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June 2, 1883: The 'L' Comes to Chicago ... Indoors 1883: The world's first elevated electric railway in the world makes a trial run. It's in Chicago, of course. It's indoors, and it won't last, but the idea will. New York City began elevated railway service in the early 1870s, running in Manhattan on Ninth Avenue and Greenwich Street. I Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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June 2, 1883: The 'L' Comes to Chicago ... Indoors 1883: The world's first elevated electric railway in the world makes a trial run. It's in Chicago, of course. It's indoors, and it won't last, but the idea will. New York City began elevated railway service in the early 1870s, running in Manhattan on Ninth Avenue and Greenwich Street. I Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad Time Goes Coast to Coast 1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on "railroad time." Noon on a well-made, properly paced sundial is whenever the sun is highest right there Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad Time Goes Coast to Coast 1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on "railroad time." Noon on a well-made, properly paced sundial is whenever the sun is highest right there Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Aug. 26, 1883: Krakatau Erupts, Changes World ... Again 1883: Krakatau volcano in the Dutch East Indies roars to life with a volley of ever-increasing explosions. It will culminate the next morning with the loudest explosion in human history. Krakatau (aka Krakatoa) had been rumbling and sending up puffs of ash since May 1883. The erupt Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Aug. 26, 1883: Krakatau Erupts, Changes World ... Again 1883: Krakatau volcano in the Dutch East Indies roars to life with a volley of ever-increasing explosions. It will culminate the next morning with the loudest explosion in human history. Krakatau (aka Krakatoa) had been rumbling and sending up puffs of ash since May 1883. The erupt Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gear Gallery: New Motorola Slider, Mobile TV and the Ultimate Gadget Watch : The Z9 effortlessly satisfies the standard phone user, and pleases the rest of us with a couple extra perks. You get your e-mail and IM; you can listen to music from the microSD card or buy some more. Calls are above-average quality (trust us, we've been shouting into an iPhone for the last yea Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gear Gallery: New Motorola Slider, Mobile TV and the Ultimate Gadget Watch : The Z9 effortlessly satisfies the standard phone user, and pleases the rest of us with a couple extra perks. You get your e-mail and IM; you can listen to music from the microSD card or buy some more. Calls are above-average quality (trust us, we've been shouting into an iPhone for the last yea Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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AP Exclusive: Hudson suspect had June drug arrest - The Associated Press The Associated PressAP Exclusive: Hudson suspect had June drug arrestThe Associated Press - 30 minutes agoSPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The convicted felon suspected in the slayings of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew was arrested after police allege Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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June 17, 1867: Lister Cuts Clean, Saves Lives 1867: British surgeon Joseph Lister performs the first surgery under antiseptic conditions. Death rates would plummet, but you should still be thankful you were born in the 20th century and not the 19th. Lister was raised in a Quaker family and attended University College, London, becau Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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June 17, 1867: Lister Cuts Clean, Saves Lives 1867: British surgeon Joseph Lister performs the first surgery under antiseptic conditions. Death rates would plummet, but you should still be thankful you were born in the 20th century and not the 19th. Lister was raised in a Quaker family and attended University College, London, becau Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Feds: We will meet June IPv6 deadline U.S. federal government officials are confident they will meet a June 30 deadline to support IPv6 on their backbone networks, but they see challenges ahead in transitioning their production networks to this long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communication Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Chicago PMI Inches Up In June But Remains In Contraction Led By Inflation (AHN) (AHN) - Business activity in the U.S. Midwest region increased more than expected, but didn't give up its contraction in June. - Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:05:31 GMT (AHN) Home > Rss Directory > Business > AllHeadline |
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Crude Reporting: Ask the Tough Questions About Oil News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Buying the Pharma Team Dear Yahoo: Sorry About the Icahn Thing 'Not Bad' Is the New 'Great!' Subscribe to Portfolio magazine The cover of a recent BusinessWeek about the runup in Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Crude Reporting: Ask the Tough Questions About Oil News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Buying the Pharma Team Dear Yahoo: Sorry About the Icahn Thing 'Not Bad' Is the New 'Great!' Subscribe to Portfolio magazine The cover of a recent BusinessWeek about the runup in Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Crude Reporting: Ask the Tough Questions About Oil News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Buying the Pharma Team Dear Yahoo: Sorry About the Icahn Thing 'Not Bad' Is the New 'Great!' Subscribe to Portfolio magazine The cover of a recent BusinessWeek about the runup in Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The World According to Oatney: The Truth About Jesse Jackson Comes Out - Newsweek ABC NewsThe World According to Oatney: The Truth About Jesse Jackson Comes OutNewsweek - 6 hours ago*Rev Jackson, your vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News where you said you wanted to cut Barack Obama's nuts off and accusing him of talking down to Black folks by gi Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Roger Ebert: Back to the future of film criticism - Los Angeles Times E! OnlineRoger Ebert: Back to the future of film criticismLos Angeles Times - 2 hours agoIt would be fair to say that I'm not an objective observer when it comes the news that Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have quit their longtime gig as hosts of "At the Movies," Disn Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek Time-management books command huge swaths of bookstore shelf space and sell tens of thousands of copies a year, but I always figured they applied more to stapler-stealing cubicle jockeys than someone like me. I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time. In a for Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek Time-management books command huge swaths of bookstore shelf space and sell tens of thousands of copies a year, but I always figured they applied more to stapler-stealing cubicle jockeys than someone like me. I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time. In a for Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |