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  • Save Money On Your Family Holiday To Tenerife
    By: Mark Kempster | - One of the best ways of saving money to Tenerife is to save on flight sending's. The month's of July-August happen to be the holiday season and expensive. If you can have a travel span of a month or two, you can and wait longer and have flight prices reduced by half or 50%. Another way of saving money is by keeping track of new offers and discounts by hotels. As hotel prices are mostly fixed, you have to keep an eye on the offers and discounts that may flash every other month or two. The website ...
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  • Duty Free Conundrums: Is It Cheap Really?
    By: Patrick Omari | - Tax and Duty Free shopping is available to customers who are leaving the country for an international destination. Tax and duty free items are sold at a price less sales tax and other taxes imposed by governments. Often the savings from Duty Free Shopping can be significant. Although these shops stock many goods, the most popular items in duty free shops are personal care products and other consumables such as liquor and tobacco.

    Duty Free allowances refer to your first point of a ...

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  • The Search For Extrasolar Planets
    By: Patrick Omari | - The burning question as to whether we are alone in the universe has intrigued man for all time. Today our knowledge of the universe has expanded, and the chances of finding life has taken a step forward with the discovery of Extrasolar planets. These are worlds orbiting other stars in the universe. Currently the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia lists 374 of these worlds that have been confirmed orbiting both nearby and distant stars.

    The vast majority of these 374 planets have been ...

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  • How To Build Yourself A Great Gaming Pc
    By: Patrick Omari | - The PC is still the most gaming-rich platform available. In a world where consoles are getting more and more popular many people have abandoned the hard work that a PC can be for the simplicity of a console system. What many console gamers are missing is the diverse range of gaming opportunities available on the PC. If you own a console and are looking to re-invest in a PC or are just looking to build a new gaming rig to replace your ageing one then this guide will show you how to do it.
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  • Travel Lifestyle Is Changing
    By: Patrick Omari | - Economic turndown has brought a lot of changes to our socio-economic and political way of life. Workers are being laid off, businesses have frozen expansion programmes, and salaries and bonuses have been suspended while families have cancelled holiday plans.

    Households have also tightened their belts with austerity measures all aimed at cutting down expenses while others are coming to terms with the sad fact that their homes have acquired negative mortgage status.Whereas phrase s ...

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  • Grab A Free Air Ticket
    By: Patrick Omari | - I have read many stories about free air tickets over the years. But these stories are becoming even more prominent due to the credit crunch. I have a hunch that some of these advertisements could be scams.

    However, if you scoured through travel sites and travel forums, stories abound of people who have actually travelled free. There are some straightforward ways you can get a free air ticket. This is mainly through credit card free-ticket promotions and free tickets offered after ...

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  • The Ashes Cricket Series: The Kentish Connection
    By: Patrick Omari | - It is that time when fans get glued to the TV to watch the much acclaimed Ashes cricket tournament. It's the rivalry factor that has become historic that really makes the Ashes such a high profile sporting event.

    England against Australia in any competition evokes a lot of passion and rivalry. Both teams are almost always evenly matched and whoever wins is entitled to bragging rights.

    If you look at the leading test cricket teams: Australia, India, South Africa, W ...

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  • Formula 1: Schumacher Is Back
    By: Patrick Omari | - He doesn't need the money, neither the fame nor the press. Thrills, spills and drama, he has seen it all and enjoyed all that there is for a superstar of his caliber. The 40-year-old insists he agreed to the temporary role out of loyalty to the Ferrari marque. He won 5 of his 7 world championships as a Ferrari driver. He has been picked ahead of reserve drivers Mark Gene and Luca Badoer.

    Since his retirement in 2006, after 15 seasons of active racing, he has been on a 5-million Eu ...

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  • Video Marketing: Is The Future Of Online Marketing
    By: Patrick Omari | - Video production is a complex art. We know that extracting the best out of it is not as simple and clear-cut as writing a news release, a story or a blog post.

    As a natural evolution of the Internet's ability to facilitate effective communication, sound and vision remains the backbone of successful video marketing. It is the delivery that makes the difference. You need to know what will compel your audience to interact.

    A good video should convince a visitor to hav ...

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  • Online Technology Is Changing:listening Platforms
    By: Patrick Omari | - People will always be talking about your brand and you need to always have an ear on each conversation. Until recently, it took well over six months to launch a product.

    Now, thanks to social media, it can take as little as six weeks to get you off the ground. In the past, quite predictably, a company would launch a campaign or product then issue a press release and wait a couple days or weeks for the news cycle before they can plan a reaction.

    These days you see ...

