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  2. Education - Wikipedia

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    Education is a wide phenomenon that applies to all age groups and covers formal education (top row) as well as non-formal and informal education (bottom row). Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as ...

  3. List of Roman emperors - Wikipedia

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    List of Roman emperors. The Prima Porta statue of Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [1] Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but ...

  4. Empire State Building - Wikipedia

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    Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. [5] [10] [11] The Empire State Building is a 102-story [c] Art Deco skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of the state of New York.

  5. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority - Wikipedia

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    Utilities. Owner. Government of Dubai. Subsidiaries. Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (EMPOWER) Website. dewa .gov .ae. The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) ( هيئة كهرباء ومياه دبي) is a public service infrastructure company that was founded on 1 January 1992 by Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum. [1]

  6. Hirohito - Wikipedia

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    Hirohito [a] (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, [b] was the 124th emperor of Japan, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world, with his reign of 62 years being the longest of any Japanese emperor. Hirohito was born in Aoyama, Tokyo, during the ...

  7. Lean software development - Wikipedia

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    Lean software development is a translation of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production System, [1] it is emerging with the support of a pro-lean subculture within the agile community. Lean offers a solid conceptual framework, values and principles, as well as good ...

  8. Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Empire [a] was the post- Republican state of ancient Rome. It is generally understood to mean the period and territory ruled by the Romans following Octavian 's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC. It included territories in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia and was ruled by emperors.

  9. Empower Playgrounds - Wikipedia

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    empowerplaygrounds .org. Empower Playgrounds, Inc. is a U.S.-based 501 (c) (3) public charity that has developed electricity-generating playground equipment for use in rural third-world communities with low rates of rural electrification. [1] The charity works in predominantly subsistence agriculture communities, where children often work on ...