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  2. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Previously, the company discontinued China Yahoo! Mail on August 20, 2013. [94] In 2023, Yahoo announced that it would cut 20% of its workforce. The move followed mass layoffs from other tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Inc, Meta, and Amazon. The company is set to lay off roughly 1,000 staff members of their 8,600 workers. [95]

  3. Not all Xbox 360 games are supported; 104 Xbox 360 games were available for the feature's public launch on November 12, 2015, with Xbox One preview program members getting early access. [14] [15] Launch games included the Gears of War series, Mass Effect, Borderlands, Mirror's Edge, Assassin's Creed II, and more. Microsoft stated that ...

  4. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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    Sexagesimal, also known as base 60, [1] is a numeral system with sixty as its base.It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.

  5. 30 Seconds (game) - Wikipedia

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    30 Seconds was created by Calie Esterhuyse but its origin seems to be collaborative. In 1996, while on holiday in Gordon’s Bay, tennis player Marius Barnard came up with a game for the 20 people present. Each person had to write a name on a piece of paper and place it in a bowl.

  6. Code of Hammurabi - Wikipedia

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    The relationship of the Code of Hammurabi to the Mosaic Law, specifically the Covenant Code of Exodus 20:22–23:19, has been a subject of discussion since its discovery. [47] Friedrich Delitzsch argued the case for strong influence in a 1902 lecture, in one episode of the " Babel und Bibel " ("Babel and Bible", or " Panbabylonism ") debate on ...

  7. S-300 missile system - Wikipedia

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    The S-300F Fort (Russian: С-300Ф, DoD designation SA-N-6, F suffix for Russian: Флотская or Naval) was introduced in 1984 as the original ship-based version of the S-300P system developed by Altair, with the new 5V55RM missile with range extended to 7–90 km (4.3–56 mi; 3.8–49 nmi) and maximum target speed up to Mach 4, while the ...

  8. List of country calling codes - Wikipedia

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    Zone 2 uses two 2-digit codes (20, 27) and eight sets of 3-digit codes (21x–26x, 28x, 29x), mostly to serve Africa, but also Aruba, Faroe Islands, Greenland and British Indian Ocean Territory. Zones 3 and 4 use sixteen 2-digit codes (30–34, 36, 39–41, 43–49) and four sets of 3-digit codes (35x, 37x, 38x, 42x) to serve Europe.

  9. Hays Code - Wikipedia

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    Thou Shalt Not, a 1940 photo by Whitey Schafer deliberately subverting some of the Code's strictures. In the 1920s, Hollywood was rocked by a number of notorious scandals, such as the murder of William Desmond Taylor and the alleged rape of Virginia Rappe by popular movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, which brought widespread condemnation from religious, civic and political organizations.