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The League of Nations by The Ovi Team 10 January 2021 On January 10, 1920, the League of Nations formally comes into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by 42 nations in 1919, takes effect. In 1914, a political assassination in Sarajevo... (Add a comment) | Dashiell Hammett by The Ovi Team 10 January 2021 January 10th 1961. Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon, dies on this day. (Add a comment) | Travel, Vacation & Meaning by Nikos Laios 09 January 2021 2020 will go down as the most challenging year for the world in quite awhile, and as I write this it's the 30th of December and I'm waiting for the New Year vacationing down at a little coastal surfing town called Bulli... (1 comment) | Environmental Capitalism and Climate Change Wars: Australia in 2000 by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 09 January 2021 The Australian was convinced. "Australia could have avoided two decades of climate change wars had the Howard government pushed ahead with its majority view of an emissions trading scheme (ETS), newly released documents... (Add a comment) | Different types of conversation with people I've met by Joseph Gatt 09 January 2021 One of the most complicated aspects in my trade is having conversation with different people, because individuals tend to have their own conversation styles. Each individual has their own style. (Add a comment) | Berserk Alert! #150 by Tony Zuvela 09 January 2021 Tony Zuvela and his view of the world around us in a constant berserk alert! (Add a comment) | iPhone birthday by The Ovi Team 09 January 2021 January 9th, On this day in 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone - touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features - at the Macworld convention in San Francisco. (1 comment) | Bond features Aston Martin by The Ovi Team 09 January 2021 January 9th 1965; James Bond movie "Goldfinger," driving an Aston Martin Silver Birch DB5 sports car premiers. Aston Martins would go on to appear in a number of other Bond films. Aston Martin's roots date back to 1913, when Robert Bamford and Lionel M (Add a comment) | A Couple of Thoughts by Jan Sand 08 January 2021 Energy and time are intertwined in entropy which theoretically can somehow be reversed (but, I find this intellectually most odd. This is no real obstacle in physics intellectually - to quote J:B:S:Haldane "The universe is... (Add a comment) | Proxy Jailor: Denying Assange Bail by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 08 January 2021 History, while not always a telling guide, can be useful. But in moments of flushed confidence, it is not consulted and Cleo is forgotten. A crisp new dawn can negate a glance to the past. Having received the unexpected news... (Add a comment) | Tourism assets and liabilities by Joseph Gatt 08 January 2021 Last time I discussed tourism policy and planning at length. Here's some additional information that you will need in tourism policy planning. There are a few factors that you will need to consider, which are... (Add a comment) | Carl Rogers: Healing the Person and the State by Rene Wadlow 08 January 2021 Carl Ransom Rogers,(8 January 1902 - 4 February 1987) an active World Citizen, was a US psychologist and educator and a leading figure of what is often called "the third wave of psychology." (Add a comment) | Randolph Hearst stops Citizen Kane by The Ovi Team 08 January 2021 January 8th, one of Hollywood's most famous clashes of the titans - an upstart "boy genius" filmmaker versus a furious 76-year-old newspaper tycoon - heats up on this day in 1941, when William Randolph Hearst... (2 comments) | "It's not as bad as Iwo Jima, I suppose": The Julian Assange Extradition Verdict by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 07 January 2021 The barrister-brewed humour of Edward Fitzgerald QC, one of the solid and stout figures defending a certain Julian Assange of WikiLeaks at the Old Bailey in London, was understandable. (Add a comment) | newer 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 older |
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