Category: History
Top Ten Largest IPOs
An Image of the New York Stock Exchange trading floor

For all of you non-finance people out there an IPO (Initial Public Offering) is when a privately owned company begins to sell stock in it’s business to the public.  There are numerous reasons for a business to become a publicly listed company such as: allowing for new acquisitions to help facilitate expansion, provides greater liquidity to original equity holders for paying off debt or improving cash [...]

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Top Ten Rockstars To Join The 27 Club
An image of Amy Winehouse before the drugs took hold and killed her at 27.

The world has lost a great deal of talent to untimely deaths and the music industry seems to suffer the most. These young stars not only influenced the music industry but often defined an entire generation.  The strange thing is that a large proportion of these young and talented musicians or rockstars died prematurely at the age of 27, is [...]

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Top Ten Deadliest Natural Disasters Of The Past Century
Indian Ocean Tsunami

With all the natural disasters occurring of late it might seem that we are heading to a doomsday of cataclysmic proportions.  But even though global warming is being rammed into our ear drums every day we have been seeing major disasters since the early dawn of this past century.

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Top Ten Creatures You Have Never Heard Of
Sumatran Rhino 2

Today we are going to get all David Attenborough on you and talk about the top creatures on this planet that you have never heard of.  A rather subjective post you ask? Yes.  But we have done our research on this little bad boy, so much so that we even spoke to David Attenborough himself……when I say “spoke” I mean [...]

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Top Ten Google Failures
Google

A lot of people talk about how dominant Google are (well there are also a load of negative conspiracy theories around this online juggernaut and Facebook is breathing down their necks as media consumption evolves) and what amazing success they have had since being founded back in September 1988.  

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Top Ten Americans That Are Actually Canadian
canadian_flag

So you have been sitting there smugly basking in the glow of some famous American actors and their many achievements. When all of a sudden you see them closing the Olympic ceremony with other famous Canadian actors…”WTF” you say to yourself, “They’re Canadian?” Oh yes, for years Canadians have been secretly infiltrating America, taking their talents main stream and flying under the radar in [...]

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Top Ten Conspiracy Theories
9-11-lights

Is the truth out there?  Well if it is I doubt we will ever find the answers that so many of us seek.  Maybe that’s because they don’t exist or maybe its because the answers are hidden from us as the shear sinister truth behind them is something that we could not fathom.  Either way it has spawned thousands of conspiracy [...]

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