
Brief Histories
Wed, May 28, 2025 • 8:13 PM
How a scramble to replace the ivory in billiard balls gave you movies and plastic.
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GES Who
poor elephants. 🥺
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Elizabeth
This is the saddest brief history yet. 😓
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Gary R Eddings
It is easy to not "look behind the curtain" when something you enjoy may well have disastrous consequences
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Raj Lalwani
Humans have been mean to all other species. Kill elephants to play billiards? That's complete lack of empathy. The same British pe...
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BenLapointe
Can you imagine, bringing to near extinction an entire species for the sake of a game.
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Ruth Ann Orlansky
Egrets were nearly wiped out because women wanted their plumes in their hats! I have a hunch that there could be a 300+ page book ...
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