Tour a French Mansion ? The Palacete Los Moreau
2009-12-18 02:00:00 A French coffee hacienda in Puerto Rico - what a surprise! The Old Ladadie House (aka the Palacete los Moreau) is located in the town of Moca, in the north-west part of Puerto Rico. This lovely, old house has been turned into a museum, and they offer great, informative tours about the house and the people who lived there. What a wonderful piece of Puerto Rican history and a local treasure. It?s really worth a visit.This article is copyright © PuertoRicoDayTrips.com Travel Guide. Stay at Coqui's Hideaway in the Rain Forest! You can find the original article atTour a French Mansion – The Palacete Los Moreau
Social Media Makes "Mr.Splashypants" Internet Famous!
2009-12-17 15:55:00 In a very humorous rapid-fire delivery on YouTube, Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the popular social voting news Web site Reddit tells a story how one humpback whale became Internet famous. See how "Greenpeace," became the Captain Ahab in pursuit of a new name for Moby Dick on the Social Media High Seas!
Top Ten Graphic Novels On Kindle
2009-12-16 20:54:00 With the accessibility of Kindle and eBook reading devices, our readership habits have changed measurably over the last few years. Many of us are returning to the types of fiction we read as kids. Comic books are becoming popular again. And for those that like extended version of comics, the graphic novel may be more to your liking. If so, you're in luck as that genre has found a new home on Kindle, just in time for the holiday season.
The Omnipotent, Omniscient & Ubiquitous Google Continues To Up Ante
2009-12-15 16:11:00 'To Google' has become the universal generic term, meaning "to search." In the last 70 days there has been 38 new products added to the Search King's arsenal of tools. Even with Bing's 100 million advertising campaign, nothing seems to be able to impede the Google machine or crack a chink in its fortified armor. Today, with approximately 70 percent domination of the global search market, the omnipotent, omniscient, omnivorous and ubiquitous Google keeps upping the ante to stay on top of the search engine game. And here is why...
Catch Great Views at the Rincon Lighthouse
2009-12-11 01:00:00 With 16 lighthouses to visit and explore, Puerto Rico is a dream location for lighthouse enthusiasts. Some of our lighthouses are very old and very beautiful. The Rincon lighthouse isn?t particularly either of those. However, it is a great place to watch surfers, the sunset, and dolphins and whales.This article is copyright © PuertoRicoDayTrips.com Travel Guide. Stay at Coqui's Hideaway in the Rain Forest! You can find the original article atCatch Great Views at the Rincon Lighthouse
Ride an ATV Just Minutes from San Juan
2009-12-07 04:00:00 Tropical Trail Rides ATV Tours at Hacienda Campo Rico is located just a few minutes from San Juan, and yet it feels like a world away. Hacienda Campo Rico is a 2,200 acre "ranch" so the ATVs have loads of trails. They go through fields and forests, up and down hills and through mud puddles. And then you get to explore a cave filled with bats and more. It is a ton of fun!This article is copyright © PuertoRicoDayTrips.com Travel Guide. Stay at Coqui's Hideaway in the Rain Forest! You can find the original article atRide an ATV Just Minutes from San Juan
HISTORY OF HOUSE MUSIC AT HOUSE OF BLUES
2009-12-07 01:46:00 Chicago is home to House Music which has been Chicago's underground music scene for many years. Some of Chicago's popular "house music" DJ's where out in full force for the "History of House Music" Dance party at the House of Blues. Hundreds of Househeads jammed the House of Blues to dance to DJ's Julian "Jumping" Perez, Kenny "Jammin" Jason, Terry Hunter, Wayne Williams, Andre Hatchett and the Diz....
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King of a High Rank
2009-11-30 07:05:00 Pervaiz Munir Alvi Eighteenth Century Ruler of Modern Day Afghanistan and Pakistan Ahmad Shah Durrani was born in 1722 as Ahmad Khan Abdali at the city of Multan. At the age of twenty five he...
