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Three Steves, One Paddle, and a King Who Never Lost
In 1976, Atari had an idea: take Pong, stand it on its end, and put a wall of bricks at the top. Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow came up with the game. A young Atari technician named Steve Jobs got the job of building it, and he brought in his friend Steve Wozniak, who designed…
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Target Practice: My 2003 Archery Review Game Is Back
Pick an arrow, answer the question, aim for the bullseye. My 2003 “Looking West” archery game is back as Target Practice, free in any browser, for any subject.
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R or E? The Basketball Review Game Is Back on the Court
Two teams, a rack of basketballs, 2-point and 3-point questions. My 2002 government-class basketball game is back, free in any browser, for any subject.
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It Takes 270: The 1999 Electoral College Game Is Back
Two teams, fifty states, and first to 270 wins. My 1999 ToolBook Electoral College game is back, free in any browser, with a teacher guide.
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Rome Was Built on These. . . Spin the History Wheel
Rome was built on these. . . and with three letters on the board and $1,300 on the line, Player 1 knows exactly where this is going: SEVEN HILLS. Meet History Wheel, the newest duel on DuelingHistory.com. It’s a spin-the-wheel vocabulary game rebuilt from a 1993 ToolBook “Chapter Vocabulary” wheel game written by Stephen F.…
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Who Broke the Ming Vase? A Five-Part Unit on the Mandate of Heaven
It all started with a vase. A priceless Ming vase, one very bad moment, and a whole lot of broken porcelain. That little music video — “Junior” — got me thinking: why would anybody care that much about one vase? Answering that question turned into a whole unit on China’s dynasties, and the unit ends…
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Here Comes the Judge: Hammurabi Takes the Bench
If you are going to put Mesopotamia vocabulary on trial, you need a judge. And who better than the man who literally wrote the book on it? Around 1754 BCE, King Hammurabi of Babylon had 282 laws carved into a tall stone stele and set up where his people could see them. It is one…
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We Started That! Who Gave Us the Wheel, the Alphabet, and the Coin?
Eleven buckets, 32 cards: a free drag-and-drop game on what the smaller ancient kingdoms gave the world.
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Before the Rodeo, There Were the Minoans
Long before anybody climbed on a bull in a rodeo arena, young athletes on the island of Crete were grabbing charging bulls by the horns and flipping right over their backs. Meet the Minoans. Contributions of Early Cultures – Minoans is now live on Dueling History. Students start in the Palace of Knossos and click…
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“Can You See Anything?” Walk Into Tut’s Tomb With Howard Carter
On November 26, 1922, Howard Carter chipped a hole in a sealed doorway, held up a candle, and waited for his eyes to adjust. Behind him, Lord Carnarvon asked if he could see anything. “Yes, wonderful things.” Now your students can take the same walk: down sixteen steps, through a robber’s tunnel, past two black-and-gold…









