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  2. List of ancient legal codes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of ancient legal codes in chronological order: Cuneiform law. The code of law found at Ebla (2400 BC) Code of Urukagina (2380–2360 BC) Code of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur (c. 2050 BC). Copies with slight variations found in Nippur, Sippar and Ur; Laws of Eshnunna (c. 1930 BC) [2] Code of Lipit-Ishtar (c. 1870 BC) [3 ...

  3. List of defunct television networks in the United States

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    Channel America: Channel America Network Inc. 1996 Launched in 1988. Colours TV: Black Star Communications July 13, 2011: Launched on 1995 Cloo: NBCUniversal February 1, 2017: Launched as Sleuth on January 1, 2006, replacing Trio. DuMont Television Network: DuMont Laboratories: August 6, 1956: Launched on June 28, 1942.

  4. Original North American area codes - Wikipedia

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    Each NPA was identified by a three-digit area code used as a prefix to each local telephone number. The United States received seventy-seven area codes, and Canada nine. The initial system of numbering plan areas and area codes was expanded rapidly during the ensuing decades, and established the North American Numbering Plan (NANP).

  5. Computer engineer cracks 150-year-old 'Odyssey' code

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    Leave it to an Italian computer engineer to crack a 150-year-old, handwritten code. Back in 2007, collector M.C. Lang donated a Venetian edition of Homer's "The Odyssey" to the University of ...

  6. List of oldest companies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Old Talbott Tavern: Bardstown, Kentucky: Hotel [51] 1780 Laird & Company: Colts Neck Township, New Jersey: Distillery [52] [53] [54] 1782 Levi Garrett: New York City (found.) Chewing tobacco [55] [56] Now a brand of the American Snuff Company. 1783 Rawle & Henderson LLP: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Law firm [57] 1784 D. Landreth Seed Company

  7. Code for America - Wikipedia

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    Code for America is a 501(c)(3) civic tech non-profit organization that was founded by Jennifer Pahlka in 2009, "to promote ‘civic hacking’, and to bring 21st century technology to government." [ 2 ] Federal, state, and local governments often lack the budget, expertise, and resources to efficiently deploy modern software. [ 3 ]

  8. Territorial evolution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Alaska, the last major acquisition in North America, was purchased from Russia in 1867. Support for the independence of Cuba from the Spanish Empire , and the sinking of the USS Maine , led to the Spanish–American War in 1898, in which the United States gained Puerto Rico , Guam , and the Philippines , and occupied Cuba for several years.

  9. Wes Studi - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award, [3] becoming the first Native American as well as the first Indigenous person from North America to be honored by the academy. Studi has appeared in Academy Award -winning films, such as Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and in the Academy Award-nominated films ...