Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 5, 2004 at 11:25:00 AM CEST
Ikea-Gründer überflügelt Gates als reichster Mann der Welt
Ikea-Gründer Ingvar Kamprad (77) hat laut dem schwedischen Wirtschaftsmagazin "Veckans affärer" Bill Gates als reichster Mann der Welt überflügelt. Grund dafür ist laut einem Artikel in der jüngsten Ausgabe der Zeitschrift der schwache Dollar-Kurs.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 5, 2004 at 11:24:00 AM CEST
IKEA founder overtakes Gates as world's richest
All hail Ingvar Kamprad!
Ingvar Kamprad, the Swede who founded furniture retail chain IKEA, has overtaken Microsoft's Bill Gates as the world's richest man, Swedish TV news reported on Sunday.
Citing next week's edition of the Swedish business weekly Veckans Affarer, public service SVT2 television said Kamprad, 77, has a personal fortune of 400 billion crowns ($53 billion).
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 5, 2004 at 11:23:00 AM CEST
Eurotunnel drill up for auction
Eurotunnel has put a 580-tonne drill used to build the Channel Tunnel up for grabs on the online auction site eBay.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 4, 2004 at 11:35:00 AM CEST
The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of Japan's Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken.
Some facts on the 14 cylinder version:
Total engine weight: 2300 tons
Length: 89 feet
Height: 44 feet
Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 4, 2004 at 11:20:00 AM CEST
Make Your Own TRON Costume
The bust began with a standard life-mask made with plaster impregnated bandages available at craft and medical supply stores. As you might have guessed, I sat for about half an hour with pieces of drinking straw up my nose, while my mother wrapped my Vaseline coated face in plaster bandage. After the bandages had set, the cast was carefully removed and the breathing holes patched with small pieces of bandage, and more Vaseline applied to the inner surface of the mold. I then poured plaster of paris into the life-mask, let it set, and carefully removed the finished life-mask. I sculpted a bust around the life-mask, all the way down to the beginning of the shoulders. This involved taking measurements from my head and comparing the bust to them, until the basic geometric requirements had been met, and then using a bit of "finesse" to make everything fit together properly.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 3, 2004 at 6:59:00 PM CEST
Peppers--Hot Sauce Central
Welcome to PEPPERS, home of the undisputed largest collection of hot sauces in the world! Over 6500 different hot sauces grace the walls of our hot sauce museum, and we add to that total daily. We like to think of ourselves as hot sauce experts, and we would love to answer all of your questions regarding taste, ingredients, heat levels, or recipes from our award winning restaurants. Matching hot sauces to different food types is an art form and we want to help you taste the full palette.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on February 17, 2004 at 10:43:00 AM CET
Clans on the Run
As a new generation takes over, Asia's richest business families are being forced to change their cloistered, Confucian ways.
Name a Japanese corporate colossus and chances are it started as a family firm: Kikkoman, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Toyota. If you go shopping or catch a movie in Manila, you'll doubtless enter a leisure palace decreed by the megawealthy Sy or Ayala clans. Hundreds of millions of Indians garb themselves daily in cloth made by the Ambanis or Wadias. Residents of Hong Kong can barely avoid contributing to the coffers of billionaire Li Ka-shing and his sons, who control office towers, supermarkets, electronics outlets and telephone companies.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on February 16, 2004 at 1:08:00 PM CET
Royal Tit-Watching
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The Royal Tit-Watching Society of Britain is the oldest of the British Tit-Watching Societies. The society was formed in 1824, by Lord Roylott of Stoke Moran, Surrey.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on February 16, 2004 at 12:47:00 PM CET
Elephant Cigarette Dispenser
tore your favorite smokes in this elephant's pack and when you need a fix, just press his trunk down and he'll reward you with a cigarette from his rear end. Each 9-1/2" long by 6-1/2" tall, hard plastic curiosity holds about twenty-four cigarettes (not included).
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on February 13, 2004 at 1:29:00 PM CET
Das Chili-Erdnuss-Saucen problem
Diese Sauce soll so gut sein wie die bei "Kim kocht", die nämlich besser ist als alle anderen Erdnuss-Chili-Saucen auf der Welt - weil Sohyi Kim frische Zutaten verwendet, weil sie selber rührt und püriert, weil optimaler Geschmack den Ausschlag gibt und nicht optimaler Gewinn.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on January 26, 2004 at 3:34:00 AM CET
You stole my yogurt
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Wow.
The response to orkut.com has been phenomenal and I’ve been learning a lot about what people like and expect from a service like this. Thanks for all your feedback so far!
Based on your suggestions, I’m taking orkut.com back to the lab for some fine-tuning and improvements. It will likely take a few days to finish them. None of your data will be lost and I should have some nice surprises for you when I bring it back online. I’ll email you when it’s ready and running again.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on January 18, 2004 at 1:06:00 PM CET
German Toilets
Whenever folks who have lived or traveled in Germany gather for a beer, sooner or later one subject is sure to rear its ugly head: what is the deal with those toilets?
German toilets are quite extraordinary. Other European toilets - well, the ones that aren't merely holes in the floor - work much like their North American cousins. They are shaped a little differently, but the basic principle is the same: the excrement either lands directly in the water or it slides down a steep slope into the water, before being flushed away. Simple, effective and clean. See?
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