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One red paperclip is a website created by Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year. [ 1] MacDonald was inspired by the childhood game Bigger, Better. His site received a considerable amount of notice for tracking the transactions.
Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945–59. Most were former members and leaders of the Nazi Party .
The Paper Clips Project, by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee town of Whitwell, created a monument for the Holocaust victims of Nazi Germany. It started in 1998 as a simple 8th-grade project to study other cultures, and then evolved into one gaining worldwide attention. At last count, over 30 million paper clips had ...
Joseph Sutton, a teacher at Southeastern High School in Detroit, has been involved in the community for more than 30 years and supports building the art center. “Now that I’m a high school ...
Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press. July 31, 2024 at 8:45 AM. Art deco buildings don't just dot the downtown skyline; they're dispersed around metro Detroit too. When it comes to art deco ...
Universal Paperclips. Universal Paperclips is a 2017 American incremental game created by Frank Lantz of New York University. The user plays the role of an AI programmed to produce paperclips. Initially the user clicks on a button to create a single paperclip at a time; as other options quickly open up, the user can sell paperclips to create ...
Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press. March 22, 2024 at 6:10 AM. Detroit officials and artists are gearing up for the NFL draft with a reveal of massive sculptures, which will be auctioned off to ...
Cultural Center Historic District (Detroit) ( ID83003791) Designated CP. November 21, 1983. The Detroit Institute of Arts ( DIA) is a museum institution located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers 658,000 square feet (61,100 m 2 ...