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  2. Iran May Ignite a Global Explosion: Part 2 - AOL

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    In the first of two articles on rapidly declining -- but progressively more truculent -- Iran, we looked at the spreading boycott of the country's oil by nations across the globe, at its rapidly ...

  3. Fairchild Camera and Instrument - Wikipedia

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    Fairchild Camera and Instrument. Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation was a company founded by Sherman Fairchild. It was based on the East Coast of the United States, and provided research and development for flash photography equipment. The technology was primarily used for DOD spy satellites.

  4. Tristram Carfrae - Wikipedia

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    Tristram George Allen Carfrae, FRSA, FREng, FTSE, RDI (born 1 April 1959) is a structural engineer and designer. He is currently Deputy Chair of Arup [1] and an Arup Fellow. [2] Carfrae was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2014. [3] He became the fourth Briton to be awarded the International Award of Merit in ...

  5. Yodel (company) - Wikipedia

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    Yodel is a delivery service company based in Liverpool, England. [1] [2] It was originally known as the Home Delivery Network ( HDN, [3] full name Home Delivery Network Limited, HDNL ), [4] until it acquired the business-to-business (B2B) and retail ( B2C) operations of DHL Express UK and thereafter, rebranded itself as Yodel in May 2010.

  6. List of professorships at the University of Aberdeen - Wikipedia

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    College of Arts and Social Sciences. Aberdeen Asset Management Professor of Finance and Investment Management. Jaffrey Professor of Political Economy. MacRobert Professor of Land Economy. Schlumberger Professor of Petroleum Economics.

  7. Cherry blossom - Wikipedia

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    The cherry blossom, or sakura, is the flower of trees in Prunus subgenus Cerasus. "Sakura" usually refers to flowers of ornamental cherry trees, such as cultivars of Prunus serrulata, not trees grown for their fruit [1] : 14–18 [2] (although these also have blossoms ). Cherry blossoms have been described as having a vanilla -like smell, which ...

  8. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 - Wikipedia

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    ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard [1] published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. They are the most widely used of the country codes published by ISO (the ...

  9. Plenty of Fish - Wikipedia

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    Plenty of Fish. Plenty of Fish ( POF) is a Canadian online dating service, popular primarily in Canada, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Brazil, [2] and the United States. [3] It is available in nine languages. The company, which is based in Vancouver, British Columbia [4] generates revenue through ...