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World's first guide to using the telephone goes on sale Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The only known copy of the world's first telephone directory is set to fetch up to £20,000 at auction next month. The 20-page book containing the names and number of 391 subscribers around New Haven, Connecticut, was issued in 1878 - just two years after the invention of the telephone by Edinburgh-born Alexander Graham Bell.
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Insults - they just don't make them as they used to Posted: 3 months ago by shuallyo
Someones blog.. but not mine.. so hope its okay.
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All She Wanted Was A Soda... Posted: 9 months ago by suebe
Now she’s fighting for her life.
An 11-year-old girl from Alabama is in critical condition after drinking acid police say was contained in a bottle of Sprite, used by her meth manufacturing cousin.
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Satellite device will allow parents to plot child's location to within 10ft Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
A satellite tracking device that will allow parents to plot their child's location to within 10ft will go on sale in the UK in March, its manufacturer said.
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Store customer beats robber with step ladder Posted: 7 months ago by kakana
Note to robbers: don’t take a knife to a step ladder fight. That’s what one thief discovered when a customer at an Acworth convenience store on North Main Street bonked him with a ladder used for reaching items on the top shelf.
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Root beer keg party doesn't amuse officials Posted: 2 years ago by mutil8or
The Zebro home in Kronenwetter showed all the signs of an underage drinking party March 1: cars blocking the road, dozens of rowdy kids and a keg.
And yet, every partyer's breath test revealed an alcohol-free gathering.
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15 Uses for Baking Soda Posted: 2 years ago by sholom22
You know that little box of baking soda that has been sitting in your cupboard for ages? It happens to be a very versatile product that has endless home applications and can be used for some very surprising tasks. Take a look here to find more about the many extraordinary uses for baking soda
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Murder witness smoked crack in courthouse Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
John Smith said he used drugs as sheriff's deputies stood nearby and that they knew what he was doing.
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Ozone Hole Watch Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
This is the Ozone Hole Watch web site, where you can check on the latest status of the ozone layer over the South Pole. Satellite instruments monitor the ozone layer, and data is used to create the images that depict the amount of ozone.
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World's Largest LCD Screen: 6000 Square Metres Posted: 2 years ago by extc68
Electrosonic MS9200P High Definition video players and VECTOR image processing are being used to drive a vast video canopy that has recently been installed in the central business district of Beijing.
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'Personality traits' of cars Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
"This is the classic cute car — not dominant, not aggressive," said Slice, an associate professor of scientific computing at FSU. "I don't think anyone could be mean to someone else in a Volkswagen Beetle."
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Word Count Posted: 2 years ago by mahler87
An interactive archive of the 86,860 most commonly used words in the English Language. Plime ranks up at #6, only behind "the" "of" "and" "to" and "a".
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My ASICS 2.0 Posted: 6 months ago by cactushair
My ASICS Running is a free running community set up by the Japanese sports brand ASICS. Thousands of runners, ranging from beginners to professionals, have used the My ASICS training programmes to achieve their sporting goals. ASICS' motto for many years has been “Sound mind, sound body”.
As well as free training programmes, the site includes your own online training logbook, information on diet and equipment, and a route mapping and measurement tool.
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Taleban attack Kabul luxury hotel Posted: 2 years ago by keroberos32
Four Taleban fighters have attacked a hotel in the Afghan capital, Kabul, used by aid workers and diplomats.
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Who You Callin’ a Maverick? Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
There’s that word again: maverick. In Thursday’s vice-presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican candidate, used it to describe herself and her running mate, Senator John McCain, no fewer than six times, at one point calling him “the consummate maverick.”
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Net disaster Posted: 2 years ago by dorkfire
A website where you can mess around with outher websites, good fun. I used it to get rid of the ads on plime... with a gun.
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Generating Organic Traffic with Articles - Free Search Engine Traffic Posted: 2 years ago by krish891
If you would like to make money selling e-books, you must first create yourself an e-book. After your e-book has been created, you will then need to sell it. Many e-book authors, when selling their creations, use an e-book sales page. An e-book sales page is a page that outlines the e-book available for sale, as well as its price.
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Frugal librarian amassed $8 million art trove Posted: 2 years ago by bevissimo
Preston, a thrifty 77-year-old spinster who rode the bus and ate frozen meals, died in 2006. But art experts and auctioneers have now completed the sale of the exceptional works hoarded in her modest home. The auctions have raised an estimated 4 million pounds ($7.95 million), according to valuers, about 20 times the price of the house they were kept in, stunning experts and Preston's relatives alike.
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Study: Fire used to make tools 75,000 years ago Posted: 3 months ago by muppet
Early humans crossed a threshold around 75,000 years ago, when they started painting symbols, carving patterns and making jewelry. A new study found they also began to use fire to make tools around that time.
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Musicians protest the volume on Gitmo debate Posted: 1 month ago by drogue
"The coalition, which counts Pearl Jam, R.E.M., and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails...is joining a new campaign...."
"Maj. Diana Haynie, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said loud music has not been used with detainees since the fall of 2003."
Which is coincidentally, a date that also corresponds with the year people stopped giving a shit about the previously-listed bands.
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