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Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990) was a Scottish officer in the British Army and the founder and creator of the Special Air Service (SAS). Under his leadership, the SAS carried out hit-and-run raids behind the Axis lines of the North African campaign. He saw active service during the Second World War ...
Founded. 1998. Headquarters. Operates in 40+ countries. Website. www.planetseed.com. SEED, also known as Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development, is a global non-profit educational outreach organization within Schlumberger Limited, the global oilfield services company. The mission of SEED is to inspire, influence and enable educators ...
After two months, Pierre Schlumberger (1914-1986) proposed and they married in 1961. His first wife, Claire Schwob d'Héricourt, with whom he had five children, died from a stroke in 1959. [1] Pierre and São had two children, Paul-Albert, in 1962, and Victoire, in 1968. [1]
David McCallum Sr. (father) David Keith McCallum (19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023) was a Scottish actor and musician. [1] [2] He gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. [3] His other notable television roles include Simon Carter in Colditz (1972–1974 ...
David Miscavige (/ m ɪ ˈ s k æ v ɪ dʒ /; born April 30, 1960) is the second and current leader of the Church of Scientology. His official title within the organization is Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center (RTC), a corporation that controls the trademarks and copyrights of Dianetics and Scientology .
Weatherford International plc, is an American public limited company, together with its subsidiaries, is a multinational oilfield service company and one of the largest companies in the world in oil services; operationally headquartered in the US with a holding company based in Ireland. Weatherford is a company providing equipment and services ...
Aker Kværner was founded in 2004 from the major restructuring of a complex "Aker Kværner" business unit formed in 2002 by the merger of Aker Maritime and Kværner Oil & Gas. On 3 April 2008, Aker Kværner was renamed Aker Solutions in part due to the difficulty non-Scandinavians found in pronouncing "Kværner".
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument by the "traitorous eight" who defected from Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. It became a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and of integrated circuits ...