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shenmue

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Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:46 AM Dec 2014

The real origins of Monopoly: created by feminist Lizzie Magie [View all]

Story here

The story goes that Charles Darrow was the first to ever think up the model of the board game Monopoly.

Think again.

From the article:

Or is it? I spent five years researching the game’s history for my new book, The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game, and found that Monopoly’s story began decades earlier, with an all-but-forgotten woman named Lizzie Magie, an artist, writer, feminist and inventor.


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