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"Ever since the Internet was created, it's been organized around basic principles of openness, fairness and freedom. There are no gatekeepers deciding which sites you get to access. There are no toll roads on the information superhighway," the President said, siding with consumers. The FCC, h...
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Basically, an individual sat down, took a look at your feet, and created a pair of shoes. Now, fit wasn’t always perfect, but it was focused on an individual pair of feet. An early shoe factory. [Image Credit: Pinterest] During the Industrial Revolution, clothing and shoes were mass-...
Indeed, as Bernard Rudofsky points out, seventeenth-century wearers of high heels, men and women, frequently had to be transported in sedan chairs because they could not manage cobblestones on foot. Some "heels" in that era were actually full-soled platforms, and to walk on these things at...
Why did the Cold War follow so closely on the heels of World War II? Could either the Western powers, or the Soviet Union have done things differently to prevent it? Why did the Soviet Union fall? Why was Berlin important in the Cold War? Why was Berlin so important in the Cold War...
My mom was talking to me, and she was talking about my work ethic. She was like, "You really need to start taking care of yourself before it starts catching up to you." It really created a lightbulb in my head, because I'm sure all my other ambitious people ou...
Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher, who were released on Sunday, said Hamas had held them in U.N. camps that the global body created during the war to protect Gazan civilians and to provide them with food and water.
Since the vortices created are small, we want aggressive pulses because that will make them spin fast, and thus be lower pressure. Since each vortex is fleeting, we need to create a new one as fast as the old is carried away. Any one pulse does not do much; it’s the cumulative effe...
Why did the Cold War follow so closely on the heels of World War II? Could either the Western powers, or the Soviet Union have done things differently to prevent it? Why was the United Nations created at the Yalta Conference? After World War II, why did the USSR want to control countri...