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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. 2024 Kolkata rape and murder - Wikipedia

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    Rape and murder. Deaths. 1. Arrests. 3 [1][2][3] On 9 August 2024, a 31-year-old female postgraduate trainee doctor [4] at R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, was raped and murdered in a college building. Her body was found in a seminar room on campus.

  4. Freedmen's Bureau - Wikipedia

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    A Bureau agent stands between a group of whites and a group of freedmen. Harper's Weekly, July 25, 1868.. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, [1] was a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (i.e., former slaves) in the South.

  5. January 6 United States Capitol attack - Wikipedia

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    Insurrection suppressed; The deaths of six people [a]; Assaults on at least 174 police officers [16]; Delay of counting electoral votes by several hours [17]; Extensive physical damage; [7] [18] [19] offices and chambers vandalized and ransacked; property stolen; [20] more than $30 million for repairs and security measures [21]

  6. Bootstrap (front-end framework) - Wikipedia

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    Bootstrap (formerly Twitter Bootstrap) is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains HTML, CSS and (optionally) JavaScript -based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation, and other interface components. As of May 2023, Bootstrap is the 17th most starred ...

  7. Time travel - Wikipedia

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    The time traveler's actions may be the cause of events in their own past though, which leads to the potential for circular causation, sometimes called a predestination paradox, [93] ontological paradox, [94] or bootstrap paradox. [94] [95] The term bootstrap paradox was popularized by Robert A. Heinlein's story "By His Bootstraps". [96]

  8. Westermarck effect - Wikipedia

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    The Westermarck effect has gained some empirical support. [2] Proponents point to evidence from the Israeli kibbutz system, from the Chinese Shim-pua marriage customs, and from closely related families.

  9. 2024 Wayanad landslides - Wikipedia

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    The 2024 Wayanad landslides were a series of landslides that occurred in Punjirimattom, Mundakkai, Chooralmala, and Vellarimala villages in Meppadi panchayat, Vythiri taluk [ 5 ] in Wayanad district, Kerala, India in the early hours of 30 July 2024. The landslides were caused by heavy rains that caused hillsides to collapse, destroying the ...