It had bought its largest competitor, CompuServe. It had bought the popular instant messaging site ICQ. And it had bought Netscape. And it was hungry to continue its expansion. AOL was particularly interested in gaining access to large volumes of web pages where it could place local advertising...
She must have had her suspicions when five minutes later my eighteen year old sister went in and bought the video in my place (we were together in Edmonton Green because she was taking me for an eye test which involved the application of droplets, resulting in temporary blurry sight), but ...
After the last "Bell" rang in 2000, Diamond kicked off a stand-up comedy career and lined up a string of small roles that took advantage of his unique stardom and the subsequent instant visual joke ("It's Screech!") in such projects as "Big Fat Liar" (2002), "Dickie Roberts: ...
I was surprised they didn’t knock over the table of everything I’d bought and even if they did, not one of them would’ve blinked an eye, the tamale frenzy was that strong. I never ate one. I even turned down the one my friend had put aside for me. I was too scared. Food...
Met some interesting locals at the first clue point who bought to life one of the clues! Took us to places and parts of London we had not been to before and learned some stuff along the way. Total walking was about 6k. Sone of the clues ar...
I found a bathing suit! Yes, I paid more than I expected. Yes, it reveals more than I wanted. But it fits and all of me gets into it, so I bought it. Then I had some souvenir shopping to do in Siepres street, where the beautiful fans, shawls, and mantillas are displayed in ti...
John bought another ice chest, a few blocks of dry ice and we moved frozen foods to the basement freezer and what didn’t fit into ice chests. Silver lining…the freezer was going to get a super thorough cleaning. Heavy smoke rolled back into the valley sometime during the night. We ...
- August 2, 1985), known as Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC". His decisions dramatically changed the computer industry, resulting in a vast increase in the number of personal computers sold and bought....
Welch Spring's supposedly healing waters flowed from a cave along the Current River in southern Missouri's Ozarks—and, in 1913, they attracted the attention of Dr. C.H. Diehl, who bought the spring and built a hospital at the cave's opening for patients struggling with consumption (aka ...
(unlikely) at the Alamo when you were only 49. Or you, founding father Alexander Hamilton. You were a man of fascinating contradictions. Strongly opposed to dueling, yet you were killed in a duel. Strongly opposed to slavery, yet you bought and traded slaves. Strongly opposed to hip-hop ...