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| |  | | | Index - In English | Leading Hungarian Website | | Boat crash on the Danube: Search for 21 missing continues, wreckage inaccessible 7 dead, 21 missing after sightseeing boat collides with cruise ship on the Danube in Budapest 2019 European Elections: Record-high turnout in Hungary | | |
| |  | | | CMOS Shop Talk | From the Chicago Manual of Style | | In editing formal prose, we fix nonstandard English without hesitation. But in editing creative works, we often need to throw out the stylebook so a narrator or character in a novel or play can abuse grammar to good effect. . . . | | |
| |  | | | This man went head-to-head with ISIS sympathizers on social media and won — Quartz | | The two men pecked out messages on opposite sides of the country. “Yes the Islamic State was a fantasy in 2004, now look at it. The U.S. was a fantasy in 1776, now look at it,” the man in Virginia wrote in a Twitter direct message to an online friend in Oregon. The Virginian, who went by various Twitter handles, including one with “Jihadi” in it, had been obsessively watching slick online videos produced by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS: brutality and jihadist propaganda, much of it translated into English and other languages. Now he was talking about traveling to Syria and forming a militia in Virginia. “Washington beat an empire with 3 percent of the population. I can do it with 1 percent.” [More] | | |
| |  | | | How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com — Quartz | | When Amazon.com burst onto the nascent online retail scene in 1995, the future seemed bleak for brick-and-mortar independent bookstores—which already faced competition from superstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. Indeed, between 1995 and 2000, the number of independent bookstores in the United States plummeted 43%, according to the American Booksellers Association (ABA), a nonprofit trade association dedicated to the promotion of independent bookstores.But then a funny thing happened. While pressure from Amazon forced Borders out of business in 2011, indie bookstores staged an unexpected comeback. Between 2009 and 2015, the ABA reported a 35% growth in the number of independent booksellers, from 1,651 stores to 2,227. [More] | | |
| | | | | | How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com — Quartz | | When Amazon.com burst onto the nascent online retail scene in 1995, the future seemed bleak for brick-and-mortar independent bookstores—which already faced competition from superstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. Indeed, between 1995 and 2000, the number of independent bookstores in the United States plummeted 43%, according to the American Booksellers Association (ABA), a nonprofit trade association dedicated to the promotion of independent bookstores.But then a funny thing happened. While pressure from Amazon forced Borders out of business in 2011, indie bookstores staged an unexpected comeback. Between 2009 and 2015, the ABA reported a 35% growth in the number of independent booksellers, from 1,651 stores to 2,227. [More] | | |
| |  | | | Internet Statistics & Facts (Including Mobile) for 2019 - HostingFacts.com | | Late last year we updated Hosting Facts’ list of Internet, e-commerce and hosting statistics for 2018. We started publishing the list in 2016 and have updated it annually since. The list became an extremely useful resource that has been overwhelmingly shared and linked to — even on some of the biggest publications in the world. However, things move really fast on the Internet, and a lot has changed since we published that list. | | |
| |  | | | Faith Fighters | | We are a group of disciples of Jesus. We serve our king by going into the broken areas of our city to bring the hope, the light and the power of the gospel into the darkest, most hopeless and sin infested areas in our city, as we believe with out a shadow of a doubt that Jesus came into the world to save sinner (1 Tim 1:15). And we, Faith Fighters will fight to bring the good news to them! | | |
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