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  2. Course Hero - Wikipedia

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    Course Hero was founded by Andrew Grauer at Cornell University in 2006 for college students to share lectures, class notes, exams and assignments. [4] In November 2014, the company raised $15 million in Series A Funding, with investors that included GSV Capital and IDG Capital. Seed investors SV Angel and Maveron also participated. [5]

  3. Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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    Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago,[2][23]to a Jewish family.[24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1][25]His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.

  4. United States v. Swartz - Wikipedia

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    In United States of America v.Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow.

  5. Yakuza: Like a Dragon - Wikipedia

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    Yakuza: Like a Dragon[a] is a role-playing video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. The eighth mainline title in the Yakuza series and the first to be developed as a turn-based RPG, it was released in Japan and Asia for PlayStation 4 on January 16, 2020. The western release of the game for PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox ...

  6. Battle of Nasiriyah - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Nasiriyah was fought between the US 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and Iraqi forces from 23 March to 2 April 2003 during the US-led invasion of Iraq.On the night of 24–25 March, the bulk of the Marines of Regimental Combat Team 1 passed through the city over the bridges and attacked north towards Baghdad.

  7. Alexandra Elbakyan - Wikipedia

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    For her actions in creating Sci-Hub, Elbakyan has been called a hero, [42] [43] for example by Nobel laureate Randy Schekman. [44] Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz, [45] and The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden. [31] Edward Snowden acknowledged Sci-Hub to be one of the most important websites for academics in the ...

  8. Alexander von Humboldt - Wikipedia

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    Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in Prussia on 14 September 1769. 17 He was baptized as a baby in the Lutheran faith, with the Duke of Brunswick serving as godfather. 18. His father, Alexander Georg von Humboldt (1720-1779), belonged to a prominent German noble family from Pomerania.

  9. Reddit - Wikipedia

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    Reddit (/ ˈrɛdɪt /) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members. Posts are organized by subject into ...