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History of Monopoly

Index History of Monopoly

The board game Monopoly has its origin in the early 20th century. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 227 relations: Advance to Boardwalk, Affidavit, Amiga, Anti-Monopoly, Apple Inc., Arden, Delaware, Atari SA, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic Ocean, Battleship, Battleship (game), BBC Micro, Berlin, Bermuda, Best Buy, Biplane, Board game, Boca Raton, Florida, Boggle, Boy Scouts of America, Buffalo, New York, California, Cannon, Card game, Carton, Catskill Mountains, Cellophane, Charles Darrow, Charles Tobias, Charlie O'Donnell, Chicago, Chicago Loop, Christmas, Clothes iron, Cluedo, Columbia University, Commodore 128, Commodore 64, Commonwealth of Nations, Competition law, Concord, Vaughan, Copyright law of the United States, Cornwell Tools, COVID-19, Dayton, Ohio, Dice, Doctor Who, Don't Go to Jail, Easy Money (board game), Economic rent, ... Expand index (177 more) »

  2. History of board games
  3. Monopoly (game)

Advance to Boardwalk

Advance to Boardwalk is a 1985 spin-off of the Parker Brothers board game Monopoly. History of Monopoly and Advance to Boardwalk are monopoly (game).

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Affidavit

An italic (Medieval Latin for "he has declared under oath") is a written statement voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by law.

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Amiga

Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Anti-Monopoly

Anti-Monopoly is a board game made by San Francisco State University Professor Ralph Anspach in response to Monopoly. History of Monopoly and Anti-Monopoly are monopoly (game).

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Arden, Delaware

Arden is a village in New Castle County, Delaware, United States, founded in 1900 as a radical Georgist single-tax community by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect William Lightfoot Price.

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Atari SA

Atari SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment SA) is a French video game holding company headquartered in Paris.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Battleship

A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower.

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Battleship (game)

Battleship (also known as Battleships) is a strategy type guessing game for two players.

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BBC Micro

The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers designed and built by Acorn Computers Limited in the 1980s for the Computer Literacy Project of the BBC.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Best Buy

Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.

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Biplane

A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other.

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Board game

Board games are tabletop games that typically use. History of Monopoly and Board game are history of board games.

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Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton (Boca Ratón) is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Boggle

Boggle is a word game in which players try to find as many words as they can from a grid of lettered dice, within a set time limit.

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Boy Scouts of America

tag and place it alphabetically by ref name.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cannon

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.

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Card game

A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary).

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Carton

A carton is a box or container usually made of liquid packaging board, paperboard and sometimes of corrugated fiberboard.

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Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.

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Cellophane

Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose.

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Charles Darrow

Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889 – August 28, 1967) was an American board game designer who is credited as the inventor of the board game ''Monopoly'' by Parker Brothers, the game's publisher. History of Monopoly and Charles Darrow are monopoly (game).

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Charles Tobias

Charles Tobias (August 15, 1898 – July 7, 1970) was an American songwriter.

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Charlie O'Donnell

Charles John O'Donnell (August 12, 1932 – November 1, 2010) was an American radio and television announcer, primarily known for his work on game shows.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Loop

The Loop, one of Chicago's 77 designated community areas, is the central business district of the city and is the main section of Downtown Chicago.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Clothes iron

A clothes iron (also flatiron, smoothing iron, dry iron, steam iron or simply iron) is a small appliance that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove wrinkles and unwanted creases.

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Cluedo

Cluedo, known as Clue in North America, is a murder mystery game for three to six players (depending on editions) that was devised in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Commodore 128

The Commodore 128, also known as the C128, C-128, or C.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Competition law

Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies.

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Concord, Vaughan

Concord is a suburban industrial district in the City of Vaughan in York Region, located north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship".

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Cornwell Tools

Cornwell Quality Tools is an American privately held company manufacturing tools for the automotive and aviation industries.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is a city in Montgomery and Greene counties and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States.

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Dice

Dice (die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Don't Go to Jail

Don't Go to Jail is a 1991 Parker Brothers dice game for two or more players inspired by Monopoly. History of Monopoly and Don't Go to Jail are monopoly (game).

