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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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Candles Burning On Table In Church

What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

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Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

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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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