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Friday, February 5, 2010

History of Facebook: The Social Network at Six

by Bill Petro on February 5, 2010 · 0 comments

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Yesterday marked the 6th birthday of the social networking site Facebook. What started back at Harvard — and initially only open to college students or those with email addresses that ended in .edu until September 2006 [...]

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History of the Super Bowl: Just another Religious Holiday?

by Bill Petro on February 5, 2010 · 1 comment

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HISTORY OF THE SUPER BOWL
The Super Bowl, also known as simply Superbowl — a territory acquisition athletic contest played upon a fixed agrarian grid using as a token an inflated porcine prolate spheroid — is the most important holiday of the year in America. Some will say that it is a secular holiday, others argue [...]

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