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Amazon Web Services, Inc. ( AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Clients will often use this in combination with autoscaling (a process that allows a client to use more computing in times of high application usage ...
Christopher Reeve. Christopher D'Olier Reeve [1] (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, film director, author, and activist, best known for playing the title character in the film Superman (1978) and its three sequels. Born in New York City and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, Reeve discovered a passion for acting and ...
Definition [ edit] The original Latin word universitas refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc". [13] As urban town life and medieval guilds developed, specialized associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights (these rights were usually ...
Kalamkari. Kalamkari (Persian: قلمکاری) is a type of hand-painted cotton textile produced in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Only natural dyes are used in Kalamkari, which involves twenty-three steps. [1] [2] [3] There are two distinctive styles of Kalamkari art in India – Machilipatnam style and Srikalahasti style.
State Employees Credit Union of Maryland (also known as SECU of Maryland or SECU Maryland or SECU MD) is a state-chartered credit union headquartered in Linthicum, Maryland. It is the largest federally-insured credit union in the state [4] [5] [6] and is regulated under the authority of The Office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation ...
The keffiyeh or kufiyyeh or cheffiyeh ( Arabic: كُوفِيَّة, romanized : kūfiyya, lit. ' coif '), [1] also known in Arabic as a ghutrah ( غُترَة ), shemagh ( شُمَاغ, šumāḡ ), or ḥaṭṭah ( حَطَّة ), is a traditional headdress worn by men from parts of the Middle East. It is fashioned from a square scarf, and is ...
The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow, gold and white.
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in capturing American life and landscapes through his art. Born in Nyack, New York, to a middle-class family, Hopper's early exposure to art was nurtured by his parents.