On July 15, 2006, the San Francisco-based podcasting company Odeo officially releases Twttr—later changed to Twitter—its short messaging service (SMS) for groups, to the public.Born as a side project apart from Odeo’s main podcasting platform, the free application allowed users to share short status updates with groups of friends by sending one text message to a single number (“40404”).
Today, April 24th, is the anniversary of the first tank battle. As noted on this Wikipedia page, it was three British tanks against three German tanks, but there is no mention of the outcome in spe…
Hawker Hunter T. Mark 67The Hawker Hunter T.Mark 67 was the designation given to five two-seat trainers ordered by Kuwait in the late 1960s as a stop-gap measure before the delivery of the McDonnell-Douglas A-4KU Skyhawk.The first two trainers were ordered in 1963 and delivered in 1965. The single-seat Mark 57 was delivered in the following year, and then in 1967 Kuwait ordered three more trainers which arrived in May 1969.
A Daily AnalysisBy Marc SchulmanFebruary 6, 2011 The Implications For Israel of Events in EgyptWe do not yet know how the events in Egypt will end. However, it is looking more and more like the end result will be a continuation of the regime dominated by the army, with additional trappings of democracy.
Uma mulher da Tailândia ferve os casulos do bicho-da-seda na fase inicial de fabricação da seda. Foto tirada em março de 2012.
T-3 SS-61T-3 (Submarino No. 61: dp. 1.107 (n.) (Surf.), 1.482 (subm.); 1. 268 e 39; 9 e 34 ;; b. 22 e 39; 10 e 34 ;; dr. 14 e 39; 2 e 34; (média); s.20 k. (surf.), 10,5 k. (subm.); cpl. 38, a. 6 21 e 34; tt., 2 3 e 34 ;; cl. AA-1) O AA-3 (Submarino No. 61) foi instalado em 21 de maio de 1917 no estaleiro Fore River Shipbuilding Co. em Quincy Mass.
EL SALVADORThe indigenous people of El Salvador resisted the coming of the Spanish in 1524. But it took another three hundred years for them to finally throw off the yoke of Spain, becoming first a jurisdiction of Mexico, and then a member of the United Provinces of Central America. in 1840, after a bloody civil war, El Salvador achieved independence as a republic.
