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Established. 1942. Slogan. “The last free place”. Website. slab-city.com (archived) Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community consisting largely of snowbirds in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County, California.

Safeway is an American supermarket chain founded by Marion Barton Skaggs in April 1915 in American Falls, Idaho. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and features a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, delicatessen, floral and pharmacy, as well as Starbucks coffee shops and fuel centers.

Liane G. Benning. Liane G. Benning is a biogeochemist studying mineral-fluid-microbe interface processes. She is a Professor of Interface Geochemistry at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany. Her team studies various processes that shape the Earth Surface with a special focus on two aspects: the nucleation, growth ...

1355 – A tavern dispute between University of Oxford students and townsfolk turned into a riot that left about 90 people dead.; 1763 – Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris to end the Seven Years' War, significantly reducing the size of the French colonial empire while at the same time marking the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.

Russian. Mister Iks (Russian: Мистер Икс) is a Russian musical comedy film in black and white, directed by Yuli Khmelnitsky [ ru]. It is based on the Leningrad Theatre of Musical Comedy operetta of the same name from 1956. The operetta itself was a Russian adaptation of Emmerich Kálmán 's Die Zirkusprinzessin (The Circus Princess).

Merak, the traditional name for the star Beta Ursae Majoris. Merak, a Canadian petroleum economics software company purchased by Schlumberger in 1999. Merak or green peafowl, a large Galliform bird found in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. Merak, a village in Ladakh, a region in India. Merak, Banten, a port city on the western coast of ...