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In retrospect: news from 50 and 100 years ago

100 Years Ago A City of Canvas Under Menlo’s Trees – Only four days remain until the opening of the Bucks County Fair at Menlo Park, Perkasie … From present indications the event will practically be an Old Home Week for all the towns in this vicinity and from all parts of Eastern Pennsylvania interested visitors will come to see the mammoth exhibition and to visit friends and relatives at the ...

More evolution than Eureka!

BaselWorld and the SIHH in Geneva are magnificent showcases of the world’s watch manufacturers. Although we journalists tend to think that they attend for our benefit, the watch companies participate with one objective: to sell ... and 2006 appears to have been a fabulous year.

Freerice 2.0: Feeding Minds While Feeding The Hungry

Does the word arundinaceous mean long and thin or someone who talks too much? Is an aleconner a beer-taster or a kind of bird? Does scunner mean deep dislike or something you'd find on a boat? Questions like these have stumped millions of people across the globe since 2007, when Freerice.com - the world's only vocabulary game that feeds the hungry - took the web by storm. Since then, the viral ...

Calendar 9.8 – 9.15

A calendar of arts and entertainment events in the area from September 8 through September 15. 9.9 30 Seconds to Mars @ Webster Theatre Hartford, CT $25 / 6pm

Calendar 9.9 – 9.16

MUSIC 9.9 30 Seconds to Mars @ Webster Theatre Hartford, CT $25 / 6pm Caspian @ Lilly’s Pad (Toad’s Place) New Haven, CT $8 / 8pm 9.10 Disco Biscuits / RJD2 @ Mountain Park Holyoke, MA $27.50 / 6 pm Despised Icon / Misery Index @ Waterfront Tavern Holyoke, MA $15 / 6.30 pm 9.12 Collie Buddz @ Toad’s Place New Haven, CT $25 / 9 pm 9.14 Defiance, Ohio @ Toad’s Place New Haven, CT $8 / 7.30 pm 9.16 ...