<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/14903e74-0c5b-4128-ab3a-93a236621984/867FAF7D-C9AE-4CBE-BF32-3949D60E8E52/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/631/the-origin-of-the-game-of-monopoly/" href="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/631/the-origin-of-the-game-of-monopoly/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ponderabout.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/631/the-origin-of-the-game-of-monopoly/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: The Origin of the Game of Monopoly" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/631/the-origin-of-the-game-of-monopoly/" linkindex="2" set="yes">The Origin of the Game of Monopoly</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/631/the-origin-of-the-game-of-monopoly/"><P><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29" linkindex="3">Monopoly</A> is the the world’s best-selling board game; it is produced in 26 languages and sold in 80 countries</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/631/the-origin-of-the-game-of-monopoly/"><P>Monopoly has been played by over three quarters of a billion people; making it the most played commercial board game in history</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/631/the-origin-of-the-game-of-monopoly/"><P>the origin of this game is recounted in the video below</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/631/the-origin-of-the-game-of-monopoly/"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zYsJWpBKN0A" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/631/the-origin-of-the-game-of-monopoly/"><P>the soundtrack of the above video is an excerpt from a <EM><STRONG>Present At The Creation</STRONG></EM> podcast, produced by National Public Radio (NPR); it can be heard in full <A href="http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/monopoly/" linkindex="4">here</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/867FAF7D-C9AE-4CBE-BF32-3949D60E8E52/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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