Articles, tagged with "mid 1960s", page 4
31st March 2009
A world famous UK clothing designer once said that fashion is a gentle progression of revisited ideas - and it's difficult to argue with this sentiment.
Whilst fashion by its very definition is something that is constantly changing, there are only so...
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pmcindoe
17th March 2009
1. Christmas trees were first lighted with actual candles, which presented a fire hazard. As a result containers filled with water had to be kept near the Christmas tree. 2. Workers in the construction industry are responsible for the tradition of having ...
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Jeremy Seaver
11th March 2009
LEDs (light emitting diodes) are now recognized as the energy saving light source of the future. Initially developed in the 1920s tey were first made commercially viable as indicator lights in the mid 1960s. With the technology developing rapidly LED's ha...
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16th January 2009
The Mediterranean island of Malta has recently achieved a very impressive milestone - 500,000 cruise ship passengers in one year.
Many families choose to enjoy their holidays at sea with their children in tow. Some cruise lines offer special discounts...
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Author:
Robert Palmer
29th December 2008
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GPS simply stands for "global positioning system", and GPS navigation is a program by which maps are created to guide you towards your destination. But the benefit over a traditional paper map is that this is an electr...
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kentaro
02nd December 2008
Of course, one of the basic needs of most people is to contact one another. The first step towards answering this need and allowing a global network of people in different locations to communicate via technology, was the invention of the telephone. Offici...
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Adam Singleton
26th November 2008
The Chablais Alps is the western portion of the Alps near Lake Geneva in Switzerland zigzags to the Mont Blanc pinnacle. The Col des Montets keeps them from reaching Mont Blanc proper, however. There are several large mountains in the area too. The talles...
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Author:
edisonadam
30th October 2008
How things change!
When I started work in the mid 1960s very few poeople were aware of occupational health. Obviously, the workplace environment had advanced somewhat since the days of Bounderby in Dickens's "Hard Times", but the network of rules that ...
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Author:
Helen Mitchell
27th October 2008
Enter the emergency room of MidMichigan Medical Center in the rural community of Gladwin, and chances are you'll be treated not by a physician but by Physician Assistant Erin Sherer. From ordering and interpreting x-rays, to stitching up cuts, to writing ...
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Author:
Robert Palmer
13th October 2008
327 Corvette power under the hood linked to a 350 transmission. This beautiful painting of a sun fire Yellow has been reproduced as a limited edition art print. We utilized the rear end, 4-speed transmission, and Rochester fuel injection. Under the hood i...
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Author:
ron7650
29th September 2008
The Indian film industry has a huge fan base not only at home but also abroad, especially in countries which have a significant Indian population. The term Bollywood is a term coined for the Hindi-language film industry set in Bombay, India. Bollywood is ...
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Jennie
20th August 2008
Like Great Britain (from which the current U.S. system originates), Japan once had its own traditional system of area conversion, weights and measures. Since the 1920s however, Japan has turned to the metric system as its official standard for the most ty...
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Author:
Susan Slobac
19th June 2008
Ever since the mid 1960s, the Canary Islands have been a much sought-after vacation spot.
Located a mere 62 miles off the African coast in the Atlantic, the islands offer beautiful volcanic scenery, beaches and many water sports. With year-round avera...
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Author:
Robert Palmer
14th May 2008
Over the course of many decades, there have been a variety of methods to deal with hearing loss and provide ways for people who have hearing problems to enjoy better hearing levels. Hearing aids have been one of the primary forms of assistive listening de...
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Author:
MIKE SELVON
11th April 2008
In 1900, motoring was a luxury hobby in Britain, and there were only 8,000 cars in the whole of Britain at the start of the 20th century; but by the end of the century the car population had soared to 21 million. The number of cars on the roads began to...
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Author:
Andrew Regan
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