The Kolbrin Bible is a collection of ancient biblical documents. It consists of two parts, covered in eleven books. The first six books are called the "Egyptian texts" or The Kolbrin written by Egyptian academics following the Hebrew Exodus. The last five books are called the "Celtic texts" of The Gospel of the Kailedy which were taken down by Celtic priests after the crucifixion of Jesus. The book is also called the Bronze Book of Britain.
History
It was opposed by Edward the First (Longshanks) in 1184 AD. It was presumed to be destroyed in the burning of Glastonbury Abbey in England at the time. Edward wanted to destroy the Kolbrin believing it to be an heretical work, a rival of the Holy Bible and a potential threat to his rightful claim as the King of England. It was considered heretical because it contains alternate historical accounts of the Exodus. The once considered heretical work was (partly) preserved though and transcribed on bronze tablets by the religious druids of the time. Ever since the book has been cherished by secretive groups. Until 1995, the Kolbrin was in the care of The Hope Trust, a group of which little is known. There are now two published versions known: one of in America and a version of the home in New Zealand. There are presumably also isolated copies in Lebanon, England and the Vatican. As an ancient document with the status of modern pseudepigrapha like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi, the book is part of different modern day cults concerned with global catastrophy, end time scenarios, intelligent design, planet X, Nibiru and other occult interests.
History
It was opposed by Edward the First (Longshanks) in 1184 AD. It was presumed to be destroyed in the burning of Glastonbury Abbey in England at the time. Edward wanted to destroy the Kolbrin believing it to be an heretical work, a rival of the Holy Bible and a potential threat to his rightful claim as the King of England. It was considered heretical because it contains alternate historical accounts of the Exodus. The once considered heretical work was (partly) preserved though and transcribed on bronze tablets by the religious druids of the time. Ever since the book has been cherished by secretive groups. Until 1995, the Kolbrin was in the care of The Hope Trust, a group of which little is known. There are now two published versions known: one of in America and a version of the home in New Zealand. There are presumably also isolated copies in Lebanon, England and the Vatican. As an ancient document with the status of modern pseudepigrapha like the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi, the book is part of different modern day cults concerned with global catastrophy, end time scenarios, intelligent design, planet X, Nibiru and other occult interests.
This is a list of all songs that were number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on Christmas Day.
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1985: "Say You, Say Me" - Lionel Richie
1986: "Walk Like an Egyptian" - The Bangles
1987: "Faith" - George Michael
1988: "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
1989: "Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins
1990: "Because I Love You" - Stevie B
1991: "Black or White" - Michael Jackson
1992: "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston
1993: "Hero" - Mariah Carey
1994: "On Bended Knee" - Boyz II Men
1995: "One Sweet Day" - Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
1996: "Unbreak My Heart" - Toni Braxton
1997: "" - Elton John
1998: "I'm Your Angel" - Celine Dion and R.Kelly
1999: "Smooth" - Santana feat. Rob Thomas
2000: "Independent Women Part I" - Destiny's Child
2001: "How You Remind Me" - Nickelback
2002: "Lose Yourself" - Eminem
2003: "" - Outkast
2004: "Drop It Like It's Hot" - Snoop Dogg feat. Pharell
2005: "Don't Forget about Us" - Mariah Carey
2006: "Irreplaceable" - Beyonce
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1985: "Say You, Say Me" - Lionel Richie
1986: "Walk Like an Egyptian" - The Bangles
1987: "Faith" - George Michael
1988: "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
1989: "Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins
1990: "Because I Love You" - Stevie B
1991: "Black or White" - Michael Jackson
1992: "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston
1993: "Hero" - Mariah Carey
1994: "On Bended Knee" - Boyz II Men
1995: "One Sweet Day" - Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
1996: "Unbreak My Heart" - Toni Braxton
1997: "" - Elton John
1998: "I'm Your Angel" - Celine Dion and R.Kelly
1999: "Smooth" - Santana feat. Rob Thomas
2000: "Independent Women Part I" - Destiny's Child
2001: "How You Remind Me" - Nickelback
2002: "Lose Yourself" - Eminem
2003: "" - Outkast
2004: "Drop It Like It's Hot" - Snoop Dogg feat. Pharell
2005: "Don't Forget about Us" - Mariah Carey
2006: "Irreplaceable" - Beyonce
Quack.com was founded in 1998 by Steven Woods, Jeromy Carriere and Alex Quilici as a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, based voice-portal infrastructure company originally named Quackware. Quack is notable for being the first company to actively try to create a voiceportal, or a consumer-based destination "site" in which consumers could not only access information by voice alone, but also complete transactions. Quackware launched a beta phone service in 1999 that allowed consumers to purchase books from sites such as Amazon and CDs from sites such as CDNow simply by answering a short set of questions. Quack followed on with a set of information services from movie listings (inspired by, but expanding upon, Moviefone) to news, weather and stock quotes. This concept introduced a series of lookalike startups including much-heralded Tellme Networks which went on to raise more money than any single Internet startup in history on a similar concept.
