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2. David Pye (furniture designer) - Wikipedia

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   David William Pye OBE (18 November 1914 – 1 January 1993), was Professor of Furniture Design at The Royal College of Art, 1964–1974. [1] Among his pupils were David Colwell (Trannon), Richard la Trobe Bateman, Charles Dillon, Jane Dillon, Floris van den Broecke and Roger Dean. [citation needed] Pye was an accomplished wood-turner and carver ...

3. Julius Caesar - Wikipedia

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   Gaius Julius Caesar (/ ˈ s iː z ər /, SEE-zər; Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs ˈjuːliʊs ˈkae̯sar]; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC.

4. WeChat - Wikipedia

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   WeChat. WeChat or Weixin in Chinese ( Chinese: 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn ( listen ⓘ); lit. 'micro-message') [a] is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 [4] [5] with over 1 billion monthly active users.

5. Special Air Service - Wikipedia

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   The Special Air Service ( SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling, and in 1950 it was reconstituted as a corps. [5] The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, direct action and special reconnaissance.

6. Web service - Wikipedia

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   A web service ( WS) is either: a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or. a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a network, serving web documents ( HTML, JSON, XML, images). [citation needed] In a web service, a web ...

7. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. - Wikipedia

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   Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership (1979) Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. (February 28, 1924 – July 22, 2019) was an American aerospace and NASA engineer who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control Center and shaping its organization and culture. His protégé Glynn Lunney said in 1998: "the Control Center ...