ljc | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2008 | washington, history, AP
So FDIC got Chase to buy the assets, and the insurance fund didn't get emptied.
Quoted: As the debate over a $700 billion bank bailout rages on in Washington, one of the nation's largest banks - Washington Mutual Inc. - has collapsed under the weight of its enormous bad bets on the mortgage market.
- ljc | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 08 2008 | book, history
i'm getting really into this book.
Quoted: Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - ljc | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 08 2007 | cars, history, technology
my grandpa used to talk about how, in the army during ww2, they ran out of fuel and got their vehicles to run on wood. i always wondered if this could possibly be true or if he was having 'creative' reminiscences...
Quoted: Construction of a Simplified Wood Gas Generator for Fueling Internal Combustion Engines in a Petroleum emergency
ShareViewed: 27 Times - ljc | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 06 2006 | book, history
this series is the source of most of my knowledge of history, from the primordial sandwich to buddha's pork overdose to the divine hemorrhoids of the philistines. unfortunately the series currently only goes as far as the 15th century or so, so i'm still very much in the dark about what happened after that. but soon i'll have an advance copy of the newest installment, which goes up to the 1780s!
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