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How the British Secret Service Used Monopoly to Help War Prisoners

by João Pedro Fernandes | Sep 6, 2022 | War

the number of British pilots and paratroopers held hostage behind enemy lines escalated, the secret service came up with a plan to smuggle escape material to prisoners of war (POW) inside Nazi Germany. The premise was simple: find a way to sneak the gear into prison...

The One-Time-Only Olympic Nation

by João Pedro Fernandes | Sep 6, 2022 | Politics

you think back to where the world was at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, you might think the world has never changed as many in-between Games as it has from 2016 to 2021. However, in the years following the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, lots of political...

8 Facts About Point Nemo

by João Pedro Fernandes | Sep 5, 2022 | Science

ecently, I wrote about the geographic concept of “Pole of Inaccessibility” and a lonely Lenin bust in Antarctica. While I talked about some of the Continental Points of Inaccessibility, there are also Points of Inaccessibility in the Ocean, most notably Point Nemo...

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How the British Secret Service Used Monopoly to Help War Prisoners

The One-Time-Only Olympic Nation

8 Facts About Point Nemo

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