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Scotland gave the world whisky and golf, which is, when you think about it, quite a good contribution for such a small nation. Golf is estimated to have been "invented" sometime around the 14th or 15th century. The earliest written record is an act of...

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When my kids were babies, between 15 and 20 years ago, we went through a fair number of baby monitors. The trouble was, you never really knew until you got them home and tried them out, if they were going to work well or not. They were prone to interference...

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My wife is a big fan of FitFlops. I got her her first pair as a Christmas gift about three years ago and she absolutely loved them. Back then, they were still being marketed as toning shoes, but that wasn't the main attraction for her. She really liked...

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Why I Like E-Readers So Much I'm a big fan of e-readers. It's understandable since I do read a lot. I know that a lot of keen readers have resisted digital e-readers, but I'm not one of them. I got my first Kindle shipped from the USA to the UK before...

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