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1⁄2 years before facing state charge) 1920–1922; 9 years state 1927–1934; deportation in 1934. Charles Ponzi ( / ˈpɒnzi /, Italian: [ˈpontsi]; born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi; March 3, 1882 – January 18, 1949) was an Italian swindler and con artist who operated in the U.S. and Canada. His aliases included Charles ...
A Freightliner Coca-Cola Christmas truck in Dresden, Germany, 2004. The "Holidays are coming!" advertisement features a train of red delivery trucks, emblazoned with the Coca-Cola name and decorated with Christmas lights, driving through a snowy landscape and causing everything that they pass to light up and people to watch as they pass through ...
Historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison of General Electric. [4]: 91–93 They conclude that Edison's version was the first practical implementation, able to outstrip the others because of a combination of four factors: an effective incandescent material; a vacuum higher than other implementations which was achieved ...
The Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) is a United States Navy class of destroyer centered around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multi-function passive electronically scanned array radar. The class is named for Admiral Arleigh Burke, an American destroyer officer in World War II and later Chief of Naval Operations.
The lowest monthly active listing counts between 2020 and 2022 were 1,400 in Austin, 2,600 in San Antonio, and 3,000 in Tampa — they represented a 67% to 80% inventory deficit compared to ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Nicholas D. Chabraja joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -21.9 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2020 or simply Euro 2020, was the 16th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). [ 1] To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the European ...
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock.