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.
Field hockey is so old that even historians aren't sure when it started. It is the oldest known ball-and-stick game and is believed to date from the earliest civilizations. The Arabs, Greeks, Persians and Romans each had their own versions of field hockey and traces of a stick game played by the Aztec Indians of South America have also been found.