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  • Beyond The Pale: Web Genius Or Chicanery?
    By: Patrick Omari | - The potential of using social media for customer service in responding to customers' comments and complaints has been established. It is important for companies to monitor what is being said about them online.

    It can help a company to quickly turn a complaint into positive Public Relation exercise by showing other users that they deal with customer complaints fairly, effectively and quickly. If the response is done well and in public it can be a big win for a company in terms of ...

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  • Challenging The Moon Hoax Conspiracy Theory - Part Three
    By: Patrick Omari | - This final look into the conspiracy theory that men never landed on the moon will examine more misguided and incorrect statements made by moon hoax theorists. This will complete my attempt to end some of the misinformation that has been spread over the last few years.

    We kick off this article by examining a claim that I only personally discovered in the last couple of months. This 'evidence' involves the still images taken by the astronauts when on the journey to the moon and when ...

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  • A Woman Of Principle? Not Me
    By: Patrick Omari | - How far would you go to help out your boss? Do you begrudge even making them a cup of tea? Or would you sacrifice your principles to give them a hand?

    Unfortunately, in my case, I've discovered it's the latter. When my boss let slip he was standing for Kent County Council, I found myself offering to help with his campaign, even though he was standing for a party I'd sworn never to vote for at county level.

    And congratulations to him - he won by a landslide, and is n ...

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  • Brothers In Legs - A Humourous Look At More Soccer Star Brothers
    By: Patrick Omari | - As is established there are a lot of relatives and brothers playing football, or soccer as it's know in less fortunate areas of the world. Some, such as the Coles and the Ferdinands are world-famous and supremely talented. Others, such as the Parkers, Paul, Peter and Scott, are less-known and not quite as talented. Although at least Peter Parker has super-powers, so that makes up for it somewhat.

    The Parkers are not the only football superhero crossover brothers. Fighting crime si ...

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  • The Best Computer Game Sequels Ever
    By: Patrick Omari | - Often referred to as the sophomore slump or sophomore jinx, the difficult second album syndrome can apply to almost any walk of life. It's seen a lot with musicians where the first album is a critical or commercial success and then the second is disappointing. Athletes and sports teams will also suffer, a great first season is often followed by a less spectacular second.

    However, I think that in the video games industry that the opposite is more likely to be true. Games developers ...

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  • The History Of The Airliner
    By: Patrick Omari | - Today we sit at 35,000ft in a calm and relaxed environment watching the latest Hollywood blockbuster, sipping champagne with scant regard to the trials and tribulations that have led to this technology being available to us. But what did air travel used to be like before the giants of the sky such as the Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet' and Airbus A380 were even concepts on a drawing board? Welcome to the history of the airliner.

    The exact definition of an airliner is not easy to quantify. ...

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  • Dreaming Of A Goldie Looking Goth
    By: Patrick Omari | - I'm wistfully waiting for the day I see a vampiric 'goth' girl walking down the street hand in hand with a guy kitted out in Goldie Looking Chain gear; heavy eye-liner, dark as night hair and clothes of similar nightly shades side by side with great big gleaming gold bling, baseball cap and hopefully a slightly goofy expression.

    What a shame it is that so many people congregate together around a shared image. And why is it some such followers of 'fashion' have to then apprecia ...

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  • The Greatest Of All Time?
    By: Maxine Clarke | - On June 7, 2009, millions of spectators worldwide tuned in to see Roger Federer finally secure victory in the French Open, cementing his place as one of the greatest tennis player of all time.

    The moment that Robin Soderling's cross-court forehand crashed into the net, Federer fell to his knees in jubilation, joining the elite club of five other tennis legends in securing a victory at each of the four Grand Slam events: the Australian Open, US Open, Wimbledon and the French Open. ...

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  • The Holiday Of The Future
    By: Patrick Omari | - That dreaded alarm is going off and its very early. You suddenly remember why you have to get up, its time for your holiday of a lifetime. The airport beckons and you know you have a long journey ahead of you - very long in fact. You arrive at the airport and see the old fashioned aircraft taking to the skies on the runway. You have flown on these many times, but today you will be going somewhere better, much better. Its time to board your transport as you are off for your year long holiday to M ...
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  • The Allure Of Amelie's France
    By: Patrick Omari | - The film Amelie (or Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, in France) had a hugely warm reaction by critics and audiences upon its release in 2001. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children), the film portrayed Paris in a way many people would probably choose to see it if they could craft their picture from select impressions .

    Arguably one of the most romantic pieces of recent cinema, not just for the central love interest but as a rose-tinted whol ...

