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Kelly Marie Miller was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, to a welder father and a stay-at-home mother who was formerly a preschool teacher. [2] In 1989, she became the first person in her family to attend a university, graduating from the University of Pittsburgh as a first-generation college student. [2]
Cover of Cabbages and Kings (1904 edition). In the 20th century, American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910) coined the term banana republic to describe the fictional Republic of Anchuria in the book Cabbages and Kings (1904), [1] a collection of thematically related short stories inspired by his experiences in Honduras, whose economy was heavily dependent on the export of ...
In March 2003 American General merged with Old Line Life Insurance Company. [37] In the early 2000s, AIG made significant investments in Russia as the country recovered from the 1998 Russian financial crisis. In July 2003, Maurice Greenberg met with Putin to discuss AIG's investments and improving U.S.-Russia economic ties, in anticipation of ...
A page of Commons search results. The idea for the project came from Erik Möller in March 2004 [4] and Wikimedia Commons was started on September 7, 2004. [5] [6] In July 2013, the number of edits on Commons reached 100,000,000. [7]
Kentucky Utilities (KU) Old Dominion Power (ODP) (a subsidiary of Kentucky Utilities) The company was created in 1998, when LG&E Energy, parent of LG&E, acquired KU Energy, parent of KU and ODP. In 2000, Powergen, a British-based company, acquired LG&E Energy, which still operated under that name.
In 2003, Barclays bought the American credit card company Juniper Bank from CIBC, re-branding it as "Barclays Bank Delaware". [57] The same year saw the acquisition of Banco Zaragozano, the 11th-largest Spanish bank. [58] Barclays took over sponsorship of the Premier League from Barclaycard in 2004. [59]
It enjoyed a monopoly of the credit card market in the United Kingdom until the introduction of the Access Card in October 1972. [4] Barclays was not the first issuer of a credit card in the United Kingdom though; Diners Club and American Express launched their charge cards in 1962 and 1963 respectively.
Suncheon was launched on 8 April 1987 by Hanjin Heavy Industries in Busan.The vessel was commissioned on 30 September 1988 and decommissioned on 24 December 2019. [2]The ship was transferred to Peru in 2021 and was commissioned in January 2022 as the BAP Guise.