Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
81 months ago

“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia,” said the Irish writer Dionysius Lardner in 1830.
22 months ago

The field of quantum technology is ripe for predictions yet is certainly not the first. For example… “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.
18 months ago

Today in women's history in 1818, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
142 months ago

Some of the following predictions people have made about technology and culture are so hilariously off-base that you can't help but point and laugh.
16 months ago

Many future predictions have been made throughout history by many people, some of which have proven to be eerily accurate.
48 months ago

The Confession Box pub resides snuggly at 88 Marlborough Street on the ground floor of a fine old Georgian building at the side of the old Boyers.
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10 August 1917, Edmund Colpoys Lardner-Burke killed in action in East Africa. 10 August 1960, De Beers Yacht Club officially opened by Harry Oppenheimer. E.
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En el bum por el tren de 1840 en Reino Unido, las previsiones de ingresos fueron optimistas, y se subestimaron los costes.
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Hasta los grandes se equivocan, y cuando lo hacen, a menudo erran en grande. Desde Albert Einstein hasta el fundador de Warner Brothers,...
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