Quack received venture funding in 1999 and moved operations to Mountain View in Silicon Valley, California in 1999. Just one year later in September 2000 Quack was acquired for $200 million by America Online and moved onto the Netscape campus with what was left of the Netscape team. Quack famously was attacked in the Canadian press for being representative of the Canadian "brain drain" to the US during the Internet bubble, focusing its recruiting efforts on the University of Waterloo, hiring more than 50 engineers from Waterloo in less than 10 months. Quack competitor Tellme Networks raised enormous funds in what became a highly competitive market in 2000, with the emergence of more than a dozen additional competitors in a 12 month period.
Following its acquisition by America Online in a Ted Leonsis-led effort to bring Quack into AOL Interactive, the Quack voice service became AOL By Phone as one of AOL's "web properties" along with MapQuest, Moviefone and others. Harvard Business School Online offers a two-part report on the interactions of Quack.com and TellMe during acquisition and these can be found at [http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/search/searchResults.jhtml;jsessionidKJSVIEAQRSVLQAKRGWDSELQBKE0YIISW?Ntxmode%2Bmatchallpartial&NttQuack.com&x0&y0&N0&Ntk=main_search Strategic Direction at Quack.com (A and B)]
Quack secured several key patents that underly the technical challenges of delivering interactive voice services. Constructing a voiceportal requires significant integrations and innovations not only in speech recognition and speech generation, but also in databases, application specification, constraint-based reasoning and artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. "Quack"'s name derived from the company goal of providing not only voice-based services, but more broadly "Quick Ubiquitous Access to Consumer Knowledge".
The key patents showing Quack.com leadership in the telephony/Internet explosion of 1998-2000 include: [http://www.google.com/patents?vidUSPAT6510417&idZ1kOAAAAEBAJ System and method for voice access to Internet-based information], [http://www.google.com/patents?vidUSPAT7103563&idj696AAAAEBAJ System and method for advertising with an Internet Voice Portal] and recognizing the axiom that in interactive voice systems one must "know the set of possible answers to a question before asking it". [http://www.google.com/patents?vidUSPAT6687734&idvHMSAAAAEBAJ System and method for determining if one web site has the same information as another web site].
discussed Quack and its acquisition by AOL in more detail. Prior to acquisition Lycos licensed Quack's services for their own voice portal and this is outlined in a .
Quack received venture funding in 1999 and moved operations to Mountain View in Silicon Valley, California in 1999. Just one year later in September 2000 Quack was acquired for $200 million by America Online and moved onto the Netscape campus with what was left of the Netscape team. Quack famously was attacked in the Canadian press for being representative of the Canadian "brain drain" to the US during the Internet bubble, focusing its recruiting efforts on the University of Waterloo, hiring more than 50 engineers from Waterloo in less than 10 months. Quack competitor Tellme Networks raised enormous funds in what became a highly competitive market in 2000, with the emergence of more than a dozen additional competitors in a 12 month period.
Following its acquisition by America Online in a Ted Leonsis-led effort to bring Quack into AOL Interactive, the Quack voice service became AOL By Phone as one of AOL's "web properties" along with MapQuest, Moviefone and others. Harvard Business School Online offers a two-part report on the interactions of Quack.com and TellMe during acquisition and these can be found at [http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/search/searchResults.jhtml;jsessionidKJSVIEAQRSVLQAKRGWDSELQBKE0YIISW?Ntxmode%2Bmatchallpartial&NttQuack.com&x0&y0&N0&Ntk=main_search Strategic Direction at Quack.com (A and B)]
Quack secured several key patents that underly the technical challenges of delivering interactive voice services. Constructing a voiceportal requires significant integrations and innovations not only in speech recognition and speech generation, but also in databases, application specification, constraint-based reasoning and artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. "Quack"'s name derived from the company goal of providing not only voice-based services, but more broadly "Quick Ubiquitous Access to Consumer Knowledge".
The key patents showing Quack.com leadership in the telephony/Internet explosion of 1998-2000 include: [http://www.google.com/patents?vidUSPAT6510417&idZ1kOAAAAEBAJ System and method for voice access to Internet-based information], [http://www.google.com/patents?vidUSPAT7103563&idj696AAAAEBAJ System and method for advertising with an Internet Voice Portal] and recognizing the axiom that in interactive voice systems one must "know the set of possible answers to a question before asking it". [http://www.google.com/patents?vidUSPAT6687734&idvHMSAAAAEBAJ System and method for determining if one web site has the same information as another web site].
discussed Quack and its acquisition by AOL in more detail. Prior to acquisition Lycos licensed Quack's services for their own voice portal and this is outlined in a .
Mike Shamus is the founder and CEO of DiscRevolt, a company that provides physical solutions for digital delivery of media. In 2004, Mike founded VintageSong, LLC a recording studio complex and music production company and serves as its President. He is the Executive Producer of Aaron Shust, "Anything Worth Saying", Manchester Orchestra "Like a Virgin Losing a Child", Elevation, Kristy Starling and Harrison Hudson.