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Easy Money (board game)

Easy Money or The Game of Easy Money was a board game introduced by Milton Bradley Company in 1935.

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Economic rent

In neoclassical economics, economic rent is any payment (in the context of a market transaction) to the owner of a factor of production or resource, supply of which is fixed.

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Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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European Communities

The European Communities (EC) were three international organizations that were governed by the same set of institutions.

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FAO Schwarz

FAO Schwarz is an American toy brand and retail chain.

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FedEx

FedEx Corporation, originally Federal Express Corporation, is an American multinational conglomerate holding company focused on transportation, e-commerce and business services based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.

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File (tool)

A file is a tool used to remove fine amounts of material from a workpiece.

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Finance (game)

Finance, or The Fascinating Game of Finance or Finance and Fortune, is a board game originally released in 1932.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Frank Brady (writer)

Frank Brady (born March 15, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York), is an American writer, editor, biographer and educator.

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Free Parking

Free Parking is a Parker Brothers card game inspired by the "Free Parking" space of the Monopoly board game. History of Monopoly and Free Parking are monopoly (game).

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Game Boy

The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America and Europe later that year.

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Game Boy Advance

The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color.

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Game Boy Color

The Game Boy Color (GBC or CGB) is an 8-bit handheld game console, manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on October 21, 1998, and to international markets that November.

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GameCube

The is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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General Mills

General Mills, Inc., is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of branded processed consumer foods sold through retail stores.

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Georgism

Georgism, also called in modern times Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—including from all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations—should belong equally to all members of society.

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Ghettopoly

Ghettopoly is a parody of the board game Monopoly invented by David Chang, a Taiwanese American, and released in 2003. History of Monopoly and Ghettopoly are monopoly (game).

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Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born 8 March 1948) is a British broadcaster, writer and former politician.

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Handheld electronic game

Handheld electronic games are interactive electronic games, often miniaturized versions of video games, that are played on portable handheld devices, known as handheld game consoles, whose controls, display and speakers are all part of a single unit.

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Harrisburg, Illinois

Harrisburg is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Illinois, United States.

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Hasbro

Hasbro, Inc. (a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld and is incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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Henry George

Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist.

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History Detectives

History Detectives is a documentary television series on PBS.

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History of Monopoly

The board game Monopoly has its origin in the early 20th century. History of Monopoly and History of Monopoly are history of board games and monopoly (game).

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Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, often abbreviated as HJ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Holland Landing

Holland Landing is a community in the town of East Gwillimbury, located in the northern part of the Regional Municipality of York, in south-central Ontario, Canada.

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IBM PC–compatible

IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indiana

Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Italian fascism

Italian fascism (fascismo italiano), also classical fascism and Fascism, is the original fascist ideology, which Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini developed in Italy.

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Johnny Lightning

Johnny Lightning is a brand of diecast model cars launched in 1969 by Topper Corporation (owner of the "Topper Toys" brand), similar to the hugely successful Mattel's Hot Wheels cars.

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Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.

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Kenner Products

Kenner Products, known simply as Kenner, was an American toy company founded in 1946.

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King World

King World Productions, Inc. (also known as King World Entertainment, King World Enterprises, or simply King World) was a production company and syndicator of television programming in the United States founded by Charles King (1912–72) that was active from 1964 to 2007.

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Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive; also known as DuSable Lake Shore Drive, The Outer Drive, The Drive, LSD or DLSD) is an expressway that runs alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan, and adjacent to parkland and beaches, in Chicago, Illinois.

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Land value tax

A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land without regard to buildings, personal property and other improvements upon it.

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Las Vegas Valley

The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States.

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Late for the Sky Production Company

Late for the Sky Production Company is a U.S.-based board game production and manufacturing company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. History of Monopoly and Late for the Sky Production Company are monopoly (game).

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Law of rent

The law of rent states that the rent of a land site is equal to the economic advantage obtained by using the site in its most productive use, relative to the advantage obtained by using marginal (i.e., the best rent-free) land for the same purpose, given the same inputs of labor and capital.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events

Jeopardy! is an American television quiz show created by Merv Griffin, in which contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers and must phrase their responses in the form of questions.

