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  2. Michael Schumacher - Wikipedia

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    e. Michael Schumacher ( German: [ˈmɪçaːʔeːl ˈʃuːmaxɐ] ⓘ; born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis Hamilton ); at the time of his retirement from the sport in ...

  3. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer. His paternal grandmother was a Canadian woman from Winnipeg. [25]

  4. Sustainable Development Goals - Wikipedia

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    Website. sdgs .un .org. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ). They were created with the aim of " peace and prosperity for people and the planet..." [1] [2] [3] – while tackling climate change and working to preserve oceans and forests.

  5. Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia

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    Jeff Bezos. Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( / ˈbeɪzoʊs / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, media proprietor and investor. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

  6. United States Department of Homeland Security - Wikipedia

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    The United States Department of Homeland Security ( DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terrorism, border security, immigration and customs, cyber security, and disaster prevention and management.

  7. Southwest Airlines - Wikipedia

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    Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways and Continental Airlines) took legal action to try to prevent the company from its planned strategy of undercutting their prices by flying only within Texas and thus being exempt from regulation by the federal Civil ...

  8. Epic Games - Wikipedia

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    Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. Following its first commercial video game release, ZZT (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames ...

  9. Alaska Airlines - Wikipedia

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    Alaska Airlines is a member of Oneworld, the third-largest airline alliance in the world. [6] As of 2020, the airline employs over 16,000 people and has been ranked by J. D. Power and Associates as having the highest customer satisfaction of the traditional airlines for twelve consecutive years.