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    Go down to the woods today

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Blog: Stephanie Flanders

The more money they create, the more the Bank of England's policy makers must wish they had better things to spend it on than government debt. Of the extra £175bn the Bank has created through its QE policy since March,...

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Cac 403707.29-1.44
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The raw materials needed to make a PC weigh as much as a rhinoceros - 530lb of fossil fuels, 50lb of chemicals and 3330 lbs of water - about two tons in total.

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons. POPULAR MECHANICS 1949

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  • 1918: With German defeat in World War One certain, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates, ending the Hohenzollern dynasty.

  • 1938: On 'Kristallnacht', Jewish homes and businesses in Germany are attacked and 30,000 Jewish men imprisoned.

  • 1989: The Berlin Wall is breached as the border is opened and East Germans are allowed to travel to the west.

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