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    If you ever happen to turn on The History Channel, you'll notice that the channel has gone from showing actual moments in history to hypothetical moments in history that probably never happened at all. Ancient Aliens is basically a show that shows people with little to no educational background in an subject close to Astronomy. For Example: That guy with the crazy hair, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, is a 1998 graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, with a bachelor's degree in sports information…

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    static high voltage charges that are applied to the resonators via spark gaps (spaces between electrical terminals across which discharges pass.) (These high voltages cause a corona discharge around the perimeter of the outer resonator ring which Nikola Tesla referred to as an “electric brush” and Lakhovsky referred to as…

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    affected me, and having read several of Pratchett’s novels I can attest to the fact that they are rarely purely fictional and often parody or satirise real life people and events. Though his sphere of influence is much smaller than that of Gandhi or Tesla, I doubt that I am the only one in millions of readers to have had their ideas changed by his novels. I admire both the humorous and practical way in which he approaches the world around him. However, this is not the only way in which I have…

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    Communication is a way of expressing one's thoughts or ideas to other humans. Back in time, humans did not have news, media, phones and the internet to keep them connected to family and friends. Unsurprisingly, people out there today take this technology for granted because they rely on these inventions to stay in touch. Everyone in the world wants to know about what has happened as soon that information is available to the general public. The Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties did not have…

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    don't get it at all.” “Plasma is the fourth fundamental state of matter. It is a thing apart from a solid, a liquid, or a gas. Yet it is the most common form of matter in space. They have surrounded the world in manmade plasma. “The scientist Nikola Tesla experimented with electromagnetism and technology to manipulate plasma. He wanted to illuminate the entire atmosphere of the Earth by applying electromagnetic energy to plasma at an altitude of some thirty-five thousand feet. “Earth has…

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    Today people use Internet to watch and listen their preferred TV and radio programs live, watch movies, read a newspaper or books, and one more big advantage, for some of them, is the opportunity to work remotely, without having to be physically present at the workplace. The development of the Internet was accompanied by a phenomenon of the explosion of social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thanks to them, people can always be in touch with their friends or to find those that have…

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    Test results from the Humanmetrics website ("Personality test based on C. Jung and I. Briggs Myers type theory") determined that I am an INTJ. This means I am an Introvert (47%), iNtuitive (6%), Thinking (53%), Judging(44%) or INTJ classification. The INTJ personality type comprises about two to four percent of the population according to the Myers & Briggs Foundation website ("The Myers & Briggs Foundation - How Frequent Is My Type"). Looking at some of the famous people who share my…

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    Early remote control devices began to emerge in the late 1800s. For example, Nikola Tesla patented an idea for the remote control of vessels and vehicles in 1898. The emergence of electrical home appliances began between 1915 and 1920; the decline in domestic servants meant that households needed cheap, mechanical replacements. Domestic…

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    Nikola Tesla a Serbian immigrant who set the standard for all modern day technology with the invention of the alternating current that is used in everything electronic we use today. With the last of these pristine examples we have Bill Gates, the man who completed…

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    It’s been twelve years since Gatsby has passed away, looking back at all the times we shared together I regret so much, I now realize what Gatsby felt like when I told him I would wait for him but fell in love with Tom; that feeling of unrequited love must've hurt Gatsby so much. I think it's kind of funny how I remember the way I used to act, how I would always explicitly ask almost every man, “Are you in love with me?” knowing without a doubt that I was leading them on to believe they might…

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