Did You Know?
“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come home.”
- Bill Cosby [William Henry, Jr.] (1937 - )
A game called “The Checkered Game of Life.” was meant to be educational. The purpose was to finish the game with a peaceful retirement based on having made proper moral decisions.
By 1868, Milton Bradley was the leading manufacturer of games in America. Over the years, the object of the Game of Life shifted. In the modern version, the person who retires with the greatest fortune wins.
Celebrities with known phobias include: Actress Natalie Wood was hydrophobic - her accidental death by drowning in the ocean in 1981 was very strange and unsettling for those who knew her well. Tennis champ André Agassi has a phobia of spiders, according to Brooke Shields in a statement to the press in October 1996. Supernatural novelist Anne Rice has stated that she fears the dark. Actress Kim Basinger has a phobia of wide, open spaces. Film director Alfred Hitchcock had a peculiar fear of eggs, according to biographer Donald Spoto. Country star Lyle Lovett reportedly is afraid of cows. Pop singer Michael Jackson appears to have a phobia of germs (referring to his obsessive wearing of a surgical-style mask when out in public).
The most enjoyable nights sleep comes from fleece sheets, it’s true, just try them, you’ll love them.
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