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  2. Mello-Roos - Wikipedia

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    The Community Facilities Act was a law enacted by the California State Legislature in 1982. [2] The name Mello-Roos is derived from its co-authors, Senator Henry J. Mello (D-Watsonville) and Assemblyman Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles). When Proposition 13 passed in California in 1978, it limited the property tax rate and the ability of local ...

  3. Hello - Wikipedia

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    According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo, [1] which came from Old High German " halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman". [5] It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French ...

  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Leucippus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE. He is credited with founding atomism, with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness between the atoms.

  5. Total dissolved solids - Wikipedia

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    Total dissolved solids ( TDS) is a measure of the dissolved combined content of all inorganic and organic substances present in a liquid in molecular, ionized, or micro-granular ( colloidal sol) suspended form. TDS are often measured in parts per million (ppm). TDS in water can be measured using a digital meter.

  6. Hello, Dolly! (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder 's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1954. The musical follows the story of Dolly Gallagher Levi, a strong-willed matchmaker, as she travels to Yonkers, New York, to ...

  7. Google - Wikipedia

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    Google LLC The Google logo used since 2015 Google's headquarters, the Googleplex Formerly Google Inc. (1998–2017) Company type Subsidiary Traded as NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG Industry Internet Cloud computing Computer software Computer hardware Artificial intelligence Advertising Founded September 4, 1998 ; 25 years ago (1998-09-04) [a] in Menlo Park, California, United States Founders Larry Page ...

  8. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).

  9. Hello (Chinese company) - Wikipedia

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    Hello Inc. ( Chinese: 哈啰; lit. 'Hello'; formerly Hello TransTech, Hellobike) is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Shanghai, China. It is a leading mobility platform that offers diversified ride options covering two-wheelers, including shared bikes, e-bikes, e-scooters and battery swaps, and four-wheelers, including car-pooling ...