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  2. Christmas tree - Wikipedia

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    Christmas tree decorated with lights, stars, and glass balls Glade jul by Viggo Johansen (1891) Typical North American family decorating Christmas tree (c. 1970s). A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.

  3. Public holidays in the United States - Wikipedia

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    These include New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Businesses often close or grant paid time off for New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, and the Day after Thanksgiving, but none of these are federal holidays. Other federal holidays are less widely observed by businesses.

  4. Costco - Wikipedia

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    Original logo (used until 1993, but carried by stores until 1997) Costco Wholesale Corporation (commonly shortened to Costco) is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores. [4] As of 2021, Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world [5] and is the world's largest ...

  5. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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    Amazon.com, Inc., [ 1] doing business as Amazon ( / ˈæməzɒn /, AM-ə-zon; UK also / ˈæməzən /, AM-ə-zən ), is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. [ 5]

  6. 2024 United States Senate election in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The 2024 United States Senate election in Virginia will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia. Incumbent Democratic Senator Tim Kaine is running against nonprofit founder Hung Cao for re-election to a third term in office.

  7. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In the United States, academic grading commonly takes on the form of five, six or seven letter grades. Traditionally, the grades are A+, A, A−, B+, B, B−, C+, C, C−, D+, D, D− and F, with A+ being the highest and F being lowest. In some cases, grades can also be numerical. Numeric-to-letter-grade conversions generally vary from ...

  8. Pareto principle - Wikipedia

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    Pareto principle. The Pareto principle may apply to fundraising, i.e. 20% of the donors contributing towards 80% of the total. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity [1] [2]) states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital ...

  9. Temu - Wikipedia

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    Launched. September 2022. Temu ( / ˈtiːmuː / TEE-moo) is an online marketplace operated by the Chinese e-commerce company PDD Holdings. [8] [9] It offers heavily discounted consumer goods [10] which are mostly shipped to consumers directly from China. [11] [12] Temu's business model has allowed it to become popular among consumers but has ...