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Asus was founded in Taipei in 1989 [13] by T.H. Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T. Liao, [14] all four having previously worked at Acer as hardware engineers. At this time, Taiwan had yet to establish a leading position in the computer hardware business. Intel Corporation would supply any new processors to more established companies like IBM ...
Smithfield and Union is one of the quarters of Belfast, Northern Ireland, established by Belfast City Council in the 21st century. Initially designated the Smithfield Market and Library quarter, the current name was adopted in 2011. [1] Based around the north of Belfast City Centre it extends from North Street to Frederick Street and is bounded ...
Belfast is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States. [1] The area ZIP code is 37019. [ 2 ] It is exactly halfway from the major cities of Nashville to the north and Huntsville to the south.
November 27, 1998 [3] Loop Retail Historic District is a shopping district within the Chicago Loop community area in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is bounded by Lake Street to the north, Ida B. Wells Drive to the south, State Street to the west and Wabash Avenue to the east. The district has the highest density of National Historic ...
Maxwell Street is where the Maxwell Street Polish sausage sandwich originated. The direct-sales entrepreneur Ron Popeil began his career as a street vendor at the Maxwell Street Market. The clarinetist and band leader Benny Goodman was born in 1909 near the Maxwell Street neighborhood and spent most of his youth there.
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...
The Belfast Entries are a series of historical narrow alleyways in the city centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland, mostly in the vicinity of High Street and Ann Street. When the town was first laid out, these alleyways serviced dense residential and commercial development. The surviving examples retain pockets of historic development including ...
The Goodyear brothers continued to buy up timber properties, coal fields, and eventually ore fields throughout the area. In 1902, Frank Goodyear created the Buffalo and Susquehanna Mining Company, which leased 120 acres (0.49 km 2 ) of Iron Ore land in the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, with an estimated 15 Million tons of ore.