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Very Angry Cat
July 1st, 2011
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Today in history 19 june
June 19th, 2011
1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1306 – The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Will Skype Ever Become a Mainstream Business Tool?
January 21st, 2011
I found this article very interesting:
Skype Ltd. has been trying to sell itself as a serious business tool since early 2006. It’s an ambitious strategy, and it represents a big jump from the company’s roots as a pioneer of free Internet calling for individuals.
It has also proven to be a much harder sell than expected.
At the beginning of its campaign, Skype targeted small and midsized businesses (SMBs). Its first step was to provide corporate billing and administration capabilities, so that companies wouldn’t have to reimburse employees individually for their use of Skype for cut-rate outbound calling. The next big step was interoperability with Asterisk and other open-source IP PBX platforms, another emerging SMB money-saver.
read more: Skype as Business tool
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35 Truly Dramatic Examples of Animal Photography
September 28th, 2010
These are some really fantastic photographs taken with animals in actions. They are truly amazing.
35 Truly Dramatic Examples of Animal Photography
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Movies watched backwards…
September 24th, 2010
Back in the day you could listen to records playing backwards. What if you do that with movies? This is what some people think:
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today in history 22 September
September 22nd, 2010
Today in history, the following happened:
1997 Elton John releases Diana tribute ‘Candle in the Wind 1997′
1994 Rasmussen government in Denmark, resigns
1993 Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game
1993 STS-51 (Discovery) lands
1993 Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin
1992 Heavy storm in South France, 34 die
1991 ABN and AMRO Dutch banks merge
1991 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
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Today in history 21 September
September 21st, 2010
Today in history, 21 September the following happened:
1999 Earthquake kills 2,295 in central Taiwan
1997 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA PING Welch’s Championship
1997 Mike Piazza is 2nd to hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium
1997 Tim Herron wins Texas Golf Open shooting a 271
1996 Christie Brinkey gets married for 4th time, she marries Peter Cook
1996 John F. Kennedy, Jr. marries Caroline Bisset
1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft. Lauderdale / Miami, Florida on WBGG 105.9 FM
1993 Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns
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The Real Batman – comic
September 20th, 2010
I found this Comic on www.the-gutters.com
Really funny, I like what this guy does:
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Fun With words – Rearrange for new meaning
September 16th, 2010
This is just too clever, some words used every day, turn them around and you get the following:
PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PR AYER
ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER
DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT
THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE
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Today in history 13 September
September 13th, 2010
Today in history the following happened:
1998 SAFECO Golf Classic
1997 Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998
1996 Phil Simmons scores 171 and takes 6-14 for Leics vs. Durham
1994 George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
1994 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
1993 Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord
1993 Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11)
1993 Queens New York begins required recycling
1992 112th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62)
1992 New York Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28
1992 Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1992 Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win U.S. Open
1991 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium
1991 Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams
1991 Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleveland, San Diego and Toronto)
1991 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
1990 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
1990 Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
1990 Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner
1990 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
1989 “Les Miserables,” opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit
1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
1989 Fay Vincent elected baseball’s 8th commissioner
1988 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
1988 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York
1988 Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
1987 Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 home runs in a season
1985 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen
1985 John Williams introduces new Today Show theme
1984 STS-41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed
1983 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save
1983 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1983 Oakland’s Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
1983 Steve O’Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 minutes, Lancs vs. Leics
1983 U.S. Mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1981 101st U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (46 62 64 63)
1981 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St. Blue, Judd Hirsh and Isabel Sanford wins
1981 April Moon sets women’s handbow distance record of 1,039 yards and 13″
1981 Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1980 1st United Negro College Fund
1979 China performs nuclear test
1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa) (South African History)
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