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The following tables show the currently used code for each NOC and any different codes used in past Games, per the official reports from those Games. Some of the past code usage is further explained in the following sections. Codes used specifically for a Summer Games only or a Winter Games only, within the same year, are indicated by "S" and ...
When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com , an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire.
[199] In 2009, Facebook added the feature to tag certain friends (or groups, etc.) within one's status update by adding an @ character before their name, turning the friend's name into a link to their profile and including the message on the friend's wall. Tagging has since been updated to recognize friends' names by typing them into a status ...
The Canada Games Complex was constructed in 1981 to host the aquatic events of the 1981 Canada Summer Games in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is run by the City of Thunder Bay and its features include a swimming pool, indoor fitness areas, a fitness testing area, and an indoor running track. The facility has been open to the public since the end of ...
AIR CANADA [17] 256 [18] Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto Pearson, Vancouver: Flag carrier and largest domestic and international airline of Canada measured by seat capacity [19] [20] Air Canada Express: 5262 [21] 0 [22] Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto Pearson, Vancouver: Brand name used by Jazz operating as feeder airlines for Air Canada [23] Air ...
Aces around, dix or double pinochles. Score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of cards into melds.
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