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Pay (geology) Pay is an expression used in hydrocarbon mining. It denotes a portion of a reservoir that contains economically recoverable hydrocarbons. The term derives from the possibility of "paying" an income surpassing the costs. Equivalent terms are pay sand or pay zone. Overall interval in which pay volumes occur is the gross pay; smaller ...
A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from this map. The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states ...
State of Palestine. Territory claimed by Palestine (green). [2] Claimed territory annexed by Israel (light green). Palestine ( Arabic: فلسطين, romanized : Filasṭīn [e] ), officially the State of Palestine ( دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn ), [f] is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. It is officially recognized as a ...
Henry Taub. Henry Taub (September 20, 1927 – March 31, 2011) [1] was an American businessman and philanthropist of Hungarian - Jewish descent who was a co-founder of ADP . Raised in Paterson, New Jersey, Taub attended Eastside High School. [2] Taub was educated at New York University. He graduated from NYU in 1947 with a degree in accounting. [3]
Lifeboats: 20 (sufficient for 1,178 people) RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg on the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Titanic, operated by the White Star Line, was carrying passengers and mail. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew ...
The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns ("groups"). It is an icon of chemistry and is widely used in physics and other sciences.
In September 2010, a Yahoo! employee used the company's Hadoop application on one thousand computers over a 23-day period to compute 256 bits of π at the two-quadrillionth (2×10 15 th) bit, which also happens to be zero. In 2022, Plouffe found a base-10 algorithm for calculating digits of π. Role and characterizations in mathematics
Signature. Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her activism and glamour made her an international icon, and earned her enduring popularity.