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In 1483, just as Johannes Gutenberg’s new moveable type printing press was spreading across Europe, Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire issued a staunch decree banning the machine from his realm. At the time the Ottoman Empire was the dominant superpower in the world, having conquered most of the
Not too long ago I received an email offering the luxury trip of a lifetime to Iceland. It was a package tour… and super impressive. We would have our own private helicopters taking us all over the island for seven days. There was horseback riding, dune buggies, even racing Ferarri
In the late 1760s and early 1770s, the government of France was in a deep panic. They had recently suffered a disastrous and costly defeat in the Seven Years War, and the national budget was a complete mess. France had spent most of the previous century as the world’s dominant
Pop quiz: What country has the world’s best performing stock market? It’s not the United States. Or Canada. Or China. The answer is Venezuela, whose primary stock market index over the last year is up nearly SEVEN FOLD, from 11,700 last summer to a record 72,700 today. It’s amazing that
Enes Kanter is a Turkish citizen who plays center for the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder. Like many professional athletes, Kanter has a couple of charities in his name. His education fund provides first-year college scholarships to support selected US students – including a family’s first female child and children of
On May 31, 1866, John C. Ringling was born in Iowa to German immigrants in what felt like an extremely bleak year. The chaos and devastation from the Civil War that had ended in 1865 were still keenly felt, and the US economy was in the midst of a deep
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