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		<title>Odd-price tickets of items started by newspaper publisher</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Melville Stone started the Chicago Daily News in 1875, the price was a penny. At first, circulation was high but then dropped off sharply. Stone discovered that the problem was a shortage of pennies in the area. He brought in barrels of pennies and then persuaded merchants to start an “odd-price sale,” selling goods for a penny under the regular price. Thus goods were sold for an amount such as $2,99 (instead of $3). Pennies came back into circulation, Stone sold many newspapers, and we still have odd-price sales tickets.
A few years later Walter Deubner also had a creative [more...]]]></description>
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		<title>First projection of an image on a screen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Necephore Niepce developed the world’s first photographic image in 1827. In 1839 Frenchman Louis Jacques Daguerre introduce a better photographic process and in the same year Englishman William Fox Talbot discovered the process of using negatives and positives to develop photographs. American George Eastman invented the paper film roll for photography in 1885. In 1894 Americans Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the first film camera. In the next year French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere demonstrated a projector system in Paris, screening Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon, the first public movie. It was 46 seconds [more...]]]></description>
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		<title>REO Speedwagon is named after a flatbed truck</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ransom Eli Olds built a three-wheeled carriage in 1887 and a petrol (gasoline) car in 1896. In 1899, he founded the Olds Motor Works, producing the first Oldsmobile in 1901. Although he didn&#8217;t invent the motorcar, he still is known as the &#8220;Father of the Automobile.&#8221; His heavy-duty flatbed truck was considered a milestone in transportation history. It was from this truck that the American rock band REO Speedwagon chose their name. REO is for the name of Ransom Eli Olds.
REO Speedwagon formed in 1967, debuted their self-titled album in 1971. They reached the charts in 1971 with Ridin&#8217; the [more...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wigs that are 3 feet high</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1500 BC in Egypt women shaved their head as the ultimate display in beauty. Remaining hair was removed with special gold tweezers and then their scalps were buffed to a high sheen with soft cloths. Over the next 100 years the rich Egyptian women placed cones of scented grease on their heads, allowing the grease to melt and drip down over their bodies, bathing bodies and clothes in fragrance.
The exact opposite would be in practice by the 18th century in England when women&#8217;s wigs were sometimes 3 ft (1 metre) high. The wigs were dusted with flour and decorated [more...]]]></description>
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		<title>Difference between a flag and a banner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the difference between a flag and a banner? A flag has metal rings on the fly end, the side that goes against the flagpole. It flies horizontally off a vertical flagpole. A banner has a sleeve instead of rings and usually hangs off a small wooded pole attached to a house or office building.
Flag factoids:
The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
When a flag is lowered, no part of it should touch the ground.
A flag or banner should never be used as drapery over a table or for any decoration.
What happens when a flag is [more...]]]></description>
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