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Consumers can claim a standard $30 to $60 refund next year for a tax on long-distance telephone calls that the government declared invalid, the Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday.
Rarely has 19th-century technology stirred an audience of 21st-century technophiles as it did last week when Apple revealed that the next-generation iPhone will pack a gyroscope. But will this new ...
The 19th Century plug that's still being used. Published. 11 January 2016. Share. close panel. Share page. ... Today's high-end 'phones are considerably more sophisticated, similar to miniature ...
While 'phone face' is a 21st century concern, women in the late 1800s were they worried about getting 'bicycle face', a fictitious disease used by the medical establishment to discourage them from ...
In the 19th Century, photographs were bold, deliberate, and purposeful. Photographers lugged heavy gear, and every frame was an investment of time and supplies.
Peter Russell, a retired local Glasgow government officer, also told the publication about when he saw the painting at the Neue Pinakothek in Munich (an art gallery for 18th- and 19th-century work).
Found buried in rust, this 19th century butcher’s knife gets a new lease on life. Watch the full restoration process that brings history back to your hands.
There are 19th-century roots, ... To ascribe consciousness to a bot, in an opera or on your phone, bespeaks a deeper, tragic hunger for life where none is to be found — outside you and within.
Archaeologists have found the remains of a 19th-century hospital and cemetery underwater off the coast of the Florida Keys, officials shared this week. The wreckage of a small quarantine hospital ...
Way before influencers used front or back-facing cameras to capture their likenesses, 19th-century celebrities sat for silhouettes made by a semi-automated instrument called a physiognotrace.
Rarely has 19th-century technology stirred an audience of 21st-century technophiles as it did last week when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs revealed that the next-generation iPhone will pack a gyroscope.