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  2. PageNet - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Silver Bridge - Wikipedia

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    December 15, 1969 [22] Location. The Silver Memorial Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans the Ohio River between Gallipolis, Ohio, and Henderson, West Virginia. The bridge was completed in 1969 as a replacement for the collapsed Silver Bridge, although it is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) downstream (south) of the original.

  4. Ashtabula River railroad disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Ashtabula River railroad disaster (also called the Ashtabula horror, the Ashtabula Bridge disaster, and the Ashtabula train disaster) was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876.

  5. United States presidential elections in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    In the time since the Civil War, Ohio has had ten misses (eight Democratic winners, one Democratic-Republican winner and one Whig winner) in the presidential election (John Quincy Adams in 1824, Martin Van Buren in 1836, James Polk in 1844, Zachary Taylor in 1848, James Buchanan in 1856, Grover Cleveland in 1884 and 1892, Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

  6. Madison Gesiotto Gilbert - Wikipedia

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    Madison Mari Gesiotto Gilbert (née Gesiotto; born March 20, 1992) is an American attorney, pageant queen, political candidate, and political executive. Gesiotto Gilbert was the national and international representative as Miss Ohio USA in 2014 and represented Ohio at that year's Miss USA. [1] She was previously the author of a weekly column at ...

  7. John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge - Wikipedia

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    May 15, 1975. The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (formerly the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge) is a suspension bridge that spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. When opened on December 1, 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 1,057 feet (322 m) main span, [3] which was later overtaken by ...

  8. Hope Memorial Bridge - Wikipedia

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    October 8, 1976. Location. The Hope Memorial Bridge (also known as the Lorain–Carnegie Bridge) is a 4,490-foot-long (1,370 m) art deco truss bridge crossing the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio. The bridge connects Lorain Avenue on Cleveland's west side and Carnegie Avenue on the east side, terminating just short of Progressive Field.

  9. Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax - Wikipedia

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    Springfield City Hall, one of several public buildings evacuated after bomb threats stemming from the hoax (pictured in 2007) Starting in September 2024, baseless claims spread online that Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. The claims began with a local Facebook group post by a user who said her neighbor's ...