Carbon-dating tests have set the earliest age of settlement at Byblos around 7000 BC, however it was not officially established as a city until sometime around 5000 BC. Byblos is in Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast about 26 miles north of Beirut. “Byblos” is the Greek name. The first city built by the Phoenicians, Byblos …
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Kids in the third grade are, on average, eight years old. Nowadays, 20 percent of third-grade boys and 18 percent of third-grade girls already have a cell phone, according to a 2011 study of 20,766 Massachusetts elementary, middle, and high school students. By the time the kids reach fifth grade, 39% of the kids have …
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A super slow motion video of exploding eggs and smashing glass filmed by the Phantom Flex camera….not your typical tea party. The frame rate was anywhere between 3,200 to 6,900 frames per second.
Sugar is one of the most addictive substances known to us… // Thx to Don Burke
London Muscat, Oman Bengaluru (Bangalore), India Cádiz, Spain Stockholm, Sweden Guimarães, Portugal Santiago, Chile Hong Kong Orlando, Florida Darwin, Australia A few of the explanations: Bengaluru – The undisputed Elvis of South Asian megacities, Bengaluru is in a class of its own when it comes to redefining flamboyance. Perpetually drunk on the good life, this South …
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Both Om Malik and Robert Scoble make interesting points, Facebook paid double for what many considered Instagram to be worth and Facebook desperately needs help with mobile devices. From Om Malik: A few days ago Instagram was rumored to be valued at $500 million. A few months ago it was $300 million. Its last round …
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Folks with several hundred million dollars and outspoken opinions have been buying up newspapers. The Omaha Herald, San Diego Union Tribune, Portland Press Herald, and Philadelphia Inquirer. At the end of last year, Warren E. Buffett bought The Omaha World-Herald through his company, Berkshire Hathaway. This would be the same Mr. Buffett who told his …
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He became a giant of television for creating The West Wing, then the toast of Hollywood for The Social Network…now Aaron Sorkin, is set to launch one of the most eagerly anticipated media events of the season. The Newsroom, which begins on the cable channel HBO on 24 June. A trailer has been released online, …
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In yet another move to boost its Washington profile, Netflix has formed a political action committee (PAC), new federal records indicate. Called FLIXPAC, the committee may now make contributions donations directly to federal candidates — up to $5,000 per election. And it provides Netflix with another political tool with which to aggressively press a pro-intellectual …
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No, this picture doesn’t show a black and white image of the rebel base on the ice planet Hoth. It’s part of a semi-secret, nuclear-powered U.S. Army base that was built under the Greenland ice cap only 800 miles from the North Pole. The base was officially built to conduct scientific research but the real …
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