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Hamilton on $50 Bill?
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Richard Hancock, USA, 06/21/15 4:10 am)
Jack Lew, the current Secretary of the Treasury, has proposed that a picture of an outstanding woman replace the face of Alexander Hamilton on the US ten-dollar bill. There are two articles in the Ju
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Early Bird Satellite Turns 50
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Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 06/28/15 7:24 am)
Today (28 June) marks 50 years from the day in which, thanks to the satellite Early Bird, it was possible to communicate between the USA and Europe.
It worked for 48 months and it is orbiting in
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World Communication: Email
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Ronald Hilton, USA, 02/01/05 9:32 am)
John
Heelan wrote: I would be grateful if WAISers did not include very large
files (such as pictures or videos) in their messages, as they consume
enormous amounts of transmission time for
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Re: Tatoos
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Ronald Hilton, USA, 08/02/03 5:22 am)
Robert
Whealey said of tatoos: "I do not belong to a tribal culture of Tahiti
or Africa, and I find it curious that a white would pretend to be black
or America
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Doubts on Futurology
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Alain de Benoist, France, 02/21/11 3:48 am)
I don't think the new WAIS topic of "Futurology" will be very interesting.
In general, futurology does not help much. Most long-term predictions are just wishful thinking. When the
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Ossip Kurt von Flechtheim
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Charles Ridley, USA, 02/18/11 5:37 pm)
My sole personal encounter with an individual who would later become a futurologist occurred just after the Second World War, when I was a rather young nerd and were living in a two-story apart
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Pearl Harbor
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Jon Kofas, Greece, 12/09/11 8:32 am)
Throughout the history of the US, there have been many conspiracy theories, from presidential assassinations to the hidden causes and ulterior motives for which the US has gone to war. Some of those t
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JFK Again
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Tor Guimaraes, USA, 12/26/10 6:30 pm)
We have had quite a few WAIS postings about the JFK assassination, most generally dismissing the vast collection of conspiracy theories possibly designed to cheapen any possible truthful alternative t
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Go (Chicago) Bears!
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David Duggan, USA, 12/25/18 1:24 pm)
As the rest of the world celebrates the Feast of the Incarnation (I don't say Merry Christmas: too much Dickens, not enough Pusey) amid drones circling London airports, troop withdrawals in t
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Tennis: US Open Recap
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David Duggan, USA, 09/11/18 3:56 am)
2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the US (Tennis) Open, now in the books. Along with the tributes to stadium namesake Billie Jean King (beaten by Virginia Wade in the finals that year; with par
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