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Why Do You Have to Turn Off Electronic Devices on an Airplane?

Smart city and connection lines. Internet concept of global business in Sydney, Australia. Concept for wifi or bluetooth

What’s the Difference Between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi?

Binary Computer Code, Binary Code, Internet, Technology, Password, Data

How Does Wi-Fi Work?

Woman wearing earbuds using Bluetooth technology with her smartphone. cell phone smart phone airpods listening to music or podcast phone call wireless

How Does Bluetooth Work?

What’s the Difference Between Emoji and Emoticons?

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Submerged sperm whale off east Sri Lanka coast, mammal

How Did the Sperm Whale Get Its Name?

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

New Seven Wonders of the World

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

Space race (1957-1969) infographic between United States (U.S.) and Russia. America, Soviet Union, U.S.S.R., space exploration

Timeline of the Space Race, 1957–69

Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet

10 Failed Doomsday Predictions

Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

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Armed Forces Radio Services broadcaster Jack Brown interviews Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall for broadcast to troops overseas during World War II.

Communications Firsts Quiz

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Businessman using tablet phone on airplane

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