It is interesting to note the high moral tone being taken by Microsoft in its castigation of Oracle's legal if somewhat dodgy intelligence gathering activities.* But surely Microsoft hasn't forgotten that Bill Gates himself, together with Paul Allen, has also used trash cans as a primary source...
During World War II, people recycled nylons, tin cans, cooking fats and even the tin in toothpaste tubes for the war effort. And by the 1960s, the first recycling programs linked to people’s concern for the environment started popping up, says Martin Melosi, author of Fresh Kills: A ...
When I was working for The Jackson PioneerandThe Missourian, my darkroom was in the basement. I filed my money shots in glassine envelopes, but random photos that didn’t have immediate use were pitched in a trash can under my worktable. When I came back to Cape after about a decade, ...
In 1979, three young men who’d been drinking all night at the Park Meadow, broke into the zoo and began attacking the polar bears, throwing large stones and trash cans into their pit. One of the young men was injured as, in a drunken stupor; he fell into that bear pit. This and...
Abigail viewed such attacks as teaching moments, although she expressed disappointment that her opponents only had “trash and scurrility” to offer in their opposition. In 1879, she launched the Sonoma-Marin Women’s Christian Temperance Union as its founding president. It was to be her last re...
Most of the time, though, everything went into trash cans, or dumpsters. They arrived on the scene thanks to the Dempster brothers who developed their Dempster Dumpster in the 1930s. But note the fish hanging out of the toy dumpster shown above. That would cause problems for a restaurant...
a. Monthly check of integrity of the boardwalks to see if any boards need to be repaired or replaced. Help with repair and replacement of boards. b. Monthly check for trash along the trail and emptying of the trash cans located along ...
171920'sLandfills becoming a popular way of reclaiming swamp land while getting rid of trash. 181954Olympia, WashingtonThe city of Olympia, Washington, paid for return of aluminum cans. 191965United StatesFirst federal solid waste management laws enacted. ...
Heather Rogers (2005).Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. (New York, NY: New Press, 224 p.). Journalist. Refuse and refuse disposal--United States--History. Elizabeth Royte (2005).Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash. (New York, NY: Little, Brown, 320 p.). Refuse and...
It is a virtual "masterpiece" in the making.Virtually every square inch of Disneyland - every building,street corner,attraction,store interior - in fact every little detail from lampposts to trash cans are inspired by a painting,drawing or piece of sculpture...it is the artist's vision ...