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  2. PageNet - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Miss Oregon - Wikipedia

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    The event began in 1947 as the Miss Oregon Pageant and was founded by the merchants in the coastal city of Seaside. Miss Oregon was designated the official State Hostess in 1969. [2] In 2001, Katie Harman was crowned Miss Oregon and went on to win the Miss America crown, becoming the only Miss Oregon winner of the national event.

  4. Miss Teen USA 2024 - Wikipedia

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    Miss Teen USA 2024. Miss Teen USA 2024 will be the 42nd Miss Teen USA pageant, to be held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California on August 1, 2024. [2] For the first time since 2007, it will be televised on The CW television network. [1]

  5. Search/Retrieve Web Service - Wikipedia

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    Search/Retrieve Web Service. () is a web service for search and retrieval. SRW provides a SOAP interface to queries, to augment the URL interface provided by its companion protocol Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU). Queries in SRU and SRW are expressed using the Contextual Query Language (CQL). Standards for SRW, SRU, and CQL are promulgated by the ...

  6. Juneteenth - Wikipedia

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    The 2020 mother-daughter film on the holiday's pageant culture, Miss Juneteenth, celebrates African-American women who are "determined to stand on their own," while a resourceful mother is "getting past a sexist tendency in her community to keep women in their place." Becoming a federal holiday

  7. Miss New Hampshire USA - Wikipedia

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    The Miss New Hampshire USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Hampshire in the Miss USA pageant. It was directed by The Clemente Organization based in Malden, Massachusetts from 2013 to 2019. GDB Theatre and Pageant Productions became the new directors for the event starting from 2020 competition.

  8. 1980s - Wikipedia

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    The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.

  9. Julie (brand) - Wikipedia

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    Julie (brand) Julie is a healthcare company that markets an "easily accessible" emergency contraception pill. It was created with the intention of reducing the stigma around buying emergency contraception to younger and more modern audiences. [1] The product launched September of 2022 and uses the ingredient, Levonorgestrel. [2]