1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. 1935 – The world’s first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last “Big Tent” show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows […]
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Marketing is a powerful tool which can truly make or break your business. It is essential that your marketing techniques are well thought out and constructed, so that you have a strategy that will reach your customers. Here we will discuss how you can use mixed media marketing with both online and offline techniques – to help you really grow your business.
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Earth Policy: “The world quietly reached a milestone in the evolution of the human diet in 2011. For the first time in modern history, world farmed fish production topped beef production. The gap widened in 2012, with output from fish farming—also called aquaculture—reaching a record 66 million tons, compared with production of beef at 63
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Quinoa [KEEN-wah] is a seed, that looks like couscous and is as versatile as rice. Naturally grown in Peru, it is packed with protein, quinoa contains every amino acid, and is particularly rich in lysine, which promotes healthy tissue growth throughout the body. Quinoa is also a good source of iron, magnesium, vitamin E, potassium,
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On this day in 1892, Alexander Cartwright, the inventor of baseball, died. In 1845, Alexander Cartwright, a member of New York City’s Knickerbockers club, led the codification of the so-called Knickerbocker Rules. The practice, common to bat-and-ball games of the day, of “soaking” or “plugging”—effecting a putout by hitting a runner with a thrown ball—was
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Ever spilled your coffee or, heaven-forbid, dropped your cellphone into the toilet? Popular Science has up a profile of a product demoed this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that will protect your phone from such mishaps. Liquipel covers devices inside and out with a transparent coating thinner than a human hair
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The Sacramento Bee says there is a legal way to print money: start typing in a skinnier font. Narrower fonts require less ink, which means you’ll have to replace your pricey ink cartridges less often. Administrators at the University of Wisconsin recently switched the school’s email system to Century Gothic, a move that is expected
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Watch this video as a 9 year old boy – who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store – has the best day of his life. 9 year-old Caine built an elaborate arcade out of cardboard boxes (located in his dad’s used auto parts store). Unfortunately, Caine had no customers.
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Gary Goddard tells the story of the near-construction of a life-sized Starship Enterprise replica in downtown Las Vegas: The “big idea” was building the ship itself at full-scale. That was the main attraction. That being said, we also knew we would have to have some kind of “show” on board. So, conceptually, it was to
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On this day in 1962 Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, was launched into orbit. Telstar 1 relayed its first, and non-public, television pictures—a flag outside Andover Earth Station—to Pleumeur-Bodou on July 11, 1962. Almost two weeks later, on July 23, at 3:00 p.m. EDT, it relayed the first publicly available live transatlantic television signal.
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