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The original U.S. version of the board game Monopoly has two Get Out of Jail Free cards, with distinctive artwork. One, a "Community Chest" card, depicts a winged version of the game's mascot, Mr. Monopoly, in his tuxedo as he flies out of an open birdcage. The other, a "Chance" card, shows him booted out of a prison cell in a striped convict ...
The ladder has 30 rungs representing the 30 stages of ascetic life. [ 1] The ascent of the monks is assisted by the prayers of angels, saints and the community, while demons attack and try to make monks fall from the ladder by pulling them down or striking them with arrows. [ 1][ 2] The depiction of the ladder reflects the importance of angels ...
Craig Shergold. Craig Shergold (24 June 1979 – 21 April 2020) was a British former cancer patient who received an estimated 350 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Variations of the plea for greeting cards on his behalf in 1989 are still being distributed through the Internet, making the plea one ...
Larry discovers his estranged sister, Kitty, has died by suicide. He recounts a fateful day, when the two were children playing in their family's barn in rural Nebraska. With their parents not home, they play a forbidden game, taking turns climbing to the top of a ladder in their barn and leaping from a crossbeam seventy feet (21 metres) in the ...
John Climacus ( Greek: Ἰωάννης τῆς Κλίμακος; Latin: Ioannes Climacus; Arabic: يوحنا السلمي, romanized : Yuḥana al-Sêlmi ), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 6th–7th century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai. [ 1] He is revered as a saint by the Eastern ...
Play Nintendo —the gaming system’s official activity site aimed towards kids—has six free Valentine cards that can be downloaded and printed out, featuring Daisy, the Inklings, Link, Reese ...
Fire Escape Collapse, also known as Fire on Marlborough Street, is a monochrome photograph by Stanley Forman which received the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976 [ 1] and the title of World Press Photo of the Year. [ 2] The photograph, which is part of a series, shows 19-year-old Diana Bryant and her two-year-old goddaughter ...
Dashed black lines: Uncertain calibration ladder step. The cosmic distance ladder (also known as the extragalactic distance scale) is the succession of methods by which astronomers determine the distances to celestial objects. A direct distance measurement of an astronomical object is possible only for those objects that are "close enough ...