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Credit cards can be a faithfull friend as well as a deadly foe. It depends on how you wield it. Credit cards give you access to pre-approved loans/advances, depending on your credit limits. Basically, it is buy, now pay later. You can pay off your balance at a go (and incure no interest charge), or pay off installmentally, to the delight of your bank manager. Abuse of credit cards have brought many to grief abroad. Default in payment of your monthly bills have spawned a whole industry, that of debt recovery. Their job is to help the banks recover their money, for a fee. They will call you first thing in the morning, all through the day, and last thing at night. They will so harras you that you begin to dread the mere ring of a phone. Credit card can come in very handy in solving temporary cash flow problems. But when it becomes a habit, then you have problems at hand. Some folks folks descend to the level of using credit card to buy groceries in the super market and fuel their...

Here's a strategy I've found useful for learning dry and difficult material quickly. At various times, I've used it to build up my knowledge of subjects like economics, investing, writing and computer programming languages. Some people have been surprised at how fast I can learn these kinds of skills, but I think anyone can do it with the right plan. Of course, you can use this to teach yourself interesting things as well, but most people don't have any problem learning stuff that's fun. Okay, here are the steps... Step 1: Bombard yourself with information Many people try to slowly and methodically digest difficult material. They underline things and re-read paragraphs ten times to try and understand. This approach might eventually work, but most people get fed up with it and give up before finishing. Our brains hate this way of learning. Instead, try to get through the material as quickly as possible. Don't worry if you don't understand everything, j...

On this day in 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. At the time, television was still in its infancy. Regular programming did not yet exist, and very few people owned television sets--there were only about 400 in the New York area. Not until 1946 did regular network broadcasting catch on in the United States, and only in the mid-1950s did television sets become more common in the American household. In 1939, the World's Fair--which was being held in New York--became the catalyst for the historic broadcast. The television was one of fair’s prize exhibits, and organizers believed that the Dodgers-Reds doubleheader on August 26 was the perfect event to showcase America's grasp on the new technology. By today's standards, the video coverage was somewhat cru...

In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. "By taking this action," he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, "I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." Just before noon the next day, Nixon officially ended his term as the 37th president of the United States. Before departing with his family in a helicopter from the White House lawn, he smiled farewell and enigmatically raised his arms in a victory or peace salute. The helicopter door was then closed, and the Nixon family began their journey home to San Clemente, California. Minutes later, Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president...

Love is said to be a feeling,but the truth is if asked to define it,i will define love a story. A story told to the other party,its left for the other party to believe the story or not. How to love? A question people answer in a hurry, i for one can't teach or tell how to love. When am talking about how to love its not about loving your neighbor,its about loving that person that matters much to u in your life. That person you can die for. If u think u know how just let me know. Leave a comment because i really want to learn how to.

Jerry Siegel, the sixth son of a Jewish family. His father Mitchell Siegel (née Mikhel Segalovich) was a sign painter opened a haberdashery and in order to encourage his son's artistic inclinations. He became active in what would become known as fandom, corresponding with other science fiction fans, including the young future author Jack Williamson. In 1929, Siegel published what might have been the first SF fanzine, Cosmic Stories, which he produced with a manual typewriter and advertised in the classified section of Science Wonder Stories. He published several other booklets over the next few years. In January 1933, Jerry Siegel wrote a story entitled "The Reign of the Super-Man." Siegel and Joe Shuster then created a comic book entitled "The Superman" later in 1933. A Chicago publisher expressed interest, but did not follow through, and in frustration, Shuster tore up all the pages of this comic except for the cover. Later, in 1934, Siegel had t...

There are several explanations of the name roller coaster. It is said to have originated from an early American design where slides or ramps were fitted with rollers over which a sled would coast. This design was abandoned in favor of fitting the wheels to the sled or other vehicles, but the name endured. Another explanation is that it originated from a ride located in a roller skating rink in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1887. A toboggan-like sled was raised to the top of a track which consisted of hundreds of rollers. This Roller Toboggan then took off down gently rolling hills to the floor. The inventors of this ride, Stephen E. Jackman and Byron B. Floyd, claim that they were the first to use the term "roller coaster". The term ‘Jet Coaster’ is used for roller coasters in Japan, where such amusement park rides are very popular. In many languages, the name refers to "Russian mountains". Contrastingly, in Russian, they are called "American mountains...