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  2. 1964 New York World's Fair - Wikipedia

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    [369] [370] Thus, the space was dominated by large corporations. [369] Private companies spent a combined $300 million on their pavilions. [ 371 ] The Big Three car manufacturers— Chrysler , Ford , and General Motors —alone spent a combined $110 million on attractions such as Chrysler's artificial islands, Ford's Magic Skyway, and General ...

  3. Dulles International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Washington Dulles is accessible via the Dulles Access Road/Dulles Greenway (State Route 267) and State Route 28. The Access Road is a toll-free, limited access highway owned by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) to facilitate car access to Washington Dulles from the Capital Beltway and Interstate 66 . [ 181 ]

  4. Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    The Space Center includes the Apollo 8 command module, which flew the first human beings around the Moon; the Mercury-Atlas 7 capsule which flew the second American to orbit the Earth; a NASA lunar module trainer used to test procedures for the Apollo lunar landings, and a SpaceX Dragon 1 cargo spacecraft.

  5. Costco - Wikipedia

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    Costco membership card from Iceland. Costco's earliest predecessor, Price Club, opened its first store on July 12, 1976, on Morena Boulevard in San Diego, California.It was founded three months earlier by Sol Price and his son, Robert, following a dispute with the new owners of FedMart, Price's previous membership-only discount store. [16]

  6. Internet of things - Wikipedia

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    The Internet of things requires huge scalability in the network space to handle the surge of devices. [147] IETF 6LoWPAN can be used to connect devices to IP networks. With billions of devices [148] being added to the Internet space, IPv6 will play a major role in handling the network layer scalability.

  7. Kathmandu - Wikipedia

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    Kathmandu, [a] officially the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, [b] is the seat of federal government and the most populous city in Nepal.As of the 2021 Nepal census, [3] there were 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households and approximately 4 million people in its surrounding agglomeration.

  8. Lac-Mégantic rail disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, [1] [2] when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars.