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  2. Pinyin - Wikipedia

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    Hanyu Pinyin was designed by a group of mostly Chinese linguists, including Wang Li, Lu Zhiwei, Li Jinxi, Luo Changpei, [4] as well as Zhou Youguang who was an economist, [5] as part of a Chinese government project in the 1950s. Zhou, often called "the father of pinyin", [5] [15] [16] [17] worked as a banker in New York when he decided to return to China to help rebuild the country after the ...

  3. Fidelity Bank Ghana - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .fidelitybank .com .gh. Fidelity Bank is a commercial bank in Ghana [1] which begun business in October 1998 as a Discount House. [2] It was issued with its Universal Banking License on June 28, 2006, making it the 22nd bank to be licensed by the Bank of Ghana. It is one of the twenty-seven licensed commercial banks in the country.

  4. Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia

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    Harry S. Truman [b] (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the ...

  5. Æ - Wikipedia

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    Æ ( lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It was also used in Old Swedish before being changed to ä. The modern International Phonetic Alphabet uses it to represent the near-open front ...

  6. M1 Garand - Wikipedia

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    The rifle is chambered for the .30-06 Springfield cartridge and is named after its Canadian-American designer, John Garand. It was the first standard-issue autoloading rifle for the United States. [14] By most accounts, the M1 rifle performed well. General George S. Patton called it "the greatest battle implement ever devised". [15] [16] The M1 replaced the bolt-action M1903 Springfield as the ...

  7. Q - Wikipedia

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    The Semitic sound value of Qôp was /q/ ( voiceless uvular stop ), and the form of the letter could have been based on the eye of a needle, a knot, or even a monkey with its tail hanging down. [2] [3] [4] /q/ is a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in many European languages. [a] Some have even suggested that the form of the letter Q is even more ancient: it could have originated ...

  8. Retirement - Wikipedia

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    Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. [1] A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload. Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their job for health reasons.

  9. Kate Martin (basketball) - Wikipedia

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    Martin was born on June 5, 2000, and grew up in Granite City and Edwardsville, Illinois. [1] She is the youngest of three children born to teachers Matt and Jill Martin. [2] [3] Martin started playing basketball at age five, participating in local recreational leagues and playing pickup at the YMCA. [4] Starting in elementary school, she frequented basketball camps at University of Iowa every ...