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  2. Buc-ee's - Wikipedia

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    Buc-ee's is an American chain of country stores, gas stations, and electric vehicle chargers created and owned by Arch "Beaver" Aplin III, headquartered in Lake Jackson, Texas. [3] The chain was founded in 1982 in Clute, Texas and began expansion with its first travel center in Luling, Texas in 2003. The company began expanding outside of Texas ...

  3. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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    The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1] Such laws remained in force until 1965. [2]

  4. Petroleum industry - Wikipedia

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    World oil reserves as of 2013. The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines ), and marketing of petroleum products. The largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol).

  5. Center Point, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Center Point is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 492. [2] Center Point is located along Louisiana Highway 107, 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Marksville, the parish seat, and 16 miles (26 km) east of Alexandria .

  6. Melissa Benoist - Wikipedia

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    Melissa Marie Benoist (/ b ə ˈ n ɔɪ s t / bə-NOYST; born October 4, 1988) is an American actress and singer. Her first major role was Marley Rose on the Fox musical comedy drama Glee (2012–2014), in which she was a series regular during the fifth season.

  7. Check Point - Wikipedia

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    Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an American-Israeli multinational provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, cloud security, mobile security, data security and security management .

  8. Constitution of Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    The constitution is the cornerstone of the law of Louisiana ensuring the rights of individuals, describing the distribution and power of state officials and local government, establishes the state and city civil service systems, creates and defines the operation of a state lottery, and the manner of revising the constitution.

  9. D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia

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    Survivors. 41. D. B. Cooper was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, the hijacker told a flight attendant he was armed with a bomb, demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to ...