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  2. Forest, Washington - Wikipedia

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    Etymology Two reliable but differing accounts of the name of Forest exist. One theory is based on the old-growth timber that grew in the area, while a second option posits that the moniker was taken after John T. Forrest, an early school teacher in the community. History The area was first settled by a non-native family, the Berniers, in the 1850s. Forest was founded in the 1890s and was ...

  3. Postal codes in Germany - Wikipedia

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    Today, German postal codes are numeric and have consisted of five digits since 1993. Between 1990 and 1993 the previous four-digit codes in the former West were prefixed with the letter "W", and in the former East with the letter "O" (for "Ost", "east" in German). Even though the western system had kept some number ranges free, specifically for ...

  4. Presentacion - Wikipedia

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    Presentacion, officially the Municipality of Presentacion ( Central Bikol: Banwaan kan Presentacion; Tagalog: Bayan ng Presentacion ), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 22,591 people. [3] It is formerly known as Parubcan .

  5. Empire Field - Wikipedia

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    Empire Field was a temporary Canadian football and soccer stadium built at Hastings Park in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia.Located on the site of the former Empire Stadium, the 27,528 spectator venue was constructed to allow a new retractable roof to be installed at BC Place in 2010 and 2011.

  6. Natomas, Sacramento, California - Wikipedia

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    95833/95834/95835. Area code (s) 916, 279. Natomas is a community in the northwestern section of the city of Sacramento, in the U.S. state of California . Natomas is generally divided into two areas by Interstate 80: North Natomas and South Natomas. North Natomas was historically an agricultural area on the floodplains of the Sacramento River ...

  7. Authorization hold - Wikipedia

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    Authorization hold (also card authorization, preauthorization, or preauth) is a service offered by credit and debit card providers whereby the provider puts a hold of the amount approved by the cardholder, reducing the balance of available funds until the merchant clears the transaction (also called settlement), after the transaction is completed or aborted, or because the hold expires.

  8. Postal codes in Austria - Wikipedia

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    3xxx: Lower Austria (west of Vienna) 4xxx: Upper Austria. 5xxx: Salzburg and west Upper Austria. 6xxx: Tyrol and Vorarlberg (without East Tyrol) 7xxx: Burgenland. 8xxx: Styria. 9xxx: Carinthia and East Tyrol. 2-digit postcode areas Austria (defined through the first two postcode digits) The second number indicates the regional area in the state ...

  9. Temporary Secretary - Wikipedia

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    Temporary Secretary. " Temporary Secretary " is a song by Paul McCartney, released as the third single from his album McCartney II in September 1980. Dominated by a dissonant sequenced synthesiser line, NME later described the song as "wonky electropop that didn't sound so much ahead of its time as out of it altogether." [3]