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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.
Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]
Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck (East Berlin, 1967).. The novel received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation is a translation studies book by Lawrence Venuti originally released in 1995. A second, substantially revised edition was published in 2008. This book represents one of Venuti's most-studied works in which the author attempts to retrace the history of translation across the ages.
t. e. In genealogy, pedigree collapse describes how reproduction between two individuals who share an ancestor causes the number of distinct ancestors in the family tree of their offspring to be smaller than it could otherwise be. Robert C. Gunderson coined the term; synonyms include implex and the German Ahnenschwund ("loss of ancestors").
Matt A. Hanson of World Literature Today noted that the motifs of Nights of Plague are prevalent in the latter years of Ottoman collapse, notably during Abdul Hamid's disastrous reign. Pamuk fictionalizes the formation of the fragmented political identities that sparked World War I and eventually strengthened the foundations of the Turkish ...
Francisco Martín Moreno. Francisco Martín Moreno (born 4 April 1946) is a Mexican writer, best seller novelist, journalist and public speaker.. He studied at the German School Alexander von Humboldt; received a BS in law and obtained a PhD from the Mexican Academy of Law.
Modern Christian (1800– ) Modern Jewish (1853– ) Bible portal. v. t. e. The New English Translation ( NET) is a free, "completely new" [2] English translation of the Bible, "with 60,932 translators' notes" [2] sponsored by the Biblical Studies Foundation and published by Biblical Studies Press.