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Today in WW II History World War II History for July 22 1942 - Deportations from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka begin On this day in 1942, the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins, as thousands are rounded up daily and transported to a newly constructed concentration/extermination camp at Treblinka, in Poland. On July 17, Heinrich Himmler, [...]

The term “diet” is a reference to what is eaten or consumed by any type of animal (including humans), so technically man — and woman — has been dieting for as long as we’ve been walking the earth. But weight-loss diets are a different story. So who was the first weight-loss dieter? Who first marketed [...]

History Of Body Piercing by Mike Barus Body piercing is an age-old art form that has been used in generations in cultures all around the world. Many individuals today who seek to pierce different parts of their body may choose to do so to honor their heritage or make a unique statement of their own. If you…

Today in WW II History World War II History for July 21 1944 - American forces landed on Guam during World War II. 1944 - Hitler to Germany: “I’m still alive.” On this day in 1944, Adolf Hitler takes to the airwaves to announce that the attempt on his life has failed and that “accounts will be settled.” Hitler had [...]

Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park in Arlington, TexasThe first Six Flags park. The park is owned by a limited partnership and is managed by Six Flags.Six Flags Over Georgia Amusement Park in Austell, GeorgiaLike Six Flags Over Texas, the park is owned by a limited partnership and is managed by Six Flags.Six Flags Amusement Park in St. Louis Eureka, MissouriOriginally opened as Six Flags Over Mid

Continuing the history series which began with a nostalgic look at the 1978 World Cup win, I wanted to write something for the second installment which looked at a player forgotten by many today. Those who read my recent article looking back on the 1991 Apertura in UK magazine When Saturday Comes will recognise the [...]

Since we are in full Dark Knight mode, I wanted to give you guys a glimpse of a great chronological breakdown from the LA Times of probably the most Loved and Hated villan of all time The Joker. Here are the two of the most recent and you can go over to the LA Times and [...]

Gay People Born On This Day... 356BCE. Alexander the Great, in ancient Greece. Queer Events On This Day In History... 1845In Paris, a mob attacked a group of about fifty men arrested by police in a sweep of the Tuileries Gardens, a popular cruising area. 1981Lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova is granted U.S. citizenship, six years after she defected from Czechoslovakia. 1971Eve

Today in WW II History World War II History for July 19 1942 - German U-boats were withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to effective American anti-submarine countermeasures. 1943 - During World War II, more than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attacked Rome for the first time. [...]

From a very early age young Buffett was obsessed with making money and had a very clear dream of becoming the world's greatest investor.Born during the depression when his father was close to bankruptcy, Warren learnt about the value of money and the importance of being financially secure at an early age.Even before his teens, Warren knew that he wanted to be rich, very very rich. As early as elem

Today in WW II History World War II History for July 18 1942 - The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight. 1943 - The United States lost a blimp, the K-74, for the first and last time during World War II. 1944 - U.S. troops captured Saint-Lo, France, ending the battle [...]

Anyone can claim they’re a Denver Broncos expert, but only the truly knowledgeable can back those claims up.  Well, here’s your chance. The Rocky Mountain News has given us the heads up about this Denver Broncos trivia game that fans should check out.  It asks you to name the team’s first round draft choices, Ring of [...]

If you've been following the UBS tax fraud story, you're aware that A) UBS is a huge Swiss bank accused of helping rich Americans hide up to $20 billion in off shore accounts to avoid paying taxes, and B) that sleazy Phil Gramm, former U.S. Senator and current economic adviser to John McCain, is a vice chairman for UBS (when he's not investing in porn films).Yesterday a U.S. Senate subcommittee to

Inasmuch as I’ve been selling real estate since 1975, people call me a “survivor”.  Yes, I survived the economic downturns of the 1970’s, 1980’s, & 1990’s and I plan on surviving this downturn as well.  When I first started selling real estate, I was very young.  Only recently have I realized how young and “green” I really [...]

Timeline of artificial satellites and space probesSee also: Space Race The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, and that started the whole Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer. This triggered the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.Sputnik 1 helped to identify the density of high atmospheric layers

390 BC -Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.0064 - Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance. 0715 - Muhammad bin Qasim dies (b. 0695).1100

Today in WW II History World War II History for July 17 1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. During the meeting Stalin made the comment that “Hitler had escaped.” [...]

