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PageNet. PageNet , also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.
207–271 dead, 261 injured [4] The 1968 Casiguran earthquake occurred on 04:19:22 local time on August 2 with a moment magnitude of 7.6 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent ). The thrust earthquake's epicenter was in Casiguran, Quezon (now part of Aurora province). A small non-destructive tsunami was generated and at least 207 ...
After resuming the search operations, the body of the first of nine victims, a truck driver of the subcontractor company, was found in the manganese mine field after 53 days from the disaster on 6 April 2024. On 19 April, the body of the second miner was recovered. Two more bodies of mine disaster victims were rcovered on 4 May 2024.
World Trade Center site (Ground Zero) with an overlay showing the original building locations. No one survived in, above, or immediately below the North Tower's impact zone. The highest survivors came from Floor 91. Some 15 people below and on floor 22 survived the collapse of WTC 1, later escaping or being rescued from the rubble.
The second option was the chosen one, but it was not carried out, because the bridge collapsed five days after the studies were concluded. Collapse The main bridge span falling into the strait on November 7, 1940. The wind-induced collapse occurred on November 7, 1940, at approximately 11:00 a.m. (PST).
Eventually, my body had a reckoning. Isolated in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, I woke up one day with a random, scratchy cough at the bottom of my throat and excruciating pain on the right ...
Kevin Michael Cosgrove (January 6, 1955 – September 11, 2001) was an American insurance senior business executive and victim of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. He served as a vice president at Aon Corporation . Cosgrove is known for the 9-1-1 call he made during his final moments, which ended with him screaming from inside ...
A compression fracture is a collapse of a vertebra. It may be due to trauma or due to a weakening of the vertebra (compare with burst fracture ). This weakening is seen in patients with osteoporosis or osteogenesis imperfecta, lytic lesions from metastatic or primary tumors, [1] or infection. [2] In healthy patients, it is most often seen in ...