California’s economy is the largest of any U.S. state and is surpassed only by a handful of industrialized countries. Financiers in California have been imaginative in seeking and employing capital, and many of the country’s largest banks and corporations are based in the state. In 1965 ...
ccTLDs are derived from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. Read More The Domain Name Concept Date: 01/01/1982 A domain name is the human-friendly name that we are used to associating with an internet resource. A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of ...
Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) Started by a few students at UC Santa Cruz, the IUMA is at first a simple FTP drive of MP3 files from lesser-known bands that anyone can download and listen to for free. When the idea goes viral, the group begins soliciting submissions from bands...
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Wikimedia Commons CC-BY 2.0 1 Simo Häyhä Simo "Simuna" Häyhä (17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), nicknamed "White Death" by the Red Army, was a Finnish sniper. He is believed to have killed over 500 men during the 1939–40 Winter War, the highest number of sniper kills ...
In January 2010, an overhaul of the watch page was first tested as beta. It was made default on March 31st. At a similar time, "YouTube Disco" was launched, a music discovery service. It closed in October 2014. YouTube's current headquarters in San Bruno, California (2010 to present)...
“Sam Palladio, who plays Gunnar Scott, has an LG-2. I had that guitar recreated It’s been in the Country Music Hall of Fame as a flagship for the show and now it’s on its way to Disney World. That guitar has stayed with his character and been a part of what he does. And ...
The "Warring States Period" derives its name from the Record of the Warring States, a work compiled early in the Han Dynasty. A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_States_Period">Read more Shang Dynasty The earliest discovered written record of China's past dates from the Shang Dyn...
Books were donated from all over the country to start libraries in churches, post offices, any facility willing to house the collections. Librarians took their jobs very seriously going out even in the worst of weather and through treacherous terrain. Using their own horses or mules, women made...
Wikimedia Commons Public Domain 15 The Fake Fleetwood Mac 1974 saw one of the strangest hoaxes in rock music history – a fake version of Fleetwood Mac hit the road, hired by their manager to fulfill the band’s touring obligations. It had zero of the actualmembers of the band, though a...