Deal Hudson (seriously, that's a real name?) is John McCain's Faith Adviser, but probably not for long. The Catholic church is asking McCain to fire Hudson because of an event in his past that some would describe as rape.The allegations centered on an 18-year-old student who said Hudson got her drunk and had sex with her when she was his student at Fordham University in 1994. Hudson resigned from

Webmasters and content providers began optimizing sites for search engines in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines were cataloging the early Web. Initially, all a webmaster needed to do was submit a page, or URL, to the various engines which would send a spider to "crawl" that page, extract links to other pages from it, and return information found on the page to be indexed. The process invo

0180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa, executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. 0521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius dies (b. 0474). Bishop and Latin poet.0656 - Uthman ibn Affan dies assassinated. Third Caliph0924 - King Edward the Elder of England dies.1048 - Damasus II appointed Pope. 1070 - Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders dies

Tomei contacto com a dupla russa SCSI-9, formada por Anton Kubikov e Maxim Milutenko, há um par de anos quando editaram pela Kompakt o fabuloso disco "The Line of Nine" (2006) que continha pérolas como "The Line Of Nine", "On The Edge" ou "Senorita Tristeza", entre outras e que ficou, automaticamente, na minha secção de discos obrigatórios.Ontem descobri este "History Pt.2", acabadinho de edi

Artist: SCSI9Title: History Pt. 2Label: Algorythmik RecordsQuality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-StereoGenre: TechnoTime: 74:55 minSize: 98,7 MBDate: 11-07-2008Tracklist:01. Deep And Fax02. Autumn Love03. So Sweet (feat. Julie Amadeo / Russian Edit)04. Song Seven (by Midos / SCSI9 Rmx)05. Cover To Cover06. Girls In Soft Pack07. All She Wants Is08. Digital Summer09. Transsibirski Express10. Tomorrow (

Joe Biden gave a fiery speech on Tuesday, both defending Barack Obama and ripping John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and President Bush, lumping the three together and saying their lack of understanding of history makes it impossible to effectively address Iraq, Iran, or the War on Terror:"How can we run a sound foreign policy without understanding these decisions? How can we talk about a Shiite-dominate

Many students think that writing art history term papers is more challenging than competing assignments in other disciplines. Actually, this is true, since writing about art is really not so easy. Do you know the biggest difficulty that you may face while writing art history term papers?   A lot of students who write art history papers [...]

Kerala History Kerala the southern most state of India took birth on 1st November 1956, long after Indian Independence on 15th August 1947. Beforehand it was three Independence provinces named Malabar

0622 - Beginning of the Islamic calendar. Mahomet began his flight from Mecca to Medina (Hegira). 1054 - Excommunication of Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople / Um representante do Papa deposita na catedral de Santa Sofia, uma Bula de excomunhão contra o patriarca de Constantinopla. É a oficialização da ruptura entre a Igreja romana e a ortodoxa, que durava à séculos. 1054 - The

Today in WW II History World War II History for July 15 1941 - Garbo makes an appearance On this day in 1941, master spy Juan Pujol Garcia, nicknamed “Garbo,” sends his first communique to Germany from Britain. The question was: Who was he spying for? Juan Garcia, a Spaniard, ran an elaborate multiethnic spy network that included a [...]

In the early days of computers, there were relatively few PCs likely to contain “sensitive” information, such as credit card numbers or other financial data, and these were generally limited to large companies that had already incorporated computers into working processes. In any event, information stored in computers was not likely to be compromised, unless the [...]

..Rottweilers like all molosser “mastiff type” breeds originate from the Tibetan mastiff. The first rotties where used by the Romans when they invaded Europe. The Romans large armies required much food, which happened to be cattle. Such a journey required dogs to handle the job of drover and protector of the cattle. At that time the rottie wasn’t what it is today in fact it wasn’t even rea

0518 - Roman Emperor Anastasius I dies0668 - Constantine II dies at 37. Emperor of Byzantium 1024 - Death of St. Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor 1085 - Robert Guiscard dies French adventurer. 1099 - Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege during First Crusade. 1162 - Ladislaus II of Hungary declared King of Hungary. 1207 - John of England expels Cante

The airline was established in 1968 as Sahakol Air operating air-taxi services under contract from OICC, an American construction company, USOM and a number of other organisations engaged in oil and natural-gas exploration in the Gulf of Thailand. It began scheduled services in 1986, becoming Thailand’s first privately-owned domestic airline. [...]

