If Chinese businessmen are harbingers of fashion and style, get ready to sell a ton of purses! Hip Chinese men are now toting expensive purses that previously were exclusively the domain of women. The 41-year-old investor was dressed in the unofficial uniform of Chinese businessmen: dark blazer, crisp white shirt, designer slacks, silky tan socks, […]
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1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute. 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. 1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House. 1946 – The first portion of the Revised Standard
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1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey. Although it wasn’t the first dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental undertaking. The dictionary took more than
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About twelve years ago Dr. Keith Swanson, 78, retired and planned to go overseas to do missionary work. After talking it over with his wife, he instead reopened his small town Iowa practice and started working for donations! KETV has a great little video of Doc’ Swanson that I wasn’t able to embed. Click over
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This graphic was inspired by this quote from Jeanette Mulvey, managing editor of BusinessNewsDaily: Being an entrepreneur is almost never about the business you’re in. So, you like cupcakes. Great. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should open a bakery – unless you like working early in the morning, managing lots of people and figuring out
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TurningArt.com is a Netflix for art. Starting at $10 per month, you select from a variety framed 16” x 20” museum quality prints and choose one that you’d like to see on your walls. If you don’t like it, you can send it back and you’ll be shipped the next piece from your online queue.
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With the Super Bowl right around the corner, it’s a good time to ask: What are the pros and cons of sports investing? Consider this investing proposition: You have a chance to invest in businesses that have been around since the 1920s and are growing in popularity. These companies have an intensely loyal consumer base;
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Are you tired of having to manually check all of your potential domain names against Twitter, Facebook, and all of the other social media websites? Never again. KnowEm is a website that allow you to check for the use of your brand, product, personal name or username instantly on over 590 popular social media websites.
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