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2. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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   1883: The Yellow Pages are invented. The business listings directory got its iconic look by accident in 1883 when a Cheyenne, Wyoming, printer ran out of white paper and made do with yellow paper ...

3. Whitepages (company) - Wikipedia

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   Whitepages is a provider of online directory services, fraud screening, background checks and identity verification for consumers and businesses. It has the largest database available of contact information on US residents. [3] Whitepages was founded in 1997 as a hobby for then- Stanford student Alex Algard.

4. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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   Telephone directory. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a ...

5. Timeline of racial tension in Omaha, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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   The timeline of racial tension in Omaha, Nebraska lists events in African-American history in Omaha. These included racial violence, but also include many firsts as the black community built its institutions. Omaha has been a major industrial city on the edge of what was a rural, agricultural state. It has attracted a more diverse population ...

6. List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations - Wikipedia

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   Originally Nebraska was "NB"; but, in November 1969, the Post Office changed it to "NE" to avoid confusion with New Brunswick in Canada. [3] Prior to 1987, when the U.S. Secretary of Commerce approved the two-letter codes for use in government documents, [12] the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) suggested its own set of ...

7. Reverse telephone directory - Wikipedia

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   A reverse telephone directory (also known as a gray pages directory, criss-cross directory or reverse phone lookup) is a collection of telephone numbers and associated customer details. However, unlike a standard telephone directory, where the user uses customer's details (such as name and address) in order to retrieve the telephone number of ...