Pente Grammai (“five lines”) is a board game that was played in ancient Greece.
Pente Grammai Gameboard
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For over two decades during the Cold War, the CIA attempted to spy on the Soviet Union using psychics, clairvoyants, and “remote viewing”.
Soviet military bases
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Before the first American astronauts went into space, they were preceded by a pair of chimpanzees.
Mercury-Redstone 2, which carried the chimp Ham on a suborbital spaceflight, on display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles

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Elvis may be everywhere, but he lived in Memphis TN.

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