41 days ago by kstreet607

He’s a historian, a philanderer, ethically challenged, author of three dozen books and now a paleontologist? Now, now, Newt. Your plate seems dangerously full to be the POTUS. Think Progress At a town hall in Atlantic, Iowa, Saturday afternoon, Gingrich gave an unusual reason for his present denial ...

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44 days ago by admin

To most people unfamiliar with investment banking, instruments like government securities, repurchase agreements, mortgagebacked securities, and Eurobonds seem unnecessarily complex and sophisticated, invented solely for the benefit of traders and speculators. In fact, these seemingly modern financi ...

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46 days ago by Volubrjotr

Ron Paul‘s bid for the U.S. presidency ranks among the most heroic anyone has ever undertaken. We live in emergency times, with a choice between forms of socialism or fascism. The parties’ leadership have embraced this decrepit old model, despite all evidence of the bankruptcy of statism. Ron alone ...

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47 days ago by Milena

Since the Industrial Revolution, glass began to be mass-produced, sometimes in an automated process, so that not all glassware produced were hand blown glass anymore. One big contributor to this development was the German scientist Otto Schott and Ernst Abbe, who studied chemical compositions of gla ...

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50 days ago by Jeffrey Tucker

One reason that the Brothers Grimm fairy tales have such appeal — more so than the folklore that came before — is that they deal with a world that is familiar to us, a world that was just being invented in the early 19th century, when these stories were first printed and circulated. They deal with p ...

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51 days ago by Editor

Portugal, Britain, Spain, France, Netherlands & Denmark Britain alone for an example. Provincial banking to fund the slave trade: To create credit needed for long distance Atlantic slave trade Barclay’s bank- 4th largest bank in the world Lloyd’s bank- 35th largest bank in the world Slave sales: 158 ...

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52 days ago by leormaizel

The issue of income inequality is on everyone’s mind. While Congress is locked in an intractable ideological battle over how to address this problem and the lethargic post-recession recovery, it’s important to recognize an inestimably important agent shaping our national discourse—narrative. Narrati ...

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53 days ago by Rich Karlgaard

This article originally appeared in the Jan. 16, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. Hail the Boeing 747 jumbo jet. It’s the chariot of U.S. Presidents and Saudi princes. It’s the machine of liberation for the global middle class, a Mach 0.85 ticket to exotic places once seen only in magazines. Boeing ha ...

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53 days ago by Félix Adorno

Created from treadle sewing machine parts, scrap steel and cold cast aluminium, LOOM VI is an abstract interpretation of industrial revolution cotton industry machinery. Filed under: in art we trust Tagged: Arbarus, cold cast aluminium, cotton, industrial revolution, installation art, kinetic sculpt ...

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55 days ago by Deepak

Why Science & IT needs to be cleaned up? =================================== There was a spate of discoveries in the 18th & 19th centuries leading to great advancement of Science. Both theoretical and practical. Scientist like Heisenberg, Einstein, Feynman laid down the fundamentals of Nature and wh ...

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