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Emoji Version 13.0 Coming Soon

BOLO! Emoji fans will be excited to know that Emoji Version 13.0 is available. This is the shortlisted set of emojis scheduled for release in 2020. Also known as Unicode 13.0, the upcoming release is planned for March 2020. A warning though, the emojis listed here are draft candidates and subject to change or removal, […]

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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Berlin Wall – Stories and Music about the Fall

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I’m enjoying all the snippets and stories and music about that historic day. It was a Mistake My top story about the Fall of the Berlin Wall is about the mistake that happened at a routine press conference on 9 November 1989. Beginning at 18:00 CET […]

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what3words – the Mapping App that can Save your Life

If you are a hiker, walker explorer or get caught in some kind of disaster the new app what3words can save your life. OK, it seems crazy but these guys from the UK put a virtual grid over the world and allocated three words to each 3m square. (The words don’t always make much sense […]

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How the Sexy Peach Emoji Became About Trump’s Impeachment

Because the fleshy pinky orange peach emoji  has a cleft, it is  commonly used to symbolize buttocks. A few days ago it became the symbol for Impeachment. So has the booty emoji now become political like everything else? Sex or Politics Well I don’t know of any other emoji that symbolizes something because of the […]

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I always want to know what the most popular emojis are and why.
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Do you know what the Top Three Emojis are?

Emojis aren’t just cute little symbols that we use on social media- they have their own translators, trackers, statistics- in fact there is an entire emoji eco-system.
I always wonder what the most used emojis are – I know that some say the plural for emoji is emoji, but I like to add an s to it.

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