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The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to the '00s and known as the aughts or noughties) was a decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended...420 KB (43,591 words) - 13:34, 18 July 2024
Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke. The smoke may be inhaled, as is done with cigarettes, or simply released...129 KB (14,254 words) - 10:40, 29 May 2024
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International...44 KB (5,046 words) - 20:40, 29 April 2024- Equal opportunity is a state of fairness in which individuals are treated similarly, unhampered by artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences, except...102 KB (11,432 words) - 03:27, 12 July 2024
This is a list of the official minimum wage rates of the 193 United Nations member states and former members of the United Nations, also including the...163 KB (6,871 words) - 18:08, 2 July 2024
In economics, Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good". For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in...31 KB (4,028 words) - 21:33, 19 July 2024- The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844, was an early consumers' co-operative, and one of the first to pay a patronage dividend, forming...13 KB (1,338 words) - 02:23, 1 June 2023
- The mill (American English) or mil (Commonwealth English, except Canada) is a unit of currency, used in several countries as one-thousandth of the base...12 KB (1,393 words) - 20:20, 7 July 2024
The Refunding Certificate was a type of interest-bearing banknote that the United States Treasury issued in 1879. They issued it only in the $10 denomination...4 KB (437 words) - 02:24, 1 April 2022- Wigan is a stiff cotton material sometimes coated with latex rubber. It is typically sold in bias-cut strips and used as an interfacing or interlining...1 KB (125 words) - 22:39, 9 October 2021
- CMC Limited was an information technology services, consulting and software company owned by Government of India headquartered in New Delhi, India . In...11 KB (928 words) - 18:16, 26 January 2023
The Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919 was the most violent revolt against the open-shop policies of the Pacific Electric Railway Company in Los Angeles...12 KB (1,553 words) - 03:40, 6 May 2023
Ayrshire Bus Owners (A1 Service) Ltd was a prominent independent co-operative bus operator in Ayrshire, Scotland. Based in Ardrossan, it provided local...13 KB (1,487 words) - 10:30, 5 January 2023
The Ford TeamRS was Ford Motor Company's European performance car and motorsport division for Ford Racing activity. The Ford RS badge was born for rally...5 KB (305 words) - 21:34, 6 September 2022
The Day-Glo Color Corp. (also styled as DayGlo) is a privately held American paint and pigments manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in...10 KB (891 words) - 02:10, 27 June 2024- Vivitar Corporation is a manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of photographic and optical equipment originally based in Santa Monica, California.[citation...19 KB (1,875 words) - 19:36, 29 April 2023
- Universal basic income pilots are smaller-scale preliminary experiments which are carried out on selected members of the relevant population to assess...57 KB (5,588 words) - 15:54, 22 March 2024
Foss Maritime (formerly Foss Launch and Tug Company), is an American tugging company. The company was founded in 1889 by Thea Foss (1857–1927) and her...9 KB (891 words) - 00:03, 3 November 2022- Started in 1983, Boston CitiNet was a local online service developed by Applied Videotex Systems, Inc. of Belmont, Massachusetts. The service allowed modem-equipped...8 KB (894 words) - 21:15, 3 May 2024
- Curran Steels was a manufacturing company in Cardiff, Wales, founded as the Edward Curran Engineering Co and known locally as Curran's. The factory was...5 KB (523 words) - 00:15, 9 April 2022