During the electronic revolution, Google sprang about as the most indispensable search engine almost overnight. If there is anybody on the face of this planet who hasn’t heard of Google, I think he must be a relic from the Stone Age.The book, The Google Story, is about the birth and the coming of age of [...]

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Have you ever taken your dog on a camping trip? Have you ever spent a lazy afternoon floating down the river with Fido by your side? How about an overnight hiking and camping trip? I have three dogs that seem to know long before we even start bringing the camping bags out that we are [...]

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California is blessed with sandy beaches, dense forests and snowcapped mountain peaks. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the US. It is popular among natives as well as foreign travelers. The key to having a wonderful and memorable vacation is planning. With proper planning, California vacations will make your holidays relaxing, [...]

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Costa Rica, like many Latin American countries, buys a lot of oil from Hugo Chavez. Try almost 100% of the 18,000 barrels of crude that the country refines daily. Under current financial terms, this crude has to be paid for within 8 days. However, if Costa Rica joins in with Hugo Chavez sponsored “Petrocaribe” those [...]

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Medical tourism is very popular throughout the world. The choices of healthcare destinations vary from patient to patient because a patient has to consider many things while choosing a destination. But some destination places are so much popular due to the quality of healthcare services, lower costs, availability of competent and experienced doctors and pleasant [...]

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Costa Rica offers different styles of furniture and many options of woods to choose from. In this country, wood is still affordable and attainable. Among the different types of woods used for furniture are Guanacaste, Cedar, Cenizaro and Melina among others.One of the most important things to watch for when buying wooden furniture is the [...]

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The first explorers who saw the hippo first called it a sea cow and hunted them because they have vast amounts of meat and fat on them. One of Africa’s fully grown adult hippos can weigh around 2 tonnes, but do not let that weight fool you because they can run 20 kilometers an hour [...]

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A very close connection exists between history and chronology, since chronology explains the events that have taken place as the result of what happened earlier. We may know many well-documented accounts of history; however, if these accounts were not given to us in a chronological order, but in a scattered way, we would surely miss [...]

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Sea turtles are found in all the oceans (except the Arctic Ocean) worldwide. There are essentially seven species of the sea turtles. Of these seven (viz. leatherback, olive ridley, flat back, hawksbill, loggerhead, kemps ridley and green turtle), the leatherback sea turtle is found in Costa Rica. However, since the species of the leatherback are [...]

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