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...patent for a 3-D movie process. In 1915 Edwin S. Porter, whose The Great Train Robbery had stoked the first great movie sensation a dozen years before, presented a series of 3-D documentary shorts to a New York City audience, who viewed the short documentaries through anaglyph (red-green) glasses. In the 1920s, many 3-D shorts appeared on programs at theaters such as New York's Roxy. MGM presented three 3-D talkie shorts from 1936 to 1941, the last one in Technicolor. The Polaroid filters created by Edwin Land were used for a short shown...
...told, the government has injected $45 billion into Citi by buying preferred shares; it has also insured the bank against losses on as much as $300 billion in loans and bonds. It is assistance the bank has needed. Citi lost $19 billion in 2008, and analysts expect the red ink to continue for some time. (Read "Citigroup Plans Big Bonuses Despite Rules Against Them...
...they studied the evidence, contradictions emerged that possibly should have raised red flags. The Phantom was not only a brutal killer - suspected of committing six homicides - but also a common thief. She had been involved in a car-dealership robbery and a school break-in, but in both cases others convicted of those crimes denied her existence...
...stopped eating red meat for a long time. I felt like cows are mammals and they're much closer to us than birds. Then I read like three different sources that said if you're going to eat any meat, it should be beef because cows at least spend half their lives grazing and get to experience their essential cowness, whereas chickens really have no life at all unless you get the free range ones...
...billion in trade in 2007. He pulled no punches about his goal: the tariffs were designed to hit as many different U.S. states as possible. Going into effect on March 19, the tariffs of 10% to 45% affected goods ranging from onions and shaving cream to fruit juice and red wine. There was even a tariff on Christmas trees, which may not have worried the growers too much because they don't sell many in March...