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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.
Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse Dali under one of the collapsed segments of the bridge Date March 26, 2024 ; 56 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 ...
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.
The expression Spanish real estate crisis or property crisis that began in 2008 refers to the set of economic indicators (sharp fall in the price of housing in Spain, credit shortages, etc.) that, with all their severity in 2010, would evidence the deterioration of real estate expectations and of the construction industry in Spain in the context of a global economic crisis and the property ...
The Spanish Wikipedia ( Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has 1,951,366 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on March 8, 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on May 16, 2013. It is the 8th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles and has the ...
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.
The background of the Spanish Civil War dates back to the end of the 19th century, when the owners of large estates, called latifundios, held most of the power in a land-based oligarchy. The landowners' power was unsuccessfully challenged by the industrial and merchant sectors.
The Spanish navy had collapsed in the war against Napoleon, so therefore, in practice, it did not support the expeditionary forces who arrived in small groups. In 1820 the Spanish army, led by Rafael Riego , revolted against absolutism, restored the so-called Trienio Liberal , and ended the threat of invasion against the Río de la Plata ...