By: Light Within
A/C: A History of Depicting Thanksgiving, Political Art, Open Books Opens
2009-11-26 16:00:00 Photograph by spencewine Celebrate Thanksgiving with Art Talk Chicago's a historical view of the holiday's depictions.And, the Poetry Foundation has a collection of Thanksgiving poems for you.What do you think about political art? I know what Jeriah Hildwine thinks.Veronica Bond runs down reviews the opening of the new Open Books used bookstore. In television news, it seems that our local Fox station isn't particularly good at math...Hyde Park's newest arts space, The Op Shop, will open tomorrow with its first show in a formerly vacant storefront, but just because they're open doesn't mean they're done accepting submissions.The GB Book Club also reviews The Monster Variations by Daniel Kraus. If you head down to Hyde Park, maybe you also want to check out "gothic melodrama" at the Court Theater.Brian Dickie...
Ahmad Shah Durrani: A King of High Rank
2009-11-25 04:52:00 Pervaiz Munir Alvi Eighteenth Century Ruler of Modern Day Afghanistan and Pakistan Ahmad Shah Durrani was born in 1722 as Ahmad Khan Abdali at the city of Multan. At the age of twenty five he...
By: Light Within
Bears History Not Filled With Stud Wideouts
2009-11-22 18:37:00 Everyone knows that the Bears have a long, storied history in trying to find a real franchise quarterback. Hopefully Cutler can be that for the next 4-5 years. But in thinking about it, you have to say that the Bears haven't exactly excelled in drafting or acquiring wide receivers either. Here's a look at some of the prominent receivers that were hits or misses on the Bears....
Pakistan Railway on the West Bank
2009-11-20 07:06:00 Owais Mughal Railways in areas now comprising Pakistan started with the first track opening between Karachi and Kotri on May 13, 1861. For the next 18 years, freight from Karachi port was shipped...
By: Light Within
Where Have You Been? – Ask Google Latitude’s Location History
2009-11-17 08:52:00 When you get lost in a jungle, you still want to get away with it, sheer determination, marking your footmarks on the trees you passed and keeping by the riverbed is the key. Then came the age of Sat Nav tools to help you know which part of the jungle are you baffled at. The social media revolution also helped people to forget the perplexity of a situation and interact with friends no matter what part of the globe they are heading. Integrating the social networking gaga with global positioning, the so called King of search engines devised Google Latitude. Today Google Latitude helps people keep a track of friends and families wanting to constantly know about their location. Pretty genitive, isn’t it? Well, it might help someone to keep an eye on the girlfriend/boyfriend who has the habit to go venturing around for possible opportunities. Semantics remain, while Google Latitude take their technology a step ahead and abide location history to their kitty. The service was includ...
By: WATblog
Ten by Ten Week Ten Results: History in the Making
2009-11-10 01:41:00 For the first time this season, no one posted a higher score than FBT's Kevin Paul. FBT should acknowledge the superb effort of Marty Homan who tied Kevin's score of 60 points, but lost on the tie-breaker.On to last week's results......
History in the making
2009-10-28 22:30:00 I'm not one to just pass along press-releases that are sent to me, but with President Obama signing the Matthew Shepard/James Bryd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law today, I had to share this with you. This was sent to me from the Out & Equal Workplace Advocates and felt their words conveyed exactly how all of us in the LGBT Community are feeling today.There will be a reception at the White House at 6:05PM EDT, if you are on Facebook (and granted who isn't) you can join in on the live chat and video stream. on this historic day. It took much too long, more than a decade. And it came at too great a price: the brutal killings...
Only black tv news sportscaster in Chicago history to do fill-in work on th
2009-10-21 03:40:00 Bruce Wolf, the only black sportscaster in Chicago tv news history, will fill in on the SCORE (670AM) with Mark Grote from 9 to noon Sunday. There is no Bears game until 3:15 p.m., so there is no worry that Wolf will taint the Bears mystique by being close to the station's pre- and post-game coverage. "By black, I mean it metaphorically," said Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1993. "I mean it kind of like I meant it for Bill Clinton, although everyone misunderstood it when I said it about him," she said....
Like People in History (Part 1): An Assassinated Spanish Poet and An Ideali
2009-10-18 14:50:00 In this series of articles, tMF puts the spotlight on films which deals with certain important historical events or the portrayal of important historical figures. - - -- - - In Part 1, we're featuring 2 films - Goodbye, Lenin! and Little Ashes - and you might wonder why.... The complete details on the event or the historical figure and about the movies right after the jump! - - -The Berlin Wall, The Fall of Comunism and an Idealistic German YouthOn November 9, Europe will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. What better way to celebrate than to watch a movie with Berlin as the backdrop? During its existence from 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall stopped almost all such emigration and separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter of a century. The Wall included guard towers lining large concrete walls circumscribing a wide area (later known as the "death strip") containing anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. A...
