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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
Irish abortion referendum: Counting starts as exit polls show landslide in favor
Dublin, Ireland (CNN)The counting of votes was underway Saturday following Ireland's referendum to lift its constitutional ban on abortion after exit polls pointed to an emphatic…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
Amazon Echo Recorded And Sent Couple's Conversation — All Without Their Knowledge
As secret recordings go, the Portland couple's conversation was pretty mundane: They were talking about hardwood floors. But their Amazon Echo was listening and recording their…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
After Russia scandal, Facebook begins labeling political ads
Facebook on Thursday began following a long-held practice of the television and newspaper industry: Labeling political ads. The move came more than a year after the US…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
Ethereum Classic 51% Attack Would Cost Just $55 Mln, Result in $1 Bln Profit: Research
A Brazilian researcher has calculated that it could take just $55 mln to hack a major cryptocurrency network for $1bln profit in new findings, TNW reports Friday, May 22. Husam…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
President Trump Says North Korea Summit Still Possible
Less than 24 hours after President Trump sent notice to North Korea that he was canceling next month's summit with Kim Jong Un, Trump told reporters Friday that the meeting could…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
IBM Reveals Blockchain Computer ‘Smaller Than Grain Of Salt’ To Track Objects, Devices
IBM announced today, March 19 that the world’s smallest computer – its dimensions less than a grain of salt – will use Blockchain technology and soon be “embedded into everyday…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
Florida Bridge Collapse: ‘There Are Bodies Down There and We Can’t Get to Them’
MIAMI — Investigators on Friday searched for bodies and sifted through the rubble of a new pedestrian bridge whose collapse on Thursday afternoon left at least six people dead…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
Seven More Lies Bitcoin (And Altcoin) Fans Tell Themselves
Lie #1: The ‘Black and White’ Fallacy In the previous article, I pointed out that Bitcoin wasn’t sufficiently similar to other things to draw comparisons. A common response: I…
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abradjan (14)in #literature • 7 years ago
A Helpless Situation BY MARK TWAIN
Once or twice a year I get a letter of a certain pattern, a pattern that never materially changes, in form and substance, yet I cannot get used to that letter--it always…
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abradjan (14)in #literature • 7 years ago
The Happy Prince BY OSCAR WILDE
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a…
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abradjan (14)in #literature • 7 years ago
The Little Mermaid BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep too. It goes down deeper than any…
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abradjan (14)in #literature • 7 years ago
The Murders in the Rue Morgue BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture. --SIR THOMAS BROWNE…
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abradjan (14)in #literature • 7 years ago
The Lady With The Dog BY ANTON CHEKHOV
I IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
The Masque of the Red Death BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood.…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
The Head-hunter BY O HENRY
When the war between Spain and George Dewey was over, I went to the Philippine Islands. There I remained as bushwhacker correspondent for my paper until its managing editor…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
Alone BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
How Much Land Does a Man Need? BY LEO TOLSTOY
I An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the village. As the sisters sat…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
God Sees the Truth, But Waits BY LEO TOLSTOY
In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own. Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow…
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abradjan (14)in #life • 7 years ago
The Idiots BY JOSEPH CONRAD
We were driving along the road from Treguier to Kervanda. We passed at a smart trot between the hedges topping an earth wall on each side of the road; then at the foot of the…
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