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WEF: Remember when you made your first $10m?
In one of its blogs the BBC today provides an interesting snippet from a conversation overheard at the World Economic Forum in Davos. …Two friends talking: “Good call that we stopped him for a chat. He doesn’t know it, but I made my first $10m off one of his companies.” The speaker has just parted [...]
CNNMoney: Darwin Award for Businesses
With its great list of “101 Dumbest Moments in Business” CNNMoney provides a good overview on the 2006 “biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers” in businesses. Some companies even managed to get more then one entry on the list. When you read through the pages…
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Music: “Superstition” on Sesame Street
Back in 1973 22 year old Stevie Wonder played his famous song “Superstition” on Sesame Street together with Ray Parker Jr. on the guitar, Anthony Jackson on the bass and Olie Brown on the drums. Watch this great moment of TV history online…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations
Today throughout the US celebrations will be held to honor Martin Luther King Jr. who was murdered 1968 in Memphis. Many things have changed since the march to Washington and his famous speech in 1963, but with the deterioration of civil rights throughout the world’s leading nations latest since 9/11 it is good to be reminded that there was a time not so long ago when people stood up for their rights and did not indulge in indifference to such changes.
A video of his famous speech is available online in full length (link below)…
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Happy Birthday David Bowie
…but we could not let this day go by without saying Happy Birthday to David Robert Jones aka Thin White Duke aka Ziggy Stardust aka David Bowie. It’s his 60th birthday and we still don’t know if there is “Life on Mars” but maybe “Major Tom” will find that out for us. One thing’s for sure we are not “under pressure” to be “Heroes” anymore…
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Video: Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark
In this video from an never-before-seen 1984 CBS interview former President Gerald Ford tells the story behind his famous “national nightmare” remark. He had requested that this would not be broadcasted before his death…
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