The art of Tattoo has been around for thousands of years. The styles and reasons for tattoo have varied from individual to individual as they have from society to society. Tattooing has existed in one form or another across the earth since time immemorial and the popularity of tattoo art is most likely continue for centuries. Though [...]

This weekend, French President Nicholas Sarkosky hosted his Syrian counterpart Bashar Asad along with officials from 43 other nations at the inaugural meeting of the “Union for the Mediterranean.” Damascus is touting the invite and the feting of Asad as end of Syria’s international isolation. At the very least, the reception in Paris was a real boon to Syrian public relations tha

This third installment of ‘The evolution of viruses’ will look at how the Internet and e-mail changed the propagation techniques used by computer viruses. Internet and e-mail revolutionized communications. However, as expected, virus creators didn’t take long to realize that along with this new means of communication, an excellent way of spreading their creations far and [...]

Ethernet—A Brief History The original Ethernet was developed as an experimental coaxial cable network in the 1970s by Xerox Corporation to operate with a data rate of 3 Mbps using a carrier sense multiple access collision detect (CSMA/CD) protocol for LANs with sporadic but occasionally heavy traffic requirements. Success with that project attracted early attention and led to the 1980 joint deve

0664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury dies. Archbishop of Canterbury0937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria dies.1093 - Death of St. Ulric of Zell. 1223 - King Philip II of France dies (b. 1165)1223 - In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.1270 - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury dies1274 - Saint Bonaventure dies (b. 1221) 1454 - Poliziano was born

Today in WW II History World War II History for July 13 1941 - Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, that provided the means for Britain to send war material to the Soviet Union. 1944 - Soviet General Konev establishes a new western border for the USSR In 1944, General Ivan Konev, one of the [...]

Oil price has doubled thus far, with speculation that it'd surge to $200 or $400 per bareel. Oil price is not only the concern of traders these days, it has become the concern of everyone from housewives to salaried employees to businesses. It is posing a threat to the stability of the world economy today.For older folks, the current oil crisis will inevitably bring to mind the oil crisis of the 7

From Medieval times to the invention of elastic and spandex, undergarments were used as the foundation for the fashionable silhouette. The corset was the most important of all women’s underwear; in addition to supporting and molding the figure it had the advantage of erotic appeal.Welcome to Antique Corset, dedicated to the history of elusive and frivolous Unmentionables with special emphasis on

Before the beginning of time, when the Internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, before SLIP or PPP became widely used, an ambitious group of young scientists at CERN (Switzerland) started working on what was to become the media revolution of the nineties: the World Wide Web, later to be known as WWW, or simply 'the Web'. Their aim: to create a database

This second installment of ‘The evolution of viruses’ will look at how malicious code used to spread before use of the Internet and e-mail became as commonplace as it is today, and the main objectives of the creators of those earlier viruses. Until the worldwide web and e-mail were adopted as a standard means of communication [...]

The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial ResourceAuthor:Leonardo MaugeriFormat:PDF 1.8MBPublisher: Praeger Publishers Number Of Pages: 360 Publication Date: 2006-05-30 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0275990087 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780275990084 Oil is the most vital resource of our time. Because it is so important, misperceptions about the black gold abound. Leonardo Maugeri

100 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar was born (either July 13 or July 12) (d. 44 BC). Roman soldier and politician.0040 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola was born (d. 0093). Roman Governor of Britain.0574 - Pope John III dies. 0939 - Pope Leo VII dies. 0982 - Otto II is defeated in Calabria by the Saracens, Pandulf II of Salerno and Landulf IV of Benevento killed in battle. 1024 - Emperor Henry II dies. 1174 - Wil

Culture awaits you at the gates of the desert. A necessary stage for the trade caravans linking the Sahara with the port of Agadir, since the Middle Ages, Taroudant is the destination of all great travellers.A town of history and culture, Taroudant is also a colourful town. Ochre and indigo are everywhere, to the delight of painters and photographers. Two major architectural masterpieces ma

One of the oldest and quiet possible the most profitable product discovered by man. Just like everything good, their must be a bad side to it. This product has also killed more people in any history of time and continues to do so. Can you take a guess? The product I'm talking about is tobacco. Tobacco is one of the most valuable product ever discovered by man. Tobacco products can be found literal

Like any other field in computer science, viruses have evolved -a great deal indeed- over the years. In the series of press releases which start today, we will look at the origins and evolution of malicious code since it first appeared up to the present. Going back to the origin of viruses, it was in 1949 [...]

