Tuesday, 21 July 2015

When did the first world war started and ended

Top sites by search query "when did the first world war started and ended"

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/17/topstories3.russia
But Mikko Hyppoenen, a Finnish expert, told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper that it would be difficult to prove the Russian state's responsibility, and that the Kremlin could inflict much more serious cyber-damage if it chose to. The attacks have been pouring in from all over the world, but Estonian officials and computer security experts say that, particularly in the early phase, some attackers were identified by their internet addresses - many of which were Russian, and some of which were from Russian state institutions

  http://science.time.com/2013/11/01/oceans-warming-faster-than-they-have-over-past-10000-years/
In addition, according to the comment by the editor of Science, "The findings support the view that the Holocene Thermal Maximum, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age were global events, and they provide a long-term perspective for evaluating the role of ocean heat content in various warming scenarios for the future."You forgot to mention that the pacific ocean has been much warmer over most of the last 10,000 years. Maybe your experience is different and you never got more than 3 feet offshore and faced inland all the time.Perhaps, instead of shooting from the hip with utterly invalid comparisons, you'd actually look up something to really understand what the hell you're talking about for a change

  http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html
This was a bitter disappointment to some researchers, who gratefully would have committed nearly every waking moment toward shaping what they envisioned would be the communications system of the future. Some, like the BGCOLOR attribute of the BODY element and FONT FACE, which control stylistic aspects of a document, found themselves in the black books of the academic engineering community

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
It was recognised that Abstract Expression- ism was the kind of art that made Socialist Realism look even more stylised and more rigid and confined than it was. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War

  http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444464304577539063008406518
Jack Greer 5pts The internet is "common property" that hasn't spurred an unprecedented gold rush of private innovation and wealth??? Very well considered comment, Laura Jean. Marty Fouts 5pts I'm not Vint Cerf, but I've been around what has come to be called "The Internet", and it's predecessors, since the 1970s, amd Mr Crovitz is simply wrong

  http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21578665-nearly-1-billion-people-have-been-taken-out-extreme-poverty-20-years-world-should-aim/
It is doing quite nicely, largely thanks to the same economic principles that helped the developed world grow rich and could pull the poorest of the poor out of destitution. Many Westerners have reacted to recession by seeking to constrain markets and roll globalisation back in their own countries, and they want to export these ideas to the developing world, too

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/business/
In your own time 35 Comments 20 Jul 16:34 Fondleslab, wristjob action just not doing it for Apple right now Company in entirely expected Q3 sales news shocker! 15 Comments 20 Jul 12:07 Oi, Europe: join in the sharing economy fun, yells Gov.uk Dept publishes important 'non-paper' on the sharing economy 10 Comments 20 Jul 11:52 Strategy: Key to success or a set of MBA-made handcuffs Reg Roundtable Possibly the most abused word in this industry. Shaun Nichols, 21 Jul 20:29 Staff at stumbling server storage supplier QLogic brace for big layoffs Up to a fifth of workers at risk as business faces downturn Chris Mellor, 21 Jul 18:19 Big Blue bafflement: Anyone in IBM Storage know which way is up? Comment Because at the moment it's going down, down, down, down, down, down ..

Hyperloop Is Real: Meet The Startups Selling Supersonic Travel - Forbes


  http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2015/02/11/hyperloop-is-real-meet-the-startups-selling-supersonic-travel/
But get behind the pretension and you find a world-class engineer, who did all of the design work on the second-stage engine of the Falcon 1 and was the lead architect for the heat shield of the Dragon capsule. A big-hearted oversharer quick with hugs, tears and humble-brags, he drops the names of celebrity friends (Jay Z, Edward Norton, Sean Penn) likes dimes in a jukebox

  http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/05/-versch-auml-rfte-vernehmung/228158/
The Court did not regard any of the above-mentioned circumstances as a sufficient reason for mitigating the punishment and found it necessary to act with the utmost severity. Money quote: As extenuating circumstances, Bruns had pleaded various incidents in which he had helped Norwegians, Schubert had pleaded difficulties at home, and Clemens had pointed to several hundred interrogations during which he had treated prisoners humanely

The Predator War - The New Yorker


  http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/26/the-predator-war
(The incident is being investigated by NATO.) According to a reporter for the Guardian, the bomb strike, by an F-15E fighter plane, left such a tangle of body parts that village elders resorted to handing out pieces of unidentifiable corpses to the grieving families, so that they could have something to bury. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, in August, 1998, President Bill Clinton retaliated, by launching seventy-five Tomahawk cruise missiles at a site in Afghanistan where bin Laden was expected to attend a summit meeting

Did Tony die at the end of The Sopranos?: David Chase finally answers the question he wants fans to stop asking - Vox


  http://www.vox.com/2014/8/27/6006139/did-tony-die-at-the-end-of-the-sopranos
Yet somehow these creators following their own passions came together to serve Chase's vision that, as he wrote to me in an e-mail, "Nature is part of Our Universe and Our Universe is part of Nature and there could well be more universes or mirror universes." Coulter is more aware than most about this other side of Chase. Welles' magic, Bunuel's real-looking dreams, Poe's sand that keeps flowing through our fingers no matter what we try to do to stop it, are the inspirations for the cut to black

  http://ww2today.com/
The physical and mental strain of the long hours at dispersal, the constant flying at high altitudes (two or three sorties a day were normal, six or seven not uncommon), must have been prodigious. Jul 18 1940 Rising casualties at home, Mediterranean fleet bombed During the operations in the Eastern Mediterranean last week the Fleet and the slower of the two convoys from Malta to Alexandria which the Fleet was covering were continually bombed without success

  http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/
All the elements of the story point forward to that moment: the decision to build a bomb, the secret research at Los Alamos, the first impressive test, and the final culmination at Hiroshima. In the 48 years since, many others have joined the fray: some echoing Alperovitz and denouncing the bombings, others rejoining hotly that the bombings were moral, necessary, and life-saving

The Mongol War Machine: How were the Mongols able to forge the largest contiguous land empire in history? :


  http://www.thepicaproject.org/?page_id=522
However, if the Mongols were to conquer the world, they would need to be disciplined and be loyal to something or someone more than to themselves and loot. Once the Mongols became master besiegers, the tactic of hiding behind massive stone walls instead of fielding armies to face the Mongols in the open, actually helped the Mongols to beat them, because the Mongols just took every city and town they came across one by one, defeating enemies in a piecemeal fashion

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