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  2. Armen Alchian - Wikipedia

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    Early life and education Armen Albert Alchian was born on April 12, 1914, in Fresno, California, to Armenian-American parents. His father, Alexander H. Alchian (1884–1979), was born in Erzurum, Ottoman Empire and emigrated to the U.S. in 1901, while his mother Lily Normart (1889–1976) was born to Armenian immigrant parents in Fresno. Her parents were among the first Armenians to settle in ...

  3. WebCT - Wikipedia

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    WebCT (Course Tools) or Blackboard Learning System, now owned by Blackboard, is an online proprietary virtual learning environment system that is licensed to colleges and other institutions and used in many campuses for e-learning. To their WebCT courses, instructors can add such tools as discussion boards, mail systems, and live chat, along ...

  4. Metropolitan Transportation Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) provides local and express bus, subway, and commuter rail service in Greater New York, and operates multiple toll bridges and tunnels in New York City. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City ...

  5. Promontory Apartments - Wikipedia

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    November 21, 1996. The Promontory Apartments is a 22-story skyscraper in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It was the first skyscraper Mies designed and was the first of his buildings to feature concepts such as an exposed skeleton. The cooperative building overlooking Burnham Park has 122 units.

  6. List of typefaces - Wikipedia

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    Aparajita (Angika, Bhojpuri, Bodo and other Indian languages) Arek (Armenian, Latin) Arial (Used in English, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages) [2] Avory (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin) Awami Nastaliq features a more extensive character set than most Nastaliq typefaces, supporting: Urdu, Balochi, Farsi ( Iranian Persian ), Khowar, Palula, Saraiki ...

  7. List of United States Navy people - Wikipedia

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    Bruce Bromley – associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals, prominent trial lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Don Brown – former U.S. Navy JAG officer, author of the Navy Justice Series. Arleigh Burke – destroyer captain. George H.W. Bush – naval aviator, former U.S. President; former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

  8. Bill Holman (musician) - Wikipedia

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    United States. Service/ branch. United States Navy. Years of service. 1944–1946. Willis Leonard Holman (May 21, 1927 – May 6, 2024) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, saxophonist, and songwriter working in jazz and traditional pop. [1] His career spanned over seven decades, starting with the Charlie Barnet orchestra in 1950.

  9. Blackboards - Wikipedia

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    Language. Kurdish. Blackboards ( Persian: تخته سیاه, Takhté siah; Kurdish: تەختێ رەش, romanized: Textê Reş) is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein 's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The screenplay was co-written ...

  10. Argyle station (CTA) - Wikipedia

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    Location. Argyle is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority 's Red Line, located at 1118 West Argyle Street in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is an elevated station with an island platform. Purple Line weekday rush hour express service passes through this station but does not stop, normally on the outermost tracks, but due ...

  11. mtab - Wikipedia

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    mtab. The mtab (contraction of mounted file systems table) file is a system information file, commonly found on Unix-like systems.