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Andaman Islands
The only airport in the Andaman islands is Vir Savarkar Airport (India) in Port Blair, which has scheduled services to Kolkata and Chennai and Delhi, Banglore and Bhubaneswar. With a single 10,000 ft runway, the airport can serve landings and takeoffs of the Boeing 737. Archipelago Andaman and Nicobar Islands Consisting of over 500 islands…
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Outernet speeds
The Outernet folks have announced speeds of 2400 baud for a worldwide internet free for anyone using satellite coverage much like today’s GPS systems run 24/7 without subscription helping millions of people and businesses too. But Outernet doesn’t really operate like an internet wi-fi connection, it is primarily a broadcast only application. Much as GPS…
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Fomalhaut
Fomalhaut is a Class A main sequence star, much brighter and about twice the size of our G-Type Sun. A bright star in the night sky, Fomalhaut is in the constellation Pisces Australis in the southern sky and is around 25 light years from Earth. Fomalhaut exhibits a ring of dust and debris like the…
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Tulip trading
The 1630s in Amsterdam was the time of the great Tulip Bulb Bubble. “Tulpenwoede” or tulip madness approached its apex in 1637 when bulb contracts, particualarly for Semper Augustus, exceeded 5,000 gilders. Perhaps fueled by speculators and gamblers, most professional tulip practitioners avoided the wild market. While 5,000 gilders could buy a house, just a…
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Stock options trading
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python poplib example
The Python poplib example allows even beginning programmers a way to write a computer program to look at their email inbox. We have all struggled with the search capabilities of various email programs. But Python is a real game changer. Another library that is useful in this task is the re or Regular Expression library,…
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Altair
A member of the top 20 club, the twelfth brightest star in the night sky, Altair is a mere 17 light years from earth. Supposing mankind can someday travel near the speed of light, adding 2 years for acceleration and deceleration, it is a reachable star, but it is much more tumultuous than our Sun.…
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Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce
“As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination.” December 26, 1913 In a letter before he disappeared, Ambrose Bierce’ last line is a curious exclamation point placed on his life, and his increasing devotion to the supernatural. More prominent just after the Civil War, a writer and contributor to the San Francisco…
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Georgia Guidestones
50 miles northeast of Athens Georgia are the Guidestones, purchased by persons unknown and sculpted and erected by the Elberton Granite Finishing Company. Visible on Google Maps, the structure is nearly twenty feet tall and weighs over 100 tons. Inscribed with some odd philosophy in several languages, the Guidestones also contain some interesting astonomical features. Noon…
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The history of skinny banjos
We all know of the famous scene from the Burt Reynolds movie that bore rise to the ‘Dueling Banjos‘ song. Deliverance was published in 1972 and also starred Ned Beatty and Jon Voight as a set of adventurous blokes from Atlanta taking a canoe trip on a wilderness river before a dam that was in…