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  2. Dasman - Wikipedia

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    Dasman ( Arabic: دسمان, romanized : Dasmān) is a seaside district of Kuwait City in Kuwait. It is notable for hosting the Dasman Palace, which previously housed members of the House of Al Sabah and was the site of the Battle of Dasman Palace in 1990 during the Gulf War. [2] Another historic palace is located in the district: the Sheikh ...

  3. Battle of Dasman Palace - Wikipedia

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    Battle. On 2 August 1990, shortly after 00:00 local time, Iraq invaded Kuwait. [1] [2] The attack on Dasman Palace, the residence of the Emir of Kuwait, by Iraqi special forces commenced sometime between 04:00 and 06:00; [2] [3] these forces have been variously reported as helicopter airborne troops, [4] or as infiltrators in civilian clothes. [2]

  4. American School of Kuwait - Wikipedia

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    History. In 1963, a group of American parents began the process of forming a new international school in Kuwait. This new school's first term began in September, 1964, in the Dasman Area of Sharq, Kuwait, and was known as the International School of Kuwait.

  5. United States - Wikipedia

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    The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.

  6. Plus (autonomous trucking) - Wikipedia

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    Plus is an American autonomous trucking technology company based in Cupertino, California. The company develops Level 4 autonomous trucking technology for commercial freight trucks. In 2019, the company completed the first cross-country driverless freight delivery in the U.S. The company's self-driving system began to be used commercially in 2021.

  7. Portal (series) - Wikipedia

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    Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve.Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.

  8. Plus (interbank network) - Wikipedia

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    Plus System, Inc. started out as a consortium formed by 34 major U.S. banks to build a national network of automated teller machines (ATM). It initially was composed of 2,000 ATMs linking 1,000 banks and their customers in 47 states. [2] As the booming ATM industry outgrew regional networks and began to go nationwide in the mid-1980s, credit ...

  9. PLUS Expressways - Wikipedia

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    PLUS Malaysia Berhad. Mohamad Nasir Ab. Latif, Chairman. The PLUS Expressways Berhad ( MYX: 5052) is the largest highway concessionaries or build–operate–transfer operator company in Malaysia. A member of the UEM Group, the company is also the largest listed toll expressway operator in Southeast Asia and the eighth largest in the world.