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• Answer Desk: How bad is the economy?
In the fall of 1990 the stock market fell 20 percent — and then began one of its best decades in history. The 1980-82 recession was a different animal.
• Fascinating places with bad reputations
But its history and heritage go back thousands of years. Lahore, for instance, near the border with India in the east, was home to the Mughal empire, whose Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in the memory of his "favorite" wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
• How's 'Hancock' stack up among movie twists?
The plot twist in "Hancock" won't go down in cinema history alongside Darth Vader revealing he's Luke Skywalker's pappy in "The Empire Strikes Back" or Anthony Perkins turning out to be a slasher in his mom's housedress in "Psycho.
• Swords, bombs seized inside Afghan prison
The search was launched after Taliban insurgents carried off one of the biggest jail-breaks in history last month, smashing a suicide truck bomb into the gate of Kandahar prison and freeing 400 of their fighters and 700 other criminals.
• Bush heckled at July 4 ceremony
When you raise your hands and take your oath, you will complete an incredible journey. ... From this day forward, the history of the United States will be part of your heritage.

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» BBC Research & Development - Milestones - History of the department that has been involved in the emergence of technical standards since before the BBC first began broadcasting television in the 1930s
» Chuck Pharis - Television - Vintage television receiving and broadcast equipment.
» Documentation: German "Einheitsempfänger E1" - The one and only tv set of the German E1 (Telefunken, 1939) which is still in operating mode. The E1 was the world's first tv set with a flat screen and a rectangular picture tube.
» Early Television Foundation - Early television hardware, restoration tips, database of prewar sets and historical TV information.
» Early Television: Photo Collection - Personal photo album of Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, one of the people credited with the invention of television.
» Ed Reitan's Color Television History - Traces the history of early color television. Includes a number of pictures.
» Frank's Handheld-TVs - Provides an overview of the history of pocket televisions.
» History of public broadcasting - Timeline of developments in public TV and radio in the United States.
» Library of American Broadcasting - University of Maryland 'Broadcasting Pioneers' museum.
» Museum of Early Video Editing Equipment and Techniques - Contains pictures and explanations on historical electronic editors or television techniques like telecine.
» MZTV Museum of Television - Toronto-based museum collecting television sets and related memorabilia.
» NCSU Computer Graphics Lab 1970-78 - Early graphics combining computers and television technology.
» The Philo T. Farnsworth Archives - Site devoted to the man many believe invented, among other things, television.
» Television History - The history of television invention from the black and white TV to color TV and digital TV. Includes information on some of the inventors along the way.
» Television History - The First 75 Years - Features technical information, program guides, timelines, magazine advertisements, inventor biographies and photos of early TV sets.
» Tubepedia - Pictorials of early iconoscopes, kinescopes, orthicons, vidicons, saticons and other CRTs.
» tvdawn.com - Information on the recovery of the earliest recordings of television, describing the restoration of these recordings and their history.