Pretty much every airline that cares to continue operating has had smoking banned inside the aircraft at all times of flights since the 1990's, yet on many aircraft, especially older ones, the signs can theoretically be shut off during the flight.
Once the New Nintendo 3DS arrived with an updated internet browser that could play videos on it that even included Youtube itself, the App became redundant.
Dvorak's own studies claimed to prove this, but as it turns out they were Blatant Lies specifically designed to try and sell his keyboard format; modern studies indicate that many keyboard layouts, including QWERTY and Dvorak, result in indistinguishable typing speeds.
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Related to typewriters is the rows of keyboards being staggered, especially when many typing guides emphasize assigning each finger to a column of keys yet each column is not at a right angle to each row.
Microsoft mistakenly believed that the Windows Start Menu became this since XP, which let you drag icons onto the taskbar to click on as a shortcut rather than selecting them in the Menu.
Kate of the British Royal Family were expecting their first child, had it been a girl, she would have been the first female heir apparent in British history to be in line for the throne ahead of any younger brothers.
The proliferation of cell phones ceased the need of one (even if you choose not to carry one or your battery dies, there will always be someone nearby with one you can use in an emergency).
Adding to the name's Artifact status is the fact that podcasts didn't really take off until smartphones had mostly displaced standalone MP3 players.
There's many devices that plug into the car lighter, such as a charger for a cell phone or MP3 player.
While the practice of playing pranks on Halloween isn't dead, the holiday is now generally seen as much more innocent than it once was, and it's much less socially acceptable to use it as an excuse to play pranks.
Monday (and Monday is usually seen as the first day of the week, anyway), it seems strange for the regular calendars to always have Sunday at the beginning, especially since Sunday is part of the weekend.
Due to the political realities, of course, the prayer was not actually said after 1806, due to the lack of a Holy Roman Emperor to pray for, but the prayer remained in the official rubrics until then.
American English from British English, it was actually an attempt by Webster to simplify and regularize the spelling of some words by removing many silent letters and to bring them more in line with their etymological origins.
It's been noted at any rate that an update on English spelling would meet too much confusion and resistance to be worth the trouble, especially as different pronunciation changes in different dialects would make establishing a unified standard troublesome.
Believe it or not, the Exsultet prayer sung in the Catholic Church every Easter Vigil included at the end a prayer for the Holy Roman Emperor up until 1955, by which time the post had lain vacant for some 149 years.
The legal insistence on sending signed documents via fax instead of (say) scanning the signed document and emailing it has become even more absurd since most fax machines used in offices these days are multifunction stations.
For that matter, it is still fairly common to refer to portable music players as MP3 players even though other audio formats such as AAC also exist.
Phone app on smartphones, is that of a phone developed in the 70s and 80s, despite that fact that these are becoming increasingly rare with the proliferation of cell phones that look nothing like them.
One popular procedure was bloodletting, where the barber would simply slice the patient's wrists as they grabbed onto a bandaged pole to encourage blood flow and hope that whatever ailment they had would bleed out along with it.
English will assimilate words, grammatical quirks, and spelling variants from any language and that between the British Empire and the Americans, English speakers have invaded pretty much every corner of the world at some time or another.
James Joyce's Ulysses, written in 1922 and set in 1904, includes a scene where Leopold Bloom carries a magazine to his outhouse and briefly reads it on the toilet before tearing off a page and wiping himself with it.
They are finally being phased out as rental car companies have mostly eliminated the need to have a carbon copy of the renter's signature, but you may seem them still in some smaller locations.
The song or music is available for downloading in Mp3 and any other format, both to the phone and to the computer.
