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Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Who’d’a “Tunk” It? - How a Yale Researcher Helped Discover that Yale Freshmen Invented Strip Poker in 1904
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“Strip poker” was invented (or at least popularized) by reports of Yale University freshmen playing the game in 1904. Appropriately enoug...
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Civic Pride Through Taxidermy - a Many-Pronged History of Jackalopes
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The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), January 6, 1942, page 25. What is...
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