State tax forms are required to file state taxes – but exactly where is our tax money going? Taxes are used to support the government, but in a democracy the government is supposed to be “for the people,” as a popular rumor has it. All of the state tax forms filed year in, year out [...]
As legendary as the team is, it’s an open question whether Dallas Cowboys merchandise would’ve been as popular as they are without the equally famous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. These ladies are not just any ol’ football cheerleading squad members, but make up a veritable franchise in themselves.
No less than two made-for-TV movies have appeared about [...]
Data recovery is an essential part of our modern day world, with machines facilitating the vast majority of our lives on the internet and off. The loss of personal information and customer records would be catastrophic for any organization, and so data recovery software is a popular kind of insurance for many. But, more broadly [...]
As one of the most promising platforms to have appeared at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was in the beginning greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming market place (which is currently worth many multiples of billions more each year). Nowadays the Xbox is considered [...]
Some of the most popular of museum replicas are those famous Italian marble statues every person knows: David, Augustus Caesar, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. They are some of the most prized examples of marble sculpture anywhere, with a fine smoothness and absolute realism.
No wonder everyone wants a copy! They truly lend an air of [...]
Surgical masks are most frequently worn by health professionals, but in many Asian countries they’re worn simply as a way of protecting oneself from the smog, a common problem in that part of the world. Asians also wear surgical masks when sick in order to not infect anybody else. Interestingly, such a simple everyday thing [...]
The all-important first date. The getting-to-know-you can be greatly helped along by an amusement ride, and the most exhilarating one of all must be the Skywalk by Zalman Silber. A serial entrepreneur who made his first big fortune with New York’s infamous Skyride, a much ballyhooed but modest thirty-minute movie of helicopter flyovers, [...]
Plastic water tanks are a far cry from the armored behemoths also known as tanks, but they do share a curious historical connection. Yes, that’s correct, modern plastics were invented after World War II, while tanks first made their debut in the waning years of the Great War, but there is something of a relationship.
Although [...]
Ah, a portable ice maker. Finally, a sure-fire way of keeping cool when out of doors under a hot summer sun. You have a picnic, or a outdoor camping trip, or even just a small get-together in the backyard and don’t want to keep running back inside for ice – you need a portable ice [...]
The correct wedding favors can be difficult enough to find, seeing how they should reflect not only the occasion but the couple and all their guests, but for people in alternative~ lifestyles such as open marriages it can be highly challenging. On the one hand, traditional wedding favors don’t seem to honor the most special [...]