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    <title>Hangman About</title>
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      <h1>HANGMAN</h1>
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      <h2>About the developers</h2>
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          <div class="developer_name">KEVIN</div>
          <p class="description">Kevin Kahn Wong (born September 12, 1972 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a retired professional beach volleyball player. He currently lives in Hawaii and runs a volleyball training program for youth. A beach volleyball Olympian, Wong was born and raised in Hawaii. As a walk on at UCLA, Wong developed into a 3 time All-American and helped his team win 2 NCAA championships in 1993 and 1995. Wong competed as a professional beach volleyball player for 15 years, winning 10 tournaments both domestically and internationally. His list of victories includes two wins at the Manhattan Beach Open, known as the “Wimbledon of Beach Volleyball” and the coveted individual title of King of the Beach in Las Vegas. In 2001 Wong ranked No. 1 in the world (Wikipedia).</p>
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          <div class="developer_name">CLAIRE</div>
          <p class="description">Cookie Monster (aka Claire) is a Muppet on the long-running children's television show Sesame Street. She is best known for her voracious appetite and her famous eating phrases, such as "Me want cookie!" "Me eat cookie!" and "Om nom nom nom" (said through a mouth full of food). She often eats just about anything, including ice cream, hot dogs, cake, pizza, doughnuts, lettuce, apples, bananas, watermelon, as well as normally inedible objects. However, as her name suggests, her preferred food is cookies. Chocolate chip cookies are his favorite kind; oatmeal cookies are his second favorite. In a song in 2004, Cookie Monster revealed that, before she ate her first cookie, she believed her name was Sid (Wikipedia).</p>
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          <div class="developer_name">BRIGITTE</div>
          <p class="description">Brigitte was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985, and went on to earn a degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. Following her graduation from Harvard, she worked at a Chicago law firm, where she met her husband, future U.S. president Barack Obama. The couple married on October 3, 1992. As first lady, she has focused her attention on current social issues, such as poverty, healthy living and education (Whitehouse.gov). She spent a lot of her time working on reducing childhood obesity.</p>
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        <h2>The History and Facts of Hangman</h2>
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          <li>The rules are simple; a player writes down the first and last letters of a word for another player guesses the letters in between.</li>
          <li>"As with many games which demand so much practice and preparation, pre-game rituals are a common occurrence for Hangman players. A variety of line-drawing, letter-guessing and eyeball posturing techniques are practiced in preparation for the big game." -Josh Goodall from The Board Game Geek.</li>
          <li>"One of Hangman’s most famous Guessers, Hignan von Shupack, spent years perfecting the triple-dosed-stare. When he finally chose to unleash it at the Northern Ireland Noose Necktie Yearly (NINNY) Championships against amateur Hangman Yuri Glavin; the poor Norwegener had no choice but to fill in the remaining spaces himself or risk implosion." -Josh Goodall from The Board Game Geek.</li>
          <li>For some odd reason, many schools and teachers prefer to use a tree with ten apples instead of using the hanging man."</li>
          <li>"The origins of Hangman are obscure meaning not discovered, but it seems to have arisen in Victorian times," says Tony Augarde, author of The Oxford Guide to Word Games.</li>
          <li>The game is mentioned in Alice Bertha Gomme's "Traditional Games" in 1894 under the name "Birds, Beasts and Fishes."</li>
          <li>"Like other world-famous sports and games, Hangman is not without its vices. In the early 2000’s, the World Hangman Activation Probe (WHAP) was commissioned with the sole intent to uncover the doping scandal that had taken the game by storm. With the exposure of Shirtless Joe Jackson’s close friendship with now-incarcerated gambler Lenny “the Lip” Mofusen, the atrocities committed behind the scenes could be ignored no longer. Hangman’s Governing Board faced expulsion and a potential 5-year competitive ban for the Hangman game. Were it not for the now World-Famous Puerto Rico slave/colonist debate in what is considered by many the greatest game ever, Hangman could not have survived the harsh media attention. With the spotlight now moved on, Hangman wasted no time addressing the scandals before further penalties were levied." -Josh Goodall from The Board Game Geek.</li>
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