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List of London Monopoly locations

The locations on the standard British version of the board game ''Monopoly'' are set in London and were selected in 1935 by Victor Watson, managing director of John Waddington Limited. History of Monopoly and List of London Monopoly locations are monopoly (game).

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Lizzie Magie

Elizabeth J. Magie Phillips (née Magie; May 9, 1866 – March 2, 1948) was an American game designer, writer, feminist, and Georgist. History of Monopoly and Lizzie Magie are monopoly (game).

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is an American animated franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It began as a series of short films that originally ran from 1930 to 1969, along with its partner series Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Lottery

A lottery (or lotto) is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Macau

Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Mahjong

Mahjong (English pronunciation) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century.

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Marriott Corporation

Marriott Corporation was a hospitality company that operated from 1927 until 1993, founded by J. Willard Marriott and Frank J. Kimball as Hot Shoppes, Inc. In 1957, Marriott Corporation opened its first hotel in Arlington County, Virginia, United States as the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel (demolished 1990).

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Marven Gardens

Marven Gardens is a neighborhood in Margate City, New Jersey, United States, located on the Jersey Shore, two miles (3 km) south of Atlantic City.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Master System

The is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console manufactured and developed by Sega.

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McDonald's Monopoly

The McDonald's Monopoly game is a sales promotion run by fast food restaurant chain McDonald's, with a theme based on the Hasbro board game Monopoly. History of Monopoly and McDonald's Monopoly are monopoly (game).

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Mephistopheles

Mephistopheles, also known as Mephisto, is a demon featured in German folklore.

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Merv Griffin Enterprises

Merv Griffin Enterprises was an American television production company founded by Merv Griffin, in operation from March 7, 1963, to June 4, 1994.

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Milan

Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.

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Milton Bradley Company

Milton Bradley Company or simply Milton Bradley (MB) was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley (1836-1911) in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860.

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Miro Company

Miro is a game manufacturer in France.

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Mobile game

A mobile game is a video game that is typically played on a mobile phone.

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Model car

A model car, or toy car, is a miniature representation of an automobile.

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Monaco

Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea.

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Money bag

A money bag (or money sack) is a bag normally used to hold and transport coins and banknotes, often closed with a drawstring.

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Monopoly (game show)

Monopoly is an American television game show based on the board game of the same name. History of Monopoly and Monopoly (game show) are monopoly (game).

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Monopoly (game)

Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game.

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Monopoly Deal

Monopoly Deal is a card game derived from the board-game Monopoly introduced in 2008, produced and sold by Cartamundi under a license from Hasbro. History of Monopoly and Monopoly Deal are monopoly (game).

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Monopoly Junior

Monopoly Junior is a simplified version of the board game Monopoly, designed for young children, which was originally released in 1990. History of Monopoly and Monopoly Junior are monopoly (game).

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Monopoly Tycoon

Monopoly Tycoon is a construction and management simulation PC game published in 2001 by Infogrames Interactive and developed by Deep Red Games.

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Monopoly: The Card Game

Monopoly: The Card Game is loosely based on the board game Monopoly. History of Monopoly and Monopoly: The Card Game are monopoly (game).

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Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo (Monte-Carlo,; or colloquially Monte-Carl,; Munte Carlu) is an official administrative area of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mr. Monopoly

Mr. History of Monopoly and Mr. Monopoly are monopoly (game).

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NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing.

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National park

A national park is a nature park designated for conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nintendo

is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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Nintendo 64

The (N64) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Nintendo DS

The (retroactively referred to as NDS or DS) is a 32-bit foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo.

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North Sydney, Nova Scotia

North Sydney (Mi'kmawi'simk: Kweso'mkiaq, Scottish Gaelic: Suidni A Tuath or Am Bàr) is a former town and current community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Ottawa

Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.

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Palm Beach, Florida

Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Parker Brothers

Parker Brothers (known by Parker outside of North America) was an American toy and game manufacturer which in 1991 became a brand of Hasbro.

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Pat Lawlor

Patrick M. Lawlor (born November 30, 1951) is a video game and pinball machine designer.

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Patent drawing

A patent application or patent may contain drawings, also called patent drawings, illustrating the invention, some of its embodiments (which are particular implementations or methods of carrying out the invention), or the prior art.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Philip Orbanes

Philip E. Orbanes is an American board game designer, author, founding partner and former president of Winning Moves Games in Danvers, Massachusetts.

