Everyone needs a hobby, don’t they? Writers need something to do when they’re not writing besides hanging out on Facebook or some similar timesink. One of mine happens to involve following dead presidents. Back in the early days of the World Wide Web, a database guy in Massachusetts wondered where the money in his wallet Read More
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I’ll Buy That For a Dollar!
Remember that line from Robocop? I’ll admit I thought it was from Running Man when I thought of it. So what can you buy for a dollar in a foreign country? GoBankingRates has an interesting graphic.
A Good Idea Then, But Now?
In 1923, Plimmon H. Dudley, an engineer who worked for the New York Central Rail, left over $150,000 to Yale to establish the the Dudley Professorship of Railroad Engineering. His desire was that the professorship continue his research into railway safety, particularly as it applied to the development and improvement of designs of rails, roadbeds Read More