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  • Gatwick Parking: Uks Best Airport
    By: Patrick Omari | - This has been a year of mixed fortunes for Gatwick airport. The airport has been awarded the Best UK Airport accolade by the Travel Bulletin Awards for the fifth consecutive year. The bad news is, the owners have put the airport on sale, BAA Limited for a reported princely sum of 2 billion pounds.

    Gatwick is situated in Crawley Borough and is important to the economy of the Crawley borough. With the predicted steady growth of air travel in the foreseeable future, there is always ...

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  • Twenty-seven: A Great Age To Die?
    By: Maxine Clarke | - I've made it to that magical age. The age where the good become great upon meeting their mortality. The age where artists posthumously enter the upper echelons of reverence and fame. That's right, I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-seven.

    One of the great myths of our time is that the great die young. Indeed, there are a number of iconic figures with a spot in the special '27 club'; a club reserved for those successful artists whose untimely death only heightened their worth. ...

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  • Car Park Silos; Spicing Your Parking Experience
    By: Patrick Omari | - Car parking is the only thing not sexy about living or visiting cities. The councils make a lot of money from car parks especially through ticking off offending motorists. Cars are not a status symbol to most travellers; they are a convenient means to an end, moving from point A to point B. There is no urban settlement that has managed to create enough parking spaces. This is a problem we have all resigned to. However, this is bound to change with the recent advancements in modular parking techn ...
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  • Reducing Carbon Foot Print: Rent A Car Park Or Share A Car?
    By: Patrick Omari | - Touted benefits of carsharing are many. Both organisations and individuals have shown interest in car sharing schemes. Although the motivating factors are many, there are two shared interests namely saving money and reducing carbon footprint.

    Reduced car ownership means local transport facilities are not stretched and the environment is cleaner, something that gives the City Hall bosses a big smile. Apart from the financial benefits the individual gets, as owning a car is more ex ...

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  • Holiday Homes: Changing A Cheese Farmhouse To A Car Park
    By: Patrick Omari | - This article has been inspired by my recent holiday trip to a place that you could easily call the most picturesque place on earth. Have you ever asked yourself where the sharp-tasting crumbly cheddar with greenish-blue mold in your corner shop comes from? Cheddar cheese originated in the English village of Cheddar, Somerset.

    This brand of cheese, ranging from mild (lower-fat) to the more mature (higher-fat) and sharper cheeses, is now the most popular in the UK and has been copi ...

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  • The Joys Of Shopping- Why It Is Best To Shop Around
    By: Patrick Omari | - Pose, smile, say cheese, after three. These are the words that I spoke repeatedly over the Christmas period. Like a child with a new toy I ran round the house gathering my family and friends together so i could try out my favourite present, the camera i had bought with the money Santa had so kindly delivered me.

    During the lead up to Christmas, there were so many occasions I wished to have been snapping away, but couldnt. I ended up copying people's pictures or tagging myself in t ...

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  • How Bands Should Use Twitter
    By: Patrick Omari | - It's gone past being the next big thing, it's the current big thing. Twitter has made a meteoric rise in a relatively short amount of time. Inspired by status messages on instant messenger programs, the micro blogging service allows users to post messages of no longer than 140 characters. These messages, or 'tweets' are used to convey what the person is thinking or doing.

    You can then choose to follow someone whose tweets you find interesting. The tweets of the people you follow a ...

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  • The Top Five Writing Jobs For The Average Joe
    By: Maxine Clarke | - We all have a dream of being a rockstar, a movie star or a footballer, but deep down we all know that such a opportunity will present itself to just a lucky few. For the average Joe, there is never the opportunity to attain such greatness, so what can we do to join the workforce and enjoy our positions to the max?

    We have all found ourselves pouring over the job pages online and off, looking for that ideal position that ticks all the boxes. Instead we are presented with an endless ...

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  • F1 Races That Changed The Sport Forever - San Marino 1994
    By: Patrick Omari | - There can be little argument that the San Marino Grand Prix held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy on the 1st of May 1994 was one - if not the - blackest weekend in the history of Formula One. A series of tragic events and accidents beset both days of qualifying, as well as Sunday's race.

    The weekend saw the deaths of two drivers. The popular Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger succumbed to head injuries sustained during Saturday qualifying after a high-speed c ...

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  • The Culture And Customs Of Thailand
    By: Patrick Omari | - One of the most interesting aspects of travelling and one of the main reasons I enjoy it so much is the fact you learn so much about the customs of different cultures. Discovering the ways of other people around the world is truly fascinating and at times very different from what you may consider normal.

    I recently travelled to Thailand and during my month long travels I learnt so many Thai customs and traditions. The most notable custom was the way the people greeted each other. ...

