They couldn't stop talking about this on the radio, last Saturday. An Amsterdam newspaper, Het
Parool, discovered that exactly 200 years ago yesterday, the French appointed Amsterdam the
capital of the Netherlands. The newspaper called the Amsterdam city ...
(more)Smivs writes "The BBC are getting set to fund a dig at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The
two-week dig will try to establish, once and for all, some precise dating for the creation of
the monument. An article from the BBC news website explains how ...
(more)Filed under: Cellphones
Ever since (and perhaps before) the iPhone hit the US market, we've
been hearing rumors of an imminent spanish release, which was confirmed by the company many,
many months ago. Of course, there's been no movement besides rampant ...
(more)Pcol writes "The New York Times is running a story on Dr. Gregory Clark's book 'A hello to
Alms,' which offers a new elucidation for the Industrial Revolution and the affluence it
created. Dr. Clark, an economic historian at the University of California ...
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