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88The Best Food Dehydrators
In our health conscious world dried fruit and vegetables are becoming more popular. They are a good snack, and if you are into outside sports such as hiking, having dried provisions in your pack saves you...
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85The Best Stainless Steel Electric Kettles
Electric kettles have been around for a long time. In tea drinking countries they tend to be more popular, but with the rise in tea drinking in the United States, the electric kettle is gaining popularity. ...
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76Buying Celebrity Autographs at Auction - How to Ensure Your Autograph is Authentic
Ebay, and other auction sites, have been clamping down as best they can on auctions containing fake autographs. Still it can be notoriously hard to tell a fake from the real deal.
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78SS Great Eastern: Brunel's Greatest Triumph or Folly?
To modern sensibilities the SS Great Eastern looks like a strange hybrid. That's because she was part modern steamship, paddle steamer and sailship at the same time. She had all these means of propulsion...
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83What is the role of accumulating ocean algae in global warming?
Ocean Aglae is one of the components of Phytoplankton. one of the three types of Plankton. According to scientists at Melbourne's Monash University microscopic organisms such as Ocean Algae absorb up to 50%...
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78World War 1: The Scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow
The German Fleet was interned at Scapa Flow, Britain's main North Sea Navy Port, and had been since soon after the surrender. 21st June 1919, Rear-Admiral Ludwig von Reuter sent a signal out to the fleet with extraoridinary consequences.
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76The End of The World in 2012 - What Will You Be Doing?
The Mayans, Nostradamus, and more importantly, The X-Files have predicted that the world will end on 21st December 2012. If you want real precision in that the hour is 11:11 (it might be am or pm depending on...
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79Plastic Money...and We're Not Talking About Credit Cards
When you go to pay for something in Australia you whip out the plastic, regardless of whether you are paying by credit card or cash. You see, Australian banknotes are printed on plastic instead of paper.
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75Book Review: A Fortunate Life
The chances are if you are from Australia you've heard of "A Fortunate Life" even if you haven't read it. Beyond the Australian shores it hasn't had the attention it deserves. That's most probably because the...
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75My Favourite Dish
The request was for your favourite dish: I expect it was about food, but surprisingly it was not the first thing that sprang to mind for me. Parkes Observatory was: a.k.a The Dish. The Dish, for many years,...
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