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  • The Mystery Of The Missing Cosmonauts
    By: Patrick Omari | - In a world full of conspiracy theories it is hard to separate hysterical overreaction from fact at times. Occasionally however a conspiracy theory, or mystery comes along that seems plausible. The case of the missing cosmonauts is one of these.

    Could it really be true that two brothers in Italy managed to record the deaths of Russian Cosmonauts in space that have remained hidden from the world since the space race? Let's look at the evidence for this and take a balanced look at j ...

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  • Beam Me Up Scotty!
    By: Patrick Omari | - How soon will it be before you can press a button in your front room labeled 'Supermarket' and be transported a couple of miles up the road in front of the baskets ready to do your weekly shopping?

    The prospect of removing the need for time-consuming travel would completely revolutionise modern life. If it were possible to transfer yourself instantaneously to anywhere in the world, people would most certainly be doing a great deal more 'traveling'. Short break holidays would o ...

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  • Holiday Scams And How To Avoid Them
    By: Patrick Omari | - It seems impossible for a year to go by without news of holiday scams. Tour operators that don't really have holiday tours, leaving holidaymakers at the airport, or hotels that don't exist, so people are stranded abroad with nowhere to stay and a huge debt on their credit card for a holiday that never was. The list of scams is long. This article will examine the much-hyped cancelled holiday offers.

    Recently a friend sent me the following email: "I have heard of people buying holid ...

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  • Compare Airport Parking And Airport Taxi
    By: Patrick Omari | - Deciding whether to get a taxi and what firm to choose is not always easy. You could call a dozen or more taxi firms and petrol companies, but who has the time and patience to do that? Fortunately, there are now automated and innovative ways of getting this information. This article introduces a clever online calculator that will save you pounds.

    Maybe you can't drive to the airport or get public transport, maybe you don't want to or maybe, if you're a woman, you've packed too man ...

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  • I Literally Cannot Imagine How Random That Is
    By: Maxine Clarke | - The English language is one of the most expressive and evocative in the world, yet is also the most bastardised and abused by its native speakers. How often do you find yourself being subjected to throwaway, non-sensical terms which add nothing to the substance of a conversation? The sad thing is, more than you probably realise.

    Some of history's greatest writers were of English descent and composed magnificent prose whose excellence is surpassed only by its legacy. William Shake ...

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  • Footballing Wages Going Beyond Kaka
    By: Maxine Clarke | - The recent publicity concerning the future of Kaka, the Brazilian midfield superstar currently playing for AC Milan, has re-ignited the indignation of the hard-working populace for the reverential status afforded to athletes. But why should we bemoan an individual who is, as is patently clear, one of the best at his job?

    The obvious reason is financial and the fact that someone is prepared to offer upwards of GBP500,000 per week to him for little more than partaking in some exerci ...

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  • Martin Luther King Meets Barack Obama
    By: Maxine Clarke | - Since 1983, the third Monday of each January has been observed as Martin Luther King Jr. Day across the United States of America. Nowhere is the day held in such reverence as in King's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.

    The inspirational civil rights activist was born here on January 15, 1929, and went on to become one of the most influential figures in mid-20th century politics. It would be the Montgomery Bus Boycott - one of the most significant events in civil rights - that would s ...

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  • The Chatting Holy Grail
    By: Patrick Omari | - As 2008 comes to a close, we can take a look back at the year's biggest news stories, technological advances and discoveries. I have been watching my crystal balls and I can tell you that nothing hypnotised me like the spawning growth of social media networks. As a blogger I always trolled the net looking for cutting edge tools. I wasn't disappointed, they came in leaps and bounds.

    I admit that the year 2008 had many Firsts; ironically while scientists working for mission critical ...

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  • History Of The Grand Theft Auto Game 1997-2003
    By: Patrick Omari | - The Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series of games are highly popular with many age groups and ethnic types. Gameplay consists of action, adventure, racing, shooting and driving. The games are extremely violent and graphic, and are only suitable for adults.

    The GTA series has undergone several facelifts in its history with the first example released in 1997/98 barely recognisable today as the same game. Let's take a look at the previous GTA releases and how they have developed the series ...

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  • F1 Races That Changed The Sport Forever - Japan 1990
    By: Patrick Omari | - As in 1989, the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka in 1990 was the scene of another dramatic championship decider between arch-rivals Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.

    The two men were no longer teamates as Prost had moved to the Italian Ferrari team for 1990, after the previous two turbulent years with Ayrton Senna as a teamate at McLaren.

    The 1990 season had been another close one, and as the two drivers arrived at the penultimate round of the championship the mathematics ...

