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How Monopoly Helped Defend The Free World

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4 Terrifying Theories in Astronomy

This article was written by Jay M. Pasachoff, Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, and originally appeared in mental_floss magazine. Galileo may have been threatened with the rack during the Inquisition almost 400 years ago, but—relatively sp