History, Posts and blogs
On this date in 1876 the first successful telephone call took place as Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant Mr Watson (who was in another room). He said “Elementary my dear Watson”. Oh wait. That was Doctor Watson. This was Mr. Watson who heard the first message over a telephone wire. He was quite [...]
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NewsLink Briefs would like to endorse a candidate in the ongoing Presidential Sweepstakes. But our candidate is not running. And none of the candidates who are running impress us. Because we have not heard any of them talk about our issues. “What issues are those?” you might ask. Didn’t you read our previous editorial? We [...]
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The other day we were musing about the US President whoever he or she may be next year being given greater power for various good purposes. One of them would be permission to go down to the Senate and kick some butt. And to specifically kick anybody over the age of eighty back to their [...]