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  2. 1984 (advertisement) - Wikipedia

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    Budget. $370,000 – $900,000. " 1984 " is an American television commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas, and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott. The ad was an allusion to George Orwell 's noted ...

  3. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD - Wikipedia

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    Of the many eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, a major stratovolcano in southern Italy, the best-known is its eruption in 79 AD, which was one of the deadliest in history.. In autumn of 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius violently spewed forth a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately ...

  4. Tulsi Gabbard - Wikipedia

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    Tulsi Gabbard ( / ˈtʌlsi ˈɡæbərd / TUL-see GAB-ərd; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician, United States Army Reserve officer and political commentator, who was the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021.

  5. Runtime system - Wikipedia

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    Program execution. In computer programming, a runtime system or runtime environment is a sub-system that exists both in the computer where a program is created, as well as in the computers where the program is intended to be run. The name comes from the compile time and runtime division from compiled languages, which similarly distinguishes the ...

  6. Ad hoc polymorphism - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In programming languages, ad hoc polymorphism [1] is a kind of polymorphism in which polymorphic functions can be applied to arguments of different types, because a polymorphic function can denote a number of distinct and potentially heterogeneous implementations depending on the type of argument (s) to which it is applied. When applied ...

  7. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign - Wikipedia

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    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election on April 19, 2023. [9] An environmental lawyer, [10] writer, and member of the Kennedy family, he is known for advocating anti-vaccine misinformation [11] [12] [13] and public health conspiracy theories. [14] He initially ran for the Democratic Party ...

  8. Ross Perot 1992 presidential campaign - Wikipedia

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    Perot eventually sold his company to General Motors in 1984 for $2.55 billion, and founded Perot Systems in 1988. By 1992, his fortune was judged to be $3 billion (~$5.85 billion in 2023). Perot was a hawk on the Vietnam War, an advocate for U.S. servicemen held as prisoners of war and a supporter of their families. During the war, he aided ...

  9. AD 2 - Wikipedia

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    AD 2 in various calendars; Gregorian calendar: AD 2 II: Ab urbe condita: 755: Assyrian calendar: 4752: Balinese saka calendar: N/A: Bengali calendar: −591: Berber calendar: 952: Buddhist calendar: 546: Burmese calendar: −636: Byzantine calendar: 5510–5511: Chinese calendar: 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2699 or 2492 — to — 壬戌年 ...