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We can still feel the repercussions of the war today, from the rise of Japan as an economic powerhouse to the Cold War to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and more. We’ll look at the major events of the war in the various theaters in a bit. But first, we’ll answer a few commonly asked questions. Which Countries Fought in World War II? More than 30 countries participated in World War II....

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The concept of writing and depositing checks as a method of arranging payments soon spread to England and elsewhere, but not without resistance. Many people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries still had doubts about trusting their hard-earned money to strangers and little pieces of paper. In the United States, checks are said to have first been used in 1681 when cash-strapped businessmen in Boston mortgaged their land to a “fund,” against which they could write checks....

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Naismith thought back to his boyhood in Canada, where he and his friends had played “duck on a rock,” which involved trying to knock a large rock off a boulder by throwing smaller rocks at it. He also recalled watching rugby players toss a ball into a box in a gymnasium. He had the idea of nailing up raised boxes into which players would attempt to throw a ball. When boxes couldn’t be found, he used peach baskets....