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Piggy bank

Piggy bank (sometimes penny bank or money box) is the traditional name of a coin container normally used by children.

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Pinball

Pinball (originally called pintable in the UK) games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest.

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PlayStation

is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines.

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PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Pokémon

Pokémon is a Japanese media franchise consisting of video games, animated series and films, a trading card game, and other related media.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Ralph Anspach

Ralph Anspach (15 March 1926 – March 2022) was a Danzig-born American economics professor and games creator from San Francisco State University. History of Monopoly and Ralph Anspach are monopoly (game).

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Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.

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Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading (Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Renting

Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the use of a good, service or property owned by another over a fixed period of time.

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Rexford Tugwell

Rexford Guy Tugwell (July 10, 1891 – July 21, 1979) was an American economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "Brain Trust", a group of Columbia University academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelt's New Deal.

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Reykjavík

Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco.

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Schmidt Spiele

Schmidt Spiele is a German games publisher for a wide variety of games, especially German-style board games.

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Scott Nearing

Scott Nearing (August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living.

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares.

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Sega Genesis

The Sega Genesis, known as the outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega.

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Shoe

A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot.

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Skokie, Illinois

Skokie (formerly Niles Center) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Slot machine

A slot machine, fruit machine (British English), poker machine or pokies (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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St. Albans (town), Vermont

Saint Albans, commonly abbreviated as St.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Stern (game company)

Stern is the name of two different but related arcade gaming companies.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania and 1993 in South America.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Table tennis

Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.

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Target Corporation

Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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The Franklin Mint

The Franklin Mint is a private mint founded by Joseph Segel in 1964 in Wawa, Pennsylvania.

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The Landlord's Game

The Landlord's Game is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as. History of Monopoly and The Landlord's Game are history of board games and monopoly (game).

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Powerpuff Girls

The Powerpuff Girls is an American superhero animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken and produced by Hanna-Barbera (later Cartoon Network Studios) for Cartoon Network.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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Thimble

A thimble is a small pitted cup worn on the finger that protects it from being pricked or poked by a needle while sewing.

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Tim Moore (writer)

Tim Moore (born 18 May 1964 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire) is a British travel writer and humourist.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tonka

Tonka is an American brand and former manufacturer of toy trucks.

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Top hat

A top hat (also called a high hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes, meaning white tie, morning dress, or frock coat.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Transatlantic communications cable

A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other.

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Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions.

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United Parcel Service

United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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The United States Copyright Office (USCO), a part of the Library of Congress, is a United States government body that registers copyright claims, records information about copyright ownership, provides information to the public, and assists Congress and other parts of the government on a wide range of copyright issues.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts.

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United States District Court for the Northern District of California

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (in case citations, N.D. Cal.) is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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University of Toledo

The University of Toledo (UToledo or UT) is a public research university in Toledo, Ohio, United States.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Waddingtons

Waddingtons was a British manufacturer of card and board games.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Waterworks (card game)

Waterworks is a card game created by Parker Brothers in 1972, named for the space Water Works in the game Monopoly.

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Wharton School

The Wharton School (or UPenn Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia.

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Wheaton, Maryland

Wheaton is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, situated north of Washington, D.C., and northwest of downtown Silver Spring.

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Wii

The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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Windows Embedded Compact

Windows Embedded Compact, formerly Windows Embedded CE, Windows Powered and Windows CE, is a discontinued operating system developed by Microsoft for mobile and embedded devices.

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Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.

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WMS Gaming

WMS Gaming is a manufacturer of slot machines, video lottery terminals and software to help casinos manage their gaming operations.

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World Chess Championship 1972

The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Xbox (console)

The Xbox is a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles.

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Yahtzee

Yahtzee is a dice game made by Milton Bradley (a company that has since been acquired and assimilated by Hasbro).

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1998 FIFA World Cup

The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the football world championship for men's national teams.

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See also

History of board games

Monopoly (game)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly

Also known as History of Monopoly (game), History of the board game Monopoly, Lee Bayrd, USAopoly.

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