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Archive — November 2009

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Quelle's Last Parcel

German giant Quelle, specializing in catalog sales, announced its closure. Thousands of employees will lose their jobs, and Quelle's partner companies will face the loss of orders worth billions of…

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Is It Easy to Be a Welfare Recipient? Everyday life

Is It Easy to Be a Welfare Recipient?

Germany is a country with a full program of social protection for its citizens. Social assistance, whatever it is called, is an opportunity to eke out a living without working. Attitudes toward…

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How an African Built a Power Station Curiosities

How an African Built a Power Station

A resident of the African state of Malawi, William Kamkwamba, built a power station from five wind turbines using improvised materials. According to CNN, the idea to build a wind turbine came to…

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Classification of Hotels in Iceland Tourism

Classification of Hotels in Iceland

Every hotel in Iceland has the opportunity to undergo certification and be classified according to a five-star system. Certification is managed by the Icelandic Tourist Board. The hotel's level, year…

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Online auction of unused tickets Airbus

Online auction of unused tickets

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Car Rental Online Auto tour

Car Rental Online

Airlines have proven through their own experience that passengers are quite willing to order tickets online and receive them at airport kiosks if it means saving time and money. Hertz Rent A Car…

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Online address for those far from computers Technology

Online address for those far from computers

In our time, everything and everyone can be connected by the worldwide web – necessary connections expand even between those who, by definition, could never meet.

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Eternal upholstered furniture. Is it possible? Technology

Eternal upholstered furniture. Is it possible?

When buying upholstered furniture, we want it to look new and last as long as possible. This is quite possible if you know how to properly care for it.

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Optimization of Travel Websites Technology

Optimization of Travel Websites

The travel market, despite the global crisis, continues to develop, so competent promotion of a travel company's website will allow it to attract customers and increase profits from tour sales.

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Wall of Prejudices Country guide

Wall of Prejudices

Every year since 1990, Germany has celebrated November 9 as the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Twenty years after the destruction of this symbol of the Cold War, when a unified German state…

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Where would you like to go on vacation: to plantations, to prison, or closer to radiation? Tourism

Where would you like to go on vacation: to plantations, to prison, or closer to radiation?

The tourism industry today has penetrated every corner of the globe, and it is probably difficult to find a place where you could not buy a tour or excursion. Therefore, avid tourists with extensive…

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Foreign Education – For the Best Athletes Education

Foreign Education – For the Best Athletes

As practice shows, sports news printed in newspapers, shown on TV, and posted on websites attract an increasing number of readers and viewers, because playing sports is beauty, youth, and health.

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New Year Holidays: Vacation in Dombay Tourism

New Year Holidays: Vacation in Dombay

The New Year holidays are approaching, and it is worth thinking about where we will spend these days. A wonderful place for a vacation is the picturesque resort of the Caucasus – Dombay. This unique…

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Cardiovascular diseases – no one is immune from them Everyday life

Cardiovascular diseases – no one is immune from them

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Swine Flu Strikes the Head Everyday life

Swine Flu Strikes the Head

The flu virus, it turns out, this autumn is affecting not only the respiratory tract but also the mind. For this, news broadcasts inflating unverified information were enough.

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Excursion program in Sardinia Tourism

Excursion program in Sardinia

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Uniqueness and Inimitability of Foreign Countries Country guide

Uniqueness and Inimitability of Foreign Countries

We all live on one planet – Earth. We are all united in one aspiration: to learn something new, to discover other countries. And also to see the different ways of life and traditions of their…

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Technology

If you want to sell – train

With the development of active sales departments in many companies, every manager faces the question: how to increase the department's efficiency, boost sales, and not spend too much? There are…

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Do you have avatars for Vkontakte? Technology

Do you have avatars for Vkontakte?

With the development of the Internet and its increasing accessibility, various groups and communities in the virtual world are also developing. In it, there is its own life, sometimes parallel to…

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Budget plastic kitchens Technology

Budget plastic kitchens

No one has long considered the kitchen just the room where food is prepared. After all, it is where festive feasts and quiet tea parties with family and friends take place. Most often here we share…

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Medical Aviation in Service of Citizens Technology

Medical Aviation in Service of Citizens

In cases where a patient needs to be urgently transported to a specialized medical facility, it is advisable to use the services of private aviation companies.

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Landscape of the Educational World Education

Landscape of the Educational World

To survive the difficult times of economic crises with the least losses, specialists who have lost their jobs or resigned voluntarily for personal reasons use the resulting time for training and…

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Country of Slowed Migration Immigration

Country of Slowed Migration

A report by Auditor General Sheila Fraser on the state of immigration has been published in Canada. The conclusions of this document can be described as extremely unfavorable for Stephen Harper's…

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Leaders of International Education Education

Leaders of International Education

Currently, the leaders of international education remain English-speaking countries – the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Germany and France are also not far behind. All of these…

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