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Colonial City of ill repute

According to author David Hackett Fischer, in his book Washingtons Crossing a survey taken of the population of New York City shortly after the revolution found that 20 percent of women of child bearing age were prostitutes.

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Google’s first incarnation was called BackRub

Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s first incarnation of the search engine Google was called BackRub, “named for its unique ability to analyze the “back links” pointing to a given website.” Would the brand be as popular with that name?

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link iconhttp://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

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Donald Rumsfeld’s resume

220px-Rumsfeld1Regardless of your opinion of Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, he has a very impressive resume.

Attended Princeton on a Navy ROTC scholarship.
Navy pilot and flight instructor
Two and a half terms in Congress
Nixon’s cabinet
Ambassador to NATO
Secretary of Defense under Ford
CEO of a several of Fortune 500 companies

Gleaned from Bob Woodward’s book “State of Denial”

http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/rumsfeld.html

wikipedia entry

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Well, I could read 1,000 books.

According to author David Vise, 1,000 books are published each week in the United States. Seems to make Books-a-Million’s name not sound so extravagant a claim. Boy, that’s a lot of paper!

The Google Story

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Purpose

So begins another side project of mine. Everytime I listen to a book about technology history (at the moment The Google Story), I’m inspired to work on a project of my own. For my own amusement, I had an idea to make a daily blog of one single thing that I could say that I learned or discovered that day. Something, I did not know and found interesting enough to share with others. The World Wide Web is an incredible treasure trove of information and cease pool of time consuming waste. My goal is to find something of worthwhile interest. So here it is, the daily blog of one item of interest. Interesting, to me and hopefully to you also. I can’t promise that you will always find what I come up with as interesting as I do but thanks for reading anyway.