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That doesn’t sound like much, but it works out to nearly an hour’s error per year, which is pretty bad. Fortunately the MCP7940N has a neat feature which helps a lot. One of its registers, called CAL, holds a value which speeds up or slows down the clock by a small amount, li...
C.Human beings have made a great breakthrough in history. D.In exploring space the US achieved more than the USSR. 4. How did the scientists react after the disasters happened? A.They gave up building the task. B.They rose to the challenge bravely. ...
During the lifting of the siege of Leningrad on January 23, 1944, Senior Lieutenant Mironov led two companies into an attack and drove the enemy from the defensive line near the Gatchina-Vladimirskaya railway embankment. The commander was wounded twice, but did not leave the battlefield. Mirono...
Putin said the Russian-North Korean trade turnover has risen ninefold over the past year, but admitted that the amount itself remains “modest.” Kim and Heintz write for the Associated Press. Heintz reported from Tallinn, Estonia. More to Read...
That same year, a monument to Lenin was unveiled on the Square of the Fallen Fighters for Revolution in the center of the city. Right next to it stood a symbol of the old Tsaritsyn, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, which was blown up in 1932. The monument...
Because artificially lowering a coupon on a ten-year loan by 4 percentage points effectively represents debt forgiveness equal to 25% of the loan. Lowering the coupon by 6 percentage points represents forgiveness of 35% of the loan. Although most bank loans in China have maturities of less than...
Charles Darrow sold his game, Monopoly, to Parker Brothers in 1935. Darrow said hiscreation came from being unemployedand in need of a distraction. By the end of the year and into the following Christmas, the game was a smash hit. It was later found, however, that it was actuallyElizabet...
As a gardener would bend over the beds she’d be proudly thinking of all the jars of pickled tomatoes and cucumbers she’d open for her guests on New Year’s Eve. “It’s ours! From our own dacha! I grew them myself with my own hands…” ...
12. Consider getting a dog. A dog increases your lifespan by over a year. You have to go outside and exercise ever day. And it releases so much oxytocin. Beau (above) has been a lifesaver for me, perhaps literally. I should say that of course I don’t have any magic bullet for ...