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How to Make a Cantenna - Homemade Wi-Fi Antenna

This article describes the construction of the "cantenna," a homebrew waveguide wifi antenna that can boost signal strength significantly over most stock wifi antennas.

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Fast and Easy Science Fair Projects: Cellular Can

Transmitting sound by vibrating materials Purpose: To improve the sound of the traditional homemade "tin-can" toy phone. Overview: Sound is formed by an object moving back and forth, or vibrating....

3 comments    tin can human ear improve sound
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Carnival Party Games

This page includes a large assorment of Carnvial party games that you can purchase or make yourself. Some of the Carnival party games include duck pond, ring toss, milk bottle toss, penny toss, basketball shoot and balloon dart game.

13 comments    carnival circus party games
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How To Furnish A Survival Cabin

Building a cabin on a shoestring budget is covered in that Hub...but what about the interior? A basic shell comes first, obviously, but few humans are going to be indefinitely content with living inside a basic wooden box. There are probably as...

12 comments    advice how to home
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The Best Places to Put Your Savings Dollars

I want to give you some suggestions for some of the best places to put your savings dollars. Nowadays, when interest rates are likely to be as low as we will ever see them in our lifetime, it's important to...

2 comments    online savings life insurance
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90s Indie Rock Bands and Albums: Tortoise and the Post-Rock Sound

If you aren't familiar with Tortoise, the first question you probably have after reading this hub is "What on earth is post-rock?"  Let me start by stating that the answer to that question depends on who you are asking.  This writer, for example,...

2 comments    entertainment music arts
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the Filipino children of the 60's, 70's and 80's

I've been missing my childhood years recently, as I see some children in hospitals with some accute diseases or diagnosed as having such. As I enter the lobby and hospital corridors, where I see them in pain...

4 comments    health children friends
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A Short History of the Can Opener

For almost a century and a half the can opener has been a staple gadget in kitchens throughout the world. The reason, of course, for possessing a can opener is the need to open cans containing food. The...

8 comments    food history gadget
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A Mississippi Girl Remembers By Mildred Smith

It was my privilege to go to church with Mildred Smith in El Paso from about 1984 or so on, until we left El Paso in 1992. After we moved, we still kept in touch for many years and then Mildred wrote all of her many adventures in an autobiography called A Mississippi Girl Remembers. Mildred has been a wonderful and supportive friend and my family and I love her.

0 comments    world war ii mississippi el paso
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Kids Crafts: Recycle Cans into Gift Wrapping!

Need a quick gift wrap? Want to recycle cans? Use these simple step by step pictures to turn your cans into cute gift containers.

6 comments    how to children kids
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