Which shows are better, the UK originals or US versions? The US has a bad rep for shamelessly copying UK television shows, but are any of the rip-offs actually better? Let’s put some of these shows to the test.
Communicating with friends across the pond is a perpetual problem. American and British spelling differences include simple changes that affect the meaning, pronunciation and use of words. Today, native and non-native English speakers are the largest group in the world, but the dialects they speak are shockingly different. Linguists have pinpointed the transition to today’s English to sometime during the 1800s. Noah Webster, the creator of the first and most prestigious American dictionary, published his first lexicon dedicated to US [...]
For many people, a visit to a casino is seen as a fun night out. Over the past decade most states have expanded into legalized gambling, including casino-style games and lotteries.
Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 1st, 2011 by a team of 24 US Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group under command of the Join Special Operations Command and the CIA. They raided the compound in two super stealth Black Hawk helicopters, one of which was damaged upon attack and then destroyed.
Gambling has always brought with it a negative stigma based on the world’s past experiences with real life gambling operations. Due to the seedy nature of people involved with this form of entertainment, many countries have gone out of there way to make it illegal. Is making it illegal really the best solution? The prohibition of alcohol in the USA wasn’t very successful. If gambling was legalized online there would many methods of controlling it and making it a safe [...]
The richest and most advanced country in the world, the United States, has fallen behind other nations in providing affordable health care to its citizens. Americans spend $477 billion a year more on health care than other advanced countries, which amounts to $1,645 per person every year. So why do we pay so much compared to other wealthy nations?
Loads of news websites have reported that we’ve experienced a small upswing in jobs, with unemployment falling a bit, and more than 190,000 new jobs being created in February. This is obviously very exciting , and since we are all about helping people find jobs, we thought we’d see what cities and states in the US are the best places to get a job.
Recently, George Washington University released the first ever study to list the specific costs of being overweight and obese. They say it’s the first study ever to do so! Obesity is a major issue for our nation, so DebtManagement combined the study’s findings with other research to try to give a picture of the true cost of being obese:
