They received free advertising through the courtesy of the local newspaper.

Ultimately, in 211, Syrakuse fell from within, by treachery, and Arkhimedes died with many of his compatriots when Roman troops poured into the city.

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

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