Past Present ContinuousFinance Fridays Railroads were one of the first disruptive innovations: they changed England from an island of moderate, agrarian towns into a quick, urban, industrialized country. Railroads increased productivity, diminished production costs and encouraged working class customers to purchase factory produced merchandise. Due to their job as the driving innovation of the industrial revolution, the […]
Finance Fridays If you invest enough time and energy on the casino floors of Las Vegas, you’ll definitely hear about the Phantom Gambler or the Suitcase Man. Numerous variations of the story have developed over the last four decades about who he was, how much he won and then what happened. In 1951, a previous […]
Mythology Mondays In 1933, the Inverness Courier Article wrote how a businessman and his wife saw a massive upheaval along the shore of Loch Ness in Scotland. Upon stopping, they witnessed a massive creature resembling that of a whale. Shocked, they waited for over thirty minutes hoping that the creature would come out again, but […]
War Wednesdays As kids or even now, all of us have experienced a fight between siblings over food, especially if it’s a bakery product or them doughnuts. Dunkin’ donuts, oh so good! But, while most people say it in good spirit that they would kill someone over food, they don’t really mean it. Could you […]
Mythology Mondays The Happy Science is a controversial new religious and spiritual movement, founded in Japan in 1986 by Ryuho Okawa, which has been characterized as a cult. Its aim is “to bring happiness to humanity by spreading the Truth”. They worship a deity named El Cantare, and they believe that the being was first […]
Finance Fridays For every superhero story we read or movie we watch, there is always a dark phase. A phase in which everything seems lost, and it looks like the world is going to end. Well, for one of the world’s largest creators of superhero stories, Marvel, this phase came in the winter of 1996. […]
Technology Tuesdays Organisations around the world are protecting themselves from data breaches and are always concerned about protecting their information, but they still can’t escape from the hackers. And one of the craziest stories ever was when NASA was hacked in 1999 by a fifteen-year-old boy! Jonathan Jones known to the internet as “cOmrade” (and […]
Trade Tuesdays In 1992, a 79-year-old lady Stella Liebeck bought a cup of takeout coffee at the McDonald’s in New Mexico, she spilled it on her lap. She sued McDonald’s and ultimately the jury awarded her nearly 3 million dollars in punitive damages for the burns she suffered. We may have heard of “frivolous lawsuits” […]
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