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  2. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects : Commons. Free media repository. MediaWiki. Wiki software development. Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia project coordination. Wikibooks. Free textbooks and manuals.

  3. Bill (law) - Wikipedia

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    A bill is a proposal for a new law, or a proposal to significantly change an existing law. [1] A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature and has been, in most cases, approved by the executive. Once a bill has been enacted into law by the legislature, it is called an act of the legislature, or a statute.

  4. G.I. Bill - Wikipedia

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    The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s ). The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956, but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist American military veterans.

  5. Kahramana - Wikipedia

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    Kahramana is a fountain located in Baghdad 's Sa'adoon Street depicting a scene from the legend of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; a story taken from One Thousand and One Nights in which the slave girl Marjana outwitted the thieves by tricking them into hiding inside jars over which she poured hot oil. The statue was officially opened in 1971 ...

  6. Karamah - Wikipedia

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    See also. Karameh (disambiguation), colloquial pronunciation. Karama (disambiguation) Karamat (disambiguation) Karami. Karam (disambiguation) Dignity Party (Egypt) (Ḥizb al-Karāma), an Egyptian political party. Category: Disambiguation pages.

  7. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [20] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.

  8. Partial payment - Wikipedia

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    Partial payment refers to the offering of a payment by check for less than the full amount claimed by the creditor . Such an offer for debt discharge by tender of a "payment-in-full" check is common practice. If the amount tendered is not grossly insufficient, the creditor must decide whether to accept the payment and forfeit the balance, or ...

  9. Faster Payments - Wikipedia

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    Faster Payments. The Faster Payments Service ( FPS) is a United Kingdom banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts to typically a few seconds, from the three working days that transfers usually take using the long-established BACS system. CHAPS, which was introduced in 1984, provides a limited faster ...