IndyMac Bancorp was seized by U.S. regulators after a run by depositors left the California mortgage lender short on cash. The lender specialized in Alt-A mortgages which did not require borrowers to provide any documentation on their income levels. The FDIC will run the institution as IndyMac Federal Bank FSB starting next week; however, it plans to sell off the entity within 90 days.

In The Grace Awakening, his magnum opus, Dr. Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll presents himself as fanning the flame of "the torch of freedom" as originally held by protestant Reformers like Martin Luther. In this he convinces his followers that by trusting him and his teaching in The Grace Awakening that they are in line with the historic Reformation teachings of grace and faith alone. Swindoll wrote:

It's déjà vu all over again. On the eve of the 13th anniversary of the massacres of some 8,000 Bosnians in Srebrenica, with the tacit connivance of the under-supported and demoralized Dutch peacekeepers, the Janjaweed, Khartoum's surrogate militia in Darfur killed seven African UN peacekeepers and wounded 19 more. The militia outgunned the peacekeepers – and escaped with impunity. No on

Do you know In windows XP, we can increase the list of recently used documents in start menu. By default windows XP display the shortcuts of last fifteen programs on recent documents list in start menu but we can increase this value with your required input value. Just Follow the given steps below..First we needed to edit the computer registry with log onto our computer with administrative rig

Well, it wasn’t long before all those recalled FDIC employees were put to good use. From MarketWatch tonight: IndyMac Bancorp Inc. became the biggest casualty of the subprime mortgage crisis on Friday, as federal regulators shut down the troubled Pasadena, Calif.-based savings bank in one of the largest U.S. bank failures ever. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. [...]

IndyMac Bank seized by federal regulators by LA Times snip:The federal government took control of Pasadena-based IndyMac Bank today, in what regulators called the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The Office of Thrift Supervision in Washington, the chief regulator of IndyMac, said it transferred control of the $32-billion bank to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Branches will be clos

National Museum of National History, a museum in the National Mall in Washington, DC managed by Smithsonian Institution contains a vast collection of flora and fauna, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites and human cultural artifacts.Entrance to the museum Petrified WoodElephant fossil in the lobbyBird fossilThere are a lot of fossils and preserved animals in the exhibit Hall of Geology, Gems and M

It's now official: the former IndyMac Bancorp has been shut down by the Office of Thrift Supervision taken over by the FDIC, making it the most prominent casualty of the mortgage meltdown (led in great part by its focus on no-doc loans). In its place on Monday will emerge a leaner, meaner IndyMac Federal Bank. From a CNBC story (hat tip to Brian McDonald):IndyMac Bancorp has been shut down and

1. "It is not good for man to be alone," was the Divine judgment, and so God created for him an helpmate; therefore sex is as Divine as the soul. 2. Polygamy.—Polygamy has existed in all... Are you Healthy? Think Twice

CHICAGO, Ill. – Yesterday, the American Medical Association (AMA) apologized for its past history of racial inequality toward African-American physicians, and shared its current efforts to increase the ranks of minority physicians and their participation in the AMA. In 2005, the AMA convened and supported an independent panel of experts to study the history of the racial divide in organized medi

Bad Credit History Personal Tenant Loans are monetary assistance provided to those tenants who have neither paid their loans in due time nor do they have any property to stand against the loans that they require. These loans can be used according to the whims and fancies of the borrower that is to say expenditure is entirely the personal domain of borrowers. Whether he wants to meet his educationa

Let me start this with a simple question. Look at the following flag and make a mental note of your immediate thoughts: OK..There is probably a good divide of people - one side thinking the above flag means Southern pride and all kinds of redneck crap. Then there is another side claiming it means racial discrimination and hatred - that's crap too. First of all, the flag you are looking at never

In 1886 workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolich branded Arsenal as Dial Square before shortly renaming the club Royal Arsenal. As soon as Arsenal turned professional in 1891 the club's name was once again reborned, this time hailing as Woolwich Arsenal. The club spent eleven years in the Second Division, before winning promotion to the first division in 1904. This did not result in all good news h

Thousands of miles away and three decades apart, the rescue of hostages in Colombia and the killing of Israeli hostages by Lebanese terrorists have some unexpected links as well profound differences. Barring last minute glitches, the Israelis are expected within a week to release five terrorists, including the notorious Samir Kuntar, who bashed a four year old girl to death, in exchange for the bo

My blogosphere friend Mitchell Rubinstein who writes the Adjunct Law Prof Blog has published a new law review article "Parents As Quasi-Therapists Under The Individuals With Disabilities Act", 76 Univ. Cinn. L. Rev. 899 (July 2008). The article addresses the challenging issue of whether parents should be reimbursed under IDEA when they serve as quasi-therapists for their own children. Due proces

Havaianas, the Brazilian flip flop brand popular worldwide, has an interesting history, so let's take a look. In 1962, the São Paulo Alpargatas company began to produce a sandal based on the design of the Japanese flip flop, called the...

