On this day in 2008, Bernard Madoff was arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his […]
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Daily Mail: Nestled in the rolling foothills of the French Pyrenees, market day in the tiny farming community of Bugarach has never been busier. But shoppers aren’t there to sample the fresh meat, wine and dairy for which the town is locally famed, they are there to pick up their own piece of end-of-the-world memorabilia.
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1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. 1955 – The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television. 1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of
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Searching for the Best Online Opportunity It seems like the traditional marketplace of the modern world has already been saturated with different business opportunities. As a result, an entrepreneur might find it hard to enter a business because of competition. The good news is, aside from the traditional marketplace as an option, businessmen can
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On this date in 1793, New York City’s first daily newspaper was established by Noah Webster. The paper was published, under a number of different names, until 1923. Originally called “American Minerva”, it was renamed the Commercial Advertiser in 1797. In 1904, it became the The New York Globe and was published until 1923, when
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Soon, refueling your electric car may be as simple as draining and refilling a tank full of a Gatorade-like solution of electrolytes. Autoblog has more on the discovery: A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students may have come up with the perfect solution to our electric vehicle charging woes. Instead of relying on lithium
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It’s nearly the end of the year and time to start thinking through how you do the things you do, so that hopefully 2013 will be a better year for you and your business. Do you still do payroll by hand? I do. But I’ve been looking at other options and thought I should share
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Everyone’s experienced it at some point or another – you enter a loo only to be met with an abominable stench, a sink ridden with dirt and grime, or a toilet that clearly hasn’t been cleaned properly in a long while. The toilet paper is as thin as they come and the hand dryer merely
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Racing through the hyper-fast communications of the internet, as the business world does nowadays, it can be easy to forget the potential that older forms of marketing have for your profits. But, with door drops still the number one way to communicate with a customer, your company can optimise your business reach by investing in
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