The level of sound you get from your computer depends on the installed sound card and speakers. Both of these are hardware pieces and it is unlikely that you’ll go to market to get better versions in the middle of the night while trying to watch a movie! So, can you boost sound using software? The answer is yes, but of course there is a limit to which you increase the sound using software....

Most older collectors remember the day in November 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated. The United States Mint released the first coins in 1964, and people scrambled to get a souvenir to remember this popular president. The mint produced more than 273 million coins at the Philadelphia mint and more than 156 million at the Denver mint facility. The best-known variety is the 1964 Proof Heavily Accented Hair variety. Given the low demand for Kennedy half-dollar errors and varieties, most are highly affordable for collectors of all means....

Exception: Century years are NOT leap years UNLESS they can be evenly divided by 400. (For example, 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but 1600 and 2000, which are divisible by 400, were.) Related Links Leap Year Explained Leap Year Birthdays History of the Calendar History of the Calendar Time & Calendar The Curious History of the Gregorian Calendar How August Became August Why is a Leap Year Necessary?...

History The United States Mint first produced the Liberty Head nickel in 1883. Charles E. Barber, chief engraver at the mint created the design featuring Lady Liberty facing to the left and surrounded by stars. The reverse features that denomination simply stated by the Roman numeral V inside of a Laurel Wreath. The Mint added the word CENTS to the reverse of the coin after dishonest people started to gold plate the coin and passed them off as five-dollar gold pieces....

U.S. and Canadian Coins Are Similar The Canadian penny has been made from copper-plated steel since 2000. The circulating Canadian nickel, dime, and quarter are all currently made from nickel-plated steel, although the dime was made of pure nickel from 1968 to 2000. Like the U.S., Canada has a half-dollar denomination that very rarely circulates, and which is only struck for Uncirculated Mint Sets currently. The Canadian dollar coin is very nearly the same size and color as its U....

How Seed Beads Are Sized Round seed beads, cylinder beads, and some other types of seed beads are sized according to numbers called aught sizes. When pronounced, people most often say the aught as zero, so eleven aught is pronounced eleven-oh (as in zero). When written, the aught may be indicated by a /0 or with what looks like a degree symbol. The most common ​aught sizes you will find at bead shops and online are 15/0 (the smallest), followed by 11/0, 10/0, 8/0, and 6/0....

RELATED LINKS A Tale of Two EastersEaster FeaturesLentShrove TuesdayHolidays, 2015 Calendar & Holidays Test your Mardi Gras trivia skills. Take the Mardi Gras Quiz. In the United States, Mardi Gras draws millions of fun-seekers to New Orleans every year. Mardi Gras has been celebrated in New Orleans on a grand scale, with masked balls and colorful parades, since French settlers arrived in the early 1700s. Hidden behind masks, people behaved so raucously that for decades in the early 19th century masks were deemed illegal in that party-loving city....

In Paris, where she lived with an American, Gilbert Imlay, during much of the French Revolution, she was close to many of the Revolution’s leading political figures. After the birth (1794) of a daughter, Fanny, Imlay deserted her, and in 1797 she married William Godwin. She died within days of giving birth to another daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who married Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2005, Columbia University Press....

In your Android smartphone, the strength of mobile Internet signal is shown using alphabet letters like G, E, 2G, 3G, H and 4G near the signal bar. These symbols are visible right next to the signal strength indicator. Have you ever wondered about the meaning of these symbols / letters? Well, today I will tell you about the meaning of letters G, E, 2G, 3G, H and 4G in context of the mobile Internet....

3.9 million Number of women between the ages of 15 and 50 who gave birth in the past 12 months. 35.8% Percentage of women age 15 to 50 who had a birth in the past 12 months who were unmarried. How Many Children 62.9 Number of births per 1,000 women age 15-44 in 2014, up slightly (less than 1 percent) from 2013. 22.3% Percentage of women age 15 to 50 who have had two children....

But what is DNS anyway? Well, in simple words, a DNS server is a machine that translates domain names to the IP addresses. On the Internet all the computers are identified by IP addresses —so there is no computer named as techwelkin.com on the Internet. Instead, techwelkin.com has an IP address. But for humans IP addresses are difficult to remember. So, a domain name system has been devised in which websites are known by domain names; and DNS servers are the machines that do the conversion of domain name to a corresponding IP address....

Company’s Origins Lyman K. Stuart, son of Charles H. Stuart, founded Emmons Home Fashions in 1948, naming the company in honor of his mother, Caroline Emmons Stuart. Soon afterward, the company’s name was changed to Emmons Jewelry, Inc. Emmons Jewelry was sold at home parties, a retailing practice that is still popular today to market jewelry and all sorts of other items. You may have attended a home party where a hostess invites friends to attend and products are showcased, from jewelry to housewares....

History In 1920, the United States was celebrating the recent end to World War I and Farran Zerbe, who was the historian of the American Numismatic Association (ANA), presented a paper entitled, “Commemorate the Peace with a Coin for Circulation.” In it, he proposed a new design for the half dollar or the silver dollar if the denomination got resurrected. The enthusiasm for this idea was so great that the ANA created a committee to help prepare a bill for Congress to accomplish this task....

Climatic modeling studies generally estimate that global temperatures will rise a few degrees Celsius in the next century. Such a warming is likely to raise sea levels by expanding ocean water and melting glaciers and the polar ice cap. Recent studies have predicted that changes in global temperatures will introduce new infectious diseases, cause species of animals to become extinct, intensify storms, and increase the likelihood of droughts and floods....

While rag dolls are quite simple compared to fancier antique dolls made of porcelain, wax, or other materials, cloth dolls have never lost favor with children. They are still functional toys that can be carried around and played with endlessly, patched up with love, and played with again. The Most Famous Rag Doll of All With a scrappy look and button eyes, it’s no mystery why these cuddly playmates are called rag dolls....