This Day in Wrestling History
2009-09-24 06:02:00 Greg Valentine defeated Tito Santana for the WWWF(WWE) Intercontinental title.September 24, 1984Shawn Michaels & Diesel defeated Owen Hart & Yokozuna for the WWF(E) Tag Team title.September 24, 1995
By: KLQ Blog
Gizmodo Gallery Gives Geeks Gadget Goosebumps
2009-09-24 03:28:00 Gizmodo, the Internet's premiere gadget guide is hosting the second annual Gizmodo Gallery. The gallery, which opened today in New York City and closes September 27, is totally interactive, but it's not online. It's live! And its collection of one-of-a-kind original gadgets are every geek's wet dream.
Tab History Menu: accede al historial de una pestaña desde la pestaña mis
2009-09-23 13:23:00 Tab History Menu te permite acceder al historial de una pestaña haciendo click sobre ella. Se abrirá una lista con todas las páginas que hayas visitado dentro de esa misma pestaña. Puedes ir a cualquiera de ellas haciendo click o abrirlas en nuevas pestañas haciendo click medio. Es una útil extensión si estás buscando desocupar algo de espacio en la barra de herramientas del navegador, ya que puedes usar esta extensión en sustitución de los botones predeterminados de Atrás/Adelante. Si la pestaña que estás utilizando no tiene historial, pues estás aún en la primera página visitada dentro de esa pestaña, el menú mostrará únicamente el tÃtulo de la página, y la recargará si haces click en ella. Este comportamiento puede suprimirse en las opciones de la extensión, donde también se le puede indicar que abra o no el historial en combinación con las teclas May, Ctrl o Alt. Tab History Menu Copyright © 2009 Zona Firefox | Twitter: @zonafirefox También te p...
By: Zona Firefox
This Day in Wrestling History
2009-09-23 12:08:00 Happy Birthday to Matt HardySeptember 23, 1974Kurt Angle defeated Steve Austin for the WWF(E) Heavyweight title and Christian defeated Edge for the WWF(E) Intercontinental title.September 23, 2001
By: KLQ Blog
The Highwayman Truck: TV History For Sale
2009-09-23 07:01:00 After creating the first Knight Rider TV series, Glen Larson took the same formula and substituted a futuristic semi truck for a Pontiac Firebird. The result? A pilot movie and nine episodes of a TV show called "The Highwayman," broadcast on NBC in late 1987 and early 1988. Th
Heather Locklear Returns to MELROSE PLACE, History Repeats Itself in More W
2009-09-22 16:08:00 After saving the original MELROSE PLACE from the brink of cancellation almost two decades ago, history is about to repeat itself thanks to this morning’s announcement that has Heather Locklear set to reprise her role as scheming vixen Amanda Woodward on the CW’s fledgling MELROSE PLACE re-boot starting November 17. And while our inner-teenaged TV Addict — you know, the one that was so obsessed with MELROSE PLACE that we actually had this poster (pictured above) on our wall is really really excited — our slightly older and far more realistic inner-adult TV Addict is worried. Especially when you take into account the CW’s press release that touts Heather Locklear joining “original castmates Laura Leighton, Thomas Calabro, Josie Bisset and Daphne Zuniga in the updated version for The CW.” Note the absence to any next gen tenants such as the deliciously manipulative Katie Cassidy or our favorite hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold Stephanie Jacobsen. It’...
By: the TV addict
A Tie For Hosni
2009-09-22 15:43:00 Now it is either Egyptian ?unfortunately? Farouk Hosni and Bulgarian Irina Bokova after their tie in yesterday?s fourth round in UNESCO elections for 29-29 votes. The last 48 hours were tense for Hosni , after all what he got 4 votes compared to Bokova who got 16 votes. The United States and France for sure are standing behind her along with the European countries that believe Hosni does not deserve this important cultural position. The international press continues its attack on Hosni who always felt that the national press was attacking him , let him taste the really media attack is , French Le Monde attacked him and NY Times introduced a new disturbing unknown fact to the Western reader about Hosni : While being the Egyptian cultural attaché in Rome, he helped to organize the escape from Italy in 1985 of the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro !! This fact was taken from an Elaph?s website article that I can?t determine whether it is with or agains...
