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programming
2018-12-07 10:52
10 Reasons why you should learn C# in 2019
As the Web is becoming more and more important over the years and web development languages keep on winning in popularity, the question arises: is it still a good idea to learn C#? In my personal opinion,
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history
2018-11-13 20:14
The tragic story of the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race
The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a sailing race around the world held in 1968, spoke to the imagination of the whole world. A £5000 prize was offered to the winner of the race around the world via the
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history
2018-11-09 09:13
Karl von Drais and his laufmaschine
On the picture, we can see baron, and inventor, Karl von Drais with his most popular invention. The so-called running machine. Sketches of bicycles were found as early as the 16th century by the hand of
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angular
2018-11-09 07:28
Creating a simple custom pipe in Angular
What are you even talking about? When you retrieve data from a server, it's often not exactly in the format that you want to display it to your users. Changing the format of the data directly on the server
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history
2018-11-06 16:09
The first person to climb Mount Everest
Over 290 people in total did not survive their attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth, and the last known year without anyone dying has been over 40 years ago. Even with these facts and a mortality
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history
2018-10-27 19:19
Grigori Rasputin: Life and Death of the mad monk
Born in the small village of Pokrovskoye in Siberia on the 21th of January 1869, Rasputin was born as a farmer's son. We can only assume that he did not receive a lot of education and certainly nobody
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history
2018-10-26 09:05
Picture: Bran Castle – Home of the bloodthirsty Vlad Dracula
Near the city of Brașov, there is a castle overlooking the mountain pass between Transylvania and Wallachia. Build in the 14th century, the castle served as a customs post. Later it was overtaken by the
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history
2018-10-26 07:28
The Enlightenment: Meaning and Origin
The Enlightenment, meaning the period that took up most of the 18th century is also known as the Age of Reason. As the influence of the Church was already on a decline in the 17th century and challenged
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history
2018-10-24 08:08
The surprising French history of the Statue of Liberty
When you leave the highway to visit Colmar in France, on the way to the city, a statue in the middle will remind you that this was the hometown of the sculptor of probably one of the most known statues
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history
2018-10-24 07:17
The battle of Dunkirk
On the 3rd of September 1939, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. The war started with a quiet period of 8 months, with only a few minor incidents between the two sides. Germany did not
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angular
2018-10-24 07:01
Routing in Angular: Basics, Nesting and working with Parameters
Routing If we want, we could make an entire application without using routing and without changing the path of the URL at all. So why would we be using routing then? Well for one, we can allow our users
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history
2018-10-22 06:48
The real life story of Pocahontas
A lot of people know that the famous Disney movie Pocahontas is based on a real person. But the real life story of Pocahontas is not at all the fairy tale as we know it, and I would argue that it could
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history
2018-10-14 18:54
The doctors of the Black Death
When the Black Death was making victims all over Europe during the Middle Ages, plague doctors were employed by the cities to treat patients. They often didn't have a medical background, or were not successful
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history
2018-10-14 09:16
Order of the White Feather
Imagine that as a young boy, you are walking down the streets and all of a sudden you are surrounded by a group of women. They start to call you all sort of names because you are not in the army and to
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angular
2018-10-13 09:32
Building an IBAN validation directive in Angular
Users never make mistakes when entering data, or it happens so rarely that we can just ignore it, ... said no developer ever 🙂 Input validation is important, and in Angular we can use some form field
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history
2018-10-13 09:10
History of Vaccinations
The doctor visit to get your childhood vaccine shots can be fear-inducing and is the source material for many nightmares of children worldwide, and even their parents. But they play a vital role in modern
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history
2018-10-12 07:31
History of the Ancient Olympic Games
With a total cost of $13 billion for the last summer edition in Rio De Janeiro, the Olympic Games are one of the most expensive, biggest and most watched sport events in the world. In 2020 athletes from
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angular
2018-10-11 11:59
Make a multilingual application in Angular
Languages Working as a software developer in Belgium, you always have to keep in mind that half the country speaks a different language than you. For someone with no language learning ability what so ever,
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history
2018-10-11 10:35
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
"Sophie! Sophie! Don't die! Live for our children!". Watching his wife die right before his eyes, Archduke Franz Ferdinand could feel a sharp pain in his neck where the bullet had hit him. While
