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  2. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    History Further information: History of Facebook 2003–2006: Thefacebook, Thiel investment, and name change Original layout and name of Thefacebook in 2004, showing Al Pacino's face superimposed with binary numbers as Facebook's original logo, designed by co-founder Andrew McCollum Zuckerberg built a website called "Facemash" in 2003 while attending Harvard University. The site was comparable ...

  3. York University Heights - Wikipedia

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    2,086/km 2 (5,400/sq mi) York University Heights, also known as Northwood Park, is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of Toronto's northernmost neighbourhoods, located along the northern boundary of Steeles Avenue in the former city of North York. The neighbourhood is so named because it contains the main campus of York ...

  4. New York City Marshal - Wikipedia

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    New York City Marshals are civil litigation enforcement officers of New York City who are appointed by the mayor to five-year terms. They are independent public officers and do not collect a salary during their tenure in office. By law, no more than 83 city marshals may be appointed by a mayor. Marshals primarily enforce orders from civil court ...

  5. Alvin York - Wikipedia

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    Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known by his rank as Sergeant York, was an American soldier who was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. [1] He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 [2 ...

  6. York College, City University of New York - Wikipedia

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    Website. york.cuny.edu. York College is a public senior college in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, United States. It is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Founded in 1966, York was the first senior college founded under the newly formed CUNY system, which united several previously independent public colleges into ...

  7. University of Texas at Dallas - Wikipedia

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    The University of Texas at Dallas. /  32.98500°N 96.75000°W  / 32.98500; -96.75000. The University of Texas at Dallas ( UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is the northernmost institution of the University of Texas System. It was initially founded in 1961 as a private research arm of Texas ...

  8. Borough president - Wikipedia

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    Borough president. The borough presidents are the chief executives of the five boroughs of New York City. For most of the city's history, the office exercised significant executive powers within each borough, and the five borough presidents also sat on the New York City Board of Estimate. Since 1990, the borough presidents have been stripped of ...

  9. Self-service - Wikipedia

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    Overview. Self-service is the practice of serving oneself, usually when purchasing items. Common examples include many gas stations, where the customer pumps their own gas rather than have an attendant do it (full service is required by law in New Jersey, urban parts of Oregon, most of Mexico, and Richmond, British Columbia, but is the exception rather than the rule elsewhere).