This Day in Wrestling History
2009-09-22 11:56:00 Owen Hart & Davy Boy Smith defeated the Smokin' Guns for the WWF(E) Tag Team title.September 22, 1996ECW interrupts a match at a WWF(E) In Your House PPV. The Sandman, Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer bought ring side tickets. The three are escorted out of the building after The Sandman spits beer on Savio Vega.September 22, 1996
By: KLQ Blog
Laila Abdel Salam Speaks For The First Time on TV
2009-09-22 10:12:00 Honestly I wish that Mona El-Shazely did that interview with Laila Abdel aka the Real Samia Fahmy who is currently working in Al Ahrar newspaper. Laila Abdel Salam speaks with Amr Adib along Ambassador Dr.Rafaat El-Ansari who had his share in the real spies war. Ambassador El-Ansari has very interesting story which insh Allah will be featured in Egyptian Chronicles after my recovery ;) She revealed more information about her story which is simple and so short , her trip in Italy , it only took about a month or even less to arrest Mario , the Spy of Israel in Egypt , yes he was not in Rome but in Egypt. By the way here is Laila in early 1970s, she looked like Nahed El-Sharif more than Menna Shalby if I may say.
At War with Iran for Thirty Years | History News Network
2009-09-22 05:57:00 From the earliest days of Iran?s Islamic Revolution, its leaders were determined to acquire nuclear weapons and the missiles with which to deliver them. From the beginning, America was always identified as Iran?s greatest enemy, the ?Great Satan?, while Israel was called the ?Little Satan.? It is criminally stupid, if not insane, to believe that Iran ...
By: 1913 Intel
'Twitter Wit' Is The New Algonquin Roundtable
2009-09-21 17:57:00 Endorsed with a foreword by Biz Stone, Twitter Wit is the new Harper Collins collection of "the funniest tweets of all time." Satiric humor in 140 characters or less includes one-liners from some of the Twitterati's most famous wordsmiths including Stephen Colbert, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Fry in addition to many more unknown would-be humorists.
A brief history of whatever
2009-09-21 16:04:00 The recent ALT-C conference in Manchester included a keynote presentation from Michael Wesch, the social anthropologist from Kansas State University who is perhaps most famous for his work on YouTube and his viral videos A Vision of Students Today and Web 2.0 the Machine is Us/ing Us. The first half of the keynote looked at issues ...
Scientific tourist #91 ? the Viking lander
2009-09-21 14:07:00 This week's image is a scan of an old photograph I took at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (i.e., JPL) in Pasadena, California back in the late 1980's -- its an image of an engineering model of the Viking landers...
The Key To Qaddafi?s Personality
2009-09-21 13:18:00 I know that I am lazy and I should have written this post from couple of weeks ago when the Fath so called Revolution 40th celebrations were the talk of world after all it was not usual to see all those guests especially from the west celebrating with Qaddafi , the same man they fought for 40 years. 40 Years had passed and the Libyan policies have been changing in the same way the moods of Qaddafi have been, from socialism to capitalism, from East to West , from Arab nationalism to African nationalism, from a colonel who downed a monarchy to the king of kings of Africa. Of course in this year?s celebration the main focus Qaddafi as it has always been in the past 40 years in Libya. To understand the key of this man?s personality who many consider mad , we must go back to history but I must tell you that this an is not mad as you may think. It was well known and documented that when Qaddafi led his coup against the As-Senussi Royal Family in 1969 President Nasser congratulated th...
