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71List of company name etymologies — This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some origins are disputed. NOTOC #*20th Century Fox – Film studio; formed in 1935 through the merger of William Fox s Fox Film, and Twentieth Century Pictures. [… …
72Strip search prank call scam — The McDonald s strip search scam was a series of incidents occurring for roughly a decade before an arrest was made in 2004. These incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police detective, and convincing… …
73Pentax K mount — The Pentax K mount, sometimes referred to as the PK mount , is a lens mount standard for mounting interchangeable photographic lenses to 35 mm single lens reflex (SLR) cameras. It was created by Pentax in 1975, [cite web | url =… …
74business — / bɪznɪs/ noun 1. work in buying or selling ● business is expanding ● We do a lot of business with Japan. ● Business is slow. ● Repairing cars is 90% of our business. ● We did more business in the week before Christmas than we usually do in a… …
75business — / bɪznɪs/ noun 1. work in buying, selling or doing other things to make a profit ● We do a lot of business with Japan. ● Business is expanding. ● Business is slow. ● Repairing cars is 90% of our business. ● We did more business in the week before …
76Pierre-Joseph Proudhon — Portrait by Gustave Courbet, 1865 Full name Pierre Joseph Proudhon Born 15 January 1809(1809 01 15) …
77Alexander Gogel — Isaac Jan Alexander Gogel (10 December 1765, Vught 13 June 1821, Overveen) was the first minister of finance of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland. He married Catharina van Hasselt in 1800, and had three children.CareerGogel was the …
78Christopher de Haro — (in Portuguese, Cristóvão de Haro) was a Lisbon based merchant of Flemish origin. He provided the financial backing to Ferdinand Magellan s 1519 voyage, the first circumnavigation around the world. His brother Jacob de Haro headed a commercial… …
79Von Roll Holding AG — Infobox Company company name = Von Roll Holding AG company name = Von Roll Holding AG company type = Limited Corporation Founded = 1803 Company headquarters = Gerlafingen, Schweiz Company management = Thomas P. Limberger (CEO) and (Vice… …
80Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm — born July 22, 1784, Minden, Brandenburg died March 17, 1846, Königsberg, Prussia German astronomer. He was the first to measure (by means of parallax) the distance to a star other than the Sun. One of his major discoveries was that the bright… …
