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The original towers belonged to Orthodox Canadian Jews Reichman Brothers of Toronto. It was designed by a Japanes architect or Japanes American architect. On wind tunnel tests they would collapse. I think he solved the problem by having a stiff outer shell with only 3/8" beams. They were...

http://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2016/05/did-william-the-conqueror-have-a-jewish-mother/

Yup, it is the electoral college that determines the winner not the vote count. I think Gore had a slight edge in popular votes but Bush got the electoral votes.

Yesterday out of curiosity I watched this video on youtube. I remember watching the "planes" smashing into the Towers on TV and was shocked. But certain things about how the GWB administration handled the debris that made me think a bit. A major crime had been perpetrated but the White House...

I avoided this topic as I have never been able to pick an American president. Ha, ha.

Einstein has been hailed as something of a god. However, on checking his history there are troubling information about his efforts. There is no doubt he is a very capable scientist but his genius has been blown out of proportion. He used other people's work and never gave credit to them...

Haven't seen you for quite a while. Britain will come out all right. It will probably form some sort of relationship with the Scandinavians especially Denmark and Norway and also have closer ties with Canada, Ozzieland and New Zealand. Of course there is the USA and the Commonwealth. Britain...

http://www.bible-history.com/pharisees/PHARISEESName.htm Don't forget Esther was the Queen of Persia. https://www.lds.org/manual/old-testament-student-manual-kings-malachi/chapter-31?lang=eng

The 'Pharisees' and 'Pharisaic' laws are probably derived from the word Farsi (Persian), language of the Persians. The descendants of the Pharisees are the present day rabbis. There were three groups in Herod's reign, the Hasmoneans (temple priests), Pharisees and the Essenes who wore white...

A person sized drone with autonomous flying to take you to your destination. I am wary of anything connected to the Internet as they have not solved the virus or hacker problems.

25 incredibly gross and surprising practices from history

Anyone wanting to create a time machine to visit the past should look how it was in Medieval times http://www.timetobreak.com/2448911/15-medieval-hygiene-practices-that-should-never-of-happened/15/

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/03/modern-humans-wandered-out-of-africa-via-arabia/ Quite interesting. However, one must consider the alternate greening of the Sahara and Mid East and desertification that forced humans to move to greener pastures. Dates...

Tax cuts lead to more employment. Corporations would use the tax cuts to invest and create more jobs. Instead the corporations have been holding more money in banks and fewer jobs. Exacerbating the wealth inequality. Economist Jordan Brennan provides his views...

The Internet has affected businesses very much both in god and bad ways. The good ways have been Google, Amazon and Alibaba have become behemoths. The bad ways are that brick-and-mortar companies are threatened. Sears was once a very big company but not on survival mode. Let us go to the...