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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. Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse - Wikipedia

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    Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse Dali under one of the collapsed segments of the bridge Date March 26, 2024 ; 50 days ago (2024-03-26) Time 1:28:49 a.m. EDT (05:28:49 UTC) Location Baltimore metropolitan area, Maryland, United States Coordinates Type Bridge collapse Cause Loss of propulsion on ship, leading to allision [a] with pier and subsequent collapse of the bridge truss Deaths 6 Non ...

  4. 2018 Ponte Morandi collapse - Wikipedia

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    16 injured [1] On 14 August 2018, around 11:36 local time (09:36 UTC) a section of the Ponte Morandi (English: Morandi Bridge) in Genoa, Liguria, Italy collapsed during a rainstorm, killing forty-three people. The remains were demolished in June 2019. The replacement bridge, the Genoa-Saint George Bridge was inaugurated a year later.

  5. Doñana disaster - Wikipedia

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    Doñana disaster. / 37.492603; -6.225202. The Doñana Disaster, also known as the Aznalcollar Disaster or Guadiamar Disaster ( Spanish: Desastre de Aznalcóllar, Desastre del Guadiamar ), was an industrial accident in Andalusia, southern Spain. On 25 April 1998, a holding dam burst at the Los Frailes mine, near Aznalcóllar, Seville, releasing ...

  6. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse - Wikipedia

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    337. ISBN. 9781250266163. Dewey Decimal. 987.06/42. LC Class. F2329 .N48 2022. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela was written by William Neuman, a correspondent of The New York Times. The book chronicles Neuman's experiences and reporting from his time spent in Venezuela between 2012 and 2019.

  7. Çöpler mine disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Çöpler Gold Mine is near Çöpler village in the İliç district of Erzincan Province, eastern Turkey, [1] and is operated by Ankara -based [2] Anagold Mining Inc. ( Turkish: Anagold Madencilik San. ve Tic. A.Ş. ). The company was established in 2009 as Alacer Anagold Inc. by the Turkish Lidya Mining Co. of Çalık Holding and the ...

  8. General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge - Wikipedia

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    1962 [1] Construction cost. Bs. 350 million [2] Location. The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge is located at the Tablazo Strait outlet of Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela. The bridge connects Maracaibo with much of the rest of the country. It is named after General Rafael Urdaneta, a Venezuelan hero of Independence who was born in Maracaibo.

  9. Joseph de la Vega - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Penso Felix was born about 1650 into a family of Spanish and Portuguese Jews; it is unknown where. He was the son of Isaac Penso Félix (1608-1683) a merchant, and of Esther de la Vega (-1679).