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  2. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    e. Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. [1] It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. [2]

  3. Mark Zuckerberg - Wikipedia

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    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman.He co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder.

  4. Georgia Lottery - Wikipedia

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    The GLC was created by a separate bill in 1992 by the Georgia General Assembly, and then-governor of Georgia, Zell Miller, in the Lottery for Education Act (OCGA 50-27). Rebecca Paul , who began the Florida Lottery , then ran the Georgia Lottery for its first decade, before leaving to launch Tennessee Lottery in 2004.

  5. History of slavery in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery. The colony of the Province of Georgia under James Oglethorpe banned slavery in 1735, the only one of the thirteen colonies to have done so. However, it was legalized by royal decree in 1751, [1] in part due to George ...

  6. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant - Wikipedia

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    The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle (/ ˈvoʊɡəl /), [4] is a four-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. With a power capacity of 4,536 megawatts, it is the largest nuclear power plant (as of 2013), the largest source of low-carbon ...

  7. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    The domain had belonged to AboutFace Corporation. In May 2005, Accel Partners invested $12.7 million ($19.8 million in 2023 dollars [ 20 ]) in Facebook, and Jim Breyer [ 36 ] added $1 million ($1.56 million in 2023 dollars [ 20 ]) of his own money. A high-school version of the site launched in September 2005. [ 37 ]

  8. Labor history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The National Labor Union (NLU), founded in 1866, was the first national labor federation in the United States. It was dissolved in 1872. The regional Order of the Knights of St. Crispin was founded in the northeast in 1867 and claimed 50,000 members by 1870, by far the largest union in the country.

  9. Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the northwest, North Carolina to the north, South Carolina to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by ...