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April 05 2008: Diamonds that Sparkle, One Metro Europe - Charlemagne, not Caesar by: DerekDashwood
We see further events unfolding daily about the concept of a wider Europe. Germany has told France it will be not a split empire. Ms Hans sounds like Patton: she and Frank do not get along.
April 04 2008: A Modern Day Robin Of Sherwood by: sparta
A look at how history repeats itself to a degree in the human race, not always for the best.
April 04 2008: The Fascinating History of the US Cavalry by: jimmycox
The cavalry is no more. But it has a glorious past. It was the elite corps of the Army because it was small and because, throughout the ages, glamour has surrounded the horseman; in any age, at any time, he is a knight in shining armor wearing a bright plume!
April 03 2008: Going Green Might Mean Embracing Cabaret and Burlesque by: enrico
It is believed that our actions and behaviour collaterally contribute to green life style.
April 03 2008: Tattoos And Prisons: An Inseparable Bond! by: wincent222
Today, however, the prisoners use tattoos to show their link to a particular gang or to show their solidarity amongst a few other prisoners.
April 03 2008: Diamonds, Gemstones, Lumps of Coal - Another Strike at the Dragon 's Soul by: DerekDashwood
The diamond of long distant runners in the world, that is the world 's fastest, says he may skip these Olympics for his health. 26 miles of rapid inhalation in such coal dust air would shorten his life. China holds it 's breath.
April 02 2008: Green Energy Is Coming To San Diego Via Sunrise Powerlink by: Martin A. Grossman
Green energy You’ve heard people talk about it for years
April 01 2008: Male Fashion And The Job Interview Attire by: Jeff Piper
I would never consider myself a fashionista In fact, I am far, far, oh so far from it
April 01 2008: Your Casual Wear Needs An Update! by: Jeff Piper
As a woman, it is much easier to dress in trendy fashions Entire stores are dedicated to the low-cost yet fashionable pieces that women crave
April 01 2008: Roman Antiques to Now - German Hans Sacked Rome, China 's Hans Sack Tibet by: DerekDashwood
It is an irony to consider that the Germanic chaps with the name of Hans would have destroyed a civilization in Rome. And now Chinese Hans destroy the Buddhist civilization of Tibet. All named Hans, stop, and go home.
March 31 2008: Eta Bita Pi: One Of The World 's Most Interesting Numbers by: chiron99
Circles are odd things. We encounter them all the time in nature - in fact we couldn't exist without them, the earth and all its heavenly neighbors (including the sun) being spherical - and yet mathematicians and geometers insist that there are no perfect circles, outside the realm of theory.
March 30 2008: Healthy Lifestyles, Happiness - Science Shows Eight Ways to Bliss by: DerekDashwood
We all know the good feeling we got as boy or girl scouts when we helped a little old lady across the street. Our cultural model has had us be trained to do a good deed every day, so by dinner time you might a frantic scout looking for a little old lady on a corner. Science now shows that that state of mind creates a long living, healthy, happy person, far above the average.
March 29 2008: It 's All In The Name by: sparta
A look at the trend in using unusual baby names, particularly for celebrities, and how this could all change with personalised baby clothes.
March 29 2008: Lessons in Life, Love and Culture from Popeye, Brutus, Olive Oyl and Wimpy by: jackdeal
Wimpy 's famous line "I'll gladly repay you Tuesday" was clearly a ruse and not ever to be trusted. Simply put, Wimpy had a burger addiction.
March 29 2008: Healthy Lifestyles, World at War - If We All Just Prayed Like Buddha by: DerekDashwood
It seems the more fanatical that our specific version of God or Allah, the more bloodshed that just seems to have no end in sight. Why not just live a holy life?
March 29 2008: Roman Antiques, Science - Archimedes, Rome Lives On In Scotland by: DerekDashwood
Youthful honor scholar Archimedes from Syracuse in the Kingdom of Sicily showed his genius in great Alexandria when he solved the problem of how to lift water up from the Nile to irrigate the fields. Killed on a beach back home as the Romans took over, his Archimedes screw, which is not unlike a ferris wheel, lives on anew at a canal in Scotland and makes use of a Roman tunnel nearby.
March 29 2008: Healthy Lifestyles - Examples From Leonardo by: DerekDashwood
The lifetime of Leonardo of the town of Vinci was a time of turbulence and violence, yet also the flowering of the great enlightenment of the Renaissance, which began all around where ever Leonardo seemed to be.
March 29 2008: The Cigar Boom: What It Was (And Is) by: chiron99
As the 1990s dawned, few industries seemed deader than cigar sales and manufacture. From its height in the 1850s - when Cuba alone exported 356.6 million cigars - the cigar had fallen into virtual moribundity. Its market had been conquered by cheap, ubiquitous cigarettes.
March 29 2008: Do You Know the History of Mathematics? by: chiron99
If you've taken a first-year college history course - or read through a basic history textbook - you may have noticed a small gap. It 's only a thousand years or so.
March 29 2008: Playing Games: What John Nash Was Actually Famous For by: chiron99
As Chariots Of Fire did for Eric Liddell and Braveheart did for William Wallace, the 2002 film A Beautiful Mind made mathematician John Forbes Nash a household name - without necessarily rendering his life, or his work, much better-understood.
March 28 2008: Choosing A Luxury Hotel For Your Wedding Venue by: AnnaStenning
Taking a looking at hotels as a potential venue for your wedding, including what questions to ask and what to look out for when searching for the right venue.
March 28 2008: Cheap Doesn't Always Pay by: sparta
A look at one man 's unfortunate experience with a removal company.
March 28 2008: Healthy Lifestyles- Meditating Away a Bloody Accident by: DerekDashwood
At times some horrible accident happens that can haunt us, such a any incident that involves blood and death. This was one such case in my early teens that I learned to put to rest.
March 28 2008: Diamonds, Gemstones, Gold Mountain - Chinese Antiques, Wealth Over East by: DerekDashwood
The gold fields, diamonds and gemstones of California first brought the Chinese during the 1848 Gold rush, and soon after they built the railway, they had laundry shops across America and Chinese restaurants at every whistle stop. New Americans, fed you, did your laundry.
March 27 2008: Owner Operator And Logistics Protection – A Guide To HGV Safety by: Lyall Cresswell
With any job, it’s remarkably easy to slip into a routine after you’ve been doing it for months, years and decades The trouble is that most jobs aren’t as fraught with dangers as working with haulage groupage
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