Heather Lipner, founder of Uncovet, began collecting thousands of style blogs for her own personal interest over ten years ago.

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Google , too, is a Cheap Revolutionary, running on hundreds of thousands of PC-style Linux servers.

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The Dubliner began his two-wheel career by competing in motocross, cultivating a spectacular style of riding that would go on to thrill many thousands of fans when he moved on to his first love, real road racing.

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But she didn't care to scroll through the thousands of Twitter and Facebook comments on her writing style.

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Add as much as 7-to-1 of leverage and multiply C-BASS 2006 style RMBS by the thousands and you can see why subprime paper is a diamond in the rough.

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In the first-ever Apprentice-style program about art, aired over four one-hour episodes, a panel of four judges winnows a field of thousands down to a group of six, who then get put through reality-show-like challenges, including life drawing and creating a work of public art at the British seaside.

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