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  2. Blackwater (company) - Wikipedia

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    BSC's first assignment was to provide twenty men with top-secret clearance to protect the CIA headquarters and another base that was responsible for hunting Osama bin Laden. Blackwater was one of several private security firms employed following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

  3. Bear Stearns - Wikipedia

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    Bear Stearns' former offices at 383 Madison Avenue. Bear Stearns was founded as an equity trading house on May 1, 1923, by Joseph Ainslie Bear, Robert B. Stearns and Harold C. Mayer with $500,000 in capital (equivalent to $8,941,406 in 2023). Internal tensions quickly arose among the three founders.

  4. Wild Oats Markets - Wikipedia

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    Wild Oats Marketplace. The logo previously used by Wild Oats Marketplace. Wild Oats Marketplace ( registered as Wild Oats Marketing, LLC) is a producer of natural and organic food distributed through partnerships in the United States. Founded in 1987 in Boulder, Colorado, it was originally a chain of natural foods stores operating throughout ...

  5. Panic of 1792 - Wikipedia

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    The Panic of 1792 was a financial credit crisis that occurred during the months of March and April 1792, precipitated by the expansion of credit by the newly formed Bank of the United States as well as by rampant speculation on the part of William Duer, Alexander Macomb, and other prominent bankers. Duer, Macomb, and their colleagues attempted ...

  6. SafeMoon - Wikipedia

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    SafeMoon LLC was a cryptocurrency and blockchain company created in March 2021. The company created the SafeMoon token (SFM) which traded on the BNB Chain blockchain. The token charged a 10% fee on transactions, with 5% redistributed (or reflected) to token holders and 5% directed to wallets in a different currency, Binance Coin (BNB), controlled by the coin's authors.

  7. Mac Fisheries - Wikipedia

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    A Mac Fisheries market stall in the Higher Market, Exeter, Devon, 1943. Mac Fisheries was thus left alone; it bought fish wholesale, both from Unilever sources as well as in the open market. It did not expand much until the Second World War, when meat which had to be mainly imported was rationed, resulting in a boom in the fish trade. To keep ...

  8. Music: What Happened? - Wikipedia

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    Music: What Happened? is a book of music criticism by Scott Miller, leader of the bands Game Theory and The Loud Family. Published in 2010, it was described by Billboard as "a well-received critical overview of 53 years of rock history".

  9. Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Wikipedia

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    The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash or the Crash of '29, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It began in September, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed, and ended in mid-November. The pivotal role of the 1920s' high-flying bull market and the ...