Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez presented this book Open Veins Of Latin America: Five Centuries Of The Pillage Of A Continent written by Uruguyan Author Eduardo Galeano to President Obama, at the Summit Of Americas held in Trinidad, and that has done wonders to the book’s sales. Ranked by Amazon.com at position 54,295, the book saw its fortunes instantly climbing to the second place, it now vanishing out of shelves from book stores across the world and a further several thousand copies ordered. The book traces 500 years of Latin American history right from the days of the Spanish conquest to the present day.President Obama though surprised thought it “was a nice gesture”, he being a reader.
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| Inspiring | July 31, 2010 | 01:11 am |
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| Samsung LE40B650 LCD TV | July 31, 2010 | 01:11 am |
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Samsung has taken the internet and put it into a TV with its LE40B650. There are many brands that have done this trick in the past by bring together the PC and the TV, but this is the first time where it utilizes the internet widget platform of yahoo and Intel to get the effect. For starters this TV offers news, weather, YouTube and Flickr and promises to increase the widgets in due course. This version also allows you to add and delete material via USB. This shiny black flat screen can also be used as a normal telly, where the image quality is pretty good with a full HD panel that offers fine detailing and colour zing. |
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| To Fit Into Every Pocket | February 1, 2009 | 10:08 am |
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Mini laptops are about half the size of a normal laptop and they weigh around 1 kilogram. Screen is much smaller and so is the keyboard. In fact short keyboard helps faster typing for those who do lot of typing. More over a mini laptop cost around half the price of regular laptop. |
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| Awesome Printer | December 26, 2008 | 01:12 am |
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With lot of essays and letters to print every day one might feel pretty vexed but not any longer as Hp DeskJet f4288 is here now. Unique feature of this machine is it can print and scan at the same time .A speed of 30papers per minute will certainly help students. |
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