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The iPad is a great gadget for reading ibooks. It is light and thin Cheap Orlando Cepeda Jersey , and therefore easy to lug around. Also the size is perfect. It is not too small and not as big as a regular notebook. In fact, it is just about as big as a paperback novel, and holding the iPad feels similar to holding an actual book in one’s hands.


Having an iPad as an ebook reader is like having a library of one’s favorite books and reference materials ready for service anytime and everywhere. It is very convenient for people who travel frequently and want their books with them all the time. It’s perfect for bookworms who love reading wherever they are and whenever they have some spare time left.


iBooks is a free application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It is specifically made for browsing the huge iBookstore online and download ebooks with some mouse clicks to your iPad.


“THE Simpsons,” one of America’s most enduring families Cheap Juan Marichal Jersey , is 30 years old this week.


Bart, Homer, Marge and the rest of the family first appeared in 48 short filler segments on the sketch comedy program “The Tracey Ullman Show,” but those first characters were very different from the Simpsons of today.


“At first they were what we call bumpers that went between ‘The Tracey Ullman Show’ and commercial breaks,” says Maureen Furniss Cheap Will Clark Jersey , an animation historian who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.


“‘The Simpsons’ were very quick little segments that were united by some particular theme,” she says.


For Furniss, one particular segment, where Bart and Lisa are having a burping contest, stands out as a depiction of what early versions of the characters were before the standalone show began.


When Matt Groening created “The Simpsons Cheap Deion Sanders Jersey ,” Furniss says, people were excited to see what the cartoonist would do within the field of animation. With the show, she says Groening set a new standard for animation on TV, especially when it came to shows that were more crass and humorous.


“When ‘The Simpsons’ came out, people were so worried about the crude behavior Cheap Matt Williams Jersey ,” Furniss says. “But they didn’t have any idea that ‘South Park’ or ‘Beavis and Butt-head’ were on the horizon and would be much more outrageous in a lot of ways.”

Over seven million patents have been issued in the United States alone, but some inventions in history stand out from all the rest. This article will explore some of the world's most famous inventions and the people responsible for them.

We begin our journey into historic inventions at the beginning of the alphabet: with adhesives!

The first known use of adhesives dates all the way back to 4000BC. That's when archeologists say clay pots were first used with primitive glue made out of tree sap. It is also a known fact that ancient Greeks used adhesives for carpentry using ingredients like egg whites, milk, cheese, and grains. Romans used beeswax for glue.

The first patent for glue Cheap Mel Ott Jersey , however, was issued in 1750 in Great Britain. That particular patent protected a glue mixture made from fish.

How about air conditioning? It has been around for so long that we can hardly imagine life without it, but AC is only about 90 years old. In 1921, Willis Haviland Carrier patented the centrifugal refrigeration machine. They called him "the father of cool"; Carrier's refrigeration machine was the first practical way of cooling large spaces.

Most of us cannot picture going without the ballpoint pen in our daily lives. But until 1938, everyone did! That's when a Hungarian journalist named Laszlo Biro invented the first ever ballpoint pen. Biro noticed that the ink used for newspapers dried very quickly Cheap Madison Bumgarner Jersey , leaving the paper smudge-free. He thought to himself that a pen with the same ink would be very useful, but he had a problem: the thicker ink would not flow from a regular pen's nib. Biro's solution? He outfitted his pen with a ball bearing in the tip to facilitate the flow of ink.

Bar codes are used in just about every store imaginable. But until 1952, all ringing up of goods was done by hand, with registers or pencil and paper. That's the way it was until Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver invented the barcode method of automatic identification and data collection. Although today's barcodes are mostly rectangular, the original design was a circle Cheap Brandon Crawford Jersey , often described as a bull's eye symbol. It was made up of concentric circles layered one atop the other, each in a uniquely identifiable way.