Use Every time that trip facts are saved for an employee trip, the system stores the following in the database:The user who saved the tripThe date and time at which the trip was savedThe trip status with which the trip was saved You can display the overall list of all of the data records in the database for a selected trip via the History. Features The list does not document whether you ha

Procedure Choose a trip entry type. Choose the relevant trip. Choose Goto ® History.The Trip data maintain: History screen appears.Choose Goto...to close the history. Result The system shows the history of the trip status for the selected trip.

Though in the web-browsing field, it is known as the Mozilla Firefox, it is derived from its original name called as Phoenix. After naming the first browser as Phoenix, it was renamed as Mozilla Firebird and then lastly, it was again named with it popular name Mozilla Firefox. In this article, we have to go through the version history of Mozilla Firefox.

National Air and Space Museum contains the largest collection of aircraft and spacecrafts in the world. It is my most favorite museum among the Smithsonians because ever since I was a kid, I've always dreamt of flying. Boeing 747 Planets Wright Brothers' Flyer Steps on the Flight PathTreasures of American History is an exhibit showcasing artifacts that are either crucial or historically import

There’s something new brewing and it looks so solid, so profitable, so well-conceived that I want to share it with you. I hate the hype associated with most launches… but this program looks rock solid. I just got of the phone with one of founders and I am extremely impressed! Consider this a heads up on an [...]

The History and Tradition of the Glasgow Rangers One of the most popular soccer teams in Scotland is the Glasgow Rangers. The Rangers are a team deep in history and tradition. In 1872, the Glasgow Rangers were formed by two brothers, Peter and Moses McNeil, and their friends William McBeath and Peter McNeail. They chose the [...]

This weekend, the little label that turned "grunge" into an international hit celebrates its 20th anniverary in Seattle. Here's a brief history of Sub Pop: 1. The Seattle independent record label begins life in 1979 as a fanzine written by former Illinois resident Bruce Pavitt, in which he extols his favorite underground bands while attending Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. Pavitt

Its story about someone that have some journey with an EA, good information that will save many people. Just being simple for description, here we go : Story about Forex Robot TraderAfter i read, i think to keep positive about it. The most know about F.Robot Trader was the creator, Don's. Better to ask this person to know the real anyway.... make sure you not risk your account to test EA and try t

Step into the virtual pages of history. Sounds interesting and attracting. But after one discovers that he/she can write and keep own history online, the issue is much more involving.According to the PRWeb.com through this Web site users can track life achievements, save stories or just jot down a secret family recipe for future generations to access on the Internet whenever they want. What are th

A Brief History of “Roman Catholic” Anti-SemitismYear 306: The Roman Catholic Church’s “Synod of Elvira” banned marriages and all contact between Christians and Jews.Year 315: Constantine made Christianity the “state” religion. His Edict of Milan extended religious tolerance to Christians, but Jews lost many of their rights. The edict also declared that Jews were no longer allowed to

1881 to 1888-The Detroit Wolverines were the first major baseball team in the city. The Wolverines were in the National League, winning a pennant and World Series(exhibition) against the St. Louis Browns in 1887. They were relegated and disbanded after the 1888 season.1894 to 1900-A charter club in the Western League was organized for the 1894 season. Owner George Vanderbeck decided in 1895 to

1910-The Tigers finished the season a disapointing 86-68, 18 games back of the Philadelphia Athletics. The battle between Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie (Cleveland) came down to the final games of the season. Cobb, with the Tigers out of the pennant race, decided to sit the final games finishing the season hitting .385. Lajoie, with a little help from the St. Louis Browns (St. Louis manager Jack O'Conn

Today in WW II History World War II History for July 8 1941 - German General Franz Halder recorded in his diary Adolf Hitler’s plans for Moscow and Leningrad “To dispose fully of their population, which otherwise we shall have to feed during the winter.” On June 22, the Germans had launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, [...]