This Day in Wrestling History
2009-09-21 12:12:00 Happy Birthday to Ricky Morton of the Rock 'n Roll Express.September 21, 1956Bill Goldberg defeated Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship at Unforgiven.September 21, 2003
By: KLQ Blog
Farouk Hosni Official Website
2009-09-21 09:39:00 Farouk Hosni has launched an official website : Farouk Hosny which includes his news, his biography , his personal photo gallery, his so-called achievements, his speeches and interviews?etc !! Ah and his terrible , really terrible paintings !! Strangely he did not include that criticism in his website. Did he mention that he used to spy on Egyptians and Arabs in 1970s among his achievement ?? Technorati Tags: Egyptians,Farouk Hosni,official Website,UNESCO,Politics,Culture-,Geek,Arts,Paintings,History,Ci-tizen Journalism,Mideast,Middle East
Absinthe In History - 1869
2009-09-21 03:36:00 The following is an entry from a British pharmaceutical journal dated 1869. Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions By Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1869 ABSINTHE. Much has been written lately in the daily press and medical journals on the effects of absinthe drinking, now becoming so general among all classes in France. The following article first appeared in the ' Pall Mall Gazette ':? read more
By: Absinthe Blog
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Queen Fatimah of Libya
2009-09-20 11:43:00 For the first time since a very long time Queen Fatimah of Libya , the last living Queen from the Senussi dynasty was the subject of an Arabic newspaper report . Of course I understand why the Saudi owned Pan Arab newspaper Al Sharq Al Awsat made a report about the 91 years old Queen in exile in the same Qaddafi was celebrating the 40 anniversary of his co-called revolution which is a military coup to be accurate. Queen Fatimah has been living in exile in Cairo since the revolution in 1969 , currently the old Queen is in hospital , hopefully she will get well. I wish time will come and she will see the day her country without Al-Qaddafi. The former Queen has won recently a lawsuit against the State in Libya to restore her old palace in some Libyan city , I do not know if it were Benghazi or Tripoli but I know that currently this palace is the new HQ of the British Embassy in Libya if I were not mistaken. Here is a photo taken for her from several years ago along with an adv...
This Day in Wrestling History
2009-09-20 06:14:00 Happy Birthday to Greg "The Hammer" ValentineSeptember 20, 1951Happy Birthday to Arn Anderson (Martin Anthony Lunde)September 20, 1958Shawn Michaels became the first ever "grand slam" winner in the history of the WWF(E) (Heavyweight, I.C., European, Tag)September 20, 1997Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Chyna form D-Generation X.September 20, 1997 Vince McMahon gave up the WWF(E) Heavyweight title and declared it vacant.September 20, 1999
By: KLQ Blog
I Miss That Ad So Much
2009-09-19 11:57:00 There are generations in Egypt where were raised upon that wonderful ad including my generation :) RiRi's Classical Ad RiRi used to be our Egyptian Cerelac. I really miss that ad and that jingle and its lyrics. I miss it so much in Ramadan :) Technorati Tags: Citizen Journalism,Media,Arts,Cartoon,T-Vs,Ads,Jingle,Cerelac,Riri,babi-es,Egypt,Egyptians,history,Cult-ure,nostalgia
Porto Aswan : The Regime?s Response To Nubian Demands !!
2009-09-18 11:52:00 I found the news circulating around ?Porto Aswan? very interesting if we consider the timing, coming right after the historical visit of Gamal Mubarak to Nuba where he advised the people there ?Not to live in the past? hinting out that they won?t return to the land they want to return to for years ?Porto Aswan? is said to be a huge touristic project planned in Aswan by tourism tycoon Mansour Amer to join his ?Porto World? empire in Egypt and in the Arab world ?He is building one in Syria?. I do not need to elaborate how the historical , social and environmental nature of Aswan can?t have such huge touristic project. The news is causing huge anger in Egypt especially in Aswan , the people there are extremely angry and I will summarize their anger in what Mohamed Mounir has said : ?I pull the rocks of the great pyramid if the government approves that project? It is not only them but anyone who loves this country will refuse this project which unfortunately is not a rumor becaus...
TV's Going To Pot - Cannabis Planet Launches!
2009-09-17 19:41:00 When someone tells you that TV is "going to pot," you can now take them literally, because "all things marijuana" has found a TV channel it can call its own! It's the latest in a new wave of niche marketing where TV programming is devoted to one topic!
