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59A Clear Sided Toaster: The Best Kitchen Appliance
With the window on the oven door and the clear display on the microwave door, I would like to find the perfect kitchen appliance - a clear sided toaster that matches the style of my white Cusinart two slot toaster.
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77Top Five World Changing Inventions
Throughout history, humans have been a highly inventive species. By living on our wits, inventing tools as we need them, and constantly innovating in response to environmental challenges, humans have risen to become one of the most successful and...
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74Who was Nikola Tesla
Nicola Tesla was a great inventor, yet many people don't realize he even existed. From the Alternating current to the death ray, he invented many interesting, and some wacky things.
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77The Transit of Venus June 5-6, 2012: See and Experience This Rare Astro-Event
The planet Venus will soon eclipse the Sun for the last time until 2117. Here's how you can watch it, and what the rare Transit of Venus has meant in the past and suggests for our future.
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66Things I Wish I’d Invented
My husband thinks that he is an inventor. He loves to make new things and come up with solutions to our household problems. Sometimes it’s great having my very own MacGyver. Other times, when he uses every paperclip in the house on some new...
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68Sari Saheli- The pleat maker that aids in wearing a Sari (Saree)
The Sari Saheli will help you create the perfect pleats and pallu when you dress in your sari. Sari Saheli will cut down on the time and frustration it takes to perfect the Sari. No need to run to the nearest Auntie to help you fix your pleats any more!
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7465Talking With Senior Citizens
Senior Citizens are a wealth of information that stretches a lifetime and I sit in my chair thinking about the things that my grandparents have seen invented. How they thought this invention was going to make their life easier and to them, the new...
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72The Greatest Invention
Humankind has, and always has had, a remarkable talent for creation. It has produced language and art. It has built cities and machines. It has, over and over again, proved itself capable of moving an abstract concept in the brain to a physical...
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74Robert Walser with Susan Bernofsky in THE ASSISTANT
One of these people is certainly a gifted writer. Or, it is possible, both of them are. But I have read Walser when translated by Middleton and I am never as satisfied as I am when Susan Bernofsky chooses the English words and syntax. And I think it is important to note that Bernofsky is a woman. At any rate, whether it be Jenny Erpenbeck or Robert Walser, every writer's page that Bernofsky translates is rich and full of delight for me.
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