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Eight Factoids About Britain’s Royal Baby 24 Jul 2013 | 06:40 pm
With most international media and the royal family celebrating the birth of the third in line to the British throne and the first child of Prince William and Kate Middleton, RFE/RL took a look at a fe...
Electronic Entertainment Expo 2013 highlights 12 Jun 2013 | 06:20 pm
It was the battle of the boxes at the 2013 E3 expo (Electronic Entertainment Expo). Microsoft kicked off with the introduction to their new Xbox One and Sony kicked back with PlayStation 4. Sony stole...
Atlantis 27 May 2013 | 11:27 pm
Atlantis (or Atlantica) was described in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the Pillars of Hercules (the Gibraltar Straits?). It was not, t...
Dollar facts 19 May 2013 | 04:59 pm
It weighs only 0.035 oz (1 gram), is only 16 square inches (0.01m²) in size and consists of cotton and linen but those who do not have it would like to have it and those who have it would like to have...
The memory toolbox 16 May 2013 | 02:44 pm
75 Tips and Resources to Go from Amnesic to Elephantic Many people expect increasing memory loss as they age, but this memory loss can be reduced or stalled with some simple memorization techniques, p...
World’s first Android phone 26 Apr 2013 | 10:23 pm
Phones have come a long way since Innocenzo Manzetti played around with the idea of a ”speaking telegraph” in 1844. Development of the landline telephone came in leaps and bounds but it is the mobile ...
The Brave New World Of 3D Printing 13 Apr 2013 | 01:34 pm
It merited just one line in U.S. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address in February 2013, but it could change the very nature of manufacturing, alter the global trade balance, and potenti...
How safe are your emails and phone calls? 11 Apr 2013 | 06:18 pm
The 21st-century surveillance industry is hi-tech, sophisticated and terrifyingly pervasive, it is revealed in more than 200 brochures, presentations and other marketing materials published by WikiLea...
World’s longest road 26 Mar 2013 | 11:00 pm
The Pan-American Highway is the longest road in the world. It runs from Fairbanks, Alaska to Buenos Aires, Argentina, stretching 29,800 miles (47,958 km). But it was never completed. A portion called ...
The wood man 13 Mar 2013 | 07:27 pm
Over the years you might have received an email with amazing pictures of wooden cars being driven in the canals of Venice, Italy. Not only are the wooden cars creations to admire but the fact that the...
