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What is a 32nd degree Mason?

Each degree is a level that provides a moral lesson to the member. The lesson is designed to help better the member as a person and as a mason. Completing one degree or level advances a mason to the next.\nOnly select 32nd degree Scottish Rite Masons who have exhibited extraordinary service to Freemasonry or the Scottish Rite and throughout their daily lives are eligible to attend the annual 33rd degree masons conference.

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What games did the ancient Egyptians play?

Senet was a popular board game played with a checkered board and a set of seven pieces for each player. Players threw sticks or sheep knucklebones to determine the next move. Another board game involved 20 squares and five pieces for each player, but the exact rules are unknown.Popular sports included boxing and wrestling. It is believed that children played games with balls as well as a game called "pressing the grapes," which was apparently played by girls who held hands and danced in a ring. The rules of these games are also unknown.

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Why do cars run on gas?

Two political assertions in early 20th century America favored petroleum-based gasoline. Alcohol was taxed more heavily than oil until 1906, with a $2.08 tax on the commodity in place since the Civil War. Gallons of pure ethanol began selling for 25 to 30 cents per gallon after Congress repealed the tax in 1906, says Kovarik. Simultaneously, petroleum-based fuels sold for 18 to 22 cents a gallon. New oil fields in Texas created greater supplies of kerosene and gasoline during this time. The price of petroleum went down even further, which made gasoline a lower-cost option.\nProhibition during ..

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What did the Miami Indians eat?

When Europeans first began to settle the United States in the 1600s, the Miami people inhabited the area south and west of Lake Michigan. They moved west of the Mississippi to Indiana during the 1660s, being displaced by the Iroquois. During summers, they established villages and raised crops. Most of the meat they consumed came from hunting deer and elk, which were hunted all year, and from bison, which they harvested during a communal summer hunt.

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How many wives did Moses of the Bible have?

Those who support the one wife theory believe Zipporah and the Cushite woman are one in the same. The primary problem with this theory is that ZIpporah is also identified in Biblical text as a Midianite, which is a person from the Arabian Peninsula. Some Biblical experts choose to explain this dilemma by suggesting that the term "Cushite" was applied to Zipporah as a slur. Those who support the two wife theory believe Zipporah and the Cushite woman to be two separate people.

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What caused the Six-Day Arab-Israeli war?

The war's origins also lay in longer-term issues such as Israel's foundation and its involvement in the Palestinian refugee problem, Israel's invasion of Egypt during the Suez Crisis in 1956 and repeated border clashes throughout the 1960s between Israel and the Arab nations surrounding it. After Egypt received a false tip from the Soviet Union and began a mobilization of military force on Israel's Sinai border, Israel felt compelled to attack Egypt before it was attacked itself. This attack began the brief war.

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Which was the largest amphibious invasion in military history?

The invasion that took place on this date was called Operation Overlord and is commonly referred to as "D-Day." The invasion required the use of over 5,000 ships, which carried over 150,000 Allied soldiers as well as large amounts of military equipment. Despite incurring heavy casualties, the assault was a success. The Allied forces were able to establish themselves on the coast and forced the German army to retreat further inland.

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When was the metal detector invented?

Alexander Graham Bell did not realize that President Garfield was lying on a metal spring that confused his device. In 1925, Gerard Fischar invented a portable metal detector based on a system of radio-direction finding; it was sold commercially in 1931. During this time in Germany, H. Geffchen and H. Richter, invented the first walk-through metal detector.

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Where was the Olmec civilization located?

The Olmec created huge sculptures of their ruler's heads and primarily used stone, sand, water and chert to create them. The Olmec civilization also were the first people in the Mesoamerica region to develop a calendar, understand the idea of "zero" as a concept and create a writing system by using hieroglyphics. Later civilizations in the area such as the Aztec, Maya and Zapote would build off of these ideas.

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What was the outcome of WWII?

After World War II ended, a conference was held in Potsdam to create peace treaties between the former Axis and Allied forces. At this conference, it was determined that Berlin, the capital of Germany, as well as Germany itself, would be divided into four zones and placed under the control of the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Later, the nation was re-divided into East and West Germany.\nFollowing the war, many of the Nazi leaders who worked closely with Hitler were charged and punished for their crimes at the Nuremberg Trials. This set the precedent for the handlin..

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