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  2. Kronos Foods - Wikipedia

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    Kronos Foods, Inc., is a Chicago-based company which is a foodservice manufacturer of Mediterranean food in the United States and the largest manufacturer of gyros in the world. [1] [2] Kronos Foods is known for being one of the first to produce, standardize, and market gyro cones (an argument exists as to who exactly was the first to "invent ...

  3. Birch Aquarium - Wikipedia

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    AZA [3] Website. aquarium .ucsd .edu. Birch Aquarium is a nonprofit public aquarium in La Jolla, California. It serves as the public outreach center for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. [4] The aquarium houses more than 3,000 animals representing over 380 species.

  4. E. W. Scripps - Wikipedia

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    E. W. Scripps. Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press news service. It became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service (INS ...

  5. Scripps Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Scripps Formation is a geologic formation in coastal San Diego County, California. [1] [2] [3] It is named for its type section north of the Scripps Pier, on the north side of the Blacks Canyon mouth.

  6. Khronos Group - Wikipedia

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    The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of 170 organizations developing, publishing and maintaining royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, virtual reality, augmented reality, parallel computation, vision acceleration and machine learning. [1] [2] The open standards and associated conformance ...

  7. Short Stories (Kronos Quartet album) - Wikipedia

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    AllMusic's "Blue" Gene Tyranny describes this album as a, "fascinating collection," of nine pieces by, "very different composers," and that, "the Kronos Quartet is in top form throughout all these selections." A Wired review says that, "a fine mesh of brains and guts, Short Stories is an eclectic roller-coaster ride through 20th-century music."

  8. Scripps Research - Wikipedia

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    Scripps Research, previously known as The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California , the institute has over 170 laboratories employing 2,100 scientists, [2] technicians, graduate students, and ...

  9. Pitzer College - Wikipedia

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    History. Pitzer was founded in 1963 as a women's college by Russell K. Pitzer (1878–1978), a California citrus magnate, philanthropist, and Pomona College alumnus. In April 1963, John W. Atherton, the dean of faculty and a professor of English at Claremont Men's College (now Claremont McKenna College) was hired as Pitzer's first president, and over the next seventeen months he recruited ...