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Europeans Stockpiling Incandescent Bulbs

Today’s Shopping List — Twenty Years Worth Of Incandescent Bulbs! Light bulb socialism has spread rampantly across Europe. European consumers are not exactly embracing the light bulb legislation that has been imposed upon them. In Germany, citizens are flocking to hardware stores to buy traditional light bulbs, and not compact flourescent bulbs.  The Der Spiegel (July 27, 2009) […]

How Widespread Is The H1N1 Virus?

Gathering Data On H1N1 Virus On June 11, 2009, the WHO declared that the H1N1 flu was a global pandemic. Since then, at least 160 countries have confirmed cases of the virus, and at least 800 people are believed to have died. The United States is reported to have the most H1N1 cases of any […]

Polar Weather Brings Snow In July

Snow Covers Most Of The Country In July 2009 The snow covered much of the country (La nieve cubrió gran parte del país). The polar weather continues for the third day in a row. Today may be registered as the coldest day of the year, the National Meteorology Service reported. According to the latest report, the Antarctic […]

Broadcast Yourself In 3D

YouTube Could Be Going 3D The 3D craze seems to be only getting hotter. Now YouTube has videos with the 3D effect. Just grab a pair of your old 3D glasses, and then try the Waltz Of The Flowers.  The flowers seem to reach out of the monitor for us to touch! They are dancing to and fro, […]

Manage Your International Mobility

Most Expensive Cities To Live In 2009 What is the most expensive city in the world to live? What is the cheapest city to live? Mercer’s Cost of Living survey evaluates 143 cities across six continents, comparing 200 items. In the survey, New York was used as the base, and the survey weighed other currencies against […]

NHK Japan Offers 2009 Solar Eclipse Video  TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE JULY 21, 2009, VIDEO BY NHK WORLD NHK Japan captures solar eclipse on July 21, 2009. If you were like most of us and didn’t get to see this, this is your chance. The dialogue is in Japanese we presume, but the video is professional. Great […]

Recording Captures Apollo 11 And Luna 15 Drama On July 3, 2009, previously unheard recordings (audio available)  were released by The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. This find was coordinated simultaneously with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The recordings were made in the Control Room of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, where Bernard […]

Longest Total Solar Eclipse Of 21st Century New>>  Total Solar Eclipse July 11, 2010 Photos LIVE WEBCAMS:  1.  CCTV 9  – (LIVE) Broadcast in China 2.  NHK World – (LIVE) Video in Iwo Jima, Japan 2.  Japan – (LIVE) Japanese, Chinese, and English languages. 3.  Taiwan – (Mainland China) 4.  Guwahati – (LIVE) at Guwahati, […]

French Employees Threaten To Blow Up Another Factory

Which Factory In France Is Next To Be Blowed Up? Now it’s the Nortel factory near Paris. Around 480 workers are going to be finished. The workers have opted for desperate measures. They are threatening to blow up the building! But the gas cylinders in the plant were said to have been empty. Just a few days […]

Turkey Agrees To Nabucco Deal

Nabucco Pipeline Becomes A Reality Turkey has now signed, and the Nabucco Gas Pipeline will now become a reality. The skeptics were proven wrong on this project to be sure. The Nabucco Pipeline will transport natural gas from Turkey to Austria — via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary. This deal is backed by the United States […]

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