norway around that time. USA Luge believes that the sport could date all the way back to around 800 B.C., citing research that Vikings used sleds that had two runners, kind of like those kids have gotten for decades.

1 Which Briton has the most statues erected in their honour? 2 Which parts of the world have no assigned time zones? 3 Whose portrait of Elisabeth Lederer recently sold for $236m? 4 Germany's Isabell Werth is considered the GOAT in what Olympic sport? 5 Which Old English poem commemorates a battle of AD991? 6 What is the oldest university in the Netherlands? 7 Which US rocker died in Bath in 1960? 8 What phase follows a full moon?

1 Which US president vomited on the Japanese prime minister? 2 Which literary character was the modern Prometheus? 3 What global event began in 2004 as the Bushy Park time trial? 4 Which consecutive digits made up this year's most perplexing meme? 5 Which medieval coin was worth four pence? 6 What Gascon brandy is France's oldest? 7 Which wild west gunfighter was a dentist? 8 Which element was used in rat poison and pre-X-ray meals?

This year I couldn't narrow it down to 15, so you get 20 recommendations. Call it literary inflation. Also, after last year's list was published, I got an email from a reader who decried that I had so few titles by female authors on my list (fair enough). This time I made a special effort to include a majority of books written by women.

Entrepreneur Frederick Tudor started sending ice from American bodies of water all around the world in the 1800s. It was seen as a luxury to be able to afford and cool or preserve your food and beverages with ice. When Tudor still had leftover ice from his export business, he'd give it to American taverns, who popped chunks of it into drinks. People loved how refreshing those chilly drinks were, and then wanted to buy ice from Tudor - a genius marketing plan.

Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which was the last state to lift the ban on alcohol sales on Election Day? Hint: The Election Day ban on alcohol sales started in the mid-1880s and was intended to discourage bribery at the polls (a long-standing U.S. tradition dating back to George Washington), but wasn't lifted until 2014.

Each weekday, your host, Ray Hamel, concocts a challenging set of unique questions on a specific topic. At the end of the quiz, you'll be able to compare your score with that of the average contestant, and Slate Plus members can see how they stack up on our leaderboard. Share your score with friends and compete to see who's the brainiest.

Bitcoin has gone through many massive transformations since that day 17 years ago. It went from a niche internet collectible, to a decentralized network powering illegal dark net markets, to a mainstream speculative investment for retail, to Wall Street and governments all over the world's favorite new asset class. We have all had front row seats to the first explosive global technological revolution to the internet, and it's been a wild ride.