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nLibrariesnacross the world are participating in National Gaming Day by bustingnout the board games, role-playing games, and video games. Accordingnto the ALA, libraries are all about community, and games can andnshould be, too.
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nInlooked up the nearest participating library on the official Gaming Day website, and it is only 30 minutes away. But if there isn’t anlibrary hosting Gaming Day activities near you, you could declarenyour home honorary-library status for the night and host a game partynyourself!
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nAlso:nDomino Day n
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nSincen2001, the second Friday or Saturday of November has been declarednDomino Day, as a group of people in the Netherlands has tried to setna world record (or two or ten) in domino stunts. Domino Days werendeclared in other years, from 1986 to 2000, on different days andnmonths.
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nThen“biggie” is the goal of setting a world record for the number ofndominos toppled in a single event, and the Dutch group has met thisngoal every year except 2007. In 1986, the record was more than 700nthousand dominos out of one million dominos set up; by 2009, thenrecord was almost four and half million dominos toppled out ofn4,800,000 dominos set up!
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nTonget in the mood for Domino Day 2011, watch this.
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nHerenis a video that shows how people create huge domino-toppled artnpieces – using harnesses and tweezers and clear plastic bridges andnracks. (Note: this video is odd because we see people talking but don’t hearnwhat they are saying. Although I believe the video was taken in thenNetherlands, and I don’t understand Dutch, so perhaps I at leastndidn’t “miss” anything.)
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Andnhere is a video that shows the rare multi-story domino toppling!
Andnhere is a video that shows the rare multi-story domino toppling! n
nOh,nwait, this is even better: a pyramid made out more than 6,000ndominos!
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nWell,nI could spend all day cruising around You Tube looking at cool dominonvideos, but maybe I should get out my own dominos, instead, and trynto do the world’s tiniest domino-toppling event!