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Network Cabling Oakland for Better Business

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:06:02 +0000

For business, communication is key. It is through communication that a client may talk to a supplier, an agent may talk to a talent, and a transaction is made. In a sense, when there is no communication, there is no business. To keep up with the times, an organization must have access to superior mediums of communication. Network Cabling Oakland can provide this for your organization to give you better business.

LED Landscape Lighting: Cheaper Change

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:14:51 +0000

If you want to change the look of your yard, garden, or deck, we suggest that instead of buying new furnishings or contracting the services of an architect to renovate these spaces, you may simply add some new foliage and purchase LED Landscape Lighting options to breathe new life to your outdoor spaces.

Advantages of Toilet Seat Bidet

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:30:22 +0000

Purchasing a toilet seat bidet may just be one of the best decisions I have ever made in recent memory as these bidet seats save me money and are friendlier to the environment. More importantly, they give me a more pleasant toilet experience anytime I use it.

A Time of Religious Upheaval

admin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:46:34 +0000

Medieval Ireland was also marked by an English policy of plantation which led to the arrival of thousands of English and Scottish Protestant settlers. As the military and political defeat of Gaelic Ireland became more clear in the early seventeenth century, the role of religion as a new division in Ireland became more pronounced. From this period on, sectarian conflict became a recurrent theme in Irish history.

Fleadh Nua

admin — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:02:34 +0000

The Fleadh Nua Festival brings together concerts, céilithe, music, song and dancing workshops, and each year thousands of people in search of traditional entertainment attend. The festival is held every year in the picturesque town of Ennis in County Clare.

Waterford Tall Ships Race: 30 June – 03 July

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:19:35 +0000

Ireland’s oldest city, Waterford, hosts the Tall Ships Race, where over 70 tall ships race around the quays for four thrilling days. The festival also features parades, traditional music, street entertainment and markets in addition to all the seafaring fun. The Crews Parade will feature more than 1,500 young sailing trainees who will make their way through the streets in song and dance before climbing on the ships for the race of a lifetime.

Apr 30, 1945: Adolf Hitler commits suicide

admin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:22:02 +0000

On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich.

Apr 23, 1564: William Shakespeare is Born

admin — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:16:31 +0000

According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newborn. Shakespeare’s date of death is conclusively known, however: it was April 23, 1616. He was 52 years old and had retired to Stratford three years before.

The Church of Ireland

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:15:36 +0000

The overthrow, in 1613, of the Catholic majority in the Irish parliament was realised principally through the creation of numerous new boroughs, all of which were Protestant-dominated. By the end of the seventeenth century all Catholics, representing some 85% of Ireland’s population then, were banned from the Irish parliament. Political power rested entirely in the hands of an Anglo settler-colonial, and more specifically the state church (Church of Ireland) minority, while the Catholic and some Protestant denominations suffered severe political and economic privations.

Apr 4, 1968: Dr. King is assassinated

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:17:53 +0000

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.