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Nov. 17, 1749: Father of Modern Canning Born 1749: Nicolas Appert is born. He will invent the modern food-canning process while trying to help Napoleon conquer Europe. By 1795, France was in an expansionist mood and quarreling with its neighbors. As the army and navy found themselves increasingly embroiled in foreign entanglements Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 17, 1749: Father of Modern Canning Born 1749: Nicolas Appert is born. He will invent the modern food-canning process while trying to help Napoleon conquer Europe. By 1795, France was in an expansionist mood and quarreling with its neighbors. As the army and navy found themselves increasingly embroiled in foreign entanglements Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 26, 1894: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener Born 1894: Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th century's most famous mathematicians and the founder of the discipline of cybernetics, the study of self-regulating systems. Norbert's father, Leo Wiener, was a lecturer (and late Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 26, 1894: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener Born 1894: Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th century's most famous mathematicians and the founder of the discipline of cybernetics, the study of self-regulating systems. Norbert's father, Leo Wiener, was a lecturer (and late Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 5, 1893: A Design Star Is Born 1893: Raymond Loewy, one of the founders of modern industrial design, is born. His vision of streamlining will shape a century. Loewy's classic designs include the Coca-Cola bottle, the sleek-sided 1929 Gestetner duplicating machine, the Pennsylvania Railroad's streamlined S-1 Locom Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 5, 1893: A Design Star Is Born 1893: Raymond Loewy, one of the founders of modern industrial design, is born. His vision of streamlining will shape a century. Loewy's classic designs include the Coca-Cola bottle, the sleek-sided 1929 Gestetner duplicating machine, the Pennsylvania Railroad's streamlined S-1 Locom Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 6, 1928: All the News That's Lit 1928: The New York Times begins flashing headlines to pedestrians outside its offices at 1 Times Square, using an electronic news strip that wraps around the fourth floor of the building. The Motograph News Bulletin, or "zipper" as it was known informally, was a technological marvel of Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 6, 1928: All the News That's Lit 1928: The New York Times begins flashing headlines to pedestrians outside its offices at 1 Times Square, using an electronic news strip that wraps around the fourth floor of the building. The Motograph News Bulletin, or "zipper" as it was known informally, was a technological marvel of Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Ricky Martin a father of twin boys, publicist says
(AP) AP - There won't be much "livin' la vida loca" for Ricky Martin these days — he's now the father of twin boys. The Latin superstar had the children via a surrogate mother, and the babies were born a few weeks ago, according to a statement from his representatives. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Nov. 21, 1968: Love Canal Calamity Surfaces 1968: Karen Schroeder, a second-generation resident of the Love Canal neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, gives birth to an infant girl with multiple birth defects. The enormity of the neighborhood's affliction will take a few more years to come to light. Love Canal was a never-used, l Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 21, 1968: Love Canal Calamity Surfaces 1968: Karen Schroeder, a second-generation resident of the Love Canal neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, gives birth to an infant girl with multiple birth defects. The enormity of the neighborhood's affliction will take a few more years to come to light. Love Canal was a never-used, l Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Born of fire, environmental movement still burns It was one of the most surreal images in American history: A river, so fouled with industrial waste that it caught fire and burned. In June 1969, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River become the poster child for the birth of the modern American environmental movement. Home > Rss Directory > General > CNN |
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Nov. 3, 1900: The Grandmother of All Auto Shows 1900: The first major automobile show in the United States opens at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It wasn't the first automobile show held in the United States. It wasn't even the first held at Madison Square Garden. But it is considered the first modern automotive show. The Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 3, 1900: The Grandmother of All Auto Shows 1900: The first major automobile show in the United States opens at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It wasn't the first automobile show held in the United States. It wasn't even the first held at Madison Square Garden. But it is considered the first modern automotive show. The Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 12, 1935: You Should (Not) Have a Lobotomy 1935: The world's first modern frontal leukotomy is performed in a Lisbon hospital by Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz. Moniz's leukotomy (or leucotomy, from the Greek for "cutting white," in this case the brain's white matter) soon became popularly known as the lobotomy. It w Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 12, 1935: You Should (Not) Have a Lobotomy 1935: The world's first modern frontal leukotomy is performed in a Lisbon hospital by Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz. Moniz's leukotomy (or leucotomy, from the Greek for "cutting white," in this case the brain's white matter) soon became popularly known as the lobotomy. It w Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 14, 1666: Watching a Transfusion, and Taking Notes 1666: Samuel Pepys, writing in his famous diary, records the first description of a blood transfusion. Pepys (whose name is usually pronounced Peeps, or occasionally Peppis) was an able administrator for the Royal Navy, as well as a member of Parliament. But he is best remembered for hi Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 14, 1666: Watching a Transfusion, and Taking Notes 1666: Samuel Pepys, writing in his famous diary, records the first description of a blood transfusion. Pepys (whose name is usually pronounced Peeps, or occasionally Peppis) was an able administrator for the Royal Navy, as well as a member of Parliament. But he is best remembered for hi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 25, 1816: Theater Lighting — It's a Gas 1816: Gaslight illuminates Philadelphia's Chestnut Street Theatre. Theater patrons are living in an age of wonders: lights that burn "without wick or oil." Merchant Charles Kugler wanted to construct a gasworks to bring to Philadelphia the modern marvel that was illuminating the streets Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |