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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.
Founding and early history. While running the corporate finance department for Bear Stearns in the 1960s and 1970s, Jerome Kohlberg, and later Henry Kravis and George Roberts, completed a series of what they described as "bootstrap" investments.
Thirty-four construction workers were killed in the collapse or died later as a result of their injuries. Sixty-two people were on site at the time of the collapse, many of whom were rescued alive in a ten-day rescue and recovery operation. The last survivor was rescued on Friday 10 May after 5 days (118 hours) trapped under the rubble.
The 1968 Casiguran earthquake occurred on 04:19:22 local time on August 2 with a moment magnitude of 7.6 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent ). The thrust earthquake's epicenter was in Casiguran, Quezon (now part of Aurora province). A small non-destructive tsunami was generated and at least 207 people were killed.
The {{ collapse top }} template (or {{ cot }} ), and its paired template {{ collapse bottom }} (or {{ cob }} ), are used for placing a collapse box around a talk page discussion, especially when the content contains complex wikimarkup such as tables. For very simple content, the one-piece template {{ collapse }} can be used instead.
May 7, 2024 at 6:41 PM. Salvage teams have recovered the body of the sixth – and believed to be the final – victim killed in the March 26 Baltimore bridge collapse, authorities announced ...
Six construction workers are presumed dead after a massive cargo ship slammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge early Tuesday morning, causing it to collapse. The MV Dali container ship ...
Background. The Black Pearl is the titular pirate ship that appears in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.Similar to how Jack Sparrow was compared to Han Solo from the Star Wars franchise, the Black Pearl was compared to the Millennium Falcon at least once by James Ward Byrkit, a creative consultant of Gore Verbinski's Pirates trilogy, in the Disney+ series Prop Culture.