World's Top 10 Valuable Brands
2009-09-17 16:49:00 The business of building brands is a tough one. And it takes years of hard work, great service, great product, sustained socially responsible work and a lot more to create a brand that people hold store by. In today's ever-changing economy, entrepreneurs seek specialists' help to launch their products and create brands.Often big corporate houses cough up millions to help bolster their brands so that consumers remember who they are. Once a brand succeeds in striking a chord with the consumers, half the marketing battle is won.Here are the world's top 10 corporate brands.1. Coca-ColaCoca-Cola is one of the most recognised brands and logos in the world. Its brand value is worth $66,667 million. Its parent company is Coca-Cola.It was created in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr John S Pemberton. The bottle is among the most recognisable icons in the world, its design standing for the youthful exuberance of United States of America.Coca-Cola was first offered as a fountain beverage by mixing Coc...
By: Believe OR Not
Intute launches themed research sites for historians
2009-09-17 14:42:00 Intute has recently launched five quick guides for historians wanting to make the most of the Web for research. Each of the guides is introduced by an academic expert in their field and features links to the best websites for new researchers and those seeking primary sources. At present, there are guides to research in the ...
Rosetta Houses
2009-09-17 10:26:00 I spoke about the Rosetta old houses before when I was wondering about that old house forgotten by the ministry of culture and the supreme council of antiquities despite other houses in the city were restored and inaugurated by Mubarak last year. This slideshow will show you how beautiful the old houses of Rosetta are and how the Tawakitty house can be so beautiful too if the ministry of culture remembers it. Some people will consider this an achievement of Farouk Hosni and I tell them , well this is the least thing he can do , already this is his job to look after our national heritage ,the heritage which has been stolen , attacked and destroyed for the past 20 years. Technorati Tags: Citizen Journalism,Egypt,Culture,Arts,F-ollow Up,Media,National,History,Photo-s,Rosette,Farouk Hosni,Tawakitty House,Nile Delta,Middle East
Immortality Industry: Secure Storage For Memories and DNA
2009-09-16 23:15:00 Believe it or not, there's an industry being built on our quest for immortality, and one bank is preserving lives with the security of a Swiss bank.
Habitat Turning Hashtag Spam Into 'Green Eggs & Ham'?
2009-09-16 19:09:00 The power of social media and real-time search can turn on anyone in a moment's notice when misconduct online takes the spotlight. As evidenced recently by Kanye West, Joe Wilson, United Airlines and countless others, there are no "get out of jail free cards," when individuals and brands misbehave badly. The immediacy and the transparency of social media will catch you every time.
10 Greatest Chess Players in History
2009-09-16 15:26:00 There is no doubt that throughout the history of chess there have been many superb players who have reshaped and redefined the way the game is played. This list is an attempt to examine and categorize the greatest of those. No doubt there are many worthy names that could be added, but here is the Top 10 who I believe have rightly earned their places as the greats. The criterion used is based upon a number of factors including dominance over contemporaries, length of career at the top, contributions to chess and individual flair and brilliance. Please note this is not a head to head of who would beat who, as most modern professional players would dominate the forefathers of yesteryear due to developments in Chess Theory, but a historical look at the greats10) Viswanathan AnandViswanathan Anand (pronounced [?i?????n???t???n ??n??nd?], Tamil: ?????????? ??????) (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion.Anand held the FIDE World Chess Ch...
By: Believe OR Not
Half-Hour History of Turbochargers
2009-09-15 16:03:00 Funny how history repeats itself. During the fuel crises of the 1970s, many automotive engineers latched on to turbochargers as a means of reducing weight and thus saving fuel while maintaining the power outputs we're used to. During the fuel crisis of the last couple years, turbochargers sudd
Crain's Golf Blog: Chicago witnesses history
2009-09-14 21:18:00 Golf fans in Chicago are witnessing history up close, as Tiger Woods is doing some of his best work around town. His 62 on Saturday at the BMW Championship at Cog Hill, and his 8-shot win Sunday means that nearly 10% of his 71 PGA victories have taken place in front of our eyes.Since turning pro in 1997, he has won 5 of 11 starts at Cog Hill. He is 2 for 2 at Medinah Country Club with two PGA Championships. Only Olympia Fields has eluded him, as he failed to win the 2003 U.S. Open.This year's BMW makes it tougher on Cog Hill to win a U.S. Open. Read the rest of Ed's blog, which includes his usual Birdies...
Scientific tourist #90 ? the RL-10 rocket engine
2009-09-14 14:08:00 This week's image comes to you from the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamagordo, New Mexico -- it's a cutaway of an RL-10 rocket engine... |
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