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China to Lift Ban of 400,000 DWT 'Valemax' Mega-Ships - gCaptaingcaptain.com
SHANGHAI, July 3 (Reuters) – China said on Friday it will allow 400,000-deadweight tonne ships to dock at its ports, officially ending a more than three-year ban that had effectively shut out Brazilian miner Vale SA’s giant vessels. Four domestic ports... - lollyrock.com
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Chrome Blocks Major Torrent Sites Over "Harmful Programs" - TorrentFreaktorrentfreak.com
Starting today Google Chrome is blocking direct access to several large torrent sites including KickassTorrents, Torrentz, ExtraTorent and RARBG. According to Google the sites contain "harmful programs" but the site owners are clueless as to what they'... -
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Law to target aggressive fundraising by charities - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk
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What It’s Like to Face a 150 M.P.H. Tennis Servenytimes.com
Watch this video and see how it feels to stand across the court from the fastest serves in tennis. -
People Are Writing Thousands of Emails to Treescitylab.com
The city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses so citizens could report problems. Instead, people wrote thousands of love letters to their favorite trees. - begriffs.com
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StackOverflow modding itself out of existencemovingfulcrum.com
I used to have an extremely popular question on StackOverflow: Interesting uses of sun.misc.Unsafe. It was an extremely popular post and one of the go to places on the internet to learn more about the sun.misc.Unsafe... -
Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right? - World Standardsworldstandards.eu
About 35 per cent of the world's countries drive on the left. This strange quirk perplexes the rest of the world; but there is a perfectly good reason. -
Oldest Surviving Melody in Historysauravtom.tumblr.com
The oldest melody which is known to have survived in its entirety is the Song of Seikilos, which was composed in Greece around 200 BC. The song, which was written by a man named Seikilos in memory of... -
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Clever Toyota ad hijacks Siri to switch off iPhones while drivingmarketingmagazine.co.uk
Sweden has a reputation for having the world's safest roads, coming up with the 'Mission Zero' concept to end road deaths altogether. -
If you've got nothing to hide... - Jacques Mattheijjacquesmattheij.com
The Past Since 1851 Amsterdam had a registry that recorded the following pieces of data of the residents: Name, Date of birth, Address, marital … -
Greece’s Economy Is a Lesson for Republicans in the U.S.nytimes.com
Economic policy promoted by American conservatives is how Greece got in severe trouble. -
Quitting is so hardeconomist.com
SOLVING some of the world’s great health problems, such as cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, remains beyond the wit of science. Not smoking. For over a decade, it... -
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What to do about sun.misc.Unsafe 15 June 2015 Contributors: Greg Luck, Hazelcast, EC Representative Chris Engelbert, Hazelcast, EC Representative Martijn Verburg, LJC, jClarity, Java Champion, EC Representative Ben Evans, LJC, jClarity, Java Champi... -
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