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  • The Best Albums Of 2008
    By: Patrick Omari | - 2008 was a pretty good year for music, many fantastic bands released great albums with rock fans being treated especially. While there were many high-profile comebacks in 2008, Metallica and Guns and Roses spring to mind, but I'd like to look at what were my personal favourites during 2008.

    First up was the new Joe Satriani album released on March 31st, Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock. The album is about as typically Satch as you could get. Since his experimenta ...

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  • How To Pick A Name For Your Band
    By: Patrick Omari | - Choosing a band name is the most difficult decision that any group has to make. A name will define you and is the first impression that most people will get of your band. People will often hear the name before they hear any music, pick the wrong one and it'll put people off before they even listen to you. Of course, your name absolutely must be original as well. Choose something that someone else is using and at some point down the line you'll have to change it. This article will steer you on th ...
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  • History Of The Grand Theft Auto Game 2003-2009
    By: Patrick Omari | - This article will be taking a look at the history of the Grand Theft Auto series of games. We pick up the story after the release of GTA: Vice City. So to kick off let's don our shell suits and catapault back to 1992, and the violent and corrupt world of GTA: San Andreas.

    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    October 2004 saw the release of GTA: San Andreas which was set in 1992 and focuses on gang and drug life in the early 1990's with particular focus on the problems brou ...

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  • My New Year's Resolution: To Stop Celebrating New Year
    By: Patrick Omari | - It's the morning after the night before, and what a let-down THAT was.

    You built it up for weeks, it was going to be the best night ever - but now you've just got a hangover and vague memories of being kissed by someone you wouldn't normally let near you. Yes, I'm talking about New Year, the worst night in the calendar apart from Valentine's Day.

    I find the whole thing so annoying that I'm usually tucked up in bed at midnight, though I can hear my parents getting e ...

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  • Ocd: The Monster That Lives In My Head
    By: Patrick Omari | - It's because of the monster, I told my friends. You can't stay the night at my flat because of the monster.

    No, I wasn't talking about the one who lives in the wardrobe. He's scared of strangers. I'm talking about the monster in my head that makes me wash my hands dozens of times a day because I'm terrified of germs.

    Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD if you can't be bothered to say the whole thing. There, I've said it. I've admitted it, I've named him. The dark ...

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  • Challenging The Moon Hoax Conspiracy Theory - Part Two
    By: Patrick Omari | - Welcome to my challenge of the conspiracy theory that states men never landed on the moon. In this article i will deal with several aspects of the Apollo programme, and investigate claims made by conspiracy theorists that the Apollo One astronauts were murdered by NASA.

    There have also been accusations that the Apollo 13 emergency was fake and was manafactured by NASA to re-ignite public interest. This was after interest waned following the initial hysteria of the Apollo 11 landi ...

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  • F1 Races That Changed The Sport Forever - Japan 1989
    By: Patrick Omari | - The 1989 Formula One Japanese Grand Prix was held at the superb Suzuka circuit in Japan on the 22nd of October 1989. It was the fifteenth round of the World Championship and the penultimate race on the schedule.

    This race was to ultimately become one of the most dramatic and notorious races in the history of the entire Formula One World Championship.

    As the 1989 season drew to a close the rivalry between McLaren teamates Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna was at fever pi ...

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  • The Traveler' Diarrhea; Avoid It This Holiday Season
    By: Patrick Omari | - It is time to eat and make merry. But remember apart from the rampant flue and accidents resulting from overindulgence over the festive season, food is the other silent nuisance that sometimes we don't pay much attention to. If you are not going far from home, you might feel confident about the hygienic condition around your home. But if you are travelling, be wary of the annoying illnesses such as Shigella - often referred to as traveler's diarrhea. It causes moderate to severe illness with fev ...
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  • What's So Great About Angkor Wat?
    By: Maxine Clarke | - Travel websites, magazines, brochures and television shows are often preaching to us about the latest 'must-see' destination or the '101 places to see before you die'. But are these reviews simply funded by the relevant destination's tourist board or are we really getting a true overview?

    Let's look, for example, at the increasingly popular tourist destination of South East Asia, Cambodia. Many will be more than aware of the captivating array of temples of the nation, including th ...

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  • Essential Soccer Skills - Controlling The Ball
    By: Patrick Omari | - Football, or soccer as it is known is some religious backwaters, is a game of skill played on the ground with a ball using the foot. Controlling the game sphere is paramount during the match and surely the team with the best control will win the game. If you can learn to control with aplomb then you'll be on the winning team.

    The first and most important thing you'll need when controlling the ball is confidence. Confidence rules all. Your touch must be confident and firm, make the ...

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