While not poisonous substances, heat and humidity from summer weather can be deadly to pets. Most pets donât perspire like humans, but use their lungs to get rid of excess heat. As the ambient temperature and humidity rise, their ability to cool in this manner fails and they suffer from heat stroke.
Senet is the oldest board game known to exist. Sets have been found in burial chambers from as far back as 3,500 B.C.âincluding four in Tutankhamenâs tomb. Game boards were three squares wide and ten squares long, and sets typically had five to seven pieces for each player.
Checkers. Checkers or as the British call it Draughts, is a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard. The object of the game is to capture all of your opponent's pieces. A board game that appeared very similar to checkers was discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Ur in modern day Iraq. This board game dates to about 3000 B.C. Checkers as we know it today has been around since 1400 B.C. In Egypt, a similar game was called Alquerque.