I have to admit, till a few days ago i never heard of this man. Wasn`t it for the History Channel that brought a documentary about him, i still wouldnt know what this man meant to the people of Nanking.
Why was he such a special person, you may ask? Well, John Rabe played the key role in saving the lives of more than 250,000 Chinese during the incident called the Rape of Nanking, i was so fascinated by this story that i had to look up more info on him and share this with you guys...
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I managed to move all my current debt into a single low interest loan at my local bank. Which means Credit Card, consumer credit and overdraft (both with high interest) are on zero (and will stay that way). This move which took me less then 60 minutes reduced my monthly payment to service all my debt by 12% and shed a good year of paying back too...
I am really cruising nicely along right now, i am ahead of plan!
The interesting thing is that the more i think of getting rich, the more i
Well, eventually a usefull invention!
A beer mat that knows when a glass is nearly empty and automatically asks for a refill has been created by thirsty researchers in Germany.
Andreas Butz at the University of Munich and Michael Schmitz from Saarland University came up with the idea while out drinking with their students.
full article at New Scientist
The cover story is about the 2000 year celebration for Carnuntum.
Exatly 2000 years ago, Carnuntum was founded by Tiberius, and just a few years later it became one of the biggest cities of the Roman Empire. The austrian television is in the process of making a documentary of Carnuntum. They invited reenactors from all over Europe to participate in this film. The same people who make this had made in the past the award winning documentary of Oetzi the Iceman, so i am sure this will be fantas
...after two months into my adventure becoming really wealthy, i experience side effects i did not expect...
While the focus of this two months were to slash costs on not necessary stuff, something else happend, as i think, breath and act as if i already have those millions on my bank account, the following is happening...
I seem to attract rich people
In the last two months i had an unbelievable amount of interesting encounters with wealthy people, at the weiredest places, i think the
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, attended a ceremony on Sunday to launch the building of a Tibetan health and cultural center. Planned at Huettenberg is an international center of Higher Tibetan Studies,' which local Carinthian officials say will include 'the first and only training center for Tibetan medicine in the western world.' via Moster&Critics
Huettenberg (actually in correct german its H
Hmm, I am a bit late, but in case you missed it, Austria (my native country) won for the first time the Oscar for best foreign-language picture.
The story goes something like this...
The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Sup
I made a little tutorial how you can set up so everyones comment needs to be approved by the blog owner, (thanks to new blog spammers)
enjoy and defend your blog
China has the most sophisticated and effective Internet censorship regime in the world, employing North American technology from Cisco Systems Inc. and Canada's Nortel Networks Corp., among others, to filter out banned material. But China is just one of a growing number of states censoring the Internet, using primarily American filtering programs.
But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led
Unheilig (German for "Unholy") is a German industrial rock band with various pop and electronic influences. They are around since 2000 but only last year they had theire breakthrough, impressive dark voice by lead singer Bernd Heinrich Graf (only known as Der Graf (The Count)...
I am not sure if all people know what a rss feed and a feedread is, so i will explain it a bit first...
more information here ---> What is RSS
Now that you know what rss is, and that the Unrv.com Blog has a RSS Feed, you need a RSS Reader to get that info without actually having to go to the site. For example i use Firefox (you should too) and there is a simple Rss Reader extension called Wizz RSS News Reader, just install that and then you get a nice RSS Agregator Toolbar, where you ca
This is so much harder than i thought, almost a week since my last weight post and i only lost 0.1 kilograms = 0.220462262 pounds, I am not eating particulary much, neither unhealthy, in fact, i eat mostly vegetables and fruits and some meat, the only hope i have is that my muscle building is just as fast than my fat loss, (although i dont really see that in the mirror), i do however feel much more energized.
I finally got my first MP3 player (Ipod Shuffle which is ideal as its extremely s
You know this community is amazing, the latest giveaway Ancient Warfare Magazine Special has already over 200 entries, (so drop quickly a line that you are interested if you haven`t yet), the amazing thing though is how many people are actually dropping a little line, "how they like the site, how they appreciate the community, how they look forward to all the freebies, the book reviews etc... but most of all, that many want to give back, they tell me almost apologetic that they dont have the cap
Well this is new to me, a virus for a handheld game console!
The PSP (PlayStationPortable) has now its very own Virus/Trojan called Trojan.PSPBrick, which once installed deletes very important system files and won`t start again and is then as usefull as a brick hence the name of the Virus.
More info about the Virus are availabe at Symantec
Well, my five year old daughter wanted recently desperately ABBAs Greatest Hits, so i listend to it too...
My favourite 5
5. Mamma Mia
4. Voulez Vous
3. SOS
2. Fernando
1. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
...but to be honest, (just like my daughter), I like all of them (for example Take a Chance on Me is just such a great song), and back in the 80s when it was released for the first time the Rolling Stone Magazine summed it up for me...:
"...there are more infectious melodies, grabby ho
Yesterday I found by accident an old Vinyl of mine in the basement. I had all forgotten about it. The last album from the Beatles. "Abbey Road"
After listening to it for basically the whole of yesterday and today, i have to say. It sounds fresh, vibrant and you can hear at every tune that this is a true master piece. The ending medley espcially Golden Slumber/Carry that Weight/The End is probably one of the best pieces of music ever made. It includes features never heard before by the beatle
The news is now out on the forum and via our newsletter (you should get it during the course of the day), we are officially Tweeting now, if you never heard of Twitter and wonder what the heck is this all about, go to http://tweeternet.com/, its basically a micro-blogging service that allows people to type in short messages or status updates that can be read by people following them. An individual message or status update is often referred to as a 'tweet'.
If you go to http://twitter.com/UN
We only have the Blogs up for a couple of weeks and Google already indexing and ranking it pretty nicely!
Some examples;
Ursus`Blog with the search phrase Another Day In Customer Service 1st!!!!! out of 90 million
Primus Pilus`Blog with the search phrase A Cold in September 1st!!! out of 70 Million!!!!!!!!
Pompeius Magnus Blog with the search phrase Latin Language Education 7th out of 27.3 million!!!
Maximus' Blog with the search phrase Maximus' Blog is 4th out of 600.00!
The carinthian sheep is a fairly recent breed, it was around the beginning of the 19th century that local farmers were looking for a sheep with a better wool then what was available. This was rather difficult because the two best breeds were from spain and england and both did not allow to export rams at the time, so they looked south to Italy and crossed their local the old Landschaf breed with the Bergamasca and Paduaner Sheep. The hardy, frugal Brillenschaf can cope with high precipitation an
Wow,
lately i am getting flooded with spam mails, from pills to *or*, from poker to mortage, from diploma to software.....
People I dont want your crap, stop it!
I am now just over a year without cigarettes, i stopped from a packet a day to zero from one day to the next.
It is possible therefor i am one hell of a guy that i am able to manage that...
this success story was brought to you by the mighty awesome Viggen, stay tuned till the next one comes..
cheers
chris