Most major currencies were backed by gold during the nineteenth century, which encouraged economic stability and international trade among the various nations. Although this gold exchange standard prevented rulers from debasing their currencies to trigger inflation, it did promote cycles of boom and bust through imports and exports until World War I severely curtailed the flow of goods across inte

The Guard of Honour The Summerhill Stallion Day was a rousing success, with visitors from across the whole racing world. Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, France, Germany, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and the length and breadth of South Africa. In the end, we fed more than 700 people, and we’re almost frightened to look at the booze

Gmail Team has started adding new features such aggressively that almost every week we see some thing new Feature in Gmail, Latest Gmail Lab got 13 new features in Gmail. Now here one more new feature which is going to help you to protect your gmail Account. Most of the time we Login to our Gmail [...]

History dissertation writing deals with different historical incidents, it causes and it’s after effect on the society as a whole. A great deal of research is essential for making a good article on this subject. Literature review – For a master dissertation , one requires to focus on the behavioral pattern of the [...]

← Previous revision Revision as of 00:19, 8 July 2008 Line 1: Line 1: {{history of computing}} {{history of computing}} The '''history of computer science''' began long before the modern discipline of [[computer science]] that emerged in the twentieth century. The progression, from mechanical inventions and mathematical theories

Those of you who have been following this blog for a while, know I sail.I always wanted to sail, but never found the incentive to really get started.In 2003, during the Iraq crisis, I was based in Dubai. Work was madness, and we put in very long hours, from 8 am until 11-12 pm every day. We all needed some physical exercise, and discovered several of us were interested in sailing.So we took up Las

Today in WW II History World War II History for July 7 1942 - Heinrich Himmler decided to begin experimenting on women and extending experimentation on males in the Auschwitz concentration camps. Adolf Hitler agreed to the plan for medical experiments on the condition that it remain top secret. Himmler, architect of Hitler’s program to exterminate Europe’s [...]

The knowledge of when the first stamp was created will help stamp collectors know when this fine hobby began, and it will allows collectors to realize the great history of this awesome art of stamps. The understanding and knowledge of all the stamps of the past will enable stamp collectors to realize the beauty of [...]

With the birth of stamps came the birth of stamp collectors, which occurred shortly after the first adhesive postage stamp was introduced by Great Britain during the year of 1840. The study of postage stamps, which is also known as philately was derived from the Greek word phileo that means I love and the word [...]

Designer sunglasses may seem a relatively modern phenomenon, the celebrities we see today posing in designer shades on the promenades of the south of France and Los Angeles are not however the archetypes of this style, the trend is far older than that. The history of sunglasses goes back eons with a wide variety of [...]

As soon you as you finished issuing linux commands, these commands are being saved and stored to a shell’s history file, which you can further review to recall old and recently issued shell commands. The file is being saved to .bash_history file, which is located under your home folder. Each... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

9. Lost City of HeikeIn the late 2nd century AD, the Greek writer Pausanias wrote an account of how (4-500 years earlier?) in one night a powerful earthquake destroyed the great city of Helike, with a Tsunami washing away what remained of the once-flourishing metropolis. The city, capital of the Achaean League, was a worship centre devoted to the ancient god Poseidon, god of the sea. There was no

This is a great article from FOD (funny or die) WIRE. You can use the same steps in different situations. Its also nice to know that there’s a history behind each of them. Read on and I hope... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

From the Associated Press: Today is Saturday, July 5, the 187th day of 2008. There are 179 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 5, 1946, the bikini bathing suit, designed by Louis Reard, made its debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. (Micheline Bernardini, a nude dancer, [...]

The Worst Building in the History of Mankind: It's the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, where the world's 22nd largest skyscraper has been vacant for two decades and is likely to stay that way ... forever.A picture doesn't lie -- the one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella's castle...Even by Communist

"Just as the blushing down gives promise of the glory of the sunrise, so the betrothal ring, as the token of a pledge, serves to herald, as it were, an emblem that denotes the fulfillment of the vow."-from a Victorian ladies' magazine. Wedding bands have as lovely a history as the women who wear them, and learning about the symbolism and account behind this tradition can be an enlightening experie

Gold is a precious metal. Historically, it has been used for stores of value (bars) for jewelry, electronics, dentistry, and as actual money (coinage). It is a yellow element found in nuggets that can actually be ruby or black when divided.It is the most malleable metal known. When other elements are it forms alloys. This will increase the hardness and can create exotic colors. Adding copper gives