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The Company was founded in 1988 by the merger of the British CAP Group and the French company, Sema-Metra SA. [1] [2] In 1991 Sema and British Aerospace established the BAeSEMA naval systems joint venture to produce naval systems: it was dissolved in November 1998 when BAe purchased Sema's 50% share for £77 million.
Jean Michel Schlumberger [1] (June 24, 1907 – August 29, 1987) was a major French jewellery designer especially well known for his work at Tiffany & Co. Family and early life [ edit ]
Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed ...
XCAP maps XML document element attributes to HTTP URLs, so that these components can be directly accessed by clients using HTTP protocol. An XCAP server is used by XCAP users to store data like buddy lists and presence policy in combination with a SIP Presence
Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (French: [le.a sɛ.du] ⓘ; born 1 July 1985) is a French actress.Prolific in both French cinema and Hollywood, she has received various accolades including five César Award nominations, two Lumières Awards, a Palme d'Or, a BAFTA Award nomination, and the Trophée Chopard Award.
The history of the Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway traces to 1888 when the villagers of Pawnee built a rail line from their town to the Illinois Central Railroad mainline 15 miles south of Springfield, at a junction point that would come to be known as "Cimic", an acronym for Chicago & Illinois Midland-Illinois Central, and is still listed as such on maps today.
The Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad is often confused with the similarly named Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad from which the P&S had its origins. Further adding to the confusion is the fact that both were nicknamed the Shawmut Line, both operated in roughly the same geographic area, and both used similar diamond logos during their history.
Maria "São" Schlumberger (née da Conceição Diniz; 15 October 1929 – 15 August 2007), was a Portuguese-born American fashion and art patron and collector, and the second wife of Pierre Schlumberger.