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  2. Power Corporation of Canada - Wikipedia

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    PowerCorporation.com. Power Corporation of Canada ( French: Power Corporation du Canada) is a management and holding company that focuses on financial services in North America, Europe and Asia. Its core holdings are insurance, retirement, wealth management and investment management, including a portfolio of alternative investment platforms.

  3. William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Wikipedia

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    The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada (regardless of the students' nationalities). It awards a scholarship and cash prizes ranging from $250 to ...

  4. Airliner - Wikipedia

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    Airliner. A United Airlines Boeing 737 (foreground) and a Virgin America Airbus A320 (background), two of the world's most widely used airliners. An airliner is a type of airplane for transporting passengers and air cargo. Such aircraft are most often operated by airlines.

  5. Jammu and Kashmir State Election Commission - Wikipedia

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    Jammu & Kashmir State Election Commission is an autonomous and statutory body constituted in Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh for ensuring that elections are conducted in free, fair and unbiased way. Constitution of India with provisions as per Article 243K and 243 ZA and Article 324 ensures creation and safeguarding of ...

  6. Resistivity logging - Wikipedia

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    Resistivity logging is a method of well logging that works by characterizing the rock or sediment in a borehole by measuring its electrical resistivity. Resistivity is a fundamental material property which represents how strongly a material opposes the flow of electric current. In these logs, resistivity is measured using four electrical probes ...

  7. History of logarithms - Wikipedia

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    The history of logarithms is the story of a correspondence (in modern terms, a group isomorphism) between multiplication on the positive real numbers and addition on the real number line that was formalized in seventeenth century Europe and was widely used to simplify calculation until the advent of the digital computer.

  8. Language Log - Wikipedia

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    languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu. Language Log is a collaborative language blog maintained by Mark Liberman, a phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania . Most of the posts focus on language use in the media and in popular culture. Text available through Google Search frequently serves as a corpus to test hypotheses about language.

  9. Starlog - Wikipedia

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    Company. The Brooklyn Company, Inc. Country. United States. Starlog was an American monthly science fiction magazine that was created in 1976 and focused primarily on Star Trek at its inception. Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs were its creators and it was published by Starlog Group, Inc. in August 1976. Starlog was one of the first publications ...