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Jul 07 2009

It Was Grand When it Left Belfast! What Exactly Sank the Titanic?

Published by Jennifer under History, What?

They said she was unsinkable, they said that she was the greatest ship to have ever sailed. Yet, she never even completed her maiden voyage, floundering in the icy waters of the Atlantic, four hundred miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland [...]

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Feb 27 2008

Where does J.K. Rowling live?

Published by Cindy under Literature, Where?

The beloved author of the famed Harry Potter series of books was born in Gloucesthire, England on July 31, 1965.  Today, Rowling lives in Scotland with her husband, Neil Murray, and her three children.  While writing was an early ambition, her first attempts didn’t amount to much.  That all changed in 1997 when the world [...]

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Feb 19 2008

Where did the term boolean originate?

Internet savvy people know that a boolean search allows users to widen or narrow their internet search by combining or excluding words by including terms such as “AND”, “NOT” and “OR” in their search criteria.   What many may not know is how the search method got such a funny sounding name.  George Boole was a 19th [...]

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